Indonesian EFL learners are diverse in personalities, choices of language learning strategies (LL... more Indonesian EFL learners are diverse in personalities, choices of language learning strategies (LLSs), learning environments, and many others, which may influence their success in EFL learning and performance. Considering the diversities, two elementary school students (ESSs) studying at a private Islamic elementary school (PIES) surpassed other participants from many schools in some English Olympiads around East Java, Indonesia. Hence, the present study was aimed at delving into the stories of two successful EFL learners in an Islamic elementary school in Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia. To gather the data, documentation on the participants' achievements artifacts (i.e., certificates, trophies, and medals) and semi-structured interviews to dig deeper into their EFL learning strategies to achieve success were conducted. The participants were requested to read the article draft to validate the data. Prior to the data gathering, both participants signed a letter of consent. The re...
Abstract: The purpose of the research is to develop a practical argumentative essay textbook base... more Abstract: The purpose of the research is to develop a practical argumentative essay textbook based on Toulmin’s Model Argumentation (TMA) to foster university students’ critical thinking skill (CTS). The research steps are students’ characteristics analysis, teaching materials development, expert validation, try out the product, revisions, and final product. The developed product is argumentative essay textbook based on critical thinking aspects adopting the TMA through writing argumentative essay. The product was designed by adopting the six critical thinking aspects developed by Stephen Toulmin: Claim, Data, Warrant, Backing, Rebuttal (opposition and response to opposition), and Qualifiers. In the product’s completion, the teaching material was categorized as very valid. The product’s attractiveness showed that the teaching material was considered as interesting. Based on the product’s effectiveness component, it can be concluded that the teaching material was effectively used. Ba...
Based on the previous research, it was found that the Think Write Pair Share technique was ineffe... more Based on the previous research, it was found that the Think Write Pair Share technique was ineffective in improving students’ critical thinking skill, and due to the fact that during the process of learning to write argumentative essay, student commonly encounters various obstacles at determining the opinion of a topic which should be supported by logical reasons and appropriate evidences in the form of facts, then this research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Toulmin’s model of argumentation within “Claim and Support” strategy on undergraduate students’ critical thinking ability on argumentative essay. Thus, this current research employed a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest and nonrandomized control group design. Students’ critical thinking ability was measured by a writing test in the form of argumentative essay test. The data analysis in this research employed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). This research revealed that Toulmin's model of argumenta...
JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies)
The current study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using strategy-based instruction on ... more The current study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using strategy-based instruction on the student’s listening achievement. This research applied quasi-experimental design, and the instruments were pretest and posttest. Both tests were about putting the pictures in order and form completion.  Prior to strategy choice, this study utilized Posteriori Taxonomy of Strategies of Learning English Listening Skill (Zuhairi & Hidayanti, 2014) especially focusing on the use of eight strategy categories deployed by successful students (Hidayanti & Umamah, 2018). Gaining the result from Independent t-Test analysis, it was found out that the experimental group outperformed better than their counterparts in control group. Thus, Strategy-based instruction plays important role to enhance and improve the EFL learners’ listening skill.
Abstract: In academic writing, incorporating source from previous research and expert is essentia... more Abstract: In academic writing, incorporating source from previous research and expert is essential to support an article. However, improper use of other’s works might cause plagiarism. it is important to understand what is plagiarism and strategies to avoid it. This study aims to identify students’ perception about source incorporation, plagiarism and unintentional plagiarism due to error in writing as well as the strategies that they use to avoid plagiarism. This study use narrative qualitative framework and semi structural interview as instrument of data collection. Research data collected from 10 late-semester students of English department from University of Islam Malang. The result shows that most students understands about plagiarism and incorporation of other’s idea, but participants only mention problems related to textual plagiarism, and none mention about plagiarism of idea or self-plagiarism. To avoid plagiarism, each participant use directquotation technique properly, bu...
Abstract: The study aimed to investigate the grammar learning strategies frequently used by Indon... more Abstract: The study aimed to investigate the grammar learning strategies frequently used by Indonesian EFL learners in general and grammar learning strategies frequently used by successful and less successful students in learning grammar. The research design of this study is a quantitative study in the form of comparative design. There were 70 students of the second years of English education department participate in this study, and they divided into successful and less successful categories by using the TOEFL structure test consisting of 15 multiple choices and 25 error analysis. Besides, 70 items of the GLSI questionnaire used to know the grammar learning strategies used by the students. The result of the study showed that EFL students used social strategies more frequently than the other strategies. Moreover, both successful and less successful students used the same grammar learning strategies while they were different in frequency use levels. It was also proved that there is n...
