scholarly journals THE USE OF SOCIAL INTERACTIVE WRITING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (SWELL) METHOD TO DEVELOP THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE NARRATIVE TEXT

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
St Asriati AM
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Action Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Interactive Writing ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This research aimed to find out the development of the students’ ability to write narrative text viewed from both generic structure and language use at XI IPA of SMA Muhammadiyah Sungguminasa, Gowa. The type of this research was a Classroom Action Research consisted of two cycles. One cycle consisted of four meetings. Thus, that there were eight meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research was done at XI IPA of SMA Muhammadiyah Sungguminasa, Gowa. The research subjects were the students of class XI in 2012/2013 academic year with 26 students. Those consisted of 10 men and 16 women. The instruments of this research were writing test and observation. The research findings indicated that the Use of SWELL Method could develop the students’ ability to write narrative text viewed from the generic structure and language use. It was proved by the students’ mean score in cycle 2 test result was (77.81) which developed 16.31 % from the cycle 1 mean score (66.98). It was highly developed from a diagnostic test (D – test) mean score (58.69). The students’ development in cycle 2 indicated that it had met the researcher score target (75), and considered to be successful criteria in developing the students’ ability to write narrative text covering generic structure and language use.Keywords: writing, development, social interactive writing

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH PATTERNED PARTNER READING

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Ardiana Ardiana
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Percentage Improvement ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Partner Reading ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This research aimed to find the use of Patterned Partner Reading strategy improve the students reading comprehension at the SMP Muhammadiyah Limbung. 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 was one at SMP Muhammadiyah Limbung. As subject in this research was the second class with students’ number as about 30 students consist of 7 man and 23 women. The instruments were observation sheet and test sheet. The research findings indicated that the application of patterned partner reading strategy was effective and significant in improving the students’ reading skill especially students’ reading comprehension. It was proved that the mean score of D-Test was 60.8, Cycle I 75.5 and after conducted Cycle II improved to 93 And based of mean score of students’ reading comprehension during two cycle researcher found percentage improvement that is from D-Test to Cycle I is 24.17% and from Cycle I to Cycle II is 23.17 and D-Test to Cycle II 52.96%. It means that there was the improvement of students’ reading comprehension on learning process.

scholarly journals USING COOPERATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING IN IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION ACCURACY AND FLUENCY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rochman
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

This research aimed to find the improvement of the students’ Pronunciation Accuracy and Fluency by using Cooperative Language Learning  at Akademi Bahasa Asing Balikpapan at Third Semester Students in Balikpapan East Kalimantan in the 2018/2019 Academic Year. Cooperative Language Learning was used in a Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research had been conducted in two cycles, each cycle consist of four meetings. It employed Pronunciation test as instrument. A number of research subjects were 37 students in third semester. The instruments were test and observation. The research findings showed that Cooperative Language Learning could improve the students’ Pronunciation mastery from cycle I to cycle II. The students’ achievement from D-Test to cycle I was 12.50%, and after finishing cycle II the students’ achievement became 16.27%. Based on the research findings, the researcher concludes that Cooperative Language Learning gave a significant contribution in learning process of Pronunciation accuracy and fluency

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH DEBATE TECHNIQUE

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
Reni Rosianna Lumbangaol ◽  
Muhammad Rizki Mazali
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
English Education ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Education College ◽  
Classroom Action Research

Lecturers can use many strategies to improve speaking ability. Speaking abilities include making questions, providing explanations, and also being able to provide answers. This study aimed to determine how debate techniques can improve students' speaking ability to make questions, give explanations, and give responses. The current study applied the classroom action research method and consisted of 3 cycles. Two batches of English Education College Students of 2019/2020 at Universitas Potensi Utama, totaling 60 students, were involved as the study subjects. An observation checklist and field notes were used to collect the data. The researchers observed students' activity in the classroom by using an observation checklist and fieldnotes. The researchers summarized the problem during the debating process. Based on the research findings, the debate technique applied by the research subjects reflects the improvement in the students' speaking ability. Based on the observations' results, it can be seen that the students' speaking ability in making questions and providing explanations and answers improved. The students' activities in the class when arguing in the first cycle were 42.83%, 59.17% in the second cycle, and 85.17% in the final one. It shows that the debate technique has improved the students' speaking ability to make questions and provide explanations.

