scholarly journals Improving students’ interest in learning simple past tense using teams games tournaments

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Yusnita Yusnita ◽  
Yuniarti Yuniarti
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Team Game ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Teaching Grammar

This study aims to describe the students’ interests and perceptions in learning simple past tense by using the TGT (Team Game Tournament) technique. The situation in the teaching-learning process at an Islamic Junior High School in Pontianak has shown that there are still many problems that must be addressed, concerning English grammar. The researcher has encountered several problems such as student’s reluctance to participate, lack of interest, motivation, and attention in the classroom. The researcher employed Classroom Action Research as a means to solve the problems. The findings presented information regarding the use of TGT that could serve as a beneficial alternative in teaching grammar, particularly the simple past tense. Furthermore, the information will provide the teacher with useful insights on ways to teach and to motivate their students in the classroom.

scholarly journals UTILIZING THE DISCUSSION METHOD TO IMPROVE TEACHERS' KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LEARNING PROCESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aminudin Aminudin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Main Task

The main task of the school supervisor is to supervise the school for which he is responsible. Supervision in this context includes monitoring, supervision, evaluation, reporting, and taking the necessary follow-up steps. This School Action Research was carried out in the fostered junior high school of Kabupaten Rokan Hilir under the supervision of the researcher. This was chosen because it supported the task of school supervisors to find out and try to improve teachers’ competence in the learning process. The stages conducted in school action research were: planning/preparing for action, implementing actions, observing and interpreting, data analysis and reflection. From the results of the study, it was known that the application of the discussion method improved teachers’ understanding in the process of learning activities. By using the discussion method, teachers’ participation become more active, meaning that it tended to be positive in following the process provided by the facilitator as well as in conducting discussions within and between groups. This success was caused by using the discussion method; teachers exchanged experiences, information with one another. In other words, discussion techniques increased cooperation between teachers through the exchange of opinions or information, so that they were more active.  

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH THINK PAIR SHARE

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adly Syahputra And Elia Masa Ginting
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean

Students’ achievement in writing descriptive text is very low, in this study Think Pair Share (TPS) was applied to solve the problem. Action research in conducted for the result and the technique to collect the data, qualitative and quantitative are applied in this research. The subject of this research is grade VIII in Junior High School (SMP Bilang Huluh) Rantau Parapat. In the first evaluation (66,4375) increased to the mean of second evaluation (78,125) and the mean of third evaluation (87,5625). Observation result showed that the students gave their good attitudes and responses during teaching and learning process by applying the application of TPS (Think Pair Share) method. Questionnaire and interview report showed that students agree that the application of TPS (Think Pair Share) method had helped them in writing descriptive text. It can be conclude that the students’ achievement is improved when thay are tought through TPS Method. Key Words: Achievement, Writing, Descriptive Text and Think Pair Share

scholarly journals Improving Students' Speaking Skill through Snowball Throwing Technique (STT) at Indonesian Junior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Delmus Puneri Salim ◽  
Fadhlan Saini ◽  
Farmi Paputungan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Mean

This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR).  It aimed at improving students’ speaking skill of the 7th grade at SMP N 1 Kotabunan East Bolaang Mongondow through the snowball throwing technique. The subjects of this research were 31 students consisted of 21 girls and 10 boys. But, only 25 students who attended the classroom. In this research, the researchers used mixed method (quantitative and qualitative design). To collect the data, the researchers utilized by using tests and observation. The researchers conducted the tests by asking the questions that related to the lessons that students had previously learnt.  Meanwhile, observation was accomplished in order to observe qualitatively about the students’ learning process by the technique. The results showed that, in the first cycle, the mean score was 39.84 with percentage of students who passed the test was 52%. While in the second cycle, the mean score of post-test was 72.16 with the percentage of students who passed the test was 100%. According to the observation in the first cycle, it revealed that students could not carry out the technique properly and some students were not good in speaking such as having bad grammar and pronunciation. Furthermore, the researchers used the papers to construct as a ball in conducting the snowball throwing technique. In the second cycle, it indicated that the students were going better by carrying out the following technique. Based on the indication of the result, it can be said that there was an improvement of students’ speaking skill through snowball throwing technique of the 7th grade at SMP N 1 Kotabunan East Bolang Mongondow.

scholarly journals Teacher-student relationships: An influence on the English teaching-learning process

