The aim of this study is to investigate issues of Indonesian EFL students’ writing skills, covering ability, problem and reason why they got problems in writing comparison and contrast essay. The convergent parallel of mixed methods was used to explore these issues by involving 52 EFL students of IAIN Samarinda who enrolled the academic essay writing course. The three research instruments; essay writing test, open-ended questionnaire and interview were used in the data collection. The findings of this study revealed that the Indonesian EFL students’ writing ability was good that categorized with the mean score 77.83. However, some of them encounter problems in writing aspects including content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. Their reasons in experiencing these problems are not only limited knowledge of writing aspects and comparison and contrast essay itself, but also they had own personal reasons; lack of writing practice, writing dislike, writing anxiety, negative writing perception, low writing motivation, insufficient time given in writing test, and also inadequate teaching writing process taught by their lecturers. Indeed, the teaching writing improvement that involved EFL students and lecturers should be well-integrated in order to alleviate the students’ essay writing problems related to their reasons and to improve their writing ability. Factors caused the writing difficulties will be discussed further and some suggestions will be given on this research.
The objective of this research was to understand the writing error of eleventh-grade students of SMA Negeri 4 Samarinda. The descriptive qualitative method was used to examine the written exposition text made by 15 students. The data was collected from the participants’ writing on exposition text and analyzed based on the errors’ categorization. The result showed that there are 16 categories of errors found in the data. They were punctuation, missing word, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, pronoun agreement, spelling, singular or plural, unnecessary word, wrong word form, wrong word, wrong order, fragment, preposition, conjunction, article, and need-further support error. The error factors were intralingua transfer, interlingua transfer, and students’ lack of knowledge about writing.
Berhasil dan tidaknya belajar itu tergantung beberapa faktor. Adapun faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi proses pembelajaran antara lain faktornya kejiwaan (psikis) dan mental spiritual. Pada sisi lain, ada seorang siswa yang kurang percaya pada diri sendiri, hal ini menjadi permasalahan dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Sikap kurang percaya diri dikarenakan rasa malu, minder, sungkan, dan takut salah saat menjawab atau mengeluarkan pendapat pada pelajaran akidah akhlak. Pada pelajaran tersebut banyak yang hampir serupa maknanya sehingga membuat siswa kurang percaya diri saat menjawab pertanyaan dari guru sehingga keluarlah reward sebagai penguatan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui seberapa besar pengaruh reward terhadap kepercayaan diri. Metode pada penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kuantitatif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini yaitu 182 siswa di MTs Darul Ihsan Samarinda. Kemudian peneliti menentukan sampel penelitian dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling sebanyak 65 siswa. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini angket (kuesioner) dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan korelasi product moment sebesar 0,582 dan pengaruh reward terhadap kepercayaan diri sebesar 33,9%. Disimpulkan penelitian pengaruh pemberian reward terhadap kepercayaan diri siswa pada mata pelajaran akidah akhlak di MTs Darul Ihsan Samarinda berkategori cukup berpengaruh.
Penelitian ini bertujuan (1) memperoleh informasi input (antecedents) tentang penyelenggaraan latihan UN, (2) mengetahui proses (transactions) penyelenggaraan latihan UN, dan (3) mengetahui hasil (outcomes) penyelenggaraan latihan UN Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris. Model evaluasi yang digunakan model Stake’s. Subjek yang digunakan (1) Dinas Pendidikan Kota Yogyakarta; (2) SMA Swasta ex-RSBI kelas XII di kota Yogyakarta. Teknik pengambilan sampel secara simple random sampling. Sumber data adalah Dinas Pendidikan Kota Yogyakarta, kepala sekolah, dan siswa. Hasil penelitian adalah (1) input (antecedents) penyelenggaraan latihan UN sudah baik dilihat dari dimensi persiapan penyelenggaraannya; (2) proses (transaction) penyelenggaraan latihan UN Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris baik; (3) pada hasil (outcomes) menunjukkan analisis kualitas butir soal baik, terlihat dari tingkat kesukaran butir sedang (50%), daya beda baik (70%), distraktor berfungsi dengan baik (58%) dan reliabilitas butir termasuk tinggi (0,851). Latihan UN memberikan manfaat cukup baik dan tidak terdapat hambatan dalam penyelenggaraan latihan UN Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris.Kata kunci: tryout, model Stake’s (antecedents, transactions dan outcomes), Bahasa Inggris. AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGLISH NATIONAL EXAMINATION EXERCISE AT EX-RSBI PRIVATE SMA Abstract This study aims to (1) obtain the information of the input (antecedents) of English tryout (2) document the process (transactions) of the implementation, and (3) determine the results (outcomes) of the implementation of English tryout. Evaluation model that is used is the Stake’s model. The subjects in this research are (1) the Education Office of Yogyakarta; (2) the students of Ex RSBI Private SMA in Yogyakarta. The technique of selecting sampling was by stratified random sampling. The sources of the data at the Regency level is the Education Office of Yogyakarta, principals, and students. The results are (1) the input of the implementation is good if it is viewed from the dimensions of the preparation that include the orientation of question writing, committee, schedule and supervision; (2) process is good if it is viewed from the dimensions of the implementation that included security matter, objectivity of the implementation, and students’ perceptions; (3) results show that question items are good. It can be seen from the difficulty of each question that is in medium (50%), good different power (70%), the distractor is functioning properly (58%) and reliability in the high category (0.851). English tryout gives good benefits and there are no obstacles in the implementation of English tryout.Keywords: tryout, Stake’s model (antecedents, transactions and outcomes), English
The main objective of this study is to investigate the process of foreign language acquisition of certain kid in Samarinda, as the capital city of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Two months case study have already conducted to capture all phenomenon happened especially towards important factors from several experts which are potentially influenced the process of L2 acquisition i.e. general factors e.g. aptitude, age, intelligence, cognitive, attitude, motivation, and personality (Ellis, 2008), linguistics input including formal and informal environments (Krashen, 1981), and three second language believes i.e. behaviorist, innatist, and interactionist (Lightbown & Spada, 2006). Direct observation to the subject condition and environment was done as well as semi-structured interview to obtain deeper information from the caregiver who has direct interaction with the subject every day. As the result, the findings indicate that a proper stimulus can motivate the subject to learn and acquire the L2 even though stable proportion from both formal and informal environments as linguistics input should be noticed in order for the subject to have better achievement on her L2 acquisition. Other factors influenced the L2 acquisition of the subject is also explained following by its implications and suggestions regarding with this research focus.
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