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THE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE TEACHERS’ ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION IN ACHIEVING NATIONAL EDUCATION GOAL
No full textJEE (Journal of English Education) is a scientific journal that collects the results of the research and scientific work of lecturers, teachers, or students associated with learning and teaching English. It is a blind peer review international journal which publishes manuscripts within the fields of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Applied Linguistics, Literature and English Teaching, Discourse Analysis, Culture and Language (more on focus and scope). It is published by English study program of University of Pasir Pengaraian, Riau, Indonesia. It is published twice a year in June and December (P-ISSN: 2459-9719 E-ISSN: 2597-7091)
CONCEPTUALIZING TEACHERS AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS
Get PDFThe focus of this paper is on learner autonomy (henceforth, LA) in language classroom setting. LA is an engagement in a process of reflective practice in learning process. In what follows, I will first discuss concisely the concept of LA; next I will briefly discuss the work of possible differences among attributes affecting LA; finally, I will elaborate LA for language classroom, and will suggest how LA might be conceptualized according to LA principles. In the language classroom, LA is usually associated either with students or teachers. Moreover, LA as it stands for, generally considered as encouraging students to become more autonomous. Following Nasri, Dastjerdy, Rasekh and Amirian (2015), however, I suggest that gender, background, and experience as a valuable feature contribution to promote LA
BOOK REVIEW: THE VALUE OF QUESTIONS IN LET’S TALK TEXTBOOK PUBLISHED BY PAKAR RAYA FOR THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT SLTP N SIAK HULU
No full textThis research is a book review of questions in "Let\u27s Talk" text book published by Pakar Raya which is used as a textbook for all second years ofjunior high school in Siak Hulu. The questions in textbook is one aspect that influence in teaching learning process and monitoring students learning. Cognitive domain is an ability that is demanded from students to be mastered because it is absolutely a basic for mastering knowledge and intellectual skills. The aims of this research to find the level of questions in "Let\u27s Talk" text book based on Cognitive domain. There are knowledge questions, comprehension questions, applications questions, analysis questions, synthesis questions and evaluation questions. This research is descriptive research using questionnaire as research instrument.
 
VERBAL SENTENCES IN UTETOTO VILLAGE, NANGARORO DISTRICT, NAGEKEO REGENCY, FLORES, NTT
Get PDFThis study is aimed at revealing the systems of Utetoto Verbal Sentences. Specifically, this study is concerned on: (i) describing the basic sentence patterns of Utetoto Verbal Sentences, (ii) finding out the similarities and differences between English and Utetoto Verbal Sentences, and (iii) predicting some difficulties of Utetoto Students in learning English. This research was descriptive qualitative research. Robert’s (1958) model was used as research design in describing English. At the first, a need analysis was done in the method of describing the basic sentence patterns, mentioning the main patterns of verbal sentences and other patterns of verbal sentences with some native speakers of Utetoto as main informants who stay in Tanah Utetoto. Based on the result of analysis, it was found that there are many different systems between Utetoto Verbal Sentences and English ones. The basic sentence patterns of Utetoto Verbal Sentences are: Noun Phrase (NP), Verbal Phrase (VP), Adjective Phrase (AP), Numeral Phrase (NuP), Adverb Phraes (AdP), and Prepositional Phrase (PP). By contrasting both languages, it found the differences between the native language and the target language. Based on the differences between Utetoto and English system, it can be predicted some difficulties of Utetoto students in learning English
BASIC COMPONENTS OF MICRO TEACHING SKILL AT THIRD YEAR STUDENTS FKIP UNIVERSITAS PASIR PENGARAIAN
Get PDFThe basic components of micro teaching skill is the basic skill to students who are going to be a teacher. Micro teaching is a course to practice teaching in faculty of teacher training and education.The research was done at third years students in 4 Department of FKIP in Universitas pasir pengaraian ( English Study Program, Math, Physic and Biology) .The methodology of this research is qualitative research. The researcher uses the teacher instrumentation assessments (IPKG 2). From the analysis, it can be concluded that the basic components of micro teaching skill at third years students of FKIP in Universitas Pasir Pengaraian is in good category or in 68,75%
THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN EFL/ESL CLASSROOM
Get PDFTeaching material is one of crucial part in English Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. Teaching language is related to the teaching culture which has great influence in human life. One better way to introduce students to the real world is through the use of authentic material. Since EFL students get more difficulties in acquire and explore the language, it can help them to experience real-world events in the classroom. Using authentic material enables teacher to modify teaching and learning strategies into a collaborative and interactive student centered learning environment instead of traditional teacher centered. Audio and visual presentation of the authentic material makes teaching and learning condition more interesting. Based on the previous explanation, this paper is focused on the use of authentic material in teaching and learning English in EFL classroom. It also describes how authentic material helps students improve their language skills and motivate them to learn English
