Papers by Syifa' Khuriyatuz Zahro
Covid-19 pandemic enforced all educational institutions to adjust the learning environments from ... more Covid-19 pandemic enforced all educational institutions to adjust the learning environments from offline to online and from online to offline. The study aimed to find out the students’ attitude toward the transformation of online to offline learning in the EFL classroom. This descriptive quantitative study is a survey engaging in three Iyer attitude scales categories; enjoyment, academic efficacy, and anxiety as the instrument. From a total of 225 students in the tenth as the population, 39 students were responded the questionnaires as the sample through purposive sampling. The data obtained was later calculated for each responses’ percentage. The participation level of each three scales categories for both online and offline learning was interpreted using the interval scale modified from Erarslan and Topkaya. The interpretation result generated that the students enjoyed offline learning more than online learning, the students' academic efficacy was higher in online learning tha...
Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly ICCSSIS), ICCSIS 2019, 24-25 October 2019, Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia, 2019
The abstract should In the era of the fourth industrial revolution today, the interaction between... more The abstract should In the era of the fourth industrial revolution today, the interaction between countries and cultures are no longer confined to overt geographical barriers due to technological advancement. However, these advances have created a countervailing effect on cultural identity, with a tendency to its loss; as well as cultural hegemony of one culture upon another culture. This phenomenon could be seen as well among foreign language learners. This critical literature study aims to examine the urgency of intercultural communication competence in foreign language learning to secure national cultural identity. This study has been commenced with the analysis of the development of intercultural interaction; determinant factors in intercultural competency integration of a language learning process; as well as the utilization of technology to enhance intercultural communication competency in the foreign language learning process. The result shows that information & communication technology (ICT) is beneficial in the materials development for foreign language learning. It carries the role of a media in learning, also as a means of communication to integrate intercultural communication competency into the foreign language learning process in today's era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
KnE Social Sciences, 2020
The current advancement of video-blogs (vlogs) in YouTube channel among students of generation z ... more The current advancement of video-blogs (vlogs) in YouTube channel among students of generation z has challenged teachers to make use of its potential for students’ speaking enhancement. The present research aimed at elaborating the implementation of educational vlogs as well as lecturers’ and students’ perceptions in response to the use and the creation of educational vlogs to enhance their speaking proficiency and reduce their speaking hesitancy. The research piloted to university students who attended speaking for beginner course in Lamongan. This is mixed-method research employed 27 students who were purposefully selected as the sample based on their speaking proficiency level (good, average and less than average). The instruments obtained in data collection were notes of observation, students speaking scores, questionnaires, and interview guidance that were analyzed descriptively. The results of the study indicated that integrating vlogs to speaking classroom has positive feedba...
Lingua Cultura, 2019
This research aimed at investigating the extent of accentedness and intelligibility as well as th... more This research aimed at investigating the extent of accentedness and intelligibility as well as the acceptability of Indonesian foreign-accented speech perceived by native and non-native listeners, as well as finding their correlation to each other. It used qualitative research. The participant of the research was selected using purposive sampling. The participants were divided into speakers and listeners. There are six speakers and four listeners selected. The four listeners were native and nonnative listeners who rated and transcribed six recorded reading of Indonesian speakers by means of SPIN (Speech Perception in Noise) test. The results show that native listeners rate the speech almost the same way as non-native listeners do. The speeches with clear and accurate pronunciation are rated highly accepted and fully intelligible, regardless of having a very strong accent. In contrast, less clear and accurate pronunciations, as well as a very strong accent of the speeches, are rated ...
IJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), Dec 31, 2019
An analysis of the students’ needs demonstrated that there is no primary instructional material o... more An analysis of the students’ needs demonstrated that there is no primary instructional material of speaking for beginner utilized in the classroom. In addition, both lecturers and students preferred the utilization of an authentic audio-visual material like YouTube videos rather than a traditional material taken from textbook to accelerate their speaking proficiency. The current study sought to develop educational YouTube videos-based instructional material of speaking for beginner course through Borg & Gall model that cover three main stages out of ten stages; preliminary research, model development, and model validation. Fifty-nine students who attended speaking for beginner course of three universities in Lamongan; Darul Ulum Islamic University, Billfath University, and the Islamic University of Lamongan participated in the try-out stage. Three kinds of Instruments are questionnaire and interview guidance that were adapted from Djahida, while validation checklist was adopted from Beaudin and Balasubramanian, Shetty & Sathyanarayana. The instrucional material developed in this study is so-titled ‘Speaking for Beginner: A way to speak like natives’. The acceptability revealed in the students’ evaluation at the try-out demonstrates that, the material was generally good and acceptable for the students and the lecturers. Such results bring about the conclusion that ‘Speaking for Beginner: A way to speak like natives’ is suitable and applicable to the speaking for beginner classroom.
