Aisyah Journal of English Language Teaching (AIJELT)

STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA USED BY TEACHER IN TEACHING ENGLISH

Multazam Abubakar, Wahyu Alfian, Muhammad Akbar Nur Rasyid — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 02:05:47 +0000

This study aims to find out the media used by the teachers in teaching English at SMPN 9 Selayar and to investigate the students’ perception of the instructional media used by the English teachers in teaching English at SMPN 9 Selayar. A quantitative approach using the descriptive method was employed in this study to investigate students’ perceptions on the instructional media used by teachers in teaching English, while the research instruments were observation, questionnaires, and documentation. This study found that three types of learning media are often used by teachers in teaching English namely English books, whiteboards, and dictionaries. The kinds of media that the teacher used when teaching English were a whiteboard, an English book, and a dictionary. Most of the students gave a positive perception toward the media used by English teachers in the teaching and learning process, they were being happy, more active, being more excited/spirit in learning English, they were easier to understand the materials, they can improve their pronunciation, vocabulary, find new ideas, express their opinion and they can practice it in daily life. Whereas some students gave negative perceptions toward the media used by English teachers in the teaching and learning process that they can not be enthusiastic/spirit to learn English, pronounce the words correctly, find new ideas, and express their opinion because they were lazy, being wary and afraid of being wrong in learning English. This research provides recommendations to English teachers to be more creative in choosing instructional media to be used when teaching English.

THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH CLUB EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ON STUDENT SUCCESS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPETITION

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:56:31 +0000

This research reveals three discussions, namely how the English Club extracurricular is implemented at SMAN 8 Serang City, how the results achieved in these extracurricular activities are seen in the context of linguistic intelligence, and what are the supporting and inhibiting factors during the running of these extracurricular activities. This research is qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. Data collection methods use observation, interviews, and documentation. Meanwhile, data analysis techniques refer to Miles and Hubermann, namely data reduction, data display (data presentation), and conclusion drawing/verification (drawing conclusions). The results of this research are that the implementation of this extracurricular includes two stages, namely the preparation stage and the process stage. Meanwhile, the results of the development of students' linguistic intelligence through the English Club extracurricular activities include listening skills, speaking skills, writing skills, and reading skills. The supporting factors are the strong role of the principal, the professional quality of teachers, good student interest and intelligence, and tools or media that are easy to obtain. Meanwhile, inhibiting factors include this activity not being mandatory material, lack of interest in tutoring at home, and learning media that has not been updated.

Keyword: English Club, Linguistic Intelligence, SMAN 8 Serang City

Investigating Students’ Perception of Peer Assessment Practice in an EFL Academic Writing Class

Festif Rudolf Hoinbala — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:59:26 +0000

Contrary findings have been revealed in the research on students' perspectives regarding peer assessment practice in the writing classroom. While several studies showed that peer assessment assisted students in identifying their strengths and shortcomings in writing skills, others considered this application to have a limited effect on students’ writing performance and encouraged little corrections. Nevertheless, some other research mentioned the fairness of this method towards the development of students’ composition. This recent study examines the perspectives of a group of university students in the English Education Study Program at Artha Wacana Christian University, who are mainly foreign language learners, on peer assessment in an English Academic Writing class. This study found that students’ perspectives regarding peer assessment are overall positive, and this practice improves the quality of their written work. However, in terms of interaction, the duration of time, and the application of peer assessment, some aspects reveal negative responses from the research subjects, which put a position on the neutral effect of this strategy. This study's findings are expected to reflect the participants’ responses on using peer assessment. It is also hoped that the findings from this study will be helpful for future research in designing a better peer assessment process and improving its implementation.

Key words: Peer assessment, EFL classroom, Academic writing

AN AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT’ SATISFACTION AND DISSATISFACTION EXPERIENCE AND LEARNING STYLE ON REMOTE LEARNING AT 8th SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTEMENT IN UNIVERSITY OF SULTAN AGENG TIRTAYASA

Naba Happyka Amrin, Syafrizal, Rosmania Rima — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:02:40 +0000

This research has its goals to find out what students have experienced in remote learning and additionally to find out what most of the students applied in their learning style in 8th-semesters of the English department at the University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa. The researcher used qualitative research with thematic analysis as the data analysis technique. Open questionnaires and interviews as the instrument to gather the needed data. The subject in this research is the 8th-semester student of the University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, 40 student report has been recorded. Based on the report the researcher discovered that most students experience more unsatisfied than satisfied with remote learning. Even with unsatisfied experience mostly reported, the student still gained a satisfactory experience with remote learning. Based on the data student mostly applied a “visual” learning style in their learning, students are able to gain better perception in learning by seeing a video that has a use to give a better understanding in an enjoyable way. In light the finding, the researcher suggest to use the findings as references material for improving a remote learning system.

