Bulletin of English Language Teaching in Higher Education

Mastering Professional Communication: The Power of Discussion Techniques in Speaking

Afrida Dewi Anggraini, Nurul Puspita, Nur Syamsiah — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Teaching speaking in a professional setting entail utilizing a variety of strategies, like discussion groups, to increase student engagement, creativity, and learning confidence. In order to support their professional development and deliver materials, instructions, and feedback to students, English lecturers must be able to communicate effectively in professional settings. Therefore, the research aims to describe students’ competence in speaking fluently and accurately. Qualitative research is implemented in this research. In addition, the data collection used in this research includes observation, interviews, and documentation. In analysing the data, the researcher used data analysis steps. The findings show that discussion techniques are extremely helpful to make students active, creative, and confident in speaking. The implications of this research highlight the importance of appropriate technique to enhance students’ speaking. In sum, this research contributes valuable knowledge to the implementation of a discussion technique.

Students’ Perception of Google Classroom as a Media Discussion at Islamic State University of Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu

Ari Andre Rianyansa, Iis Sujarwati — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:40:35 +0700

This study aims to describe students' perceptions of google classroom as a media discussion of Islamic State University (UIN) of Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative through an online questionnaire of students of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. The instrument were via questionnaire and interview. There were 66 responses to the survey. A Google form-based questionnaire about students' opinions about Google Classroom was employed as the data gathering method in this study. as a media discussion of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. Thirty students were selected as the respondents of this research. The data were analyzed by using Microsoft Excel for quantitative data. The result showed that students’ perception of google classroom as a media discussion 20% of respondents said it was good. Meanwhile 8% said it was enough, and 2% said it was very good. We can prove this result by looking at the questionnaire and the results of the interviews that have been conducted. online learning using google classroom as a media discussion which is currently widely used by students because they feel good at using google classroom as a media discussion.

An Analysis of English Learning Readiness on Seventh Grade Students in New Normal Situation

Lisa Nuraini, Rizky Hidayatullah — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:03:42 +0700

This study analyzes the learning readiness of seventh grade students and the factors that encourage learning readiness. The subject of this study was seventh grade students at SMP (Junior High School) Plus Nurul Islam, a total of 22 students, who had completed the questionnaire offline. The methods used is a qualitative case study. The purpose of this study is to find out the factors that encourage students' readiness to learn English and students' readiness to learn English. The survey found that 54.55% of 7^th grade students' English learning readiness is still low, 27.27% of intermediate level students and 18.18% of high level students. This is because the factors that encourage their learning readiness are not sufficiently met. There are two factors that encourage English learning readiness, namely internal factors and external factors. Internal factors that come from within the students themselves, while external factors are factors that come from the environment around the students. Such as family, motivating teachers, schools, supporting technology, and many more. This research has important implications for understanding students' readiness to learn English which is the key to a successful learning process.

Developing Picture Story Book for Reading Comprehension Activity at Junior High School

Kiki Nadi Rotu Rohmah, Mai Zuniati — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:54:23 +0700

The deficient student reading interest and the lack of learning media in the school lead to a common understanding of students' reading on learning materials. This research aims to develop and test the feasibility and effectiveness of picture book media. This research uses research and development with Borg and Gall model. The model consists of ten steps namely preliminary research, planning, develop preliminary form of product, operational ptroduct revision, operational ptroduct revision, operational field testing, Preliminary field testing, Main field testing, Main product revision, Final product revision, and Dissemination. The results showed that the feasibility of material in picture storybooks was rated feasible (81.81%), while media eligibility in picture storybooks was rated highly feasible (91.67%). Based on the average difference through the t-test showed that sig (2-tailed) 0.000 < 0.05, it was concluded that the average value between pretest and posttest had significant changes.

The Implementation of Dialogic Reading Strategy to Teach Reading for Vocational School Students

Lailatul Inayah — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:51:03 +0700

This research is conducted to determine the implementation of dialogic reading strategy on reading ability of 10^th TKJ 1 grade students at SMK (Vocational School) Ma’arif 1 Metro. This research used qualitative research and the validity of the data in this study used tringulation data source. The research instruments were observation, interviews documentation.There were one of the 10^th grade TKJ1student SMK (Vocational School) Ma’arif 1 Metro. The results show that the discussion above, 65% of students reading comprehension skills are quite good and 35% need guidance. It can be concluded that dialogic reading strategies can help reduce the obstacles that occur in class X TKJ 1 SMK (Vocational School) Ma’arif 1 Metro. The researcher suggests to the teacher, use interesting and appropriate strategies for students so that students can easily understand learning English. Finally, this research can be used as a reference for other researchers.