This study aimed to analyze EFL students' perceptions of the characteristics of the English language teachers and find out whether there is any difference in the student perceptions of the characteristics of effective English teachers based on gender. This study is quantitative. The research design used in this study is the descriptive and comparative research design. The descriptive design was used because the purpose is to examine and describe the students' perceptions of the characteristics of effective English language teachers. The questionnaires also consist of the respondents' profiles such as gender and 24 modified items of questions regarding students' perceptions of the characteristics of effective English teachers. This study involved 120 respondents from grade 11 of science, social, and Language class. The results of this study showed that students' perceptions of the characteristics of effective English teachers were found to be high involvement since the mean score was 3.08. The result of this study also found that there was no significant difference in the EFL Students' perceptions of the characteristics of effective English teachers based on gender since the result got p= 0.018. Another result of this study found that socio-affective skills are the distinctive characteristic that teachers must have to call an effective English teacher since the mean score was 3.45.
This study was intended to find out whether the Project Based Learning implementation is effective in improving students’ speaking skill. The researcher used quantitative research by giving pretest and posttest in measuring students’ productive skill especially in speaking. There were 27 students as the respondents. Third grade student of natural science became as the experimental class and third grade student of social science became as controlled class. The mean score showed that the pretest was 51.18. On the other hand, the mean score showed that the posttest was 74,71. The percentage and frequency of the students’ scores of pretest for experimental class showed that nine or 53% got average score, seven or 41 % got poor score and one or 0,06 % student got very poor score. On the other hand, the researcher used project based learning method in the classroom then the result for pretest showed that three or 18 % students who got very good score, six or 35 % students who got good score, and eight or 47% students who got average score. There was significant difference between the pretest and the posttest. Based on the result, there was significant difference between experimental class and controlled class on their speaking achievement. It means that the implementation of Project Based Learning was beneficial in improving students speaking ability in reporting procedure text.
Studies described that satisfaction and self-efficacy were mentioned as the utmost influencers in students’ academic performance. By saying that, the study was carried out to expose the level of satisfaction with offline class and English self-efficacy of the students, and to find out is there any correlation between those two-mentioned variables. Through random sample sampling technique, 32 senior high schools students located in local area, Bitung city, were gathered as a sample for this study. Two questionnaire were adapted, first from Asakereh & Dehghannezhad (2015) a questionnaire for satisfaction scale, and second from Sağlam & Arslan (2018) a questionnaire for English self-efficacy. The outcomes revealed that students’ level of satisfaction with offline class and English self-efficacy was at average level. Moreover, a significant negative correlation was revealed between students’ satisfaction with offline class and English self-efficacy. Finally, the study ends with recommendation also suggestion which required to be considered.
This study aims at connecting the vanishing flora, fauna and its Relation to the Indian removal policy in Coopers The Leatherstocking Tales. This research applies an American Studies interdisciplinary principle supplemented by the myth and symbol theory proposed by Henry Nash Smith. Smith claimed the importance of imaginative works in revealing American culture. He declared that the historical, anthropological and cultural, sociological, and ecological data as covered in this research can be equipped by data from imaginative works. Hence, in this research, those data are presented integratedly in their context of past and present. In this research, in order to highlight environmental matters in Coopers The Leatherstocking Tales, the analysis covers the data above that are integrated with the data revealed in The Leatherstocking Tales as a whole by employing the concept of ecocriticism. The spirit of the immigrants to have a better life in the new world, stimulated by its rich, lush and beautiful circumstances, in fact, is not an aim of a sustainable life. The desire to improve their life is not enough without using and treating its environment wisely as well as facing it with the environmental conservation paradigm. The spirit of doing the exploitation is a consequence of western humanism value. The reason of coming to America to avoid the population density as well as the competition of life cannot be attained when the immigrants experience the same population density and harsh competition as in their old world and when the beautiful nature disappears, the forests become cities, the tranquility becomes noisy and crowded, and the people experience the uncomfortable life that many kinds of conflict can follow. It is not on the right path when they cannot maintain the grandeur of nature, because they are not directing their way to the right, sustainable way of life as alerted and meant by Cooper. Ecologically, the superabundance of the land when it was encountered by the European immigrants had been a factor that had made the American people arrogant with the environment. The damage of the environment that is understood anthropologically, culturally, sociologically and ecologically was not an individual mistake. It was the responsibility of the government to provide law enforcement but unfortunately the government got involved in the violation of human rights and of the activities of exploiting natural resources. To Cooper, as seen in his work, the spirit of exploiting life and the environment can be overcome by the moral of ecological awareness. It is a hierarchy that starts from love or compassion, then appreciation, respect, wisdom, and justice and this hierarchy should be assisted by law. Coopers ecological moral awareness arose as a protest against American progress. The immigrants progress to Cooper is an extermination of human, flora, and fauna.
This study investigates teachers’ perspective toward autonomous learning in the context of English language learning in the current era. As a mixed research method then analyzing the collected data, it exposed that teachers’ perceptions on learning autonomy is low due to many of whom believed that their learners are still reluctant to take control of their study. It further indicated that, during thisCovid-19 pandemic, a learning autonomy may not be applicable in all context particularly within which school’s facility such as computer library and book library are limited or even not provided. This study concluded that learning autonomy practice is situational.
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