JETAL: Journal of English Teaching & Applied Linguistic

Unlocking the Power of Chat GPT: Students’ Interest in Asian Parliamentary Debate Classroom

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:51:37 +0700

This study addressed the challenges of low student interest and engagement in debate learning, an essential method for developing English speaking skills. In globalisation, students need practical speaking skills to express ideas critically and convincingly. Along with the rapid development of technology, artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, can potentially increase student motivation and involvement in debate. This study aims to measure students’ interest in using ChatGPT to teach English using the debate clinic method to improve students’ speaking skills. A survey involving 14 students of the Islamic Religious Education Study Program, STAI DDI Pinrang, used a questionnaire to measure four indicators of learning interest: feelings of pleasure, interest, paying attention, and involvement. The results indicated that the student’s average score of learning interest reached 77, indicating a relatively high interest. Students’ participation in formulating and refuting arguments during debates proves that ChatGPT positively impacts the development of students’ critical thinking skills.

Flipping the Page: Engaging Elementary Literacy with Interactive Storybooks

I Ketut Trika Adi Ana, Made Sri Indriani — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0700

Literacy skills still become a serious challenge for elementary school students in Indonesia. Thus, this research aimed to develop interactive storybooks to support literacy activities at elementary schools. This study can be classified as a research and development study following the Successive Approximation Model. Study data were collected from teachers and students at one of the elementary schools in Bali through interviews, documentation, expert judgment, and questionnaires. Data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Interview and documentation results underwent qualitative analysis using interactive data analysis models. Expert judgment results were analyzed using the inter-rater agreement model, while questionnaire results were analyzed descriptively and categorized using intervals derived from theoretical ideal reference assessments. The findings revealed a strong preference among students for flipbooks with vibrant illustrations, animal characters, smartphone compatibility, and interactive quizzes. The expert judgment further confirmed the suitability of the content for children and its ability to improve students' understanding of narratives. Besides, students’ feedbacks indicated high acceptance and enthusiasm for the developed flipbooks. However, it is essential to note that the limitation of the study lies in the evaluation regarding the impact of flipbooks on students' literacy skills, which was not conducted. Therefore, it is crucial to conduct a further study utilizing experimental methodology to validate their effectiveness in improving elementary school student’s literacy.

The Effectiveness of the Duolingo Application in Learning English Vocabulary for High School Students

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0700

The use of learning media is one of the important things in the era of increasingly rapid technological development. It makes learning interesting and effective. An effective English language and teaching media in this new era is Duolingo. It provides methods of learning while playing games, which certainly attracts the attention of language learners. The effective use of Duolingo application is described based on the result of pretest and posttest comparison. The research method is quantitative based on the participants’ scores. The test is vocabulary test which addressed into the students of class XII SMA N 1 PERUMNAS BATU 6 as the participants. Data analysis indicate that Duolingo application is an effective English language and teaching media. The average score in pretes is 64. 53 and it becomes 91.13. This research concluded that Dulingo help the participants to improve English vocabulary knowledge.

Uncovering the Link between Students' Attitude toward Reading and their Comprehension Abilities

Anggi Try Oktaviana, Rizqy Dwi Amrina — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:36:00 +0700

Reading attitude gives good influence to reading comprehension achievement. It means that, those who have good reading attitude will be also have a good reading comprehension achievement. However, based on the preliminary research, the teacher revealed that students who had basic comprehension showed ability while reading, but some other students felt lazy, even before reading the text. Therefore, This study sought to establish a correlation between students' reading attitudes and reading comprehension achievement at SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Palembang. This research is a correlational study. There were two types of instruments used to collect data. The researcher employed a questionnaire to assess reading attitude, and a multiple-choice reading comprehension test. The research population consisted of 426 students. The researcher then took 105 students as the sample using random sampling technique. By using Pearson Product Moment on SPSS in analyzing the data, the researcher found that the sig. t was 0.114, higher than the significant alpha of 0.05 (sig.t > 0.05). It demonstrates Ho1 is accepted, or that there is a negative significant correlate between the students' reading attitude and reading comprehension. The writer also discovered that reading attitude has little impact on the 1.5% reading comprehension achievement at SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Palembang. The remaining 98.5 percent was influenced by various factors.