Teachers’ Professionalism In Teaching Reading: Narrative Inquiry From A Voice Of Senior EFL Teacher At A Junior High School

The aims of this research is to open the insight of a senior EFL teacher toward the strategies that commonly use during reading teaching. Using narrative inquiry design, the result of this study would be in narrative form. The participant that chosen in this study is an EFL teacher with 25 years experiences. After collecting the data by interview, the researcher found the result that shows the mostly use strategies are Lecture and Direct Reading Activity. These two strategies come with it advantages and disadvantages. But, these two strategies consider the most effective and efficient to apply in the classroom

Students’ Perception towards Teacher’s Code-switching in EFL Clasroom: Exploring Pedagogical Functions

Code-switching is an inevitable phenomenon that often happens inside a foreign or second English classroom. However, this phenomenon is often treated like the elephant in the room: the teacher recognizes its presence but is never really aware of it. While many studies regarding code-switching topics in EFL classrooms only focus on analyzing the type of teacher's code-switching. This study aims to seek out the pedagogical functions behind the teacher's decision to code-switch and determine the students' perception towards the teacher's code-switching. The classroom observation and two interview sessions are conducted with one teacher and three participants by applying a case study. It is found that the student's shallow English proficiency influences the student's perception of code-switching, and the teacher is very conscious of the pedagogical functions when she decided to code-switch

Students’ Emotional Enggagement in Reading Comprehension Through Read, Cover, Remember and Retell (RCRR) Strategy

This research purposes are to find out how the student’s emotional engagement towards in the use of read, cover, remember and retell strategy in Reading comprehension This student uses qualitative research with design case study. In this study researcher conduct research at Indonesia public junior high school in a town in west java. the participant 6 student in one class for collecting data researcher used observation and interview. This research carries four main findings, they are: 1) RCRR strategy crates student interest in reading comprehension in reading comprehension; 2) RCRR strategy creates a positive emotions and enjoyable learning.  these findings substantiate the notion that the RCRR strategy not only enhances reading comprehension outcomes but also enriches the emotional dimension of learning. By fostering interest, engagement, and positive emotions, the strategy emerges as a valuable approach in promoting holistic and effective learning experiences within the realm of reading comprehension. As educators seek to optimize instructional methods, the RCRR strategy offers a promising avenue to elevate both student engagement and comprehension outcomes.   Keywords: Cover, Read, Reading Comprehension, Remember and Retell (RCRR) Strategy, Student emotional Engagemen

Teacher’s Belief on Teaching Philosophy as Teachers Professionalism Platform

This study aims at presenting the teacher's belief on teaching philosophy as a teacher professionalism platform. It explores how the teacher perceives teaching philosophy as a teacher professionalism platform and in what ways teaching philosophy assists the teacher to refine his teaching. The research design of this study is basic interpretative study. It is used to identify the extent to which teaching philosophy is understood and practiced by teachers. There are general pattern findings of this study. The first finding is English teachers' perceived teaching philosophy builds reflective teachers. The second findings refers to reflected activity that copes with the teacher in refining suitable ways in facilitating students to learn. Teaching philosophy potentially assists teachers in teaching by providing various activities. Thus, it supports the teacher to be a professional English teacher

Engaging EFL Students through KWL Strategy in Reading Comprehension: A Case Study of Four Students at a Junior High School in Karawang

Reading comprehension challenges the students’ understanding the meaning of the text. This study aim to exploring students’ behavioral engagement through KWL strategy in reading comprehension. The research method used in this study is descriptive case study with a qualitative approach. This research was conducted with limited to 4 students at eighth grade. The results showed that the KWL strategy gives students a better reading experience by enabling them to understand English text more quickly. The KWL strategy can make students more focused in learning reading comprehension. The KWL technique can also has encouraged students’ participation to learn more actively in analyzing the reading comprehension with peers and teacher. Finally, the KWL strategy can give teaching that builds students’ enthusiasm for developing their ability to reading comprehension; almost all students feel this enthusiasm after implementing the KWL strategy. This research suggest that teachers should expand or develop their teaching strategies to produce better learning experiences

YouTube-Assisted Self-Regulated Vocabulary Learning: Indonesian EFL Learners’ Experiences

