DEVELOPING DIVISITE (DISCOVERY LISTENING WEBSITE) TO FACILITATE STUDENTS’ LEARNING IN LISTENING SUBJECT

The aim of this research is for developing DIVISITE (Discovery Listening Website) to facilitate students learning in listening subject. The design of this research is educational R&D. The subjects of this study were second-semester students of the English Department for the 2020/2021 academic year STKIP PGRI Trenggalek. The research procedure includes need analysis, studying theories of educational, developing the educational product, validating product to expert, and field-testing the product. By using the website and combined with the three stages in the Discovery Listening technique, it can increase students' learning motivation and comprehension toward listening material. This can be seen from the results of pre-motivation getting a score of 1051 (almost disagree). This means that respondents rarely plan listening learning activities. Then, the results of the post-motivation questionnaire obtained a score of 1810 (almost agree). That is, there is an increase related to students' learning motivation in learning listening by using the Discovery Listening Website. In conclusion, based on the research findings described above. This research has been able to develop DIVISITE (Discovery Listening Website) and facilitate student learning in listening. Furthermore, this research was able to achieve the research objectives, namely DIVISITE (Discovery Listening Website) to facilitate students learning in listening subject.

PEER FEEDBACK STRATEGY TOWARDS SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN TRANSLATION

This Research aimed at finding the effect of Peer Feedback strategy towards fifth semester students’ ability in translation subject at S1 Degree of English Department FBMB, Mandalika University. This research was quasi experimental design of experimental research. The population was 3 classes (118 students), in which 2 classes were selected as the sample that was divided into two groups; Class A with 30 students as the experimental group and Class B with 30 students as the control, the groups were divided by using Simple Random Sampling technique. The data collection got from translation test of translating texts given, then the data were analyzed by using SPSS 2019 computer program for windows 10. The result showed that the significant value of = 0.000 was lower than 0.05. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students in Class A who were taught by using Peer Feedback strategy have higher score in translation than the students of Class B who were taught by using the grammar translation strategy. Based on the conclusion, the researcher suggested that Peer Feedback strategy should be used to teach translation for the fifth semester students at S1 degree of English Department of FBMB, Mandalika University.

Developing Academic Writing Module to Reduce Plagiarism

Plagiarism has become a stressful problem in the academic world. In higher education, students must write a scientific paper that is free from plagiarism. Many referencing styles are offered to enable the writers to produce the proper scientific works. This study aimed to produce a module on academic writing for English department students. The module focused on writing citations based on APA style references, including in-text citation, paraphrasing, and summarizing. It was a research and development study that involved fifth-semester students. The samples were selected purposively. The data were collected by using interviews, questionnaires, and tests to see the product's validity, practicality, and effectiveness. The data gathered were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Based on the study results, it was found that the validity of the product showed a very high category (0.92). Practicality consists of three aspects, ease, efficiency, and usefulness, categorized very high at small groups (0.85) and field tests (0.87). The module's effectiveness was seen from the gain score, which is 0.4. This score indicated the medium progress made by the students after having the treatment.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE, TEACHING STYLE, AND TEACHING STRATEGIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Teachers’ attitudes, teaching styles, and teaching strategies are needed to motivate students’ enthusiasm and interest in learning English. This study aims to analyze students’ perceptions of teachers’ attitudes, styles, and strategies. This study uses quantitative method with a survey design which used a questionnaire as the research instrument to get data. The study is conducted by using Google Form to get the data from the participants. The population of this study is the students of English Department of Zainul Hasan Islamic University Genggong. The sample used in this study are thirty-six students that are from several high schools around the area of Kraksaan. The collected data of this study is then analyzed by using a statistical formula to get the percentage of each question. The results shows that most of the teachers high schools around the area of Kraksaan have good attitudes and strategies in teaching English.

