<em>This study presents Indonesia English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ perception of English learning grammar in response of ‘stigma’ appeared among learners where grammar is considered as a difficult but crucial sub-skill to master. The goals of this research are specifically to figure out whether and how grammar is seen as its disreputable status as well as to explore their competence or motivation, what obstacles that learners experience while studying it, and which learning models that learners prefer to apply in their grammar learning. To achieve that aims, this study involves 500 respondents from three different levels of education; lower secondary school learners, upper secondary school learners, and university learners across country using online closes-ended and open-ended questionnaires. The data then was analyzed on the corridor of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The result of this study showed that Indonesia EFL learners truly viewed grammar as difficult but essential to learn and master. Learners had also stated that teachers’ factors and English school textbook became dominant obstacle in comprehending grammar. Last, learners were likely to choose variative models of learning, particularly technology in learning grammar. </em>
This paper report on a preliminary study of English as a foreing language (EFL) teachers' perception of blended learning practices. In the study, a total of 247 EFL teachers across education levels were surveyed. Findings of the study revealed that teachers' perceptions on their skill and experience (F= 1.640, Sig.= 0.201) and motivation (F= 0.002, Sig.= 0.969) of blended learning was not predisposed by their gender. Their perceptions of interaction and communication (F= 1.483, Sig.= 0.224) to use blended learning also was not affected by gender. The gender also does not affect their perceptions toward the effectiveness and flexibility indicator (F= 0.966, Sig.= 0.327) that blended learning offers.
ABSTRAK PENDAHULUANWaralaba atau yang dalam bahasa Inggris disebut Frenchise adalah suatu sistem pemasaran yang berbasis kemitraan dengan menjual hak royalti kepada rekan bisnis untuk membuka cabang-cabang lain bertujuan untuk mengembangkan usaha kecil menjadi lebih besar dan luas (Spinelli, Rosenberg, Birley, 2004: 2). Berasal dari kata "wara" yang berarti banyak dan "laba" yang berarti untung, konsep ini mendorong usaha kecil dan menengah untuk dapat maju dan berkembang dengan pembagian royalti atau hak lisensi dari produk yang dijual. Di Indonesia, bisnis waralaba berkembang sangat pesat saat ini. Dimulai sejak tahun 1980an hingga sekarang berbagai macam produk-produk bermunculan seperti, produk makanan, minuman, kesehatan, lembaga pendidikan, dan berbagai macam jenis usaha lainnya (konsultanwaralaba.com). Berbagai macam merek terkenal sukses mengembangkan usaha waralaba ini seperti, KFC, Mcdonal's, Alfamart, Indomart, dan masih banyak lagi tumbuh bak jamur dimusim panas dan telah menjadi bagian penting dalam memenuhi kehidupan hidup masyarakat. Hal ini mendorong perkembangan produk-produk usaha kecil lain untuk bisa maju mengenalkan dan memasarkan produk unggulan yang mereka buat.Salah satu faktor yang membuat suatu produk waralaba dapat digemari dan berkembang luas di Indonesia adalah dengan pemilihan nama atau merek usaha dagang yang tepat. Umumnya, suatu produk yang dijual dimasyarakat menggunakan kata-kata berdasarkan nama pencipta atau daerah asal sebagai contoh, "Ayam Bakar Mas Mono" dan "California Fried Chicken". Akan tetapi pada masa kini, khususnya di Indonesia, banyak ditemukan nama produk-produk usaha yang struktur pembentukan katakata di dalamnya menggabungankan dua atau lebih kata yang disebut blend, seperti contoh "Cireng" khas kota Bandung merupakan blending dua kata "Aci + Goreng" atau "Tongsis" yang merupakan gabungan kata "Tongkat + Narsis".Seperti diketahui bahwa blending tersebut merupakan bagian dari proses morfologis, yang secara umum morfologi didefinisikan sebagai sebuah ilmu yang mempelajari tentang pembentukan kata (Katamba, 2006: 19). Dalam konsep ini morfologi dilihat sebagai studi yang mempermasalahkan struktur kata yang mempengaruhi perubahan bentuk bahasa pada fungsi dan arti kata sebagai satuan-satuan gramatikal yang utuh. Lebih jauh dalam Kamus Linguistik dijelaskan bahwa morfologi adalah bidang
<em>This research investigates the application of scanning strategy in teaching ninth-grade EFL students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The aim is to know whether the use of scanning strategy gives tremendous effect to the ninth-grade students’ reading comprehension of narrative text or not. The researchers proposed scanning because it is potential and powerful strategy to lift students’ better narrative text reading understanding. To prove that, the quantitative method is used in this study by conducting quasi-experimental design which involved two classes of ninth-grade students at one private secondary school in Bekasi. The experimented class was around 34 students as well as the controlled class which was around 34 students. The researchers used pre-test and post-test reading narrative text instruments within 20 questions that were asked by the WH-question pattern to collect the data. After the data have been collected, the researchers fulfilled the standard pre-requisite analysis of Normality and Homogeneity before the hypothesis statistic test. At the end, the hypothesis statistic findings showed that t<sub>observed</sub> was known by score 6.905 while t<sub>table</sub> was obtained 1.996 in the level of 5% significance. Because of t<sub>observed</sub> was higher than t<sub>table</sub>, itcan be concluded that the application of scanning strategy is effective in teaching the ninth-grade students’ reading comprehension of narrative text at one private secondary school in Bekasi.</em>
This study investigated students' perception of PowerPoint software used as learning media in the classroom. The aim of this study to get empirical data or evidence on whether the students' perception of Microsoft PowerPoint they used for studying English, especially EFL students in the classroom. Thus, in this research, the participants involved 900 EFL students in two different layers of the school; junior and senior high schools by applying close-ended and open-ended questionnaires to gather the data. The data was analyzed through quantitative (close-ended questionnaire) and qualitative (open-ended questionnaires) method. The result of the close-ended questionnaire showed that if learning English using Ms. PPT can increase students’ activeness, work up students’ motivation, and improve students’ English competence. In the meantime, the open-ended questionnaire also provided the same findings that more students agreed or said yes (positive side) of learning using MS. PowerPoint. Therefore, it can be concluded that students' perceptions of Ms. PowerPoint were good and exciting. Also, the students felt learning English by using Ms. PowerPoint provided more help, especially in the context of raising activeness, motivation, and English competence in EFL classroom.
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