{"title":"The Effect of Different Approaches to Learning Strategy Instruction on Vocabulary Development by EFL learners","authors":"Darin Nshiwi","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8851","url":null,"abstract":"This research falls within the area of teaching English as a foreign language (FL). It focuses on the short-term effects of memory and cognitive strategies on learning vocabulary and sheds light on the approaches adopted by EFL teachers while teaching these strategies. It investigates whether these strategies are taught implicitly, explicitly or both. To conduct this study, two main tools were applied: the first was a questionnaire to evaluate the memory and cognitive strategies used by EFL teachers and intermediate learners; the second was a vocabulary test to investigate the effect of using memory and cognitive strategies on vocabulary learning. These tools were applied to the sample that included 36 intermediate learners who were divided into experimental and control groups and 30 EFL teachers. The data obtained was dealt with descriptively and analytically. The findings show that training students to use memory and cognitive strategies explicitly enhances vocabulary learning more than implicit instruction.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131772159","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":"In Search of Commonly Used Language Learning Strategies by EFL students","authors":"Masbirorotni Masbirorotni, Nunung Fajaryani","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.7990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.7990","url":null,"abstract":"Language learning strategy is one of the factors that can contribute to the success in learning a foreign language including for Indonesian students. The purpose of this current study was to examine the learning strategies of English as foreign language students in one state university in Jambi Province. This current study used a survey approach to deal with the issue of the learning strategies of English as foreign language students. Data were collected through using the Language Learning Strategy Questionnaire (LLSQ). The participants of this study consisted of 129 students. Overall, the findings revealed that cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies were most commonly used by students in speaking, reading, and writing skills. However, cognitive and social strategies were the most frequently used by students for listening skill. Suggestions and future studies are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"5 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131753148","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 Correlation between school principal leadership competence and teachers’ social behaviours","authors":"B. Yasin, Faisal Mustafa","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.9093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.9093","url":null,"abstract":"It has been predicted that the leadership competence of school principals indirectly influences the achievements of students because it has a positive impact on the social behaviour of their teachers. However, the correlation between those variables has not been supported by data. This research was therefore aimed at finding evidence for any correlations between the leadership competence of principals and the social behaviour of teachers under them. The samples were selected randomly, resulting in the selection of 110 EFL teachers in the Province of Aceh, Indonesia. The data for this study were collected using two questionnaires, a questionnaire about the social behaviour of teachers and a questionnaire rating the leadership competence of school principals. The data were analyzed using the Spearman correlation formula at significance level of 0.05. The results showed that almost all the constructs for leadership competence of principals were correlated to all the constructs of social behaviour of teachers at low level (0-0.29, p-value < 0.05) and moderate level (0.30 – 0.49, p-value < 0.05) of correlation. It was unexpected that teachers’ punctuality and accountability was not well-correlated to leadership competence of principals (p-value > 0.05). Based on the research results, it is recommended that the recruitment of school principals involve a standardized test consisting of all constructs of leadership competence.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126165036","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":"Postgraduate EFL Students’ Response t o Feedback: What Feedback Do Students Prefer?","authors":"S. Zulaiha, Akhmad Haqiqi Ma'mun, Herri Mulyono","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.9089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.9089","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed at investigating postgraduate EFL students’ preferences for feedback and reasons behind their preferences. This study employed a qualitative research design with a case study approach. Students at an English study program participated in an in-depth interview. Data were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis. Findings revealed that the majority of postgraduate EFL students in this study preferred written, specific, detailed, regular, constructive, and timely feedback. Students showed interest in the feedback they received and desired to discuss with their lecturers about the feedback. The findings emphasize the need for dialogic feedback where students and lecturers can share an understanding of what feedback is and improve the way the feedback process is done. Suggestions, implications, and limitations are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"481 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130340463","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":"Home-School Partnership: How do Indonesian elementary school principals perceive it?","authors":"Yantoro Yantoro, D. N. Istofa","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8995","url":null,"abstract":"Home-school partnerships is defined as the collaboration between family and school and to improve students' achievement. Even though many empirical researches have been published in the area of educational management, important gaps in this study in regards toward the analysis in the developing countries including Indonesia. This study utilized interviews with Indonesian school principals in exploring their perspectives and practices of home-school partnership in Indonesian elementary education. The participants were six elementary school principals from six Indonesia elementary schools. The study informs that Indonesian elementary school principals have perceptions which are consistent towards the importance roles of home-school partnership. Besides, they inform the implementation of home-school partnership; however, a parent-teacher association is not established. The school principals involved in this study also informed that parents’ lack of knowledge and insufficient time as the two barriers from home-school relationship. Recommendation and suggestion are offered to tackle the barriers. The results of the study suggest the improvement of training for teachers to build communication with parents various backgrounds of culture and experiences are needed.