IMPROVING STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT BY APPLYING SPORE STRATEGY

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putri Febrini Sianturi
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
The Third ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study aims to discover the improvement of the students’ achievement in writing narrative text by applying Spore Strategy. The objective of this study is to find out whether the Spore strategy can improve students’ achievement in writing narrative text or not. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of the research was class XI IPA 2 of SMA Negeri 6 Medan which consists of 34 students. This study applied quantitative and qualitative data. The data of this study were obtained quantitatively through writing test which show that the students score kept improving in every test and qualitatively based on diary notes, observation sheet and interview sheet which show that teaching learning process ran well, the students were active, enthusiastic, and interested in writing. In the first test, the mean score was 56.8. In the second test, the mean score was 67.2, and in the third test the mean score was 81.2.The research findings indicated that Spore Strategy significantly improved students’ achievement in writing narrative text.   Keywords: Writing, Spore Strategy, Test, Data, Classroom Action Research.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH THROUGH DRAW LABEL CAPTION (DLC) TECHNIQUE

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Ika Sastrawati
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This research aimed at find out the improvement of the students’ writing descriptive paragraph viewed from its content with unity and completeness, language use dealing with tense and preposition through DLC Technique at the eighth grade of MTs.Muhammadiyah Tongko. The technique of this research was a classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The instrument of the research was observation sheet and writing test indicated that the students have high score in writing achievement. The location of this research was taken at the eighth grade of MTs.Muhammadiyah Tongko with a number of the subject were 30 students. The research findings indicated that the application of DLC Technique was significant in improving the students’ writing descriptive paragraph viewed from content and language use. It was proved by the mean score of cycle I was 63.99. It was classified as fair then improved to be 75.50. It was classified as good in cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 50.99 that classified as poor. Therefore there was the improvement of the students’ writing descriptive paragraph viewed from its content with unity and completeness, and language use dealing with tense and preposition.

scholarly journals IMPROVING READING SKILL USING JIGSAW

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 745
Author(s):  
Fadhil Muhammad Sopyan ◽  
Khoulah Uswatun Hasanah ◽  
Acep Haryudin
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reading Skill ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Jigsaw Method ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Classroom Action Research

Abstract This study is aim to identify improving student’s reading skill using jigsaw. Whether jigsawcan improving students ability in reading skill. The research method used in this research is Qualitative Method and Classroom Action Research as a design.The subject of this study were 32 students of the tenth gradesin one of SMK in Bandung Barat. There were seven encounters covered on those two periods; three encounters were for tests, and the other four encounters were for doing treatment. The treatment was teaching reading skill, especially in reading Narrative text, with the used of Jigaw method.The instruments used in this research were observation, interview, field notes and tests. The tests were used to test the students on pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2. The tests given subsisted of 10 items in the form of find out the structure of Narrative text and Comprehenison questions based on the text. This research aims at improving reading ability by using jigsaw method in understanding generic structure, language feature and kinds of narrative text. Through two periods, three tests and four treatments, the teaching and learning process is done and run very well in the year of one SMK in Bandung. As shown in the data above that the increase in score almost reaching KKM is 6.5 while the specified KKM is 7.0. Keywords:Reading, Jigsaw, classroom action research

scholarly journals USING FRIENDLINESS, LANGUAGE, INTEREST, AND PRIOR KNOWLEDGE (FLIP) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT

ELT-Lectura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Fadhly Abbas ◽  
Desi Memberti
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Test Result

This research was based on the students’ problem in reading comprehension of narrative text, especially in generic structure, purpose, language features and vocabulary. The purpose of this research was to improve reading comprehension in narrative text. The design of this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR). This research consisted of five meetings in one cycle. This research conducted on March 2018. Based on the test result, it was found that the average score of cycle was 80, 09. Furthermore, the data about factors that influence the students’ improvement in reading comprehension in narrative text were obtained by interview, observation checklist, and field note. The factors were interested of media, students’ enjoy and fun during learning process and this strategy was easily to comprehend. In conclusion, the use of FLIP strategy can improve students reading comprehension in narrative text.