English Syntax Acquisition Order of Indonesian Elementary School Learners
Linguistics’ research has proved that the acquisition order for foreign-language is not a static ... more Linguistics’ research has proved that the acquisition order for foreign-language is not a static order but less consistent. Therefore, teachers of foreign language urgently need to understand the acquisition order of linguistics components to achieve an appropriate learning outcome, especially on syntactic mastery of the target language. For Indonesian learners, English sentence which employs verbs as its predicate is one of most complex linguistics component to learn and apply in their writing. The absence of a copula verb in Indonesian sentences which mostly ignored by some Indonesian learners affects the problem. Therefore, this study examines the English syntax acquisition order toward third and sixth grade of Indonesian learners in a descriptive qualitative approach. The participant is two learners of the third and sixth grade of Islamic Elementary School Lamongan who are requested to compose an essay writing three times to further analysis based on their grammatical function. ...
Rods Cuisenaire Sebagai Media Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berbicara Siswa Dalam Menceritakan Cerita : Studi Eksperimental DI Sma Bina Bangsa Surabaya)
perhatian tesis tentang media bernama batang Cuisenaire untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara si... more perhatian tesis tentang media bernama batang Cuisenaire untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa di SMA Bina Bangsa Surabaya. Berdasarkan studi pendahuluan, guru bahasa Inggris menyatakan bahwa kemampuan terendah dalam bahasa Inggris, terutama dalam berbicara adalah dari siswa XI IPA kelas SMA Bina Bangsa Surabaya. Sebagian besar dari mereka masuk ke bawah skor 75 dalam skor kinerja mereka bahasa Inggris. Pernyataan peneliti masalah ini ditanya tentang apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan dari kemampuan siswa berbicara dalam cerita menceritakan kembali setelah menggunakan Cuisenaire Rods. Jadi, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan dari kemampuan siswa berbicara dalam cerita menceritakan kembali setelah menggunakan Cuisenaire Rods. Penelitian ini diharapkan dapat berguna bagi guru dan siswa di kelas bahasa terutama dalam Berbicara. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dalam pendek...
There have been widely exposed researches that analyze accented and intelligible speech of foreig... more There have been widely exposed researches that analyze accented and intelligible speech of foreign language; yet, the study concerning listeners' awareness of the pronunciation errors is hardly found. Therefore, the current study aims to find out segmental features and the source of errors that have caused unintelligible speech of Indonesian-accented speech and describe the listeners' awareness of the errors. This descriptive qualitative research investigates listeners' transcripts of Indonesian-accented speeches through purposive sampling. The standard orthography transcripts are then transformed into phonemic transcripts. They are analyzed by error analysis based on phonological operation by Davenport and Hannahs. The result is further checked by the listeners to generate their awareness of the errors through interviews. There are consonants causing unintelligibility more than vowels. Furthermore, it is found that there are six pronunciation features affecting listener...
Developing an Online Course Book for English Freshmen in Lamongan Universities
Lingua, 2020
Until these days, the possibility of face-to-face teaching learning process in any universities i... more Until these days, the possibility of face-to-face teaching learning process in any universities is quite low. Therefore, the need of online learning materials for online or/and blended learning is inevitable. The present research aimed to develop an onlinebook for Reading 1 course at 3 universities in Lamongan. Unlike other online ELT books which is western-oriented, this online course book was developed based on Lamongan-Javanese’ local wisdom. A total of 135 freshmen and 3 lecturers were involved as the subjects. The results of need analysis showed that 1) the freshmen have positive attitude towards English reading even though they confronted by some problems, 2) the lecturers seemed to have different interpretations on their freshmen’ reading preferences, and 3) the students’ reading comprehension level needed to be improved. A number of implications regarding these findings were discussed as well in this research.
The abstract should In the era of the fourth industrial revolution today, the interaction between... more The abstract should In the era of the fourth industrial revolution today, the interaction between countries and cultures are no longer confined to overt geographical barriers due to technological advancement. However, these advances have created a countervailing effect on cultural identity, with a tendency to its loss; as well as cultural hegemony of one culture upon another culture. This phenomenon could be seen as well among foreign language learners. This critical literature study aims to examine the urgency of intercultural communication competence in foreign language learning to secure national cultural identity. This study has been commenced with the analysis of the development of intercultural interaction; determinant factors in intercultural competency integration of a language learning process; as well as the utilization of technology to enhance intercultural communication competency in the foreign language learning process. The result shows that information & communication technology (ICT) is beneficial in the materials development for foreign language learning. It carries the role of a media in learning, also as a means of communication to integrate intercultural communication competency into the foreign language learning process in today's era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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