{"title":"The Main Character Analysis in “The Diamond Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant","authors":"Ika Handayani, E. Rahmawati","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v6i1.19136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v6i1.19136","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to describe the inferiority feeling and striving for superiority aspects of the main character, \"Mathilde Loisel\" in the short story \"The Diamond Necklace\" by a French author, Guy De Maupassant. The data source of this research is primarily taken from the sentences containing dialogues and conflicts experienced by the main character, Mathilde Loisel in the short story of \"The Diamond Necklace\" by Guy De Maupassant. While the secondary data were taken from any references related to the theory of literature, Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology, and related researches. This research uses descriptive qualitative method and uses literature and documentation as data collection method. The results of the data analysis showed that the main character Mathilde Loisel struggled from her inferiority (her shortcomings) to her superiority using various forms of complex compensation and superiority. The results of analysis showed that this short story deserves to be discussed in literature study since there are many positive values that can be learned for individual character building.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124433653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Using Voice of America (VOA) in Teaching Degree Comparison to Indonesian Junior High School Students","authors":"","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v6i1.17487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v6i1.17487","url":null,"abstract":"This research was conducted based on the main problem is the learning effect of using the voice of America (VOA) YouTube Channel in Degree of Comparison. Based on the main problem formulated above, the research objectives are as follows: to determine the effect of using Voice of America (VOA) learning english YouTube Channel in teaching degree of comparison in the eighth grade of SMPN 24 Kota Serang. The subject of this study involved 60 students as a sample from class VIII SMPN 24 Kota Serang in 2022 as a population. The show that the value of t0 is 3.26 with degrees of freedom (df) is 58. There was a significant difference between students' understandings on degree of comparison Using Voice of America (VOA) English learning through YouTube Channel. The study found that most of the data showed an increase in learning using YouTube video channels. It is suggesting that students should consider the learning method used to achieve sustainability.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124273714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Smartphone Used to Children's First Language Acquisition","authors":"Mauriza Hesti Nurkhofifah, Yudi Juniardi","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v6i1.18149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v6i1.18149","url":null,"abstract":"This research is entitled A Study of The Relevance Impact Mobile Phone Used in Children's First Language Acquisition. The goal is to explain what things happen to the event if it continues. As well as explaining the factors that cause the permissibility of playing cellphones excessively and the impacts that occur. In this case it is familiar to all of us. This is very common nowadays. There are two factors that can affect the process of child growth and development, namely external factors and internal factors. Therefore, researchers are very enthusiastic in discussing familiar events that are often seen, even experienced. Mobile phones do not always have a negative impact on everyday life. However, in this case or another, children are often allowed to hold or play their gadgets without any restrictions. Mobile phones also have a positive impact on early childhood. To find out, this research was conducted based on previous studies so that there are factual answers that the writer can take.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"406 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135788062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Self-Regulated Presentation to Minimize the Students’ Speaking Anxiety in Classroom Activities","authors":"Dhea Putri Herdiani, Eulis Rahmawati, Selnistia Hidayani","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v6i1.17550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v6i1.17550","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates the use of self-regulated presentation to minimize the students’ speaking anxiety. This research was to find out whether teaching speaking by self-regulated presentation can increase students speaking anxiety. This research used a case study with (qualitative method). For taking a data, the researcher used an interview, questionnaire and observation. The participants of this research are the second year of Senior High School at SMA Nusantara Unggul Pekayon Tangerang Banten. This research takes 28 students. The research finding of the result showed that most of the students’ are at “Anxious” level. There are 13 students (46,4%) who experience “Anxious” level, 8 students (28,6 %) are in “very anxious” level, 7 students (25%) are in “Mildly Anxious”. This research also found that are four factors of students anxiety: Being rediculed and laughed, Students’ opinions about the Language Learning, Lack of Preparation and Teachers’ Personality. The last result of this research shows the using self-regulated presentation can minimize students’ speaking anxiety.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125541557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Cultural Content in Teaching Reading Comprehension","authors":"Nur Rasmayanti, Abdul Mu'in, Tatu Siti Rohbiah","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v5i2.15892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v5i2.15892","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the role of cultural content in teaching reading comprehension. This research is (1) to analyze the teachers’ way to teach the cultural content in the classroom in teaching reading comprehension; (2) to find out whether teachers have an awareness of the importance of cultural learning in the form of cultural content in learning English; and (3) to find out the teachers’ responses to teach cultural content in reading comprehension. The reseach used qualitative research. The instruments used in this research were documentation, observation, and interviews. This research involves three English teachers as participants of SMKN 02 Rangkasbitung. The research findings show that cultural content on teaching reading comprehension was found to have been applied by the three English teachers. In class X, it was found that the teacher represented international culture in descriptive texts with material on the history of Hagia Sophia. Then, in class XI, it was found that the teacher represented target culture in the procedure text with the material How to Make Sandwich. In class XII, it was found that the teacher represented source culture in descriptive texts with Baduy Culture material. Next, the English teachers have realized the importance of learning cultural content on teaching reading comprehension. The last, the teachers gave a positive response and argued that cultural content can improve student’s learning processes in reading comprehension.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123620413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ridho Hafizh Firdaus, W. Wahyudin, Tatu Siti Rohbiah
