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Journal of Educational and Social Research

The purpose of this study is examining the impact of meaningful learning model on students’ readi... more The purpose of this study is examining the impact of meaningful learning model on students’ reading comprehension. This study uses true experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design. The class is divided into two classes; experimental class who receives treatments by using meaningful learning model and control class who receives treatments by using conventional teaching model. The total of sample is 110 students who are selected from eight grade students of junior high schools either state or private schools in Central Java Province. To obtain valid data, this study uses tests given at the pre-test and post-test in both classes. After the data is obtained, the data is analyzed by using the SPSS t-test formula. Based on the results of the calculations in the pretest and posttest, it was known that both classes are homogeneous and normally distributed from the calculation of the Levene’s test method and Saphiro-Wilk. In the pretest, t-count (0.452) is lower than t-t...

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovation in Education (ICoIE 2018), 2019

This research aimed to describe the improvement of fiqih learning quality through applying the Co... more This research aimed to describe the improvement of fiqih learning quality through applying the Cooperative Personal Social Learning (COPERSOL) model with local wisdom value media in Madrasah Tsanawiyah (Islamic Junior High Schools) in Semarang. This study was a qualitative research using case study approach. The result showed that by using local wisdom value media, there was a significant change in which the students attended the learning vigorously, they were motivated and paid attention fully to the subject. Their absorbability improved significantly as indicated with 33 students meeting the minimum of the passing criteria after the application of it. It is different from some weaknesses before teacher used local wisdom value media. The researchers concluded that local wisdom value media could be used to improve the learning quality with Cooperative Personal Social Learning (COPERSOL) model in fiqih for the students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Semarang.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017), 2017

English in Education, 2012

This action research is aimed at: (1) i dentifying whether and to what extent WebQuest improves r... more This action research is aimed at: (1) i dentifying whether and to what extent WebQuest improves reading comprehension of class IXA students at SMP N 5 Surakarta, including: a) finding the main idea, b) finding the supporting idea, c) finding the meaning of words, d) finding the reference and e) finding the detail information ; (2) describing the class climate when WebQuest used in the reading class. The research findings showed that it could improve students’ reading comprehension and class climate. Related to the improvement of students’ reading skill, they found it easier to find the main idea, supporting idea, meaning of words, reference, and detail information. R elated to the class climate, there are many improvements of students’ attitude; they are more confident and active, paying attention when one of the other student read the text aloud, actively engaged in the reading group activities, and focus on the lesson. From those findings, it can be concluded that WebQuest can imp...

One of the attempts to acquire an identity in the academic community is by participating in the f... more One of the attempts to acquire an identity in the academic community is by participating in the field development by publishing research papers into reputable journals. However, it requires an adequate understanding of the academic discourse for publication. For this concern, the present study aims to investigate the master students' understanding of the term of academic discourse for publication by going through their rejected research articles and their identities reflected from those rejected manuscripts. A qualitative method was employed, the data were gathered through interview of four master students majoring in English Education and the stories are presented narratively. The results show how the students' lack of comprehension of the notion of academic discourse affects their identities as members of the academic community. Pedagogical implications of this study are intended for the master students as the manifestation for their upcoming article’s writing and

Randwick International of Education and Linguistics Science Journal, 2021

The spread of Covid-19 virus has suddenly forced face-to-face learning into online learning. Thes... more The spread of Covid-19 virus has suddenly forced face-to-face learning into online learning. These sudden changes give impacts to professional teaching and learning practices of teacher, teacher not only gives the material but also use technology maximally during this pandemic. The role of teachers and their professional self-understanding has become increasingly complex. This current study led to know about the teacher’s self-understanding in the use of technology during the pandemic. Based on the purpose of the study, this study adopted a small-scale case study with one participant who is an EFL teacher from one of private senior high school in Surakarta, Indonesia. This case study used semi-structure interviews and classroom observations for collecting data techniques. To collect the data, researcher used teacher’s self-understanding theory from Kelchtermans (1993). These teacher’s self-understanding has five components, (1) self-image; (2) self-esteem; (3) task-perception; (4) j...

