{"title":"The Us of Dice Game in Teaching Vocabulary for Young Learners","authors":"H. Humaira","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.735","url":null,"abstract":"Dice games is a cube (often with corners slightly rounded), Marked on each of its six faces with a different number of circular patches or Pits called pips. Based on the purpose of this research to find out whether the use of Loaded Dice Game can increase or not the students’ Vocabulary mastery at the fourth-grade students of SDIT Anak Sholeh Mataram in the school year 2016/2017. In this research, the writer used quasi-experimental research (pre-test and post-test design) with the population was 111 of 4 classes, and the sample was 58 students by using cluster sampling. The writer took two classes as samples, they are Malik class as an experimental and Khuzaifah class as a control group. To collect the data, the writer used multiple choices items with 20 numbers items. The finding of this research from the value of t-test was 5.01 higher than the value of t-table in the significance level 95% (1.67) and at the confidence level 99% (2.39). The value of t-test is higher than t-table, it means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) is accepted. So, the writer can conclude that the use of Loaded Dice game can increase the students’ vocabulary mastery at the fourth-grade students of SDIT Anak Sholeh Mataram in the school year 2016/2017.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90126690","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 Students' Ability in Writing English Exposition Texts: Descriptive Study at the Second Grade of Senior High School of Hangtuah 3 Mataram in Academic Year 2016-2017","authors":"M. Muslimin","doi":"10.31764/leltj.v9i1.737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/leltj.v9i1.737","url":null,"abstract":"The population of this research was the second-grade students of SMA 3 Hangtuah Mataram in academic year 2015/2016 which consist of 2 classes. It means that all of the population was 30 students and this population makes sample 30 students’. The thesis aimed to find out the student’s ability in writing English exposition text: descriptive study at the second grade of senior high school of Hangtuah 3 Mataram in academic year 2015/2016. The researcher took 30 students of the second years' students of Hangtuah 3 Mataram to be respondents/sample, the population only two classes consists of 30 students. In collecting data, the researcher used a writing test. The students were asked to make a paragraph in exposition text. The data analysis, the students score was found that student’s ability in writing English exposition text as good in 2 class (30 students), in this case, in class 2 there are no students got excellent , 20 students got good level (67%), 8 students got very good criteria (26%), and 2 students got fairly good criteria (7%). Based on the result above it can be concluded that the students' ability in writing English exposition text 20 students “good” criteria or 67%.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84953552","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":"An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts of Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech to Donald Trump in Presidential Election","authors":"M. Hudri, I. Irwandi","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V11I1.741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V11I1.741","url":null,"abstract":"Illocutionary Acts is what the speaker wants to achieve by uttering something, and illocutionary acts is an utterance which has a particular conventional force. About this, illocutionary acts in Hillary Clinton’s speech is interesting to be analyzed. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of illocutionary acts found in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump. The writer used descriptive qualitative research. The main research instrument was the writer herself supported by the data analysis sheet. The data analysis was performed by categorizing the data based on Searle’s categorization of speech acts (2005) which include assertive, directives, commissives, expressive and declarative speech acts. Each category was thoroughly observed to find the answer of the research questions. The final step was presenting the data and making a conclusion in reference to the findings of the research. The research findings show that the types of illocutionary acts found in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump consist of assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives. Assertions have the highest frequency of occurrence 13 types (36.1%). It is followed by directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives which occur 9 types (25%), 3 types (8.3%), 9 types (25%) and 2 types (5.6%) respectively. The dominant illocutionary acts in Hillary Clinton’s speech are assertives. Assertation showed the highest frequency of assertives. So, the total of data were 36 types of illocutionary acts founds in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80240282","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 Use of Schematic-activation Strategy in Teaching Young EFL Learners Reading Comprehension","authors":"Etika Ariyani","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V11I1.744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V11I1.744","url":null,"abstract":"Reading is one of the important skills that the students have to master. However, many students have difficulties in comprehending the reading text. To solve this condition, the researcher used schema activation strategy to help students understand reading comprehension. