UPI Journal of English and Education
Journal published by Indonesia University of Education
UPI Journal of English and Education
UPI Journal of English and Education is an anthology of articles from students of the English Education study program at the Indonesia University of Education. It is published twice a year, in October and April. The articles in each issue are based on undergraduate students' final paper (skripsi).
Subjects: Language, Literature & Linguistics, Education
Accreditation: Not accredited.
Articles
1–50 of 93 results.
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An Analysis of Descriptive Text in English Textbook Using Transitivity System (a Case Study of Reading Passages) Download• 2016
English
The main focus of the study is to investigate to what extent the descriptive texts in English textbook meet its criteria in terms of purposes, schematic structures and linguistic features. A qualitati... -
Students' Perceptions Towards the Use of Podcast in Learning English: a Case Study of the Second Grade Students at One High School in Bandung Download• 2016
English
The development of ICT has brought into innovative ways in second language learning, especially English. Podcast is considered as part of ICT that has been widely used and proved as an effective tool ...
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An Investigation of English Teaching Strategies in Enhancing Students' Vocabulary Implemented by a Pre-service English Teacher Download• 2016 Индонезия
English
The need to teach English language appropriately in particular is a challenge for all the teachers in Indonesia. Today, it has become obligatory for the teachers to rethink and renovate their teaching...
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A Systemic Functional Linguistics (Sfl) Analysis of Exposition Texts as Teaching Materials Written by Pre-service Teachers Download• 2016
English
The research is entitled A Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Analysis of Exposition Texts as Teaching Materials Written by Pre-Service Teachers. This research aims at observing the teachers' Subje...
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• 2016 Индонезия
English
Anxiety has been considered as negative influence in learning a language. In speaking, it is also reported to be debilitating for the students' performance and achievement. This study examined the att...
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• 2016
English
This study aims to investigate the perception of students toward the use of two languages of instruction (English and Indonesian) by the teacher in an English classroom and to find out its benefits fo...
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Grammatical Metaphor as Framework Analysis of Students' Translation of Dicsussion Text (a Case Study of English Department's Students in Public University Indonesia University of Education) Download• 2016 Индонезия
English
This study focuses on investigating the procedures and methods of translating grammatical metaphors, introduced by Halliday (1985) and developed by Taverniers and Ravelli (2003), in students' translat...
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An Analysis of Narrative Texts in Textbooks Used by Eighth Grade Students (Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective) Download• 2016
English
This paper entitled “Analysis of Narrative Texts in Textbooks Used by Eighth grade Students (Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective)” is aimed to reveal to what extent Narrative texts in two sele...
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• 2016
English
This study aims to investigate the students' reading techniques difficulties in recount text. The study is based on the theory proposed by Mikulecky and Jeffries (2004) regarding the reading technique...
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• 2016
English
This research was aimed at discovering teachers' talk category occurred the most in an EFL classroom and reasons for teacher in choosing categories that occurred. The data were obtained through observ...
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Common Errors and Problems Encountered by Students English to Indonesian Consecutive Interpreting Download• 2016
English
The aims of this study are to find out the common errors and problems encountered by students in consecutive interpreting from English to Indonesian. Qualitative method involving analysis, error valid...
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• 2016
English
The focus of this study is to investigate the students' recount texts based on its criteria and to investigate the students' problems in writing the texts. This research employed qualitative research ...
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The Use of Video in Teaching English Speaking (a Quasi-experimental Research in Senior High School in Sukabumi) Download• 2016
English
Speaking skill is one of the four language skills that should be mastered by, in this case, students to be able to communicate with their surroundings. However, there are some difficulties for teacher...
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• 2016
English
The study aims to explore the metacognitive knowledge and regulation of students in senior high school. This study employed a case study design with 33 participants from a public senior high school in...
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• 2016
English
The research was aimed at discovering the use of picture book in helping junior high school students learn reading narrative, and the students' responses to the use of picture book in teaching reading...
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• 2016
English
Textbooks play a pivotal role in language classrooms in all types of educational institutions. However, textbook selection and evaluation is often given little time or attention despite its central ro...
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Measuring Teachers' Professional Competence: a Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis in Teachers' Report Texts Download• 2016
English
This study aims at observing the teachers' professional competence by investigating the report texts written by three English teachers in a junior high school in terms of their schematic structures an...
