The aims of this research then are to develop and provide vocational school students with a cultural-based English textbook for a better understanding of English. Based on a mini-interview with some English teachers and observation conducted in some senior high schools in Bangka Belitung, cultural aspect has never been introduced to the students in the classrooms due to their limited teaching timing, diverse textbooks’ syllabus, and various learning objectives done. The method used in this study is Research and Development (R&D) by Dick, Carey, and Carey model. The data analysis was conducted quantitatively by the Likert scale. Based on the expert assessments, teachers’ evaluations, and students’ post-test results, the product is said feasible. The score obtained from the content expert was 82%, the media expert shares 84.05%, the teachers’ evaluations’ score was 83.14%, and the students’ post-tests reached 78.15, which was higher than the pre-test (67.95). It is summarized that the development of a cultural – based English textbook is necessary and immediately. Further researchers are expected to carry out a larger scale of the subject and to include all English aspects in the production of the book.
Postgraduate students are expected to show more advanced writing skill than others. However, the writer observed that they still made some errors in their thesis writing. Having reread the theses written by graduate students, Linguistic Surface Category and Surface Strategy Taxonomy proposed by Dulay, Burt Krashen were utilized to analyze the data. It was found that syntactic errors (89%) such as subject-verb agreement (15.42%), tenses (15.71%), redundancy (13.14%), article (7.71%), and pluralization (6.28%) are the most frequent errors occured. While lexical errors (11%) such as wrong selection of verb (5.14%) and adjective (3.14%) also still made by graduate students. The study revealed that intralingual interference still be the cause of the blunders in writing a thesis. It is hoped that the present study could initiate university students to contemplate that self-correction and self-awareness in making errors in scholarly writing are essential. Emphasizing more assignments in academic writing can be applied by the lecturers of higher education know students ability and train students to write academically. Faculty of teacher training of education should afford students with seminars and workshop of academic writing to motivate them to write and enhance their knowledge about academic writing.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2019.030110
Partisipasi aktif ibu – ibu PKK Desa Cerucuk Kecamatan Badau kabupaten Belitung masih kurang dalam pemasaran produk yang di produksi apalagi dalm pemasaran online di mana ibu – ibu PKK didesa Cerucuk masih menjual produk dengan cara manual. Maka dari itu perlu di adakan pelatihan tentang proses pemasaran secara online khusu kepasa ibu – ibu PKK yang berasal dari desa Cerucuk tersebut. Dalam kegiatan ini diharapkan bisa berkontribusi dalam meningkatkan kemampuan penjualan secara online sehingga bisa membuat pemasukan prekonomian. Kegiatan ini dapat dilakukan dengan lebih afektif apabila ibu – ibu PKK sudah bisa menggunkan media social sebagai pemsaran produk yang mereka buat. Sedangkan alokasi waktu untuk latihan penjualan secara online minimal 2 jam permingu. Pada akhir kegiatan dapat disimpulkan bahwa facebook dan Instagram adalah dua platform digital yang bisa menambah pemasaran agar lebih mudah dan berkembang.
Being able to speak fluently with correct pronunciation is the first impression to attract people’s attention. A good pronunciation may be denied by students since they are more focus on expanding their English skills. English textbook takes a beneficial purpose in assisting students to pronounce English words well. Since the instructions and practices would aid students to get involved with pronunciation’s communicative practice. Various ways, clear instructions, and practices would be applied easily by students with the hands of teachers as facilitators and correctors. This research is qualitative research that focuses on analyzing teachers’ roles towards students’ pronunciation ability based on pronunciation’s instructions and exercises of the twelfth-grade students’ English textbook. The author used the qualitative descriptive method to analyze and solve problems. English textbooks need to provide some more comprehensive and clearer instructions and practices to help improve students’ pronunciation, teachers are only the facilitator to help address the materials in English class, and students’ attitude and motivation are two prominent things that learners must have.
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