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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
Core Subject : Humanities, Education, Social,
Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other
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.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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THE BENEFITS OF USING DIALOGUE JOURNAL WRITING FOR IMROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING OF PERSONAL LETTER Aininna, Nur
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3 No 1 (2014)
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This study aims at investigating how dialogue journal writing benefits students’ writing of personal letter and how significance the resulted improvement is. Personal letter is important for it is used by people in their daily lives in diverse forms. Meanwhile, dialogue journal is chosen as the method for it is powerful to bridge learners’ needs of supplementary learning times and a private student’-teacher’s interaction. The research design of the study is mainly qualitative. However, quantitative analysis is still used to reveal students’ overall writing proficiency and the significance of students’ improvement. The five writing aspects mentioned by Brown (2004) are used as the basis of both analyses. The qualitative analysis attempts to describe how the students perform the aspects in their writing. Meanwhile, the quantitative analysis tries to assess students’ performance of the aspects by giving each aspect a score realization according to the criteria outlined in Brown’s rubric of writing assessment. The results of the analysis show that students’ writing improves all the aspects quite well. The biggest improvement lies in the content aspect. Majority of students’ earlier writing fails to address the topic of writing. Nonetheless, all of their final writing has already addressed the topic correctly. Meanwhile, the aspect of style and quality of expressions seems to undergo the least improvement. Some vocabularies are still found to be incorrectly used. However, students’ later writings exhibit a better sentence variety realized through the use of various cohesive devices. The improvement unfolded in the qualitative analysis is supported by the findings of the quantitative analysis of which all of the twenty students improve their writing scores in the final test. Some scores are even elevated quite significantly. The improvement of the five aspects presented in students’ later writing has turned the writing to be more communicative. Therefore, the mastery of the aspects is very beneficial. Since all the five aspects belong to the micro and macro-skills of writing, the teaching of these skills is then imperative to be given.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INSTAGRAM WRITING COMPARED TO TEACHER CENTERED WRITING TO TEACH RECOUNT TEXT TO STUDENTS WITH HIGH AND LOW MOTIVATION (The Case of Eight Grade Students in SMP Kesatrian 1 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016) Listiani, Gisty
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5 No 1 (2016)
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This final project is based on a study which attempts to examine the effectiveness of instagram writing compared to teacher centered writing to teach recount text to students with high and low motivation of SMP Kesatrian 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2015/2016. This final project has several objectives; to measure how effective instagram writing is to teach recount text to students with high motivation, to measure how effective instagram writing is to teach recount text to students with low motivation, to measure how effective teacher centered writing is to teach recount text to students with high motivation, to measure how effective teacher centered writing is to teach recount text to students with low motivation and to measure how effective instagram writing is compared to teacher centered writing to teach recount text to students with high and low motivation. This study was conducted by using Experimental research with 40 students participated. Those students were divided into experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught writing recount text by using instagram as a teaching technique, whereas the control was taught by using teacher centered writing. Results indicated that the final average score of experimental group was 73. Meanwhile, the control group got a lower average score with 67.15. After calculating the significance of the test, the result of the t-value was 2.210 and t-table was 2.002. With regard to the previous results, it can be concluded that teaching recount text using instagram resulted a better achievement. Besides, the t-value of the post test was higher than the critical value which meant that the difference was statistically significant. Thus, the higher achievement of experimental group indicated that the use of instagram promoted a better understanding for students with high and low motivation which improved the quality of their writing.
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
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2015)
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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.
PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO’S INTERPERSONAL STRATEGIES IN HIS SPEECH IN THE 2014 APEC CEO SUMMIT Apriliani, Putri; Priyatmojo, Arif Suryo
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5 No 2 (2016)
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This study aims at describing the way President Widodo used his interpersonal strategies in his speech in the 2014 APEC CEO SUMMIT. In this study, the discussion was limited by finding out the interpersonal meaning of the speech which can be used to dig up speaker’s hidden meanings through what he is saying in the speech. This is a descriptive qualitative study. The concept of discourse analysis from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) is employed as a tool to reveal the hidden motivations behind a text. The analysis reveals that in terms of context of situation, President Widodo delivered persuasive speech. Meanwhile, grammar analysis shows that President Widodo was delivering speech in the name of Indonesia and in the name of Indonesian people who need a lot of economic capital in order to achieve the economic goals of Indonesia. In delivering his speech, President Widodo also strongly believed that he would be able to reach his goals. The appraisal analysis shows that Appreciation is the most frequent appraisal devices used in the speech. In that sense, President Widodo’s stance or attitude towards the goals he wants to achieve is strongly positive. It can be concluded that by the elaborate use of interpersonal strategies, President Widodo successfully projects his ideas and messages to the audience and also build a persuasive speech.
