Junior High School English Research Articles

Communicative Competence in Spiral Progression Curriculum: A Study Reinforcing the Implementation of MATATAG Curriculum in the Philippines

The Philippine English curriculum aims to produce communicatively competent individuals, considering that Filipinos are known to be proficient in the use of the English language. However, there has been a poor performance of Filipino learners in international assessments, and their English proficiency has been declining over the recent years. The English curriculum in the Philippines plays a crucial role in the development of communicative competence of students. One of its principles that is said to be disjointed and is presumed to have affected the communicative competence of students is the spiral progression approach. Accordingly, this research aims to identify and to interpret the teachers’ implementation of the spiral progression approach in junior high school English in selected public schools in the second district of Ilocos Sur that could have influenced the communicative competence of students that prompted the Department of Education to revise the current Philippine curriculum. Findings revealed that teachers implemented the said approach. This was later substantiated through a documentary analysis and a semi-structured interview with the school managers. However, findings also revealed that there is an inconsistency in its implementation that can be linked to the poor performance of Filipino learners in international assessments. From these findings, it was concluded that teachers shall equip themselves with strategies and techniques through a series of training, and the reduction of learning competencies can address the broken continuity to ensure mastery. Hence, curriculum change is supported.

A Study on the Practical Integration of Moral Education in Junior High School English

A Study on the Practical Integration of Moral Education in Junior High School English

Exploring the Path of Developing Learners’ Cross-Cultural Awareness in Junior High School English Vocabulary Teaching

Exploring the Path of Developing Learners’ Cross-Cultural Awareness in Junior High School English Vocabulary Teaching

The Practice and Thinking of Junior High School English Situational Reading Teaching Oriented to Deep Learning

The Practice and Thinking of Junior High School English Situational Reading Teaching Oriented to Deep Learning

A Review of the Application of Process Evaluation in Junior High School English Teaching under “Double Reduction”

A Review of the Application of Process Evaluation in Junior High School English Teaching under “Double Reduction”

多模态模式在初中英语阅读教学中的设计研究——以第十三届全国初中英语观摩课大赛作品为例

多模态模式在初中英语阅读教学中的设计研究——以第十三届全国初中英语观摩课大赛作品为例

Research on the Application of English Movies in Junior High School English Listening and Speaking Classroom Teaching

Research on the Application of English Movies in Junior High School English Listening and Speaking Classroom Teaching

The Application of Mind Mapping in Junior High School English Reading Teaching from the Perspective of Core Literacy

The Application of Mind Mapping in Junior High School English Reading Teaching from the Perspective of Core Literacy

AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL FACTORS IN THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS FOR JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEW CURRICULUM STANDARDS

Under the trend of global integration, English, as the most widely used language in the world, is an important carrier of international communication and scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges, and English teaching has also received more attention. English teaching should not only develop students' language skills, but also impart different cultural knowledge, promote students' identification and understanding of different cultures, and effectively communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds. While learning the language, is also learning culture. As an important medium for language learners to learn the language, the selection and application of cultural content in foreign language textbooks have become particularly important. To some extent, it guides the way students think in language and the value orientation of multiculturalism. Therefore, this paper selects the foreign research version of a junior high school English textbook as the research object, attempts to analyze the selection of cultural content in the textbook reading materials, points out the problems in the selection of cultural content in the textbook, and puts forward suggestions for improvement, providing reference basis for the future use and compilation of the textbook.

