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Students' Perceptions of English Development Program on Their Speaking Skill at Islamic Boarding School

Syarifah Salsabila, Dyah Ayu Nugraheni — Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

The purpose of this study was to determine students' perceptions of the English Development Program on students' speaking skills. English Development Program is a program established to help students learn English better, especially in terms of speaking. The subjects of this study were 4 students from Pesantren Nuris who participated in the English Development Program selected by pursosive sampling. This research uses qualitative methods, and the research instrument uses interviews. The interview results show that the majority of students have a positive perception of the English Development Program. The students believe that the English program can support them to speak English fluently. Students also have the perception that the English program is a place for students to develop their English skills, especially in terms of speaking. Not only that, students also think that the English program can make them more confident in speaking English.

Traditional Arab Language Teaching Adapted to English Language Teaching at MTs Nurul Huda VII

Muhammad Firmansyah, Endah Nur Tjendani, Ismaili Ismaili — Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Sorogan is a teaching method by facing the teacher one by one by bringing the book to be studied. This sorogan method is the most difficult method of the entire education system in pesantren. Because this system requires patience, diligence, obedience, and personal discipline from students. This research aims to adapt Arabic language teaching to English and explain the successful application of the Sorogan method in Arabic. The general focus of this research is to study/examine the nature or structure of experience in human consciousness using a qualitative methodology that applies subjectivity and interpersonal skills in the exploratory research process. The results of the research can be concluded that when the researcher was explaining how to teach using the Sorogan method. Students will focus on translation only, and the teacher will focus on finding errors in the words the students read. And the teacher will explain the meaning of the material when he finds sentences that need to be explained. And sometimes the teacher will ask about the form of a word, phrase or sentence which the teacher knows he has explained.

Exploring TPACK Barriers of EFL Junior High School Pre-service Teachers: Narrative Inquiry

Siti Jamila, Dihliza Basya — Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Technology, content, and pedagogy must have a meaningful relationship with each other so that Pre-service English Teachers' literacy can be connected to a variety of semiotic modes beyond written language. Interaction with a greater variety of texts in a variety of modes, media, and environments highlights the need for tools to assess English language instructors' TPACK when it comes to educating students in multimodal literacy. Several pre-service English teachers in EFL classes utilize the use of word wall media for learning. This research aims to identify the obstacles faced by pre-service teachers in utilizing TPACK to teach EFL English at a private university in East Java, Indonesia. By adapting the interview framework (Creswell, 2018), which consists of four discussion targets, including pre-service teachers' beliefs regarding the practice of using TPACK, which is applied in learning activities in junior high schools. This narrative qualitative method (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) uses semi-structured interviews as its instrument. Systematically using Widodo's (2014) thematic analysis to analyze qualitative data. The findings show that there are many obstacles faced by pre-service teachers and students in implementing learning using TPACK in EFL classes, to be effective for their future teachers, pre-service skills.

A Correlation between Vocabulary Mastery and Speaking Skill in Debate Performance of English Education Students

Septi Dwi Nur Fatimah, Sindhuandra Permana — Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This research aims to find a correlation between vocabulary mastery and speaking skill among English education students at Tidar University. This research used quantitative research which used correlational design. The sample of the students in this research was twenty-three students in the fifth semester of English Department taken randomly using cluster random sampling from all the population. The data of the research were collected by a quiz for the vocabulary mastery test and take the data from the previous semester's debate with the students. This result includes the 0,60-0,7999 interval that makes the correlation between vocabulary mastery and speaking skills of the students strong

Exploring Students' Difficulties in Answering Reading TOEFL Section Test

Citra Wahyuningsih, Moh. Arif Mahbub, Fatih Al Fauzi — Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Test of English Foreign Language (TOEFL) is widely used as a measurement for standardized English competencies. This study attempted to explore EFL learners' difficulties in dealing question of reading section in TOEFL test. Qualitative case study research design and semi-structured interview as instrument to gain the data. In this study with four participants were purposively selected from the English Education Department of Private University of Jember who has passed the TOEFL test. The findings revealed that there were two factors that become difficulties or obstacle faced by the TOEFL test-takers in completing TOEFL reading questions. First, the factor that is caused from several kind of questions that are difficult to answer for the participants, including; unstated detail question, implied detail question, and vocabulary in context question. Second, the factor that is caused by each participant personally, including ; lack of mastering vocabulary, limitation of time, and unfamiliar vocabularies. The result of this study are expected to have practical contribution on determining the appropriate strategies employed to minimize students' error during answering the TOEFL test.