Foreign Language In Indonesia Research Articles

Boosting young EFL students’ speaking through game activities

English is treated as a foreign language in Indonesia. The language is introduced to students in public schools from Grade 7. This qualitative study investigated English teachers’ efforts in using game activities in teaching speaking and the problems faced in its implementation to EFL (English as a Foreign Langauge) young learners, aged 12-13 years old, at a public middle school in Banda Aceh. Two English teachers from two classes of Grade 7 students were audio-recorded and observed while teaching, and further given a questionnaire. The findings found that both teachers used game activities in their classes. Problems faced by the teachers in implementing these activities revolved around their preparation, class participation and class management. The discussion is elaborated in the paper. The study suggests that well-planned preparation, better class management and a focus more on the students’ participation are needed to reduce difficulty in carrying out these activities in large class sizes.

Students’ Perception of Autonomous Learning Activities

Autonomous learning activity is an approach and process in which individual take responsibility for their learning. The method of this research is quantitative, sample took in Senior High School 1 Ma. Jambi. This study is aimed to investigate the students’ perception of their autonomous learning activities. The results of this study show that, in general, students’ learning autonomy is still in the medium level, but in details, in some particular aspects, it is at the low level. Significances arising from this study are: knowing students’ perception of their learning autonomy is able to assist EFL teachers, material and curriculum developers, and administrators to construct supporting programs and materials to foster students’ learning autonomy. Besides, by conducting such research, it can significantly contribute the ideas of how learning autonomy in EFL context is encouraged. English as a foreign language in Indonesia and its magnitude in this globalization era urgently needs to have more exposure in term of opportunities in autonomous activities, so that students’ awareness of their learning responsibility is achieved.

The Implementation of Multiple Media in Improving Reading Comprehension Skill in the University Students

Most nations in the globe have recognized English as an international language. Consequently, English must be used in internationally both spoken and written communication. The people who live in the country which English to be the foreign language or even the second language has to learn it. In order, they can communicate with all people in the world globally. The teaching English as a foreign language in Indonesia has the objective to improve students’ capacity in acquiring the language itself. Among four language skills; reading one of the skill to be learned because by understanding the text, it can help the students to comprehend the knowledge of science and technology. Reading is also the “gate” to acquire science and technology. Through reading the text, the students will gain a lot of knowledge related to their field. Regarding the importance of the students in comprehension of the text, then, the objective of this paper is to give the contribution idea to improve the students reading comprehension skills for university students by using multiple media and creating the effective teaching-learning process in the higher education institutions. The final results of this study showed that the implementation of multiple media improve the students’ ability in comprehending the English text because the student feel enjoys the teaching and learning of reading. It is hoped that the use of various creative multiple media will use not only in reading classroom but also in other subjects of English learning.

Competences in English

This article discusses kinds of English competences. In this article also discusses about the English language skills and components of English language use as the indicator of the student’s competence. The competences of language learning is in the means of communicative competence. To reach those competences, the students must be taught and trained English language in written and oral language skill. Acquiring English as international language is the main indicator of English learning success for students. This article uses qualitative research with a literature study. The data sources are taken from textbooks, journals, articles, research finding, internet articles, newspapers, magazines, etc. The objective of this studies that the result can develop the learner’s understanding about the competences in English language as the basic for the learner in learning and studying English language as the second or the foreign language in Indonesia. The finding shows that the communicative competence (communicative competences relates to the learner’s ability in using language established by language knowledge, skills, and attitude including grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competence) and the components of English competences (listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation) are must be learnt and studied by the students integrative.

AN INVESTIGATION OF MOOD AND TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN THE SHORT STORY “FRUIT PASSION”

This research aimed to investigate mood and transitivity analysis employed in popular short story Fruit Passion. the reseacher choose one of short story from 8 th grade of junior high school students’ textbook. This text belongs to jokes for kids which mostly found in meme. The objectives of the research are analysing the interpersonal meaning realized in the short story by identifying the mood types, speech roles, and modality. Besides that, identifying the process based on ideational meaning and explaining the contribution of both interpersonal meaning and ideational meaning towards teaching English as a foreign language in Indonesia. The result revealed that the prominent use of statements in the text, the author provides a broad and comprehensible information in the short story. Therefore, the objective of the text is successfully achieved based on the text genre. Besides that, the existence of ideational meaning which apply material process as the dominant process revealed that mostly the story emphasizes on what the actor do or what happen to the actor. The employment of material process in narrative text assists the author in designing the story plot in order to construct comprehensible and meaningful story. Keywords: Mood analysis, transitivity, short-story.

