scholarly journals Old but Gold: The Use of Picture Cues to Teach Writing (An Experimental Research)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Soviyah Soviyah ◽  
Yunia Purwaningtias

Pictures use in an educational setting fits the idiom: old but gold. There have been plenty of studies revealing how good the use of pictures in the classrooms is. Pictures have been long known to have the ability to help motivate, demonstrate, and instruct the students during a learning process. This study is a sort of complement to the phenomenon as it focuses on researching the use of pictures in a classroom. Specifically, it aims at finding out the effectiveness of the use of picture cues in teaching writing.The study belongs to experimental research involving two groups of experiment and control. The eighth-grade students of a private junior high school in Central Java Indonesia are chosen as the subject of the research during 2017/2018 academic year. Employing a sample population technique, the study involves a total number of 56 students who are equally divided into 28 students as the experimental group and 28 students as the control group. The experimental group is taught using picture cues while the control group is taught without picture cues. Pre-test and post-test are used as techniques to collect the data. As for the data analysis technique, it’s done quantitatively applying both descriptive and inferential statistics.The result of the research shows that there is a significant difference in the students’ writing ability between those taught using picture cues and those who are not. This can be seen from the difference in the mean score between them. The result of the pre-test shows that at the beginning, both experimental and control groups have slightly different ability in writing with the mean scores 51.32 and 47.86 respectively. Meanwhile, the result of the post-test indicates an obvious difference between them in which the experimental group gains 65.75 as its mean score and the control group gets 59.14. Furthermore, the application of Independent t-test calculation results in a score of 0.000, which is lower than 0.05. This means that the use of picture cues is effective. Based on these results, it can be concluded that the use of picture cues is effective to teach writing to students.

Author(s):  
Hasan Hasan ◽  
Andi Sadapotto ◽  
Muhammad Hanafi ◽  
Usman Usman

This quasi-experimental study involves the experimental and control group which consist of 60 students in first year of SMA Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang   2019/2020 academic year.  The reading test is used to collect data to find out do the students can achieve significant result in reading test using Text-based Character. Based on the result the mean score of the experimental group pre-test was 72.67 and classified into good classification, while the control group was 69.63 classified into good. The mean score of the post-test after treatment for the experimental group was 82.43 (very good) while the control group was 76.53, (good) classification still.  The researcher found that the T-table is higher than the t-test (α) (1.659<2.021). It means that there is a significant difference in the pre-test of the control and experimental group, while in post-test of an experimental and control group, the researcher finds that the T-test is higher than the alpha and previous score in the the pre-test (α) (3.089>2.021). The degree of freedom is 58. This study reveals that the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted, and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. This is means that the use of Text-based Characters can improves students' reading skills in significant way.


Author(s):  
Dang Thi Thu Huong ◽  

The current study determines the effectiveness of using task-based language instructions in teaching writing at a high school in Thai Nguyen province. The participants consist of 92 grade 10 students from Bing Yen high school, Dinh Hoa district. The study employs a mix method research design (MMR) as the plan for the research. The results of the study reveals that the results of writing performance were reported at a low level (M=3.72). The results also confirmed that the intervention worked well for the experimental group. The mean score of the pre-test (the baseline for both groups) was M=3.72. The intervention focused on TBLT instructions. After first five weeks, the means of post-test1 were M=4.96 and M=3.83 for experimental group and control group respectively. There was a significant difference between the mean of pre-test and post-test1 for the experimental group (M=3.72 compared to M=4.96), while the control group showed a little improvement (M=3.72 compared to M=3.83) the difference was not significant. After another five weeks, the difference in the mean scores of the experimental group were far more than the mean scores of the control group, M=5.56 and M=4.45 respectively. By the end of the fifteenth week of the intervention, the mean of post-test 3 of the experimental group reached M=6.41, the mean for control group was M=5.54. The difference of the mean scores in the pre-test and post-test revealed a significant improvement in both groups. However, the experimental group showed a greater improvement, M=6.41 and M=5.54 respectively. It can infer that the uses of TBLT writing instruction improved writing achievement greatly.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 946
Author(s):  
Dwi Ide Rahayu ◽  
Margana Margana

