scholarly journals Using Picture Series to Improve the Students’ Ability in Speaking Narrative Text

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deena Dwi Aprilia ◽  
Sri Andreani
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Tenth Graders ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Speaking Performance

The research aimed at the use of picture series to improve the students’ speaking ability of tenth graders in narrative text. In accordance with the findings of preliminary study which showed that the students’ speaking performance was low, the researcher chose speaking as the focus skill to be improved. The skill was chosen because the students faced many difficulties to perform this skill, such as the lack of vocabulary, the coherence in speaking, and the difficulty to express the ideas. The study applied a classroom action research that was conducted in two cycles consisting of five meetings. The subject of this research was 34 tenth grade students of SMAN 4 Malang. The findings of the research revealed that using picture series improved the students’ speaking score in some aspects of speaking skills, comprising fluency, pronunciation, content, and coherence. Besides, it could make the student eager to be involved in the teaching and learning process.

IMPROVING THE STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING THROUGH TEAMS-GAMES-TOURNAMENT TECHNIQUE

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramadhayani Fitri Nasution And Busmin Gurning
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Classroom Action Research

The objective of this study was to investigate whether the application of Teams-Games-Tournament Technique improve the students achievement in Speaking. This study was an classroom action research. The subject of this study was class XI IPA 3 SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Kisaran which consists of 35 students. The study was conducted in two cycles, cycle I consisted of three meetings and cycle II was consisted of three meetings. The instruments for collecting data were quantitative (oral speaking test) and qualitative data (observation sheet and diary note). Based on speaking scores, students’ score kept improving in every evaluation and based on observation sheet and diary note, it was found that teaching and learning process ran well. Students could enlarge their thinking process. The result of this study showed that Teams-Games-Tournament improved students’ achievement in speaking.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT BY APPLYING ANAGRAM PLUS FLASHCARDS AT THE SMP NEGERI 7 PEMATANGSIANTAR

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sartika Manurung And I Wayan Dirgayasa Tangkas
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Vocabulary Achievement

This study focused to improve Students’ Vocabulary Achievement by Applying Anagram PlusFlashcards. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of thisstudy was students in class VII-7 of SMP Negeri 7 Pematangsiantar. There were 32 studentstaken as the subject. The instrument for collecting data were the test for vocabulary and diarynotes, questionnaire sheets, observation sheet, and interview for process of teaching andlearning vocabulary. The data were analyzed by descriptive analysis. The result of the researchshowed that the mean of students’ score in pre-test was 56.41, the mean of students’ score inpost-test I was 69.22. The mean of students’ score in post-test II was 76.72. There wereimprovement of students’ achievement from 56.41-76.72 about 20.31 point and that score(76.72) was excelled the indicator (75). Based on diary notes, questionnaire sheets,observation sheet, and interview, it found that teaching and learning process ran well.Students were active, cooperative, enthusiastic and interested in learning vocabulary.There were 16 students (50%) agreed that the students active in learning process, 20students (62.5%) were interested, 20 students (62.5%) were enthusiastic and 19 students(59.37%) were agreed that strategy of learning was effective. It can be concluded that theapplication of anagram plus flashcards had successfully improved the students’ vocabularyachievement at the SMP Negeri 7 Pematangsiantar.

scholarly journals TEACHING SPEAKING BY USING SNAKE AND LADDER BOARD GAME

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soleman Dapa Taka
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Single Cycle ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Speaking Skills

This research focuses on the use of the Snake and Ladder Board Game in teaching speaking to the tenth grade students at SMA Kristen Mercusuar Kupang. This research aims at finding out the appropriate way of teaching speaking by using snake and ladder board game for students in the tenth grade students at SMA Kristen Mercusuar Kupang..This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of the research is the tenth grade students at SMA Kristen Mercusuar Kupang.. The procedure of the research applied two cycles namely cycle I and cycle II.  Every single cycle had fourth steps namely planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The result of this research shown that there were significant developments on students speaking skill at the tenth grade students at SMA Kristen Mercusuar Kupang after conducting the treatments through snake and ladder board game. In which the score of a cycle 1 am 43,06 and the score of cycle II is 71,88. It means that the snake and ladder board game is an appropriate way to improve the students` speaking skills. In addition, the researcher found the result of the observation that almost all of the students gave positive responses, such as they gave attention seriously in learning process, they had been more active than before, make them happy and  enjoy the  class,  and  of  course  they could  improve  their  speaking toward snake and ladder board game in improving speaking skill

scholarly journals Improving Speaking Skill Of The Tenth Grade Students Of SMK 17 Agustus 1945 Muncar Through Direct Practice With The Native Speaker

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohamad Nor Shodiq
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
The Third ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Preliminary Study

