THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN IMPROVING EFL LEARNERS’ HORTATORY EXPOSITION WRITING

Abstract: At present, research has not adequately dealt with corrective feedback (Mirzaii & Aliabadi, 2013). Adam (2003) claims that written production and feedback are important for SLA. It pushes learners’ awareness towards the problems in their interlanguage. Corrective feedback has always been a challenge (Sadeghpour, 2013). This study, thus, aims at investigating the impact of feedback on students’ writing. Thirty EFL learners at UNISBANK participated in this study. They were divided into Direct Feedback Group (DFG) and Indirect Feedback Group (IFG). Both did pretest before the treatment. Subsequently, they were asked to write Hortatory Exposition texts in groups and individually. DFG’s texts were provided with direct feedback while the IFG’s with indirect one. Afterwards, posttest was administered. The results show that direct feedback is more effective than indirect feedback. However, the difference is statistically not significant. The pedagogical implication is that in giving corrective feedback teacher should consider learner’s level of competence, since the effectiveness of the feedback depends on the learner’s competence level, the lower proficient learners might be unable to correct their own errors based on indirect corrective feedback. Keywords:direct feedback, indirect feedback, Hortatory Expositio

SUGGESTOPEDIA: HOW DOES IT ACCELERATE LANGUAGE LEARNING

Suggestopedia is a method of teaching a foreign language in which students learn quickly by being made to feel relaxed, interested and positive. The method is developed  because of the argument that students naturally face psychological barriers to learning. The psychological barriers here refer to a variety of internal distractions (worry, anxiety, fatigue, boredom, fear, etc.). Suggestopedia uses four main stages as follows: presentation, active concert, passive concert, and practice. The design of suggestopedic instruction has positive cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social effects on the learners. Keywords: Suggestopedia, suggestopedic instruction, active concert, passive concert, psychological barriers

THE FLOWS OF IDEAS OF ENGLISH ARGUMENTS BY INDONESIAN WRITERS FOUND IN THE OPINION FORUM OF THE JAKARTA POST: AN INDICATION OF LANGUAGE SHIFT

English writing ability is badly needed by professionals and university students, to facilitate their study and career. However, writing coherently is difficult for many of them. Tangkiengsirisin (2010, 1) states that flow of ideas is the main criterion for advanced writing. This study is aimed at finding out the flows of ideas of English Arguments by Indonesian writers. The study is descriptive and qualitative, analyzing 14 articles from The Jakarta Post. The findings reveal that 64 % of the data are developed linearly, contradicting with Kaplan’s explanation that oriental groups express their ideas mostly indirectly, circularly. The socio-cultural context, i.e. globalization has changed the circular into linear pattern

Some negative contents portrayed in English song lyrics

Some song lyrics may have been banned or rescheduled for their radio and television broadcasts. Those song lyrics were claimed to propagandize negative contents. Recently West Java Broadcasting Commission has regulated the broadcast of 17 western songs for the prejudice of negative contents. Based on semantic analysis of those song lyrics, the authors finally found out that they qualitatively describe lust, profanity, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. through periphrasis, simile, litotes, meiosis, and other speech figures. Clauses were selected to deliver the figures of speech of the lyrics sung by mostly male singers and the male-female duets in pop and r and b music genres

Implementation of the Total Physical Response (TPR) Method with the Help of Flashcards to Teach English Vocabulary

Teaching vocabulary to children must be engaging and fun to spark their interest and motivate them to learn English, particularly to memorize English vocabulary. To establish pleasurable learning for children, the teacher must discover creative methods and media to encourage students to learn English vocabulary. This study aims to find out the implementation of the TPR method with the help of flashcards to teach English vocabulary at Kindergarten Muslimat NU TA 07 Plantaran and to describe how the TPR method with the help of flashcards can encourage kindergarten students at Muslimat NU TA 07 Plantaran to learn the English vocabulary. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. Non-participant observation and interviews are conducted as the data collection techniques. The findings show that teaching using the TPR method with the help of flashcards is implemented in three steps: pre-teaching, whilst-teaching, and post-teaching. In teaching and learning, the teacher acts as a model and gives orders while students respond and imitate them with physical movements. Implementation of TPR with the help of flashcards can encourage students' motivation to learn English vocabulary. This can be seen from the behavior of motivated students during learning, including being active, responsive, interested, enthusiastic, responsible, and diligent

USING FLASHCARDS TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO LEARN ENGLISH AT SDN KARANGAYU 03 SEMARANG

This article discussed students' motivation to learn English using flashcards, especially for learning English Speaking, which focused on fluency and pronunciation. From the various problems regarding student motivation in the learning process, Flashcard is a media that is quite effective for teaching first-grade elementary school students because young learners still like to learn while playing. The data source came from observation and interviews with the English teacher and first-grader students at SDN Karangayu 03 Semarang. From the teacher's perspective: (1) Fun; (2) Effective; (3) Students easily understand the material taught because young learners learn while playing. From the students' perspective: (1) Learning with flashcards is fun and engaging; (2) The students all are happy learning using flashcards; (3) Didn't feel bored; (4) Want to learn using flashcards again in the future. So, it concluded that learning English Speaking using flashcards has a good impact and can motivate students to learn

