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JURNAL SMART
ISSN : 23562048     EISSN : 2356203X     DOI : -
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SMART: Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics ISSN: 2356-2048, e-ISSN: 2356-203X a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by Language Centre STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in collaboration with Asosiasi Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (APSBI). The journal publishes both conceptual and research-based articles within the fields of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. Its scope encompasses English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, Asesment Language, Translation, vocabularies, Curriculum, semantics, syntax, syllabus discourse, english skills, teaching method,structure pragmatics, sociolinguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics. It published biannually in the months of January and August.
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COLLABORATIVE WRITING: PRODUCT AND STUDENTS’ REFLECTIONS Wulandari, Fitri
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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Producing a jointly written text becomes popular investigation in some studies.  The main concern of the study was to investigate the students’ writing product and students’ reflection in collaborative writing. The study was mixed-method research with the exploratory design.  49 third year students at English Education Department in the academic year of 2016-2017 of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung attended the study.   The study compared texts produced by pairs with those produced by individual learners as the sources of quantitative data and the students’ reflection as qualitative data. The study also elicited the learners ‘reflections on the experience of collaborative writing. The study found that the students’ writing score that work in pairs/collaboratively was higher than individual work product. Writing collaboratively also give positive impact on the students’ social aspect. They learned to work in team and reduced their feeling of under pressure.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN ENTERPRENEURSHIP CLASS Kayyis, Rahmatika
JURNAL SMART Vol 2, No 2 (2016)
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Project based learning is teaching method that offer learner autonomy and freedom to beenggaged with their le arning activity. From that also the learner can learn theirlanguage (L2) by doing their project conciously or unconciously.Project-basedlearning was suceed to be implemented in the class of enterpreneurship class. In thisproject, 62 students were divided into 31 pairs and asked to do the project onbuilding their own bussiness. The bussiness should be based on language skills. Thedata were collected mainly from students’ essays, writen at the end of semester, onthe advantages and disadvantages of using project-based learning in classroom. Thedata were then analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitativeanalysis was first used for assessing the responses obtained from the essays; andsecondly, the qualitative analysis provided the evaluation and interpretation of thefigures. The results showed that most students appreciated the use of PBL in theclassroom because the method made them to be more independent in learning of howto teach using English and use their talent in creating bussiness.Beside this alsoevoke the students willingness to do their project in creating bussiness, Englishcourses.Keywords: project, teaching and learning method, enterpreneursihp, bussiness
A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN VARIETIES: A CASE-STUDY OF ENGLISH ACCENTS Sulaiman, Masagus; Yuliani, Sri
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 2 (2017)
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AbstractThe objectives of thisresearch were to figure out whether or not there were similarites, dissimilarities and possible learning difficulties faced by Indonesian Students inlearning Englishvarieties or accents, as well as its contribution to TEFL. This research useddescriptive-qualitative method. The triangulation technique was used to collect the data, andto analyze the data, the researchers useddescriptive analysis(i.e. identifying, classifying, interpreting, predicting and drawing conclusions).The results showed that British and American varieties had two similaritieson meanings and word functions and four dissimilarities on diction, spelling, grammar and pronunciation.Keywords: British, American, Varieties, Accents.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH STORYBOARD Janah, Miftahul
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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This study is a classroom action research which intended to improve students’ writing ability through Storyboard. The participants were the fourth semester students of English Department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu in academic year 2014/ 2015. The instruments used in collecting data were observation, questionnaire, and documents.  Observation is used to know what is really happening in the class and the condition when the class activity is taking place. Questionnaire is used to know the students’ perception towards Storyboard in improving their writing ability, and documents is used to get students’ written texts. Then, 1) assembling the data, 2) coding the data, 3) comparing the data, 4) building meanings and interpretations, and 5) reporting the outcomes, are the steps in analyzing the data. Having analyzed the data, it was found that there was improvement of the students’ activeness in writing activity and in writing ability.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ARABIC VERB Siswoyo, Siswoyo
JURNAL SMART Vol 2, No 2 (2016)
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This paper is to know the similarities and differences between English and Arabic verb.The similarities between English and Arabic verb can be used as media to learn bothlanguages. The English verb is the same as Arabic that needs object and has theagreement of the subject and the verb. The difference between English and Arabic verbis that English verb has no change of the first letter of the verb because of the change ofthe various subject.Keywords: fi‟il madli, mudlori‟, amr, transitive verb, intransitive verb
