{"title":"TEACHING READING BY UTILIZING HOT POTATOES SOFTWARE TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT","authors":"Abdullah Farih","doi":"10.32682/jeell.v5i1.927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/jeell.v5i1.927","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to measure whether there is or not significant effect of teaching reading by utilizing Hot Potatoes software toward students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text. The variables used were the teaching treatment of Hot Potatoes Software as the independent variable and the students’ reading comprehension of Descriptive Text as dependent variable. Then, the research designed was Quasi-experimental design and the presentation of data used was quantitative. The data were obtained from the eleventh grade, of which 28 students were taken as sample. The students are divided into two groups; experiment group consisted of 12 students and control group consists of 16 students. To get the data, the pre-test and post-test were applied and then analyzed using t-test formula. The researcher had concluded that there is Significant effect of Hot Potatoes Software toward the students’ reading comprehension achievement. The result showed that mean of students’ post-test was increased. It is proved by the t-test (8.54) which is higher than t-table (2.05) at level of significance 5%. It means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and it proved that Hot Potatoes Software had significant effect toward students’ reading comprehension of Descriptive Text","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124130521","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 SISTERHOOD TO THE WOMEN’S SURVIVAL IN ATIQ RAHIMI’S THE PATIENCE STONE","authors":"Suci Suryani","doi":"10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.945","url":null,"abstract":"Chesler writes in The Death of Feminism that the sisterhood in the Muslim world does not always exist. Yet, Atiq Rahimi in The Patience Stone describes the solidarity naturally performed between the main woman character and her aunt. Indeed, the description argues Chesler’s own opinion that love, family feelings between and among women do not exist. There are four sisterhoods proposed to reveal in the novel, they are (1) the bad experiences of patriarchy shared between the main women character and her aunt, (2) the form of sisterhood performed by her aunt toward the main woman character and each other, (3) the significance of the sisterhood toward the main woman character’s life and her aunty’s life, and (4) a magical tale bring misfortune for the main women character’s actual live to underline the necessary of sisterhood. The article analyzes the character’s utterances and author’s narration in a qualitative research. The finding shows (1) the main woman character suffers from the bad treatment of her father and husband while her aunt suffers from the bad treatment of her husband and his family, (2) advise, attention, and love are the forms of sisterhood naturally performed between the main woman character and her aunt, (3) the main women character and her aunt are avoided by the next violence, and (4) the main woman character does not keep silence as warned by her grand mother through narrating the magical tale brings her to have tragic end life. As the conclusion, the sisterhood naturally performed between the main woman character and her aunt is significant to her aunt’s survival.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"273 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121990304","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":"LOCAL LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE IN TRANSLATING ENGLISH TEXT","authors":"Havid Ardi","doi":"10.32682/jeell.v5i1.980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/jeell.v5i1.980","url":null,"abstract":"Translation and foreign language mostly influence the use of local language di Indonesia. However, in the translation text entitled \"Asal-Usul Elite Minangkabau Modern: Respons terhadap Kolonial Belanda Abad XIX/XX,\" there is an attempt to maintain a local language, Minangkabau. The original text was written in English by E. Grave an American researcher. This paper aims to identify translation techniques as the form of language maintenance and its impact on the readability of the translation text. The findings show that adaptation, established equivalence, particularization, explicitation, and addition techniques are used in maintaining Minangkabaunese. The assessment of the translation indicates that these techniques did not decrease the level of readability. The readability level is at an easy level with a score of 3.53. This finding implies that language maintenance does not reduce the readability of translation and it is a positive effort that translators can make.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116262003","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":"ECLECTIC METHOD: AN ALTERNATIVE TO SUPPORT GRAMMAR MASTERY TO TWELVE GRADERS","authors":"K. Kiswati","doi":"10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.943","url":null,"abstract":"This research is aimed to know the use of Eclectic Method towards students grammar mastery. Due to the low grammar score and less motivation of the students to learn grammar as one of the material that should be mastered by the students integratedly with the other material. The research was a two-cycle classroom action research conducted to twelfth graders of social department at MAN 5 Jombang. This study used grammar tests, observation sheet and field notes as the instruments. The research finding proved that eclectic method was effective to be conducted in teaching English, mainly in grammar class. The data showed that the grammar score was improved significantly from the average score of 55.87 in preliminary study to become 76.65 in cycle 1 and 88.19 in cycle 2. The participation of the students during the cycle was also improved from cycle to cycle.