CRITICAL JOURNAL REVIEW

Arranged As a Self-Assignment Required In Following Advanced Structure

Courses

By:

Muslimatul Ahda
(1702050094)

Lecturer :
Erlindawati, M.Pd.

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY

OF MUHAMMADIYAH NORTH SUMATERA

2019
 FOREWORD

Thankful for the presence of allah almighty who has given his mercy,
guidance, and blessings so that the author can complete the preparation of this
critical journal as well as possible. With this independent assignment the author
arranges as a structured task, and aims to provide information from a journal that
has been reviewed and of course to increase knowledge and understanding in this
Advanced Structure course.

I hope this assignment can help friends improve their understanding of this
course. The author realizes that in the preparation of this structured task there are
still many mistakes and disadvantages. Because of that, the writer's critics and
suggestions need to be improved in the future.

Medan, July 2019

Compiler

Muslimatul Ahda

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD i
TABLE OF CONTENTS ii

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
1.1 Writing Benefits 1
1.2 Writing Purpose 1
1.3 Journal Identity 1

CHAPTER II SUMMARY
2.1 Preliminary 2
2.2 Content Description 2

CHAPTER III DISCUSSION

3.1 Journal Excellence 4
3.2 Journal Shortage 4

CHAPTER IV CLOSING
4.1 Conclusion 5
4.2 Suggestion 5

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY

1.1. Writing Benefits

1. As one of the tasks in the Advanced Structure
2. Helping students to get information about Advanced Structure courses
3. Train students to critical journals properly.
4. Increase student knowledge in determining a good journal

1.2. Writing Purpose

1. To fulfill one of the tasks in Advanced Structure courses
2. To help students understand the Advanced Structure
3. To help students make critical journals
4. To train the ability of students to analyze critically the journals they can

1.3. Journal Identity

Title : A Study on Grammar Teaching at an English Education

Department in an EFL Context

Journal Name : International Journal on Studies in English Language and

Literature (IJSELL)

Author : Muh. Saeful Effendi, Umi Rokhyati, Uchti Al-Muchanifah

Rachman, Aulia Dwi Rakhmawati, Dati Pertiwi

Publisher : English Education Department, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

ISSN Number : 2347-3126 (Print) & 2347-3134 (Online)

Link Address :
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=https://w
www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/

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 CHAPTER II
SUMMARY

2.1. Preliminary

Grammar is an important element of a language. Mastering the grammar of a

language will affect the mastery of language skills. Therefore, in studying
language formally, grammar is a subject that should be studied in depth. The
students need to be given adequate provision of grammar so that they have good
language skills. Grammar, for many students, is considered a difficult and
unattractive subject. They do not like learning grammar and therefore they cannot
have good achievement in learning it. Even students who have learnt grammar for
some years in college still get difficulty to construct good and correct sentences.
Some students still make grammar mistakes when they write their graduating
paper and lecturers have to work hard helping them correcting the mistakes.

2.2. Content Description

Grammar is one of the language aspects. Therefore someone who learns a

new language formally, in general, will be given grammar lessons. Of course this
depends on the level of the students who are learning. Learning Grammar is an
important activity in language learning. According to the study of language
learning which includes a focus on learning grammar (form-focused instruction),
grammar teaching convincingly shows more effective results than teaching
focusing only on the meaning. Learning focuses on grammar, according to Long
can be divided in two. The first FOFs (focus on forms) and FoF (focus on form).
The first model of learning focused on studying grammar. In this model, the
grammar is taught separately from the context. The second model of learning is
focused on the meaning and on the grammar that appears on the material being
studied.

The difficulty in learning grammar can be grouped into three, namely: the
difficulties associated with environmental factors of language, with linguistic

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factors, and psychological difficulties. Factors related to language environment
are how often the input obtained from the environment. Linguistic factor refers to
the nature of the grammar of a language and psychological factors refer to the
ability to learn.

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 CHAPTER III
DISCUSSION

3.1 Journal Excellence

In this jurnal the discovery of the problem is explained well which is then
solved by a very detailed results in the approach applied also steps in solving the
problems and collection of clear and accurate data.

3.2 Journal Shortage

The presentation of journals is very good but from the results of the very
detailed research that makes the reader difficult in understanding the results of
such a long research also has too much data.

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 CHAPTER IV
CLOSING

4.1 Conclusion

In the case of the use of learning methods, the students proved to be suitable
to the method used by lecturers, namely by providing an understanding of pattern
or sentence formula first. This means more students feel comfortable learning
grammar using deductive learning approach that has become a habit in schools for
a long time. There are some aspects of grammar that become problems for the
students, such as: the differences in structure between Indonesian and English.
This fact gives effect to the difficulty faced by the students in understanding the
structure of English; students still have difficulty related to adverb, prepositional
phrases, noun clauses: subjunctives, tenses, and complex sentences with adverbial
clauses; and the interference of mother tongue. Level of Students’ Grammar
mastery, based on the results, it can be concluded that the students’ grammar
mastery in general is fair.

4.2 Suggestion

In teaching Grammar to THE English Education Department so that our

context as a prospective teacher must understand the problem or difficulty of
students in learning grammar so it will be very easy for us to resolve these
difficulties and apply teaching methods and that match what they need.

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=https://wwww.arcjournals.or
g/pdfs/