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Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Education Conference (AECON 2017), 2017

This article describes the implementation of Project-Based Learning (digital storytelling) to imp... more This article describes the implementation of Project-Based Learning (digital storytelling) to improve students' speaking skill and digital literacy. The aims of this research are (1) to find out whether Project-Based Learning (digital storytelling) can improve students' speaking skill and (2) to analyze the students' learning motivation when is implemented. The data were collected through observation, interview, questionnaire, and test. Findings of the research revealed that students' speaking competence was improved in some aspects such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and confidence. Those aspects were improved through a series of speaking activities including group discussion, interview, voice recording, and oral presentation. In addition, students' learning motivation increased in terms of: (a) the students invested more effort in the learning, (b) the students were more interested in the learning activity, and (c) the students' attitude became positive. A challenging multimedia-based project in which students created digital stories could foster students' digital literacy and enhance the students' participation thr oughout the learning process.

English in Education, 2013

This research aims at identifying whether guided writing can improve students’ writing skill and ... more This research aims at identifying whether guided writing can improve students’ writing skill and students’ learning motivation. This action research was conducted in two cycles at the second grade of SMP Negeri 1 Karanganyar from August – October 2012. The qualitative and quantitative data were collected through observation, interview, questionnaire, field note, photographs and tests (pre-test and post-tests). The qualitative data were analyzed in five stages namely assembling the data, coding the data, comparing the data, building interpretations, and reporting the outcomes. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre-test and post-test. The research findings show that the use of guided writing could improve students’ writing skill and students’ learning motivation.

Reflective practice has become a significant aspect in determining good teaching and learning pra... more Reflective practice has become a significant aspect in determining good teaching and learning practices and is an important part of professional practice and professional growth. However, English teachers in Indonesia has not been able to perform reflection on their teaching in order to improve their teaching practice. This study reports the results of an intensive training held by PKM UNS to help teachers develop a reflective teaching habit. The participants were 30 English teachers of Islamic Senior High School in Solo Raya. Observation field notes and teacher assignments were used as the main data collection method. From this program, it was found that the English teachers encountered plethora of challenges in developing reflective practice due to their lack of understanding of reflective teaching. However, the teachers show an improvement in implementing reflective teaching strategies after their participation in the training. Recommendations to include reflective practices in t...

English teachers of SMA must use Curriculum 13 for teaching English. In the early implementation ... more English teachers of SMA must use Curriculum 13 for teaching English. In the early implementation of the curriculum, the teachers must use scientific approach. Nowadays, scientific approach is not the only approach to teach English using Curriculum 13. English teachers may also use the other approaches; one of them is project-based learning. That is why, it is necessary to conduct a research to develop a model of teaching English using project-based learning to help English teachers teach English to SMA students in Surakarta. The objectives of the research are: (1) to study the quality of the existing model for teaching English in SMA Surakarta; and (2) to develop a model for teaching English using project-based learning which is feasible to develop the students’ four English skills. The research method used is Research and Development. Because it is an educational research, it is classified as Educational Research and Development. The results of the research in the first year show t...

Project-based learning (PBL) is used to make learning like acquisition so that it is more natural... more Project-based learning (PBL) is used to make learning like acquisition so that it is more natural and interesting and the students are interested and motivated in learning English. The objective of the research is to develop a model for teaching English using PBL which is feasible to develop the students' four English skills. The research method used is Educational Research and Development by designing a prototype consisting of the following steps: determining basic questions, designing a project, making a schedule, conducting the project, monitoring the project, examining the results, and evaluating the experience. The prototype was tried out for teaching English to SMA students, the weaknesses were revised, it was tried out again and revised until it became a feasible model. The result of the research shows that the model is feasible for the teacher to teach English and for the students to study and develop their four English skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing). It implies that project-based learning can be used by the English teachers to teach English to develop the students' four English skills.