The Classroom Action Research (CAR) aims to invent teaching and learning strategy which fits the learners’ style and to solve the teachers’ problem in finding the appropriate technique in teaching. The researcher took SMK 17 Agustus 1945 Muncar Banyuwangi on 35 students of the tenth grade of AK 1 and was conducted in one cycle with the phases of planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The researcher found that the implementation of Direct Practice with the Native Speaker could improve the students’ speaking skill. It was proved by the result of the students’ speaking score. The average classical score in preliminary study was 50. 00. They had improvement from the third meeting but did not all of students meet the criteria of success and were still below the KKM. In the fourth meeting was found that all of the students could reach criteria of success and KKM score as 70. 00. Direct Practice with the Native Speaker creates the teaching and learning process fun, and good atmosphere of competition among the students.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL THROUGH SEDONA METHOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Nur Qalby
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research

The objective of this research was to find out the improvement of content and organization in writing skill by using Sedona Method at the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Batara, Gowa. The researcher used A Classroom Action Research (CAR). The Researcher had conducted two cycles, where each cycle consisted of four meetings. This classroom Action Research (CAR) was at The Eighth Grade of SMA Batara Gowa, Class XB. As the subject in this research was the X Grade with students’ number as about 29 students. The instruments were writing test and observation sheet. The application of Sedona Method can improve the students’ writing, especially in content and organization. This leads to the conclusion that application of Sedona Method was needed in the English Language teaching and learning in improve their competence to organize their idea. Sedona Method that was focused on the learners can engage the students to organize their ideas better than before. The findings of the research were (1) the students’ content achievement was improved 9.98% from diagnostic test to cycle 1 and was improve 10.03% from cycle I to cycle II (2) the students’ organization achievement was improving 8.63% from diagnostic test to cycle I and improved 10.03% from cycle I to Cycle II. From the description above it could conclude the improving of the students’ writing skill in the descriptive paragraph in terms of content and organization by using Sedona Method at the Tenth Grade of SMA Batara Gowa was improved.Keywords: Writing Skill, Sedona Method

scholarly journals THE USE OF BILINGUAL MAGAZINE AS MEDIA TO DEVELOP THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Herlina Daddi
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Concrete Noun ◽  
Vocabulary Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Regular Verb

This research aimed to explain the improvement of students’ vocabulary of the noun (abstract noun and concrete noun), Verb (regular verb and irregular verb) and adjective (Descriptive adjective).The method of this research was classroom action research consisted of two cycles. One cycle consists of four meeting. Thus there were eight meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research was done at the second year of SMA Negeri 1 Enrekang. As the subject of this research was class XI in 2011/2012 academic year with students’ number about 31 students. These consist of 23 women and 8 men. The instruments of this research were observation sheet and vocabulary test or evaluation. The findings of the research were the students’ score in vocabulary mastery through the bilingual magazine. Before applying this media in teaching and learning vocabulary, the students’ mean score in D-test was 4.6 (poor). After applying bilingual magazine as a media of teaching and learning process, in cycle I the students’ mean score improved to 5.35(fair) and then in cycle II also improved to 7.20 (fairly good).

scholarly journals MENINGKATKAN TEKNIK DASAR LEMPAR CAKRAM DALAM PROSES BELAJAR MENGAJARDENGAN MENGGUNAKAN MEDIA MODIFIKASI

KINESTETIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Candra Cahyono ◽  
Yarmani Yarmani ◽  
Arwin Arwin
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Basic Technique ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Student Observation ◽  
Modified Media