English Needs of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH): The Multinational and National Companies’ Voice in Indonesia

The vast growths of multinational and national companies to world-class companies in Indonesia result in the advanced demand for English mastery in every working sector including Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). This article aims at investigating the needs and actual use of English in a working environment specifically at OSH. This research adopted mix method which use questionnaire and open-ended interview to obtain the data on the needs of English in OSH field matching to the prerequisite test in recruitment as well as the use of English from fifteen multinational and national companies. The result of the investigation revealed that English certification positioned as a prerequisite test and getting a high priority in job recruitment. When recruiting, companies expect at least an intermediate level for English. Recruits at least have to be able to manage communicative competence for daily conversation and perform a solid knowledge and skills of general OSH vocabulary. Productive skills are more required for communicating to expatriates, leading the meeting, doing a presentation, writing a report and designing Standard Operational Procedure (SOP). This research implies that in spite of position as the foreign language in Indonesia, English has a vital role in the working environment.

A STUDY AMONG ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS: INVESTIGATING THE ROLES OF ICT IN INDONESIAN EFL CLASSROOM

The status of English as a foreign language in Indonesia makes the students use this language rarely. Whereas, English as international language and also a compulsory subject in secondary school to university level in Indonesia encourage students to master English. ICT comes with many advantages created innovation in teaching and learning English. Then, the teachers as the key role in the course should utilize it. However, the teachers should know the roles of ICT in teaching English. Therefore, this research aims to analyze English teachers’ perceptions on the roles of ICT in EFL classroom. This descriptive qualitative research involved five English teachers from different schools in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The research data were gathered using interview. The findings of the research showed that ICT plays role as a tool, a source, and an encouragement of students’ English learning.

DASAR-DASAR FILOSOFIS METODE PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA PRANCIS SEBAGAI BAHASA ASING DI INDONESIA

(Title: The Philosophical Foundations of the Learning Method of French as a Foreign Language in Indonesia). The aim of the current study is to describe the philosophical foundations used in learning French as a foreign language in Indonesia, specifically the language learning which refers to the CECR (Cadre Européen Commun de Rérence) or uniformity in learning, teaching and evaluation. This study adapts the qualitative descriptive method. The data are in the form of features and characteristics of actionnelle approach, pragmatism and analytical linguistic philosophy foundations. Data are taken from sources such as documents including books on actionnelle approach, Echo 1 and Echo 2 books. Data analysis is done by making a comparative description of the characteristics of the actionnelle approach with the implementation of the philosophy of pragmatism education and the philosophy of analytical linguistic education. The findings of this study indicate that: 1) Pragmatism philosophy implies that education at every level must have criteria to be utilized and applied in social life, because students are indeed social actors, 2) Analytical linguistic philosophy has the principle that word meanings are in sentences, meaning of sentences in language , and the meaning of language exists in various life contexts, 3) Actionnelle approach is characterized by action, assimilating students as language users and as social actors who have tasks to do. The existence of the mentioned similarities can lead us to conclude that that the actionnelle approach gained influence from the philosophy of pragmatism and analytical linguistic. Keywords: actionnelle approach; pragmatism philosophy; analytical linguistic philosophy.

PUBLIC SPEAKING IN ISLAMIC HIGH SCHOOL: PRACTICAL STEPS ON ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION TOPICS

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 The tenet of being able to speak English in public sphere as a global life skill has now been a driving force for many Indonesians to learn English since early age. Not only in educational sector, public speaking skill is also in high demand for nowadays’ context—industrial marketplace era. Yet, in many situations, teachers fail to support students with the necessary skills to perform public speaking. As English is still a foreign language in Indonesia, assigning students to perform public speaking without proper training leads into fear or anxiety. However, a practical training into what the best practices of public speaking should be undertaken by educators. Moreover, Indonesia as the biggest Muslim country has many Islamic schools around. For Islamic high school students, Islamic-based material is the content that likely becomes the discourse of the school curriculum. To preach Islam in a global level, English can open up ways to this. Thus, the notion of infusing Islamic-based content in public speaking classroom is necessary. Implementing this, a training on Public Speaking with Islamic-based materials were conducted in Madrasah Aliyah Muhammadiyah 1 Malang Indonesia. The study results in highlighting several practical steps for Public Speaking with Islamic Civilization content. Procedures will highlight on experienced-based learning and some techniques to support a local-based atmosphere. In so doing, this present study suggests that Islamic Civilization content can be used as a supporting material for students learning in Islamic school context. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers in Islamic school can design the curriculum that underlies Islamic elements.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TALKING STICK MODEL TO PRACTICE ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL

This research aimed to find out the students’ perception on the implementation of Talking Stick model to practice speaking skill, whether it is positive or negative. Since English is considered as a foreign language in Indonesia, so it is very important to practice the students’ speaking skill to communicate effectively. The English teacher however, can use the learning model as the classroom activity to motivate and engage the students to be confident to speak in front of the class. There many learning model, one of them is Talking Stick model. This learning model gives more opportunity to the students to speak in front of the class by using Talking Stick. The researcher formulated two questions. The researcher employed a survey model. There are two research instruments in this research which are questionnaire and interview.

