Faisal MustafaSyiah Kuala University | UNSYIAH · Department of English Language Education
Faisal Mustafa
Master of Arts
Development of online learning platform use (OLPU) scale for language learning
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Faisal Mustafa currently works at the Department of Language Education, Syiah Kuala University. Faisal does research in Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology, language teaching methods, and language testing. My detailed can be accessed at https://fsd.unsyiah.ac.id/faisal.mustafa/
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December 2022 - present
Education
December 2022 - December 2026
September 2018 - December 2018
September 2010 - September 2011
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Publications (53)
This study examines the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) technique for improving students’ English writing skills, specifically in content and organization when focused on writing recount texts. This experimental research used random sampling and random assignment to determine the control group (CG) and the experimental group (...
Designing a grammar test, among other tests, for classroom use requires much effort and the results need to be tested for reliability to ensure that it gives teachers the information they need about their students’ achievement and to make sure students are fairly scored. However, the data shows that most of the tests given to students to measure th...
Reduplication in Acehnese serves many functions, such as plurality, reciprocity, emphasis, continuity, and repetitions. This word formation process has been previously analyzed in terms of morphology and phonology. The present study aimed to discover the constraint ordering of reduplication to determine the rules that govern each pattern of redupli...
The teaching of speaking in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in the Province of Aceh did not rely on the suggested techniques and methods. This teacher-designed technique, which was mainly textbook-based, has left an unpleasant learning experience among students. Therefore, we conducted a quantitative research study to experiment with ho...
A prompt can be used as a medium to help students write a descriptive text. There is a lack of research on the type of prompts which can help students formulate and organize their ideas. Therefore, this study aims to determine whether there was a significant difference in the score of idea formulation and organization in a descriptive text between...
Plagiarism, a serious academic misconduct, is common in undergraduate students' theses. This study aims (a) to determine the types of plagiarism committed by EFL students in their undergraduate theses and (b) to see how they differ between students with high and low English proficiency. Data were collected from 45 theses in a well-established unive...
Acehnese, like other regional languages throughout Indonesia, is in constant and intense contact with Bahasa Indonesia, a lingua franca of Indonesia. Not surprisingly, many Indonesian loanwords are flooding into Acehnese. There are some interesting sound changes affecting both consonants and vowels, phonotactics, and stress. This paper explores the...
Acehnese, like other regional languages throughout Indonesia, is in constant and intense contact with the Indonesian standard language, bahasa Indonesia. Not surprisingly, a great many Indonesian loanwords are flooding into Acehnese. Some interesting sound changes have affected various aspects pf the consonants, vowels, phonotactics, and stress, an...
Morphological Doubling Theory (MDT) states that reduplication is a process in morphology, instead of phonology, which calls the second element as a reduplicant to add meaning to the base. This research is to investigate to what extent MDT is applicable to analyze reduplications in Acehnese, an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. The research...
Data collection is a research process determining the validity and reliability of a study, and novice researchers have been found to experience many problems in this process. However, little study addressed the problem in data collection among these researchers. Therefore, this study was conducted to uncover problems experienced by English as a For...
This study explores the difference in self-efficacy between high school English language teachers with two levels of curriculum literacy. The data were collected using a curriculum literacy test and a self- efficacy scale that were delivered online to 251 English teachers in Indonesia. The respondents were split into two groups based on their curri...
Cooperative learning has a long history in higher education, dating back thousands of years. Small groups are used in particular so that students can maximize their own and each other's learning. Cooperative learning, on the other hand, is more than just putting students in groups; it also involves adding fairness and engagement into the group lear...
p style="text-align: justify;">Learning by teaching is a technique where students teach an actual class to facilitate active learning. This paper reports ongoing research involving undergraduate students at an established university in Indonesia. The objective of this quantitative study was to find out the effect of this teaching technique in impro...
Vocabulary instruction has received serious attention among English language teaching (ELT) researchers for decades. The objective of this research was to find out whether peer assessment can facilitate vocabulary retention. The peer assessment in the current research was delivered through a workshop activity module as an extension of Moodle platfo...