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017), 2017

A content analysis of "BRIGHT 1" English textbook is a research on the way a 2013 curriculum-base... more A content analysis of "BRIGHT 1" English textbook is a research on the way a 2013 curriculum-based textbook is presented. This study reports on a content analysis investigating whether "BRIGHT 1" for year VII students meets the characteristics of a good English textbook and reflects the 2013 curriculum. Data on content analysis were gathered from an English textbook entitled "Bright 1". Four evaluators and three classes of students were given questioners. They also were interviewed for verifying the data. A descriptive-evaluative content analysis was used in evaluating the textbook. The procedure of this research adopts the procedure suggested by Ur (2009: 185-187) that includes three steps as follows: deciding on criteria, applying criteria, and summary. This research applied two techniques of analysing the data that are manually counting the data from the questionnaire into percentages and adopting the procedure of data analysis by Miles and Huberman (1994) for the data from interview transcript. The procedure of data analysis included data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification. Results showed that "BRIGHT 1" English textbook has strengths and weaknesses. This textbook has reflected seven characteristics of a good English textbook and has implemented the scientific approach steps of 2013 curriculum. The other three aspects that are the Core Competences and the Basic Competences, the material, and the assessment standards are presented well in this textbook but some aspects are need to be improved.

AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan, 2021

The recent paper aims to figure out how students apply their metacognitive strategies of thesis w... more The recent paper aims to figure out how students apply their metacognitive strategies of thesis writing in the COVID-19 pandemic. This study employs an explanatory case study design with 13 English As a Foreign language (EFL) graduates of an Indonesian university involving in this study. Questionnaires and semi-structured interview methods were used for collecting information. The data were then qualitatively analyzed using Miles, Huberman, and Saldana interactive model. The findings indicate that individual differences and thesis supervisors' involvement stimulated varied metacognitive strategy use in thesis writing. The challenges, inefficient time management, supervision system, technological issues, and negative disruptive emotions were attributed to delayed thesis completion in the pandemic. It indicates that the metacognitive experience represented by negative psychological factors profoundly affects students’ metacognitive strategies. Hence, promoting students' positi...

IJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), 2021

A significant change in education instructional goals effects assessment techniques used to evalu... more A significant change in education instructional goals effects assessment techniques used to evaluate students’ progress. The root of this phenomenon highly offers to authentic assessment as an alternative assessment. This study deals with authentic assessment implementation and its effects within teaching and learning in the context of Year 7 English students. It employs case study to get a in-depth understanding of the case. Data of the study were gained from deep-interview, observation, and document analysis. While, the data were analyzed by using Interactive model involving data reduction, data displays and conclusions: drawing/verification. The study finds that the relevance of implementation of authentic assessment becomes the main factor of determining its washbacks. Since most the authentic assessment stages undertaken by teachers are in line with National Regulation on how the assessment is designed and implemented, it provides more positive washbacks for both teachers and ...

Randwick International of Education and Linguistics Science Journal, 2020

Recently, the science and technology improvement has contributed to the improvement in language t... more Recently, the science and technology improvement has contributed to the improvement in language teaching and learning. There are many various technologies that can be used for teaching and learning English. One of them is web-based learning. However, not all the teachers know how to integrate technology in their teaching process. This study wants to delve deeper understanding into how an English teacher’s beliefs and experience towards web-based learning in English teaching learning process. A narrative inquiry study was conducted towards the participant who has used web-based learning for language teaching and learning at a non-formal school. The teacher’s lesson plans and interview were used for collecting the data. The data were coded and analyzed using Thematic Analysis Single Case Study. The result of this study showed that the participant has positive beliefs toward web-based learning for teaching and learning English.

