EFL Wall: Research on Teaching and Learning English

Gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, history, education, and culture are social contexts which affect our perception of the world trough language use. This social life is part of culture that based on believe, perspectives, and thoughts of community belongs to the certain culture. The impact of social life which emerges from certain culture creates new variations of genres in discourse of language. It means human being and language can not be separated from social context. As an illustration, in expressing and elaborating their thoughts, feeling in language, people do have two methods that influence by the social context whether are spoken and written. The social contexts make the language become complex from its point of view. This complexity does give profound meaning in the spoken or written language. Therefore, perspectives needed to unveil the complexity of the text, since text is a fundamental element in language. To reveal the profound meaning in text, in this way, aninterdis

Chomsky identified three basic types of syntactic structures: finite state grammar, phrase structure grammar, and transformational grammar. Transformational grammar is a means of dealing with constituent structures like active and passive forms.  This is done through a set of rules that are based on the phrase structure, the horizontal structure, and the vertical or tree structure.  Those rules transform phrase structures into other forms and provide a more economical explanation of how language functions.  Transformational grammar, then, is a means of explaining the deep structure of a language.  In the 1970’s there was great optimism regarding transformational grammar.  It emphasis on how surface structures can be generated from deep structures and how structures can be transformed into stylistic variants seemed to indicate that a study of transformational grammar would carry over into “improved” language use.   Ask for full research paper (morastenando89@gmail.com)

Chomsky (1957) suggested that a grammar should describe a native speaker’s intuitive understanding of the language he or she uses.  He uses the terms “deep structure and “surface structure” to describe that intuitive knowledge.  According to Chomsky, just such a grammar would be the grammar that he introduced as Transformational Grammar.  Initially Chomsky tried to explain how actual language users created and understood grammatical structures they had never encountered in previous experience.  He therefore established a set of transformational rules that explained a user’s competence with language.  This competence, he theorized, explained how language users could generate grammatical sentences. He explained that competence in language use did not mean a user could invoke the generative rules of the language. We need to look at the term “generative grammar” in order to better understand Chomsky’s point here. Ask for full research paper (morastenando89@gmail.com)

To what extent can Word Sort technique improve the students’ vocabulary mastery  In teaching English for young learners, vocabulary is one of crucial parts that should be properly taught if it is to be successful. Without a sufficient vocabulary, the students cannot communicate effectively or express their idea in both oral and written forms. Furthermore, the students are expected to master vocabulary and its grammatical rules to make communication as well to another student. On the other hand, lack of vocabulary can cause problem for them to maintain communication. Therefore, if the students have ability in understanding the words and meaning, they do not only know the words, but also can use the words in the context.   English is one of the compulsory subjects at Primary school Darma Yuda, Pekanbaru, which is normally taught twice a week, 70 minutes in each meeting. In this school English becomes a compulsory subject, which has been taught from grade one to grade six. Then,

The Correlation between Students’ Reading Interest and Their Reading Comprehension  This research was conducted at SMPN 1 Siak Hulu. The subject of this research was the students at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Siak Hulu. And the object of this research was the students’ ability in reading comprehension. The researcher took purposes sampling. In order to collect the data of this research, the researcher used test and questionnaire. In analyzing the data to categorize the students’ ability in reading comprehension, the researcher categorized them into four levels. They were good, fair, less, and bad. The students’ reading interest, the researcher categorized it into three levels. They we re high, middle, and low. Based on the data analysis, the researcher concluded that there was no correlation between students’ reading interest and their reading comprehension. The students’ reading interest at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Siak Hulu wa s categorized into middle. The st

The Identification of  Students’ Translation Method at The Fourth Semester Students Translation is a way of translator to find out the intention conveyed by authors or writer which translator masters from Source Language (SL) to Target Language (TL) . It can be seen in the journals ; articles and books use English as the Source Language and the meaning   are also able translated Indonesia as the Target Language dealing with the topic and the same meaning . These results of that scientific translating are conducted by the translators. According to Newmark (1988: 5) Translation is rendering the meaning of a text into another language in the way that the author intended the text. Each student has his own way of translating of a text. Their way depends on their habitual when do translation. As the translator the students however get difficult to translate the text although used Google translate. It is most closely related to the semantics and equivalent