An Investigation of Indonesian Student’s English Language Problems in The International School: A Case Study in Shafiyyatul Amaliyyah International School
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Please fill in the bullet with (√) sign to complete the questions !
1. Do you felt difficult to understand well when speakers speak too fast ?
o Yes
o No
2. Do you felt difficult to understand the recorded material because you are unable to get this
repeated ?
o Yes
o No
3. Sometimes I cannot understand clearly what the instructor says because of lack of vocabularies
o Yes
o No
4. Do you felt difficult understand the signals which indicate that the speaker is moving from one
point to another ?
o Yes
o No
5. If I am difficult to understand contextual meaning, I use my background knowlefge of the topic
to understand the spoken text
o Yes
o No
6. It is difficult for me to concentrate with noises around
o Yes
o No
7. Which of the following strategies that suitable to understand the topic that speaker‟s said?
a. Focus with his/her pronunciation
b. See the transcript to understand the topic
c. Repeat the record until find the topic
d. Interpret itself based on my knowledge of the topic
8. I rarely practice English in daily conversation because, I.....
a. Worried about mistakes
b. Nothing to say
c. Low or even participation
d. Mother tongue use
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9. All of my friends use English to speak each other
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
10. I am always lack of vocabularies when I speak to my teachers
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
11. Some of my friends always encourage me to improve my speaking ability with practice English
outside
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
12. To improve my ability in speaking, I am always listen English song and watch western movie to
know many vocabularies.
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the question by
choosing the best alternative for each question from A, B, C, or D.
The subject of wine is a fascinating one to some! To others it may be a bore, and
to others something that is quite incompreLiatening comprehension is the mnost problem
in Englihensible, and this is a shame - - they simply don‟t know what they are missing.
The loving thing about getting to know your wine is to drink it! This most pleasesant of
pastimes, coupled with a little concentration and intelligent observation, can be repaid
with a great deal of enjoyment. Quite simply wine is the fermented juice of the grape.
Fermentation is the conversion, induced by yeast cells, of the grape sugar into alcohol - and there you have wine.
The vines have lain dormant all winter. In early summer they flower and produce
grapes which develop until autumn when they are ready to be harvested, and the vintage
begins. The harvested graves are pressed to extract the juice and the „must‟ - - as the juice
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is called - - then ferments in huge vats for anything from two to fourteen days, depending
on the quality of the wine to be produced. Red wines have a longer fermentation period
than white wines, as the whole grape is fermented within the juice to extract the full
colour, flavour and tannin. Tannin is an important element in red wine. It enables the
juice to be kept for long periods while it matures.
There is little tannin in white grapes, so the juice is fermented without the skins
and for a shorter period than for red wines. The „must‟ in the vats seethes and bubbles
during fermentation, and a close watch has to be maintained on the temperature - - a fast,
hot fermentation can spoiln the wines, making them harsh and coarse. When all activity
has ceased, the wines are run from the vats into barrels - - leaving behind the skins and
sediment - - and are left to settle for several months.
During this period new sediment, which is the accumulation of dead yeast cells, is
forming all the time, so periodically the wine is run off into new barrels. This is called
„racking‟. The final step in eliminating any cloudiness in the wine after racking, is
„fining‟. Natural substances are added to collect any remaining particles and to ensure
that the wine is clear and pure. Then it is ready for bottling.
13. The word “This” in line 2 means________________.
A. the idea that the subject of wine is boring
B. the idea that the subject of wine is simple
C. the idea that the subject of wine is attractive
D. the idea that the subject of wine is boring and incomprehensible
14. The word “This” in line 4 refers to ________________.
A. drinking your wine
B. observing your wine
C. concentrating on your wine
D. getting to know your wine
15. The word “dormant” in line 10 means_______________.
A. inactive
B. busy
C. flowery
D. dropping the leaves
16. The word “vintage” in line 12 means_______________.
A. the pressing of the grapes
B. the process of wine making
C. the picking of the ripe grapes
D. the old fashioned method of wine making
Text
Television was... 17... in the 1920s and first came to Australiua in 1956. It has..18.. an
important role in communicating news. We can learn..19...about what is happening in the
world..20...television. Also television..21...people with entertainment in their own home.
People in..22... areas can still feel part of the world because of television.
17.a. Invented
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b. Discovered
c. Founded
d. Created
e. Developed
18. a. Played
b. Stayed
c. Went
d. Innovated
e. Modified
19.
a. Immediately
b. Quickly
c. Instantly
d. Hurriedly
e. Freely
20. a. Because
b. However
c. Nevertheless
d. Because of
e. Instead of
21. a. Sends
b. Watches
c. Provides
d. Obtains
e. Serves
22. a. Isolated
b. Hidden
c. Covered
d. Modernized
e. Organized
23. What the best strategies that can help you to understand reading comprehension.
a. Read the text repeatly
b. Underline key word in the text
c. Focus on the first of paragraph and the last paragraph
d. See the similarities word between the option of tyhe question and the word in the text.
24.
