What Lies Behind the Students’ Need in English for Specific Purposes: A Reflection of Needs Analysis

Rachmawati, Umi

doi:10.33394/jollt.v8i2.2537

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“…In teaching English for guiding, the teacher designs the material based on the syllabus with the selected material. Thus, the need analysis is an important part of achieving the goals of the instruction in teaching (Rachmawati, 2020). In this case, the need analysis of cultural literacy in teaching English for guiding.…”

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Cultural Literacy in Teaching English for Guiding

Adijaya

2023

Mimb. Ilmu

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Cultural literacy is highly needed by those who deal with tourism area as the subject of the study. English for Guiding is one of the courses that belongs to Diploma 3 English of Ganesha University of Education and it deals with tourism. This study aims at discussing the need analysis of cultural literacy in teaching English for guiding in order to know about cultural components involved in the teaching process. This study is descriptive study which describe about the need of the students in cultural literacy. The data were gathered through questionnaires to gain the information about the cultural elements in cultural literacy that can support the students in learning English for Guiding and prepare them to become skillful in English proficiency as well as competent and knowledgable in contents. The data were gathered by using questionnaire in order to gain the information about the students’ need on the cultural literacy in lerning English for guiding. The finding shows that there are seven big cultural elements such as 1) symbols; 2) language; 3) norms; 4) rituals; 5) changing norms and belief; 6) values which provide the consideration of what is good and bad, desirable and undesirable; 7) artifacts. The implications of this research are hoped that in the future students will be able to be professional and competent through cultural literacyg.

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Cultural Literacy in Teaching English for Guiding

Adijaya

2023

Mimb. Ilmu

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“…Teachers hardly provided learners with interesting activities. It caused because teaching materials in speaking classes are less designed to facilitate students to learn and utilize their higher order thinking skills (Rachmawati, 2020;Aprianoto & Haerazi, 2019;Suparlan, 2021). The speaking activities are focused on reading texts taken from a worksheet and then they are asked to answer questions related to reading texts.…”

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Exploring the Use of Various Board Games to Enhance Speaking Skills Viewed from Students’ Phonology Awareness

Hidayatullah¹,

Haerazi²

2022

JOLLS. Lang. Liter. Studies

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Speaking skill is classified as a productive skill after writing skills. It is related to communicative performance dealing with phonetic, fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, grammatical competence, intonation, and vocabulary mastery. Besides, students’ phonology knowledge is crucial in understanding speakers’ utterances in speaking activities. Therefore, students’ phonology awareness in speaking classes determine the students are success or not in having speaking skills. This study aims to elaborate the use of speaking board games to improve students’ speaking skills viewed from phonology awareness. To attain the research aims, this study employed classroom action research. The problems are focused on students’ speaking skills in relation to phonology awareness. The research data are classified into qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were gained using interview and observation sheets, while the quantitative data were collected using speaking tests. Based on the research findings, this study can be concluded that the use of speaking board games in teaching speaking classes which was combined with other various materials was able to improve students’ confidence and critical thinking skills to speak. It helped students practice their fluency, practice their accuracy, and gave smooth correction to the grammatical errors being made. Providing students with various speaking practices, the use of board games also facilitated students to improve their pronunciation inside and outside classes, vocabulary, and engage them to learn the English daily expressions in various topics.

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“…It means they learn English for almost 12 years but yet, there are not enough students who master it even though they have learnt it since so long. But as a matter of fact, the main issue or problem that happens is not how long they have learnt English (Novita, 2018;Rachmawati, 2020). It is how much they want to learn and how much they are interested and motivated to learn English.…”

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Using Bookwidgets to Attract Students' Interest in Learning English

Zaitun¹,

Hadi

Lestari³

2021

JOLLT

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English teachers deliver their teaching materials using various platforms. One of those is the BookWidgets platform which is used to create interactive learning activities and involves students in engaging teaching material. This platform provides teachers and students with dynamic widgets such as iPad, Android tablets, Chromebooks, and iBooks with interactive content. These are designed to interact with students’ interest in acquiring English smoothly. Therefore, this study is aimed at finding out students’ interest in learning English and attract their interest using Bookwidgets. The method used in this study was a quantitative descriptive method, which used a survey to collect the data. The population in this study was taken from junior high school students in MTs Al-Falah using a questionnaire or online survey. In analyzing the data, the writer used a Likert statistical analysis. The results of this showed that students’ interest in English learning using media increased up to 48,1% after they were being introduced to Bookwidgets.

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What Lies Behind the Students’ Need in English for Specific Purposes: A Reflection of Needs Analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Cultural Literacy in Teaching English for Guiding

Cultural Literacy in Teaching English for Guiding

Exploring the Use of Various Board Games to Enhance Speaking Skills Viewed from Students’ Phonology Awareness

Using Bookwidgets to Attract Students' Interest in Learning English

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