Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V12I1/118-131
Ratna Sajekti Rusli, Helena D Soegiharto
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of fielddependent and field-independent cognitive learning styles on learning achievement and the relation between cognitive learning and gender. The subjects were SMU students of Social Science (IPS) and Mathematics and Natural Science (WA) classes of SMUK Triyana. The scores of summative test of several school subject matters were used as the data. The results show that cognitive learning styles do not have any effect on the students' achievement on History subject matter. However, cognitive learning styles influence English learning. This study also shows that gender does not affect achievement.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V12I1/49-59
A. Griffiths
The use of tasks has gained growing acceptance in the field of language teaching. In the task-based teaching, the organization of the language lassroom is learner-centered and the learning activities involve communicative language use. This paper discusses task-based teaching by presenting a brief overview of its underlying rationales. The rationales for infcoporating taskbased activities are dirived from the psycholinguistic and pedagogical perpectives. Some practical in-sights in this paper might be useful for English teachers and language experts.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V12I1/60-87
Hery Yufrizal
This study was aimed at investigating negotiation of meaning among Indonesian learners of EFL in English interaction. It was also intended to examine which type of tasks stimulate the learners to negotiate meaning. Forty undergraduate students were involved in this study. Information gap, Jigsaw, and Role-play tasks were given to students for dyadic interactions. The results show that the information gap tasks were more productive than the other two types of tasks. The study also shows that more interaction and negotiation of meaning were produced by the learners in the same gender and the same proficiency dyads when they were assigned the information gap and jigsaw tasks.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/teflinjournal.v11i1/1-21
P. Djiwandono
This paper reports the results of a survey of a one-semester online course for students majoring in Economics, Secretarial, Computer Technology, and Language Education. The teacher created online materials of reading strategies along with the assignment on www.blackboard, corn, and the students were instructed to access the materials, learn them independently, and do some self-evaluated reading assignments. Questionnaires were then distributed to see what obstacles had hampered their efforts in learning from online materials, as well as what advantages they gained from the new instructional approach. The qualitative and quantitative data culled from the questionnaires revealed potentials as well as some latent problems in carrying out an online teaching. The general profile that emerged was learners who were enthusiastic about learning through Internet and felt that the new approach had familiarized them with the future's technological tools, but who were mostly hampered by the lack of fund and facilities. These are discussed with special reference to the use of advanced computer technology in the teaching of English in Indonesia.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/teflinjournal.v12i1/142-148
B. Pasaribu
This paper presents a survey of to use of Bahasa Indonesia in ELT classroom. The respondents of this survey were 265 students from various private universities in Bogor. It was assumed that all respondents who answered the questionnaires understood the aims of the survey. The results show, among others, that many of the students stated that Bahasa Indonesia should be used in ELT classroom and almost half the number of the students liked their teacher's use of Bahasa Indonesia. Some required conditions to use Bahasa Indonesia include the difficulty of the concepts to be explained, the degree of comprehension of the students, and class administration.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V11I1/66-77
Fachrurrazy Fachrurrazy
This article presents a discussion of task-based approach in Communicative Language Teaching. A task is a classroom activity involving learner's interaction in which the main attention is on the meaning more than on the form of the target language. This approach may be applicable to TEFL in Indonesian context.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V12I1/1-14
A. C. Alwasilah
This study aimns at describing the effectiveness of collaborative writing as perceived by students of writing course at a university level. This study also aimns at describing the effectiveness of collaborative writing compared with the common practice of writing in high schools. 'Rvo groups of students were involved. They were asked to read an opinion article from newspaper published in Indonesia and to critique it in Indonesian. The results show that the respondents are likely to appreciate the experience of multiple drafting. The students' writing become not mere assigments, but the heart and soul of the entire term. As an implication of this study, it is suggested that the students be considered as apprentice writers filled with potential in the process of collaborative writing.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V11I1/35-46
Nur Mukminatien
This article describes the advantages of using analytic procedure in speaking assessment. An analytic scoring guide, as compared to the impressionistic one, has a double function: as an instrument to measure the learner's speaking proficiency and as a diagnostic procedure for remedial teaching. Thus, it provides reliable sources of information in the form of scores of the speaking components and can be used as feed-back for the teacher and learner to identify which component needs improvement.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V11I1/22-34
Siusana Kweldju
This paper is a report of how to make reluctant teachers' college students read in a prose course. These students were not interested in fiction and had never read interpretative fiction in English. The teacher sought to know why the students were reluctant to read, and how to make them read, and discovered that it was because of students' linguistic deficiency and their reluctance to read longer texts. The teacher also discovered that in spite of their reluctance they were interested in listening to the teachers' explanation about the cultural elements and the analysis of the short stories. Thus, provided with a guideline developed based on cultural and gender elements, students were motivated to autonomously read an assigned Pulitzer-winning novel.
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Pub Date : 2015-08-31DOI: 10.15639/TEFLINJOURNAL.V12I1/101-117
Patuan Raja
English has been introduced in early levels of elementary schools apparently based on the assumption the earlier the better. The present article reviews some literature on the relation between age and second language acqusition and has to conclude that the assumption does not have solid foundation. It also discusses the implications relevant to Indonesian context, especially concerning amount of instructional time, educational value, and resources.
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