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Research paper thumbnail of The Problem Faced by Freshmen Students of English Education Department In Writing English Paragraph

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju)

This research is aimed to reveal new students’ obstacle in doing paragraph writing; from the pre-... more This research is aimed to reveal new students’ obstacle in doing paragraph writing; from the pre-writing activity, writing process and also editing. Descriptive qualitative was done to conduct this research. The researchers used interview to collect data and also to verify the result of the data by doing observation on student’s work in writing process. After the results revealed, it is hoped that they are useful for teachers and also students to know the problem they probably face in paragraph writing teaching and also learning, therefore they can anticipate the problem and find solution to those obstacles. The result of this research shows that the students face difficulties in determining topic, main idea, and also the rest of content, grammatical error, vocabulary difficulty, making brainstorming phase, forgot or confused to determine conclusion, punctuation, translation and coherence problem, mistake in language (sentence structure, spelling and word choice).

Research paper thumbnail of Students Perception Toward Descriptive Review Activity on Extensive Reading Class of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University

Pendas Mahakam : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Sekolah Dasar

Reading is one of four skills that must be mastered for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learner... more Reading is one of four skills that must be mastered for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Extensive reading is one of class that students need to take to get bachelor degree in English Department of University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda. Extensive reading goal is to create a fun reading for students, to boost their interest in reading especially English reading. In this academic year, the students of 2021 took their extensive reading class in pandemic era therefore they need to take this class through online proccess. This research aims to find out what is students’ feeling after/ whilst reading their favorite English books, novels and short stories in Extensive Reading class. The result reveals that most of students have positive perception towards this activity. Some difficulty faced by a few students in this activity are the difficulty to read the novel even thought this activity bring some positive effect to their study including learning about new vocabularies an...

Research paper thumbnail of Students Perspective Towards Writing Descriptive Text On Instagram Post

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2022

Using "Instagram" as a learning medium is an easy way to help students learn descriptiv... more Using "Instagram" as a learning medium is an easy way to help students learn descriptive text. This research is limited on perspective of students in writing descriptive text on instagram. The research is applied to one class of XI IPA1 with the number of students as many as 7 students in SMA Negeri 1 Linggang Bigung, Kutai Barat. from the result of pre research from XI IPA 1 there is 7 students who makes a descriptive text caption on Instagram post. In this research the researchers employ a qualitative approach in this research qualitative data collecting in this research. The research instrument is an interview (in-depth interview). The theory triangulation technique is carried out in testing the validity of the data using more than one perspective in discussing the problem research, so that they can be analyzed and more complete can be drawn comprehensive conclusions. Keywords: students perspective, writing, descriptive text, Instagram, caption

Research paper thumbnail of Meningkatkan penguasaan kosakata bahasa Inggris siswa sekolah menengah pertama dengan menggunakan idiom

Masyarakat Berdaya dan Inovasi, 2020

Mempelajari kosakata dalam bahasa Inggris adalah hal yang sangat penting yang harus dilakukan ole... more Mempelajari kosakata dalam bahasa Inggris adalah hal yang sangat penting yang harus dilakukan oleh setiap siswa pendidikan Sekolah Menengah Pertama. Selain mempelajari grammar dan empat skill bahasa Inggris (Listening, speaking, reading, writing), siswa diharapkan dapat menguasai kosakata sesuai dengan level yang seharusnya mereka kuasai. Dengan mempelajari banyak kosakata bahasa Inggris, siswa diharapkan dapat berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris dan juga menjawab banyak butir soal dalam ulangan harian, ujian semester, bahkan UNBK (Unjian Nasional Berbasis Komputer) untuk pelajaran bahasa Inggris. Namun banyak kendala yang siswa hadapi dalam mempelajari kosakata Bahasa Inggris. Belajar kosakata dengan cara menghapal adalah cara lama yang terlihat paling sederhana, namun efek dari menghapal biasanya tidak akan kuat dan cenderung membosankan bagi siswa. Ada banyak cara yang lebih modern untuk mempelajari kosakata bahasa Inggris, salah satunya adalah dengan cara mempelajari idiom bahasa...

