Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics Studies (JET Li)

The Implementation of Critical Reading Techniques Towards the 2024 Presidential Election News

Restu Dessy Maulida Hasanah — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study examines student behaviors and perceptions regarding engagement with election-related news, emphasizing the role of critical reading techniques in fostering informed electoral decisions. Students actively utilized diverse news sources, employing strategies like simultaneous access, highlighting, and note-taking to assess credibility and manage information overload. Questionnaire results indicated that 75% of respondents engaged in critical reading practices, displaying an awareness of biases and cross-referencing capabilities. However, challenges such as information overload and misinformation remained, with 25% of students showing little interest in election content. While 80% of participants demonstrated a strong grasp of critical reading processes, noticeable gaps in education and awareness were observed. Interviews revealed that students found their experiences enlightening, which improved their ability to identify credible information and navigate conflicting reports. Many reported enhanced comprehension and decision-making due to critical reading strategies, underlining the necessity for educational initiatives focused on media literacy. This research highlights the essential role of critical reading in election-related information, advocating for active democratic engagement. Future efforts should prioritize workshops and resources that equip students with skills to identify credible news, fostering a more informed and engaged electorate.

Challenges in Collaborative Practices: A Focus on Team Teaching in English TPD

hilyati fitria, Utami Dewi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Team teaching is a widely recognized collaborative practice within Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programs, offering opportunities for shared responsibility, professional growth, and enhanced student outcomes. However, its implementation often encounters significant challenges, which remain underexplored in the context of English education. This study aims to investigate the barriers faced by English teachers in implementing team teaching, addressing a critical gap in the literature. Using a qualitative, phenomenological approach, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with five English teachers experienced in team teaching. Thematic analysis revealed three major challenges: interpersonal issues such as miscommunication and lack of trust, institutional constraints including insufficient planning time and inadequate administrative support, and pedagogical misalignments stemming from differing teaching philosophies. These findings highlight the complexities of team teaching and underscore the need for targeted interventions. The study recommends fostering trust, allocating dedicated planning time, and aligning pedagogical approaches through professional development programs. These insights contribute to the theoretical discourse on collaborative practices in TPD and offer practical guidance for optimizing team teaching, thereby enhancing teacher effectiveness and student learning.

THE ROLE OF MODIFIED SONGS IN INTRODUCING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO YOUNG LEARNERS

Nurulita Aulia Tasya, Lungguh Halira Vonti, Poppy Sofia Hidayati — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Songs is a basic need for every human being because music can make people happy, joyful and comfortable. Music can be effective in academics by helping to form learning patterns, overcome boredom and ward off annoying external noise. However, some problems in the kindergarten
classrooms make students have little knowledge of vocabulary to learn a foreign language. Many students struggle with the tedious process of retaining and recalling language. This study aims to find out the role of modified songs in introducing English vocabulary to young learners. Collecting the data through field notes observation, and semi structured interview the researcher was analyze these
data using descriptive qualitative data analysis. It was shown that modified songs play a role as media for enjoyment, memorizing, and motivation in the teaching and learning process to help students reach vocabulary expansion. Learning through modified songs can be appropriate role to introducing English vocabulary to young learners for young learners. Because of this, it appears that students can participate actively in teaching and learning activities carried out using Modified songs. As a result of the finding, it can be concluded that using modified songs to introducing English vocabulary to young has a role as media for enjoyment, memorizing, and motivation and vocabulary expansion.

The Use of Mobile Assisted Language Learning on Students' Pronunciation

Asih Wahyuni, Delfi waldia, Abdul Rosyid — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pronunciation ability is one of elements of English that should be mastered by the students because the students are expected to be able to carry out conversation with others using correct pronunciation. Unfortunately, the students get difficulties in pronouncing words with correct stress and intonation. For that reason, they need an appropriate technique in learning English to help their pronunciation
ability. The aim of this research is to find the effect of using Mobile Assisted Language Learning on Students’ Pronunciation. The research was conducted to the second grades students of SMK. In conducting this research, the writer applied pre-experimental as the method with one group pre-test post-test design. The participants were given pre-test, three treatments and a post-test. Oral test is given to measure the students’ ability in pronunciation. The data are analyzed by using t-test formula. From calculating the data, she found the t-test value 14.11, meanwhile the t-table value is 2.069 at the significant level 0.5 with the degree of freedom (dƒ) 23. It is found that the t-calculated is higher than t-table (14.11>2.069). It means the value of t-table is lower than the t-test. So, it can be concluded that an
alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. In other words, The Use of MobileAssisted Language Learning affects students’ pronunciation.

Students’ Experiences in Participating in Booktalk Program of Extensive Reading Class

Megasari Sakti, Istiqlaliha Nurul Hidayati, Gusnadi — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Booktalk is one of the tools to engage students to read more. This research is aimed to explore about the students’ experiences in participating in Booktalk program. The research was conducted in English Language Education Study Program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Science of Pakuan University. There were fifty eight students of the fifth semester as participants of this research. To gain the research data, the researcher used triangulation; questionnaire, students’ interview, and documentation. According to the data analysis, it was found that students have various experiences while participating in Booktalk program in Extensive Reading class. As the result of students have experienced of Booktalk program, there are four indicators that were pointed out the result of this research; Booktalk changes how students think and understand of something, upgrades students’ reading comprehension, acknowledges students nobler of the books, and the book types impacts students’ reading process.

The The Use of Song as a Medium to Improve the Vocabulary Mastery of the Eighth Grade Students

Tri Ayu Widyaningrum — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This research was aimed to know whether the use of English song as a medium effective to improve the eighth-grade students' vocabulary mastery. This study used a a quasi-experimental research design. The sample of this study was VIII D which consisted of 26 students acting as the experimental class and VIII E which consisted of 26 students acting as the control class. In collecting data, the researcher used a test namely try-out, pre-test and post-test. The data were then analyzed using SPSS windows version 28.0. Based on the statistics score, it shows that the average of the experimental class is 97.54. So, it can be concluded that the average of the experimental class is higher than the average of the control class. The results of the analysis of the different T-test were in column T (t=36.894) with a probability of < 0.001. It can be concluded that the problem has a significant difference and H0 was rejected, meaning that English song as a medium effective to improve the eighth-grade students' vocabulary mastery