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124652432","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":"Students’ Demotivating Factors in English Language Learning at One State Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia","authors":"Dian Erlina, Deta Desvitasari, Lenny Marzulina, Almirah Meida Risfina","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.9024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.9024","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigated students' demotivating factors in English language learning at MTsN 1 Palembang. The research was in the form of case study research design. The participants were the second-grade students at MTsN 1 Palembang. Based on their English achievement, there were 11 students being demotivated in learning English. The data were gained by using document review and face-to-face interviews. The data from document review and interview were analyzed by using thematic analysis. The findings showed that there were five demotivating factors in English language learning: (a) inadequate school facilities, (b) lack of teachers' competence and teaching styles, (c) learning content and materials, (d) classroom condition and classmates' attitudes, and (e) lack of self-confidence. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: demotivation, demotivating factors, English language learning","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937754","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}
G. Tridinanti, R. Roni, Farnia Sari, Nurulanningsih
{"title":"Correlation Among Writing Theory, Motivation And Writing Practice Of Trdinanti University Students","authors":"G. Tridinanti, R. Roni, Farnia Sari, Nurulanningsih","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8041","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT : The purpose of this study to determine the correlation among writing theory, writing motivation and the writing practice of narrative text. The method used is survey with correlational techniques. The analytical method used is correlational analysis. The population is all students of English Department. The sample is 75 students with total sampling technique. The result shows that (1) there is significant correlation between Writing Theory and Writing Practice, proven by t value = 5.579 and Sig0.000 <0.05;(2) there is significant correlation between Writing Motivation and Writing Practice, proven by t value = 2.167 and Sig. 0.000 <0.05; (3) there is significant contribution of Writing Theory and Writing Motivation toward Writing Practice, proven by Fo = 64.936 and Sig. 0.000 <0.05. It can be concluded that the writing practice of narrative text is correlated by writing theory and writing motivation both partially and simultaneously. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: motivation, narrative text, practice, theory, writing","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130852222","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":"Metacognition Awareness and Its Correlation with Academic Achievement of Educational Students","authors":"E. Eriyani","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8573","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to describe the metacognitive awareness of Indonesian Language and Literature Educational students in STKIP YPM Bangko, and to differentiate student metacognition by gender and length of study, and to correlate metacognition awareness on student achievement indexes. A quantitative research design was used with population of 80 students in academic year of 2017-2018. A purposive sampling technique was taken by involving students of the third, fifth, and seventh semester. Documentations and questionnaires were used as the instuments of this study and manual calculations and SPSS 16.0 for Windows were used to analyze the collected data in the study. The results showed that there was no significant difference between metacognitive awareness of male and female students, and between metacognitive awareness of the second year, the third year, and the fourth year. The latest, there was a very weak positive relationship between metacognitive awareness and students’ achievement.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131221793","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":"Are Trainee Language Teachers Autonomous in Developing Their Own Language Skills?","authors":"C. Molnár","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.7980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.7980","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents the findings of a mixed method study exploring how autonomous 33 in- service and 10 trainee EFL teachers were in the amount of exposure to authentic English language they present themselves. This study investigated the extent to which L2 English TTs were autonomous in their exposure to the target language and how they valued such exposure. Ten university teacher trainees took part in the project. The amount of time they exposed themselves to authentic English was measured using an input application developed specifically for this study. The exposure had to be outside of their teaching and learning domain. The research question was: How autonomous are trainee language teachers in developing their own language skills? Data were collected from an in-service teacher questionnaire, a trainee teacher two-month study, and a focus group discussion. The focus group discussion data were analyzed qualitatively while the quantitative data were analyzed using the SPSS software. The main findings of the study showed that the participants did expose themselves to authentic English but were not aware of the learning value of this exposure. Implications and recommendations are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130153254","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}
Ekawarna Ekawarna, Yusdi Anra, Qurotta Ayun, Seri Romios, Tarnak Tarnak
{"title":"Analyzing the Effect of Need for Achievement and Locus of Control on Student Entrepreneurial Intentions","authors":"Ekawarna Ekawarna, Yusdi Anra, Qurotta Ayun, Seri Romios, Tarnak Tarnak","doi":"10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22437/IRJE.V4I1.8815","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to analyze the student entrepreneurial intentions model based on their psychological characteristics. More specifically, this study sought to explain whether the Need for Achievement (N-Ach) and Locus of Control (LoC) of students had an effect on Entrepreneurial Intentions (EI). An inferential research design with a cross-sectional study was adopted to collect the data. Students from faculty of teacher training and education, one public university in Jambi, were involved as the sample of the study. 63.14% of male students were selected by using a simple random sampling strategy, dominated by 81.78% of respondents aged less than 20 years. Data were collected through questionnaires and were analyzed by using the statistical correlation software and linear regression models to ensure the relationship between psychological characteristics and EI. The results indicated that there was a positive effect on psychological characteristics and EI on Student Entrepreneurial Intentions. N-Ach and LoC positively affected EI, both partially and jointly. Due to the limited instrument used in this study, only a self-reported questionnaire, which carried an opportunity for the response bias, and involved male students from a faculty in one public university in Jambi. Therefore, this model needs a further development through the incorporation of behavioral characteristics by involving larger samples allowing us understand on whether behavioral theories and traits are conflicting or complementary.","PeriodicalId":211413,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE|","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122988292","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}