scholarly journals THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SATISFACTIONS ON THE ENGLISH TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT SMP NEGERI 8 SINGARAJA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Sari ◽  
Sudirman Sudirman ◽  
L.D.S Adnyani
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Average Score ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Students Satisfaction ◽  
Academic Year

This research aimed to know the eighth grade students’ satisfaction on the English teacher professionalism in teaching English as Foreign Language at SMP Negeri 8 Singaraja in academic year 2018/2019. The object of this research was English teacher professionalism. The subject of this research was 151 eighth grade students’ satisfaction at SMP Negeri 8 Singaraja. The data of this research were obtained by using questionnaire and interview question sheet to the students. This research was used mixed-method approach because the writer combines both quantitative and qualitative method in analyzing the data. This result indicate that average score from reliability,responsiveness,empathy,guarantee and physical evidence which get an average score of 3.9, 3.89, 4.1, 4.1, and 4.1 that means all of variables are in the satisfying level. Finally, it can be concluded that students are showing positive respond against english teacher professionalism in English learning

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS IN 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN SMA NEGERI 2 SINGARAJA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
H. Prayoga ◽  
N. N. Padmadewi ◽  
D. A. E. Agustini
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
21St Century ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Skills Learning ◽  
Different Levels

The 21st century education brings changes in the classroom practices that are increasingly complex along with the development of the technology. This demands the teachers to adapt their teaching and insert 21stcentury skills in the classroom. This research aimed data analyzing how English  teachers implements learning and innovation skills of 21st century education in teaching English as a foreign language in SMA Negeri 2 Singaraja. A mixed-method was implemented as the method in this study. The research subjects were4 English teachers in SMA Negeri 2 Singaraja. Due to pandemic situation of Corona virus, the data were collected using questionnaire and interview without observations. The results of the questionnaire and interview showed that English teacher inserted learning and innovation skills in their objectives and activities in lesson plans and the English teacher taught the students by inserting the learning and innovation skills. However, the teachers faced problems especially in choosing appropriate materials for their students who are in different levels of abilities.Keyword: 21st century skills, learning and innovation skills

scholarly journals The Application of Four Corner Debate to Teach Speaking

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Nury Kurnia
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Score Analysis ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Academic Year

The research aims at knowing and finding whether or not the application of four corner debate is effective to improve students speaking skill at the eighth grade students of SMP Jamaluddin ArRumi Jatisari Jenggawah Jember in academic year 2016/2017. The population of the study was 78 students with the number of sample 31 students in class VIII B. The research was a preexperimental research in which only one class which was treated using the technique. The data collection was administered through conducting speaking test and scored students performance. Afterwards the scores were converted to the school passing grade and then calculated in paired ttest. The result showed some data including students average score in pretest and posttest. The average score in pretest was 67.59 and 76.15 in posttest. It indicated an improvement for 8.65 points. The result of paired ttest calculation was 8.61 and the ttable score was 1.697with 0.05 significance level of score and DF 31 (32 to 1). The score analysis indicated that the ttest score was higher than the t-table score. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was approved which means the application of four corner debate in the classroom is effective to teach English speaking to the eighth grade students of SMP Jamaluddin ArRumi Jatisari Jenggawah Jember in academic year 2016/2017. Keywords: four corner debate, English speaking, teaching speaking  

scholarly journals Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Examples Non Examples terhadap Kemampuan Menulis Surat Resmi pada Siswa Kelas VIII SMP Negeri 1 Bojong, Pandeglang

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Sopyan Sauri
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of examples non examples learning model on the ability to write an official letter of eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bojong Academic Year 2015/2016. This study uses an experimental method conducted from April to May, white a population of this research is all class VIII SMP Negeri 1 Bojong students in the academic year 2015/2016. The sample technique used is cluster random sampling, so that from the sampling technique the sample obtained is the class VIII B and class VIII A. Each of them is 28 students. So the overall sample is 56 samples. The VIII B class was given treatment in the form of the use of examples non examples learning model. Whereas class VIII A used an expository learning model in the learning process. Based on the results of data processing, it was obtained an illustration that the students’ official letter writing skill using the examples non examples learning model in the experimental class was quite good. It could be seen from 28 students, there are 20 students or 71.41% who get score more than 68. While the rest 8 students or 28.56% got a score between 50-67 by an average score of 71.78; highest value 83, and lowest value 50. While the students’ official letter writing skill using the expository learning model is not good. As illustrated by 28 students who were sampled, there were 10 students or 35.7% got more than 54. While the remaining 18 students or 64.27% got scores between 30-53. by an average score of 51.35; the highest value is 64, and the lowest value is 30. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a positive influence on the use of examples non examples learning model on the ability to write an official letter for eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bojong academic year 2015/2016.