SUSTAINING INTERACTION THROUGH GROUP WORK IN ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

The purpose of teaching and learning English as a foreign language in Indonesia is to enable the learners to use English for communication in various contexts. To promote communication in teaching and learning activities, the teachers should be able to initiate interaction. To initiate interaction, the teachers may use questions, by which the teachers should consider the appropriate types of question that match with the students. In addition, the teachers should be able to maintain or sustain the interaction in their teaching and learning context. One of the activities which are effective to sustain interaction in the process of teaching and learning is group work. By using group work, the learners are encouraged to interact in English communicatively. Besides, this method increases students' motivation in learning. This is as the effect of learning climate which offers freedom for the students to express their ideas, feeling or criticism freely in front of their group's members. In addition, group work promotes students' learning responsibility and autonomy. Each member of the groups must be responsible to achieve their common goal. Considering those ideas, group work can be one of the effective methods to sustain interaction in the EFL classroom.

THE EQUIVALENCE OF TOEP FORMS

This explorative-descriptive study set out to examine the equivalence among Test of English Proficiency (TOEP) forms, developed by the Indonesian Testing Service Centre (ITSC) and co-founded by The Association for The Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN) and The Association of Psychology in Indonesia. Using a quantitative approach, the researchers collected the data through documenting the responses of those taking TOEP in 2016 and 2017, involving six TOEP forms in 2016 and four TOEP forms in 2017. All the forms were developed using the same test grid and construct to measure the listening and reading skills. The equality among the six forms was tested using the equating technique, which involved (1) the estimation of the item parameter using the Rasch model, (2) examination of the test characteristics curve for each form, and (3) interpretation of results. The results showed that all the TOEP forms used in 2016 and 2017 were equal with one another. It can be concluded then that the developed TOEP forms have the same level of difficulty and ensure justice for all test takers.

TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION USING JIGSAW TECHNIQUE

English is foreign language in Indonesia. In English, reading is one of skill that must be mastered by students. By mastering reading skill, it can be easier for student to comprehend the text that they read. However many students not understand how to comprehend the English text well, it caused by inapropriate technique used by the teacher in English teaching. According to the problem an appropriate technique should be applied to improve their reading comprehension. The aims of the research is to find out whether there is any improvement in the students’ reading comprehension using jigsaw technique. In this research, the writer uses pre-experimental design.The researcher takes 30 students as the sample of this research. The instrument of this research is a test uses in pre-test and post-test.The result of this research presents that the jigsaw technique is successful to improve the students’ reading comprehension. It can be sees from paired samples t-test that there is a significant difference for the pre-test score (M = 52.33 SD = 22.234) and post-test (M = 80.17 SD = 9.048), t (29) = -9.275 , p <0.05. It can be concludes that the jigsaw technique improves the students’ reading comprehension.

The Teaching of Writing in EFL Classes

Writing plays important roles in the context of English teaching as a foreign language in Indonesia. Writing is a communicative way of sharing observation, information, thoughts, or ideas with ourselves and others. Through writing, the language learners learn to communicate with other people, to understand them, to read what they have written, and to write to them. Writing as one of the language skills is not acquired naturally. Writing is considered the most difficult and complicated language skill to be learned compared to other language skills. Learning to write fluently and expressively is the most difficult of four language skills for all students. In the teaching of writing, the English teacher should pay attention on some elements, they are: (1) understanding the purposes of teaching writing, (2) teaching five main stages in producing a writing; pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing, (3) teaching how to develop a paragraph which consists of three major structural parts: a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence, (4) employing appropriate techniques, such as brainstorming, quetioning, and clustering in their teaching, and (5) introducing some text type to the students, such as: narration, description, procedure, news item, report, recount, anecdote, hortatory exposition, analytical exposition, commentary, discussion, and explanation.

