Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Indonesia

DIGITAL STORY TELLING USAGE TO BOOST CREATIVE THINKING: STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS

R.A. Fitri — Sun, 05 May 2024 08:53:24 +0800

DST had emerged as an effective strategy for developing students' creative thinking abilities. By merging technology and storytelling into educational activities, it gave an alternate technique for engaging students in learning. Using DST, educators might engage students' imaginations and encourage their creativity. This study explored students’ and tachers’ perceptions about the package of DST to boost student’ creative thinking and the accommodation of students’ creative thinking through DST. The data collected through survey within two weeks. The findings indicate that DST is helpful in expressing students’ creative idea. Besides, DST can develop and enhance creativity among students. In packaging DST, teachers believe that some elements affecting it, such as well-organized and good narrative, multimedia or digital technology usage. Besides, teachers believe that students’ participation and interactivity can enhance creative thinking.

DEVELOPING C-BT MEDIA ”FUN LEARNING” FOR SPEAKING SKILLS

A.T.P. Agustina, B. Satria, E.E. Nainggolan — Sun, 05 May 2024 09:29:12 +0800

The purpose of this study was to develop instructional materials for teaching speaking skills used Adobe Flash CS6, specifically focusing on asking and giving information related to class schedules. This material were subsequently implemented to the seventh-grade students at SMPN 5 Tanjungpinang. The primary objective was to create C-BT Media "Fun Learning" for Speaking Skills, which aimed to increase students' motivation to learn to speak in English, engage students, and encourage their active participation in teaching and learning activities, particularly in relation to asking and giving information about the class schedule. The study utilized the Research and Development (R&D) technique, specifically employing the ADDIE model developed by Borg and Gall as referenced by Durak and Ataizi. The ADDIE model consisted of five distinct stages: Analyzing, Designing, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Data was obtained via interviews, validation sheets, assessments of students' speaking skills, and questionnaires. The C-BT Media "Fun Learning" for Speaking skills met the validity criteria successfully. The material validation scoring was very valid, with no suggestions for improvement. The media validation scoring was also very valid, with suggestions provided according to the expert. The students' speaking skills test score was 76%, and their questionnaire score regarding the product was 94.92%. Therefore, the C-BT Media "Fun Learning" program for Speaking Skills was considered appropriate for use in the classroom to improve students' learning.

EFFORTS TO CULTIVATE CHARACTER EDUCATION THROUGH THE TEACHING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

D.S. Kirani, R. Islam, W. Lestari, A. Aziz — Sun, 05 May 2024 10:45:31 +0800

Education is one of the criteria for the development of a nation. The more educated the society, the better the quality of the nation. In order to obtain an educated society, of course, education has a very important role in the sustainability of a country. Therefore, every country must pay attention to the system and quality of education. In order to improve the quality of education in Indonesia, the Ministry of Education and Culture has made a policy, namely an innovative program known as Teaching Assistance, which is one part of Merdeka Belajar. The writing of this article aims to instill student character education through the Teaching Assistance Program at The Family Course Pare institution. Quality improvement, especially in instilling character education, is carried out in a structured manner and is based on the implementation stages contained in the Guidebook. In writing this article, a descriptive qualitative research method was used. The instrument used was observation which was then supported by interviews with several parties such as teachers and 5 students. Data were analyzed through 3 stages, namely data reduction, data presentation, and finally conclusion drawing. The results of observations are used to analyze environmental conditions and various problems faced as a reference for program planning.

ENHANCING MARITIME ENGLISH PROFICIENCY: EXPLORING THE INTEGRATION OF THE OCEANTG.COM PLATFORM

Y.A. Hafita, R.P. Sumarta, A. Sulistiono, N. Hatifah, F.A.B. Sembiring — Sun, 05 May 2024 11:33:04 +0800

In recent years, maritime education has undergone substantial development, placing greater emphasis on the merge of academic and vocational proficiencies. The objective of this research is to assess the effectiveness of OceanTG.com, an electronic learning platform, in enhancing the English language proficiency of cadets in the field of maritime education. A total of forty-eight recruits participated in the study, which was conducted at Sorong Merchant Marine Polytechnic using a one-group pretest-posttest design. For data analysis, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was utilized. The results demonstrate a substantial enhancement in the English scores of 41 recruits subsequent to the intervention. OceanTG.com provides interactive learning activities that are in accordance with IMO Model Course 3.17. These activities aim to promote practical English proficiency in the maritime industry. The research highlights the significance of digital platforms in the field of maritime education as a means to improve language proficiency.