scholarly journals Improving Students’ Speaking Skill By Using Their Spoken Audio Recording In The Middle School

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Kristanto Wahyu Widyawan ◽  
Elysa Hartati
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Audio Recording ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking

The background of the study was based on phenomenon at the eighth grade students of SMP Bopkri Godean. Some of them were still too shy or even discourage to speak in English because they did not have enough idea of what to speak. It used their own audio voice recording in teaching English speaking to activate students’ ability in speaking English. So they will have something to speak. It will give positive outcome toward the problem. This was a classroom action research. The object of this study is the eighth class students of SMP Bopkri Godean. The methods of collecting data were using test and observation. The result of this study showed that in the pre cycle, the students’ average score was 41.96. In the first cycle, the students’ average score was 60.93. It means that there was a progress of students’ achievement after being taught by using their spoken audio recording. In the second cycle, the students’ average score was 75.93. Using their audio recording we were able to improve the students’ speaking ability because they became easier to express what they are going to say based on the prompt from us. 

scholarly journals ERRORS MADE BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 31 MEDAN IN WRITING ENGLISH COMPOSITIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Idam Putriyani Waruwu ◽  
Novalina Sembiring ◽  
Jontra Jusat Pangaribuan
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
English Composition ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Definite Article ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
The Third ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Writing Practice

Writing English composition is more complicated than Indonesian compositions. Therefore, students often make errors in writing English compositions. This study aims at finding out the errors made by the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 31 Medan in writing English composition and to find out the causes of those errors. The population of this study is the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 31 Medan in Academic Year 2017/2018. The sample is class VIII-A with 30 students. The instrument for collecting data were the students’ English compositions and the questionnaires. The result from the students’ English compositions showed that third singular verb in morphological errors is the highest error made by the students (55,10%), followed by errors in definite article (20,40%), errors in Possesive Case (12,24%), errors in Comparative Adjective or Adverb (12,24%); the errors of syntactical errors in Verb or Verb Phrase (50%), Errors in Noun or Noun Phrase (25%) and Errors in Word order (25%). It means that the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 31 Medan are poor in writing English compositions. While the result of the questionnaires showed that there are several reasons that cause students error. The three highest reasons are the students do not have a sufficcient vocabulary, students do not comprehend how to use the third singular verbs, article and possesive and the English teacher never asked the students to write English compositions. Thus, the students are suggested to study and more about writing English compositions and to do exercises about it. The teacher should give more writing practice to the students.

scholarly journals Applying Edmodo in Improving Student Achievement in Teaching English as Foreign Language for Eleventh Grader in MAN 1 Ambon

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohib Adrianto Sangia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Personal Computer ◽  
Average Score ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Internet Infrastructure ◽  
Improving Student Achievement ◽  
Learning English

The goal of this research is to determine of the implementation of Edmodo in learning English as foreign language for the eleventh grader in MAN 1 Ambon. The problems of this research are how Edmodo is implemented by the teachers in learning English as foreign language (EFL) in order to gain the better results of students learning achievement and what the problems around using Edmodo are found and solved by the teachers. It is a classroom action research based on qualitative-research. Research’s data is collected by doing class observation, filling the questionnaire, and test in two cycles. The first cycle results the average score that students can accomplish is 44.38 points which is below from the standard of minimum accomplishment (SMA) that is 75 points and there are only 12% of the students can accomplish the test. By applying Edmodo in the second cycle, the average mark of the students is touching 82.61 points with the conclusion that Edmodo succeed increases students’ achievements. The difficulties that are encountered in applying Edmodo in digital class are the availability of the hardware from the internet infrastructure to personal computer or smartphone of the students and the proficiency of students and teachers in using Edmodo.

