{"title":"AN EVALUATION OF ENGLISH COURSEBOOK FOR YOUNG LEARNERS ENTITLED ENGLISH CHEST","authors":"Nicolaus Henry Supriyanto","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2225","url":null,"abstract":"One of the English coursebooks used in the teaching and learning English in Indonesia is English Chest. This study was conducted to answer the questions: (1) To what extent does English Chest series fulfill the criteria of a good English coursebook for young learners in terms of: physical format, subject matter, page layout, vocabulary and structure, graphic elements and content?; and (2) Does this coursebook meet the requirements of the syllabus of teaching English in primary school in Indonesia? The terms were developed and modified based on the criteria proposed by Varella (2014) about the good coursebook for young learners. The design of the study is descriptive qualitative. Ten English teachers using the coursebook were asked to assess it based on a checklist and interviewed. After the data were analyzed, the findings revealed that English Chest coursebook the series is categorized as a good and appropriate English coursebook for EFL young learners. Furthermore, the syllabus proposed by English Chest coursebook the series is in agreement with the syllabus of Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan 2006.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116834890","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’ PERCEPTION OF EXTENSIVE READING ACTIVITY THROUGH READING LOG","authors":"Gabriella, Veronica L. Diptoadi","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2227","url":null,"abstract":"As prospective English teachers, the students of the English department are expected to have sufficient English proficiency especially reading skills since most of the resources in the learning process are printed in English. Responding to the previous demand, the English Department provides a supplementary activity for developing the students’ reading skills. Hence, the focus of this study is on investigating how the students perceived the role of extensive reading activity in Reading A course in motivating them to read more in order to improve their reading skills as well as to enhance other skills and components, such as writing, speaking, and vocabulary. The questionnaire was answered by 29 students to find out their perception on extensive reading activity in Reading A course during the academic year of 2017/2018. In addition to the questionnaire, the lecturer of the course was also interviewed to confirm the students’ responses. After the data analysis, it was discovered that the students’ perception on extensive reading activity was positive.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122118302","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}
Sulistyaningsih, Kani Sulam, A. Syakur, L. Musyarofah
{"title":"THE IMPLEMENTATION OF 21 ST CENTURY SKILLS AS THE NEW LEARNING PARADIGM TO THE RESULT OF STUDENT’S CAREER AND LIFE SKILLS","authors":"Sulistyaningsih, Kani Sulam, A. Syakur, L. Musyarofah","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2229","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching students to learn and to work well with 21st century skills \u0000is not only the domain of vocational school (SMK), but also general senior high school (SMA/MA) as well. It is not enough for students to have only core skills in literacy and numeracy in order to succeed as individuals, citizen, or workers. This article deliberates how to implement the 21st century skills as the new learning paradigm for senior high school students. Furthermore, how the result of those implementations to the student’s career and life skills is based on the five elements as the indicators. For the first research question, the study was descriptive and qualitative. For the second research question, the study was descriptive and quantitative. The writers did an observation, which is workplace action research. There is a Career and Life Skills Program for the twelfth grade students of MA NU Walisongo Sidoarjo. The indicators included in the scoring result sheet consist of the five elements of skills that comprise the Career and Life Skills (CLS) domain. They are (1) flexibility and adaptability skills; (2) initiative and self-direction skills; (3) social and cross-cultural skills; (4) productivity and accountability skills; and (5) leadership and responsibility skills. The result of those implementations to the student’s career and life skills based on its five elements is quite good. At the end, they are expected will be job-ready with the skills most in demand in the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116605633","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":"PREPARING STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY FOR IR 4.0: UNDERSTANDING THEIR MOST PROBLEMATIC READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND THE SOLUTIONS","authors":"Manfredus Muliamarfan Mbangur, Johanes Leonardi Taloko, Vincentia Shs","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2231","url":null,"abstract":"The Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) signifying manufacturing digitalization has become a major concern around the globe. Not only does it deal with industrialists or engineers, but it also deals with teachers, and education policy makers. This new revolution requires educational institutions to prepare their students to be able to adapt themselves in this new era. English, serving as a global lingua franca, still plays an important role for all students in different majors that need to be mastered. One of the English language skills, reading, must be given sufficient attention by English teachers for their students to be able to read and comprehend English texts in their job fields in the future. This study attempts to reveal the reading comprehension mastery of the Business Administration students in a private university. It examines three series of English proficiency test (EPT) exercises and a final EPT they took as the requirements to complete their study in the university. Among the thirteen micro skills in this kind of test, the students’ most problematic skills are: answering transition questions correctly (25% correctly answered), determining the tone, purpose, or course (37%), and using context to determine meaning of difficult words (42%). Possible causes and recommendations to minimize those problems are also comprehensively presented.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115796428","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-Class Interaction and Students' Motivation in Intensive Course Classes","authors":"M. J. K. Sriemulyaningsih","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v0i36.625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v0i36.625","url":null,"abstract":"This brief study is to see the relationship of peer interaction within class as well as the lecturer in-class attitude affected the students’ motivation and perception in a university education course where English is taught as a foreign language. The lecturers, each functioned as the language class instructor, managed a 100-minute-session in a class consisted of about twenty students ranged from 18 to 21 years old. The setting was the University of Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya in which a sort of matriculation program called Intensive Course becomes a compulsory subject for the freshmen. The hypothesis established confirmed that in-class lecturer’s attitude and the peer-interaction affect students’ motivation in learning, compared to the material content being exposed. A set of questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection and distributed to the sample of class participants of Intensive Course program. It was hoped that the result would contribute beneficial findings that confirm whether interactions happened fostered the learning motivation of the class participants and how it affected them. Result showed that the hypothesis was verified to some extent as the students under study stated that the quality of their peer interaction was one of the grounds that contributed security feeling they need to have in order to freely participate in the learning process without having had to fear of making mistakes. The other ground which is also crucial is the trait of the lecturers that motivate them to persistently continue learning English, found to be challenging to most. Such trait is characterized as being understanding and friendly toward students. It is then hoped that the teachers of English as a Foreign language would realize the importance of having necessary teaching personality that accentuate their classes.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133229865","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' Perception of the Use of Story Telling Technique to Improve Pronunciation Skills","authors":"Nukmatus Syahria","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v0i39.1368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v0i39.1368","url":null,"abstract":"The complexities of skills in the Pronunciation created many hindrances for the students in mastering the Pronunciation Practice subject. Most of the first semester students of Adi Buana University were failed during the mid test since they have very little background knowledge of the Pronunciation skills and they tend to get bored during the teaching and learning activities. The writer tried to apply the story telling technique in the middle of the semester to foster the pronunciation skills to the first semester undergraduate students of English Department as well as to arouse the students' motivation in learning pronunciation. The result showed a significant progress on the final test score of the students and it also gave a good impact toward the students' motivation in learning Pronunciation.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130722540","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 Morphology","authors":"D. W. Adisutrisno","doi":"10.33508/mgs.v0i33.607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs.v0i33.607","url":null,"abstract":"There is a popular understanding among English learners that meaning lies in words. This is only partially true. In English monomorphemic words meaning lies in the single morphemes which are also the words. However, there are a lot of bimorphemic or polymorphemic words in English. The meaning of these words is determined by the units of meaning that combine into words. These units of meaning are called morphemes. Meaning lies in morphemes. In English the meaning of words lies in free morphemes, bound stems, prefixes, suffixes, and superfixes.","PeriodicalId":429096,"journal":{"name":"Magister Scientiae","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130605231","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}