Pusat Jurnal Ilmiah Universitas Pasir Pengaraian
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A STUDY ON WRITING RECOUNT TEXT
Get PDFThe purpose of this research was to find out students’ skill in writing recount text. Recount text was a text that tells the reader to listener what happened in the past through a sequence events. This research used descriptive qualitative research design.The findings showed that the students’ skill in writing recount text at SMAN 2 Rambah Hilir as follows: 1 student (3,33%) was very good category, 11 students (36,7%) were good category, 16 students (53,3%) were fair category, and 2 students (6,67%) were poor category
Task Based Learning and Teaching (TBLT) in Teaching Writing
Get PDFThis study was conducted to know whether there was any significant difference in the students‟ achievement in writing a descriptive text between those who are taught with “Task Based Learning and Teaching (TBLT)†and those who are taught without “Task Based Learning and Teaching (TBLT). The population of this study was taken from all of the total number of the tenth year students from X1 to X4 in SMA N 01 Kandang serang, Pekalongan in Academic year 2013/2014. The numbers of population are 85 students. Meanwhile, the samples of the study were taken from X1 class with 21 students as an experimental group and X2 class with 21 students as a control group. The experimental research was carried out using quasi-experimental design and to analyze the data independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test of SPSS program was used. Based on the analyses, the significant value of post-test score using independent t-test both of the group showed 0,001 lower than 0,05. In addition, it was reinforced by the comparison between t-value and t-table which showed t value > t table (6,083 >1,68) so that working hypothesis is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected. It could be concluded that there was significant improvement of students‟ writing mastery using TBLT
EXPLORING STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN CONSTRUCTING SENTENCES
Get PDFAbility to construct a good sentence is a requirement in writing an essay. However some students often found some difficulties in organizing the good sentences. They may face difficulties in various aspects, including grammar. Those difficulties faced by students are what then become mistakes or errors. The main focus of this study is to find out the types of errors in constructing sentences and the frequency of error occurrence in each type. This research is descriptive design with the sample from the second year students of English Education Program of University of Pasir Pengaraian. The data analysis was using error analysis by classifying the students‟ errors based on the surface strategy taxonomy errors involving omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. From the finding of the study, it reveals that the high frequency of error occurrence is error of omission with 40 times which means 37.7 % of error total. The next most error made by the students was in Error of misformation with 37 times or 34.9%. The students made 21 times of Error of Addition or 19.8 %. They also made 8 times of Error of misorder or 7.5 %. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the students still have problems in constructing sentences when writing an essay
MORPHOLOGICAL AWARENESS: STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WORD FORMATION ANALYSIS OF READING TEXT
No full textThis research was aimed to know the students’ ability in word formation analysis of reading text and to find out what their difficulties were. Theresearch was conducted using mix method: quantitative followed by qualitative whose data taken from test and interview.The purposive sampling was chosen to select the sample consisting of 24 students. Based on the research finding, the students’ ability were quite good in three aspects of analyses: number of morpheme, content word, and function word. However, in other aspects: derivation and inflection, their abilities were so poor because the lack of knolwledge in both of aspects
LECTURERS’ COMPETENCY FROM ISSUES TO THE FACTS
Get PDFThis research entitled lecturers’ competency from issues to the facts. The inconsistency of the quality of teaching and learning English became the first consideration to investigate the lecturers’ competency at English study program of University of Pasir Pengaraian. The researcher used descriptive quantitative design in investigating lecturers’ competency. To collect the data, questionnaires of lecturers’ competency were distributed to all lecturers. To analyze the data, the frequency score and percentage system were statistically operated. After collecting and analyzing the data, it was found that the pedagogical competency at 2.87 (closer to enough), Professional competency at 2.81 (closer to enough), Self-competency at 2.87(closer to enough) and Social competency at 3.31 (Enough). Finally, it could be concluded that lecturers’ competency in teaching English as a foreign language at English study program of University of Pasir Pengaraian were at average 2.96, categorized as Enough level of competency
THE EFFECT OF NUMBERED HEAD TOGETHER ON ENGLISH WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH
No full textThis study explains and concludes that the existence of teaching writing for junior high school students using Numbered Head Together (NHT). According to some experts, learning in groups (Numbered Head Together) also offers a different outcome judging from the initial abilities possessed by students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the Numbered Head Together strategy and the ability to write English. This study used an experimental method conducted at SMP Nurul Falah Pekanbaru, Riau with a sample of 60 students in the second grade students of SMP Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. The results of this study are; (There is a significant effect of the use of the Numbered Head Together strategy of students on the ability to write English students in the second grade students of SMP Nurul Falah Pekanbaru Riau. Which is proven that if, t is a large observation of t table then there is an effect of the strategy. For the results obtained values ​​from t observation is 7.31 and t table is 2,000, it can be concluded that if (7.13> 2.000) then there is an effect of using Numbered Head Together strategy on the ability to write English in grade 2 students of SMP Nurul Falah Pekanbaru
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARIY MASTERY AND THEIR ENGLISH READING PROFICIENCY
No full textThis study discussed about the correlation between vocabulary mastery and their English reading proficiency. The researcher’s interest on her classroom instruction became the background of this research. By determining descriptive correlational model as the research design, the research got the answer of how students’ vocabularies contribute their English reading proficiency. After collecting and analyzing the data gained from vocabulary test and reading proficiency test, it could be concluded that there was a significant correlation between English vocabulary mastery and Reading proficiency of the second year student of SMPN 05 Tambusai Utara
USING ONE STAY TWO STRAYS TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AND PARTICIPATION OF NARRATIVE TEXT
No full textThe purposes of this research were to find out effect of OSTS strategy on students reading comprehension and students’ participation. There are four hypotheses formulated, First, There is no significant difference on the students’ reading comprehension pre-test mean score between experimental group and control group. Second, there is no significant difference on the students’ reading comprehension posttest mean score between experimental group and control group. Third, there is no significant different on the students’ reading comprehension pre-test and post-test mean score of the experimental group. Fourth, there is no significant different on the students’ participation in teaching and learning reading comprehension of experimental group before and after using one stay two strays strategy. The population was the grade X SMAN 2 Rambah Hilir. There are 4 classes. By using cluster random sampling, it was found that X C as try out class, X B as experimental class and X A as the control. This research was conducted by using quasi experiment. The researcher used test as the instrument and analyzed by using T-test. The result shows that one stay two strays could improve students’ reading comprehension and participation
INTRASENTENTIAL AND INTERSENTENTIAL CODE SWITCHING IN INDONESIAN MODERN LITERATURE METROPOP “DENGAN HATIâ€
No full textABSTRACTThis study aimed at examining the types and the function of codes switching found in Indonesian Modern Literature Syafrina Siregar‟s novel „Dengan Hati‟. A review of related literature in code switching were provided for the analysis of the data. The data were taken from the conversation among the characters in this novel. This study is categorized as descriptive qualitative with content analysis. The finding showed that intersentential are dominantly used. While the function of code switching referred to cultural identity.
 
STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING A DISCUSSION GENRE
Get PDFThis research has the students’ difficulties in writing a Discussion genre as its background. Meanwhile, the draft of the 2004 English curriculumsuggests that the teaching of writing to senior high school students should be enhanced. This research was intended to investigate the students’ competence in writing a Discussion genre, a text type in English. This research was conducted in two phases at one senior high school in Rokan Hulu, Riau province. There were nine participants involved in this study. They were all from the twelfth year. This research was a qualitative case study in nature, since it dealt with a holistic description and text analysis. The procedures used to collect data were observation, interview, and writing test. For analysing students’ texts, Systemic functional grammar (SFG) was used as a tool. The findings revealed that the students develop their competence in writing a Discussion genre quite slowly. Their writing development started from recognizing a Discussion genre through its schematic structure, linguistic features, and metaphorical expressions. Next, they understood how to develop arguments in argument stages. They have used some linguistic features, such as one of the most controversial issues, the proponents of, the opponents of, in conclusion in their Discussion genre texts. This indicates that they have tried to produce coherent texts, particularly in terms of generic coherence. In terms of building internal properties of the text, one student had used good structural Themes. Finally, there was an improvement in self-confidence, as marked by the ability to produce longer texts, which averagely contain 408 words. Meanwhile in terms of weaknesses, the students still got problems dealing with grammatical patterns, cohesion, coherence, and dictions to support the clarity and effectiveness of sentences. They also had difficulties in developing arguments with convincing evidence. After looking at the findings above, the researcher believes that the teaching cycles as suggested in Genre-based approach are still possible to be adopted in the teaching of writing, particularly the Discussion genre. Finally, realizing that this research is far from perfect, the writer invites all concerned people to do similar research to improve the quality of the findings in this study