iii PREFACEThe challenges in the educational field trigger the researchers in the attempt of improving the education quality in Indonesia particularly, dealing with the methods and media used as well as the sources. Journal of English Language and Education (JELE) Vol.2, No.1 provides articles which share ideas that hopefully they can give contribution to the education betterment by its new findings. This journal contains seven articles corcerning on English language teaching and literature. They are categorized into content analysis, English syllabus, English literature, and techniques to teach English that aims to improve the quality of English learning.We would like to thank to the contributors who have already participated in sharing the idea towards this journal. We would like also to express our sincere thanks to all members of editorial board who have worked hand in hand in creating this journal. We hope that this fine collection of articles will be beneficial and valuable to stimulate a further research. Abstract This research was conducted based on the students' ability that was low in speaking which gave negative impact toward students' final score. This problem was caused by some factors; one of them was the technique of teaching that only focused on the teacher. As a result, the students were not active in teaching learning process. Research method that was used in this research was a quasi-experiment with pre-test post-test control group design. Technique of teaching applied was Think Pair Share. The population of this research was the eleventh grade English department students of SMK Pelayaran Putra Samudera Yogyakarta in academic year 2015/2016 with the total number of students was 50. The sample of this research was XIA with 25 students as experimental class and XIB with 25 students as control class, that were chosen by using purposive sampling. Instrument used in collecting the data was speaking test. The result of the test was analyzed by using t-test. From that test, it was found that tcalculated was higher than t-table, where t-calculated was 3.624 and t-table was 2.011. Thus, Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. As conclusion there was significant improvement of Think Pair Share Technique applied toward students' speaking skill at the eleventh grade English department students in academic year 2015/2016.

The present research evaluated EFL perspectives about contextual clues in reading comprehension at different proficiency levels. The data analysis using qualitative descriptions with frequencies and percentages was employed for 38 intermediate-level students and 25 advanced-level students in the university level through teaching contextual clues in reading comprehension with an experimental design. The results proved that students' proficiency in reading ability could be demonstrated by their use of idiomatic expressions, indirect language, direct language, series of words, comparison, synonym, tone, situation, mood, reference, restatement, preposition, cause-effect, modification, and example. Advanced students with a high level of vocabulary, grammar, and decoding skills were better able to utilize many contextual clues than intermediate students. Thus, reading ability was strongly correlated with the ability to infer word meaning from contextual clues.

This research was to investigate Indonesian teachers’ beliefs about the application of oral corrective feedback in Indonesian students’ EFL classrooms. It was limited to oral corrective feedback given for lexical, phonological, and syntactical errors in English conversation class. The participants of this research were 36 English teachers and 65 Indonesian students of English as a foreign language. This research utilized both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including the use of a close-ended questionnaire, semi-structured interview, and audio-recording to find the effectiveness of oral corrective feedback on students’ errors in speaking skills. The data analysis revealed: (1) the grammatical errors in students’ oral proficiency, (2) the most type of English teachers’ oral corrective feedback, (3) the students’ uptake in speaking skills, (4) the analysis of the use of oral corrective feedback, (5) the kinds of the students’ error based on English teachers’ experiences, (6) the students’ self-awareness of language errors, (7) the way of English teacher when delivering oral corrective feedback, (8) the students’ reasons to use oral corrective feedback based on English teachers’ beliefs, and (9) English teachers’ motivations to use oral corrective feedback. These findings suggested that English teachers should understand the students’ diverse needs, concerns, and expectations toward error correction according to their level of language proficiency.

This study aimed to analyze the discourse on the meaning of love that arose from the mood in the twelve stories “Love Never Gets Old” by Benny Arnas in 2014. The mood of the story was analyzed based on various points of view of the characters that influenced the discourse in the story. Genette's Narrative Theory regarding mood was the main key to uncovering the most prominent discourse so that the meaning of the text could be carried out in an orderly manner. The mood was useful in the meaning of the text to determine the position of the narrator in each story character. The results of this study indicated that the most prominent meaning after determining the storyteller, the scene, and the form of speech was about the distance between the narrator and the reader of the work, which influenced the discourse on the meaning of love. The most dominant view in this collection of stories was “I", which correlated with the character Samin. Based on the dominant point of view, love has four types, namely love for fellow human beings, love for property and God, and a form of love for oneself. The results of the data analysis revealed that the meaning of love that emerged was Samin's love for himself.

This study aimed to analyze. The Influence of learning model on students science process skill. This study is a quasi-experimental research (quasi experiment). The population of this research is fourth grade students of SD Methodist 1 Medan. The sample in this study selected by purposive random sampling as much as two gradtahun es. Class experiment treated with a inquiry training model based collaborative, the control class treated with direct instruction model. The instrument used consisted of: science process skill test and scientific attitude questionnaire sheet. Data analysis was performed using ANOVA two lanes. The results of this study indicate that: (1) the process of science students that learned Science with learning inquiry training model based collaborative is higher than direct instruction; (2) Science process skill students with high scientific attitudes indicates is higher than low scientific attitudes; and (3) an interaction between the inquiry training model based collaborative and direct instruction with the level of scientific attitudes in influencing student science process skills. The results of this research suggest that the learning model inquiry training based collaborative is a solution to and alternatives for the teachers to improve student science process skills.