THE DESIGN OF ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS IN ENGLISH RESEARCH
Get PDFA teacher is to understand and have ability to give assessment to his students since this ability plays a very important role in assessing thelearning evaluation. Teacher is also supposed to know its purpose so that he can find out its functions and which kind of assessment will be designed or developed for his students. In addition, this is useful to give the teacher knowledge about his students’ achievement and how to increase it
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING SKILLS THROUGH CONTEXT CLUES AND PUNCTUATIONS AT GRADE XII MS 4 OF SMA NEGERI PLUS OF RIAU PROVINCE
No full textThis article reports on a study intended to explain whether context clues and punctuations could better improve the students‟ reading skills at grade XII MS 4 of SMA Negeri Plus of Riau Province and to explain what factors that change it. This research was conducted through a classroom action research at SMA Negeri Plus of Riau Province, in 2017/2018 academic year. This classroom action research consisted of two cycles constituting 3 meetings for each cycle. Participants of the research were 25 of students of the grade XII MS 4 of SMA Negeri Plus Riau Province.The data were collected by using observation checklists, field notes, and test. Qualitative data were analyzed by data managing, reading or memoing, describing, classifying, interpreting. Quantitative data were analyzed by percentage (score of reading skills), Matrix and graph.The result of this research shows that the students‟ reading skills increased in each cycles. In the first cycle, the percentage of students‟ reading skills was 80.60%. But, the result was unsatisfactory yet. In the second cycle, the increase of students‟ reading skills was 90.08%. It means that there is an increase of students‟ reading skills in second cycles. In conclusion, the teaching of context clues and punctuations skills could increase the students‟ reading skills in understanding reading text. There were some factors that influence the changing of the students‟ reading skills by implementing context clues and punctuations, namely;(a) Time allocation in implementing of the context clues and punctuations.(b) Students‟ understanding in implementing the context clues and punctuations in reading skills. (c) Classroom atmosphere while the context clues and punctuations were implemented
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING COMPOSITIONON IN READING INTEREST
Get PDFTo improve students’ reading interest, a comprehensive research was needed.The purpose of this research was to implement Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition(CIRC)on reading interest.This research was quasi experimental research. It was nonequivalent control group design; post-test only design. The treatments were only done in experimental class while control class was taught as usual. Regarding to population selection, total sampling was used. It consisted of two classes. They were thirty nine students. Control class was taught by small group discussion and experimental class was taught by Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition. Reading comprehension test, Questionnaire, and interview were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed by using independent t-test. The finding was students who were taught by cooperativeintegrated reading composition (CIRC) had better scores (comprehension well) thanthose who were taught by small group discussion. However the reading interest of students were still low that can be seen from the time spent for reading and kinds of book read
THE EFFECT OF RECIPROCAL TEACHING STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING ABILITY AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN RAMBAH HILIR DISTRICT ROKAN HULU REGENCY
No full textBased on the result of the preliminary study, it was found that the students at SMAN 1 Rambah Hilir and SMAN 3 Rambah Hilir werelow score and not interested reading class. The students tendedto be passive inlearning process. Their reading comprehension mastery was low and they needed a long time to understand a reading text, even short text. The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of reciprocal teaching strategy toward students‟ motivation and their reading ability at senior high school in Rambah Hilir District Rokan Hulu regency. The design of this research was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test procedure. The data were collected through test and questionnaire. The total population was 61 students‟ of SMA Negeri 1 Rambah Hilir and 41 students‟ of SMA Negeri 3 Rambah Hilir. This research applied a random sampling technique to get samples. Then, the data were analyzed by using t-test method to find out whether there is significant difference between the experimental group taught by using Reciprocal teaching strategy as a treatment, and the control group taught conventionally. The research result, the writer found that significant probabilities was higher than 0.05 (> 0.05) in both paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test, it meantthat there is significant different on students reading comprehension in pre-test both classes and in post-test of both classes, and there is significant different on students‟ motivation before and after treatment of experimental class. Besides, the value of eta square of students‟ was 0.97 at SMAN 1 Rambah Hilir and 0.96 at SMAN 3 Rambah Hilir. It showed it gave significant effect toward students‟ motivation and their reading abilit