According to you, is the reading comprehension is the most difficult skill in learning
English language?
o Yes
o No
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25. If you asked to write, what kinds of the genre of text that you will write?
a. Narrative text
b. Explanation text
c. Recount text
d. descriptive text
26. If you want to write a letter or text, what aspects that you will be interest?
a. Sentence fregments
b. Sentence variety
c. Paragraph focus
d. Word order of the sentence
e. Grammatical error
27. Most farmers in Indonesia, especially in the rural area, have some..... to help their works.
a. Ox
b. Oxs
c. Oxen
d. Oxens
28. Polar bear‟s ..... are covered with hair on their soles to help them walk on ice and snow
a. feet
b. foot
c. feets
d. foots
29. The best diamonds are transparent and colorless, but they actually .... in color from the clear to
black.
a. range
b. are ranging
c. ranged
d. have been ranging
30. Peter and Tom plays tennis every afternoon with Mary and me. What wrong form of the question
above ?
a. Peter
b. Plays
c. Tennis
d. Afternoon
31. Promoting ..... goods and services, the company salesman also bid an opportunity to earn some
profit.
a. they
b. their
c. its
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d. it
32. John and Pamela hated...... for not being their little sister‟s side at the hospital.
a. Herself
b. They
c. Themselves
d. Themself
33. It was... who would break the rules from the colonial era.
a. Him
b. He is
c. He
d. His
34. The...dedicated to soup recipes was written in 1882 by Emma Ewing.
a. First cooking American pamphlet
b. First American cooking pamphlet
c. American first cooking pamphlet
d. Cooking first American pamphlet
35. Which one of the following strategies that suitable to improve writing skill?
a. Join with writing club / writing class
b. Read many articles accustomed to write article also
c. Join with many writing competence / writing event
d. Learningt grammatical patterns while write a text
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Transcript Interviewee #1
Interviewer : I have twelve questions for you to answer, and the first question is. According
to you what the most difficult of language learning problems?
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : why ?
Interviwee: Because, you know is different when Indonesian people talking and other
countries talking, when we studying in Listening is like in American people or British
people, they talk so fast, but Indonesian people stil clear but American people or British
people cannot clear to understand.
Interviewer : So what the strategy that you have done to overcome your problem in listening
ability?
Interviewee : Watching movie without subtitle, and take some test in listening with repeat
the recording.
Interviewer : Do you often practice English (speaking) with your friends in school or
outside?
Interviewee : Not really, because in class, we also speak with Indonesian language
Interviewer : So what the strategy to solve the problem? ( speaking skill)
Interviewee : Sometimes, trying to speak with friends
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extraculicular outside to improve your ability of
English?
Interviewee : Not yet, No
Interviewer : Do you take some courses?
Interviewee : No
Interviewer : If you have listening section, did you annoying with other noises?
Interviewee: Yes of course, because listening is hard for me. So, I will felt annoying if there
many noises arround me to hear the materials in listening section.
Interviewer : While reading a text, what the suitable strategies you did?
Interviewee: Read the key words of the text, read carefully each sentence and not only read a
words but also interpret the whole to understand the topic of the text.
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Interviewer : Have you write formal letter? For example a formal letter if you want to study
abroad, so you have to write study plan or curriculum vitae?
Interviewee: Yeah, I ever write a letter in the class
Interviewer : So, based on your writing task, right?
Interviewee : Yes.
Interviewer: In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their problem
in reading comprehension, do you agree with ?
Interviewee : Yes, sometimes i don‟t understand the vocabulary in reading, so when I see
the sentence, I see the vocabulary before see the difficult word to understand the
meaning.
Interviewer : So you see one by one word to understand
Interviewee : No, I just see the difficult one, and find out it out and interpret the meaning.
Interviewer : Which one do you think important to writing in English? Good grammar, good
vocabularies or ideas and how you present them?
Interviewee : Ideas.
Interviewer : Ideas? So, ideas it means you can explore what you want to write, if you have
the ideas?
Interviewee : Yes, something like that.
Interviewer : What you activities that you have done to improve your writing ability?
Interviewee : No, I don‟t know, because I have joined in writing class, but it doesn‟t helpful
Interviewer : In this school, there are extracuricular like debate class?
Interviewee : Nothing, but sometimes we join in some competitions
Interviewer : Do you ever join the competition?
Interviewee : Yes, speech competition
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me, for reading comprehension, I did not read a sentence but the
question first. For Listening, I try to listen a song and movies. For writing, I try to learn
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grammatical problems and word order, for speaking, my speak is not good, but I often
practice, and I just talk what i want to say.
Transcript Interviewee #2
Interviewer : According to you, what the most difficult of English language problem in four
skills in English?
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : Why ?
Interviewee : Because, when I took course, the lowest is listening, it‟s hard and I can‟t listen
it
Interviewer : Do you ever speak with native speaker?
Interviewee : Yes.
Interviewer : How amny times you speak with native speaker?
Interviewee : In our class, there are native speaker, so we often speak with native
Interviewer : So, how do you understand the material in Listening section?
Interviewee : I just get the point not the whole
Interviewer : What your best strategy to solve the problem?
Interviewee : Yes, I try to listen talkshow without subtitle, I listen Ellen talkshow or
American got talents. It enjoys to listen.
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extracuricular outside to improve your ability of
English?
Interviewee : English courses only, last year.
Interviewer : If you have listening section, did you annoying with other noises arround you
?
Interviewee : Yes, and I close my eyes. It is helpful for me to concentrate the listening
material
Interviewer : Do you can answer reading comprehension?
Interviewee : Yes, better than listening
Interviewer : Oh, why?