This study is aimed at investigating the effects of L2-based and code-switching-based instruction in teaching Indonesian EFL primary level speaking classes by comparing and examining any potential correspondences between the uses of two different instructions with students’ improved speaking achievement. The participant of the study consisted of 70 seventh grade students at a Junior High School in Central Java Province, Indonesia. The samples were divided into two groups: experimental and control group. The former was taught using L2-based-instruction (L2BI) and the later was taught using the most common instruction used i.e. code-switching-based-instruction (CBI). A speaking performance test was developed by the researcher and administered before and after the experiment as pre-test and post-test. The data was analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The finding of the study revealed significant differences (0α 05) between the groups in support of the experimental group.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudi Hartono

This study is concerned with teaching vocabulary by using audiovisual media. The objectives of this final project are 1) to find out the students’ vocabulary taught without using audiovisual media, 2) to find out the students’ vocabulary taught using audiovisual media, 3) to find out significance difference between the students’ vocabularywho are taught by using audiovisual media and those taught without using audiovisual media. The population of this study is the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Cepiring Kendal. The researcher takes two classes as the subject of thisresearch. The classes are X IIS 3 and XIIS 4. They are divided into experimental group (X IIS 3) and control group (X IIS 4). The researcher uses test to get the data. The test consists of two tests, they are pre-test and post-test. From the data analysis, the researcher obtains the mean score both the experimentaland control groups. The mean score of thepre-test in the experimental group is 56.71, while the mean score of the post-test in the experimental group is 75.42. The improvement in the experimental group is 18.42. The mean score of the pre-test in the control group is 52.85, while the mean score ofthe post-test in the control group is 61.00. The improvement in the control group is 8.15.The result of t-test is 8.01, while the value of t-table is 2.00. It means that the value of t-test is higher than t-table (8.01 > 2.00). From the data above, it can be concluded that there are significant difference between the students’ who are taught by using audiovisual media and taught without using audiovisual media. The data proves that it is affective to use audiovisual mediato increase students’ vocabulary ability.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Suci Noor Anisa Putri Rahayudianti ◽  
Andoyo Sastromiharjo ◽  
Yulianeta Yulianeta

