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The Ability of Indonesian EFL Learners in Writing Academic Papers
- Source :
- Dinamika Ilmu, Vol 17, Iss 2, Pp 237-250 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Samarinda, 2017.
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Abstract
- This study is meant to examine the thesis quality of students of English Department at IAIN Samarinda. Through the descriptive-quantitative research, the thesis quality of students of English Department at IAIN Samarinda is reviewed from the aspects of language, structure, concepts understanding, theoretical framework, methodology, content, writing mechanism, and references used. This study also tries to figure out any factors that affect the thesis quality of English Department students. Fourteen English Department Students’ thesis tested in 2013 are used as the main data. In addition, other data are obtained from respondents i.e. 19 students, and informants i.e. lecturers of English Department who are also their thesis advisors. The result shows that the average score of thesis written by 14 English Department students at IAIN Samarinda academic year of 2013 is 3.16 which is in the range of 2.61-3.40 scale, which is quite good quality. This quality is relevant with the informants’ perceptions about the quality of thesis written by their students. Judging from some aspects, they assume that their students are able to write a good quality of thesis with an average score of 2.81 which is at a scale of 2.61-3.40. The quality is affected by internal factors and external factors. The most decisive internal factor is the respondents’ low score of writing with appropriate and acceptable structure in English. This is the effect of respondents’ lack of ability of composing adequate paragraphs in English. Meanwhile, the most concerning external factor is the quality of learning structure course and the professionalism of the informants in guiding the students to improve their writing ability in thesis writing.
- Subjects :
- 060201 languages & linguistics
lcsh:LC8-6691
Academic year
lcsh:Special aspects of education
media_common.quotation_subject
Internal factor
06 humanities and the arts
language.human_language
Indonesian
Comprehension
Scale (social sciences)
Perception
0602 languages and literature
language
Mathematics education
Quality (business)
Affect (linguistics)
thesis writing quality, internal factors and external factors
Psychology
lcsh:L
media_common
lcsh:Education
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Arabic
- ISSN :
- 24429651 and 14113031
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dinamika Ilmu
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6d4573d0a3d75d257621ada41b8b1b05