Daud Jiwandono

Initial Speaking Ability of English Education Department Freshmen of Universitas Nasional Karangturi

Future English teachers need to have excellent communication skills in English at all cost. One o... more Future English teachers need to have excellent communication skills in English at all cost. One of the important skills to master is speaking because it often represents a teacher overall competence in the eye of the students. This research is aimed to identify the initial speaking ability of the future English teachers who were still in the first semester in their study. This study was designed using descriptive qualitative research method employing observation, questionnaires, students' speaking assessment using IELTS speaking test format, as well as interview. The participants of this study were 8 freshmen of the English Education Department, Universitas Nasional Karangturi. The data analysis employed in this study was inductive analysis based on Burns (2010) and Hatch (2002). The results show that the majority of the students (75%) display low performance (basic user level) whereas only two of them (25%) had quite good results (independent user level). It was due to their lack of practice because they are still at the beginning stage in their English studies and have not been very mush exposed to natural English communication. Obviously, they need to have supportive environment to learn speaking and this is going to be a huge challenge for the lecturers in ensuring that by the time they graduate they have sufficient speaking competence to handle the teaching job. Second, based on the questionnaire, students do not think that their first language hinders their ability in learning English, rather, they are of the opinion that their experience in learning their first language actually helps them to learn English.

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Involving Students in Developing Material in Speaking Class: Students’ Perceptions

Speaking skills is important especially for future English teachers since it is the most widely u... more Speaking skills is important especially for future English teachers since it is the most widely used means of communication used in teaching and learning process. In order to be able to deliver the material seamlessly, the teachers should have high competence in speaking with other competences as well. This study aims to identify the students' speaking circumstances and their perceptions on the involvement of students in developing material in speaking class. This study was a descriptive qualitative study employing observation, questionnaires, and interviews as the means of collecting data. The participants of this study were 7 second semester students of English education department at Universitas Nasional Karangturi Semarang joining in a transactional conversation speaking class. Inductive data analysis in this study was based on Burns (2010) and Hatch (2002). The results showed that the majority of the students still find it difficult to find company in learning speaking from native English, however, it shifted into the native English that wanted to be a conversation buddy with them continuously, not only one-time conversation. The second was that the students were glad to be involved in the material development of the speaking class. Since they have different likings to native English videos to refer to. Introducing a topic at the beginning of the class really helped the students to stay on the right track in searching for the native English video in the speaking class.

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Initial Speaking Ability of English Education Department Freshmen of Universitas Nasional Karangturi

English Language and Education Spectrum

Future English teachers need to have excellent communication skills in English at all cost. One o... more Future English teachers need to have excellent communication skills in English at all cost. One of the important skills to master is speaking because it often represents a teacher overall competence in the eye of the students. This research is aimed to identify the initial speaking ability of the future English teachers who were still in the first semester in their study. This study was designed using descriptive qualitative research method employing observation, questionnaires, students’ speaking assessment using IELTS speaking test format, as well as interview. The participants of this study were 8 freshmen of the English Education Department, Universitas Nasional Karangturi. The data analysis employed in this study was inductive analysis based on Burns (2010) and Hatch (2002). The results show that the majority of the students (75%) display low performance (basic user level) whereas only two of them (25%) had quite good results (independent user level). It was due to their lack o...

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Involving Students in Developing Material in Speaking Class: Students’ Perceptions

English Language and Education Spectrum

Speaking skills is important especially for future English teachers since it is the most widely u... more Speaking skills is important especially for future English teachers since it is the most widely used means of communication used in the teaching and learning process. In order to be able to deliver the material seamlessly, the teachers should have high competence in speaking with other competencies as well. This study aims to identify the students’ speaking circumstances and their perceptions of the involvement of students in developing material in speaking class. This study was a descriptive qualitative study employing observation, questionnaires, and interviews as the means of collecting data. The participants of this study were 7 second-semester students of the English education department at Universitas Nasional Karangturi Semarang joining in a transactional conversation speaking class. Inductive data analysis in this study was based on Burns (2010) and Hatch (2002). The results showed that the majority of the students still find it difficult to find a company in learning speaki...

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Types of Classroom Interactions in the Implementation of Mini Drama Script Project

English Education Journal, 2015

The study was aimed at investigating types of classroom interaction that occurred during the impl... more The study was aimed at investigating types of classroom interaction that occurred during the implementation of mini drama script project.The data were gathered through observations and audio and video recording during three cycles. The collected data were further analyzed through four steps of analyzing talks: (1) providing a general characterization in which I listened to the conversation to get a general sense of the kind of interactions, (2) identifying grossly apparent features in which I looked more closely to language features found during the conversation, (3) focusing in on structural elements in which I examined how the interactions were structured and described the most noticeable features, and (4) developing a description in which I described the findings based on the data. The results indicated the implementation of a mini drama script project allowed various types of interaction to occur during the project including the teacher speaking to the whole class, the teacher s...

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MINI DRAMA SCRIPT PROJECTTO IMPROVE CLASSROOM INTERACTIONSAND STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLThe Case at Undergraduate Levelof Sultan Agung Islamic University

This study aimed at improving students’ interaction and their writing skill by implementing mini ... more This study aimed at improving students’ interaction and their writing skill by implementing mini drama script project. There were three research questions investigated in this study: (1) How was mini drama script project implemented in the classroom?, (2) How was the mini drama script project improve the classroom interaction?, (3) How was the improvement of the students’ writing skill in L2? The design of this study was action research employing convergent parallel mixed method in gathering and analyzing the data. The qualitative data in this study were collected through analytical observation sheets, open-ended questionnaires, and audio and video transcriptions while the quantitative data were collected through students’ mini drama script, and students’ interaction checklists. The analysis of qualitative data was using four steps in analyzing talk and the quantitative data were analyzed using analytical scoring rubrics and classified into level of writing achievements and the data...

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