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ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching
Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang
ISSN : 22526706     EISSN : 27214532     DOI : https://doi.org/10.15294
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The aim of this journal is to promote a principled approach to research on language and language-related concerns by encouraging inquiries into relationship between theoretical and practical studies. The journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current analysis in: first, second, and foreign language teaching and learning; language in education; language planning, language testing; curriculum design and development; multilingualism and multilingual education; discourse analysis; translation; clinical linguistics; literature and teaching; and. forensic linguistics.
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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF ENGLISH SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS USING BINGO AND DOMINO GAMES (A Classroom Action Research on the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 3 Maos in the Academic Year 2013/2014) Ramadhani Susanto, Bitha Pracandra
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2015)
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This final project is concerned with the use of bingo and domino games in improving students’ mastery of synonyms and antonyms. The objective of this research is to investigate to what extent bingo and domino games give their influence in teaching synonyms and antonyms to the junior high school students. This study used action research design. There were two cycles of action in this study. This research was started with an initial pre-test and ended with a final post-test. In each cycle there were pre-test, treatment, and post-test. Tests were used to collect the quantitative data. Meanwhile, observation checklist and questionnaire were used to gather the qualitative data. The students of class VIIIA of SMP Negeri 3 Maos were chosen as the subjects of this study. The study showed that the games could give a great help to the students in improving their mastery of synonyms and antonyms. By comparing the mean score of initial pre-test and final post-test, a significant improvement could be seen. The students’ mean score of the final post-test (86.95) was higher than that of the initial pre-test (33.09). This improvement was also supported by the results of observation checklists and questionnaire. Based on the observation checklists, the students’ attitude improved. The students’ participation in Cycle 2 was better than that of Cycle 1. Moreover, the result of questionnaire showed that the students gave positive perception towards the use of bingo domino games. By referring to the results, it can be concluded that bingo domino games gave good contribution to the improvement of the students’ ability in mastering English synonym and antonym. Therefore, the use of those games as an alternative way to teach synonyms and antonyms is recommended. Through this technique, teachers are expected to be able to increase students’ interest and motivation in learning synonym and antonym.
THE INTEGRATION OF SECOND CORE COMPETENCE (KI 2) OF CURRICULUM 2013 IN ENGLISH CLASSES Anugrahwati, Yulia
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This final project is based on a study which attempted to describe the integration of character education in a real teaching. The main purpose of the study was to describe how the teachers integrated and assessed (KI 2) or character education to their students in English classes. Three english teachers from two different school levels participated in this research. They taught their students in the class. From the teaching and learning process, the transcriptions which contained teachers’ acts and talks was provided. Then, both teachers’ acts and talks were displayed on a table. They were categorized based on 18 pillars of character education which is proposed by Kemendiknas. After both teachers’ acts and talks were categorized, the researcher explained what methods or strategies were used in integrating and assesing character education. After that, the researcher summarized all the findings from the data and conclude them. Results indicated that all the three teachers who became the source of data have already integrated character education in their class. The first teacher or teacher A integrated discipline and social care. Both discipline and social care are displayed twice on the transcription. The next teacher is teacher B. During her class, she integrated tolerance three times, respect of the achievement three times, social care four times, each democratic, communicative and discipline one time to all her students. The last teacher is teacher C. She did integrate curiosity once, religious for four times and both tolerance and democratic twice. Charater education has already integrated by all teacher in each class. There was no new strategy which was used by all the teachers in integrating character education. The strategies which were mostly used by the teachers were only in the form of advice. In addition, there was no strategy which was used by the teachers to assess character education. This could happen because the teachers did not do any single assessment to character education which they have transferred on that day. 
