Bahasa Inggris Research Articles

DESIGNING “VERBHOUSE” TEACHING MATERIALS TO SUPPORT TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

This study aimed at designing a multimedia-based product as supplementary material. It is known as VERBHOUSE. The product purposes were to help an English teacher in SMP Negeri 1 Anjongan teach English Vocabulary, especially English action verbs for year-8 students, and find out if it is suitable in supporting the English teachers. The product materials were designed based on “Bahasa Inggris for year-8 students in Junior High School” textbook. Moreover, the researcher gathered the data through an interview and that was supported with open-ended questionnaires. In analyzing the data, the researcher used an internal analysis. The researcher had developed the product within three phases of ADDIE: Analysis, Design, and Development. The researcher conducted the interview and distributed the questionnaire in the Analysis phase. The researcher then started to design the first draft in the second phase. VERBHOUSE consisted of four main menus, House, Exercises, Guide, and Credit. The product contained 40 English action verbs materials, exciting pictures, sounds, video, and provided explicit texts to the user. Furthermore, in the development phase, the researcher used an internal evaluation to measure the product. From the findings, it is indicated that the VERBHOUSE is suitable for classroom use. In short, this study has relatively succeeded in creating multimedia materials for year-8 students as supplementary materials.

STUDENTS’ ATTRIBUTIONS ON ENGLISH READING SKILL IN AVIATION FIELD

Learning activities have a close relation with progress, achievement or even failure. Attribution is the clarifications and reasons that individuals give for advance, accomplishment, and indeed disappointment towards something they have experienced, especially in their language learning. This study aims to investigate the students’ attributions on their English-reading skill especially in reading aviation text. Thus, we know the progress, the achievement and also the failure of the learning activity in students’ reading skill. The participants of the study were sixty-nine students who took Bahasa Inggris Teknik II class. Open-ended questionnaire and interview were used as the instruments to collect the data. The results showed that interest was the major attributions for doing well and ability was the major factor for not doing well. 

PENDEKATAN SULH DAN MEDIASI SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF TERBAIK PENYELESAIAN SENGKETA EKONOMI SYARIAH

Abstract
 Abstrak ditulis dalam bahasa Inggris yang berisikan isu-isu pokok penelitian, tujuan penelitian, This article will discuss efforts to resolve sharia economic disputes using the Sulh (peace) and Mediation approach to achieve justice. The type of research used is library research with a normative juridical approach that connects phenomina with the rule of law. In conventional business as well as in disputes, conflicts or disputes sometimes occur and cannot be avoided. Settlement of disputes in court takes a long time, costs a lot and the result is win-lose, causing a feeling of being unfair to one of the parties. For this reason, the method of Sulh (peace) and Mediation in resolving sharia economic disputes is the choice of sharia economic actors. Peace and Mediation can be developed using various models such as: negotiation and arbitration. This dispute resolution model is more acceptable to the community, because philosophically the values of sulh (peace) and Mediation (seeking joint solutions) that exist in Islamic law already exist intrinsically in the culture of Indonesian society which is more based on deliberation and harmony in social life.

GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN INDONESIAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT) TEXTBOOK TITLED “BAHASA INGGRIS UNTUK SMA/MA/SMK/MAK KELAS X”

AbstractGender inequality issues are issues that are still often found in daily life. Evidently, the issues do not only happen in the action of real-life but previous researches have also discovered that gender inequality does exist in textbooks in the form of how genders are being represented unequally. With this gender representations issue emerging, this research aims to identify and analyze the gender representations in the ELT textbook titled “Bahasa Inggris Untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X”. It is important to know if the genders are being represented equally because the books which exclude one or more gender can affect its readers and or users. To reach the goal stated this research used a qualitative method with a content analysis approach. The analysis of the data which was taken both from the texts as well as from the illustrations shows that there are many characteristics that only represent a specific gender and not the others. From the occupational activities that are only explored often by men, to domestic items that are attached to women. It can be concluded that the BI textbook has not represented genders equally. Some genders are stillexcluded in several activities, attributes, and designations.