Journal of English Language Studies, 2021

This paper aims to answer two research questions: (1) What design of an Extensive Reading program... more This paper aims to answer two research questions: (1) What design of an Extensive Reading program can be developed in the EFL setting with time constraints and (2) How do students respond to the design implementation. To achieve these goals, the study used Design-Based Research and, in the practice, it was carried out in 3 major phases. The initial phase was the analysis of practical problems. The second phase was literature research to inform the planning and development of the prototype design and the last phase was the implementation and reflection of the implementation of the design. The study was carried out in one semester in an English Education Department of a university in Indonesia. The study results in an alternative design to an ER+ program that is called Transdicto. Transdicto is conducted in five major steps: (1) extensive reading/ listening, (2) note-taking, (3) exploring, (4) contextualizing, and (5) transforming. Observation and interview revealed that the students responded well to Transdicto; they found the steps of the activity were relatively easy to follow, useful, and engaging. acquisition (SLA) perspectives, ER provides the input which is essential for language acquisition to take place (Krashen, 2004, 2020a, b). When conducted following the principles of ER as proposed by Day and Bamford (2004), it offers a plethora of benefits that have been empirically proven. To name some, ER enhances students'

ELT Worldwide: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2020

Higher order thinking skill (HOTS) is an important outcome standard of higher education in any di... more Higher order thinking skill (HOTS) is an important outcome standard of higher education in any discipline. Accordingly, English language textbook should present higher order thinking questions to promote students’ higher order thinking skill. The aim of this research is to analyze the extent to which the higher order thinking skill (HOTS) and the indicators of reading skill are assessed in the reading comprehension exercises. This research used the descriptive analytical method of research, which refers to content analysis. The data are analyzed based on revised Bloom’s taxonomy and reading skill indicators. The findings reveal that: (1) HOTS in the reading comprehension exercises questions only includes analyzing skill and evaluating skill while creating skill is not found; and (2) the indicators of reading skill are not fully assessed from the questions in the reading comprehension exercises in English language textbook for twelfth grade students by Indonesian Ministry of Educatio...

Considering its influential role in students’ behavior and attitudes, a textbook has to reflect b... more Considering its influential role in students’ behavior and attitudes, a textbook has to reflect balanced images and information about males and females. It also has to support broad choices and many roles for both sexes to avoid unjust or bias gender issues. This study aimed at examining whether an EFL textbook published by the Indonesian government promotes gender equity by (1) mapping the proportion of textual and visual representation of males and females in the textbook; (2) describing how males and females are treated in the textbook. Through content analysis, the study revealed that the book is gender-biased as indicated from unbalanced (1) textual and visual representation (2) variety of activity, role, and occupation, (3) order of mention, and (4) adjectival portrayal. In all indicators, the female is underrepresented, hidden, and framed within traditional gender stereotyping. Reflecting on these findings, revision by the government and/ or careful treatment by teachers whe...

English Education, 2018

This article discusses the implementation of Peer Correction technique to improve the students’ a... more This article discusses the implementation of Peer Correction technique to improve the students’ ability in writing a recount text at a senior high school in Wonogiri. This research aimed to know how Peer Correction technique can be implemented effectively to improve the students’ writing ability and to what extent the improvement can be achieved. The qualitative data were collected through observation, questionnaire, and interview. While quantitative data were obtained from the students’ tests. The findings submitted that: 1)Peer Correction can be implemented effectively because of the students’ learning awareness during the correction process which help them to get a better reflection related with their own future written tasks and it must be supported with an adequate feedback especially face-to face feedback, 2) it could improve the students’ writing competence viewed from the improvement in the five aspect namely grammar, content, vocabulary, mechanic, and organization, 3) it al...

English Education, 2019

This article presents the research results which are: (1) there is a significant difference in gr... more This article presents the research results which are: (1) there is a significant difference in grammar mastery between students taught using Inductive Method and students taught using Deductive Method; (2) Inductive Method is more effective than Deductive Method. The research method used in this research is an experimental design. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri in Surakarta in the academic year of 2017/2018. The research population is the eighth-grade students. The samples are class VIII A as the experimental group consisting 28 students and class VIII B as the control group consisting 28 students. The research instrument used to collect the data is a test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The computation of the t-test shows that t observation (to) = 2.284 is higher than t table (54. 0.05) = 2.0048. It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in grammar mastery between the students taught using Inductive Method and the students taught using D...

English Education, 2017

The purposes underlying this study are (1) to describe an English textbook entitled “Passport to ... more The purposes underlying this study are (1) to describe an English textbook entitled “Passport to the World 1” in general; (2) to analyze the quality of the English textbook in developing communicative tasks and types of communicative materials. This research used a descriptive method. The data source of this research is the textbook for seventh grade of Junior High School, published in 2009 by PT Tiga Serangkai Pustaka Mandiri. In collecting data, this study takes four of ten units in the textbook randomly. The study uses theory of Cunningsworth (1995) to analyze the textbook in general and Communicative Language Teaching principles to analyze the tasks and material of the textbook. The result of the study shows that (1) the description of the textbook in general is fairly good (62.5 %); (2) the quality of communicative tasks is good (68.7%), and the quality of types of material in CLT is very good (75.03%). The textbook has all criteria of communicative tasks and materials, but eac...