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An Evaluation Of Reading Materials In “English In Focus” Textbook For Seventh Grade Students In One Of Junior High Schools In Bandung Download• 2016 Индонезия
English
This study was intended to evaluate the reading materials on “English in Focus” textbook for seventh grade students published by the National Department of Education in Indonesia in 2008 based on good...
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Student Teachers' Challenges In Developing Teaching Materials During Teaching Practicum In Vocational School Download• 2016
English
Teaching practicum is an essential time for pre service teacher in practicing their teaching skills. It shows the student teachers ability in applying the knowledge that they have learned from the col...
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Teacher's Way to Foster Critical Thinking in the Classroom (a Case Study of a Senior High School in Bandung) Download• 2016
English
This study describes the way teacher fosters critical thinking in the classroom when teaching argumentative essay at Senior High School level. It aims to understand and describe the way teacher foster...
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• 2015
English
This study was concerned with analysis of translation strategies used by the students in translating a political speech of Barrack Obama, the difficulties faced by them in translating it and the quali...
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Teacher Talk and Learning Opportunities (a Case Study of a Pre-service Teacher in Efl Classroom) Download• 2015
English
The background of this research stemmed from the issue of significant role of teacher talk in promoting students' learning opportunities. It was found how teacher interruptions made students had fewer...
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The Utilization of Instructional Media in Teaching English to Young Learners (a Case Study of an Elementary School Teacher in Bandung) Download• 2015 Индонезия
English
Many English teachers in Indonesia had difficulty in utilizing instructional media in classrooms. The difficulty was caused by the thought of good media were expensive. Therefore, this study aimed to ...
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The Use of Animated Video in Improving Students' Reading Skill (a Quasi-experimental Study of Seventh Grade Student at a Junior High School in Jalancagak, Subang) Download• 2015
English
The study entitled “The Use of Animated Video in Improving Students' Reading Skill” was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the use of animated video in improving students' reading skill, and to...
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The Effect of L1 Multiple-choice Glosses on Reading Comprehension of Narrative Texts (an Ex-post Facto Study in 9th Grade Students at a Junior High School in Kabupaten Bandung) Download• 2015
English
The lack of vocabulary is one of the problems that is mostly encountered by students while reading. L1 MCG is one of the solutions to facilitate students in understanding some vocabulary while reading...
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The Effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning in Improving Students' Reading Skill in Procedural Text (a Quasi-experimental Study of the Second Grade Students at One Vocational School in Bandung) Download• 2015
English
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach in improving students' reading skill in procedural text and to find out the students' responses tow...
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The Correlation Between Students' Self – Esteem and Their English Speaking Competencies (a Study of Eleventh Grade Students at a Public Senior High School in Cimahi) Download• 2015
English
This study was intended to examine the correlation between students' self – esteem and their English speaking competencies at a Senior High School in Cimahi. Sixty two students of eleventh grade were ...
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The Use of Song Lyrics in Teaching Listening (a Case Study of Junior High School Grade 8 in Bandung) Download• 2015
English
This research entitled The Use of Song Lyrics in Teaching Listening (A Case Study of Junior High School Grade 8 in Bandung) was aimed at investigating the students' response toward the use of song lyr...
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• 2015
English
Creating creative theme-based lesson plans for teaching English to young learners is essential. Therefore, primary English teachers should have creativity in designing their lesson plans. This study a...
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A Descriptive Study of the Shift of Roles Between a Teacher and Students in English Classroom Discourse Download• 2015
English
This study was aimed to figure out the exchange patterns during classroom interaction and its relation to the shift of roles of serving primary knower between a teacher and students. Thirty nine stude...
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A Textbook Analysis : an In-depth Analysis of Activities in Scientific Approach's Perspective in an Efl Textbook for Seventh Grade Download• 2015
English
The need for teachers to analyze whether the textbook used applies learning approach demanded by the curriculum starts to raise. Therefore, this study aims to find out to what extent the activities gi...
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Patterns of Teacher – Students Interaction a Case Study of Classroom Interaction in Eleventh Grade of Senior High School in Cimahi Download• 2015
English
This paper presents the results of an investigation of teacher –students interaction (classroom interaction) patterns and the influence of Teacher Talk to the classroom interaction patterns in Eleven...
