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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL USING FOUR SQUARE WRITING METHOD
Get PDFThe objectives of the research are: (1) To identify whether and to whatextend Four Square Writing Method can improve students’ writing skill; and (2)to analyze the class situation when Four Square Writing Method is implementedin writing class. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 1NgemplakBoyolali.The subject of the research is the students of class XI IPA 2 ofSMA Negeri 1 NgemplakBoyolali in the academic year of 2012/2013. In collectingqualitative data in this research are collected using questionnaire, interview,observation, and photos and quantitative data are collected using tests. Inanalyzing the data, the researcher usedqualitative and quantitative data. Thequalitative data are analyzed using five stages, they are assembling the data,coding the data, comparing the data, building meaning and interpretation andreporting the outcome.The research findings show that the use of Four SquareWriting Method improves students’ writing skill and classroom condition. It canbe seen from their interest and motivation in learning English and writing meanscore of pre-test 54 increased to 70.5 in post-test 1, and 74.8 in post-test2
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING SKILL THROUGH NUMBERED HEADS TOGETHER TECHNIQUE
Get PDFThis thesis is written to: (1) identify whether the use of Numbered HeadsTogether (NHT) can improve students’reading skill’, and (2) describe the classsituation when the teacher implements Numbered Heads Together (NHT) inreading activity. The research was conducted from March 15th 2012 until July 5th2012 at the eight grade of SMP Purnama 2 Surakarta. The research wasconducted in two cycles, in which in the there were three meetings in the first andsecond cycle. Every cycle consisted of four steps: planning, implementing,observation, and reflection. The research data were collected by using qualitativeand quantitative method. The qualitative method consisted of observation,questionnaire, field notes, and interview. Meanwhile,a test used in the techniqueof collecting data used quantitative method. The qualitative data were analyzed infive stages consisting of assembling the data, coding the data, comparing thedata, building interpretations, and reporting the outcomes. The quantitative datawere analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre-test and the post-test. Theresults of the research show that Numbered Heads Together technique canimprove students’ reading skill and class situation
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH ANIMATION MOVIES
Get PDFThe objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether or not animation movies can improve the students’ writing skill at the eighth grade of SMPN 2 Klego and (2) to describe the class situation. The research findings show that the use of animation movies can improve students’ writing skill and class situation. The improvement of students’ writing skill includes: (1) the students organized their ideas coherently using appropriate generic structure of narrative; (2) the students used more appropriate vocabularies; (3) the students wrote their naratives in grammatically correct sentences; (4) the students used spellings and punctuations correctly in their composition. The class situation also improved : (1) students were active and creative, they paid attention to the teacher’s explanation; (2) they did all exercises given by the teacher. Finally, it could be concluded that the use of animation movies could improve the students’ writing skill and the class situation.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY USING FLASH CARDS
Get PDFThis paper discusses about improving students’ vocabulary mastery using flash cards. The aims of the paper are: (1) to find out whether and to what extent the use of flash cards can improve students' vocabulary and (2) to describe the strengths and the weaknesses of using flash cards to teach vocabulary. The writer conducted a classroom action research from February to June at the second grade of SDN Bulakan 02, Sukoharjo in the academic year 2011/2012. This research was conducted in two cycles and carried out in four steps namely; planning the action, implementation/action, observation, and reflection. The data of the research were collected by using qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. The result of the research shows that the use of Flash cards can improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. It can be seen from the mean score of the test which improve from 56.5 in the pre test to 77.1 in the post test one and 83.7 in the post test two. Using flash cards could make the students pay attention to the lesson properly. It also improved students’ participation in learning vocabulary. They were not shy anymore and highly motivated to join the teaching and learning process
THE USE OF K-W-L (KNOW - WANT to KNOW - LEARNED) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
Get PDFThe objectives of this research are: (1) finding out whether and to what extent KWL (Know - Want to Know - Learned) Strategy can improve reading ability of second grade students of SMP N 4 Surakarta and (2) describing what happens to classroom situation when KWL Strategy is applied in teaching reading. The subjects of the research are twenty three students of class VIII G SMP N 4 Surakarta. The research data were obtained by using several techniques including: test, observation, interview, questionnaire, field notes and photographs.The quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic. Meanwhile, qualitative data were analyzed by using 5 stages suggested by Burns (1999: 157- 159) consisting of: assembling the data; coding the data; comparing the data; building interpretation; and reporting the outcomes. The research findings show that the use of KWL Strategy could improve students’ reading ability and classroom situation of English class. The improvement of students’ reading comprehension can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of pre-test, first post-test, and second post-test, that is 66.95; 75.43 and 80.65
IMPROVING STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH QUESTION-ANSWER RELATIONSHIPS