Using Dictation Techniques to Improve the Eighth-Grade Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 35 Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Laely Vitriyati
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Listening Test ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Test Result

Dictation is an ancient technique in teaching language becoming one of interesting ways to improve the students’ listening comprehension proposed by Davis & Rinvolucri (1988). This study was aimed to solve the students’ listening comprehension achievement by using dictation techniques as a technique in teaching listening at SMPN 35 Surabaya in the academic year 2020/2021. Classroom Action Research (CAR) was applied in this study in two cycles. In this classroom action research, the technique was divided into note taking and partial dictation. The primary data about students listening achievement were gained from the listening test. Meanwhile, the supporting data were gathered from observation and documentation. The results on students’ activity showed the use of text dictation techniques could improve the eighth-grade students’ activity in listening. Furthermore, In the first cycle of the test’ result, the teaching listening activity was not so good as what was expected. On the average, the percentage of the students’ involvement in the process of teaching listening was only 45% in the first meeting and 50% in the second meeting. But, in the second cycle the percentage of students’ involvement in the process of teaching listening increased from 77% in the first meeting to 80% in the second meeting. This improvement happened because of some revision, they were; choosing the text with familiar story for the students, reading the text more clearly, turning up the volume, and using more gestures in teaching listening technique

scholarly journals Buzz Group Technique to Promote Students Reading Comprehension

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Afifah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
T Test ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Mean ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Paired T Test ◽  
Group Technique

This present study was quasi experiment research. This study aimed to find out whether or not there is any the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension by using buzz group technique. The population of the study was all the eighth grade students of SMP SENTOSA BAKTI BATURAJA in Academic Year 2019/ 2020. The sample was taken by using cluster random sampling. The sample is divided by two experimental class and control group. The try-out was done at VIII. C with 22 respondents. The data was collected by using test. The reliability of the data was taken through Alpha Cronbach. The data were analyzed by using paired T-test of control class and paired t-test of experimental class and independent t-test too. The result showed that from the mean score was 71 improved to be 84, 6 and based on independent T-test the value of T obtained was 8,122 as significant level of 0.05 for 2 tailed testing and degree of freedom (df) was 48 the critical value of T table 3, 425. The value was higher than T table (8,122>3,425) and the value sig, (2 tailed)= 0.000 less than the value of significant level (0.05).  It mean that there was significant improvement the students who was taught by using buzz group technique and those who was not at SMP SENTOSA BAKTI Baturaja. It concluded that Buzz group technique was effective to promote students’ reading comprehension at the Eighth Grade students of SMP SENTOSA BAKTI BATURAJA.

scholarly journals TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CONCEPT ORIENTED READING INSTRUCTION (CORI) STRATEGYTO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 13 LUBUKLINGGAU

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Ardayati Ardayati ◽  
Herlina Herlin
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
T Test ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Test Calculation ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Paired T Test

The problem of this research was to find out whether or not it is significantly effective to improve reading comprehension through Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) Strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Lubuklinggau in the academic year 2016/2017. The strategy applied was pre experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design.. The sample was taken through cluster random sampling. The result was VIII.2 class with the total number of 28 students. The data were collected through test consisted of 25 items of multiple choices. The data were analyzed through four techniques: 1) Students’ Individual Score, 2) Minimum Mastery Criteria, 3) Normality and 4) Paired t-test calculation. The result of this study: (1) The mean students’ score in the pre-test was 64.00, (2) The mean score of post-test was 76.00 and (3) the result of paired t-test was 11.43, which was higher than 1.703 value of the t-table of 27 (28-1) with 95% significant level for one tailed-test. In this research the researcher formulated two hypotheses. They were null hypothesis (Ho) and alternative hypothesis (Ha). Based on the result of the paired t-test calculation showed that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It meant that it was significantly effective to Teach Reading Comprehension through Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) Strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2016/2017

scholarly journals The Use of Hangman Game in Motivating Students in Learning English

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Rika Mandasari Manan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Result Analysis ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Learning English

In learning foreign language such as English, a learner should have motivationin  order  to  have  willingness  to  learn.  This  study  is  an  attempt  to  investigate  thestudents’ motivation in learning English by using Hangman Game. And this study wasto find out if the use of Hangman game motivates the students in learning English. Themethod  used  in  this  study  was  quantitative  with  experimental  research  design.  Thetarget population of this study was the eighth grade students of MTs Negeri Cirebon 1.The writer took two classes as samples and the number of the samples was 36 students.The  samples  were  divided  into  experimental  group  and  control  group.  There  are  tworesearch  instruments  which  were  used  to  collect  data.  They  were  questionnaire  andobservation. The result analysis of observation showed that the students in experimentalgroup  had  higher  motivation  than  in  control  group.  Meanwhile,  the  calculation  of  thevalue  of  the  questionnaire  showed  that  there  were  significant  differences  betweenexperimental group and control group. The result of taccount was 2,44 while the result ofttable was  1,994.  It  was  mean  that  the  value  of  taccount (2,44)  >  ttable (1,994).  So,hypotheses  alternative  (Ha)  was  accepted  or  the  use  of  Hangman  game  motivate  thestudents in learning English to eighth grade students of MTs Negeri Cirebon 1.

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