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the the 3rd Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education, ACEIVE 2019, 16 November 2019, Universitas Negeri Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 2020

This study aims to investigate the available virtual fairy tale based on wulangreh in primary sch... more This study aims to investigate the available virtual fairy tale based on wulangreh in primary school as one of the learning media in primary school. Data collection techniques in this study are observation and interviews in 30 primary school libraries, both public school and private school. The results showed that 30 school libraries already have fiction books, non-fiction books, teaching aids, and video teaching materials for subjects of mathematics, science, social studies, Indonesian and cultural art, while the virtual fairy tales based on wulangreh have not been found. Thus, it can conclude that the virtual tales based on wulangreh are not found. The recommendation of further research is to provide the fairy tale based on wulangreh as a learning media

English Education, 2017

The objectives of the study are to find out whether or not there is a correlation between (1) voc... more The objectives of the study are to find out whether or not there is a correlation between (1) vocabulary mastery and reading ability (2) grammatical competence and reading ability (3) vocabulary mastery and grammatical competence simultaneously and reading ability. The correlation method is used in this research. The sample of this research is 30 students from Class B which was taken randomly using simple random sampling. The data of vocabulary mastery, grammatical competence, and reading ability in this research were collected using test. The data are then being analyzed using simple correlation and multiple linear regressions. The research findings show that (1) there is significant positive correlation between the students‟ vocabulary mastery and reading ability with the coefficient of correlation (rx1y) 0.5469 and the significance of coefficient of correlation (to) 3.4571 > t table 1.70 (2) there is significant positive correlation between the students‟ grammatical competence...

English Education, 2018

The objective of this article is to report a study on how YouTube video is implemented so it can ... more The objective of this article is to report a study on how YouTube video is implemented so it can improve students’ speaking proficiency. The study was collaboration classroom action research. The subject of the research was seventh grade students of one state junior high school in Surakarta in the academic year 2012/2013. The data were collected through interview, questionnaire, pre-test, photograph, and post-test. The findings of the research show that when YouTube video was used effectively, it enhanced students’ speaking skill, and classroom climate. In conclusion, YouTube video can be applied as an alternative media in language-teaching process include for teaching speaking.

English Education, 2017

This research aims to reveal the quality of English national examination preparation test in term... more This research aims to reveal the quality of English national examination preparation test in terms of qualitative and quantitative aspects. Qualitative aspect includes content validity, technical item quality and cognitive domain learning outcome while quantitative aspect include reliability, difficulty level, item discrimination, and distractor effectiveness. Sample was taken from 3 out of 10 schools in Pati district using simple random sampling. This research employs both qualitative and quantitative analysis in which expert judgement is used to analyze content validity and technical item quality while ITEMAN is used for quantitative analysis. The result showed that the test has good content validity, 99.06% items appropriate with competence being measured, good technical item quality and most items (81.13%)are categorized as cognitive domain learning outcome C2 (Understand). Moreover, the test has high reliability index (> 0.8), fair difficulty, and good discrimination. Howeve...

English Education, 2018

This study focused on the implementation of using authentic materials in improving the students’ ... more This study focused on the implementation of using authentic materials in improving the students’ speaking competence in a bilingual boarding of high school in Central Java. The goals of this study are, (1) to describe whether the use authentic materials can improve the students’ speaking competence in class, (2) to reveal the difficulties of using authentic materials in this research. I adopted Classroom Action Research (CAR) which requires four steps, namely planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The participants are 26 high school students. The methods of data collection are observation, diary, interview, photograph, pre-test, and post-test. In analyzing data I used (1) constant comparative technique by Burns (1999) (qualitative), (2) descriptive statistic technique (quantitative). After analyzing the data, I found out that the change in improvement of the students’ speaking in class is seen clearly and all the responses from the students are positive. The average scor...

