Reading log or the so-called reading journal is a journal to monitor how far the students read within their own pace and time. This study aimed at investigating some influential points of using reading log in order to enhance the students’ ability in writing academic article. The participants of this study were twenty sophomores pursuing their study at Universitas Islam Malang taking Writing IV class. They were asked to fill reading logs given after reading academic articles. They had to read one academic article each day for one week. Questionnaire and interview were used as the instruments to collect the data which were then analyzed descriptive qualitatively. The findings show that reading log is very beneficial for the students specifically when they are reading academic articles.
Plastic waste that can threaten the environment is increasingly overflowing in many areas. Therefore, this program is aimed to utilize waste banks by processing plastic waste into decorative pillows in Ngempit village, Kraton, Pasuruan in collaboration with the Community Information Group Surya Harapan and Etza Accesories. This program not only save the environment, but it also produces decorative pillow products which can also be a feature product of the village, so that this program indirectly can develop the creative economy of the people in Ngempit village. The method applied in this partnership program is counseling, training, demonstration and assistance. The results of the community partnership program are counseling and training on processing plastic waste into decorative pillows, counseling on marketing strategies, counseling on determination of selling price, as well as demonstration or practice of producing decorative pillow made from plastic waste with special designs, which are pictures and words in English. Finally, as a starting point, the product has been marketed at Surya Madani Business Enterprise in Ngempit village
This research aimed at describing how blended learning strategy by integrating portfolio-based extensive listening activity can improve students' listening skill. This action research was the response of the classroom problem identified in Listening 2 course in class 2E of English Department, Universitas Islam Malang. The problem was the average score of this class was low (68.86) and only 45% of the students achieved the standard minimum score (≥ 75). Data from interview uncovered that the major cause was insufficient exposure to authentic listening input. The instruments used to gain the data were portfolio and test. The criterion of success set was that 70% of the students obtained the standard minimum score. This research was conducted in two cycles with four meetings for each. At the end of cycle 1, the average score was 75.36 but only 55% of the students achieved the standard minimum score. The test result in cycle 2 indicated that the average score was 78.36 and 73% of the students reached the standard minimum score, meaning that the criterion of success was achieved. This implies that the implementation of blended learning approach with portfolio-based extensive listening activity can significantly enhance listening skill.
<span lang="EN-US">This study focuses more on syntactic word order through identify the language structure of simple sentence both Indonesian and English in argumentative essay made by English education department students at University of Islam Malang and analyze it by contrastive analysis (CA). The significance of this research is to cover the students’ difficulties in academic writing process by using contrastive analysis and to identify the highlight point of the structure differences between Bahasa Indonesia (L1) and English (L2). The researcher used qualitative method by collecting 10 students’ argumentative essay both in Indonesia and in English. The results show that the common pattern occurs in the students’ argumentative essay is SVO and the other patterns are S-V(Aux)-O, NP-S-V-O, Conj-S-V-O, S-V-O-V, S-S-V-O and Conj-NP-S-V-O</span><span lang="EN-US">. W</span><span lang="EN-US">hile in Indonesian are <em>Subjek-Predikat</em> (SV), <em>Subjek-Predikat-Objek</em> (SVO), <em>Subjek-Predikat-Pelengkap</em> (SVC), <em>Subjek-Predikat-Objek-Pelengkap</em> (SVOC), <em>Subjek-Predikat-Objek-Keterangan</em> (SVOA (Adverb)), <em>Subjek-Predikat-Keterangan</em> (SVA), <em>Keterangan-Predikat-Subjek</em>(AVS), and <em>Subjek-Predikat-Keterangan-Pelengkap</em> (SVAC). Students tended to write the argumentative essay in English inapropiately to the theory of simple sentence structure. While in Indonesian arguementative essay, they wrote properly based on the possible pattern of simple sentence in Indonesian.</span>
Penguasaan kemampuan berbahasa Inggris menjadi kebutuhan masyarakat, khususnya dalam pendidikan. Untuk mengukur kemahiran berbahasa Inggris diperlukan tes berstandar internasional yang disebut dengan Test of English Proficiency (TOEP) atau Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Oleh karena itu, pendampingan persiapan Tes TOEFL diperlukan sejak level sekolah menengah. Kegiatan yang dilaksanakan dalam pengabdian ini adalah memberikan pelatihan dan pendampingan persiapan Test of English Proficiency kepada siswa kelas IX yang dispesifikan pada pelatihan dan pembahasan strategi mudah mengerjakan TOEFL. Hasil dari tes TOEFL menunjukkan bahwa mayoritas siswa mendapatkan nilai di atas kriteria kelulusan minimal, dan dinyatakan lulus mengikuti tes TOEFL. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan 91% siswa yang mendapat nilai di atas 400, dengan rincian 27% siswa mendapatkan skor 400-450, 39% siswa mendapat skor 450-500, dan 25% siswa memperoleh skor di atas 500. Sedangkan hanya 9% atau 7 siswa saja yang mendapatkan skor di bawah 400. Kegiatan pendampingan persiapan Test of English Proficiency juga bisa dikembangkan pada persiapan jenis tes yang lain, seperti TOEIC maupun IELTS.
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