SWEARWORDS USED IN DETECTED MOVIE VIEWED BY SPEECH ACT THEORY Rullyanti, Merry; Devita, Fenti
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 2 (2017)
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Abstract This thesis examines the swearwords using the speech act theory in Accepted movie directed by Steve Pink. The objectives of this research are; (1) To find kinds of swearwords used by the characters. (2) To classify the speech act categories used by the characters when they uttered the swearwords. (3) To investigate the contexts of swearing. The dominant kind of speech act in the swearwords that the characters use is expressive because Americans get used to express their feelings spontaneously.  The most dominant context that appeared is dysphemistic context that makes the movie more interesting with the creative metaphors. Keywords: Swearwords, Speech Act, Accepted
POLITE REQUEST STRATEGIES BY MALE AND FEMALE OF ENGLISH LEARNERS Habibi, Fajri
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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The present study investigated request strategy by non-native English speakers. The study focused at the rank of imposition in the choice of request and politeness strategy between twenty five males and females of postgraduate English students Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The data were collected by discourse completion tests (DCT) which consisted of six situations. Their responses were categorized using the scale of Trosborg request theory and Brown and Levinson politeness. The findings showed that the students utilized hearer oriented conditions strategy when uttered to the hearer with higher status. However, the male students tended to use direct request strategy in the situation when they had high position status. The combination request strategy was used to pressure the intention of request utterance. The male and female students also used some supportive moves in their utterance.
THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ SELF EFFICACY TOWARD THEIR READING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMA SRIJAYA NEGARA PALEMBANG Yuliani, Sri
JURNAL SMART Vol 2, No 2 (2016)
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The formulation of the problem was “Is there any significant influence of students’self efficacy toward their English reading achievement?”. Therefore, the objective ofthis study was to find out whether or not : there is a significant influence of students’sself efficacy toward their English reading achievement. To conduct this studydescriptive quantitative was used. The population of the study consisted of 242students of SMA Srijaya Negara Palembang in the academic year of 2014/2015. Thewriter chose 2 classes of tenth grade students which consisted of 68 students. Thesample was selected by using convinience sampling. The data were collected by usingquestionnaire and test. The data were analyzed by using correlational (spearman rho)and regression analysis. The result showed that there was weak correlation betweenstudents’ self efficacy toward their English reading achievement (r=.399). Theinfluence of students’ self efficacy was 0.219 or 21.9 % to the students’ Englishreading achievement. From the F-test, it can be seen that the F-obtained was 18.472with the significant level p < 0.05 was higher than the value of F-table (F-table = 3.98). Since the F-obtained was higher than F-table, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) wasaccepted and the null hypothesis (H o ) was rejected. So it could be concluded that therewas a significant influence of students’ self efficacy toward their English readingachievement at SMA Srijaya Negara Palembang.Keywords : Influence, Self Efficacy, and English Reading Achievement
USING LOCAL TASTES IN ELT CLASSROOMS TO PROMOTE LEARNERS’ NATIONALISM Siswoyo, Siswoyo
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 2 (2017)
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Abstract This article aims at exploring the use of local taste in English Language Teaching (ELT) classroom especially for the elementary school students. Teaching English since elementary school has lots of advantages for the language learners. The students will be native like if they learn English as early as possible. Their pronunciation will be more native like rather than the adult because they have not exceeded the critical period. By using the local taste in teaching English, the students will be able to promote their local taste in international world. Promoting local taste towards international world is one of the efforts to increase the students’ nationalisms. Keywords: local taste, English language teaching, nationalism
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DAIRY IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Yuliani, Sri; Fitriana, Mareta
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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The aim of the study was to find out whether or not it is effective of using diary in teaching writing recount text to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang. The method used in this study was the quasi experimental.  The number of  sample  were  76 students taken by using purposive non random sampling and divided into experimental and control group.  The result of test was analyzed by using independent sample t-test. The result of  the study indicated that the mean of post test in experimental group was 67.01 and the mean of post test in control group was 62.34. t-obtained was 3.972 at significant level p<0.05 for two tailed test and degree of freedom was 74, t-table was 1.9925. Since the value of t-obtained was higher than t-table, so null hypothesis   was rejected and alternative hypothesis  was accepted. It can be stated that the using of diary was effective in teaching writing of recount text  to the tenth grade student of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang.Â