Cognitive skills covering both intellectual and practical skills including critical and creative ... more Cognitive skills covering both intellectual and practical skills including critical and creative thinking as foundations of the essential learning outcomes which students should achieve across their college experience. For that reason, the objective of undergraduate education is to improve students who are able to involve in critical thinking and clear writing. The purpose of this study is: (1) to know both high and low-level students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essay; (2) to compare the students’ critical thinking competence both from high and low-level students by locating students’ writing argumentative scores into Critical Thinking Analytical Rubric (CTAR); (3) to compare between both high and low-level students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essays scored by SRAE and both high and low-level students’ critical thinking competence in writing argumentative essays scored by CTAR. This research investigated 35 students of the English Department of University of Is...
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginfestigasi keefektifan Model Argumentasi Toulmin dal... more Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginfestigasi keefektifan Model Argumentasi Toulmin dalam strategi “ Claim dan Support ” pada kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa dalam menulis esai argumentasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain eksperimen semu dengan tes awal dan tes akhir pada grup yang sudah ditentukan. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 35 mahasiswa semester empat jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Islam Malang. Kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa diukur dengan cara menilai paragraf argumentasi mereka. Hasil penelitian ini membuktikan beberapa temuan, diantaranya: Pertama, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi dari pada level signifikan α = 0.05 (0.239 > 0.05 yang berarti bahwa H 01 diterima. Kedua, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi dari pada level signifikan α = 0.05 (0.528 > 0.05) yang berarti bahwa H 02 diterima. Ketiga, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi dari pada level signifikan α = 0.05 (0.678 > 0.05) yang berarti bahwa H 03 diterima. Keempat, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi...
: This research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Toulmin’s model of argumentation with... more : This research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Toulmin’s model of argumentation within TWPS strategy on undergraduate students’ critical thinking on argumentative essay. A quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest and nonrandomized control group design was used. The subjects were 38 fourth semester students in English Department of Universitas Negeri Malang.The experimental group was treated by using Toulmin’s model of argumentation within TWPS strategy while the control group was treated without TWPS strategy. Students’ critical thinking ability was measured by using argumentative essay test. ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses. Findings showed there was not significant difference on the students’ critical thinking ability. However, Toulmin’s model of argumentation within TWPS strategy proved to improve the students’ critical thinking as shown by the improvement of the experimental group’s mean score. Key Words : critical thinking, Toulmin’s model of argume...
Deriving from many cases in a single parenting that effects the children’s physic and mental deve... more Deriving from many cases in a single parenting that effects the children’s physic and mental development directs this study to be worth-conducting. This study aimed at investigating the toddler’s physical and mental growth in a single parenting through qualitative approach. A narrative design was employed to reveal the untold story of a toddler in a single parenting through participatory observation. Then narrative analysis was applied based on these procedures: (1) observing the research object, (2) classifying the data, (3) interpreting data, and (4) (re)checking the data interpretation with the subject of research in order to search out verification (Creswell & Poth, 2018). Afterwards, the results were found that a toddler could meet his basic needs of life from a single parent through three aspects, such as child’s physical-biological education, child’s spiritual education, and child’s socio-cultural education. Thus, this study has emphasized the potential of toodler’s physic an...
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of uploaded-recorded v... more Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of uploaded-recorded video on IGTV on student speaking skill at second grade of SMAI Al-Maarif Singosar. The design of this research was experimental research with types of Pre-Experimental research. The researcher focused on one class, that were XI IBB was 23. The instruments test was six topics which were chosen by the students’ self. The researcher conducted pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The data from both pre-test and post-test was analysed using t-test analysis. The score of experimental class was significantly higher than controlled class. The result of analyzing pre-test score and post-test showed that significant level of 0.000 for first test and 0.001 for second test which less than 0.05. it means that using uploaded-recorded on Instagram was effective in improving speaking skill at second graders’ of SMAI Al-Maarif Singosari. It can be concluded that the student who was taught using uploaded-r...
