ART Anita Susan,V Usadya P The Effect of Picture Drawing and Picture Abstract
ENGLISH
EDU
Journal of Language Teaching and Research
Articles in Vol. 9, No. 1 January 2009
The Effect of Picture Drawing and Picture Comparisons in The Negotiation Process of NNS-NNS
Interactions
1 - 19
Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional (International Quality
School) Empowering or Disempowering ?
A Postcolonialism Approach
20 - 31
Raising Students Awareness of Research Article
32 - 44
Christian Discoursing Across Tellings of The Same
Story: A Case in EFL Pre-service Teacher s Narratives
45 - 64
Fathoming Cultural Aspects in Writing About Eng
lish Language Movies for ESL Learners
65 - 80
Anita Susan & Victoria Usadya Palupi
Lany Kristono
Krismiyati
Joseph Ernest Mambu
Andrew Thren
The Effect of Picture Drawing and Picture Comparisons (Anita Susan & Victoria Usadya Palupi)
THE EFFECT OF PICTURE DRAWING AND
PICTURE COMPARISONS IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS OF NNS-NNS INTERACTIONS
Anita Susan & Victoria Usadya Palupi
ltyuofugng n r rtu
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n rishnUniversity
Salatiga
email: victoria.up@gmail.com
Abstract
Many undergraduate students find it difficult to achieve
an adequate level of English proficiency. One factor that
may contribute to this lack of proficiency is because there
are insufficient interactions to develop the students' language abilities. Another factor is that the classroom environment does not support the interaction process between
teacher and students, since students rarely have an initiative to interact with their teachers. Even if the students
have an initiative to interact with their teachers, there is
still limited time and the class size is usually big, so that it
makes it difficult for the teacher to have intensive interactions with the students. This qualitative study attempts to
find the benefits of using picture comparisons and picture
drawings as communicative tasks in the negotiation of
meaning for non-native speaker (NNS)-NNS interactions.
Two indigenous female Indonesian speakers studying at
Satya Wacana Christian University participated in this
study. The results of this study show that the negotiation
of meaning using communicative tasks can motivate the
students to be actively involved in interactions. However,
negotiation of meaning does not directly lead to language
development, since some of the responses are only
acknowledgements and repetition.
Keywords: interactions, communicative tasks, negotiation of meaning
EDU
Journal of Language Teaching and Research
Articles in Vol. 9, No. 1 January 2009
The Effect of Picture Drawing and Picture Comparisons in The Negotiation Process of NNS-NNS
Interactions
1 - 19
Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional (International Quality
School) Empowering or Disempowering ?
A Postcolonialism Approach
20 - 31
Raising Students Awareness of Research Article
32 - 44
Christian Discoursing Across Tellings of The Same
Story: A Case in EFL Pre-service Teacher s Narratives
45 - 64
Fathoming Cultural Aspects in Writing About Eng
lish Language Movies for ESL Learners
65 - 80
Anita Susan & Victoria Usadya Palupi
Lany Kristono
Krismiyati
Joseph Ernest Mambu
Andrew Thren
The Effect of Picture Drawing and Picture Comparisons (Anita Susan & Victoria Usadya Palupi)
THE EFFECT OF PICTURE DRAWING AND
PICTURE COMPARISONS IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS OF NNS-NNS INTERACTIONS
Anita Susan & Victoria Usadya Palupi
ltyuofugng n r rtu
ty
n rishnUniversity
Salatiga
email: victoria.up@gmail.com
Abstract
Many undergraduate students find it difficult to achieve
an adequate level of English proficiency. One factor that
may contribute to this lack of proficiency is because there
are insufficient interactions to develop the students' language abilities. Another factor is that the classroom environment does not support the interaction process between
teacher and students, since students rarely have an initiative to interact with their teachers. Even if the students
have an initiative to interact with their teachers, there is
still limited time and the class size is usually big, so that it
makes it difficult for the teacher to have intensive interactions with the students. This qualitative study attempts to
find the benefits of using picture comparisons and picture
drawings as communicative tasks in the negotiation of
meaning for non-native speaker (NNS)-NNS interactions.
Two indigenous female Indonesian speakers studying at
Satya Wacana Christian University participated in this
study. The results of this study show that the negotiation
of meaning using communicative tasks can motivate the
students to be actively involved in interactions. However,
negotiation of meaning does not directly lead to language
development, since some of the responses are only
acknowledgements and repetition.
Keywords: interactions, communicative tasks, negotiation of meaning