{"title":"The Use of Problem Based Learning in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill","authors":"R. Oktadela, Yusti Elida","doi":"10.31004/jele.v7i2.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31004/jele.v7i2.309","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to develop a model of PBL ( Problem Based Learning) in English teaching . It belongs to research and development (R D), which includes research and information collection, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, product revision, field testing, operational product revision, field operational testing, final product revision, and dissemination and implementation. Based on the stages of R D, the findings can be explained as follows. Firstly, based on the study of the concept of PBL model, five stages proposed by Glickman were implemented, namely: (1) pre-conference with the lecturer; (2) classroom observations; (3) the analysis and interpretation of the observation results and set up the konverensi approach; (4) meetings after observing; (5) evaluating the four stages. All stages were carried out by utilizing information. Secondly,students’ and lecturer’s perception or understanding on PBL model is yet complete. Thirdly, PBL Model based on the character can be considered as a breakthrough for guiding teachers to improve their teaching competence.","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"102 s1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72386796","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":"EFL Students Responses’ to Online Corrective Feedback in the Teaching of Academic Writing during the Covid-19","authors":"Silsilya Wahyu Nurya, P. Tyas","doi":"10.31004/jele.v7i2.292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31004/jele.v7i2.292","url":null,"abstract":"During covid-19 pandemic, online learning is one of the alternatives that can be used by the lecturer in carrying out learning. This study aims to analyze the students' response to corrective feedback given by the lecturer during online learning. The research methodology used is a quantitative survey design. The research subjects are 140 student academic writing classes from the 2020 batch of the English Language Education Program in Universitas Brawijaya. The instrument used is questionnaires filled out online by students. They were 17 questions in four section that were distributed to investigate: 1) collecting personal information and types of online platforms used to provide corrective feedback, 2) the identification the types of error to be corrected from the student’s responses, 3) students’ responses for technique the lecturers should correct their errors, 4) students’ responses to corrected errors by the lecturer. There were 106 responses received (88 female and 18 male students). Based on the results, overall online corrective feedback conducted by the lecturer in academic writing classes has a positive response in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Most students find the online corrective feedback in their academic writing class useful during pandemic Covid-19.","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82742806","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 Influence of Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy on the Vocabulary Mastery","authors":"Intan Chrysti Olivia, S. Yuliani, Dita Adawiyah","doi":"10.31004/jele.v7i2.320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31004/jele.v7i2.320","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the study was to find out there was a significant influence of using vocabulary self-colection strategy on the vocabulary mastery of the Seventh Grade Students at SMP YKPP Pendopo. The method was pre-experimental. The population of this study was the seventh grade students of SMP YKPP Pendopo with totaling 105 students. The sample selected by using convenience method with the total 31 students. The data collected by mean of tests, namely pretest and posttest. The data analyzed by Matched t-test. The score of tobtained was 0.0083 1697 at the significant level p0.05 for two tailed and degree of freedom was 30, t table was 1.697. It indicated that the used of vocabulary self-collection strategy on the vocabulary mastery of the seventh grade students at SMP YKPP Pendopo was significant influence.","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86183729","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 Students’ Difficulties in Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text","authors":"Wilda Fitri, E. Eliza, I. Irwandi, Loli Safitri","doi":"10.31004/jele.v7i2.276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31004/jele.v7i2.276","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to explain the kind of difficult aspect in reading comprehension of the descriptive text faced by the students at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sintoga. The method applied was descriptive quantitative, where the test and questionnaire were used as the instrument of the data. The sample of this study was VIII 2 chosen by using a simple random sampling technique. The test consisted of 30 question items divided into five types of questions: topic, main idea, word reference, location information, reference. Index difficulty and percentage were used to analyze the data. The result of the test showed that the majority of the eighth-grade students of SMPN 1 Sintoga found difficulties including answering topic 76%, main idea 72%, word reference 79%, location information 62%, and reference 80%. The kind of difficult aspect that encountered by the students of SMPN 1 Sintoga was finding main idea questions because the located main idea was difficult to find. As the result, kind of the difficult aspect faced by was in achieving the inference for reading comprehension test","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88928189","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":"Black Voice Portrayed in The Movie of The Hidden Figures by Theodore Melfi","authors":"Maya Puspita, Muhammad Iqbal Ramdhani","doi":"10.29240/ef.v6i2.5233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.5233","url":null,"abstract":"The film Hidden Figures is based on the actual tale of three African-American women who work at NASA on space rocket launches. Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are the three African-American women. With the backdrop of the 1960s, these three women face the discrimination (differences in race or skin color) in their workplace at NASA. This study aims to explore the theory of black feminism from Patricia Hill Collins and integrate it with the Self Defenses Mechanism theory from Sigmund Freud about how they faced problems at that time. This research using a qualitative descriptive approach. This study finds black feminism in the film Hidden Figures in the form of discrimination experienced by these characters in the form of gender, race and class. However, the resistance carried out by these characters is through Aggression, namely expressing anger, Apathetic, namely by withdrawing not to enter into a problem, Isolation, namely respecting something that causes frustration, and finally, Introjection, which is taking the positive side of other people. ","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"133 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73222088","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":"Error Analysis on Noun Phrase in Students’ Undergraduate Theses","authors":"Tania Syafutri, Syafryadin Syafryadin, Dedi Sofyan","doi":"10.29240/ef.v6i2.4659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.4659","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research