scholarly journals IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH PRAISE-QUESTION-POLISH (PQP) TECHNIQUE

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Hasnawati Latif
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Academic Year

The research aimed at improving the ability of the eighth year students of SMP Negeri 33 Makassar to write narrative text in terms of organization and language use by using Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) Technique. For the purpose, this research employed Classroom Action Research in which the researcher worked in planning, implementation of action, observation, and reflection on the data collected from the teaching and learning process and the students' writing products. The subjects of this research were 30 students of the first year students of SMP Negeri 33 Makassar in the academic year 2012/2013. The study was conducted in the diagnostic test and two cycles, each cycle was carried out in four meetings. The findings indicated that using Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) Technique could improve the students' ability in writing narrative text. Before giving implementation the researcher gave the students diagnostic test and the mean score of diagnostic test was 40,2 (Poor). Then the researcher conducted the cycle 1 and the cycle 2, and the result showed that the students' scores in the cycle 1 and cycle 2 improved. In cycle 1, the mean score of students was 68,7(Fair), meanwhile, the mean score of students in cycle 2 was 80,2 (Fairly good). The score of students’ writing in term of the organization in d-test was 50,4 (Poor) but after application of PQP ( Praise-Question-Polish ) Technique the students’ score became 67,8 (Fair) in cycle I, whereas in cycle 2 the students’ score was 79 (Fairly Good). The score of students’ writing in term of language use in d-test was 49,8 (Poor). In cycle I, it was improved became 69,4 (Fair) whereas in cycle 2 the students’ score was 80,7 (Fairly Good). The percentage of students’ participation in the first meeting of the cycle I was 65,8 % and it was improved became 82,5 % in the last meeting of cycle 2.Keywords:  writing, organization, language use, Praise – Question- Polish

PEER FEEDBACK TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY OF THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS IN SMA NEGERI BALIKPAPAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Dayang Suriani
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
First Grade ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Writing Practice

This study is directed to obtain information how peer feedback can improve students’ ability in writing. Specifically, it is directed to investigate whether peer feedback works and can improve students’ writing ability in writing sentences and narrative paragraphs, at the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Balikpapan. The study was conducted based on the result of preliminary study at the school. It is found that the students’ ability in the language skills especially in writing is still insufficient. In the teaching and learning process the teacher provides fewer portions in writing activities for the students in class. In addition, the strategies used in the teaching and learning process are uninteresting because the students have to do the writing activities in under pressure. To answer the problems, a classroom action research is conducted. The teacher as a researcher works in planning the action, implementing the action, observing, and analyzing and reflecting the action. The subjects of the study are the second year students (X-IPA-1) of 2019/2020 academic year consisting of 40 students. The results shows that peer feedback obviously can improve the students’ ability in writing sentences and narrative paragraphs at the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Balikpapan. It has been observed that the improvements are caused by the regular writing practice done by the students and the teacher’s response given to their writing. It becomes a sort of on going dialogue.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH FOLKTALES

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
HASRIATI NUR
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Written Test ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

The objective of the research aims to find out whether the use of folktales can improve the students’ writing ability or not.Quasi-experimental design was applied in this research with two classes of the students. The first class as an experimental class and the second as a control class that was given different treatment. The instrument of this research was a written test. The population of this research was the first year students of SMA Negeri 2 Watampone, academic year 2012-2013. The number of population was 420 students consisted of 14 classes. A sample of this research was taken by using cluster random sampling technique; there were 60 students as sample, 30 students in X-9 as experimental class and 30 students in X-10 as control class. Data were collected through written test administered in the pretest and posttest. The mean score of pretest in experimental class is 47.93 and mean score of posttest is 73.5. While the mean score of pretest in control class is 52.36 and mean score of posttest is 66.37. It can be conclude that there is significant difference of the students after the use of folktales in improving their writing ability.

scholarly journals The Ability of Indonesian EFL University Students in Writing an Explanation Text

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-622
Author(s):  
Yanpitherszon Liunokas
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Analysis Design ◽  
The Given ◽  
Academic Year