Construction of Junior High School English Writing Teaching Mode Based on Scaffolding Instruction Theory from the Perspective of Core Literacies

Construction of Junior High School English Writing Teaching Mode Based on Scaffolding Instruction Theory from the Perspective of Core Literacies

Comparative Analysis of Reading Text Readability in Chinese Junior High School English Teaching Textbook Based on Corpus

Comparative Analysis of Reading Text Readability in Chinese Junior High School English Teaching Textbook Based on Corpus

The Integration of Patriotic Education in Junior High School English Courses—a Case Study of a Southern City in China

The Integration of Patriotic Education in Junior High School English Courses—a Case Study of a Southern City in China

FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR EXERCISES IN A LOCAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK IN INDONESIA: A CRITICAL DOCUMENT STUDY

Several studies have been conducted on English textbook, especially in examining the contextual meaning of a language (Setyono & Widodo, 2019; Widodo, 2015; Widodo, 2018; Xiong & Qiang, 2012). Moreover, there were less study that focused on addressing the functional grammar exercises in a local junior high school English textbook in Indonesia. This present study is designed for elucidating the most matter reason for implementing functional grammar exercises in local English textbooks especially for junior high school. Using critical document study (Hatch, 2002) and using transitivity analysis (Halliday, 1994). The result examined that the local English textbook only implemented the traditional grammar exercises in designing the grammar exercises. Moreover, this study suggested for the next study focus on examining classroom practices of traditional grammar exercises and functional grammar exercises.

The Representation of Target Culture in a Locally Published English Textbook

Culture is an important part of English language teaching and learning. Students must be exposed to the culture related to the communication skills being taught. Textbook can be a medium for the teachers to present different kinds of culture along with the language content. Therefore, it is essential for an English textbook to properly include cultural contents. This study aims to investigate the target culture included in a junior high school English textbook used by many teachers in Indonesia. Qualitative descriptive design was employed in order to describe the target culture in the textbook without any manipulation to the data. Moran’s (2001) five dimensions of culture that include products, practices, perspectives, communities, and persons was used to analyze the data. The results found 61 items in the textbook that contained references to the target culture. The ways those target culture were presented were not vary. Almost all of those items were presented in words or passages.

Research on Optimization Design of English Homework in Junior Middle School under the Background of Double Reduction

The "Double Reduction” policy was issued in July 2021, emphasizing the need to comprehensively shorten the total amount and duration of homework, and reducing students' excessive academic burden, so as to improve the quality of school education and teaching, and make homework assignments more scientific and reasonable. Homework after class is an important part of school education. Students' high-quality completion of homework is not only conducive to improving the efficiency of learning, but also conducive to reducing students' learning pressure and psychological burden. After class homework management is not only an important subject of school education and teaching, but also a key issue in the comprehensive reform of education. Over the years, students' heavy learning burden has become a hot issue of general concern in society. The state has also issued policies to reduce students' learning pressure and burden. The traditional homework design is basically in the form of reading and writing, with a large amount of tasks, and it is very single and mechanical. For a long time, the reduction of students' learning initiative and enthusiasm will inevitably have a great impact on improving students' comprehensive quality. Therefore, in order for primary and secondary school students to grow up healthily and use English flexibly, it is necessary to realize English teaching with higher standards. We should always pay attention to the physical and mental development of students and promote them to become a person with all-round development. The promulgation of the "Double Reduction” policy will inevitably have a certain impact on junior high school English homework. Whether the current junior high school English homework design implements this requirement needs to be carefully considered. Therefore, this paper starts from the actual situation of junior high school English homework design, finds out the problems in homework design, and analyzes the main reasons, so as to better promote the implementation of the "Double Reduction” policy.

Patterns of Conjunctive Relation (CR) in Phases and Stages of Narratives in Year Three Junior High School English Books and Their Pedagogical Implication

Background: 
 This study is intended to find out the patterns of CR used in developing phases and stages of narrative and their implication in the genre-based model of language teaching of narratives. The study uses 15 different narratives from two nationally recognized Junior High School English books published by Intan Pariwara and Tiga Serangkai as data sources.
 Methodology: 
 The narratives are analysed based on their functional engagements of phases and rhetorical functions of stages. Then, the patterns of CR in each phase and stage of the narratives are identified in terms of their types, meanings and roles to develop the phases and stages of narratives.
 Findings: 
 The findings indicate that the logic of space of external addition and internal similar comparison are used in describing Character, Setting, and Activity in Orientation. Meanwhile, the combination of logic of space and time of external different comparison, external successive time and cause consequence are mainly used to develop phases of Introducing Problem, Developing Problems to Climax in Complication, Evaluation, and phases of Effort 1 to N, Problem Solved in Resolution. Coda, finally, applies internal similar comparison and external successive time to make comments and extract the value of the story.
 Conclusion: 
 The intricate patterns of CR used in different phases and stages of narrative should be taught delicately in guided and scaffolded instructions through four stages of genre-based model of teaching, namely, BKOF, Modelling, JCT and ICT.
 Originality: 
 This area of research is under widespread scrutiny and investigation especially conjunctive relationship in each step and phase, as well as the instructional implications of narrative texts.