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Interviewee : Because in reading comprehension, I just find the answer with a way see the
qustion and find answer from the text.
Interviewer : While reading a text, what the suitable strategies you did?
Interviewee : I see the word refers from the question and connect with the purpose of the
text.
Interviewer : So, you use decoding strategy with a way see a bold word from the question
and you find the purpose or meaning it from the whole text, right?
Interviewee : Yes, I use that strategy, I am also read reapeatly and underline the main point
from the text.
Interviewer : Do you have write formal letter?
Interviewee : Yes, but I don‟t know the grammar correct or not because we just ask to write
in class, especially writing in Bahasa Inggris or Bahasa Indonesia lesson.
Interviewer : How often did you practice yor ability in speaking?
Interviewee : Rarely, because I‟m not comfortable speak up with other people that makes
me comfort
Interviewer : Have you felt worried about mistakes while you want to speak, moreover, you
really know what you want to say just woirried about mistakes, have you?
Interviewee : Yes I have
Interviewer : So, when native speaker choose you to answer the questions in English, what
did you do?
Interviewee : I let myself to concern with the ideas and speak up
Interviewer : So, how the grammatical use ?
Interviewee : I try my best
Interviewer : In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their
peroblem in reading comprehension. Are you agree with?
Interviewee : Yes
Interviewer : Do have you trouble with noun plurals, conjunction or anything else in
reading text?
Interviewee : sometimes from it all, conjunction I think is most difficult
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Interviewer : If you in situation where you cannot open dictionary to help you in reading
text, what did you do to overcome?
Interviewee : I‟m focus with some vocabularies that I remember
Interviewer : which one do you think is most important for writing in English? Good
grammar, good vocabularies or ideas to present them?
Interviewee : good grammar for formally writing and good ideas to explore what I want to
reading unformally writing
Interviewer : If you want to explore the ideas in your writing, but you did not remember the
correct word, what did you do?
Interviewee : I use the similarities of that word
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me,for listening, I try to listen western music and watching
talkshow without subtitle, for speaking, occasionally, I practice with my friend. For
reading, memorize many vocabularies. For writing, I just write what I love.
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Transcript Interviewee #3
Interviewer : According to you, what is the most difficult English language problems in four
skills in English
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : Why ?
Interviewee : Because sometimes I cannot hear what people talk
Interviewer : If in a condition, native speaker speak so fast, can you undersatnd what he/she
said ?
Interviewee : No, I cannot
Interviewer : Have you any other reason, why listening as your problem in language
learning?
Interviewee : Nothing
Interviewer : What did you do to overcome your problem in listening?
Interviewee : Listen a song, watching movie and practice
Interviewer : If you in listening section and arround you make a noises, did you annoying
with that?
Interviewee : Yes. It‟s destroy my concentrate
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome your problem if arround you destroy your
concentrate?
Interviewee : I Try to be focus with close my eyes and close my ears.
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extracuricular outside to improve your ability in
English?
Interviewee : When I was 11 years old, I have taken caouerse in YPPIA
Interviewer : Do you have problem in reading comprehension?
Interviewee : Little bit
Interviewer : So, what in reading comprehension become your problem to answer reading
text?
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Interviewee : I think the problem in reading comprehension are while I don‟t know some
difficult words, and academic words
Interviewer :What did you do to overcome your problem in reading comprehension?
Interviewee : Watching movie
Interviewer : Why watching movie as one of best strategy you did to overcome your
problem in reading?
Interviewee : Yes, because I think if I see the subtitle from the movie, it makes me know
many vocabularies
Interviewer : Anything else?
Interviewee : Sometimes, I make a note from the word underline or difficult word or a
keyword in a thext to make me understand
Interviewer : Do you have write formal letter?
Interviewee : Yes, I have, but in Indonesian lesson
Interviewer : According to you, write a formal letter is difficult or not ?
Interviewee : Yes it‟s difficult because I cannot form a formal grammatical and formal
language to write like descriptive text or narrative text?
Interviewee : Not formal writing because they are easy to write, I‟m free to explore my idea.
Interviewer : So, What a problem for you in writing a letter?
Interviewee : I‟m confuse when I ask to arrange the sentence word by word whether
approriate or not, I‟m also confuse about the using of some grammatical rules like
Subject-verb agreement, noun plurals, etc.
Interviewer : In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their
problem in reading comprehension, do you agree with?
Interviewee : Yes, I agree
Interviewer : According to you, which one do you think important to writing in English?
Good grammar, good vocabularies or ideas to present them?
Interviewee : I think, good grammar and good vocabularies that important in writing
English.
Interviewer : Do you have activities that you have done to improve your ability in writing?
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Interviewee : Try to write, write and write
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me for listening, I‟m listen and watching movie. For Speaking,
I‟m practice with my father. For writing, I‟m force myself to write and write and reading
skill, i read more and more to add my knowledge and my vocabularies.
Transcript Interviewee #4
Interviewer : According to you, what the most difficult in English language problem from
four skills?
Interviewee : I think is speaking
Interviewer : Why?
Interviewee : Because I‟m worried about mistakes and lack of my vocabularies, I‟m affraid
make mistakes and then my friend will mock me
Interviewer : So, what your strategy to solve the problem?
Interviewee : Actually I practice at home with my mother ?
