Loquen: English Studies Journal
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<![CDATA[Effects of Socio-Affective Strategies on Students’ Self-Confidence in Classroom Speaking Activities ]]>
<![CDATA[Muin, Abdul]]>;
<![CDATA[Aswati, Aswati]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2178
<![CDATA[This research was to investigate the implementation of socio-affective strategies to improve students’ self-confidence in classroom speaking activities. This research was conducted in two cycles. The subjects of this study were the students of this school grade VIII A. The number of the subjects was thirty-five students. The instruments which are used to collect the data are observation questionnaire and field note. The student who had a strong desire in cycle I was 23 students, in cycle II was 33 students. The student who used visual contact in cycle I was 21 students, in cycle II was 28 students. The student who spoke aloud in cycle I was 22 students, in cycle II was 29 students. The student who used their gestures in cycle I was 24 students, in cycle II was 29 students. The student who comprehended the material in cycle I was 28 students, in cycle II was 32 students. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that using Socio-affective strategies can improve students’ self-confidence in speaking English]]>
<![CDATA[THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING METHOD IN VOCABULARY TEACHING ]]>
<![CDATA[Yuliawati, Lilik]]>;
<![CDATA[Aprillia, Aprillia]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 12 No 2` (2019): July-December 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2`.2095
<![CDATA[Abstract: Since young learners have special characteristics in learning a foreign language, teachers have to create an interesting method in teaching English especially vocabulary. One of the methods usually used in teaching vocabulary is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The objective of the research is to know how to teach vocabulary using pictures and games in the CLT method, to investigate the advantages of teaching English vocabulary through pictures and games in CLT method, as well as to investigate the problems that occurred in teaching and learning process. The method used in this study is action research with 30 participants. The researcher collected the data by having observation, conversation, and interview. In delivering materials there are three necessary elements, those are engaged, study, and activate stage. The result shows that all the students gave positive responses to the use of pictures and games in vocabulary learning. They felt that pictures and games in the CLT method could help them understand the word meaning more easily and motivate them to learn vocabulary since the classroom activities were more interesting. Besides, this method also helped the students to pronounce each word correctly. However, there are some problems, such as the students usually feel bored when they only have one discussion for a long time. When the students have never heard of the word before, the teacher must explain it to them first. Besides, the class could be crowded and noisy.]]>
<![CDATA[Activating Students to Speak English by Using ELTIS Resource Pack ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurchalis, Nur Fadillah]]>;
<![CDATA[Selviana, Selviana]]>;
<![CDATA[Riza, Effran Ade]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2092
<![CDATA[Students are mostly talkative outside the classroom, but in English class, they are more apathetic. This research aims to examine how English Language Training for Islamic Schools (ELTIS) resource pack is able to activate students’ to speak English. This research is designed as Classroom Action Research (CAR) which is specific to collaborative action research. The subjects of this research are 25 students of the eighth class of MTs Pacongan Pinrang in the academic year 2019/2020. Instruments of the research test, observation checklist, and interview. The test aims to gain quantitative data, while the observation checklist and interview aim to gain qualitative data. The result finds that the use of various media available in ELTIS Resource Pack activates students to speak English. A variety of learning media reduces students’ boredom and engages students during the learning process enthusiastically.]]>
<![CDATA[Developing an Instructional Media of English General Purpose Through Android Based ]]>
<![CDATA[Suhaili, Ahmad]]>;
<![CDATA[Sari, Gema Ika]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2046
