BRIDGING THE GAP: REFLECTIONS ON EAP MATERIALS AT PHARMACY ACADEMY OF SURABAYA

This study aims to evaluate the course module used in EAP teaching at Pharmacy Academy of Surabaya. The coursebook was evaluated in terms of its subject matter, structure and capability to meet students‘ need. Two instruments were employed to draw potential strengths and weaknesses of the coursebook. Firstly, an evaluation checklist adapted from several literatures was designed to serve teachers’ perspective about the coursebook. Secondly, a set of questions was constructed to observe students‘ feedback. Surprisingly, the result of the study shows that eight chapters presented in the module are, considerably, more appropriate for EGAP class rather than ESAP class. Besides, it was found that each chapter is less-defined as every of them is organized differently. Furthermore, the whole aspects conclude that a lot of room remains for improvement for the materials in order to meet the students‘ need

GRICE’S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES VIOLATION IN THE COMMUNICATION OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM

The involvement of children with autism in social interaction is mostly at a lower level. It is due to the language obstacles faced by children with autism that become the reason why children with autism tend to violate the cooperative principles in communication. This study aims to demonstrate how children with autism violate Grice’s cooperative principles maxims and what causes it. The Grice’s cooperative principles maxims are the focus of this observation and 5 children with autism were the subjects of this study. The research was done in SLBN Surakarta which is the school for exceptional children in Surakarta. By utilizing the observational approach, the data were collected using recording and transcribing technique. Leech’s heuristic pragmatic analysis method was used to analyze the data. The results showed that 67.65% of utterances spoken by the children with autism violated 1 maxim, 20.59% utterances violated 2 maxims and 3 maxims violation was found in 2.94% utterances. 4 maxims violation was also found indicating that there are 8.82% utterances of the children with autism failed to fulfill cooperative principles. Language and social development problems are considered responsible for the violations well as their disability to stay focus are considered the cause of maxim of relevance become the most violated maxim in this study.

Using Pictorial Cards to Enhance Speaking Skill of The Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 5 Kediri

ABSTRACT   Wahyunianto, Dian. 2012. Using Pictorial Cards to Enhance Speaking Skill of The Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 5 Kediri. Undergraduate Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. Advisor: Drs. Fachrurrazy, M.A., Ph.D.   Keywords : speaking, pictorial cards, senior high school   In a real teaching-learning process, speaking does not get a special attention. Teachers prefer to teach reading and listening, while speaking and writing are being number two in their teaching and learning process. Based on the result of the preliminary study, it was known that students of class X.3 at SMAN 5 Kediri had problems in speaking. Their problems were mostly caused by the lack of speaking activity in their class. Besides, the students could not elaborate their ideas in speaking. To overcome this problem, the use of pictorial cards was suggested as the media to enhance students’ speaking skill. The objective of this study is to improve students’ speaking skill. The research design used in this study is classroom action research (CAR). It consists four steps: planning the action, implementing the action, observing the action, and reflecting the action. The setting of the study was in SMAN 5 Kediri and the subjects are 30 students from X.3 class in the second semester of 2013/2014 academic year. The researcher designed the lesson plan, prepared the materials and instruments, decided the criteria of success, and also assessed the students’ speaking performance. The research findings indicated that using pictorial cards as the media to enhance students’ speaking skill was successful. It can be seen in students’ speaking score that could reach the SKM (Standar Kelulusan Minimal) or standard score determined by the researcher. 86.2% of the students got a score above or the same as 70. Besides, the results of questionnaire showed that 92% of the students were enjoying the teaching and learning process using pictorial cards as the media. With the help of the pictorial cards, the students could mention more than 6 characteristics of an animal if compared to the students’ performance in the preliminary study that showed the students could only mention 2 to 4 characteristics. Pictorial cards could help the students to develop their ideas since it contains pictures. In addition, in the teaching and learning process, the students could enjoy and did the activities given by the researcher well. Based on the result of the study, the researcher suggested English teachers use pictorial cards as the media in the classroom activities, especially in speaking activity. Furthermore, the other researchers are suggested to implement this study with adjustments in technique and levels of education or different settings or places.

Communication of the Children with Autism in Slbn Surakarta: Grice's Cooperative Principles

Autism is also believed to be one of the linguistics impairment causes. Not only having problems in the language acquisition in general, but pragmatic deficit has also become serious problem of the children with autism. The objective of this study is to demonstrate how children with autism obey the Grice's cooperative principles. There are 5 children with autism that become subjects of this study. Those 5 children are specifically children with autism that is categorized as verbal autism children. The data are speech produced by the children with autism in the class. Data collection is done by recording and followed by transcribing. It is analyzed using Grice's cooperative principles with 4 maxims to be obeyed. The results showed that most of the utterances produced by the children with autism obeying 2 maxims with the most frequent maxim to be obeyed was maxim of quantity