THE USE OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY Khotimah, Siti
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 3 No 1 (2014)
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Senior high school students are expected to have a good speaking skill, meanwhile their ability to speak English is very low especially in term of fluency. Therefore, teachers need an alternative method to teach speaking skill that is called Problem based Learning. The objective of this study is to know the application of problem based learning as teaching method in improving students’ speaking ability and students’ achievement in speaking English. The action research was carried out in some steps. Those steps were pre-elimination test, conducting the cycles starting with planning, acting, observing, reflecting, and post-test. As data collection instruments, I used observation sheets, questionnaire, interview, and self and peer assessment of the students. The implementation of this method was reflected in the classroom activity, students self and peer assessment, questionnaire, interview, and observation sheets.  The result of the study showed that there were significant improvements of students’ speaking ability after being taught by problem based learning. They also enjoyed the activities in class by having a discussion, sharing, and cooperation with their friends. In addition, the students gave positive opinion, response, and interest toward the implementation of problem based learning method. Therefore, the students’ speaking ability was increased. Based on the result above, it can be concluded that this method gave positive contribution to the improvement of the students’ speaking ability. This method is beneficial to help the students to learn to speak English in more enjoyable way.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING TWO STAY TWO STRAY AS A TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS SPEAKING ABILITY (A Quasi Experimental Research at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Taruna Nusantara Magelang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016) Maharani, Octavia Puspaning
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5 No 1 (2016)
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This research is about using Two Stay Two Stray technique for teaching speaking in senior high school. Two Stay Two Stray is an interactive technique that encourages the participants to be more creative and active in group work. This research aimed to find out whether or not Two Stay Two Stray technique is effective to teach speaking at the tenth graders of SMA Taruna Nusantara Magelang in the academic year of 2015/2016. The research design used was quasi experimental research. Tests and observation checklist were used as the instruments to collect the data and information. Before conducting the experiment, try out was given to 30 students of X-7 to make sure that they were valid and reliable. The researcher used class X-1 as the experimental group and X-2 as the control group. Both classes were in the same level, background, and competence. The result of the pre-test showed that the mean score of the experimental group was 62.27 and the mean score of the control group was 60.47. After the treatment, the mean score of experimental group was 83. 86 and the mean score of control group was 77.86. It could be seen that there was an improvement after the treatments dealing with their speaking ability. From the t-test computation of the post-test score, the t-value was higher than t-table (t-value > t-table = 4.167 > 2.750). Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the working hypothesis was accepted. It means that there is a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group. The results indicate that Two Stay Two Stray technique is effective in improving the speaking ability at the tenth graders of SMA Taruna Nusantara Magelang in the academic year of 2015/2016. It is suggested that the findings of this study could be applied regularly and continously or developed by the English teachers to have a better speaking teaching.
GAMBITS FOUND IN THE CONVERSATIONS OF LOOK AHEAD 2 (An English Textbook for Senior High School Students Year XI Published by Erlangga) Maesaroh, Siti
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 2 No 1 (2013)
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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE BY USING CHINESE WHISPERS AND GROUP GRID TECHNIQUE Nugraheni, Yenny Dwi
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2015)
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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
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 4 No 1 (2015)
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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.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HERRINGBONE TECHNIQUE TO TEACH READING OF NARRATIVE TEXT Kurniawan, Andi Yusuf; Indrawati, Indrawati
ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 5 No 2 (2016)
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This final project is based on the research which attempted to find out the effectiveness of Herringbone technique to teach reading of narrative text. The design of this study was experimental study. There were two groups used in the research; the experimental group and the control group. The two groups were given different treatments. The experimental group was taught by using Herringbone technique while the control group was taught using conventional technique. The population of this study was the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 24 Semarang in the academic year of 2015/2016. The number of the subjects was 64 students. The data were obtained by administering reading test to the VIII A as control group and VIII B as experimental group. The research was started by giving pre-test, treatments, and post-test to both experimental groups and control groups. The data of the test were analyzed by using t-test formula to know the difference of the students’ comprehension in reading narrative text between two groups. The data analysis in research ,some purpose can be drawn as follow. The first purpose of the study is to discuss the effectiveness of teaching reading using Herringbone technique to improve students’ reading of narrative text. The use of Herringbone technique in teaching reading makes the activity in class more interesting. The students are active and more enthusiastic following the teachers’ instruction and working in group. The second purpose of the study is to analyze the significant difference between teaching reading using Herringbone technique and the one using conventional technique. The difference in score of both test can be drawn as follow. The average score of pre-test of the experimental group was 67.75 and the control group was 65.59. The average score of post-test of the experimental group was 71.31 while the control one was 69.71. The result of the t-test of mean difference was 8.94 and t-table was 2.00. It means that t-value is higher than t-table (8.94>2.00). It can be concluded that there is a significant difference between teaching reading using Herringbone technique and the one using conventional technique. Based on the research conducted, it proved that the use of Herringbone technique is effective as a strategy to improve teaching reading comprehension of narrative text to the eighth year students of SMP Negeri 24 Semarang.

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