scholarly journals Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Matematika pada Materi Segitiga Melalui Pendekatan Penemuan Terbimbing Siswa SMP

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
N. Nasruddin ◽  
Sufri Mashuri ◽  
Umi Nafiah
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Final Test ◽  
Guided Discovery ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
Classroom Action Research

Penelitian ini bertujuan meningkatkan hasil belajar matematika dengan penerapan pendekatan penemuan terbimbing yang dilaksanakan di kelas VIIC SMPN 1 Loea. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) dengan 27 siswa kelas VIIC SMPN 1 Loea sebagai subjek penelitian. Prosedur PTK pada penelitian ini terdiri atas planning, implementating, observating, dan reflection. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hasil belajar matematika pada materi segitiga mengalami peningkatan setelah dilakukan tes akhir. Pada siklus pertama, persentase keterlaksanaan skenario pembelajaran sebesar 81,25%, sedangkan rata-rata hasil belajar sebesar 72,96 dengan persentase ketuntasan sebesar 66,67%. Pada siklus kedua, persentase keterlaksanaan pembelajaran sebesar 100%, sedangkan rata-rata hasil belajar sebesar 81,25 dengan persentase ketuntasan sebesar 88,89%. Bedasarkan hasil penelitian tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan pendekatan penemuan terbimbing dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar matematika siswa.Improvement of Mathematics Learning Outcomes in Triangle Material Through Guided Discovery Approaches of Middle School StudentsAbstractThis study aims to improve mathematics learning outcomes by applying the guided discovery approach implemented in the VIIC class at SMPN 1 Loea. This research is a classroom action research (CAR) with 27 VIIC grade students at SMPN 1 Loea as research subjects. CAR procedures in this study consisted of planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The results showed that mathematics learning outcomes in the triangle material increased after the final test. In the first cycle, the percentage of feasibility learning scenarios was 81.25%, while the average learning outcome was 72.96 with a percentage of completeness of 66.67%. In the second cycle, the percentage of the feasibility of learning was 100%, while the average learning outcome was 81.25 with a percentage of completeness of 88.89%. Based on the results of these studies it can be concluded that the application of the guided discovery approach can improve student mathematics learning outcomes.

scholarly journals Enriching the Students Vocabulary Mastery in Speaking through Engage, Study, Activate Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Agus Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Research Population ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Research Show

<p>The objectives of this research are to find out the improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery and the student’s activeness in speaking through Engage, Study and Activate Method at the second year students of SMP Negeri 26Makassar. This research used Classroom Action Research that comprises of two cycles. The research population is the second year students of SMP Negeri 26 Makassar, and the sample of this research comprises of 25 students. The researcher obtained the data by using a speaking test and observation sheet.The results of this research show that there is animprovement in students' vocabularybetween the cycle I and Cycle II. The mean scores of students in the diagnostic test are 4.7 became 6.21 in cycle I, and after doing a revision in the cycle II the mean score in cycle II is7.45 then the activeness of students also improve from first meeting 53 % became 92% in the last meeting and achieved the minimal criteria, 65. The research findings indicate that the use of Engage, Study and Activate method can enrich the students’ vocabulary mastery and improve the students’ activeness in speaking.</p>

scholarly journals Peningkatan Keterampilan Menulis Deskripsi Tokoh Pahlawan melalui Model Pembelajaran Talking Stick Siswa Kelas IV SDN Tegalasri 4

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
Nourma Oktaviarini
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
Fourth Grade Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research

The purpose of this research is to describe the application of the talking stick learning model and the improvement of writing skills. The type of research used is Classroom Action Research (PTK). The research subjects were fourth grade students of SDN Tegalasri 4, Wlingi District, Blitar Regency. The results of the research cycle I meeting 1 an average of 66 with a percentage of 45% completeness of the 29 students, meeting 2 an average of 67 with a percentage of 52% completeness. Cycle II meeting 1 total 2218 average 76 69%, Meeting 2 average 82 with percentage completeness 83%. The conclusion is that the talking stick learning model is able to improve the writing skills of a hero character description while also motivating students to learn to write and can stimulate students' creativity in expressing ideas.

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