Abstract
This study was aimed at describing the contribution of exposure frequency to English (EFE) to speaking and writing English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in bilingual class setting of a state junior high school in East Lombok, which has been implementing bilingual principles (English-Indonesia) of Mathematics and Natural Science. This research is ex-post facto with correlation design. The samples were systematically selected by choosing even number of the student lists, which involved forty-six of ninety-three students of eight grade in academic year 2011/2012. Data were analyzed with regression. The calculation was done at 5% significant level. This research discovered that (1) there is a significant correlation between exposure frequency to English language and speaking performance of the students in bilingual classes by R value of .555 with probability of .00; (2) there is significant correlation between exposure frequency to English and writing performance by R value of .78 with probability of .00; (3) the EFE significantly contribute to writing performance with R Square value of .609 (60.9%); and (4) it also contribute.309 (30.9%) the students’ speaking performance.
Highlights
To improve education quality and competitiveness power in education outcomes, government tried to design an international standard school for all education levels
Seven grades are the first year so they lack exposure frequency to English and the third grade is had got higher exposure frequency to the language than the second grade because they had longer time to learn in bilingual class
There is a significant correlation between exposure frequency to English language and speaking skill of the students in bilingual classes of junior high school
Summary
To improve education quality and competitiveness power in education outcomes, government tried to design an international standard school for all education levels. The formulation of international standard school as stated in education development plan is SNP+X. SNP which stands for national standard of education while X means that the international standard school should have outcome standard for the well competitiveness in one of nation associations, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development or OECD (Asy’ari, 2011). The subject matters that are piloted to be taught in English in international-standard school are Mathematics and Science. According to Hudson (in Artini, 2010) key areas to gain the well competitiveness are Mathematics and Science mastery because they have been considered as the world knowledge. Considerable number of references is written in global language (i.e.’ English). The subject classes, the classroom management and delivering lesson materials are executed through English language
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