Get PDFThe article aims to discuss whether Question-Answer Relationships can improve the students’ reading comprehension. The objectives of the prior research are: 1) Improving student’s reading comprehension and to know the extent of the improvement of student’s reading comprehension through Question Answer Relationships. 2) Describingthe situation when Question-Answer Relationships is applied in reading class. The research was a classroom action carried out in SMP Negeri 8 Surakarta. The subject of the research is the eighth grade students. The research finding shows that the students who were taught Question-Answer Relationships can improve their reading comprehension. It can be seen in the result of their reading from preliminary observation up to cycle 2. There is improvement in each cycle. Therefore, Question-Answer Relationships can be used as alternative strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension. Question-Answer Relationships also makes the class situation became effective during teaching and learning process
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY USING FLASH CARDS
No full textThis paper discusses about improving students’ vocabulary mastery using flash cards. The aims of the paper are: (1) to find out whether and to what extent the use of flash cards can improve students' vocabulary and (2) to describe the strengths and the weaknesses of using flash cards to teach vocabulary. The writer conducted a classroom action research from February to June at the second grade of SDN Bulakan 02, Sukoharjo in the academic year 2011/2012. This research was conducted in two cycles and carried out in four steps namely; planning the action, implementation/action, observation, and reflection. The data of the research were collected by using qualitative and quantitative data collection echniques. The result of the research shows that the use of Flash cards can improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. It can be seen from the mean score of the test which improve from 56.5 in the pre test to 77.1 in the post test one and 83.7 in the post test two. Using flash cards could make the students pay attention to the lesson properly. It also improved students’ participation in learning vocabulary. They were not shy anymore and highly motivated to join the teaching and learning process
AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON DIALOGUE SCRIPT WRITTEN BY THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 8 SURAKARTA
Get PDFIn language learning, sometimes, the students made errors in written language. The students are difficult to master writing comprehension. They get difficulties to comprehend the grammatical system in writing English sentence. They also need to consider about the grammatical components of English that differ from Indonesian language. This article describes about errors made by the students in writing dialogue script. Thirty students from the second grade of SMPN 8 SKA were asked to write about free essay in dialogue script. All students writing are, then, analyzed in order to investigate students’ errors. Based on linguistic category and surface strategy, it can be concluded that the students have difficulties in grammar (tenses, preposition, agreement, article), lexicon (vocabulary and spelling), punctuation for linguistic category and addition (double marking, regularization, simple addition), omission, misformation (regularization, archiform, alternating form), misordering for surface strategy. Most students tend to have difficulties in spelling and omissio
ENHANCING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION ON LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH STUDENT TEAMS-ACHIEVEMENT DIVISIONS METHOD
Get PDFThe objectives of the research are to identify whether and to what extent STAD method can improve students’ learning English motivation, and to describe strength and weakness of implementing STAD in this research. The research method used in this research is a classroom action research. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire, observation, interview and tests. The researcher conducted the tests and questionnaires before research (pre-test) and after implementing the method (post-test 1 and 2). The mean score of each test and questionnaire were compared to know the students improvements in motivation and reading skill. The research finding showed that the motivation of students improved in every cycle. The improvement of students’ motivation can be seen from the improvement of mean score of questionnaire (60. 72) before action, in cycle 1 62.03, and cycle 2 63.03. Besides, the reading skill of the students alsoimproved. The improvement can be seen from the improvement of mean score of pre-test (59.75), post test of cycle 1 69.25, and post test of cycle 2 74.38. The researcher also found strength and weakness of this method
OPTIMIZING GOOGLE DOCS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Get PDFThis research aims at identifying how the use of Google Docs can improve students’ writing skill of descriptive text; and describing the class climate when Google Docs is implemented in the writing class. The method used in this research is a collaborative action research which was conducted in two cycles at the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Sukoharjo from August 2nd to October 1st 2012, in which in the first cycle there were 3 meetings and in the second cycle there were 2 meetings. Each cycle consisted of four steps: planning, implementing, evaluation, and reflection. The research data were collected by using observation, questionnaire, interviews, field notes, photographs, and tests. The qualitative data were analyzed through assembling the data, coding, comparing, building interpretations, and reporting the outcomes. The quantitative data were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre-test and the posttests. The research findings show that Google Docs could improve students’ writing skill of descriptive text and class climate of English class. The mean score shows the improvement from pretest to the post-test, from 62.39 into 77.04. The improvement of classroom situation includes: 1) students were always ready to have writing class immediately; 2) students developed the idea fluently without talking with other students; 3) students paid full attention to the lesson; 4) it did not take students a long time anymore to write sentence; 5) students made less noisy during the lesso