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129717827","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":"META- ANALYSIS OF THE USE MOVIE TRAILER IN EFL CLASSROOMTHE EFFECT OF THE READER’S THEATER TECHNIQUE ON THE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT STKIP PGRI JOMBANG","authors":"M. Rafi, Aang Fatihul Islam","doi":"10.32682/jeell.v5i1.941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/jeell.v5i1.941","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of speaking class is to improve and develop students’ speaking skill to be fluent, correct and accurate. One of techniques applied on that speaking class is Reader’s Theatre. Reader’s theatre can encourage students to speak English fluently with correct vocabulary, pronounce words well and speak with a good structure. This study aims to know the effectiveness from reader’s theatre toward students’ speaking skill at STKIP PGRI Jombang. The population of this study is all students of 2017 English department while the samples are 2017 A students and 2017 B students. The research design applies quasi experiment with a test as the instrument and calculate the data with ANCOVA. It shows that the significant value is 0,003, it is lower than the significant level 0,05. The result of the study shows that there is a significant effect to reader’s theatre on students’ speaking skill at STKIP PGRI Jombang and reader’s theatre can give a good result on students’ speaking skill.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117207877","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":"ENGLISH LITERACY CULTURE OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL EFL LEARNERS: HOW LITERATE ARE THEY?","authors":"Henny Rahmawati","doi":"10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.947","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, English literacy becomes the hot topic spoken among English practitioners. Literacy embraces four competences including listening, speaking, reading and writing; however, in this particular study the researcher only investigates reading and writing. Many ways have already been and will be conducted to promote such literacy. In this study, the researcher is eager to contribute in giving the springboard particularly for English practitioners to see how the EFL learners’ literacy culture especially in university level and to know the shortages they have faced to build their English literacy culture. The subjects of this study are eighty-two university level students majoring at English education in Unisma. The researcher uses questionnaire as the instrument in gaining the data needed which then were analyzed qualitatively. The result shows that the students’ literacy culture is considered low and needs to improve greatly.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"203 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122358381","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 DIGITAL FEEDBACK IN TEACHING ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING","authors":"Afi Niamah","doi":"10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/JEELL.V5I1.937","url":null,"abstract":"Argumentative Writing is the last writing skill given to the fourth semester of English Department students. It equips the students to present convincing argument as well as critical analysis in the form of argumentative essay. Argumentative Writing course is important since it introduces them in elaborating previous studies to support their argument in composing thesis. English Department students of STKIP PGRI Jombang tend to get difficulties in explaining the previous studies critically. As a matter of fact, most students were confused in relating their argument with the previous studies. Terms connecting previous studies indicate that the students are able to compose thesis scientifically. Thus, this study was conducted to show the use of digital feedback by involving both CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) and MALL (Mobile-Assisted Language Learning) in teaching argumentative writing. The improvement of the students’ ability in argumentative writing by using digital feedback is based on at least 15 achievement gain point reached by 80% of the class. The study found that some students need to have face to face consultation in confirming their final draft.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126399943","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":"META- ANALYSIS OF THE USE MOVIE TRAILER IN EFL CLASSROOM","authors":"U. H. Saidah, Aang Fatihul Islam","doi":"10.32682/jeel.v4i1.721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/jeel.v4i1.721","url":null,"abstract":"The scenes in the trailer shown are all sorts of interesting and prominent scenesto attract the attention of potential viewers and be able to describe the entire contents of the movie without giving too much information. The trailer was created to promote theatrical release of the movie and the movie trailer was a clip containing all the parts of the advertised movie, shown before other movie screenings in the cinema, and aimed for the audience to come to watch. The best way to teach English is to use interesting material, appropriate teaching methods, the use of technology that can be one of the important and effective support tools. Meta-analysis is essentially a synthesis of a topic taken from several research reports. Based on the synthesis is drawn conclusions about the topic under study. This research uses some similar research results as basic data in conducting studies and conclusions. From the same five studies, it is concluded that Movie Trailer is effective as a learning medium because it can improve understanding in English learning.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114771192","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 APPLICATION OF SEMINAR PAPER TECHNIC IN WRITING COURSE IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN FACULTY OF ADAB AND HUMANITY UIN SUNAN AMPEL SURABAYA","authors":"Abu Fanani","doi":"10.32682/jeel.v4i2.664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32682/jeel.v4i2.664","url":null,"abstract":"There three points in this research. These are the proses of the use of paper seminar technic on writing class of English Department, the result of the use of paper seminar technic on writing class of English Department and obstacle of the use of paper seminar technic on writing class of English Department Art and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel Surabaya. This research method is Classroom Action Research. There are two cycles of this research. The enhancement appeared from the first cycle to the second cycle. It can be seen from the main indicator that shows the improvement. There are some variables that are used but only two variables that are not increase, these are prewriting and drafting. So it can be said that this research is success. While the obstacle of this research are the weakness of students competence of English especially writing skill and the infrastructures that are not support.","PeriodicalId":225373,"journal":{"name":"JEELL (Journal of English Education, Linguistics and Literature)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126576988","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}