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of Using Powerpoint Media on Students’ English Learning Motivation to the Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Muhamadyah 1 Samarinda in 2018/2019 Academic Year

English education is taught in all levels of education. Therefore, it is believed that there are ... more English education is taught in all levels of education. Therefore, it is believed that there are some differences among teaching adults, teenagers and children. In teaching English to adult learners, the suitable media is needed to attract their attention. One of the media that is suitable to adult learners in teaching English is power point. The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is a significant effect of using power point media on students’ English learning motivation to the eleventh-grade students of SMK MUHAMADYAH 1 Samarinda in 2018/2019 Academic Year. The design of this research was quasi-experimental design because it requires one group of students. There were 60 students as the population and 30 students were taken by the researcher as the sample. The result shows that the mean score of students’ English learning motivation is 73.5. It means that the students’ English learning motivation is high. Then t score 4.894 higher than t tab value 2.042 with the lev...

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Regulated Learning in Writing of EFL Learners

This research was aimed to investigate EFL students’ Self-Regulated Learning in writing. Self-Reg... more This research was aimed to investigate EFL students’ Self-Regulated Learning in writing. Self-Regulated Learning itself means the method that students take control in understanding of knowledge from the lecturer by conducting their own way in learning. The design of this study was quantitative with survey design to measure students’ academic self-regulation and self-regulation in writing class context. The population of this study were third semester students of English Department of University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda, Indonesia, which consist of two classes with totally 37 students, who have studied English writing. Questionnaire were applied to measured two aspects; students’ academic self-regulation (77 items) and self-regulation concerning English writing subject (14 items), using Likert Scales. The result showed that 70% of students were able to motivate themselves to learn writing, do some efforts to engage the class, willingly to rehearse, elaborate and organize the l...

Research paper thumbnail of Naturalness in Translating The Jakarta Post Article by Students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University

Translation is one of the important thing in learning English, therefore in this study, the purpo... more Translation is one of the important thing in learning English, therefore in this study, the purpose were to know the kinds of error and the kinds of error that was mostly made by the sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University in translating a news article. The design of the study was explanatory research and the method of this study was mixed method. The sample of this study was 70% from population of sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University. Data collection technique was simple random sampling. Data analyzing technique was 6 steps of data analysis stated by Creswell (1984; 154-158). According to error analysis of naturalness in translating The Jakarta Post post article by sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam in academic year 2018/2019, the result of this study was the students committed all of kinds of error from level of naturalness in translation. The kind of error mostly made by the sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University in translating a news article was Cognate Word (72.5%, 95 errors). While the rest of the errors were made by Sentence Structure (15 errors, 11.5%), Other 'obvious' Area of Interference (8 errors, 6.2%), Word Order (7 errors, 5.3%), The Using of Gerund, Infinitive, Verb-Noun and Affix (6 errors, 4.5%), and there was no students who committed Old-fashioned error (0 errors, 0%).

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher's Challenges in Teaching English to Young Learner using Montessori Method

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2020

Montessori Method is rarely used in Indonesia, especially Samarinda, and schools that apply this ... more Montessori Method is rarely used in Indonesia, especially Samarinda, and schools that apply this method are still relatively few. Teachers who choose this method and teach in schools that use this method are ready to face the challenges based on Pertiwi et al. (2020) when teaching children to learn English using a specific Method. This article reports a qualitative study that figures out the Teacher's challenges in teaching English for young learners around 5-6 years old using Montessori Method to "Follow the child" and use the English Language as their instruction language. Two kindergarten English teachers in Nido Montessori School participated in this study, and data were collected through interview-based on case study design. This study indicated that teachers face several challenges when teaching English to young learners using the Montessori Method. Children who lack the English Language create limited communication between teachers and children because children ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of The Use of Video on English Vocabulary Mastery of The Elementary Second Level Students at SDN 018 Samarinda

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2019

Vocabulary is one of language components that plays an important role in communication. Through v... more Vocabulary is one of language components that plays an important role in communication. Through vocabulary, students can develop the four skills in English language such as listening, reading, writing, and speaking. There are many ways in teaching vocabulary and increasing vocabulary mastery. In this study, the writer used video as a technique. In this study, the writer wants to found out that has any significant effect of the use of Video on English vocabulary mastery of the elementary second level students at SDN 018 Samarinda.The design of this study was pre-experimental design. The writer gave pre-test, treatment, and post-test to one group. The sample of this study was 30 students of the elementary second level students at SDN 018 Samarinda. In analyzing data, the writer used t-test to find out the significance difference between the result before treatment (pre-test) and after treatment (post-test).In pre-test, from 30 students, 7 students got A (excellent), 6 students got B...