English Education, 2019

This article describes the result of a classroom action research which is aimed at improving stud... more This article describes the result of a classroom action research which is aimed at improving students' motivation in learning English using movie clip. The action research study was conducted in two cycles from November to December 2017. In each cycle contain three meetings. The steps of cycle consist of planning, implementing, observation, and reflection. The research data were collected by using qualitative techniques (observation, interview, field notes, questionnaire, diary, and document analysis) and quantitative techniques (pre-test and post-test). The data were analyzed through descriptive analysis for the qualitative data and descriptive statistic for quantitative data. The research findings showed that students became brave to respond task or challenge, students had high confidence and ready to present their work orally, students had a desire to be successful in learning English, students actively asked about the material that they did not understand, students comprehe...

English Education, 2017

The purposes of this research are to identify: (1) whether and to what extent the use of VD impro... more The purposes of this research are to identify: (1) whether and to what extent the use of VD improve students’ speaking skill, and (2) the strengths and the weaknesses of VD when implemented in this research. This research use classroom action research method. The subject of this research is class X-5 of SMA N Kebakkramat Karanganyar in 2013/2014 academic year. The techniques of collecting data are observation, diary, interview, questionnaire, document analysis, and test. The techniques of collecting data are Constant Comparative Method (CCM) and statistic descriptive. Based on the research findings, students’ achievement on grammar, vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, and content improved. Students’ attitude change from ignoring becomes paying attention. Furthermore, weaknesses were indicated that although students have many oral practices, they still produce unacceptable pronunciation. The second weakness is that some students are still awkward in using VD so that they need some he...

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2018

Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages within the framew... more Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages within the framework of a unitary state" is the third agenda of Nawacita (Nine priorities of national development agenda). This commitment reflects the current Indonesian government's concerns that prioritize development in the disadvantaged, outermost, and frontier regions (3T). It is implemented in various programs, one of which is the SM-3T program enacted by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia. The SM-3T, which stands for Sarjana Mendidik di daerah Terdepan, Terluar, dan Tertinggal (Graduates Educating in the Disadvantaged, Outermost, and Frontier Regions), is a year program for teacher education graduates to teach in rural areas of Indonesia. This study aims to investigate teaching strategies used by SM-3T teachers in rural Indonesian school. This research employs a narrative case study. The techniques of data collection comprise questionnaire, in-depth interview, and photo analysis. This study can extend the existing knowledge about ELT in rural Indonesian school, especially teaching strategies, and to improve teachers' professionalism as they could experience conditions in rural Indonesian schools which are different from the conditions in urban schools.

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2018

The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia has prioritized education... more The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia has prioritized education in the disadvantaged, outermost, and frontier regions (3T) by implementing a program called Sarjana Mendidik di daerah Terdepan, Terluar, dan Tertinggal (SM-3T), which is a year program for teacher education graduates to devote their lives teaching in the rural areas of Indonesia. The government sees the importance of promoting education in rural areas as a shared responsibility that must be done as a form of devotion to the nation. Every year the government sends thousands of teachers of various subjects as an effort to meet the needs of teachers in rural areas, which is still far from enough. Teachers who in fact come from urban areas certainly experience many challenges when they teach in rural areas with lack of facilities. This paper aims at finding out the challenges faced by teachers, especially English language teachers in carrying out teaching and learning activities in rural I...

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2018

This article reports book evaluation in the textbook entitleds ‘English Skills for the Future’ de... more This article reports book evaluation in the textbook entitleds ‘English Skills for the Future’ designed for the tenth grade students of senior high school. The main objective of the research are to: (1) discover whether English Skills for the Future is relevant to the English language and literature syllabus of Curriculum 2013, (2) find out whether English Skills for the Future develops the scientific approach, (3) determine whether English Skills for the Future develops authentic assessment and (4) discover whther English Skills for the Future meets the characteristics of good English textbook. The data of this study is document analysis and observation. The data were collected by using document analysis. The technique analyzing data on the textbook involves data collection, data reduction, data display and drawing conclusion as proposed by Miles and Huberman (1992, p.16). The result confirmed that ES book had met 71% criteria of good book with coverage 63% for relevance of the mat...