Indonesian EFL learners are diverse in personalities, choices of language learning strategies (LL... more Indonesian EFL learners are diverse in personalities, choices of language learning strategies (LLSs), learning environments, and many others, which may influence their success in EFL learning and performance. Considering the diversities, two elementary school students (ESSs) studying at a private Islamic elementary school (PIES) surpassed other participants from many schools in some English Olympiads around East Java, Indonesia. Hence, the present study was aimed at delving into the stories of two successful EFL learners in an Islamic elementary school in Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia. To gather the data, documentation on the participants' achievements artifacts (i.e., certificates, trophies, and medals) and semi-structured interviews to dig deeper into their EFL learning strategies to achieve success were conducted. The participants were requested to read the article draft to validate the data. Prior to the data gathering, both participants signed a letter of consent. The re...
Abstract: The purpose of the research is to develop a practical argumentative essay textbook base... more Abstract: The purpose of the research is to develop a practical argumentative essay textbook based on Toulmin’s Model Argumentation (TMA) to foster university students’ critical thinking skill (CTS). The research steps are students’ characteristics analysis, teaching materials development, expert validation, try out the product, revisions, and final product. The developed product is argumentative essay textbook based on critical thinking aspects adopting the TMA through writing argumentative essay. The product was designed by adopting the six critical thinking aspects developed by Stephen Toulmin: Claim, Data, Warrant, Backing, Rebuttal (opposition and response to opposition), and Qualifiers. In the product’s completion, the teaching material was categorized as very valid. The product’s attractiveness showed that the teaching material was considered as interesting. Based on the product’s effectiveness component, it can be concluded that the teaching material was effectively used. Ba...
Based on the previous research, it was found that the Think Write Pair Share technique was ineffe... more Based on the previous research, it was found that the Think Write Pair Share technique was ineffective in improving students’ critical thinking skill, and due to the fact that during the process of learning to write argumentative essay, student commonly encounters various obstacles at determining the opinion of a topic which should be supported by logical reasons and appropriate evidences in the form of facts, then this research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Toulmin’s model of argumentation within “Claim and Support” strategy on undergraduate students’ critical thinking ability on argumentative essay. Thus, this current research employed a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest and nonrandomized control group design. Students’ critical thinking ability was measured by a writing test in the form of argumentative essay test. The data analysis in this research employed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). This research revealed that Toulmin's model of argumenta...
JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies)
The current study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using strategy-based instruction on ... more The current study aims at investigating the effectiveness of using strategy-based instruction on the student’s listening achievement. This research applied quasi-experimental design, and the instruments were pretest and posttest. Both tests were about putting the pictures in order and form completion.  Prior to strategy choice, this study utilized Posteriori Taxonomy of Strategies of Learning English Listening Skill (Zuhairi & Hidayanti, 2014) especially focusing on the use of eight strategy categories deployed by successful students (Hidayanti & Umamah, 2018). Gaining the result from Independent t-Test analysis, it was found out that the experimental group outperformed better than their counterparts in control group. Thus, Strategy-based instruction plays important role to enhance and improve the EFL learners’ listening skill.
Abstract: In academic writing, incorporating source from previous research and expert is essentia... more Abstract: In academic writing, incorporating source from previous research and expert is essential to support an article. However, improper use of other’s works might cause plagiarism. it is important to understand what is plagiarism and strategies to avoid it. This study aims to identify students’ perception about source incorporation, plagiarism and unintentional plagiarism due to error in writing as well as the strategies that they use to avoid plagiarism. This study use narrative qualitative framework and semi structural interview as instrument of data collection. Research data collected from 10 late-semester students of English department from University of Islam Malang. The result shows that most students understands about plagiarism and incorporation of other’s idea, but participants only mention problems related to textual plagiarism, and none mention about plagiarism of idea or self-plagiarism. To avoid plagiarism, each participant use directquotation technique properly, bu...
Abstract: The study aimed to investigate the grammar learning strategies frequently used by Indon... more Abstract: The study aimed to investigate the grammar learning strategies frequently used by Indonesian EFL learners in general and grammar learning strategies frequently used by successful and less successful students in learning grammar. The research design of this study is a quantitative study in the form of comparative design. There were 70 students of the second years of English education department participate in this study, and they divided into successful and less successful categories by using the TOEFL structure test consisting of 15 multiple choices and 25 error analysis. Besides, 70 items of the GLSI questionnaire used to know the grammar learning strategies used by the students. The result of the study showed that EFL students used social strategies more frequently than the other strategies. Moreover, both successful and less successful students used the same grammar learning strategies while they were different in frequency use levels. It was also proved that there is n...