Content analysis of junior and senior high school English national textbooks in terms of health literacy

Content analysis of junior and senior high school English national textbooks in terms of health literacy

Pengembangan Desain Pesan Podcast Sebagai Media Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris

The development of Podcast Message Design is carried out as an effort to solve learning problems where the lack of learning media used by teachers during the learning process has an impact on the low interest in learning and motivation of students. Podcast is one of the media that can support student learning both at school and individually at home. Learning media can be used as an alternative to reduce problems in learning in students' listening skills, so that learning can be fun. This study aims to develop a Podcast media in the eighth grade English subject in order to produce a media that is valid and suitable for use by teachers and students. This type of research is research and development (Research & Development) with a 4D model (Defind, Design, Development, Disseminate). The product validity test developed was carried out by three validators consisting of one material expert and two media experts. The product trial or practicality was carried out to the students of class VIII SMP with a total of 22 students to test the practicality of the podcast media product for Class VIII SMP English Subjects that had been designed. Based on the results of the assessment of the material validator and media validator, the material validation results obtained an average of 4.8 categorized as "very suitable", the validation results from the media validator 1 obtained an average of 4.5 categorized as "appropriate" and the media validator 2 obtained an average of 4.78 is categorized as "very feasible". This podcast media is said to be "practical" based on a practicality test with an average value of 4.57. Based on the results of the validity and practicality tests, it can be concluded that the Media Podcast for Class VIII Junior High School English Subjects that was developed is suitable for use in English Class VIII Junior High School Subjects.

THE REPRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES ON ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS IN INDONESIA

Textbook has significant roles in the teaching-learning process. A lot of teaching-learning processes throughout the world are conducted with extensive textbooks usage. It occurs because textbooks hold several roles for teaching-learning activity. On the other hand, a theory named Multiple Intelligence Theory (MI Theory) considers that human is born with a fixed amount of intelligence. By applying MI Theory to the English language teaching, the teaching-learning process is expected to accommodate and stimulate students’ intelligence types well, so the students learning output will increase. The objective of the research was to figure out the representation of Multiple Intelligences in the Junior High School English textbooks in Indonesia published by the Ministry of Education and Culture. This research was a content analysis since it was aimed to investigate Multiple Intelligences implementation in the activities of the textbooks. The instrument of this research was a checklist devised by the researchers based on the theoretical and conceptual framework of MI Theory as well as other checklists had made by previous researchers. A careful analysis of the activities resulted that the textbooks mostly catering to verbal/linguistic, interpersonal, musical, and visual/spatial intelligence. The least dominant intelligences were bodily/kinaesthetic, logical/mathematical, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligence.

Writing Assessment Strategies by Junior High School English Teacher

Research intends to define assessment in writing, implement writing assessment, the evidence of this research is descriptive qualitative, by distributing questionnaires as research instruments in the form of google form. The result data were collected by utilizing the data from the essay test results. This study shows that writing assessments are in the form of planning, implementation, and assessment which are obstacles for teachers in learning. In this study, the teacher's strategies in assessing students' abilities in writing skills were found, namely; Constructive and Contextual methods; rubrics; Simple Text; Essays; Case Studies; Problem Based Learning. And the result of this study indicate that learning to write can improve vocabulary, pronounciation and spelling well.
 Keywords: assessment strategies, junior high school, writing assessment