The most critical requirement of an online class is the availability of the internet for a teacher and students alike. The objective of this study was to find out how student internet access correlates to teachers' self-efficacy in teaching an online class. This quantitative study used categorical data obtained using two questionnaires: one assesse...
Reduplication is a morphological operation in many Austronesian languages, including Acehnese. This process is very productive in Acehnese, and it occurs with many patterns. This study aims to find out the reduplication patterns in Acehnese based on nine literary works written in the 19th century or earlier. The study also focuses on reduplicated p...
The study reported on here was aimed at providing statistical evidence on the correlation between instructional management and behaviour management, and how they relate to English proficiency level, gender, age, and years of experience among low proficiency teachers in Indonesia. The data were collected using a behaviour management and instructiona...
Classroom management is an essential element of the teaching and learning process which determines the quality of instruction. This research aims to investigate the elements of classroom management which can be effectively applied in EFL classrooms. This study is a review research study, where the data were collected from 43 previously published ma...
This study investigated the unique features of the Sibreh subdialect
from the Greater Aceh dialect spoken in Aceh, Indonesia. The data for
this qualitative study were collected through elicitations from 70 native
Acehnese speakers living in Sibreh, Aceh. The findings showed six
unique features of the Sibreh subdialect that are different from the
st...
This research was aimed at finding out the effect of an authentic learning experience, the experience in taking a real course in a university, when e-learning was combined with face-to-face interaction on the pre-service teachers' intention of using e-learning in their future teaching employment. Fifty-two pre-service teachers majoring in an Englis...
Try and V construction is prevalent in British and American English. This construction is found in both spoken and written English, although with different frequencies. The verb in this construction only appears in in the base form. The lack of research on this verb formation leaves many aspects unexplored, one of which is the transitivity of the v...
As many smartphones are imported from overseas and the user manuals are written in English, the translation of a user manual is, therefore, very important for the Indonesian customers whose English is not their second language. Good translation results are then very essential in order that the customers understand the information easily and clearly...
Using standardized tests such as paper-based TOEFL with three subtests for classroom assessment is restricted by the length of the test, which is usually longer than the class duration. Therefore, it is significant to be able to predict other subtests by conducting only one subtest. Therefore, the current study aimed to calculate prediction coeffic...
Assessment of the learning process refers to assessing the quality of students' learning as they complete learning activities, such as how much time they spend reading materials, how many times they repeat quizzes when they get low scores, or whether their posts in a forum are helpful for other students. Assessment of process is more appropriate fo...
Numerous research studies have investigated grammatical errors in writing committed by EFL students across the globe. There is still a dearth of research that focused on high achieving students in the context of EFL learning in Indonesia. The aim of this study was to find out the dominant errors made by the student of kelas akselerasi (or 'class fo...
The research aimed at finding out the Acehnese archaic words and their non-archaic alternatives that younger speakers often utter today. Several Acehnese original lexical items were no longer understood by the younger generation, and thus it was expected that some words to disappear without proper documentation. Hikayat Prang Sabi (Sabil War Sage),...
The Longman Preparation Course for the TOEFL, written by Phillips in 2003, is the most widely used coursebook for TOEFL test preparation. This book provides 17 strategies for Listening Comprehension Part A. Therefore, the current study examines whether the strategies provided in the book are applicable in a real test. The data were obtained from Pa...
Instructional management and instructional quality are two key factors for successfully teaching a language. This study was aimed at finding any correlation between instructional management skills and instructional quality, in addition to any correlation between instructional management skills and the achievements of the students in the relevant su...
Learning via teaching has been accepted as one of the best ways to achieve a deep understanding of a topic. This research was aimed at seeking scientific evidence to support this claim by comparing the scores the university-level EFL students obtained through the learning by teaching technique and those obtained by students who were taught traditio...
