ENJEL: English Journal of Education and Literature

Questioning Practices in Indonesian English Language Classrooms: An Analysis of Question Types and Student Engagement

2024-06-30T16:59:39+00:00

This study examines the question types used by Indonesian English language teachers in high school classrooms and their impact on student engagement. The data were derived from two YouTube videos showcasing English language teaching in real classroom contexts. The questions posed by the teachers during the English language lessons were coded according to two criteria: convergent and divergent questions. Student engagement is measured by the number of responses to the teachers’ questions. The results reveal that the predominant type of questions used by the teachers during the lessons were convergent questions, which seek specific information or recall from students, while divergent questions, which encourage open-ended and varied responses, were used much less frequently. Furthermore, student engagement remained limited across both question types, with only a few students participating in responding. These findings highlight the prevalence of a traditional instructional approach characterized by convergent questions. The article concludes with some suggestions for utilizing alternative instructional interventions that can promote more interactive questioning practices and potentially enhance student engagement during English language instruction.

The Effectiveness Bits and Pieces Game to Student Writing Skill and Seventh Grade Student

2024-07-03T09:05:08+00:00

In this research, students had problems in writing a text, the difficulty of generating ideas to be written was the main obstacle. This research aims to determine whether the Bits and Pieces Game is effective for the writing skills of class VII students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Jember. This study used a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test method with a non-equivalent control group design. The population in this study were all class VII students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Jember for the 2022/2023 academic year. Using saturated sampling technique (total sampling) which involved all students of class VII with a total of 36 students, then divided into two groups, there were class VII A with 22 students as the control group and VII B with 14 students as the experimental group. Both classes were given pre-test and post-test. The results of his research showed that the control class was from 45.63 to 52.45, and the experimental class was from 56.42 to 74.43. From the hypothesis test, it is obtained that the significance of the T-test Sig 0.000 <0.05, which means the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. This shows that the Bits and Pieces Game has a significant effect on students' writing skills.

The Correlation between Students’ Self-Confidence and Speaking Ability

2024-07-03T09:20:29+00:00

The title of this research is “THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENT'S SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SPEAKING ABILITY”. The objective of the research is to find out whether there is significant correlation or not between student’s self-confidence and speaking ability of sixth and eighth semester student of 2022-2023 academic year English Language Education Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember. The researcher use correlational research, quantitative nonexperimental research. The sample of this study is 33 students from sixth and eighth grade semester English Language Education Program Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember, which consists of 16 students from 6th semester and 17 students from 8th semester. The collecting data technique used a speaking test and a questionnaire. The results of this study show that there is a significant relationship between self-confidence and speaking ability.

Improving Young Learners’ Vocabulary Skills By Using Busy Book Media With Guessing Games Strategy

2024-07-03T09:54:21+00:00

The learning media is everything related to facilities and infrastructure (tools/objects) are used to support or to facilitate the delivery of subjects in the learning process to achieve the goals of learning itself. Teachers can use learning media to convey lesson information to students and can stimulate students’ attention, feelings, thoughts, and willingness to learn in order to encourage an effective learning process. Busy book is one of the learning media in teaching in English. “Busy book” is a book made of flannel which contains interesting pictures. This book is very safe for students so that it can be used freely, and has a soft flannel texture and the fabric doesn’t get wet easily so this book can last a for a long time. The purpose of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using busy book media using the guessing game strategy to improve the vocabulary mastery of grade 3 students at SDN 1 Wringinpitu in the 2022/2023 academic year. This research is Action Research carried out in teaching and learning activities in class, so this research includes Classroom Action Research. The result is the guessing game technique can improve students’ vocabulary skills. The results of this action research in the second cycle also prove the action hypothesis that the use of busybooks with guessing games can improve the English vocabulary skills of grade 3 students at SDN 1 Wringinpitu in the 2022/2023 academic year.

The Effect of Make a Match Technique on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery

2024-07-03T10:02:58+00:00

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the Make a Match Technique on students' vocabulary mastery at SMPN 1 Panti Jember in the academic year 2022/2023. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test post-test non-equivalent control group. The population was seventh grade consist of 186 students and the sample of this research was seventh grade consist of 58 students of class E and F. The data were collected by using pre-test and post-test in control class and experimental class were analyzed using SPSS 16.0. The mean score of experimental class before giving the treatment is 72,30 and the mean score after giving the treatment is 87,40. For testing the hypothesis is used mann-whitney test as a substitute independent test, and the result is Sig. (2-tailed) 0,000 < 0,05. So, the Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. Additionally, the result of data analysis shows that there is a significant effect on students’ vocabulary mastery who taught using Make a Match Technique. Using the Make a Match technique can also stimulate students to remember vocabulary better, especially in nouns and verbs.

Teachings on Writing Narrative Texts Through Teaching Clustering to Tenth Grade Students Nurul Huda Sukaraja High School

2024-07-03T10:12:28+00:00

Applying clustering methodologies to instruct narrative texts to tenth grade students at SMK Nurul Huda Sukaraja. The proof for this assertion is substantiated by the results of the Independent Sample t-test performed on the post-test scores of both the experimental and control groups. The calculated t-values were 5.954 and 5.984, with a significance (two-tailed) value of 0.000. Thus, it is feasible for the t-value to surpass the critical t-value of 2.021 when the degrees of freedom (df) are 49, given that the sample size (n) is 51. Furthermore, the two-tailed significance (Sig) value is below the preset significance limit (α) of 0.05. The Null Hypothesis is rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is upheld. There is a significant difference between students who are educated using the Write Narrative Text Clustering Technique and students who are guided using Write Narrative Text utilising the Clustering Technique. The results further demonstrated that the use of the Clustering Technique in the students' class resulted in a decrease in their writing challenges. By using the Clustering methodology, students may pinpoint the underlying source of writing problems and successfully address them. This strategy is very efficacious in augmenting the understanding of the topic matter.