Interpersonal Relationship to Tackle At-Risk Students: A Case Study in EFL Learning

This study investigated interpersonal relationship to tackle at-risk students’ low competence, inactive class participation, misbehave. This research especially aims at knowing how positive, supportive teacher-at risk student relationship can enhance the student’s learning outcome, how teacher-student relationship can enhance students’ motivation, can activate the at-risk students. This study is descriptive in nature held in a classroom context in sentence writing class in Stikubank University (UNISBANK) Semarang, Indonesia. The results of the study revealed how the at-risk student’s perception on teacher’s affective qualities can affect their learning outcome. It is concluded that the more positive the at-risk student’s perception on the teacher-student relationship, the higher the learning outcome she/ he achieves. The positive at-risk students’ perception on their teacher’s affective qualities makes them achieve the learning outcome successfully. This is because they feel that their teacher creates a safe and trustful environment that makes them feel free to share difficulties. Thus, supportive and caring teacher-at risk student relationship is essential in teaching-learning process

The Structure and Adequate Development of English as a Foreign Language Learners' Paragraphs: A Case Study

Abstract Developing complete paragraphs with appropriate structure is not easy for many EFL tertiary students. Thus, investigating the EFL students' paragraphs is needed in order to reveal the strengths and the weaknesses. This study explored how the students structured and completely developed the ideas of a paragraph. The data of the study were collected from the third semester students of Stikubank University (UNISBANK) Semarang, Indonesia. In analyzing the data, the sentences in the paragraphs were numbered for easy identification of the topic sentence, the supporting sentences, the concluding sentence. Background This study was motivated by my observation as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher in Indonesia to find out the paragraph writing difficulties faced by my students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Very often I found incomplete paragraphs or paragraph fragments in my students' essays. The incomplete paragraphs that I found are among others the presence of excessive indentation, undeveloped topic sentence. Indentation of course does not make a paragraph. When one complete paragraph is given several indentations, disjointedness occurs. Undeveloped topic sentence may distract the readers because this incomplete paragraph reduces the continuity of ideas. These incomplete paragraphs of course will reduce the coherence of the essay since as stated by Rustipa (2013) that one of the properties of a coherent text is fullness of paragraph development. Thus, the lack of paragraph writing skills is one root of the problem to create a coherent text. One of the goals of tertiary students to learn English is to write academic essays. Paragraphs are the building blocks of essays; thus, knowledge of paragraph structuring is badly needed in order to be able to produce coherent and readable essays. Fawcet

A Proposed Design For Flexible Learning Program Implementation: A Case Studdy At The English Letters Study Program

Kajian kali ini bertujuan untuk melakukan analisis SWOT terkait pelaksanaan pembelajaran online pada semester genap 2020-2021 sebagai basis antisipatif platform pembelajaran yang fleksibel (Singkatnya Belajar Merdeka Belajar atau MBKM). Sebuah survei online menggunakan Google Form diberikan kepada lima dosen, yang mewakili satu mata kuliah untuk setiap dosen. Survei menunjukkan bahwa Program Studi Sastra Inggris Unisbank telah melakukan pendidikan online menggunakan Platform Moodle dengan cukup baik seperti yang dipersyaratkan oleh institusi dengan beberapa pembaruan dan peningkatan yang direkomendasikan. Untuk memenuhi syarat layanan pendidikan online total, Program Studi Sastra Inggris harus mengubah kelemahan menjadi kekuatan, dan ancaman menjadi peluang. Terkait dengan rancangan implementasi MBKM yang diusulkan, dimulai dengan input—mahasiswa menyelesaikan administrasi keuangan dan akademiknya, dilanjutkan dengan konsultasi dengan ketua program studi mengenai pilihan program MBKM. Setelah menyelesaikan program, nilai MBKM diubah menjadi transkrip akademik lokal (KHS), semua dengan SOP yang jelas. Temuan tentang kesiapan prodi terkait pelaksanaan program MKBM dibenarkan oleh Kepala Fakultas

ECO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BIMBOS BELALANG SONG LYRIC: A DISCOURSE PERSPECTIVE

The current study investigated Bimbos Song lyric entitled Belalang in a Discourse Perspective. It has come to be known that Bimbo is a senior music group, specializing in deep philosophical touches of romantic songs. Belalang is a song attempting to create an analog of an insect (mantis) with special mating behaviors to human love affairs tied in dangerous wedlock. The lyric was analyzed in two ways, (1) to find out the field, tenor and mode of the discourse, employing the analytical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in a macro sense, and (2) to find out the eco-psychological phenomena, employing the analytical framework of eco-psychology. The findings show that both mantis (with its special mating behavior) and humans (in showing true love to the destructive wife) have a similar patternto preserve the ecosystem or in other words to create a conducive environment. The moral teaching seems to support the old saying that to love does not necessarily own despite the presence of love-chemistry. A seemingly peaceful marital life has to come to its end due to an unexpected mystical curse of Bahu Laweyan. Yet, secondary love can be made possible in search of peaceful lives, to avoid self-destruction