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching English Speaking to Young Learners

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2020

In teaching and learning process strategy is an activity that should be done both teacher and lea... more In teaching and learning process strategy is an activity that should be done both teacher and learner in order to get learning activity become effective and efficient. In short, teaching strategies are very important since they determine the success of teaching process. Strategies used by teachers should be interesting and can capture students’ attention. Some of the strategies used in teaching speaking are such cooperative activities as role-play, creative tasks, and drilling [1]. This article report a qualitative study that find out teacher’s strategies in teaching English speaking to young learners in junior school. Two junior school teacher in SMP Purnama were participated in this research and data were collected through interviews based on a case study design. The result of this study indicated the technique employed by the teacher in teaching speaking were so various such as role play, storytelling, social strategy and discussion. Teachers at SMP Purnama use more than one teac...

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher’s Strategy in Solving EFL Students’ Problems in Learning English

ASIAN TEFL Journal of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Dec 15, 2019

Learning new language as a Foreign Language is obviously not easy. The Foreign Language learners ... more Learning new language as a Foreign Language is obviously not easy. The Foreign Language learners must find it hard to master. Therefore, there must be challenges that Foreign Language teachers face in classroom. The aim of this research is to investigate an English teacher in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to junior high school students at Ma'had Tahfidzul Qur'an, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The matters to be investigated include barriers the teacher faced as well as her strategies to solve the problems. The researcher used qualitative method for this study and conducted interview for the English teacher to reveal the findings. The result of semi-structured interview showed that the biggest challenge faced by the English teacher is the condition where the students are less-motivated in learning English. Several strategies are used by the teacher such as encouraging the students through verbal motivation as well as providing joyful activities such as conducting different kind of games to build positive mood and interest of students in leaning a new language. The use of proper teaching strategies is demanded in order to have English learning become students' habit. Therefore, implication of language teaching methodologies is also discussed in this research.

Research paper thumbnail of The Problem Faced by Freshmen Students of English Education Department In Writing English Paragraph

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju)

This research is aimed to reveal new students’ obstacle in doing paragraph writing; from the pre-... more This research is aimed to reveal new students’ obstacle in doing paragraph writing; from the pre-writing activity, writing process and also editing. Descriptive qualitative was done to conduct this research. The researchers used interview to collect data and also to verify the result of the data by doing observation on student’s work in writing process. After the results revealed, it is hoped that they are useful for teachers and also students to know the problem they probably face in paragraph writing teaching and also learning, therefore they can anticipate the problem and find solution to those obstacles. The result of this research shows that the students face difficulties in determining topic, main idea, and also the rest of content, grammatical error, vocabulary difficulty, making brainstorming phase, forgot or confused to determine conclusion, punctuation, translation and coherence problem, mistake in language (sentence structure, spelling and word choice).

Research paper thumbnail of Students Perception Toward Descriptive Review Activity on Extensive Reading Class of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University

Pendas Mahakam : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Sekolah Dasar

Reading is one of four skills that must be mastered for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learner... more Reading is one of four skills that must be mastered for English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Extensive reading is one of class that students need to take to get bachelor degree in English Department of University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda. Extensive reading goal is to create a fun reading for students, to boost their interest in reading especially English reading. In this academic year, the students of 2021 took their extensive reading class in pandemic era therefore they need to take this class through online proccess. This research aims to find out what is students’ feeling after/ whilst reading their favorite English books, novels and short stories in Extensive Reading class. The result reveals that most of students have positive perception towards this activity. Some difficulty faced by a few students in this activity are the difficulty to read the novel even thought this activity bring some positive effect to their study including learning about new vocabularies an...