Interviewer : How often you practice English with your mother?
Interviewee : Occasinally as we can
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extracuricular outside to improve your ability of
English?
Interviewee : Yes, I join in YPPIA and it has improved my ability inspeaking, listening,
reading, and writing
Interviewer : If you have listening section, didi you annoying with other noises?
Interviewee : Yes
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome to make your concentrate be normal?
Interviewee : I try to close my eyes, and I make imagine as if I‟m in a room and that strategy
make me more concentrate
Interviewer : While reading a text, what the suitable strategies you did?
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Interviewee : I read repeatly the text, again, and again. I‟m also find many vocabularies to
understand the meaning of the text
Interviewer : Have you write formal letter? Example like study plan to enter university or
application letter?
Interviewee : I already written a recount text, descriptive text just the genre of the text
Interviewer : Do you have problem if native speaker saying so fast?
Interviewee : Yes I have
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome the problem?
Interviewee : I make him to repeat his saying
Interviewer : Do you have trouble in ability of listening? And what did you do to overcome
the problem?
Interviewee : Little bit, and overcome that problem, I just listen carefully native speaker said
and then memorize.
Interviewer : In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their
problem in reading comprehension, are you agree with?
Interviewee : Yes, I agree
Interviewer : Which one do you think is most important for writing in English? Good
grammar, good vocabularies, or ideas and how you present them?
Interviewee : I think is good grammar, because if I have and idea but i don‟t know what the
correct word to explain that, it is useless.
Interviewer : According to you, the most problem in listening are cannot concentrate
because of noises and native speaker who speak so fast, right?
Interviewee : Yes of course
Interviewer : While listening section in your class, did you see the transcript of listening
material also?
Interviewee : Yes, It is help me to find what the text tell me about
Interviewer : Do you have problem in reading skill?
Interviewee : No, I‟m always try the best
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Interviewer : Do you have problem in writing?
Interviewee : The problem inwriting is vocabularies, because I‟m lack in vocabularies.
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me, the strategy for listening I‟m try to listen more western/
English song. For speaking, practice with my mother as one of person that always makes
comfort. For reading,I raed story in English to add my vocabularies. For writing, I study
more and more about grammar and add vocabularies.
Transcript Interviewee #5
Interviewer : According to you, what the most difficult of English language problems in
four skills?
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : Why?
Interviewee : Because when someone speaking and I‟m not focus to listen what she/he said.
Interviewer : What reason that make your concentrate destroy?
Interviewee : I think its about my attention
Interviewer : What did you do to overcome your problem in listening?
Interviewee : Watching movies without subtitle
Interviewer : Do you ever join extracuricular outside to improve your ability in English?
Interviewee : When I was a primary, I taken English course
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome your problem in listening ability?
Interviewee : I‟m rarely heard English song
Interviewer : Beside your problem in listening, do you have problem in reading skill?
Interviewee : Sometimes, I‟m lack of vocabulary, sometimes I don‟t know the meaning, I
read a text repeatly
Interviewer : How many times you read a text to know the purpose of the text?
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Interviewee : I cannot count it. I Just read again until I know the whole of the text and
interpret myself
Interviewer : In writing skill, do you have a problem with?
Interviewee : Sometimes, I‟m lack of vocabulary again
Interviewer : Then, do you have a problem also about grammatical in writing?
Interviewee : Yes
Interviewer : Do you have problem also in using adverb, verb, or noun plurals when you are
writing?
Interviewee : Yes of course
Interviewer : Which one do you think is most important for writing in English? Good
grammar, good vocabularies or ideas and how you present them?
Interviewee : I think the most important is good grammar & vocabularies
Interviewer : In listening problem, what the most problem that experienced by you?
Interviewee : Sometimes I don‟t understand what the speaker said because of lack of
vocabularies.
Interviewer : Did you problem occured because native speaker speaks so fast?
Intervieweew : Yes
Interviewer : In speaking skill, do you have problem with?
Interviewee : Nobody want to practice and I don‟t know what I want to say
Interviewer : In reading skill, do you have problem with?
Interviewee : Yes, in vocabulary aslo
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing, and reading
Interviewee : According to me, the whole strategy to all four skills is watching television to
add vocabularies
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No. Initial’s Students
Listening Skill
Speaking Skill
Reading Skill
Writing Skill
Name
√
1
AH
2
OAA
3
AFL
4
TD
√
5
MRS
√
6
SA
7
SM
8
SN
9
NA
10
ZS
11
RM
12
IS
13
RNL
14
DHSPL
15
FA
√
16
MDP
√
17
MNA
18
OHR
√
19
FH
√
20
FNS
21
AWT
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
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21
MSR
22
FAP
23
MAH
24
HF
25
HNH
26
MFT
27
DH
28
ARA
29
FM
30
TM
√
31
AR
√
32
SSM
33
MP
34
SR
√
35
YA
√
36
FAI
√
37
IFR
√
38
MAR
√
39
AS
√
40
ARH
41
BB
42
MAJ
43
SN
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
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44
RAA
45
NS
√
46
NyS
√
47
SNV
√
48
RS
√
49
NP
50
NM
√
Total
Percentage
√
11
22%
12
24%
17
34%
10
20%
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Please fill in the bullet with (√) sign to complete the questions !