is (1) to analyze the components of noun phrase errors that are often made by students in the introduction parts of their undergraduate theses, (2) to analyze the types of noun phrase errors that are often made by students in the introduction parts of their undergraduate theses, (3) to find out the differences between noun phrase errors made students in the introduction parts of their undergraduate theses. The method used in this research was mix method. The instrument comprised observation and documentation. The result of this research was as follows: (1) the most dominant component of noun phrase error made by UPI and Unib students in the introduction parts was a head error, (2) the most dominant type of error in noun phrases made by UPI was addition error; however, the most dominant type of noun phrase errors among Unib students was omission error, (3) the number of noun phrase errors in Unib was higher than those in UPI. It is recommended that students improve their mastery of noun phrases, that lecturers teach students how to write the introduction well, specifically on noun phrases, and that next researchers investigate additional aspects of noun phrases.","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"PP 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84345664","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":"Women’s Stereotypes in “Pretty Girl” Song Lyrics: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study","authors":"F. Aprilia, Neisya Neisya","doi":"10.29240/ef.v6i2.4902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.4902","url":null,"abstract":"One of the components in music or song which can be used as an access to the image of women is song lyrics. Woman image presents mental, spiritual, and daily behavior expression by women in many aspects; physical and psychological as women's self-image, family as well as community traits as part of social images. Through language written as song lyrics, a discourse can be expressed according to what the songwriter feels and thinks. The objective of this study is to find out how the image of women which becomes a stereotype is represented in the lyrics of the song \"Pretty Girl\" by Maggie Lindemann. This study was a qualitative study using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach with Norman Fairclough's model. The model was used to analyze the feminist discourses contained in the lyrics of the song \"Pretty Girl\" by Maggie Lindemann. The analysis found that the song \"Pretty Girl\" sung by Maggie Lindemann contained discourses about Maggie Lindemann's rebuttal of women stereotypes. ","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77992050","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":"Teaching English by Using Canva: Students’ and Lecturers’ Voice","authors":"Erfin Wijayanti","doi":"10.29240/ef.v6i2.5709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.5709","url":null,"abstract":"This research discovers students’ and lecturers’ voice on using Canva in English language teaching. This research employed quantitative descriptive method with 31 English Foreign Language (EFL) students and 5 lecturers. The data are gained from 31 students and 5 lecturers of English Department at IAIN Fattahul Muluk Papua. The students’ and lecturers are given a set of questionnaires to obtain their response on using Canva. After gaining the data, the researcher analysed the students’ and lecturers’ response by counting its frequency and percentage. The findings of this research Indicated that the majority of students and lecturers have positive voice on using Canva in English language teaching based on three indicators that is provided by researcher, those are: usefulness, ease to use, and easy access. This research revealed that Canva is usefulness tool for English language teaching. Canva is also ease of use tool for English language teaching which easy to use, effective, improve teaching and learning process, and easy to distribute. At the end, Canva has easy access because Canva provides everything for teaching and learning process such as video, images, colourful. Besides, Canva becomes an interesting App, and good choice for learning and teaching process. ","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90567085","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":"Investigating Verbal Humor in Selected Mr. Iglesias Sitcom Shows Episodes","authors":"Kafa Bella Nabila, Ouda Teda Ena, Barli Bram","doi":"10.29240/ef.v6i2.5458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.5458","url":null,"abstract":"Humor can be found in people's daily life, movie, and stand-up comedy. People use it to criticize and entertain at the same time. In entertaining and criticizing a situation, humor can be in a form of a TV show or sitcom. This research focuses on verbal humor in a sitcom entitled Mr. Iglesias. This study aims to figure out the types of verbal humor using the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) by Attardo & Raskin (1991). This research examined five episodes of Mr. Iglesias’s shows from seasons 1 to 5 using a descriptive qualitative method. The results showed that this situation comedy has 58 expressions that employed linguistic humor. It could be classified into 8 of the 12 types of verbal humor. The six aspects of GTVH theory used to analyze the linguistic section were script opposition, logical mechanism, situation, target, narrative strategy, and language. Based on the six aspects of GTVH, this situational comedy indicated sarcasm as the most used verbal humor category.","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87142753","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}
Utari Dwi Sartika, Syafryadin Syafryadin, A. Azwandi
{"title":"English Teachers' Perception of Implementing Project-Based Learning in Secondary Schools","authors":"Utari Dwi Sartika, Syafryadin Syafryadin, A. Azwandi","doi":"10.29240/ef.v6i2.5452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29240/ef.v6i2.5452","url":null,"abstract":"The aims of this study were to investigate English teachers’ perceptions in implementing Project-Based Learning and to analyze the English teachers’ challenges of implementing Project-Based Learning in Secondary Schools in Bengkulu City. 16 English teachers in Senior High Schools and 14 English teachers in Junior High Schools who have implemented Project-Based Learning in their class served as participants in this study. An explanatory sequential mixed method research applied to investigate the teachers’ perceptions in implementing Project-Based Learning for gathering quantitative data by using Questionnaire in the first phase. Then, in collecting qualitative data to analyze the challenges of the implementation of Project-Based Learning in English classroom, the researcher conducted interview which explained the result in the first phase. There are a total of 30 questions on the questionnaire, all of which pertain the internal factors and the external factors, also the challenges which affected the English teachers’ perceptions in Secondary School. The findings of this study suggested English teachers’ perceptions and challenges in implementing Project-Based Learning in Secondary Schools had a positive response. Meanwhile, the English teachers’ challenges are caused by the limited of time and of knowledge, the management of class, and the situation of pandemic.","PeriodicalId":33323,"journal":{"name":"English Franca Academic Journal of English Language and Education","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88376709","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}