This research aims at finding out the students’ ability in writing an explanation at first semester students of English Study Program of Nusa Cendana University, Kupang NTT.  The researcher focuses on evaluating the students’ writing ability in five aspects of writing namely content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics.  The researcher applied the quantitative method and descriptive analysis design. The research was conducted in August 2019. This research was conducted at First semester students of the English Study Program of Nusa Cendana University, Kupang.  The population of this research was First semester students of the English Study Program of Nusa Cendana University, Kupang in the 2020/2021 academic year. The number population is 160 in four classes. The researcher took 5 students from each class as the sample of the research.  Therefore, there were 20 students as a sample. The test was used to find out the students’ ability in writing explanation text.  In collecting data, the researcher asked the students to write an argumentative essay by choosing one of the given topics. To analyze the data, the researcher focused on evaluating the students’ writing in five criteria. The result of the research shows that the mean score of the test is 6.86. It shows that the students have an average degree of capability in writing explanation text.   The biggest problem for the students in developing an explanation text is the organization (43%), it followed by the language use (37%), vocabulary (33%), content (30%), and the smallest problem is mechanics (30%).  Some factors that hamper the students in writing: 1) the students face difficulties in expressing ideas, choosing appropriate words, and arranging ideas in writing, 2) the students seldom practice their writing skill, 3) the students still find difficulty in using punctuation in writing from, 4) the students do not enrich themselves with knowledge.

scholarly journals Improving Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension by Applying Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Diani Syahputri
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Research Finding ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Reading Tests ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Academic Year

This research aims  to find out the significant improvement of the students achievement in reading comprehension by applying Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL). The subject of this research was X grade of SMK Bandung-2 at Academic Year 2017/2018. It consisted of one class with 30 students as respondents. The objective was to discover the significant improvement of the students’ achievement in reading comprehension by applying Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL). This research was conducted by using classroom action research. The instruments of collecting data were observation sheet, and Reading  tests. The research finding is shown of  that there was an improvement on the students’ reading achievement on narrative text from each cycle. It was showed from the mean of pre-test which was 56.5 with persentage 0%. After CTL was applied in the first cycle, there was an improvement of the result of the students’ in reading comprehension the mean was 69.16 with persentage 33.3%. It means that there was an improvement from pre-test to post-test I was 33.3%. And for the second cycle after reflection on the first cycle, there was an improvement of students’ mean which was 85 with persentage 100%. Based on the result showed that there was an improvement after applying CTL was 66.7%. It concluded that students’ achievement in reading comprehension by applying contextual teaching and learning (CTL) improved.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN CTL (CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING) UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MINAT DAN PARTISIPASI BELAJAR MAHASISWA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Novi Mayasari
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Contextual Teaching ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

<em>This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which is meant to understand whether or not the implementation of CTL Model can improve student’s interest and participation in learning of First year students of Calculus 1 class in their first semester of IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro in academic year of 2015/2016. The result shows that the application of CTL model can improve student’s interest and participation in learning of first year students in Calculus 1class in IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro in academic year of 2015/2016.</em>

scholarly journals AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ WRITING IN NARRATIVE TEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Helmiyadi Helmiyadi ◽  
Nurul Kamaliah
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Male Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Causes Of Errors ◽  
Interactive Classroom ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Academic Year

The aimed of the research was to find out the errors which were commonly made by the students of Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Swasta Bustanul Yatama Syamtalira Bayu in their writing narrative text and to find out the causes of errors in their writing narrative text. This research useds a qualitative and quantitative approach. The population of this research was all the students of the Second year students of Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Swasta Bustanul Yatama Syamtalira Bayu in academic year 2020/2021 consisted of 120 students and divided into 56 male students and 64 female students. The sample of this research selected by using random sampling technique by using lottery. In this study, only 20 students and one English teacher involved as the sample. The researcher use two kinds of instruments, they are test and interview. In analyzing the data, the writer used a percentage formula from Sudjana. Result of the research from test most of the first year students of Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Swasta Bustanul Yatama Syamtalira Bayu made many errors in grammatical aspects in writing, a high percentage of errors was found in one out of three categories. The highest error category was tense errors. Moreover, the students felt difficult in getting ideas to begin free writing. The causes of errors were made by the students because of lack of interactive facilities is one of the problems to develop interactive classroom activities. Based on this reasoning, it can be concluded that many of the students made errors because of interlingual and intralingual transfer.

scholarly journals A Study on Listening Skills and Perspectives to First Year Students at English Department of Academic Year 2015/2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Sitti Hadijah ◽  
Shalawati Shalawati
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
First Year ◽  
English Department ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Good Ability ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Academic Year