Content Analysis: Language Skills Comparison on the KTSP and K-13 English Textbooks

Education is one of the main focuses in every country. The better the quality of education in a country, the easier it will be to improve and build the quality of the country in various fields. The status of English language in Indonesia is a foreign language. This condition causes many Indonesian people still having difficulty in learning and using it. Using textbooks is one of the alternative in delivering material. However, the textbook used must be made in accordance with the applicable curriculum. Each curriculum has its main focus respectively in learning. The purpose of this study is to interrogate and compare the main focus in language skills that are applied in English language textbooks. “Developing English Competence for SMA/MA grade XII (KTSP)” with “Bahasa Inggris Edisi Revisi 2018 SMA/MA/SMK/MA/MAK Kelas XII” are used in this research. Descriptive qualitative research with content analysis method is used in this research to get the best data.

Content Analysis: Language Skills Comparison on the KTSP and K-13 English Textbooks

Education is one of the main focuses in every country. The better the quality of education in a country, the easier it will be to improve and build the quality of the country in various fields. The status of English language in Indonesia is a foreign language. This condition causes many Indonesian people still having difficulty in learning and using it. Using textbooks is one of the alternative in delivering material. However, the textbook used must be made in accordance with the applicable curriculum. Each curriculum has its main focus respectively in learning. The purpose of this study is to interrogate and compare the main focus in language skills that are applied in English language textbooks. “Developing English Competence for SMA/MA grade XII (KTSP)” with “Bahasa Inggris Edisi Revisi 2018 SMA/MA/SMK/MA/MAK Kelas XII” are used in this research. Descriptive qualitative research with content analysis method is used in this research to get the best data.

Lexical And Grammatical Ambiguities In Engligsh Texbook For Tenth Grade Students

This study dealt with effort of finding the lexical and grammatical ambiguity in English textbook of Bahasa Inggris for the tenth grade. The objectives of the study were to find out the types of ambiguity and to find out the dominant types of ambiguity in Bahasa Inggris of the tenth grade. The numbers of the data were 21 of reading texts which were taken from English textbook of Bahasa Inggris of the tenth grade. The types of ambiguities were identified based on Fromkin et al theory. The research design used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data were analyzed by Identifying , classifying, tabulating and interpreting. From 21 reading texts, there were 27 sentences that contained ambiguous meaning. There are two types of ambiguity found in reading texts, they were lexical and grammatical ambiguity. The lexical ambiguity consisted of homonym, polysemy and antonym. While grammatical ambiguity consisted of coordinate structure, negation scope, active or passive meaning, gerund + object or participle modifying a noun, prepositional phrase (PP) as modifier or sentence adjunct, and a head of inner modifier and outer modifier. The dominant type of lexical ambiguity was homonymy with 6 occurrences (20.68%). While the dominant type of grammatical ambiguity was coordinate structure as many as 8 occurrences (27.59%).

A Content Analysis of Cultural Representation in High School English Textbook in 2013 Education Curriculum

This study reports cultural content in the latest high school English textbook concerning the 2013 education curriculum. Besides, this paper also explores the intercultural communicative competence within the English textbooks. A qualitative research design is employed in this study. Moreover, the cultural contents and intercultural communicative competence were taken from the reading text on English textbooks for the last grade of senior high school entitled ‘Bahasa Inggris 2018 revised edition’. This study relied on the kind of cultural contents by Cortazzi & Jin (1999), types of cultural dimensions by Yuen (2011), and three levels of intercultural communicative competence by Byram (2002). It has been found that target culture with the cultural dimension of the product had a major proportion on the English textbook. Besides, the lowest level of intercultural communicative competence, namely basic cultural awareness was also discovered. In such a case, the complicity of intercultural values in the textbook should be given more attention so that students can easily grasp the values of various cultures. As a result, the aims of the 2013 education curriculum can be achieved well.

RELATEDNESS BETWEEN K13 ENGLISH CURRICULUM AND WRITING MATERIALS IN BAHASA INGGRIS TEXTBOOK

Abstract
 Textbook is an important media because contains learning materials that employed learners to get knowledge through learning process. To support the learning process, the textbook should be appropriate to the 2013 curriculum. This research used content analysis. The objectives of this research are (1) to explain the topics of writing materials in Bahasa Inggris textbook (2) to explain the writing materials written in Bahasa Inggris textbook (3) to explain the relatedness between writing materials and the K13 curriculum. Here, the result of this research shows that (1) The topic of writing material is appropriate to the 2013 curriculum. (2) The form of writing tasks meet as good criteria because the textbook gave good guideline and explanation exactly in social function, text structure and language feature. (3) The writing material in Bahasa Inggris textbook is related to the English 2013 curriculum because the writing material in the textbook have implemented based on the content of the syllabus of the 2013 curriculum. This textbook is good to use because it is suitable for students in Senior High School for the twelfth grade to increase their writing skills.
 