Journal of Educational and Social Research

The purpose of this study is examining the impact of meaningful learning model on students’ readi... more The purpose of this study is examining the impact of meaningful learning model on students’ reading comprehension. This study uses true experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design. The class is divided into two classes; experimental class who receives treatments by using meaningful learning model and control class who receives treatments by using conventional teaching model. The total of sample is 110 students who are selected from eight grade students of junior high schools either state or private schools in Central Java Province. To obtain valid data, this study uses tests given at the pre-test and post-test in both classes. After the data is obtained, the data is analyzed by using the SPSS t-test formula. Based on the results of the calculations in the pretest and posttest, it was known that both classes are homogeneous and normally distributed from the calculation of the Levene’s test method and Saphiro-Wilk. In the pretest, t-count (0.452) is lower than t-t...

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovation in Education (ICoIE 2018), 2019

This research aimed to describe the improvement of fiqih learning quality through applying the Co... more This research aimed to describe the improvement of fiqih learning quality through applying the Cooperative Personal Social Learning (COPERSOL) model with local wisdom value media in Madrasah Tsanawiyah (Islamic Junior High Schools) in Semarang. This study was a qualitative research using case study approach. The result showed that by using local wisdom value media, there was a significant change in which the students attended the learning vigorously, they were motivated and paid attention fully to the subject. Their absorbability improved significantly as indicated with 33 students meeting the minimum of the passing criteria after the application of it. It is different from some weaknesses before teacher used local wisdom value media. The researchers concluded that local wisdom value media could be used to improve the learning quality with Cooperative Personal Social Learning (COPERSOL) model in fiqih for the students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah in Semarang.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017), 2017

English in Education, 2012

This action research is aimed at: (1) i dentifying whether and to what extent WebQuest improves r... more This action research is aimed at: (1) i dentifying whether and to what extent WebQuest improves reading comprehension of class IXA students at SMP N 5 Surakarta, including: a) finding the main idea, b) finding the supporting idea, c) finding the meaning of words, d) finding the reference and e) finding the detail information ; (2) describing the class climate when WebQuest used in the reading class. The research findings showed that it could improve students’ reading comprehension and class climate. Related to the improvement of students’ reading skill, they found it easier to find the main idea, supporting idea, meaning of words, reference, and detail information. R elated to the class climate, there are many improvements of students’ attitude; they are more confident and active, paying attention when one of the other student read the text aloud, actively engaged in the reading group activities, and focus on the lesson. From those findings, it can be concluded that WebQuest can imp...

One of the attempts to acquire an identity in the academic community is by participating in the f... more One of the attempts to acquire an identity in the academic community is by participating in the field development by publishing research papers into reputable journals. However, it requires an adequate understanding of the academic discourse for publication. For this concern, the present study aims to investigate the master students' understanding of the term of academic discourse for publication by going through their rejected research articles and their identities reflected from those rejected manuscripts. A qualitative method was employed, the data were gathered through interview of four master students majoring in English Education and the stories are presented narratively. The results show how the students' lack of comprehension of the notion of academic discourse affects their identities as members of the academic community. Pedagogical implications of this study are intended for the master students as the manifestation for their upcoming article’s writing and

Randwick International of Education and Linguistics Science Journal, 2021

The spread of Covid-19 virus has suddenly forced face-to-face learning into online learning. Thes... more The spread of Covid-19 virus has suddenly forced face-to-face learning into online learning. These sudden changes give impacts to professional teaching and learning practices of teacher, teacher not only gives the material but also use technology maximally during this pandemic. The role of teachers and their professional self-understanding has become increasingly complex. This current study led to know about the teacher’s self-understanding in the use of technology during the pandemic. Based on the purpose of the study, this study adopted a small-scale case study with one participant who is an EFL teacher from one of private senior high school in Surakarta, Indonesia. This case study used semi-structure interviews and classroom observations for collecting data techniques. To collect the data, researcher used teacher’s self-understanding theory from Kelchtermans (1993). These teacher’s self-understanding has five components, (1) self-image; (2) self-esteem; (3) task-perception; (4) j...