THE USE OF BAMBOO DANCING TECHNIQUE TO IMRPOVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL IN INTERPERSONAL CONVERSATION (A Classroom Action Research at Grade VII Students of SMP IT Insan Cendekia Semarang in the Academic Year of 2014/2015) Nur Wahyuni, Linna Endah
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Mostly students of Junior High School have difficulties in their speaking skill, especially in interpersonal conversation. It is because they have to concern with the material and also the practice of the conversation itself. So, some techniques should be carried out to make speaking easier and interesting. One of the techniques to teach speaking is bamboo-dancing technique which is one of cooperative learning technique, in which students are placed in two lines to see each other and make conversation (Suprijono (2009:98)). The aim of this study is to find out how bamboo-dancing technique can be implemented in improving students’ skill to master interpersonal conversation. In order to achieve the objectives, an action research was designed and carried out in this study. The participants of this study were 28 students of class VII B of SMP IT Insan Cendekia Semarang in the academic year of 2014/2015. Questionnaires, observation guide, and speaking tests were used as the instruments for collecting the data. The analysis results of the first and second questionnaires showed that bamboo-dancing technique was useful to most of students of SMP IT Insan Cendekia Semarang to improve their learning motivation and interesting in interpersonal conversation. Their perception was changed positively after having the treatment. It meant that the use of bmboo-dancing technique could ease their problem in speaking in English especially interpersonal conversation. The results of the study showed significant improvement of the students’ achievement in mastering interpersonal conversation. It is proven by the average results in every test; pre cycle test (67), cycle 1 test (73), and post cycle test (79). Moreover, the result of the observation guide showed that bamboo-dancing technique changed the students’ learning behaviour being better than before. Based on the results of those research instruments, it can be concluded that the use of bamboo-dancing technique as learning technique gives the improvement of students’ speaking skill in interpersonal conversation in terms of motivation, attitude and mastery.
DEVELOPING TEACHING MEDIA OF KANGAROO SMART FRIEZE TO ENRICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY Bewafa, Sakilah
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The implementation of the newest curriculum (Curriculum 2013) leads some elementary schools to finally exclude English from the schools subjects. However, some elementary schools that keep teaching English as a subject still cannot provide appropriate English teaching media, especially to teach vocabulary. In this study, the researcher aimed to know the problems faced by the English teacher and the fourth grade students of SD N 2 Sekaran in the vocabulary teaching and learning, and also to know how to develop teaching media of Kangaroo Smart Frieze. The Research and Development (R & D) approach was adopted by conducting the preliminary survey, designing and developing the prototype of the product, conducting limited testing and product validation, having a revision process and describing the research result. The subjects of the study were the fourth grade students of SD N 2 Sekaran in the academic year of 2013/2014. The instruments used were questionnaires, interview guideline and test. According to the interview to the English teacher and students, it can be concluded that the vocabulary teaching media Kangaroo Smart frieze needs to be developed with the focus on the quality of the media and also the variety of games played. The development of Kangaroo Smart Frieze was started by observing and interviewing the English teacher and students. After doing that, the process was continued by planning the data collecting instrument of vocabulary teaching media. The main consideration was based on the English curriculum (syllabus) of the fourth grade students of elementary school and also some related theories. Moreover, the data collecting instrument was arranged into two main parts which included the need analysis of the students and English teacher. The further step was designing the prototype. The development process was then followed by other steps; product validation, try-out (limited testing) and revision of Kangaroo Smart Frieze. The results of the students’ test by using Kangaroo Smart Frieze as the vocabulary teaching media, and also the assessment from the experts were very good. Therefore, it could be concluded that Kangaroo Smart Frieze has a good prospect to be used in the vocabulary teaching and learning process. As suggestion, the teachers should always try to choose appropriate vocabulary teaching media, and the future researchers should conduct better research and development to develop better vocabulary teaching media for elementary school students.
THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE SECOND MID-TERM ENGLISH TESTS FOR THE SEVENTH GRADERSMADE BY THE STATE AND PRIVATE SCHOOL CERTIFIED ENGLISH TEACHERS (The case of test items analysis of SMP N 1 Semarang and SMP Kesatrian 2 Semarang in the academic year of 2013) Saputra, Reza Wisnu
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One of the teacher’s competencies is the ability in designing a good test. Designing a test is not an easy task to be done. Even for a certified teacher who has already had lot of experiences in teaching and learning process. Through this study, the writer wanted to find out the quality of the second mid-term English tests for the seventh graders made by state and private school certified English teachers. The objective of this study was to compare those tests in term of (1) the validity, (2) the reliability, (3) the item facility, and (4) the item discrimination power. The method used in this study was comparative quantitative research. The tests were takenfrom the teachers of SMP N 1 Semarang as the state school and SMP Kesatrian 2 Semarang as the private school.From the result of the analysis, it was found that the quality of both tests were not good enough. There were 42 items out of 50 items from the mid-term test of SMP N 1 Semarang which did not meet the requirement as a good test. Meanwhile, from the mid-term test of SMP Kesatrian 2 Semarang, there were 38 items out of 50 items which did not meet the requirements as good test. However, from this result, the mid-term test of SMP Kesatrian 2 Semarang was much better than the mid-term test of SMP N 1 Semarang. In conclusion, the qualities of the second mid-term English tests made by the state and private school certified English teachers still need to be revised carefully. Especially, from the view of validity, reliability, item facility, and item discrimination. In addition, from the classification of the item which can be used from those tests, there was a little number of items which can be used.Consequently, the certified English teachers need to improve their knowledge and ability in designing a good test for their students.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE BY USING CHINESE WHISPERS AND GROUP GRID TECHNIQUE Nugraheni, Yenny Dwi
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The eleventh graders of PGRI 2 Private Vocational School Salatiga were obliged to master the simple past tense since one of the basic competences in school-based curriculum was about telling activities or works in the past and future work plans. Unfortunately, they still possessed low mastery of grammar and experienced difficulties in learning it. A classroom action research about the use of Chinese whispers and group grid technique aimed to resolve those emerging problems with the foci of the study to investigate how this method could be used in teaching the simple past tense, and how the use of it improved students’ mastery of the simple past tense. Specifically, the subject of this study was 34 students of class XI D at PGRI 2 Private Vocational School Salatiga in the academic year of 2014/2015. This study was conducted in two cycles in a total of seven meetings. The instruments for obtaining the data were tests, observation sheet, and questionnaire. The observation sheet results showed that students’ behaviors and responses during the learning processes improved and became relatively good. Furthermore, the questionnaire results indicated that students tended to show good judgment on the implementation of this teaching method. The final result of the study revealed that there was a significant improvement in students’ achievement. Their average score in pre-test was 58.65, in formative test 1 was 76.97, in formative test 2 was 79.06, and in post-test was 83.56. Referring to the overall results of the study, the combination of Chinese whispers and group grid technique could be considered as one of alternative and effective teaching methods to improve students’ mastery of the simple past tense.
ACCURACY OF ENGLISH-INDONESIAN SCANLATION OF DETECTIVE CONAN MANGA AS COMPARED TO ITS JAPANESE-INDONESIAN TRANSLATION Darissurayya, Vina
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Popularity of scanlated manga urged me to do this research. There are three main problems in this study: (1) to find out how the accuracy of English-Indonesia manga scanlation, (2) to find out differences between online manga (scanlated manga), and printed manga (Indonesian officially published manga) and (3) to find out which more accurate between both compared to original Japanese manga. At the end, I found that that although the scanlation of detective Conan manga is accurate but the printed manga was more accurate. Still, further research needed to analyze scanlation more detail. As readers of manga, we should be smarter by reading printed manga rather than online manga. This way we will get the better translation and also we can give our appreciation toward the author.