Small sample size is the most common limitation which restricts the generalization of research results, and this is true to many fields, including language testing. The current study is sought to show the predictive power of sample sizes over the population mean to decide what sample minimum size can be considered as a proper sample size for a lang...
It has been predicted that the leadership competence of school principals indirectly influences the achievements of students because it has a positive impact on the social behaviour of their teachers. However, the correlation between those variables has not been supported by data. This research was therefore aimed at finding evidence for any correl...
Studies have shown that reading comprehension is the most difficult section of the PBT TOEFL. Therefore, this research aimed to identify which sub-skill in reading comprehension poses the greatest challenges for the students and how this sub-skill correlates to other reading comprehension sub-skills. To achieve this purpose, this research utilized...
Purpose of the study: Lecturers of public universities in Indonesia are encouraged to publish articles in internationally reputable journals frequently. Due to their workload and tight schedule, they may be tempted to copy some or part of their works. This study aimed at investigating the reasons for young lecturers on plagiarism in English academi...
His research interest is in language in relation to literature and culture of indigenous society. Most of his recent researches are related to indigenous culture of Mentawai. He can be reached at: elfiondri@yahoo.co.id / elfiondri@bunghatta.ac.id Abstract Foreigners visiting tourist spots of indigenous villages on Siberut island use ojek, a motorcy...
The major objective of this research is to analyze the flouting maxims in one of the Indonesian comedy movies, The Guys. This research is focused on identifying the types of flouting maxims and to seek out the reasons behind those flouting performed by Alfi character in the movie. The data for this qualitative research were collected from the utter...
The credits for translation courses offered at the study program of English Language Teaching at a university level in Indonesia are very limited, which is not sufficient to teach and facilitate practices for all techniques of translation. Therefore, the students should only be taught techniques frequently used in translation from English to Indone...
Academic papers written by native and nonnative speakers of English can be differentiated easily. Some of the features that distinguish papers written by native speakers from those written by nonnative speakers are the levels of vocabulary, grammar, and style used in the papers. The current study aimed to identify differences between native and non...
Vocabulary is most important in learning a language, and thus it should be taught before teaching other language skills. Teachers need to plan which words to teach to make students learn vocabulary easier; however, Indonesian high school curriculum does not specify which vocabulary to teach. Therefore, this research was aimed at finding out the lis...
Since vocabulary is a strong predictor of reading comprehension, vocabulary homework is seen as a way to improve reading comprehension. This study utilized an online learning platform to deliver vocabulary homework to students learning reading skills in the classroom and compare their scores with students given paper-based homework and those who di...
Plagiarism has frequently been found in academic writing produced by EFL learners, including in Indonesia. It has been claimed that plagiarism is motivated by a poor understanding of this concept. This paper intends to find out to what extent students in Indonesia understand what constitutes plagiarism. To collect the data, 34 EFL students at two s...
The high school curriculum for English in countries where English is taught as a foreign language (EFL countries) does not allow for best language exposure to the students, so the students could not even use functional language upon their high school completion. There are, however, a few students who are relatively successful in their learning desp...
Students of social and natural sciences are expected to achieve different learning outcomes because they employ different language learning strategies and are exposed to different vocabulary. This research was aimed at finding evidence from empirical data to determine whether the differences in learning outcomes are statistically significant. The d...
The use of an unsupervised online language proficiency test has become popular for cost and time efficiency, especially for a no-stakes test. This study was aimed at exploring whether the results of an unsupervised online language test represent the students' language proficiency by comparing them to a conventional paper-delivered supervised test....
Paper-based TOEFL scores have been used to determine the level of English proficiency for EFL learners for various purposes. However, in repeat tests some lower scores fluctuate despite no additional classroom learning, thus they cannot be used to judge the English level of those taking the test. There is limited research into the lowest score that...
Students from non-English speaking countries learn English as a foreign language in school. Therefore, schools should play the most important role in improving students’ English proficiency. This study aimed at describing high school alumni’s perception on whether schools have successfully played that role. To obtain the data for this research, a q...