THE STUDENT'S PERCEPTION OF ONLINE LEARNING AT UNIVERSITAS SULTAN AGENG TIRTAYASA

Insan Kamil, Syafrizal, Eri Rahmawati — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:04:41 +0000

This research aims to investigate students’ perception on online learning as learning method at 8th semester of English Education Department in Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa based on their perception. The researcher used qualitative research with thematic analysis as study method. Open Questionnaire and interview were used as the data collecting technique. Subjects of this research were the 8th semester English Education Department Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, which consists of 40 students. Based on the findings, it is found out that the students have mainly negative perception towards online learning as learning method, and there are some problem in conducting it. The students believe it affects their ability to focus, concentrate, and absorb the learning material. Next, the students also feel online learning giving them mental and emotional effect, because the lack of social interaction affected the way they learn and the way they absorb the knowledge from the lecturer.

AN ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK FOR TEACHING ENGLISH C13 AT SMA NEGERI 1 CIRUAS: A BENEFICIAL OR DETRIMENTAL

Aditya Dalahmas, Asri Indri Luthfita, Aura Ayuni Hermansyah, Maisha Kemala Putri — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:06:08 +0000

The textbook is at the heart of instruction and plays an important role in the curriculum. However, it is frequently discovered that the materials of a textbook do not accurately represent the purpose of the curriculum. Given this perspective, the purpose of this research is to determine the relevance of the textbook elements to the 2013 curricular materials. Using qualitative research conducted on PLP activities to find the teacher’s rationale for using the textbook and the document checklist to find the relevance of the textbook to the 2013 curriculum (C13), this study discovered that the English textbook used was relatively relevant to the 2013 curriculum, with few exceptions. As a result, it is envisaged that the teacher will be able to complete such minor gaps with others to meet the objective set in the 2013 curriculum as well.

THE DIFFICULITIES IN SPEAKING ENGLISH ON FIRST GRADE STUDENTS’ AT SMAN 4 KOTA SERANG

Ajeng Altasya, Rita Handayani, Tita Irawati, Rayna S. Zahara — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:07:10 +0000

It is undeniable that learning to speak is an important skill in the English language. It is a fact that Indonesian students find it challenging to speak English. Both linguistic and non-linguistic factors may be to blame. Finding out why students have trouble speaking English and the reasons behind those difficulties were the goals of the study. A descriptive qualitative method research design was used. Students in SMAN 4 Kota Serang’s tenth grade served as the study’s subjects. The study results present that the tenth-grade students at SMAN 4 Kota Serang were having obstacles in speaking English. Three language-related issues were found when speaking English: poor pronunciation, insufficient vocabulary, and poor of grammar. The personal problems of the students involved two challenges; nervousness and lack of confidence. The reason why students struggled with speaking English was that they were fear of making a mistake.

ANALYZING THE WRITING ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PERFORMANCE

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:42:52 +0000

A writing assessment is a review of an individual's writing abilities and skills. Usually, the goal is to assess a person's written communication skills. There are numerous various ways to evaluate writing, including essays, performance tasks, and multiple-choice exams. The purpose of a writing evaluation is to thoroughly evaluate an individual's writing abilities, including their command of syntax, vocabulary, style, and organization.The purpose of this research is to analyze the writing assessment of some previous research related for students’ ability in writing. The amount of the research are three research. This research belongs to library research. In collecting the data, the writer use documentation. The instrument used was the writer itself. The data will be analyzed descriptively by use table and words explanation. The result of this research reveals some ways to analyze students’ writing paragraph.

A STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF THE USE GAME TO LEARN ENGLISH IN IMPROVING VOCABULARY MASTERY A CASE STUDY AT EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 PETIR

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:56:52 +0000

Abstract:

This research aims to find out how students' perception of the use of game in increasing vocabulary mastery. This research was conducted in SMPN 2 Petir Kab. Serang. A qualitative method was used for this research and there were 30 students in the eighth class as the sample of this research. In collecting the data, this research used a questionnaire, interview, and observation. The findings took the result that most students agree and gave a positive response than the negative one of the uses of game in increasing vocabulary mastery. Game as a media gave the advantages and contribution to both the students to improve vocabulary mastery. 1) This media made the students feel enjoyable in learning English and made the learning process became fun; 2) This media gave a significant impact and increased students' vocabulary mastery and improved their English; 3) Using this media, the students had a chance to improve their English whenever they want to learn it. The conclusion could be taken that the students had positive responses and perceptions in using game as a media for increasing vocabulary mastery.

Keywords: Student Perceptions, Vocabulary Mastery, Game