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017), 2017

A content analysis of "BRIGHT 1" English textbook is a research on the way a 2013 curriculum-base... more A content analysis of "BRIGHT 1" English textbook is a research on the way a 2013 curriculum-based textbook is presented. This study reports on a content analysis investigating whether "BRIGHT 1" for year VII students meets the characteristics of a good English textbook and reflects the 2013 curriculum. Data on content analysis were gathered from an English textbook entitled "Bright 1". Four evaluators and three classes of students were given questioners. They also were interviewed for verifying the data. A descriptive-evaluative content analysis was used in evaluating the textbook. The procedure of this research adopts the procedure suggested by Ur (2009: 185-187) that includes three steps as follows: deciding on criteria, applying criteria, and summary. This research applied two techniques of analysing the data that are manually counting the data from the questionnaire into percentages and adopting the procedure of data analysis by Miles and Huberman (1994) for the data from interview transcript. The procedure of data analysis included data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification. Results showed that "BRIGHT 1" English textbook has strengths and weaknesses. This textbook has reflected seven characteristics of a good English textbook and has implemented the scientific approach steps of 2013 curriculum. The other three aspects that are the Core Competences and the Basic Competences, the material, and the assessment standards are presented well in this textbook but some aspects are need to be improved.

AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan, 2021

The recent paper aims to figure out how students apply their metacognitive strategies of thesis w... more The recent paper aims to figure out how students apply their metacognitive strategies of thesis writing in the COVID-19 pandemic. This study employs an explanatory case study design with 13 English As a Foreign language (EFL) graduates of an Indonesian university involving in this study. Questionnaires and semi-structured interview methods were used for collecting information. The data were then qualitatively analyzed using Miles, Huberman, and Saldana interactive model. The findings indicate that individual differences and thesis supervisors' involvement stimulated varied metacognitive strategy use in thesis writing. The challenges, inefficient time management, supervision system, technological issues, and negative disruptive emotions were attributed to delayed thesis completion in the pandemic. It indicates that the metacognitive experience represented by negative psychological factors profoundly affects students’ metacognitive strategies. Hence, promoting students' positi...

IJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), 2021

A significant change in education instructional goals effects assessment techniques used to evalu... more A significant change in education instructional goals effects assessment techniques used to evaluate students’ progress. The root of this phenomenon highly offers to authentic assessment as an alternative assessment. This study deals with authentic assessment implementation and its effects within teaching and learning in the context of Year 7 English students. It employs case study to get a in-depth understanding of the case. Data of the study were gained from deep-interview, observation, and document analysis. While, the data were analyzed by using Interactive model involving data reduction, data displays and conclusions: drawing/verification. The study finds that the relevance of implementation of authentic assessment becomes the main factor of determining its washbacks. Since most the authentic assessment stages undertaken by teachers are in line with National Regulation on how the assessment is designed and implemented, it provides more positive washbacks for both teachers and ...

Randwick International of Education and Linguistics Science Journal, 2020

Recently, the science and technology improvement has contributed to the improvement in language t... more Recently, the science and technology improvement has contributed to the improvement in language teaching and learning. There are many various technologies that can be used for teaching and learning English. One of them is web-based learning. However, not all the teachers know how to integrate technology in their teaching process. This study wants to delve deeper understanding into how an English teacher’s beliefs and experience towards web-based learning in English teaching learning process. A narrative inquiry study was conducted towards the participant who has used web-based learning for language teaching and learning at a non-formal school. The teacher’s lesson plans and interview were used for collecting the data. The data were coded and analyzed using Thematic Analysis Single Case Study. The result of this study showed that the participant has positive beliefs toward web-based learning for teaching and learning English.