ABSTRAKSI: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan signifikan penerapan metode “think, pair, and share” di kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol tentang kemampuan siswa dalam menulis teks berita. Metode yang digunakan adalah eksperimen kuasi, dengan desain kelompok kontrol “non-equivalent”, dan sampel bertujuan terdiri dari dua kelompok: 30 siswa di kelas kontrol dan kelas eksperimen. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa kemampuan menulis teks berita siswa sebelum mendapat perlakuan, secara keseluruhan, masih kurang maksimal. Perolehan nilai pre-test di kelas eksperimen, rata-rata sebesar 41; sedangkan kelas kontrol sebesar 46.8. Pada saat post-test, kelas eksperimen mendapat nilai 80; sedangkan kelas kontrol sebesar 53.8. Kemampuan menulis teks berita siswa kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol, dengan demikian, mengalami peningkatan. Hasil uji hipotesis pada siswa kelas VIII SMP (Sekolah Menengah Pertama) Laboratorium UPI (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) Kampus Cibiru, Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan signifikan antara kemampuan menulis teks berita siswa kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol. KATA KUNCI: Pembelajaran Bahasa; Teknik Berpikir, Berpasangan, Berbagi; Teks Berita; Kemampuan Menulis Siswa.ABSTRACT: “Application of Think, Pair, and Share Learning Methods in News Text Writing Lesson”. This study aims to investigate a significant difference in the implementation of think, pair, share method in the experimental and control groups of students’ ability in writing the news text. The method used is quasi experiment, with non-equivalent control group design, and the purposive sampling was consisted of 30 students for each groups. The finding shows that before the treatment, the students’ achievements in both groups were not maximal. The pre-test score results of the experimental group was 41; while the control group was 46.8. However, the post-test results of the experimental group was 80; but the control group as 53.8. It indicates the students’ ability in writing the news text in the experimental groups improved. The hypothesis test to the students in Year VIII of SMP (Junior High School) Laboratorium School UPI (Indonesia University of Education) Cibiru Campus, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia can be concluded that there is a significant difference in ability of writing the news text between the students in the experimental and control groups.KEY WORD: Language Learning; Think, Pair, Share’s Method; News Text; Student’s Writing Competences.     About the Authors: Suci Noor Anisa Putri Rahayudianti, S.Pd. adalah Alumni Departemen Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia FPBS UPI (Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) di Bandung, lulus tahun 2017. Dr. Andoyo Sastromiharjo dan Dr. Yulianeta adalah Dosen Senior di Departemen Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia FPBS UPI di Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia. Alamat e-mail penulis: [email protected] Citation: Rahayudianti, Suci Noor Anisa Putri, Andoyo Sastromiharjo Yulianeta. (2018). “Penerapan Metode Pembelajaran Think, Pair, and Share dalam Pembelajaran Menulis Teks Berita” in MIMBAR PENDIDIKAN: Jurnal Indonesia untuk Kajian Pendidikan, Volume 3(1), March, pp.73-84. Bandung, Indonesia: UPI [Indonesia University of Education] Press, ISSN 2527-3868 (print) and 2503-457X (online). Article Timeline: Accepted (October 9, 2017); Revised (March 2, 2018); and Published (March 30, 2018).


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 316-331
Author(s):  
Elham Ghajari ◽  
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Hassan Toozandehjani ◽  
Hamid Nejat ◽  
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...  

Aims: Most people in the community believe that substance abuse is masculine, while women are progressing alongside men in this area, with statistics indicating an increasing number of infected women. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of enriching couples relationships on tolerance of distressed women who were drug abusers Methods & Materials: This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test and follow-up test with control group. Initially, 40 women were selected from the study and 20 were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 20 to the control group. Subjects were then assessed using a distress tolerance test (Simmons & Gahr, 2005). Experimental group participants participated in enrichment sessions based on Doba, Graham, Britz and Minatra (2009) choice theory and control group subjects remained on the waiting list. A follow-up test was taken after three months. Multivariate analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to analyze the data. The above analyzes were performed with SPSS V. 24 software Findings: The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the mean of pre-test, posttest and follow-up scores of distress tolerance scales in the experimental and control groups. (P<0.05). The mean distress tolerance in the experimental group increased from 34.533 to 42.80 in the pre-test phase and reached 42.533 in the follow-up phase. Also, the significant interaction between the stages with the experimental group in the mentioned variable indicates that in the post-test and follow-up stages, the mean of the experimental groups was significantly higher than the control group. Conclusion: Due to the increasing trend of addiction in women, proper education is one of the essentials. Therefore, it is recommended to take effective steps to improve couple distress tolerance training by enriching couple relationships


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Franco Gil A. Vega ◽  
Merlyn M. Lasaca

This study was conducted to determine the influence of the FG Vega technique on students' academic performance to address the least learned competency in Science 8. Seventy students from Grade 8 classes served as respondents of the study. The study employed a quasi-experimental method. The mean score of students who took the post-test is 32.03 and 27.57 respectively for the experimental and control group. The results can be gleaned that the score of each student in the experimental group has a little variation of mean with 6.71 as compared to the control group with a variation of 7.52. The results can be observed that the mean score of students in the pre-test under the control group is 8.80 and 11.34 under the experimental group. Thus, the results of the study can be further concluded that the students under the experimental group outperformed the students in the control group. Since the significant level is lesser than the p-value of 0.05, indicates that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test under the experimental group. Hence, there is a significant difference between the post-test of the experimental and control group.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Durga Gnanasagaran ◽  
Abdul Halim Amat @ Kamaruddin