This study aims at comparing the benefits of using videos instead of audios for improving students’ listening skills. This experimental study used a pre-test and post-test control group design. The sample, selected by cluster random sampling resulted in the selection of 32 second year high school students for each group. The instruments used were l...
This study investigated whether the application of video clips with small groups or with individual teaching-learning activities improved the speaking skills of young EFL learners the most; accordingly a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test, post-test design was done. The instrument used in this study was a test in the form of an oral test or i...
Vocabulary is among the difficult component for EFL students to master in learning English language. Based on a preliminary observation at a junior high school in Banda Aceh, it was found that the teachers seldom used specific strategy in teaching vocabulary. Thus, this research was aimed at finding out whether the use of Spelling Bee game can impr...
Errors made by students in skills such as speaking and writing have been treated as important information to help teachers direct the foci of their teaching. Teachers need to pay attention to the most serious errors before addressing other errors. Hence, this research was aimed at finding the most serious errors produced by students at one of the j...
It is hoped that this book can become a reference and / or reference for readers in enriching grammar knowledge. This book is suitable for people who want to learn English from the basics related to grammar. The language used is also very easy to understand. The material that will be discussed is nouns, articles, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verb...
Full paper can be accessed at: http://capeu.unsyiah.ac.id/proceedings/index.php/eeic/article/view/79
Designing a reliable reading test has been proven very difficult and following test design steps is time-consuming; however, it is very significant both for teachers and test centers. Therefore, this research was aimed at proposing an alternative,...
Full paper can be accessed at: http://capeu.unsyiah.ac.id/proceedings/index.php/eeic/article/view/71
Listening is considered the most significant skill in language learning, but EFL programs at universities in Indonesia provide very limited credits for this skill, i.e. 80 hours all together distributed in three semesters. The purpose of this resea...
Plagiarism has been frequently found in academic writing produced by EFL learners, including in Indonesia. It has been claimed that plagiarism is motivated by poor understanding of plagiarism. This paper is intended to find out to what extent the EFL students in Indonesia understand what constitutes plagiarism. To collect the data, the EFL students...
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Dear all,
I have an English Listening Comprehension test consisting of 50 items taken by about 400 students. I would like to score the test using the TOEFL scale (max 58 I think), and it is claimed that TOEFL is scored using IRT (3PL model). I am using MIRT package in R to obtain three parameters, as I used 3PL model.
library(readxl)
TOEFL006 <- read_excel("TOEFL Prediction Mei 2021 Form 006.xlsx")
TOEFL006_LIST <- TOEFL006[, 9:58]
library(mirt)
sv <- mirt(TOEFL006_LIST, # data frame (ordinal only)
1, # 1 for unidimentional, 2 for exploratory
itemtype = '3PL') # models, i.e. Rasch, 1PL, 2PL, and 3PL
sv_coeffs <- coef(sv,
simplify = T,
IRTpars = T)
sv_coeffs
The result is shown below :
| | a | b | g | u |
|L1 |2.198 | 0.165 |0.198 | 1 |
|L2 |2.254 | 0.117 |0.248 | 1 |
|L3 |2.103 |-0.049 |0.232 | 1 |
|L4 |4.663 | 0.293 |0.248 | 1 |
|L5 |1.612 |-0.374 |0.001 | 1 |
|... |... |... | ... |... |
The problem is that I do not know how to use the parameters above to give weight for each item. The formula should be like this right?
Would anyone help me show how I can insert the parameters into the formula in R? Or maybe there are other ways of obtaining students' scores without having to manually give weight for each item. Your help is much appreciated.
The data can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WwwjzgxJRBByCXAjdlNkGNRCtXjMlddW/view?usp=sharing
Thank you very much for your help everyone.
My lecturers used to teach courses by asking students to present the topics in the syllabus groups of 4-5 students. I did not think that this teaching technique promote better material understanding because one student presents only a fraction of the topic while there are many topics in the syllabus. Are there any empirical evidence (or at least research) of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of this teaching technique? Thank you very much for your kind help.