Cognitive skills covering both intellectual and practical skills including critical and creative ... more Cognitive skills covering both intellectual and practical skills including critical and creative thinking as foundations of the essential learning outcomes which students should achieve across their college experience. For that reason, the objective of undergraduate education is to improve students who are able to involve in critical thinking and clear writing. The purpose of this study is: (1) to know both high and low-level students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essay; (2) to compare the students’ critical thinking competence both from high and low-level students by locating students’ writing argumentative scores into Critical Thinking Analytical Rubric (CTAR); (3) to compare between both high and low-level students’ difficulties in writing argumentative essays scored by SRAE and both high and low-level students’ critical thinking competence in writing argumentative essays scored by CTAR. This research investigated 35 students of the English Department of University of Is...
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginfestigasi keefektifan Model Argumentasi Toulmin dal... more Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginfestigasi keefektifan Model Argumentasi Toulmin dalam strategi “ Claim dan Support ” pada kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa dalam menulis esai argumentasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain eksperimen semu dengan tes awal dan tes akhir pada grup yang sudah ditentukan. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 35 mahasiswa semester empat jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Islam Malang. Kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa diukur dengan cara menilai paragraf argumentasi mereka. Hasil penelitian ini membuktikan beberapa temuan, diantaranya: Pertama, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi dari pada level signifikan α = 0.05 (0.239 > 0.05 yang berarti bahwa H 01 diterima. Kedua, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi dari pada level signifikan α = 0.05 (0.528 > 0.05) yang berarti bahwa H 02 diterima. Ketiga, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi dari pada level signifikan α = 0.05 (0.678 > 0.05) yang berarti bahwa H 03 diterima. Keempat, nilai p (Sig.) lebih tinggi...
: This research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Toulmin’s model of argumentation with... more : This research aimed at investigating the effectiveness of Toulmin’s model of argumentation within TWPS strategy on undergraduate students’ critical thinking on argumentative essay. A quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest and nonrandomized control group design was used. The subjects were 38 fourth semester students in English Department of Universitas Negeri Malang.The experimental group was treated by using Toulmin’s model of argumentation within TWPS strategy while the control group was treated without TWPS strategy. Students’ critical thinking ability was measured by using argumentative essay test. ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses. Findings showed there was not significant difference on the students’ critical thinking ability. However, Toulmin’s model of argumentation within TWPS strategy proved to improve the students’ critical thinking as shown by the improvement of the experimental group’s mean score. Key Words : critical thinking, Toulmin’s model of argume...
Deriving from many cases in a single parenting that effects the children’s physic and mental deve... more Deriving from many cases in a single parenting that effects the children’s physic and mental development directs this study to be worth-conducting. This study aimed at investigating the toddler’s physical and mental growth in a single parenting through qualitative approach. A narrative design was employed to reveal the untold story of a toddler in a single parenting through participatory observation. Then narrative analysis was applied based on these procedures: (1) observing the research object, (2) classifying the data, (3) interpreting data, and (4) (re)checking the data interpretation with the subject of research in order to search out verification (Creswell & Poth, 2018). Afterwards, the results were found that a toddler could meet his basic needs of life from a single parent through three aspects, such as child’s physical-biological education, child’s spiritual education, and child’s socio-cultural education. Thus, this study has emphasized the potential of toodler’s physic an...
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of uploaded-recorded v... more Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of uploaded-recorded video on IGTV on student speaking skill at second grade of SMAI Al-Maarif Singosar. The design of this research was experimental research with types of Pre-Experimental research. The researcher focused on one class, that were XI IBB was 23. The instruments test was six topics which were chosen by the students’ self. The researcher conducted pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The data from both pre-test and post-test was analysed using t-test analysis. The score of experimental class was significantly higher than controlled class. The result of analyzing pre-test score and post-test showed that significant level of 0.000 for first test and 0.001 for second test which less than 0.05. it means that using uploaded-recorded on Instagram was effective in improving speaking skill at second graders’ of SMAI Al-Maarif Singosari. It can be concluded that the student who was taught using uploaded-r...
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