{"title":"Students’ Anxieties in EFL Speaking Class","authors":"Ridho Hafizh Firdaus, W. Wahyudin, Tatu Siti Rohbiah","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v5i2.16739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v5i2.16739","url":null,"abstract":"This study is focused on identifying the factor of students’ anxiety and solution to reduce anxiety in speaking English at the third Semester Students of English Education Department of Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten in Academic Year 2021/2022. The formulated problems of this study were: (1) What are the causes of students’ anxiety in speaking English? (2) How are the solutions to reduce students’ anxiety in speaking English? The method used qualitative method. The participants of this study were third semester students majoring in English Education at Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten. The data were gathered through questionnaire and interview. The results of this study: first, personal and interpersonal students’ fear in speaking English cause low self-confidence. Second, the students’ perceptions, they fell apprehensive about speaking in front of the class. Third, lecturer-students interaction, the students sensed anxiety when they don't understand what the lecturer is correcting. The last is the lack of preparation, according to the students; they are concerned about their lack of preparation for tests or speaking in front of the class. The solution to reduce anxiety; the students said trying to be confident, preparing material, and they don't be scared to make mistakes when speaking because correcting the errors will help them speak more confident.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128640598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Challenges of EFL Learners in Higher Education to Participate the Online Presentations","authors":"Dian Wahyu Saputri, Paulina Besty Fornitasari","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v5i2.15727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v5i2.15727","url":null,"abstract":"Not only presenters but also participants can affect the process of online classroom presentations, including the discussion in question-and-answer sessions. Sometimes, several EFL learners who participate in online classroom presentations do not actively join the discussion by asking the presenters questions, suggestions, or objections. Various reasons may affect the issues, including the challenges the participants face. Therefore, this study aims to determine the challenges of EFL learners as participants during online classroom presentations. The participants were 23 sixth-semester students from English Department, Universitas Tidar. The researchers used descriptive qualitative methods and questionnaires as instruments to collect and analyze the data. The researchers found that 61% of the respondents often and sometimes joined the discussion, and 39,1% of the respondents rarely joined the discussion. The researchers conclude that many students actively join the discussion in question-and-answer sessions, but the number of students who did not actively join the discussion is relatively high. The reasons are the challenges faced by the EFL learners related to the low confidence, anxiety, and noise from the presenters and the participants during online classroom presentations. Based on the data, the students prefer using the chat box to the microphone to join the discussion.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127777031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Supplementary Speaking Material for Eighth Grade Students","authors":"Feri Ferdiyanto, Achmad Kholili","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v5i2.16993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v5i2.16993","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is focusing on developing supplementary speaking materials for the eighth grade students of junior high school. It is according on students’ need and their difficulties in mastering their speaking ability. This problem found in SMP Plus Al-Mashduqiah. Students felt very difficult to speak because they did not know how to pronounce the word. Moreover, the speaking material in the existing book that used by school are too limited in scope of speaking. In fact, textbook and workbook used by the eighth grade students SMP Plus Al-Mashduqiah only have little portion, making a supplementary speaking material is needed and crucial. This design of the development is research and development with the adaption of the development proposed by Borg and Gall (1983). The procedures employed in this study were need analysis, stating instructional goals, developing instructional material, expert validation, try-out and final product. The results indicate that speaking materials developed by the researchers are appropriate to use for eight-grade students in the school and the teachers, therefore, strongly recommend that it be used by the teachers in other school settings as well.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130806233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effectiveness of Using Hand Puppet Video towards Student's Listening Comprehension in Narrative Text","authors":"Ayu Safaroh, Yudi Juniardi, Ika Handayani","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v5i2.15709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v5i2.15709","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research was to find out the significant effect of using Hand-Puppet Video towardstudents’ listening comprehension in learning narrative text. This research used quantitative methodand quasi experimental design. This research was conducted at eighth gradeof SMPN 1 PONTANG inacademic year 2021/2022. The experimental class was taught by using hand-puppet media and the controlclass without using hand-puppet media. The samples of this research were VIII A as experimentaldesign and VIII B as control class, each class consisted 30students. The data was collected by usingtest which consisted of pre-test and post-test. The calculating from t-test showed that the value of t-testwas higher than the value of t-table (7.177 ≥2.00) at the level of significant of a 0.05 and degree of freedomis 58. It means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and null hypothesis was rejected and theresult of the research showed that using hand-puppet media had significant effect towards students’listening comprehension. From those findings, it could be concluded that there was significant effectof using hand-puppetmedia towards students’ listening comprehension in narrative text learning ateighth grade of SMPN 1 PONTANG.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123843657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlating Vocabulary and Sentence Structure Mastery to Students’ Writing Skill in Descriptive Text","authors":"Flora Christina","doi":"10.48181/jelts.v4i1.10080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48181/jelts.v4i1.10080","url":null,"abstract":"The aims of the research are to find the correlation between vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards students’ writing skill. This research also calculates how strong the correlation by analyzed and computed using Pearson Product Moment. The method used in this research is quantitative research method by implementing a correlation study research design that has three variables. The first variable is vocabulary mastery, the second is sentence structure mastery, and the third is students’ writing skill in descriptive text as dependent variable. The researcher gives three tests to 40 students. That test is given to measure student’s abilities according to the three previous variables. The result of this research is the use of correlation between vocabulary mastery and sentence structure mastery toward students’ writing skill. The finding of the research proves a moderate level of correlation. This study suggest that the students have to learn vocabulary mastery and sentence structure mastery, and the English teacher should prioritize it so students’ writing skill will improve.","PeriodicalId":110110,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English Language Teaching and Cultural Studies","volume":"379 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123441658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}