 Keywords : Content analysis, writing material, 2013 curriculum

Evaluation of TOEFL preparation program at ELTI Gramedia using CIPP (context, input, process, and product) model

This research focuses to investigate how the context, input, process, and product of the TOEFL Preparation Progam at Lembaga Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, ELTI Gramedia Yogyakarta contribute to the success of the program. The research applied a qualitative research design and collected the data by online observation, online interview, and online documentation. The researcher used Stufflebeam’s theory of CIPP (Context, Input, Process, and Product) Model to evaluate the TOEFL Preparation Program at ELTI Gramedia. The research participants were the director of ELTI Gramedia, the teachers of the TOEFL Preparation Program, and the students of the TOEFL Preparation Program. Findings showed firstly, in the context evaluation, the objective of the TOEFL Preparation program was relevant and fulfilled the student's needs. The objective of a program was based on need analysis. The need analysis underlay the program objective. The need analysis tended to be on market need. Secondly, in terms of input evaluation, it was good because all the teachers had good quality in teaching at the TOEFL Preparation class. All of the teachers graduated from the English department. The teachers already had some training before they taught in the class. The facilities in teaching online properly facilitated the students. Thirdly, in the process evaluation, it was not good enough because the online teaching and learning were still not effective. Some students were still passive in the class, although the teacher had explained the material rightly. Sometimes, the bad internet connection made them could not enjoy the class efficiently. In teaching strategy, some of teacher did not apply strategies for doing the TOEFL test. The teachers only asked the students to answer the questions and discussed them. Lastly, in the product evaluation, it was good because the TOEFL Preparation program succeeded in improving the student’s skills. The students had higher TOEFL scores than before. While, the students were not maximal to obtain a good score on the TOEFL test. The higher score of TOEFL is 600 scores.

Pengaruh Jenis Kemasan Terhadap Sifat Organoleptik Tape Singkong

Abstrak bahasa Inggris: Cassava tape is originally local food from Indonesia. This product is fermented resulting different sensory properties. The application of various packaging to wrap cassava when making tape; however, there is no research, which compares the effect of several packaging to organoleptic properties of cassava tape. This research aims to figure out the effect of different packaging to organoleptic characteristic of cassava tape. The result was designed using completely randomized design (RAL) and analysed by variant analysis (Anova). Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT )was used to test significant results. According to the analysis, there was a significant difference in different packaging used to the organoleptic perception of cassava tape, especially in flavor, taste, sweetness level, and texture. There was a strong alcoholic flavor, a very liked taste, high sweetness level, and soft texture. The use of plastic jar tends to trigger no alcoholic flavor, unliked taste, no sweetness, and hard texture. When using a plastic bag it had almost similar flavor, color and taste to the tape wrapped with banana leave; however, it has less sweetness and less soft texture. In conclusion, based on the result it is recommended to pack the cassava with banana leave to obtain greater sensory properties according to what consumers’ desire.

Content Analysis of English Textbook for 10th Grade Students Based on 2013 Curriculum

The goal of this study is to find the description on how the materials given in the “Bahasa Inggris” textbook used in 10 th grade of senior high school met the 2013 curriculum requirements, specifically in terms the suitability of contents with Core Competence and Basic Competence of 2013 Curriculum and feasibility of content of textbook. This study used mix method adopted content analysis. There are two instruments to analyze the data, researchers themselves and rubric assessment from BNSP or The Board of National Education Standard (BNES) since it used as a standardization of the textbook evaluation in 2013 curriculum. The data collected for the study were gathered from the “Bahasa Inggris” textbook used in the 10 th grade of senior high school which published by Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan in 2017 which contains 15 chapters. The finding shows that the contents of the textbook suitable with core competency and basic competency in 2013 curriculum. All chapters from the textbook meet the 2013 curriculum competency. For the feasibility of content, some materials in the textbook are not fully suitable with the requirements. In the depth and element and structure of meaning criteria, there are 2 chapters which is not fully suits the criteria required. This study found that the development of the sub-component of diversity insight does not fulfill the criteria since only two chapters have been successfully implemented. Therefore, it can be mentioned that the rubric assessment of the content feasibility of BNES complies with 75% of the materials, exercises, and text established in the textbook 'Bahasa Inggris.'