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the the 3rd Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education, ACEIVE 2019, 16 November 2019, Universitas Negeri Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 2020

This study aims to investigate the available virtual fairy tale based on wulangreh in primary sch... more This study aims to investigate the available virtual fairy tale based on wulangreh in primary school as one of the learning media in primary school. Data collection techniques in this study are observation and interviews in 30 primary school libraries, both public school and private school. The results showed that 30 school libraries already have fiction books, non-fiction books, teaching aids, and video teaching materials for subjects of mathematics, science, social studies, Indonesian and cultural art, while the virtual fairy tales based on wulangreh have not been found. Thus, it can conclude that the virtual tales based on wulangreh are not found. The recommendation of further research is to provide the fairy tale based on wulangreh as a learning media

English Education, 2017

The objectives of the study are to find out whether or not there is a correlation between (1) voc... more The objectives of the study are to find out whether or not there is a correlation between (1) vocabulary mastery and reading ability (2) grammatical competence and reading ability (3) vocabulary mastery and grammatical competence simultaneously and reading ability. The correlation method is used in this research. The sample of this research is 30 students from Class B which was taken randomly using simple random sampling. The data of vocabulary mastery, grammatical competence, and reading ability in this research were collected using test. The data are then being analyzed using simple correlation and multiple linear regressions. The research findings show that (1) there is significant positive correlation between the students‟ vocabulary mastery and reading ability with the coefficient of correlation (rx1y) 0.5469 and the significance of coefficient of correlation (to) 3.4571 > t table 1.70 (2) there is significant positive correlation between the students‟ grammatical competence...

English Education, 2018

The objective of this article is to report a study on how YouTube video is implemented so it can ... more The objective of this article is to report a study on how YouTube video is implemented so it can improve students’ speaking proficiency. The study was collaboration classroom action research. The subject of the research was seventh grade students of one state junior high school in Surakarta in the academic year 2012/2013. The data were collected through interview, questionnaire, pre-test, photograph, and post-test. The findings of the research show that when YouTube video was used effectively, it enhanced students’ speaking skill, and classroom climate. In conclusion, YouTube video can be applied as an alternative media in language-teaching process include for teaching speaking.

English Education, 2017

This research aims to reveal the quality of English national examination preparation test in term... more This research aims to reveal the quality of English national examination preparation test in terms of qualitative and quantitative aspects. Qualitative aspect includes content validity, technical item quality and cognitive domain learning outcome while quantitative aspect include reliability, difficulty level, item discrimination, and distractor effectiveness. Sample was taken from 3 out of 10 schools in Pati district using simple random sampling. This research employs both qualitative and quantitative analysis in which expert judgement is used to analyze content validity and technical item quality while ITEMAN is used for quantitative analysis. The result showed that the test has good content validity, 99.06% items appropriate with competence being measured, good technical item quality and most items (81.13%)are categorized as cognitive domain learning outcome C2 (Understand). Moreover, the test has high reliability index (> 0.8), fair difficulty, and good discrimination. Howeve...

English Education, 2018

This study focused on the implementation of using authentic materials in improving the students’ ... more This study focused on the implementation of using authentic materials in improving the students’ speaking competence in a bilingual boarding of high school in Central Java. The goals of this study are, (1) to describe whether the use authentic materials can improve the students’ speaking competence in class, (2) to reveal the difficulties of using authentic materials in this research. I adopted Classroom Action Research (CAR) which requires four steps, namely planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The participants are 26 high school students. The methods of data collection are observation, diary, interview, photograph, pre-test, and post-test. In analyzing data I used (1) constant comparative technique by Burns (1999) (qualitative), (2) descriptive statistic technique (quantitative). After analyzing the data, I found out that the change in improvement of the students’ speaking in class is seen clearly and all the responses from the students are positive. The average scor...