Developing Online Learning Assessment Instrument for English Sentence Structure Course during Covid-19 Pandemic

Anchored by the need for constructing an online assessment which is mediated by honesty as the character value for grammar mastery among undergraduate students during Covid-19 pandemic, in the present study we developed a test of English Sentence Structure (ESS) situated in an English department of a public university in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. To enact such a purpose, Design-based Research (DBR) was carried out in the study. Findings from the study showcase that the test was valid and reliable, giving it accessible portion for use in the English department. Aside from that, students also opined positively toward the use of the test in measuring their English grammar mastery. Despite these, we found that students’ score in the tryout phase is low affected by their lack of test preparation, inappropriate situated test time, and ineffective teaching and learning enactment. The paper ends with recommendation for future researchers.

Identifying Students’ Problems on Critical Thinking as a Way to Foster Higher Order Thinking Skills

Students in the old days were not taught to think for themselves in a logical, systematic, and coherent way. They simply regurgitated lectures and text materials back to the teachers. Integrating the traditional method of teaching with the critical thinking model would be the better alternative for teachers to prepare students to solve problems in the future. The samples of this study are the whole graduated students from English Department Students at University of PGRI Yogyakarta, starting from 2018-2021. It is descriptive qualitative research, focusing on the assessment matrix in the assessment of thesis examination by giving in-depth highlight on trends. From the data analyses, it is inferred that gender would give less impact to the successfulness of developing Critical Thinking. On the other hand, the autonomous learning would never give the same good results from one condition to another. It is revealed from the finding that learning with peers impacts better than the autonomous learning and learning with teachers.

Anxiety Confronted by EFL Students in Instructional Listening Class

The barrier of learning listening is experienced by students that make them feel anxious. Consequently, it easily effects their performance during listening class. Therefore, this study is aimed to describe the anxiety types and causes of anxiety confronted by EFL students in listening class at university level. To accomplish this aim, Qualitative research designs was applied by the researchers. The research subjects were English Department Students in IAIN Tulungagung. The research data were obtained through observation in listening class and in-depth interviews to the six most anxious informants. Then, the collected data was analyzed by data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. In order to check trustworthiness of data, theoretical and methodological triangulations applied. The result of this study was revealed that there were six symptoms of anxiety confronted by the students in listening class, that were categorized as the type of Arousal Anxiety (ArA), Apprehension Anxiety (ApA), and Mixed Anxiety (MA) also revealed five causes of anxiety. Those results inform the lecturer to be understood about students’ anxiety and start to create the joyful learning in listening class so that they are more comfortable following the class.

The Implementation of Reading Text Strategies in Enhancing EFL Learners Vocabularies: A Case of One Islamic Higher Education in Jambi, Indonesia

The purpose of this study was to reveal the lecturer’s strategy in enhancing students’ English vocabularies in the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. 3 English lecturers who have ever taught English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in non-English department were involved in this study. The data were collected through semi-structure interview. Thematic analysis was applied for analysis the participants’ interview result. Finding of this study show that; first. the participants used selected reading text as a media of enhancing students vocabularies. Second, the strategy was implemented through small group discussion and pair work to make students actively participated in sharing the knowledge. Third, the participants evaluated the students’ understanding of reading text strategy by asking them to work individually without any assistance from the group members This study recommended that the findings can be a basis consideration in enhancing students’ vocabularies in the process of teaching and learning.

THE INFLUENCE OF E-WALLET ON A CONSUMPTIVE LIFESTYLE IN GENERATION Z: AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS (English Department)

Technology has a tremendous impact on human life. The positive impact is that it makes it easier for humans to transact with the emergence of e-wallet in the midst of human life. In addition, there are negative impacts from technological developments, namely the shift in human and technological mentality as well as influencing consumptive lifestyles. Technological developments must be followed by an understanding of the philosophy of science in order to realize one's limitations and not be trapped in it and to avoid intellectual arrogance. This study aims to determine the effect of e-wallet on the consumptive lifestyle of Generation Z, especially English department students at Airlangga University. The formulation of the problem in this study is how is the effect of e-wallet on the consumptive lifestyle of English department students at Airlangga University?. The research method used is the survey method and the interview method. The results show that e-wallet has an important role in people's lives, and e-wallet has an influence on the consumptive lifestyle of Airlangga university students. Most of the respondents use an e-wallet for shopping and use it more than 5 times a month. Respondents like to use e-wallet because it can provide several advantages, easy to use, practical, have lots of promos and benefits are given, and safe. Many respondents believe in the e-wallet facility.