1. Do you felt difficult to understand well when speakers speak too fast ?
o Yes
o No
2. Do you felt difficult to understand the recorded material because you are unable to get this
repeated ?
o Yes
o No
3. Sometimes I cannot understand clearly what the instructor says because of lack of vocabularies
o Yes
o No
4. Do you felt difficult understand the signals which indicate that the speaker is moving from one
point to another ?
o Yes
o No
5. If I am difficult to understand contextual meaning, I use my background knowlefge of the topic
to understand the spoken text
o Yes
o No
6. It is difficult for me to concentrate with noises around
o Yes
o No
7. Which of the following strategies that suitable to understand the topic that speaker‟s said?
a. Focus with his/her pronunciation
b. See the transcript to understand the topic
c. Repeat the record until find the topic
d. Interpret itself based on my knowledge of the topic
8. I rarely practice English in daily conversation because, I.....
a. Worried about mistakes
b. Nothing to say
c. Low or even participation
d. Mother tongue use
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9. All of my friends use English to speak each other
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
10. I am always lack of vocabularies when I speak to my teachers
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
11. Some of my friends always encourage me to improve my speaking ability with practice English
outside
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
12. To improve my ability in speaking, I am always listen English song and watch western movie to
know many vocabularies.
a. Always
b. Usually
c. Occasionally
d. Rarely
e. Never
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the question by
choosing the best alternative for each question from A, B, C, or D.
The subject of wine is a fascinating one to some! To others it may be a bore, and
to others something that is quite incompreLiatening comprehension is the mnost problem
in Englihensible, and this is a shame - - they simply don‟t know what they are missing.
The loving thing about getting to know your wine is to drink it! This most pleasesant of
pastimes, coupled with a little concentration and intelligent observation, can be repaid
with a great deal of enjoyment. Quite simply wine is the fermented juice of the grape.
Fermentation is the conversion, induced by yeast cells, of the grape sugar into alcohol - and there you have wine.
The vines have lain dormant all winter. In early summer they flower and produce
grapes which develop until autumn when they are ready to be harvested, and the vintage
begins. The harvested graves are pressed to extract the juice and the „must‟ - - as the juice
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is called - - then ferments in huge vats for anything from two to fourteen days, depending
on the quality of the wine to be produced. Red wines have a longer fermentation period
than white wines, as the whole grape is fermented within the juice to extract the full
colour, flavour and tannin. Tannin is an important element in red wine. It enables the
juice to be kept for long periods while it matures.
There is little tannin in white grapes, so the juice is fermented without the skins
and for a shorter period than for red wines. The „must‟ in the vats seethes and bubbles
during fermentation, and a close watch has to be maintained on the temperature - - a fast,
hot fermentation can spoiln the wines, making them harsh and coarse. When all activity
has ceased, the wines are run from the vats into barrels - - leaving behind the skins and
sediment - - and are left to settle for several months.
During this period new sediment, which is the accumulation of dead yeast cells, is
forming all the time, so periodically the wine is run off into new barrels. This is called
„racking‟. The final step in eliminating any cloudiness in the wine after racking, is
„fining‟. Natural substances are added to collect any remaining particles and to ensure
that the wine is clear and pure. Then it is ready for bottling.
13. The word “This” in line 2 means________________.
A. the idea that the subject of wine is boring
B. the idea that the subject of wine is simple
C. the idea that the subject of wine is attractive
D. the idea that the subject of wine is boring and incomprehensible
14. The word “This” in line 4 refers to ________________.
A. drinking your wine
B. observing your wine
C. concentrating on your wine
D. getting to know your wine
15. The word “dormant” in line 10 means_______________.
A. inactive
B. busy
C. flowery
D. dropping the leaves
16. The word “vintage” in line 12 means_______________.
A. the pressing of the grapes
B. the process of wine making
C. the picking of the ripe grapes
D. the old fashioned method of wine making
Text
Television was... 17... in the 1920s and first came to Australiua in 1956. It has..18.. an
important role in communicating news. We can learn..19...about what is happening in the
world..20...television. Also television..21...people with entertainment in their own home.
People in..22... areas can still feel part of the world because of television.
17.a. Invented
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b. Discovered
c. Founded
d. Created
e. Developed
18. a. Played
b. Stayed
c. Went
d. Innovated
e. Modified
19.
a. Immediately
b. Quickly
c. Instantly
d. Hurriedly
e. Freely
20. a. Because
b. However
c. Nevertheless
d. Because of
e. Instead of
21. a. Sends
b. Watches
c. Provides
d. Obtains
e. Serves
22. a. Isolated
b. Hidden
c. Covered
d. Modernized
e. Organized
23. What the best strategies that can help you to understand reading comprehension.
a. Read the text repeatly
b. Underline key word in the text
c. Focus on the first of paragraph and the last paragraph
d. See the similarities word between the option of tyhe question and the word in the text.
24.