English Education, 2019

This article describes the result of a classroom action research which is aimed at improving stud... more This article describes the result of a classroom action research which is aimed at improving students' motivation in learning English using movie clip. The action research study was conducted in two cycles from November to December 2017. In each cycle contain three meetings. The steps of cycle consist of planning, implementing, observation, and reflection. The research data were collected by using qualitative techniques (observation, interview, field notes, questionnaire, diary, and document analysis) and quantitative techniques (pre-test and post-test). The data were analyzed through descriptive analysis for the qualitative data and descriptive statistic for quantitative data. The research findings showed that students became brave to respond task or challenge, students had high confidence and ready to present their work orally, students had a desire to be successful in learning English, students actively asked about the material that they did not understand, students comprehe...

English Education, 2017

The purposes of this research are to identify: (1) whether and to what extent the use of VD impro... more The purposes of this research are to identify: (1) whether and to what extent the use of VD improve students’ speaking skill, and (2) the strengths and the weaknesses of VD when implemented in this research. This research use classroom action research method. The subject of this research is class X-5 of SMA N Kebakkramat Karanganyar in 2013/2014 academic year. The techniques of collecting data are observation, diary, interview, questionnaire, document analysis, and test. The techniques of collecting data are Constant Comparative Method (CCM) and statistic descriptive. Based on the research findings, students’ achievement on grammar, vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, and content improved. Students’ attitude change from ignoring becomes paying attention. Furthermore, weaknesses were indicated that although students have many oral practices, they still produce unacceptable pronunciation. The second weakness is that some students are still awkward in using VD so that they need some he...

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2018

Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages within the framew... more Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages within the framework of a unitary state" is the third agenda of Nawacita (Nine priorities of national development agenda). This commitment reflects the current Indonesian government's concerns that prioritize development in the disadvantaged, outermost, and frontier regions (3T). It is implemented in various programs, one of which is the SM-3T program enacted by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia. The SM-3T, which stands for Sarjana Mendidik di daerah Terdepan, Terluar, dan Tertinggal (Graduates Educating in the Disadvantaged, Outermost, and Frontier Regions), is a year program for teacher education graduates to teach in rural areas of Indonesia. This study aims to investigate teaching strategies used by SM-3T teachers in rural Indonesian school. This research employs a narrative case study. The techniques of data collection comprise questionnaire, in-depth interview, and photo analysis. This study can extend the existing knowledge about ELT in rural Indonesian school, especially teaching strategies, and to improve teachers' professionalism as they could experience conditions in rural Indonesian schools which are different from the conditions in urban schools.

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2018

The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia has prioritized education... more The Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia has prioritized education in the disadvantaged, outermost, and frontier regions (3T) by implementing a program called Sarjana Mendidik di daerah Terdepan, Terluar, dan Tertinggal (SM-3T), which is a year program for teacher education graduates to devote their lives teaching in the rural areas of Indonesia. The government sees the importance of promoting education in rural areas as a shared responsibility that must be done as a form of devotion to the nation. Every year the government sends thousands of teachers of various subjects as an effort to meet the needs of teachers in rural areas, which is still far from enough. Teachers who in fact come from urban areas certainly experience many challenges when they teach in rural areas with lack of facilities. This paper aims at finding out the challenges faced by teachers, especially English language teachers in carrying out teaching and learning activities in rural I...

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2018

This article reports book evaluation in the textbook entitleds ‘English Skills for the Future’ de... more This article reports book evaluation in the textbook entitleds ‘English Skills for the Future’ designed for the tenth grade students of senior high school. The main objective of the research are to: (1) discover whether English Skills for the Future is relevant to the English language and literature syllabus of Curriculum 2013, (2) find out whether English Skills for the Future develops the scientific approach, (3) determine whether English Skills for the Future develops authentic assessment and (4) discover whther English Skills for the Future meets the characteristics of good English textbook. The data of this study is document analysis and observation. The data were collected by using document analysis. The technique analyzing data on the textbook involves data collection, data reduction, data display and drawing conclusion as proposed by Miles and Huberman (1992, p.16). The result confirmed that ES book had met 71% criteria of good book with coverage 63% for relevance of the mat...