Investigating Character-Building Values in English Textbook Entitled Bahasa Inggris for Grade X

This research aims to investigate (1) the character-building values presented in the English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for grade X, and (2) the way character-building values were presented into its materials. The researcher referred to 18 character-building values mandated by the Ministry of National Education (2010). This research used a qualitative research method using content analysis. The data used in this research were the sentences contained in this textbook. The results showed that the English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for grade X contained all the character-building values, the most of which was the friendly/communicative value with percentage of 16% and the least of which was the tolerance value with percentage of 1%. There were two techniques of integrating characters that were found in the textbook, namely explicit and implicit techniques. The results of this study are expected to be able to give instances to the English teachers so that they can appropriately give these characters to students and be more selective in choosing a textbook or a learning method.
 

AN ANALYSIS OF READABILITY LEVEL OF READING MATERIAL IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR FIRST GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Predicting readability level of reading texts can help the teachers to match the texts with student’s grade. The appropriate reading text is expected to ease the students in comprehending the material. This research focused on the readability level of English reading material found in English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for first grade of Senior High School Published by Curriculum and Books Center, Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Education and Culture. This study attempts to find out whether the reading materials are appropriate or not in terms of readability level for the target students. This research used descriptive quantitative design. The object of the research is English textbook entitled Bahasa Inggris for First Grade of Senior High School published by Curriculum 2013. The textbook consists fifteen chapters which contained kinds of reading materials such as dialogue and reading texts. The researcher only focuses on analyzing the reading materials. There are three kinds of genre found in this book, they are descriptive, recount and narrative. The data were collected by using document analysis. In calculating readability level, the researcher employed the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula. The results of the study showed that there were 9 reading texts in the Bahasa Inggris textbook. From those 9 texts found that there were 3 descriptive texts, 4 recount texts, and 2 narrative texts. According to the analysis using Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula, the researcher found that there were 3 texts in Fairly Easy level, 3 texts in Fairly Difficult level, and 3 texts in Difficult level. In average, the texts are in Fairly Difficult level (57,3). Based on the theory of Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formula, it is found that the texts are in the appropriate level for tenth grade students.Keyword: Readability level, Reading Material, Textbook.

Lexico-Grammatical Analysis of Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Its Pedagogical Implication

This study aims to reveal: (1) the translation differences between source language (SL) and target language (TL) of the human translator and the machine translator on the translation of the Indonesian subtitle of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Movie, (2) lexical difference in translation differences between source language (SL) and target language (TL), (3) grammatical difference in translation differences between source language (SL) and target language (TL) and (4) the advantages in examining the translation differences related to vocabulary and grammar teaching for the tenth grade students of senior high school. This study used a qualitative descriptive. The data were taken subtitles sentences because what the researchers analyzes is the form of written language. The source of the data was script by Linda Woolverton (SL), the Indonesian subtitle was translated by Pein Akatsuki (TL 1) and the second Indonesian translator was Google translate (TL 2). This study used the researchers as the main instrument for collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data. The researchers read the script of English and Indonesian subtitle of the Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Movie. The results of the descriptive analysis show that there are 147 data of the translation. It reveals that: (1) the translation of this research are 114 data (78%) difference and 33 data (22%) no translation difference of Indonesian Subtitle of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Movie, (2) in the translation differences (351 items) there are lexical differences (169 items), (3) whereas, the difference of translations are grammatical differences (182 items), (4) there are several advantages in improving students’ vocabulary skills, teaching grammar, and finding the vocabulary and grammar in a course book Bahasa Inggris.

English Language Needs for Medical Students: A Link and Match of Academic and Professional Career

The objective of this study was to link and match the needs for an academic and professional career for medical students. The rationale is what English skills and communicative needs are learned at university should meet their needs in accomplishing their study and in pursuing their professional career. It is strongly believed that this link and match makes learning English take place. To achieve the aim of this study, descriptive analysis was used to analyze questionnaire responses. The questionnaires were distributed to 156 medical students of Baiturrahmah university who enrolled at Bahasa Inggris 6 course and had already passed Bahasa Inggris 1 to 5 courses. The finding indicated that 94,8% of medical students viewed that English was undoubtedly required for both academic and professional careers with listening and speaking skills as a priority. For medical needs, students viewed listening (82,27%) and speaking (82,21%). For professional needs, they believed listening 95.99% and speaking (85.25%) were the priority. Interestingly, for academic needs, medical students needed communicative skills and strategies for reading English journal articles to finish their studies. For a professional career, participating in international seminars was in demand. By the study, it is strongly assumed that accommodating this link and match will make studying English more meaningful and beneficial.Keywords: English Language, Needs, Link, and Match.