This research is aimed to explore students’ YouTube-assisted vocabulary learning in the self-regulated learning context. This research was conducted with the participants of four students from a vocational high school in Karawang. This research used narrative inquiry approach; thus, the data were collected through interview, specifically semi-structured interview. The data of this research were analysed by thematic analysis method. This research has discovered that students would start to learn when they had spare time to use, they also had to keep on eye to the internet connection during their learning process, and lastly, they tried to recall the vocabulary they just learned after they finished their learning. Students also had some criteria for the videos they watched in their learning process. This research also found that students experienced some enjoyments in their YouTube-assisted vocabulary learning, although they were still reluctant to continue their learning

Exploring Student’s Engagement in Learning Vocabulary Through Animation Videos

The purpose of this study was to see how students were involved in vocabulary learning using animated videos. This type of research is qualitative research. The participants in this study were eighth grade students at MTs Al Hasan Karawang. The research sample was 3 students who were selected based on the recommendation of the English teacher, from the most active to intermediate students in learning English. Data were collected through two instruments, namely through interviews and documentation. In the documentation, students are invited to watch learning materials using animated videos with a duration of about 5 minutes. Then after that, students were given questions to write down the new vocabulary they got from the animated video of about 10-15 words. In the interview, the researcher used semi-structured interview as the research design. Students were given several questions related to three aspects of student involvement, namely cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects. The research data is in the form of transcripts of short speaking recordings and answers related to interviews that have been carried out. From this study it was found that vocabulary learning using animated videos can help students in learning vocabulary (cognitive), showing positive reactions to learning (emotional), and actively participating in classroom learning (behavior)

Understanding Demotivating Factors on EFL Students in Online Learning

Demotivation is a complex problem that many foreign language (FL) learners faced, and it is caused by a variety of factors including the teacher, poor self-esteem, and previous bad language learning experiences(BABA KHOUYA, 2018). This study aimed to understand the demotivating factors on EFL students in online learning. The participants of this study were three students of the third grade of senior high school in Karawang. This study used a qualitative case study design to address the research objectives. The data for this study was gathered through semi-structured interview questions as an instrument of this study. The collecting data was obtained through Google meeting. The result of this study revealed that there are two demotivating factors on EFL students in online learning. Those are the teacher’s methods and learning material. In this case, the researcher found out that those factors are from the external factors. In the teacher’s method, there are two aspects that demotivate EFL students in online learning. The first aspect is because the teacher always speaks English all the time during learning. The second is because the teacher did not evaluate the students’ assignments. The last factor is the learning materials, the students get difficult to understand the materials during online learning.   Keywords: demotivation factors, online learning

AN ANALYSIS OF SPEAKING ACTIVITIES IN INDONESIAN ELT TEXTBOOK BASED ON COGNITIVE DOMAIN OF BLOOM’S TAXONOMY REVISED

Textbook has an essential role as teaching material, especially in learning speaking English. Teachers should use a suitable textbook in their teaching process to meet learning objectives. This study aims to analyze speaking activities based on cognitive domain in the Indonesian ELT textbook endorsed by Indonesian Ministry of Educational and Culture entitled Bahasa Inggris, Think Globally Act Locally untuk SMP/MTS Kelas IX [English for Junior High School Grade IX]. The data was analyzed with content analysis method and collected using documentary technique. The findings show that there were three speaking activities such as reading aloud, role play, and presentation task. Also, there were 57 speaking activities that focused on cognitive domain category. Besides, all categories of cognitive domain did not apply in this textbook. There are only four categories that were applied such as remembering (C1), applying (C3), analyzing (C4), and creating (C6). However, understanding (C2) and evaluating (C5) level categories did not realize in this textbook. Thus, this textbook was not quite good to fulfill learning objectives and the distributions of cognitive domain for the levels. Keywords:  Speaking Activity, English Textbook, Cognitive Domain, Content Analysi

An Analysis of Speaking Activities in Indonesian ELT Textbook Based on Cognitive Domain of Bloom's Taxonomy Revised

Textbook has an essential role as teaching material, especially in learning speaking English. Teachers should use a suitable textbook in their teaching process to meet learning objectives. This study aims to analyze speaking activities based on cognitive domain in the Indonesian ELT textbook endorsed by Indonesian Ministry of Educational and Culture entitled Bahasa Inggris, Think Globally Act Locally untuk SMP/MTS Kelas IX [English for Junior High School Grade IX]. The data were collected using documentary technique. The findings show that there were three speaking activities such as reading aloud, role play, and presentation task. Also, there were 57 speaking activities that focused on cognitive domain category. Besides, all categories of cognitive domain did not apply in this textbook. There are only four categories that were applied such as remembering (C1), applying (C3), analyzing (C4), and creating (C6). Thus, this textbook was not quite good to fulfill learning objectives