JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY IN THE LIGHT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF READING

1922 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
J. D. Deihl
An Naba ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Sutikno ◽  
Doni Sastrawan ◽  
Adam Sugiarto ◽  
Diah Asih

The Use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method to Enhance Arabic Reading Comprehension Skills for Students of VIII Aisyah Class in Even Semester at Darul Fattah Quran Junior High School of Bandar Lampung in the 2019/2020 Academic Year   ABSTRACT Regarding the development of education that continues to change and for the sake of developing education quality, one of the elements that must be considered in the educational curriculum is a foreign language. In Indonesia, Arabic is a foreign language; in keeping with the need, the Arabic language is taught more seriously alongside knowledge teaching. Nevertheless, learning a foreign language (Arabic) is not as easy as learning the mother tongue. Some obstructions must be coped with, such as ashwat science, grammar, and vocabulary. In addition, difficulties also come from students or teachers themselves, learning methods, materials, and teaching facilities. Therefore, the author examines students' reading comprehension skills with the research title “The Use of Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Method to Enhance Arabic Reading Comprehension Skills for Students of VIII Aisyah Class in Even Semester at Darul Fattah Quran Junior High School of Bandar Lampung in the 2019/2020 Academic Year” The type of research employed was Classroom Action Research (CAR). This research was carried out at Darul Fattah Quran Junior High School, Bandar Lampung, in Arabic class VIII subjects in the even semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. The study results revealed that using the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) method could enhance students' Arabic reading comprehension skills as evidenced by the mean value obtained in the first cycle of 76.82, categorized as adequate. However, it experienced a slight decrease of 0.30 points, equivalent to 0.39% in the second cycle, to 76.52 categorized as adequate. After that, cycle III underwent a relatively good increase of 4.95 points or equivalent to 6.47% to 81.47, with a sufficient category.   Keywords: CIRC, Reading Comprehension Skill


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Rizka Dinda Amalia ◽  
Anita Anggraeni

English is an International language that is used as an instrument to communicate. As a foreign language it is quite normal if  English difficult to learn, because the way to write and read or speak English language is dissimilar whereas  in Indonesian language the way to read or speak and write it is the same. Same as student in one of Junior High school in Lembang, some of them do not want to speak English language especially in from of the class. The author guest one of the factor students do not want to speak English is limitation vocabulary. In this article the author try to know is it true that limitation vocabulary is one of factor student do not want to speak English ? To answer that question, the author use qualitative method through questionnaire and interview for second grade student. The result finding that many factor student do not want to speak English one of them is limitation vocabulary, the student said that is no easy to memorize a lot of vocabulary, when they memorize it the feel bored. To make the student do not feel bored the author  suggest to use some games in the class to make the student more attractive. Keywords:  Vocabulary, Factor, Speaking


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Slamet Utomo ◽  
Sri Endang Kusmaryati ◽  
Titis Sulistyowati

The objectives of this study are describing the process of teaching English (listening) and identifying the difficulties in teaching (English) listening in a Junior High School in Kudus. This research uses exploratory research design. I will explore qualitative data to analyze the process of the teaching and learning English in Kudus and to identify the need of the learning materials. The subjects of the research are five English teachers’ from a Junior High school in Kudus, they have been teaching English for more than ten years. They have been teaching from different classes, class 7, class 8, and class 9. This study has discovered the challenges and difficulties in learning and teaching in Junior High School in kudus. Most teachers feels that time management become their major challenge in organizing classroom. They have set lesson plan, but sometimes the lesson does not work exactly the same. They have to work with mixed-level students, with students with learning difficulties, and with learners who are coming from different backgrounds. Teachers should be aware that it is part of teachers’ primary duty to cope with every student. Most students can learn a foreign language to some level, but there are many reasons why their improvements are not achieved significantly.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diyah Rofa Abdulah

This paper reports on speaking spontaneity. Having ability to speak spontaneously is a plus point and measuring the success of students to get high grades in the schools. Unfortunately, not everyone can speak spontaneously. Promoting students’ speaking spontaneity through games in teaching academic English speaking to students who are learning english as a foreign language in a junior high school, West Java, Indonesia is very important. The objective of this research is to find out what games that teacher used to promote students’ speaking spontaneity and to know the students’ responses through the implemented games. This research was conducted qualitatively by employing the method of descriptive research. The study was conducted towards students in IX graders at a Junior High School of Tasikmalaya. The researcher collected the data by using observation and questionnaire. From the research findings, it can be concluded that the teacher used five games, such as Bingo Game, Stars Game, Dorr Game, Jumping Game, and Line Game to promote students’ speaking spontaneity and the students’ response towards the implemented game chose the Stars Game as the most interested game among the others because of the use of realia such as stars in learning process.


Hispania ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Helen M. Kwapil

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