This descriptive research investigated the level of English writing anxiety experienced by Indonesian EFL students. The respondents were 38 undergraduate students of English Literature program of a university in Semarang Central Java, Indonesia taking Essay Writing course which adopted portfolios as the assessment method. Data were collected by two closed questionnaires; the one was for collecting data of English writing anxiety and the second was for collecting data of writing problems faced by students which may trigger the anxiety arousal. The results show that the students experienced a high level of English writing anxiety and cognitive anxiety was the students suffered most. Gender doesn't affect the level of anxiety experienced by the students; neither does the perception of writing difficulties. Grammar problem becomes the most mentioned-cause of anxiety followed by vocabulary problem and insufficient writing practice. To reduce the anxiety, therefore, it is recommended that writing teachers sufficiently address the issue of grammar and vocabulary as well as provides students with a lot of more writing practices.
This study was aimed at finding out 1) how learners in a specific teaching-learning context namely process-based academic essay writing perceived the importance of corrective feedbacks (CF); 2) what CF was expected the most; 3) in what way learners preferred to have their CF provided; and 4) how learners perceived the importance of grammar teaching. It was conducted at English Literature Department of a university in Central Java Indonesia. Forty two students who were taking Essay Writing course served as the subjects for the study. The course itself was delivered in a process-based writing in which content development and rhetoric were given more emphasis than grammar accuracy was. Data for the study were collected by questionnaire and a semi-structured interview with 5 guided questions. The findings suggest that learners still considered CFs as highly important and useful for their writing improvement. Learners expected to have comprehensive CFs of grammar, vocabulary, spelling, organization and punctuation, and CF on grammar was the most preferred one. In terms of CF provision technique, underlying and making notes were the most preferred techniques. Finally, this study concludes that the shift of approach from a product-based to a process-based did not significantly change learners’ focus from forms to content.
This study is aimed at finding out the relationship between self-efficacy and the duration of students' final project writing�commonly reffered as skripsi-completion. It was a correlational study involving 33 students of English Education and English Literature departments of the College of Languages and Communication Science of Sultan Agung Islamic University (UNISSULA) Semarang who were taken purposively as samples for the study. Data were collected by questionnaire of self-efficacy and a respondent-fill-form to collect �data on the duration the final project completion. The result of the analysis showed that students� self-efficacy and the duration of their final project writing completion was correlated positively at 0.994. This implies that students with high self-efficacy would likely complete the final project earlier than those with lower self-efficacy.
The purpose of this research was to find out whether the use of Chinese whisper game was effective to enhancein enhancing vocabulary mastery of young learners of the fifth graders of MI Nurul Huda Sidokumpul. The method of this research was quasi-experimental design because the researcher did not randomize on the sample. The sample of this research consisted of 25 students of class VA as the experimental group and 22 students of class VB as the control group. The researcher used pre-test and post-test for the control group and experimental group to collect the data. The researcher used SPSS v.16.0 software program to analyze the data. The researcher used three steps in this research. They were: pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The result of the pretest and post-test of the experimental group were 58.76 and 91.84, while the result of the pre-test and post-test of the control group were 60.36 and 70. 27. The result of the analysis showed that sig (2-tailed) was 0.000 (or <0.05. It means that there was a significant difference between the two means of post-test. It was concluded that H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted. Therefore, using the Chinese Whisper Game was effective to enhance the vocabulary mastery of young learners.�
This study investigated English Education student teachers� voices about teaching internship programs to develop their pedagogical competence. The study involved 29 English student teachers of an English Education study program who were selected purposively after they completed their internship programs. A mixed-method research design was adopted, and data were collected by a questionnaire and interviews. The finding suggests that the internship program helped them develop their pedagogical competence. The mean score of the questionnaire to measure their perception of the benefit of the internship program was 64.21, which belongs to the high category.� Eighteen (18) respondents (62.07%) perceived that the program highly developed their pedagogical competence and the rest (37.93) perceived it moderately did. No respondent perceived that it had a low effect on the development of their pedagogical competence.� The qualitative data also suggest that the student teachers could positively benefit from the internship program in terms of their improved understanding of students� strengths and weaknesses, their understanding of curriculum and syllabus, teaching media, and teaching strategy to improve the learning process. With all the positive effects, a teaching internship program can be a tangible facility to improve pedagogical competence.
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