<![CDATA[The purpose of this development research is to develop Android applications as a medium for collage school English general-purpose learning in part of speech for collage school students of first semester of STIT AL-KHAIRIYAH. The development model used refers to the development model of research procedures of Dick & Carey. It begins with an analysis of instructional, analysis of learners and context, research instrument of goal performance, selects materials and developing and evaluating application. To obtain a decent animation media used in the first study validated by expert content, media and teacher/lecturer. Furthermore, the students tested media covering the trial of small and large group trials. Test subjects were students of first semester of Non-English learner STIT AL-KHAIRIYAH among 36 students. Results of the assessment or validation shows that (1) validation of learning material expert, media expert and lecturer are on good qualifying with a mean of 80.34%. (2) Small group trial is on good qualifying, reaching level on 76,67% and (3) large group reach at level 80,12%.]]>
<![CDATA[A Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness Strategies Applied in the Use of Humorous Phatic Utterances ]]>
<![CDATA[Febrianto, Dedi]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2090
<![CDATA[Abstract: As opposed to informational purposes, phatic utterances hold a bigger role in human communication that is to keep social relations among people. Though people hardly ever notice the importance of phatic utterances, these are the utterances that indispensable in their daily basis communication used to avoid the sense of impoliteness, especially when meeting people they are familiar with. In uttering phatic, people use a variety of ways including raising humor. The humourous phatic utterances are interesting to be analyzed in order to investigate the implementation of politeness strategies used along with the production of phatic utterances. To the researcher's best knowledge, the link between humorous phatic utterances and politeness strategies has not become the concern of previous researches. Therefore, this research was conducted to describe phatic utterances conveyed by the characters of a widely known situation comedy (sitcom) Friends and also to find out the politeness strategies applied when uttering the phatic utterances. The researcher used solidarity and deference of politeness strategies as proposed by Yule (1996) to analyze each phatic utterance found. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The data were documented from the sitcom episode 21-24. The data were analyzed by describing the context used and giving the explanation of each datum that was included in phatic utterances. After conducting the analysis, it is found that there are 37 phatic utterances used in the sitcom. Politeness strategies are always applied in any phatic utterances found and the most frequently used politeness strategy is solidarity strategy.]]>
<![CDATA[The Implementation of Flipped Classroom Learning Model in Teaching Paragraph Writing ]]>
<![CDATA[Rachmat, Miftahul]]>;
<![CDATA[Muliastuti, Liliana]]>;
<![CDATA[Emzir, Emzir]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 13 No 2 (2020): July-December 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v13i2.3573
<![CDATA[AbstractNowadays, English is the most important language, including the students who study in STKIP Situs Banten. To be fluent in English students have to increase their ability in writing the paragraph. The Researcher used a flipped classroom learning model since the Covid-19 Pandemic struck Indonesia and the classroom meeting cannot be assessed. This model incorporates dynamic learning; understudy inclusion and present-day innovation by utilizing ICT. In a flipped classroom, the material was given through learning recordings, instructional exercise,s and PowerPoint material by means of WhatsApp group that understudies saw in their homes before the virtual class is acquired. The key objective of this investigation is to explore the practicality of the flipped classroom learning model for teaching paragraph writing. The analyst took the examples from second-semester students in the English instruction division of STKIP Situs Banten. After this activity research measure has been done, this flipped examination lobby learning model can be utilized as a reasonable model for growing understudies limit in section composing. The researcher had dissected that there are a few reasons which drive this occurred: understudy's inspiration, understudy's Writing propensities, students autonomously, and varieties of alluring material. Keywords: Flipped classroom learning model, Information and Computer Technology, Paragraph writing.]]>
<![CDATA[From Behaviorism to New Behaviorism: A Review Study ]]>
<![CDATA[Ziafar, Meisam]]>;
<![CDATA[Namaziandost, Ehsan]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 12 No 2 (2019): July-December 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v12i2.2378