Gender Representation in English Textbook Used by Senior High School

This article would like to investigate the gender representation in the English textbook entitled “Bahasa Inggris Stop Bullying Now” used in XI Grade of Senior High School published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia revised edition 2017. It is used quantitative and qualitative method by using content analysis technique. The results will be focused on the analysis of six aspects which suggested by Logsdon. They were: 1) the number of female/male pictorial representation or illustration, 2) number of female/male characters, 3) male and female mentioned, 4) female/male roles models, 5) female/male roles activities, and 6) pattern of mentioning female/male names. The findings showed that gender bias really exists in the textbook. Males are more visible in all aspects including pictures, characters, mentioned, gender role models, female/male activity, and pattern of mentioning male/female. Besides, the use of language by male and female characters such as verbosity, the use of intensifiers, and the use of questions are identified.

Identifying Higher Order Thinking Activation in English Textbook Mandated in Indonesian Senior High School

This paper aims at investigating factual phenomenon of higher order thinking as it reflected in the reading activities of “Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA XI”. Using theory of Bloom’s taxonomy, this study used the content analysis method to identify reading features specifically for their essay questions and exercises and tasks of the English textbook. The data of essay reading questions were collected by using coding checklist . Three categories of higher order thinking (analyze, evaluate, and create) are discovered while the distribution of the higher order thinking level is higher than the lower order thinking level. The findings reveals higher order thinking activation and activities in the reading exercises and tasks is unequal. It do, especially the create skills which pursued lower distribution es not provide treatment properly of the higher order thinking than the analyze skill and the evaluate skill Rather, this makes emphasis on the evaluate skills.

Revising Syntactic Interference on Conversation Scripts by Contrastive Analysis Teaching Method

This study is a research to the third semester of DIV Midwifery students of Kartini Polytechnique Denpasar on Bahasa Inggris I class. The purpose of this research are (1) to identify the syntactic interference of Indonesian Language into English found in conversation scripts written by the third semester of DIV Midwifery students and (2) to investigate the quality of English conversation scripts after the application of contrastive analysis method. The data of this study were taken from English conversation scripts written by the third semester of DIV Midwifery students of Kartini Polytechnique. The interview and observation method also used in collecting the data of this research to find out the students understanding in English syntactic structure. The data were grouped, tabulated and analyzed through sociolinguistic theory of interference that supported by Surface Strategy Taxonomy as well, and the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis. Based on the analysis, the syntactic interferences found are in level of phrase, clause and sentence; and the error caused by omission, addition, and mis-formation. The interview and observation method showed the increase of the student understanding in English syntactic structure after the application of contrastive analysis method that effect the better quality of English conversation scripts.

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY ON READING EXERCISES IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK “ BAHASA INGGRIS” FOR GRADE TEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY ON READING EXERCISES IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK “BAHASA INGGRIS” FOR GRADE TEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS*Chintia Theresia**Johannes Jefria Gultom,S.Pd.,M.Hum.**Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Siregar,S.Pd.,M.Hum.ABSTRACTTheresia,Chintia. Registration Number: 216121006. Bloom’s Taxonomy on Reading Exercises inEnglish Textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for Grade Ten Senior High School. A Thesis, EnglishEducation Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts,Universitas Negeri Medan,2020.The purpose of this study was to find the types of reading exercises and the distribution of Bloom’s Taxonomy incognitive domain in the third revision of English Textbook for grade ten Senior High School students published byPusat Perbukuan dan Kurikulum . Based on Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy (2001) there are 3 domain inBloom Taxonomy such as the cognitive domain, affective domain and psychomotor domain. This study focused oncognitive domain. There are six level of cognitive domain; remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate andcreate. Based on Heaton Theory, there are 5 types of reading exercises. Namely, matching test, true false, multiplechoice, completion item, and open ended. This study used the qualitative method to solve the problems. The data ofthis study were taken from 172 questions from 30 reading exercises. For collecting the data this study used onetechnique, that is documentation. Analysis technique used which were data reduction, data displays and conclusiondrawing/ verification. The finding of this study are there are 43% for remember, 32% for understand, 5% for apply,15% for analyze, 3 % for evaluate, and 2 % for create. There are 3 of 5 types of question used in this textbook.Keywords : Bloom’s Taxonomy, Cognitive Domain, Questions, Reading,