DEVELOPING QUARTET CARD GAMES FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY (A Case of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Islam Al Madina Semarang in the Academic Year of 2014/2015) Annisa, Lutfiana Ilma
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Vocabulary is an important aspect of language development. Teaching vocabulary is getting crucial nowadays especially in junior high school. However, some English teachers cannot provide appropriate English teaching media. Commonly some English teachers taught vocabulary in random topics. The vocabulary teaching media was less interesting. This study has three aims. First, to explain the problems of the English teacher and the eighth grade students of SMP Islam Al Madina Semarang. Second, to explain the needs vocabulary of the English teacher and the eighth grade students of SMP Islam Al Madina Semarang. Third, to show how to develop effective Quartet Card Games to enrich vocabulary. There are two subjects of the research. First, the eighth grade students of SMP Islam Al Madina Semarang in the academic year of 2014/2015. Second, the English teacher of SMP Islam Al Madina Semarang. R&D (Research and Development) approach was adopted in this study. The study revealed that the problem faced by the English teacher was lack of media for teaching vocabulary. The students were bored of vocabulary learning. The need analysis showed that the students needed various vocabulary items. The English teacher believed that the vocabulary teaching media should be interesting and colorful. Through the process of drafting, trying out, and refining the Quartet Card Games it was found that some cards contained ambiguities. To avoid any ambiguity check (√) and cross (x) signs were added to some cards. It is suggested that the teacher choose appropriate vocabulary teaching media. It is also suggested that further research is conducted to gain better understanding of the vocabulary teaching media.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT BY USING PEER REVIEW TECHNIQUE (A Classroom Action Research of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 4 Batang Year 2014/2015) Arifiana, Candra
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This study was conducted based on the fact that writing is the most difficult skill for students to master. Students face difficulties in learning writing. They are not sure of how to arrange sentences into good paragraphs, how to develop their ideas, they have lack of vocabulary and tend to use only certain words they have known in writing. They also apply incorrect grammar in their writing. Teacher considers that teaching writing is a difficult task. This final project is about teaching writing recount text by using peer review technique to the eighth graders students of Junior High School 4 Batang in the academic year of 2014/2015. The aim of this study is to find out how peer review technique can be implemented to improve students’ skill in writing recount text. In order to achieve the objectives, an action research was designed and carried out in this study. The participants of this study were 38 students of class VIII D of SMP N 4 Batang in the academic year of 2014/2015. Questionnaire, observation sheet, and writing tests were used as the instruments for collecting data. The results of the study showed significant improvement of the students’ achievement in writing recount text. It is proven by the average results in every test; pre test (63.00), formative test (74.29), and post test (79.50). The students’ writing skill (organization, content, grammar, punctuation, and style and quality of expression) in each test improved, too. Moreover, the result of the observation sheet showed that peer review technique changed the students’ learning behavior being better than before. Their enthusiasm during the learning process increased in each cycle. The analysis result of questionnaire showed that peer review technique was useful to most of students to improve their learning interest in writing recount text. Their perception changed positively after having the treatment. It meant that the use of peer review technique could ease their problem in writing English especially recount text Based on the results of those research instruments, it can be concluded that using peer review technique as a learning technique gives the improvement to students’ skill in writing recount text.
INTERLANGUAGE: GRAMMATICAL ERRORS ON STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXTS (A Case Study of First Year of MAN 2 Banjarnegara in the Academic Year 2014/2015) Nurhayati, Isti
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Differences between Indonesian and English language makes students often feel difficult in learning English especially in terms of grammar. Those difficulties tend to lead students to make errors in building English sentences. However, errors are actually natural because they are regarded as developmental stage to gain English competence, and errors are result from the students’ efforts to find ways of solving their problems. Those ways are called interlanguage. This study aims to find out the grammatical errors that students make in writing recount text and the interlanguage processes happen in it. The collecting data was done through writing recount text task to get kinds of errors data made by the students, and interview for getting interlanguage data happen to the students. The analysis steps started from identifying the errors, categorizing them into four categorizations of errors, and triangulating the errors with other supporting data. It reveals that students tend to make the errors omission, addition, misinformation, and misordering. The interlanguage processes happened are systematicity, permeability, fossilization consisting of language transfer, transfer of training, strategy of second language learning, and overgeneralization.

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