FUNCTION OF CODE SWITCHING USED IN TEACHER’S TALK OF SMA EL-SHADAI MAGELANG IN THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 2017/2018

English is a foreign language in Indonesia. Many people in Indonesia have started to learn it. Due to that, code-switching phenomenon can occur among Indonesians when people learn it. The phenomenon also occurred in the SMA EL-SHADAI Magelang, where the teacher used code-switching to teach English. The teacher did it since the English language was still the foreign language for all primary students there. There were two research questions to be answered. They were 1) what are the function of code switching that are used by the teacher? and 2) what is the dominant function of code switching that are used by the teacher? The researcher used a qualitative method. It was a discourse analysis since it is a study on the language use and sentence. To answer both questions, the data were gathered by observing the teacher when the teacher taught some classes. The teacher was chosen purposely. The data were gathered by observing the teacher. The data identified based on Mattson and Burenhult (1999) theory.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS THE USE OF CODE-SWITCHING USE IN EFL CLASSROOM

As a foreign language in Indonesia, English is still difficult subject for majority of the Indonesian students, even though it has been taught in junior high school, senior high school, English course, and another education institution. Therefore, many English learning-teaching activities in Indonesia use code-switching. Code-switching is language change (switch) in communication, from one language to another, code-switching here means Indonesian to English or English to Indonesian. This research examined the students’ perception towards code-switching use in English Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. This research applied survey research method, and the instruments were consisted of questionnaire and interview session. Thirty students were involved in filling questionnaire and nine students were involved in both questionnaire and interview. The result showed that (1) majority of students agree on code-switching use in learning teaching activity (2) they perceive code-switching helps them in improving their listening skills (3) they give more respect to teachers who use code-switching when they teach (4) they consider code-switching use increases their chance in passing examination and (5) they feel more comfort and more confident when they study English.

The Implementation of Teaching English Secondary Level in Private Schools and The Students Result

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 The objective of teaching English as foreign language in Indonesia is the students are competence in oral and written language. This study is aimed to know wether or not the objective of the government policy has been reached. The design of the research is qualitative descriptive. the data collection technique used observation, questionnaire interview and documentation.The result of the study showed that the students result of learning English in private schools is very low in which the students did not understand spoken or written text. They even could not practice English orally or in writing. In implementing teaching English, the teachers did not conduct the objective of teaching English has been stated by Indonesia government. Besides, the teaching and learning process, they have conducted, did not apply the teaching language principles. In this case Indonesia government has to review the teaching and learning process especially in private schools, and the teachers have to consider and learn how to teach the language and language skills.

Malaysian and Indonesian Learners: They are Judges of How They Learn English Most Effectively in and out of Classrooms

The position of English is that of a Second Language in Malaysia and a Foreign Language in Indonesia. But the objective is the same that is to enable the learners to communicate effectively and efficiently in social and professional situations. Learners’ beliefs and learners’ strategies are also part of the learning processes. Strategies are ways of managing the complex information that the learners are receiving about the target language. This study aims to find out (i) the learners’ beliefs on the importance of English (ii) what the learners will do (strategies) to manage their own learning. 100 respondents participated in the study. They responded to open ended questions. The results show that there are similarities and differences in the ways the Malaysian and Indonesian learners perceived the importance of English. They also have similarities and differences in their strategies to manage their own learning to achieve their goals. As a conclusion, even though the two countries adopted different language policy, the learners of English as a Second and Foreign Language have their own enthusiasms and they make judgements about how to learn the language effectively and they have the awareness of what language learning is like.

Increased attention in ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) children using media based video in English language lessons

English language learning in Indonesia began in childhood, namely playing groups. English is a foreign language in Indonesia and has not become a second language. For Indonesian people, English is considered difficult to learn because of the differences in rules and procedures. Especially for ADHD children. they tend to be active and need their own techniques to attract their attention. Meanwhile, based on the government policies ADHD children is accepted in public schools. The teacher usually treats ADHD children the same with non ADHD students. For this reason, the study aims to examine the increasing concentration of learning for ADHD children with media based video. This study used a qualitative descriptive study with ADHD children in eleventh-grade vocational school. After being examined, children with ADHD tend to be calmer and after several treatments, children with ADHD could also produce simple utterance related to the topic and more longer attention. DOI: 10.26905/enjourme.v2i2.2857

PENGGUNAAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS DI SD YPK YOKA BARU KOTA JAYAPURA, PAPUA

Teaching English as a foreign language in Indonesia is challenging. The purpose of this program is to overcome several of the many challenges in teaching English, that is the use of teaching media. Conducted in SD YPPK Yoka Baru, Jayapura, the method used is participation which involves students from English Department, FKIP Uncen. The activities include preparing, designing, and demonstating the teaching media. The result shows that using teaching media is effective to improve the students’ motivation in learning English.Keywords: teaching english, the teaching media, student, Jayapura