THE USE OF WORDWALL TO ENRICH STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY

N. Dwiningrum, E. Bunau, E.F. Rahmani — Sun, 05 May 2024 11:15:46 +0800

This study aims to determine whether the use of Wordwall can enrich junior high students’ vocabulary acquisition. This study used a pre-experiment research design. A total of 40 students who were in class 8C at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Pontianak were taken as the research sample by using cluster random sampling technique. The instruments of this research were pre-test and post-test. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The calculation of effect size obtained was 3.50 which shows a strong effect. Meanwhile, the results of data analysis showed that the t-test value for vocabulary was 5.31 and the t-table was 2.024. This means that the t-test is greater than the t-table or 5.31 > 2.074. The calculation implies that alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of Wordwall can enrich students' vocabulary and is suggested to be used in the teaching and learning process.

TBLT VS. CBLT: WHICH IS MORE EFFECTIVE IN ENHANCING EFL WRITING SKILLS?

I.K. Wardana — Sun, 05 May 2024 11:23:13 +0800

The comparison study on the influence of teaching strategies, both Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Content-Based Language Teaching (CBLT), in writing descriptive paragraphs and EFL students' motivation remains limited. Therefore, this research was conducted to investigate the differences in paragraph writing skills through TBLT and CBLT and their influence on student motivation. Based on these objectives, this research used a quantitative approach with a single-sample experimental design. The research population consisted of 8th-grade students at SMPN 1 Kuta Selatan (N=400). Ten percent of this population was selected as the sample using a purposive sampling technique. The research instruments included tests and questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired sample t-tests. The findings reveal that both teaching strategies influenced participants' writing skills and motivation. However, CBLT was more effective in stimulating students to write descriptive paragraph content with more grammatically accurate features compared to TBLT, which mainly encouraged the exploration of ideas and positive participant behavior to complete the task. Additionally, although both strategies influenced participant motivation, participants were more motivated to complete tasks with TBLT than with CBLT. Thus, assignments encouraged students to develop writing ideas rather than just focusing on grammar and text structure

EFL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF L1 IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

L.P.P. Sari, E.E. Nainggolan, D. Murni — Sun, 05 May 2024 11:31:13 +0800

This study focuses on the perceptions of 5 English teachers in the use of the L1 in the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this study is to find out English teachers' perceptions in using L1 during the teaching and learning process at SMP Negeri 1 Karimun. This study used descriptive qualitative research to analyze teachers' perceptions. Data were obtained using observation and interview. Observations were used to find out the activities during the teaching and learning process, then interviews were used to find out more information to describe the perceptions of the teachers. The results of this study show that the use of the first language provides advantages and disadvantages in the teaching and learning process. In this study, the teacher prefers to use English as the language of instruction in the teaching and learning process rather than using the first language (L1) in the classroom. The use of first language (L1) in the teaching and learning process makes students have low speaking skills. According to the teacher, the use of L1 can hinder the learning objectives of the English subject, however it can make students quickly understand the content of the lesson.

LINGUISTICS CLASSES STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON ENGLISH-INDONESIAN BILINGUALISM

B. Lumindong — Wed, 15 May 2024 10:40:15 +0800

Practicing bilingual languages has been a trend among students of all educational levels in Indonesia. Bilingualism is one of the major programs designed at Universitas Klabat to improve the English proficiency level of all students. Through this program the students are required to speak to the campus community both in English and Indonesian national language. The goal of this research is to determine the Linguistics classes students’ perception on English-Indonesian bilingualism. It is qualitative research with phenomenological approach in describing the existing reality of the classroom and environmental situations. The data are collected through observation, documentation and interviews from 6 students of the 2 Linguistics classes. The results of the research show that practicing bilingual languages is a must among the Linguistics classes students. The reason is because being bilingual is considered very important so that it becomes priority program of Universitas Klabat. The study found the seriousness of students to speak in English, and the willingness of the linguistics classes teachers and parents to support and motivate the students. To be able to speak bilingually, students are encouraged to practice every day in the classes, campus environment, and home.