Research paper thumbnail of Students Perspective Towards Writing Descriptive Text On Instagram Post

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2022

Using "Instagram" as a learning medium is an easy way to help students learn descriptiv... more Using "Instagram" as a learning medium is an easy way to help students learn descriptive text. This research is limited on perspective of students in writing descriptive text on instagram. The research is applied to one class of XI IPA1 with the number of students as many as 7 students in SMA Negeri 1 Linggang Bigung, Kutai Barat. from the result of pre research from XI IPA 1 there is 7 students who makes a descriptive text caption on Instagram post. In this research the researchers employ a qualitative approach in this research qualitative data collecting in this research. The research instrument is an interview (in-depth interview). The theory triangulation technique is carried out in testing the validity of the data using more than one perspective in discussing the problem research, so that they can be analyzed and more complete can be drawn comprehensive conclusions. Keywords: students perspective, writing, descriptive text, Instagram, caption

Research paper thumbnail of Meningkatkan penguasaan kosakata bahasa Inggris siswa sekolah menengah pertama dengan menggunakan idiom

Masyarakat Berdaya dan Inovasi, 2020

Mempelajari kosakata dalam bahasa Inggris adalah hal yang sangat penting yang harus dilakukan ole... more Mempelajari kosakata dalam bahasa Inggris adalah hal yang sangat penting yang harus dilakukan oleh setiap siswa pendidikan Sekolah Menengah Pertama. Selain mempelajari grammar dan empat skill bahasa Inggris (Listening, speaking, reading, writing), siswa diharapkan dapat menguasai kosakata sesuai dengan level yang seharusnya mereka kuasai. Dengan mempelajari banyak kosakata bahasa Inggris, siswa diharapkan dapat berkomunikasi dalam bahasa Inggris dan juga menjawab banyak butir soal dalam ulangan harian, ujian semester, bahkan UNBK (Unjian Nasional Berbasis Komputer) untuk pelajaran bahasa Inggris. Namun banyak kendala yang siswa hadapi dalam mempelajari kosakata Bahasa Inggris. Belajar kosakata dengan cara menghapal adalah cara lama yang terlihat paling sederhana, namun efek dari menghapal biasanya tidak akan kuat dan cenderung membosankan bagi siswa. Ada banyak cara yang lebih modern untuk mempelajari kosakata bahasa Inggris, salah satunya adalah dengan cara mempelajari idiom bahasa...

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of Using Powerpoint Media on Students’ English Learning Motivation to the Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Muhamadyah 1 Samarinda in 2018/2019 Academic Year

English education is taught in all levels of education. Therefore, it is believed that there are ... more English education is taught in all levels of education. Therefore, it is believed that there are some differences among teaching adults, teenagers and children. In teaching English to adult learners, the suitable media is needed to attract their attention. One of the media that is suitable to adult learners in teaching English is power point. The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is a significant effect of using power point media on students’ English learning motivation to the eleventh-grade students of SMK MUHAMADYAH 1 Samarinda in 2018/2019 Academic Year. The design of this research was quasi-experimental design because it requires one group of students. There were 60 students as the population and 30 students were taken by the researcher as the sample. The result shows that the mean score of students’ English learning motivation is 73.5. It means that the students’ English learning motivation is high. Then t score 4.894 higher than t tab value 2.042 with the lev...

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Regulated Learning in Writing of EFL Learners

This research was aimed to investigate EFL students’ Self-Regulated Learning in writing. Self-Reg... more This research was aimed to investigate EFL students’ Self-Regulated Learning in writing. Self-Regulated Learning itself means the method that students take control in understanding of knowledge from the lecturer by conducting their own way in learning. The design of this study was quantitative with survey design to measure students’ academic self-regulation and self-regulation in writing class context. The population of this study were third semester students of English Department of University of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda, Indonesia, which consist of two classes with totally 37 students, who have studied English writing. Questionnaire were applied to measured two aspects; students’ academic self-regulation (77 items) and self-regulation concerning English writing subject (14 items), using Likert Scales. The result showed that 70% of students were able to motivate themselves to learn writing, do some efforts to engage the class, willingly to rehearse, elaborate and organize the l...

Research paper thumbnail of Naturalness in Translating The Jakarta Post Article by Students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University

Translation is one of the important thing in learning English, therefore in this study, the purpo... more Translation is one of the important thing in learning English, therefore in this study, the purpose were to know the kinds of error and the kinds of error that was mostly made by the sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University in translating a news article. The design of the study was explanatory research and the method of this study was mixed method. The sample of this study was 70% from population of sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University. Data collection technique was simple random sampling. Data analyzing technique was 6 steps of data analysis stated by Creswell (1984; 154-158). According to error analysis of naturalness in translating The Jakarta Post post article by sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam in academic year 2018/2019, the result of this study was the students committed all of kinds of error from level of naturalness in translation. The kind of error mostly made by the sixth semester students of English Department of Widya Gama Mahakam University in translating a news article was Cognate Word (72.5%, 95 errors). While the rest of the errors were made by Sentence Structure (15 errors, 11.5%), Other 'obvious' Area of Interference (8 errors, 6.2%), Word Order (7 errors, 5.3%), The Using of Gerund, Infinitive, Verb-Noun and Affix (6 errors, 4.5%), and there was no students who committed Old-fashioned error (0 errors, 0%).