<![CDATA[Neobehaviorism bridges the gap between behaviorism and cognitivism. Like Thorndike, Watson, and Pavlov, the neobehaviorists believe that the study of learning and a focus on rigorously objective observational methods are crucial to a scientific psychology. Unlike their predecessors, however, the neobehaviorists are more self-consciously attempting to formalize the laws of behavior. Neobehaviorism is associated with a number of scholars such as Tolman, Hull, Skinner, Hebb, and Bandura. Neobehaviorists demand formalizing the law of behavior. Neobehaviorism takes into consideration abstraction and hidden variables, it represents a holistic approach to behavior. It can be claimed that all neobehavioristic theories have been proposed in order to put some cognition within the mechanistic nature of traditional behaviorism.]]>
<![CDATA[The Use of Inside Outside Circle Technique to Improve Student's Writing on Recount Text ]]>
<![CDATA[Mutmainah, Mutmainah]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 10 No 2 (2017): July-December 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v10i2.700
<![CDATA[This study is to see the improvement of student’s writing skill on recount text for eight grade students of MTs Al-Khairiyah Pulokencana by using Inside Outside Circle Technique. The subject of this research is the students of Eight Grade of MTs Al-Kahiriyah Pulokencana which consist of 25 students. The method used in this study is Classroom Action Research (CAR) which the researcher works collaboratively with the observer. This study was conducted following kemmis with the following procedure of the research: Planning, Action, Observation and Reflection. The study carried out in two cycles and each cycle consist of two meetings. The observation and the test were the data gathered in this study. The results in this study indicate that there is improvement of the students’ skill in writing recount text. Most of the students gradually gained good score at the end of the cycle. The score of Minimum Mastery Criteion – Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) of English lesson was 70.00 (seventy). The researcher analyzes the writing component containing content, organization, vocabulary, languge use and mechanics. The mean score in cycle I is 65,36 and the mean score in cycle II is 76. Based on the mean score of both cycle, the mean score in cycle II is higher than cycle I. So there is improvement of writing skill of the second grade students of MTs Al-Khairiyah Pulokencana after being taught by using Inside Outside Circle Technique. ]]>
<![CDATA[Getting EFL Learners to Speak: Obstacles and Solutions ]]>
<![CDATA[Rahmawati, Eulis]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 10 No 1 (2017): January-June 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v10i01.27
<![CDATA[This research investigates how process of speaking instruction takes place at IAIN SMH Banten. There are three main issues in the research problems: the process of teaching speaking, obstacles found in the teaching and learning process, and what efforts do they make to solve the obstacles in speaking. The process of teaching speaking discusses materials, preparation, procedures or steps in teaching speaking while obstacles and solutions discuss the speaking barriers that the students faced in speaking class and how they minimize the barriers.
By applying descriptive qualitative research design to students of fourth semester in academic year 2014/2015, the result shows that the focus of speaking instruction at the fourth semester of English education department of IAIN SMH Banten seemed to let the students speak, without any language skills discussion as the feedback. At the same time, during the process of speaking instruction there are some problems faced by students. The first is problem of limited English Competence dealt with students poor of vocabulary and the second is problems of psychological factors.]]>
<![CDATA[Improving Students' Reading Comprehension through Student Team Achievement Division Technique ]]>
<![CDATA[Susfenti, N. Erna Marlia]]>
<![CDATA[ Loquen Vol 10 No 2 (2017): July-December 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.32678/loquen.v10i2.701
<![CDATA[This research was aimed at investigating the process of improving students’ reading comprehension through Student Team Achievement Division Technique and examining the effect of its implementation toward students’ abilities in reading comprehension. This research was designed in 2 cycles at SMK Prawira Pandeglang Banten in the second semester of 2016/2017 academic year. The focus of this research was the improvement of students’ English reading comprehension, whereas the sub-focus was the process of improving students’ abilities in reading comprehension through the Implementation of Student Team Achievement Division Technique. The data was collected from observations and interviews. The students’ reading comprehension was assessed with multiple choices reading test. The research findings have shown that the implementation of Student Team Achievement Division Technique had improved students’ abilities in comprehend the text from 54.2% in the first cycle become 76.25% in the second cycle. Based on the results, it can be concluded that student team achievement division technique can improve reading comprehension of the students of class X SMK Prawira Pandenglang Banten.]]>