According to you, is the reading comprehension is the most difficult skill in learning
English language?
o Yes
o No
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25. If you asked to write, what kinds of the genre of text that you will write?
a. Narrative text
b. Explanation text
c. Recount text
d. descriptive text
26. If you want to write a letter or text, what aspects that you will be interest?
a. Sentence fregments
b. Sentence variety
c. Paragraph focus
d. Word order of the sentence
e. Grammatical error
27. Most farmers in Indonesia, especially in the rural area, have some..... to help their works.
a. Ox
b. Oxs
c. Oxen
d. Oxens
28. Polar bear‟s ..... are covered with hair on their soles to help them walk on ice and snow
a. feet
b. foot
c. feets
d. foots
29. The best diamonds are transparent and colorless, but they actually .... in color from the clear to
black.
a. range
b. are ranging
c. ranged
d. have been ranging
30. Peter and Tom plays tennis every afternoon with Mary and me. What wrong form of the question
above ?
a. Peter
b. Plays
c. Tennis
d. Afternoon
31. Promoting ..... goods and services, the company salesman also bid an opportunity to earn some
profit.
a. they
b. their
c. its
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d. it
32. John and Pamela hated...... for not being their little sister‟s side at the hospital.
a. Herself
b. They
c. Themselves
d. Themself
33. It was... who would break the rules from the colonial era.
a. Him
b. He is
c. He
d. His
34. The...dedicated to soup recipes was written in 1882 by Emma Ewing.
a. First cooking American pamphlet
b. First American cooking pamphlet
c. American first cooking pamphlet
d. Cooking first American pamphlet
35. Which one of the following strategies that suitable to improve writing skill?
a. Join with writing club / writing class
b. Read many articles accustomed to write article also
c. Join with many writing competence / writing event
d. Learningt grammatical patterns while write a text
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Transcript Interviewee #1
Interviewer : I have twelve questions for you to answer, and the first question is. According
to you what the most difficult of language learning problems?
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : why ?
Interviwee: Because, you know is different when Indonesian people talking and other
countries talking, when we studying in Listening is like in American people or British
people, they talk so fast, but Indonesian people stil clear but American people or British
people cannot clear to understand.
Interviewer : So what the strategy that you have done to overcome your problem in listening
ability?
Interviewee : Watching movie without subtitle, and take some test in listening with repeat
the recording.
Interviewer : Do you often practice English (speaking) with your friends in school or
outside?
Interviewee : Not really, because in class, we also speak with Indonesian language
Interviewer : So what the strategy to solve the problem? ( speaking skill)
Interviewee : Sometimes, trying to speak with friends
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extraculicular outside to improve your ability of
English?
Interviewee : Not yet, No
Interviewer : Do you take some courses?
Interviewee : No
Interviewer : If you have listening section, did you annoying with other noises?
Interviewee: Yes of course, because listening is hard for me. So, I will felt annoying if there
many noises arround me to hear the materials in listening section.
Interviewer : While reading a text, what the suitable strategies you did?
Interviewee: Read the key words of the text, read carefully each sentence and not only read a
words but also interpret the whole to understand the topic of the text.
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Interviewer : Have you write formal letter? For example a formal letter if you want to study
abroad, so you have to write study plan or curriculum vitae?
Interviewee: Yeah, I ever write a letter in the class
Interviewer : So, based on your writing task, right?
Interviewee : Yes.
Interviewer: In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their problem
in reading comprehension, do you agree with ?
Interviewee : Yes, sometimes i don‟t understand the vocabulary in reading, so when I see
the sentence, I see the vocabulary before see the difficult word to understand the
meaning.
Interviewer : So you see one by one word to understand
Interviewee : No, I just see the difficult one, and find out it out and interpret the meaning.
Interviewer : Which one do you think important to writing in English? Good grammar, good
vocabularies or ideas and how you present them?
Interviewee : Ideas.
Interviewer : Ideas? So, ideas it means you can explore what you want to write, if you have
the ideas?
Interviewee : Yes, something like that.
Interviewer : What you activities that you have done to improve your writing ability?
Interviewee : No, I don‟t know, because I have joined in writing class, but it doesn‟t helpful
Interviewer : In this school, there are extracuricular like debate class?
Interviewee : Nothing, but sometimes we join in some competitions
Interviewer : Do you ever join the competition?
Interviewee : Yes, speech competition
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me, for reading comprehension, I did not read a sentence but the
question first. For Listening, I try to listen a song and movies. For writing, I try to learn
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grammatical problems and word order, for speaking, my speak is not good, but I often
practice, and I just talk what i want to say.
Transcript Interviewee #2
Interviewer : According to you, what the most difficult of English language problem in four
skills in English?
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : Why ?
Interviewee : Because, when I took course, the lowest is listening, it‟s hard and I can‟t listen
it
Interviewer : Do you ever speak with native speaker?
Interviewee : Yes.
Interviewer : How amny times you speak with native speaker?
Interviewee : In our class, there are native speaker, so we often speak with native
Interviewer : So, how do you understand the material in Listening section?
Interviewee : I just get the point not the whole
Interviewer : What your best strategy to solve the problem?
Interviewee : Yes, I try to listen talkshow without subtitle, I listen Ellen talkshow or
American got talents. It enjoys to listen.
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extracuricular outside to improve your ability of
English?
Interviewee : English courses only, last year.
Interviewer : If you have listening section, did you annoying with other noises arround you
?
Interviewee : Yes, and I close my eyes. It is helpful for me to concentrate the listening
material
Interviewer : Do you can answer reading comprehension?
Interviewee : Yes, better than listening
Interviewer : Oh, why?
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Interviewee : Because in reading comprehension, I just find the answer with a way see the
qustion and find answer from the text.