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan teknik dasar lempar cakram dalam proses belajar mengajar dengan mengunakan media modifikasi pada siswa kelas V B SD Negeri 18 Kota Bengkulu. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian tindakan kelas (classroom action research). Subjek penelitian siswa kelas V B SD Negeri 18 Kota Bengkulu yang berjumlah 25 siswa. Hasil pra siklus dalam proses belajar mengajar teknik dasar lempar cakram secara keseluruhan terdapat  20% tuntas belajar dan 80% belum tuntas belajar. Dan hasil penelitian pada siklus kesatu menunjukan bahwa jumlah indikator pada lembar observasi aktivitas guru dalam pembelajaran masih terlaksana 18 item atau baru mendapat presentase (72%), dan pada lembar observasi aktivitas belajar siswa pada pembelajaran masih terlaksana 13 item atau baru mendapat presentase (52%) dari jumlah keseluruhan lembar observasi yaitu 25 item. Ini menunjukan bahwa proses belajar mengajar baik guru maupun siswa masih rendah atau masih pada kategori belum tuntas belajar. Sedangkan hasil disiklus ke dua menunjukan bahwa jumlah indikator yang guru lakukan pada proses belajar mengajar meningkat yaitu 22 item atau mendapat presentase (88%). Begitu juga dengan jumlah indikator yang siswa ikuti pada proses belajar mengajar disiklus ke dua meningkat menjadi  20 item atau mendapat presentase (80%). Ini menunjukan bahwa tindakan yang dilakukan disiklus kedua baik guru maupun siswa dapat dikatakan telah tuntas belajar. Berdasarkan hasil diatas maka disimpulkan bahwa dengan mengunakan media modifikasi dapat meningkatkan proses belajar mengajar teknik dasar lempar cakram. Kata kunci : teknik dasar lempar cakram, proses belajar mengajar menggunakan media modifikasi.AbstractThis research aims to improve the basic technique of the disc throwing in the learning process by using a modified media on students grade 5th Elementary School Number 18 Bengkulu City.  The type of this research is classroom action research. The subject of this research is student grade 5th Elementary School Number 18 Bengkulu City which have 25 students inside. The result of pre-cycle in the class shows, the technique of disc throwing, overall there is 20 percent of the total students has been thoroughly studied and 80 percent of students hasnot been thoroughly studied. The results of this research, on first cycle show that just 18 items of all the items in observation sheet or 72 percents which teacher do on class, and just 13 items of all the items in student observation sheet or 52 percents which students do on class. It shows the class on category has not been thoroughly studied. While on second cycle show the total indicator which teacher do going into 22 items or 88 percent. The students also do better cause  on second cycle total indicator which students do going into 20 items or 80 percent. It show that activity which  do in the second cycle satisfaction. Based on result above, we can take conclusion modified media can increase teaching and learning process on class especially on disc throwing matery. Keywords:  Basic Technique of the Throwing,  learning process by using a modified media

Improving Students’ Achievement on Reading Comprehension through Before, During, and After (BDA) TechniqueThe objective of this study is to investigate whether the application of Before, During, and After (BDA) Technique

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbahudin Misbahudin ◽  
Tjut Ernidawati
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Teaching Learning

The objective of this study is to investigate whether the application of Before, During, and After (BDA) Technique significantly improves the students’ achievement in reading narrative text. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the students in MTs S Al-Ittihadiyah Mamiyai Medan especially class VIII 1 which consisted of 32 students. The research was conducted in two cycles. The first cycle consisted of three meetings and the second cycle consisted of three meetings. The instruments for collecting data were interview sheet, observation sheet, and diary notes. Based on the analysis, students’ achievement is improved in every test of reading narrative test. In test I, the mean score was 50.93. In test II in cycle I, the mean score was 70.93. In test III in cycle II, the mean score was 91.75. Based on the interview sheet, observation sheet and diary notes, it was found that the teaching learning process ran well. The students were more active and enthusiastic working in group. It was conclude that Before, During, and After (BDA) Technique can improve the students’ achievement in reading narrative text.   Keywords: BDA Technique, Reading, Narrative text, Action Research

scholarly journals Building Fun Teaching and Learning Process through Simple Science Experiment Activity to Foster Young Learners’ Participation and English Vocabulary Identification

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nia Roistika
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This study was classified into classroom action research (CAR) which carried out the implementation of Simple Science Experiment during teaching and learning process at Kindergarten students’ at Frances Pre-school Tulungagung to overcome the students’ difficulties on identifying English vocabulary. In accordance to the preliminary study results showed that (1) the students had low participation during teaching and learning process (2) the students had difficulty in identifying and memorizing English vocabulary. Consequently, the criteria of success were aimed to the stated problems above. The results of the research proved that applying Simple Science Experiment during teaching and learning process in Kindergarten level was able to upgrade the students’ participation and English vocabulary identification. The Simple Science Experiment supported the Kindergarten students to get involved actively during teaching and learning process and created mostly students gaining better ability in English vocabulary identification.

scholarly journals The Implementation of SQ3R Method to Develop Students’ Reading Skill on Islamic Texts in EFL Class in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Abdul Gafur Marzuki
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
The Third ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Development Of Students

The study aims at analyzing the development of students’ reading skill on Islamic texts in EFL class in Indonesia through SQ3R method. The research was designed as a collaborative classroom action research which was carried out at TBI-4 FTIK IAIN Palu. The subject of the research was the third semester students of TBI-4 FTIK IAIN Palu consisting of 24 students. The research was conducted in one cycle through stages of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The cycle consists of three meetings. The researcher with his collaborator collected the data by using observation checklists, field notes, camera recording, and test. The result showed that the SQ3R method could develop students’ reading skill. This fact was supported by the result of achievement test. There were 19 students (75%) who got score greater than 80 of 24 students, there were 6 students who could not reach the score. The research was stopped after the third meeting of cycle 1 in which the result of students’ achievement test have met the criteria of success. Based on this finding, the researcher concluded that the implementation of SQ3R method in teaching and learning process can develop students’ reading skill on Islamic texts.Keywords: Implementation, Reading Skill, SQ3R method.

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