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher's Challenges in Teaching English to Young Learner using Montessori Method

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2020

Montessori Method is rarely used in Indonesia, especially Samarinda, and schools that apply this ... more Montessori Method is rarely used in Indonesia, especially Samarinda, and schools that apply this method are still relatively few. Teachers who choose this method and teach in schools that use this method are ready to face the challenges based on Pertiwi et al. (2020) when teaching children to learn English using a specific Method. This article reports a qualitative study that figures out the Teacher's challenges in teaching English for young learners around 5-6 years old using Montessori Method to "Follow the child" and use the English Language as their instruction language. Two kindergarten English teachers in Nido Montessori School participated in this study, and data were collected through interview-based on case study design. This study indicated that teachers face several challenges when teaching English to young learners using the Montessori Method. Children who lack the English Language create limited communication between teachers and children because children ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of The Use of Video on English Vocabulary Mastery of The Elementary Second Level Students at SDN 018 Samarinda

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2019

Vocabulary is one of language components that plays an important role in communication. Through v... more Vocabulary is one of language components that plays an important role in communication. Through vocabulary, students can develop the four skills in English language such as listening, reading, writing, and speaking. There are many ways in teaching vocabulary and increasing vocabulary mastery. In this study, the writer used video as a technique. In this study, the writer wants to found out that has any significant effect of the use of Video on English vocabulary mastery of the elementary second level students at SDN 018 Samarinda.The design of this study was pre-experimental design. The writer gave pre-test, treatment, and post-test to one group. The sample of this study was 30 students of the elementary second level students at SDN 018 Samarinda. In analyzing data, the writer used t-test to find out the significance difference between the result before treatment (pre-test) and after treatment (post-test).In pre-test, from 30 students, 7 students got A (excellent), 6 students got B...

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching English Speaking to Young Learners

Borneo Educational Journal (Borju), 2020

In teaching and learning process strategy is an activity that should be done both teacher and lea... more In teaching and learning process strategy is an activity that should be done both teacher and learner in order to get learning activity become effective and efficient. In short, teaching strategies are very important since they determine the success of teaching process. Strategies used by teachers should be interesting and can capture students’ attention. Some of the strategies used in teaching speaking are such cooperative activities as role-play, creative tasks, and drilling [1]. This article report a qualitative study that find out teacher’s strategies in teaching English speaking to young learners in junior school. Two junior school teacher in SMP Purnama were participated in this research and data were collected through interviews based on a case study design. The result of this study indicated the technique employed by the teacher in teaching speaking were so various such as role play, storytelling, social strategy and discussion. Teachers at SMP Purnama use more than one teac...

Research paper thumbnail of Teacher’s Strategy in Solving EFL Students’ Problems in Learning English

ASIAN TEFL Journal of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Dec 15, 2019

Learning new language as a Foreign Language is obviously not easy. The Foreign Language learners ... more Learning new language as a Foreign Language is obviously not easy. The Foreign Language learners must find it hard to master. Therefore, there must be challenges that Foreign Language teachers face in classroom. The aim of this research is to investigate an English teacher in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to junior high school students at Ma'had Tahfidzul Qur'an, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The matters to be investigated include barriers the teacher faced as well as her strategies to solve the problems. The researcher used qualitative method for this study and conducted interview for the English teacher to reveal the findings. The result of semi-structured interview showed that the biggest challenge faced by the English teacher is the condition where the students are less-motivated in learning English. Several strategies are used by the teacher such as encouraging the students through verbal motivation as well as providing joyful activities such as conducting different kind of games to build positive mood and interest of students in leaning a new language. The use of proper teaching strategies is demanded in order to have English learning become students' habit. Therefore, implication of language teaching methodologies is also discussed in this research.