Interviewer : While reading a text, what the suitable strategies you did?
Interviewee : I see the word refers from the question and connect with the purpose of the
text.
Interviewer : So, you use decoding strategy with a way see a bold word from the question
and you find the purpose or meaning it from the whole text, right?
Interviewee : Yes, I use that strategy, I am also read reapeatly and underline the main point
from the text.
Interviewer : Do you have write formal letter?
Interviewee : Yes, but I don‟t know the grammar correct or not because we just ask to write
in class, especially writing in Bahasa Inggris or Bahasa Indonesia lesson.
Interviewer : How often did you practice yor ability in speaking?
Interviewee : Rarely, because I‟m not comfortable speak up with other people that makes
me comfort
Interviewer : Have you felt worried about mistakes while you want to speak, moreover, you
really know what you want to say just woirried about mistakes, have you?
Interviewee : Yes I have
Interviewer : So, when native speaker choose you to answer the questions in English, what
did you do?
Interviewee : I let myself to concern with the ideas and speak up
Interviewer : So, how the grammatical use ?
Interviewee : I try my best
Interviewer : In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their
peroblem in reading comprehension. Are you agree with?
Interviewee : Yes
Interviewer : Do have you trouble with noun plurals, conjunction or anything else in
reading text?
Interviewee : sometimes from it all, conjunction I think is most difficult
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Interviewer : If you in situation where you cannot open dictionary to help you in reading
text, what did you do to overcome?
Interviewee : I‟m focus with some vocabularies that I remember
Interviewer : which one do you think is most important for writing in English? Good
grammar, good vocabularies or ideas to present them?
Interviewee : good grammar for formally writing and good ideas to explore what I want to
reading unformally writing
Interviewer : If you want to explore the ideas in your writing, but you did not remember the
correct word, what did you do?
Interviewee : I use the similarities of that word
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me,for listening, I try to listen western music and watching
talkshow without subtitle, for speaking, occasionally, I practice with my friend. For
reading, memorize many vocabularies. For writing, I just write what I love.
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Transcript Interviewee #3
Interviewer : According to you, what is the most difficult English language problems in four
skills in English
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : Why ?
Interviewee : Because sometimes I cannot hear what people talk
Interviewer : If in a condition, native speaker speak so fast, can you undersatnd what he/she
said ?
Interviewee : No, I cannot
Interviewer : Have you any other reason, why listening as your problem in language
learning?
Interviewee : Nothing
Interviewer : What did you do to overcome your problem in listening?
Interviewee : Listen a song, watching movie and practice
Interviewer : If you in listening section and arround you make a noises, did you annoying
with that?
Interviewee : Yes. It‟s destroy my concentrate
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome your problem if arround you destroy your
concentrate?
Interviewee : I Try to be focus with close my eyes and close my ears.
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extracuricular outside to improve your ability in
English?
Interviewee : When I was 11 years old, I have taken caouerse in YPPIA
Interviewer : Do you have problem in reading comprehension?
Interviewee : Little bit
Interviewer : So, what in reading comprehension become your problem to answer reading
text?
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Interviewee : I think the problem in reading comprehension are while I don‟t know some
difficult words, and academic words
Interviewer :What did you do to overcome your problem in reading comprehension?
Interviewee : Watching movie
Interviewer : Why watching movie as one of best strategy you did to overcome your
problem in reading?
Interviewee : Yes, because I think if I see the subtitle from the movie, it makes me know
many vocabularies
Interviewer : Anything else?
Interviewee : Sometimes, I make a note from the word underline or difficult word or a
keyword in a thext to make me understand
Interviewer : Do you have write formal letter?
Interviewee : Yes, I have, but in Indonesian lesson
Interviewer : According to you, write a formal letter is difficult or not ?
Interviewee : Yes it‟s difficult because I cannot form a formal grammatical and formal
language to write like descriptive text or narrative text?
Interviewee : Not formal writing because they are easy to write, I‟m free to explore my idea.
Interviewer : So, What a problem for you in writing a letter?
Interviewee : I‟m confuse when I ask to arrange the sentence word by word whether
approriate or not, I‟m also confuse about the using of some grammatical rules like
Subject-verb agreement, noun plurals, etc.
Interviewer : In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their
problem in reading comprehension, do you agree with?
Interviewee : Yes, I agree
Interviewer : According to you, which one do you think important to writing in English?
Good grammar, good vocabularies or ideas to present them?
Interviewee : I think, good grammar and good vocabularies that important in writing
English.
Interviewer : Do you have activities that you have done to improve your ability in writing?
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Interviewee : Try to write, write and write
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me for listening, I‟m listen and watching movie. For Speaking,
I‟m practice with my father. For writing, I‟m force myself to write and write and reading
skill, i read more and more to add my knowledge and my vocabularies.
Transcript Interviewee #4
Interviewer : According to you, what the most difficult in English language problem from
four skills?
Interviewee : I think is speaking
Interviewer : Why?
Interviewee : Because I‟m worried about mistakes and lack of my vocabularies, I‟m affraid
make mistakes and then my friend will mock me
Interviewer : So, what your strategy to solve the problem?
Interviewee : Actually I practice at home with my mother ?
Interviewer : How often you practice English with your mother?
Interviewee : Occasinally as we can
Interviewer : Do you ever join other extracuricular outside to improve your ability of
English?
