Papers by Dwi Handayani Silitonga
JETAL: Journal of English Teaching & Applied Linguistic
STIE Bina Karya students where their learning focus is not on English, but they have to take Engl... more STIE Bina Karya students where their learning focus is not on English, but they have to take English for a Specific Purpose as one of the general subjects. Therefore, delivering English for specific purposes material requires an appropriate learning method. This research aims to describe the application of the Role-Playing Method for STIE Bina Karya students. This Class Action Research applied two cycles. The research subjects are 70 students from the first semester who were chosen randomly. This research used tests, questionnaires, and observations in collecting the data. In analyzing the data, the student's correct answer was divided by the number of items and times 100 to get the score. Research results showed that there is an increase in learning outcomes by applying the role-playing method. In the initial test, student learning outcomes is 35.73. Then in cycle I, it increased to 61.14 and increased again to 77.36 in cycle II. Questionnaire data also proved that the Role-Pla...
Journal of English Teaching and Applied Linguistics (JETAL), Apr 20, 2022
This study aimed to describe the Politeness Strategies used in Mata Najwa Talk Show. This study a... more This study aimed to describe the Politeness Strategies used in Mata Najwa Talk Show. This study applied a qualitative research design to explore the politeness strategies used by the participants in Mata Najwa Talk Show in their interactions. The participants in this study were Najwa Shihab as a host, Erick Thohir and Nadiem Makarim as guests. The data in this study were in the form of utterances that contain politeness strategies. The result showed that the host not only use Positive Strategy to reveal the guests" issue but also use a Negative strategy to reduce the interference with the guests" freedom of action. The guests tend to use Positive Politeness because they tried to convince society about their new policies and state that they share the same specific wants, goals, or values, namely a better condition for this country. From the analysis, the researcher found out the result that Positive politeness (76,32%), Negative Politeness (18,42%) and off Record Strategy (5,27%) and there is no Bald Record Strategy used in this analysis.
English is one of the subjects taught at the university level, as well for management study progr... more English is one of the subjects taught at the university level, as well for management study program at the STIE Bina Karya, where the students focus their learning not on English, but have to take English courses as a general subject. This study aimed to find out what strategies are applied by lecturers in teaching reading comprehension for management students at STIE Bina Karya. The participants of this research are two English lecturers at STIE Bina Karya. This descriptive qualitative design applied a questionnaire for collecting the data. The result of this research showed that there are some different activities were carried out by the two lecturers at the while-reading stage. The first lecturer prefers to ask students to read the text one by one to improve their pronunciation. However, sometimes she asked them to read the text silently. Meanwhile, another lecturer prefers asking the students to read silently to gain better comprehension. Moreover, both lecturers agreed that in pre-reading activities, lecturers have to first use a strategy to attract students' interest in learning English and make it easier for them to understand the material content. For measuring students' understanding, they gave questions related to the text at the post-reading stage. Beside that, students are trained to create sentences from the word chosen from text, discuss the students' answers, review the lesson and lastly explain the conclusion.
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, Jun 1, 2021
Pronunciation has many great important roles in one speaking performance. The inappropriate prono... more Pronunciation has many great important roles in one speaking performance. The inappropriate pronounced words cause the negative impact of misunderstanding. Therefore, this study aims to find out how the pronunciation of Batu Bara Malay students, particularly the English consonant clusters and the word stress, and to identify the factors affecting Batu Bara Malay students' difficulties in pronouncing English consonant clusters and the word stress. The qualitative method was applied in this study. There were 25 students of seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Datuk Tanah Datar as the study subjects who speak the Malay Language as their mother tongue. The data were collected by recording students' voice and interviewing. The researchers applied the Miles and Huberman model to analyze the data. The results are Batu Bara Malay students' ability to pronounce English consonant clusters around 29%. Most of the students inaccurately utter the English consonant cluster word at the final position. The students' ability in pronouncing English word by correct word stress rules around 30%. As the students' achievement under 50%, it means their ability in pronouncing consonant cluster and word stress is very low. These problems are caused by the existence of the mother tongue intervening in their process of learning another language and the distinction between English characteristics and nature compared with Indonesia Language (similar to the Malay language), particularly consonant clusters. English has more types of consonant. Besides that, the lack of both knowledge and pronunciation exercises on how to pronounce English word accurately for beginner learners so the students are unable to pronounce English consonant clusters and emphasize appropriate word stress.
International Journal of Economics (IJEC)
English is one of the subjects taught at the university level, as well for management study progr... more English is one of the subjects taught at the university level, as well for management study program at the STIE Bina Karya, where the students focus their learning not on English, but have to take English courses as a general subject. This study aimed to find out what strategies are applied by lecturers in teaching reading comprehension for management students at STIE Bina Karya. The participants of this research are two English lecturers at STIE Bina Karya. This descriptive qualitative design applied a questionnaire for collecting the data. The result of this research showed that there are some different activities were carried out by the two lecturers at the while-reading stage. The first lecturer prefers to ask students to read the text one by one to improve their pronunciation. However, sometimes she asked them to read the text silently. Meanwhile, another lecturer prefers asking the students to read silently to gain better comprehension. Moreover, both lecturers agreed that in ...
JETAL: Journal of English Teaching & Applied Linguistic
This study aimed to describe the Politeness Strategies used in Mata Najwa Talk Show. This study a... more This study aimed to describe the Politeness Strategies used in Mata Najwa Talk Show. This study applied a qualitative research design to explore the politeness strategies used by the participants in Mata Najwa Talk Show in their interactions. The participants in this study were Najwa Shihab as a host, Erick Thohir and Nadiem Makarim as guests. The data in this study were in the form of utterances that contain politeness strategies. The result showed that the host not only use Positive Strategy to reveal the guests’ issue but also use a Negative strategy to reduce the interference with the guests’ freedom of action. The guests tend to use Positive Politeness because they tried to convince society about their new policies and state that they share the same specific wants, goals, or values, namely a better condition for this country. From the analysis, the researcher found out the result that Positive politeness (76,32%), Negative Politeness (18,42%) and off Record Strategy (5,27%) and...
Pronunciation has many great important roles in one speaking performance. The inappropriate prono... more Pronunciation has many great important roles in one speaking performance. The inappropriate pronounced words cause the negative impact of misunderstanding. Therefore, this study aims to find out how the pronunciation of Batu Bara Malay students, particularly the English consonant clusters and the word stress, and to identify the factors affecting Batu Bara Malay students’ difficulties in pronouncing English consonant clusters and the word stress. The qualitative method was applied in this study. There were 25 students of seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Datuk Tanah Datar as the study subjects who speak the Malay Language as their mother tongue. The data were collected by recording students’ voice and interviewing. The researchers applied the Miles and Huberman model to analyze the data. The results are Batu Bara Malay students’ ability to pronounce English consonant clusters around 29%. Most of the students inaccurately utter the English consonant cluster word at the final pos...
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Papers by Dwi Handayani Silitonga