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
Khairiah Syahabuddin ◽  
Rahmi Fhonna ◽  
Ulfa Maghfirah
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Junior High ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Teacher Student Relationships ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Teacher Student Relationship ◽  
Student Relationship ◽  
Teaching Learning

There are two main purposes navigated in this study; first of all, it was carried out to investigate the teacher-student relationship; secondly, it was also conducted to find out whether there was a correlation between teacher-student relationship and English teaching-learning process. A number of 14 teachers and 43 students participated in this study; they are from two publish junior high schools in Aceh, Indonesia. Questionnaires for the students and interviews with the teachers were used to discover the influence of the relationship between English teachers and students, and the problems that students faced during their interactions with the teachers. There were twenty-two items in the questionnaire and five questions in the interviews that the participants needed to answer. The collected data from the questionnaire were then analysed by using a Likert scale and the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, meanwhile, the data from the interviews were analysed by following the stages of Miles and Huberman‘s(1994) model. In the first junior high school, a significant correlation appeared between the teacher-student relationship and teaching-learning process, with the raw score of 0.745 that refers to a high correlation. The tcount was higher than the ttable (4.784≥2.100). However, at second junior high school, had no significant correlation detected between the two variables with the raw score of 0,401 that referred to moderate correlation, where tcount was lower than ttable (2.004≤2.097). This research is expected to have a beneficial impact on the English teaching-learning process especially in the areas of the two schools, where this study took place, as well as the teachers and educators from other institutions spread in Aceh and Indonesia in general.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING THE WRITING PARAGRAPH THROUGH QUICKWRITING FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AT SMP SWASTA PAHLAWAN NASIONAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasya Lia Aldilla Sitorus Pane ◽  
Sumarsih Sumarsih ◽  
Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Br. Siregar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study deals with developing the writing paragraph through quickwriting for junior high school at smp swasta pahlawan nasional. The objectives of this study were to find out to improve the students’ ability in writing paragraph of grade VIII students by using quickwriting strategy. Data data of the research was taken from the secondary grade of Junior High School Students at SMP Swasta Pahlawan Nasional Medan, which is taken from one class, contain 33 student. The data in this research collected by using interview and questionnaire. The interview and questionnaire will be given to collect the students’ need, problem and interesting in learning English, particularly in writing and using quick writing in teaching and learning.  In the teaching-learning process the teacher should prepare before conducting the lesson. The first is classroom procedures in teaching-learning process. Classroom procedures used by English teacher are opening, quickwriting, main activities (exploration-elaboration-confirmation), closing. There are some problems faced in the teaching-learning process. The problems faced are problem in developing idea, organizing idea, difficulties in vocabulary, tenses, and grammar, different capability of the students, and limited time. The consequently, the teacher should give solutions to cope the problems faced in teaching-learning process. So, the teacher should be creative to minimize the problem faced in teaching-learning process in order to make the students enjoy with the materials and develop student’s ability. Keywords : writing paragraph, quickwriting

scholarly journals Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Matematika Materi Kesebangunan dan Kekongruenan melalui Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Think Talk Write (TTW) dengan Pendekatan Scientific pada Peserta Didik

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Yulianis Yulianis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Scientific Approach

This research aims to find out the improvement of learning outcomes through the application of the Think Talk Write (TTW) Type Cooperative Learning Model with the Scientific Approach of class IX.3 State Junior High School 9 Dumai. This type of research is a classroom action research or classroom action research (CAR) that has 4 stages (planning stage, implementation stage, observation stage and reflection stage). The research conducted with the Observer was a fellow researcher. Observations are made on teacher activities, student activities and learning outcomes carried out in two implementation cycles consisting of cycle I and Cycle II. The results of research in cycle I obtained the activities of Teachers and learners during the learning process 74% and 75% which are in the category is quite good, with the learning outcomes of learners classically for cycle I has not reached the desired success indicator which is 75%. Furthermore, in cycle II, teacher and student activities during the learning process of 90% which are in the category are very good, with the learning results of learners classically get the completion of learning 96% so that the completion of learning learners classically for cycle II has been achieved, namely ≥75%. So it can be concluded that the application of TTW cooperative learning model with a scientific approach to mathematics lessons with revival and support materials can improve student learning outcomes in class IX.3 State Junior High School 9 Dumai

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