Interviewee : Yes, I join in YPPIA and it has improved my ability inspeaking, listening,
reading, and writing
Interviewer : If you have listening section, didi you annoying with other noises?
Interviewee : Yes
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome to make your concentrate be normal?
Interviewee : I try to close my eyes, and I make imagine as if I‟m in a room and that strategy
make me more concentrate
Interviewer : While reading a text, what the suitable strategies you did?
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Interviewee : I read repeatly the text, again, and again. I‟m also find many vocabularies to
understand the meaning of the text
Interviewer : Have you write formal letter? Example like study plan to enter university or
application letter?
Interviewee : I already written a recount text, descriptive text just the genre of the text
Interviewer : Do you have problem if native speaker saying so fast?
Interviewee : Yes I have
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome the problem?
Interviewee : I make him to repeat his saying
Interviewer : Do you have trouble in ability of listening? And what did you do to overcome
the problem?
Interviewee : Little bit, and overcome that problem, I just listen carefully native speaker said
and then memorize.
Interviewer : In other cases, someone make a note of vocabularies to overcome their
problem in reading comprehension, are you agree with?
Interviewee : Yes, I agree
Interviewer : Which one do you think is most important for writing in English? Good
grammar, good vocabularies, or ideas and how you present them?
Interviewee : I think is good grammar, because if I have and idea but i don‟t know what the
correct word to explain that, it is useless.
Interviewer : According to you, the most problem in listening are cannot concentrate
because of noises and native speaker who speak so fast, right?
Interviewee : Yes of course
Interviewer : While listening section in your class, did you see the transcript of listening
material also?
Interviewee : Yes, It is help me to find what the text tell me about
Interviewer : Do you have problem in reading skill?
Interviewee : No, I‟m always try the best
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Interviewer : Do you have problem in writing?
Interviewee : The problem inwriting is vocabularies, because I‟m lack in vocabularies.
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing and reading?
Interviewee : According to me, the strategy for listening I‟m try to listen more western/
English song. For speaking, practice with my mother as one of person that always makes
comfort. For reading,I raed story in English to add my vocabularies. For writing, I study
more and more about grammar and add vocabularies.
Transcript Interviewee #5
Interviewer : According to you, what the most difficult of English language problems in
four skills?
Interviewee : Listening
Interviewer : Why?
Interviewee : Because when someone speaking and I‟m not focus to listen what she/he said.
Interviewer : What reason that make your concentrate destroy?
Interviewee : I think its about my attention
Interviewer : What did you do to overcome your problem in listening?
Interviewee : Watching movies without subtitle
Interviewer : Do you ever join extracuricular outside to improve your ability in English?
Interviewee : When I was a primary, I taken English course
Interviewer : So, what did you do to overcome your problem in listening ability?
Interviewee : I‟m rarely heard English song
Interviewer : Beside your problem in listening, do you have problem in reading skill?
Interviewee : Sometimes, I‟m lack of vocabulary, sometimes I don‟t know the meaning, I
read a text repeatly
Interviewer : How many times you read a text to know the purpose of the text?
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Interviewee : I cannot count it. I Just read again until I know the whole of the text and
interpret myself
Interviewer : In writing skill, do you have a problem with?
Interviewee : Sometimes, I‟m lack of vocabulary again
Interviewer : Then, do you have a problem also about grammatical in writing?
Interviewee : Yes
Interviewer : Do you have problem also in using adverb, verb, or noun plurals when you are
writing?
Interviewee : Yes of course
Interviewer : Which one do you think is most important for writing in English? Good
grammar, good vocabularies or ideas and how you present them?
Interviewee : I think the most important is good grammar & vocabularies
Interviewer : In listening problem, what the most problem that experienced by you?
Interviewee : Sometimes I don‟t understand what the speaker said because of lack of
vocabularies.
Interviewer : Did you problem occured because native speaker speaks so fast?
Intervieweew : Yes
Interviewer : In speaking skill, do you have problem with?
Interviewee : Nobody want to practice and I don‟t know what I want to say
Interviewer : In reading skill, do you have problem with?
Interviewee : Yes, in vocabulary aslo
Interviewer : According to you as students, what the best strategies to listening, speaking,
writing, and reading
Interviewee : According to me, the whole strategy to all four skills is watching television to
add vocabularies
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No. Initial’s Students
Listening Skill
Speaking Skill
Reading Skill
Writing Skill
Name
√
1
AH
2
OAA
3
AFL
4
TD
√
5
MRS
√
6
SA
7
SM
8
SN
9
NA
10
ZS
11
RM
12
IS
13
RNL
14
DHSPL
15
FA
√
16
MDP
√
17
MNA
18
OHR
√
19
FH
√
20
FNS
21
AWT
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
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21
MSR
22
FAP
23
MAH
24
HF
25
HNH
26
MFT
27
DH
28
ARA
29
FM
30
TM
√
31
AR
√
32
SSM
33
MP
34
SR
√
35
YA
√
36
FAI
√
37
IFR
√
38
MAR
√
39
AS
√
40
ARH
41
BB
42
MAJ
43
SN
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
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44
RAA
45
NS
√
46
NyS
√
47
SNV
√
48
RS
√
49
NP
50
NM
√
Total
Percentage
√
11
22%
12
24%
17
34%
10
20%
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