English Education, 2015

The objective of this research was to find out whether there is a correlation between (1) reading... more The objective of this research was to find out whether there is a correlation between (1) reading interest and reading skill; (2) grammatical competence and reading skill; and (3) reading interest, grammatical competence simultaneously and reading skill. The method used in the research was correlation. The study was carried out in June to August 2013 at SMA Negeri 1 Karanganyar. The population was all of the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Karanganyar which consist of eight classes. The total number of the students was 272 students. The sample was 34 students taken by cluster random sampling. The instruments in collecting the data were questionnaire and test. Questionnaire was used to collect the data of reading interest, while objective test was used to collect the data of grammatical competence and reading skill. The techniques used to analyze the data were Single and Multiple Linear Regression and Correlation. The result of analysis shows that there were a positive correlati...

English Education, 2016

The study is aimed to find out the correlation between (1) writing interest;(2) vocabulary mast... more The study is aimed to find out the correlation between (1) writing interest;(2) vocabulary mastery; and (3) writing skill of the tenth grade students at one of state senior high school in Surakarta, both partially and simultaneously. This study used test and questionnaire to collect the data. For the test, there are three kinds of test, those are objective test, oral test, and essay test. The method used in this study is correlation study. The techniques used to analyze the data are single and multiple correlation and also regression by using SPSS 17. The results of the study show that in the level of significance a = 0.05 (1) there is a positive correlation between writing interest and writing skill (rx1y = 0.680 >rt = 0.339);(2) there is a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing skill (rx2y = 0.846 >rt = 0.339);and (3) there is a positive correlation between writing interest and vocabulary mastery simultaneously and writing skill (Ry12 is 0.889 and Fo =...

English Education, 2013

The objectives of the research are to find out whether or not Think Pair Share improves the stude... more The objectives of the research are to find out whether or not Think Pair Share improves the students' writing skill and to describe what happens when Think Pair Share is implemented in writing class. The implementation of Think Pair Share method in writing class was done within two cycles. Cycle 1 was conducted in three meetings and Cycle 2 was done in two meetings. The qualitative data were collected through observation, questionnaire, interview, and document analysis; while the quantitative ones were collected through test. The qualitative data were analyzed by using five stages suggested by Burns; whereas the quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The research findings show that the use of Think Pair Share can improve students' writing skill and the situation of English class.

This paper discusses the use of Javanese in its speech community. Nowadays more and more families... more This paper discusses the use of Javanese in its speech community. Nowadays more and more families use national language in their daily communication. Most parents (middle to high economic conditions) tend to use Indonesian to their children relating to the feeling of as educated and modern people. This circumstances lead to weaknesses of Javanese use among prospective Javanese speakers, children. Besides, fewer formal traditional social meetings make use of Javanese. This makes Javanese becoming much less common in its speech community. People feel more comfortable and secure using Indonesian in expressing their ideas because they lack of Javanese communicative competence in delivering their mind in terms of social norms and affective value. Finally Indonesian government hasn’t made an optimal effort to save indigenous language. It can be seen from school curriculums which determine Javanese as local content.

English Education

This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data sources are thevmanuscript and video of “Ava... more This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data sources are thevmanuscript and video of “Avatar” film. From the sources, the researcher takes 40 declarative utterances uttered by the main character (Jake Sully) to be analyzed. The research goals are 1) to identify the contexts of declarative utterances, 2) to identify the hearer’s responses of declarative utterances, 3) to explain the pragmatic force of declarative utterances viewed from the illocutionary force. Before define the force, the researcher explains the context for a better understanding about the speaker’s intention. The results of this research are, 1) every utterance has its own context: situation, participants, ends, act sequence, key, instrumentalities, norms, and genre, 2) the hearer’s responses are words response and act response, 3) utterance’s function reflects the pragmatic force, those 40 declarative utterances bring various forces; suggesting, appointing, reporting, requesting, claiming, thanking, asking,...