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether the use of schema activation strategy is effective or not in teaching reading comprehension at the second-grade students of MTs Tarbiyatul Mustafid in academic year 2017/2018. This study was quasi-experimental design using two classes were VIII B class was taken as an experimental class, and VII-A was taken as control class. The population of this research involved 60 students from the second grade in MTs Tarbiyatul Mustafid Batu Simpang. By using purposive sampling, the researcher took the students as a sample. In collecting the data, this study used pre-test, treatment, and post-test as the data collection procedure then followed by analyzing the data by using the t-test formula. Then the result of statistical analysis of t-test in this research was 2.85. It was higher than critical values for t- table in the degree of freedom (df) of 58 is 2.021(0.05%) and 2.704(0.01%). The researcher concludes that mean score before and after teaching by using schema activation strategy has a difference. It means the alternative hypothesis (ha) was accepted. The use of schema activation strategy in teaching reading comprehension at the second-grade students of MTs Tarbiyatul Mustafid Batu Rimpang is effective.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75099104","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":"An Analysis of Students' Ability in Distinguishing Lexical and Structural Ambiguity in English Sentences at Second Grade of SMA 1 Labuapi in the Academic Year 2016-2017","authors":"I. Irwandi","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.733","url":null,"abstract":"Ambiguity is the property of having two or more distinct meanings or interpretations. Sometimes we found many ambiguities sentences when we are reading or listen to the English sentences. A word or sentence is ambiguous if it can be interpreted in more than one way. The problem stated in this study is: How is the students’ ability in distinguishing lexical and structural ambiguity in English sentences? The purpose of this study is to investigate the students’ ability in distinguishing lexical and structural ambiguity in English sentences at second grade of SMAN 1 Labuapi in academic year 2016/2017. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach. The writer used purposive sampling for taking the sample, namely class IPA 2 which consists of 22 students. The data were collected by a gap-filling test for lexical ambiguity word class of noun and label for structural ambiguity. The results of the research demonstrate that the students of SMAN 1 Labuapi were categorized into a very poor with the average score was 4.450. The writer illustrates the analysis result in the percentage of all test’s items in simple sentences, there were 890 ambiguous words and phrase. Lexical ambiguity involves noun (150) and structural ambiguity involve noun phrase (30). Finally, based on the research findings, the writer concluded that more than a half of students at the second grade of SMAN 1 Labuapi had very poor abilities in distinguishing lexical and structural ambiguity in English sentences.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78866616","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 Effect of Study Tour Activity in Teaching Junior High School Students Speaking Skill.","authors":"M. F. Bafadal, I. Ilham","doi":"10.31764/leltj.v11i1.743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/leltj.v11i1.743","url":null,"abstract":"The study tour is emphasized experiential learning and offer both group and self-directed activities that enable learners to explore new territories, cultures, and people. The study tour is designed to be both fun and educational. Study tour activity helps the students develop all four languages skills in real life, and make speaking activities more effective. In order, the purpose is to investigate study tour activity affects or not in teaching speaking skill at the first Grade of Islamic Junior High School, Al-Maarif Tumpak, District of Pujut. The subject of this study was conducted in the first-grade students’ of Islamic Junior High School Al-Maarif Tumpak. This study used purposive sampling. The writer took 25 students as a sample that divided into two groups, 13 students belong to the experimental group, and 12 students belong to the control group. In collecting the data, this study used pre-test post-test as the research instrument then followed by analyzing the data using the t-test formula. This study found that the mean score of post-test of the experimental group is higher than the control group. It means that study tour activity affects teaching speaking skill. An analyzing data from the result between the deviations of mean scores of the experimental group was 28,9 and control group was 21,7. Then the result of the statistical analysis of t-test in this study was 2,09. It was higher than critical values for t-table in the degree of freedom (df) 23 is 2, 069 (0, 05%). Based on the result of this study, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83425894","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 Educational and Religious Values on Bimanese Tradition Custom of Rimpu Tembe; A Study at Sambori Village","authors":"I. Ilham","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.731","url":null,"abstract":"Rimpu is the typical dress of womenofBimanese formed from a traditional sarong woven. The use of Rimpu done by one of the holes or the end of the sheath wrapped around the head so that only the visible face for women who are married (RimpuColo) and just looking eyes for the girl (RimpuMpida). Rimpu is local wisdom and becomes part of the wealthofBimanese Islamic culture that needs to be preserved. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of RimpuTembetraditional custom of Bimanese toward the educational and religious values at Sambori village. The method of this study is a qualitative method and the data was collected by using observation, interviews, documentation, and recording. The result the shows that Educational values that can be obtained from Rimpu are when women wear Rimpu for their activity must be when they traveling or meeting with male and others. Rimpu can protect women from the lust of the opposite sex. Religious values of RimpuTembe is the moral values, faith and sari'ah, because of their body Islamic beliefs.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81070180","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 Analysis of Educational and Cultural Values of \"Boho Oi Ndeu\" in Wedding Ceremony of Bimanese at Rabakodo Village","authors":"A. Asbah","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V9I1.738","url":null,"abstract":"BohoOiNdeuis wedding ceremony to the bride and groom using coconut milk and water flowers inserted into the pottery(RoaBou), two bridal wear woven and tied using white thread(EroLanta)to the position of the body facing the Qiblah. It is intended that both partners in the wedding bond remain strong and lasting. The aim of this study to investigate Educational and Cultural values Boho Oi Ndeu in the wedding ceremony of Bimanese at Rabakodo village Bima Regency. The method of this study is a qualitative method and the data was collected used observation to informant, interviews informant to examine ceremony of Boho Oi Ndeu, and documentation to take pictures from an informant by using interviews and took videos while the ceremony of Boho Oi Ndeu was running. The results of this study showed that the Cultural values of the traditions of Boho Oi Ndeu performed by the ceremony are expected that the bride and groom would be lived in a harmonious family, happy, safe and peaceful. The Educational values during the ceremony of Boho Oi Ndeu get from a tool used by the nanny to bathe the bride and groom that consists of pottery, sarong, candles and white thread.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74436359","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 Use of Picture in Teaching Degrees of Comparison","authors":"L. Lukman, I. Ilham","doi":"10.31764/LELTJ.V12I2.750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31764/LELTJ.V12I2.750","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this quantitative study is to investigate whether there any influence of using a picture in teaching degree of comparison or not and to know the students’ responses at the second year students of SMP Negeri 9 Mataram in academic year 2014/2015. The population of this study was taken from all the second year students. The writer chose two classes to compare by using the technique of taken sample “cluster random sampling.” The first class as the experimental class (A class) was taught by the degree of comparison through pictures. The second class as a control class ( B class) was taught without pictures. While 34 students of the experimental group and 34 students of the control group. This study used an experimental study with a quantitative method — the data collected procedure by test and questionnaire. The writer gave the pre_test, the treatment, the post_test, and the questionnaire. After collecting and calculating the data, the writer found out that the experimental class gains a high score than the control class. Based on the result, the means scores of A class was 25 while the B class was 16. Moreover it was found that the value of t_test was higher than t_table, where t_test 2, 5 ≤ t_table = 2, 0 (0, 5% or 95%). The finding showed that there any influence of using the picture in teaching comparison degrees. The picture increases students’ responses to learning degree of comparison the class and also given good influence concerning students’ skill in mastering the subject of comparison degrees. It showed by students’ responses of the data from the questionnaire that more than half of students answer yes with percentage was 73%. It means that the picture has a great contribution for students in learning comparison degrees. Therefore, it can be concluded that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected.","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85682190","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 Use of Code Switching in General English Classes for Non-English Department Students in Indonesia","authors":"Thomas Wahyu Prabowo Mukti, Ouda Teda Ena","doi":"10.21462/IJEFL.V3I2.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21462/IJEFL.V3I2.80","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of the use of code switching as instructional languages in the class has already become a worldwide concern. Some experts may say that it is beneficial while others believe that it is not since it may become the interference for the learning. Through this paper, the researchers want to investigate the use of code switching in General English Classes for non-English Department of Sanata Dharma University. Employing a quantitative approach, specifically observation method by recording the class activity, this study tries to find out the types and analyse code switching employed by lecturers in the classes. The data analyses revealed that tag switching, intra-sentential and inter-sentential code switching are employed by lecturers and the code switching itself functions as the topic switch, repetitive and affective function. The inter-sentential code switching was mostly used by the lecturer and it mostly served as a repetitive function to explain and show their affection to students","PeriodicalId":30946,"journal":{"name":"Indonesian EFL Journal Journal of ELT Linguistics and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76250759","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}