This study investigates the effectiveness of mobile learning in the teaching and learning of Probability. The context of mobile here is not just restrained to gadgets such as smartphones but also the fact that teaching and learning can occur beyond boundaries and anywhere according to the convenience and personal preference of the students. This study made use of the pretest – posttest quasi experimental design and the students chosen for the study were from a pre-university college located in the northern region of the country. A total of 92 students made up the sample of the study. There were 46 students each in the experimental and control groups respectively. Cluster random sampling was employed as the sampling method here. The instrument used to collect data with the aim of strengthening the outcome of the study was the achievement test. A quantitative approach was undertaken specifically to analyse the obtained data. The paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test were executed in the data analysis process. Initially, every student involved in the study regardless of the group they were in possessed equal strength in their understanding of the content being covered as indicated by the results of their pre-test. The paired sample t-test yielded p < 0.05 which meant that there was a significant difference between the mean score of the pre-test and post-test in the experimental group and control group respectively. The outcome of the independent sample t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the mean score of the experimental group and that of the control group in the post-test (p < 0.05). This indicated that the treatment via mobile learning had indeed played a role in the improved performance of students in Probability, hence proving the effectiveness of mobile learning in the teaching and learning of Probability.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Demita Sari ◽  
Noor Chairani

This research is intended to find out the students’ vocabulary mastery in experimental group who is taught by using Charades Game and in control group who is taught without using Charades Game and to find out whether there is a significant difference in English vocabulary mastery between the students in control group and the students in experimental group.The experimental research was used in this research. The subjects of this research were conducted at fourth grade students of SD Unggulan Aisyiyah Bantul Yogyakarta. They were divided into four classes. There are two classes namely experimental group and control group that was taken in experimental research. The experimental group (IV B) consists of 31 students and the control group (IV D) also consists of 31 students. The data were collected by using vocabulary test.The researcher used descriptive and inferential analysis to analyze the data, including the normality, homogeneity, and hypothesis test. The result of the pre-test showed mean score in experimental group is 54.67, while the mean of control group is 52.25. After the treatment, the mean score of the post-test in experimental group showed 81.77 and the mean score of control group showed 70.16. It means that the mean score of vocabulary mastery test of experimental group is higher than the mean score of control group. Then, the result of hypothesis using Indepentent T-test in the post-test showed that the level of significance is lower than 0.05. i.e. 0.000 < 0.05. Thus, H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. So, it can be stated that the use of Charades game has a good effect on students’ vocabulary mastery.


Prominent ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeful Arifin ◽  
Choiril Anwar

The aim of this study was to find out whether or not collaborative writing strategy is effective to improve students’ writing skill in descriptive text when they were applied to the tenth grade students of SMA N 1 Karangtengah in academic year of 2015/2016. The collaborative writing strategy was the independent variable, while students’ writing skill in descriptive text was the dependent variable. Quasi experimental research design was used in this study. The population of this study was the tenth graders of SMA N 1 Karangtengah in the academic year of 2015/2016 which the total number of students was 340. The sample of this study consisted of X MIA 3 as an experimental class and X MIA 4 as a control group. The technique used in collecting the data was test. The finding of the study showed that the pre-test mean score of experimental group was 69.38 and control group was 68.71. After being given treatment for four meetings, it was found that the mean scores of experimental group was 82.15 and control group was 76.32. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the mean score of pre-test and post-test. It was supported by t-test result in which the significant difference in the result of post-test between experimental and control group was 0.000 ( 0.05). It means that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. Therefore, it could be concluded that collaborative writing strategy were effective to improve students’s writing skill in descriptive text.


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