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• 2015
English
This study aims to investigate how the students organize their ideas in the texts. This study employs a qualitative case study research design. The data were obtained by collecting students' writing p...
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The Use of Indirect Feedback to Reduce Students' Grammatical Errors in Writing an Analytical Exposition Text Download• 2015
English
Feedback provision is a necessity for students in the process of writing. Thus, this research aims to discover the use of indirect feedback to reduce students' grammatical errors in writing an analyti...
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Teacher Praises and Students' Engagement in Efl Classroom (a Case Study of Seventh Grade Students at One of Junior High School in Bandung) Download• 2015
English
The study analyzed the use of praise and its influence toward students' engagement. Qualitative approach was employed in this study. The obtained data were analyzed by using the theory of effective pr...
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Sq3r Implementation in Teaching Reading Comprehension a Case Study of Eight Grade Students at One State Mts in Sumedang Download• 2015 Индонезия
English
This research aimed to describe the implementation of SQ3R in teaching reading comprehension and to identify students' responses toward the implementation of SQ3R. Moreover, it examined the benefits o...
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• 2015
English
The study entitled “Spelling Bee in Teaching Vocabulary” discovers the effectiveness of the use of Spelling Bee in teaching vocabulary using descriptive text and discovers students' perceptions toward...
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• 2015
English
This paper reported on a study concerned with teaching vocabulary using storytelling technique in one of SLBs in Bandung. This study aimed to find out the cerebral palsy students' ability in English v...
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The Analysis of Teacher Talk and the Characteristic of Classroom Interaction in English as a Foreign Language Classroom Download• 2015
English
The study entitled “The Analysis of Teacher Talk and the Characteristic of Classroom Interaction in English as a Foreign Language Classroom” has objectives to find the type of teacher talk and charact...
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• 2014 Индонезия
English
This article reports the results of a study evaluating English Electronic Books for Junior High school in Indonesia. The study used Textbook Evaluation Checklist (Skierso 1991; Cunningworrth 1984), Fo...
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• 2014
English
This paper finds out the readers' responses towards the quality of the translation in Twitter Web pages. A qualitative case study was employed in gaining the results of the study (Baxter and Jack, 200...
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The Use of Reciprocal Teaching Procedure in Teaching Narrative Texts to Improve Students' Reading Comprehension Download• 2014
English
This study was aimed at investigating the implementation of Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTP) to improve students' reading comprehension and finding out the students' responses toward this method. R...
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• 2014
English
This paper presents to report the research that was conducted to find out what the students' responses were toward the activities presented in the classroom as the implementation of Theme-Based Teachi...
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• 2014
English
This present study tries to investigate the students' responses towards theme-based teaching in teaching English vocabulary. This study involved 32 students in the fifth grade of one primary school in...
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The Analysis of Teachers' Lesson Plan in Implementing Theme-based Instruction for Teaching English to Young Learners Download• 2014
English
Lesson plan is an important part of instruction which consists of some aspects (Goals, Objectives, Activities, Media, and Assessments). This paper reports the investigation of the aspects taken in the...
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• 2014
English
This paper reports the presence of learning support provided by on-going assessment in an EYL class. This study involved 31 of third grade students in an elementary school in Bandung. Moreover, this s...
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The Correlation of Playing Role-playing Games and Students' Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text Download• 2014
English
This research investigates the correlation of playing Role-Playing Games and students' reading comprehension of narrative text. Thirty (30) ninth grade students who play Role-Playing Games participate...
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Cultural Content Analysis of an English Textbook for Senior High Schoo Grade Three in Cianjur, West Java Download• 2014 Индонезия
English
This article reports the result of the research investigating cultural content of an English textbook for senior high school grade three in Cianjur, West Java. The data of the research were collected ...
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• 2014
English
This study investigates the effectiveness of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique, proposed by Slavin (2005) and his colleagues, in teaching writing Narrative text. This study also inv...
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An Analysis Of Translating Procedures On Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman Series Startup Guide Download• 2014
English
The present research entitled Analysis of Translating Procedures on Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman Series Startup Guide aims at analyzing the translation procedures and determining the translation qu...