Good ability in listening means having competence to comprehend information during listening activities. However, Listening skill is still considered as one of the most difficult skills for English language learners although they have been learning English for few years. Hence, this study was designed to gather information about the students’ challenges in listening activities, their perspectives on listening subject, and positive factors on the students’ success in listening. Then, a set of listening test and questionnaire were distributed. Both quantitative and qualitative data were studied to identify the underlying matters in students’ listening skills, addressing challenges, main listening hindrance factors and learning experiences. The findings of this study revealed that the students faced problems in listening because they still could not complete the basic listening skills in the test. Furthermore, Most of them considered that the listening classes are challenging for them due to some problems and difficulties during the teaching and learning activities. Besides that, there were 5 factors influenced the students’ listening skill; lack of practice, limited vocabulary mastery, native speakers’ accent, pronunciation, and uninteresting learning materials. Moreover, their knowledge about English structure and good facilities in listening classes supported them to be able to figure out some challenges in listening activities. In addition, the students realized the important of the listening activities, but assistances from the teachers and some other students were still needed during the teaching and learning activities. In conclusion, having good listening skill still appeared as a challenge for the first year students at English Department of Academic Year 2015/2016.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN METODE PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI BAHASA INGGRIS FKIP UNIVERSITAS RIAU

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadriana Hadriana
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
First Year ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Study Program ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing Ability

This Research is aimed at finding out the level of writing ability of the students at English Study Program FKIP- UNRI by using Cooperative Learning Method. The samples of the research were all of the first year students that joined Writing IC. The procedure of the research were administered through (a) pre-tes; (b) teaching and learning process by using Cooperative Learning Method; and (c) pos-tes. Pre-tes and pos-tes were given in order to know the level of their writing ability. Data analysis was conducted by comparing the scores of pre-tes and post-tes. Data calculation concluded that with df = 78 – 1 = 77, it was found that r table with significant level 5% = 2.64; and 1% = 1.99 which were smaller than t = 3.005. As a result, null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In conclusion, Cooperative Learning Method played a significant role in increasing the writing ability of students of English Study Program FKIP UNRI.

scholarly journals Improving Students' Writing Ability by Using Personal Photograph of Seventh Year Students at SMPN 4 Banyuwangi in the 2014/2015 Academic Year

LUNAR ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Asmiyati Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

English plays important role for all aspects because the development of science and technology is mostly transferred through it. English is taught in the forms of speaking, writing, listening and reading integrative. Among the four language skills, writing is considered to be most difficult to master, because it needs continues thinking process for expressing ideas, feelings, or thought in a piece of paper. The research was carried out at SMP 4 Banyuwangi. The subjects of the research are the students of the seventh grade A student. The research method was classroom action research. This classroom action research had two cycles which consisted of four main stages in each cycle. They are preparation, implementation, observation, and reflection of the action. In each cycle, the teaching and learning process were conducted into three meetings which include two meetings of applying method and one meeting for the writing test. In the first cycle the researcher used personal photograph as a media in teaching descriptive text, researcher asked students to describe their personality and their families in the class based on the example that had been given by the researcher. In the second cycle, researcher asked students to describe their friend in photos that was brought by the student in group. The result of preliminary study showed that the main score of the students’ writing descriptive paragraph result was low (M= 49,78). Meanwhile, the standard minimum passing level score in this school is 75. In the first cycle on Monday, 11st May until 16th M a y 2 0 1 5 i n t h r e e m e e t i n g s , t h e r e s e a r c h e r found the mean of the score of the students’ writing was 74,83 with the total score 2694. In the second cycle on Monday 18th May until 25th May 2015, the researcher found the mean of the score of the students’ writing was 79,72 with the total score 2870. Based on that fact, the result of the research shows that the students improve their ability in writing descriptive text by using personal photograph as the media. They are better in writing and arranging the sentences than in pretest. The objectives of the research are firstly to know the improvement of students’ ability in writing descriptive paragraph. The second is to find out how the use of personal photograph to improve the students’ writing descriptive paragraph

scholarly journals APPLYING ESA (ENGAGE, STUDY, ACTIVATE) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-40
Author(s):  
Ilinawati Ilinawati
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Study Program ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year

This study was about improving the teaching of speaking by applying ESA strategy tothestudents of English study program atSTKIP Persada KhatulistiwaSintang in Academic Year 2017/2018. It was a classroom action research (CAR) and  involved the first year students of English language study program. They were poor at speaking. The result of this research showed that ESA strategy succeeded improving the teaching speaking. The mean score was 71,67 in the first cycle and 80,28 in the second cycle. The improvement of the teaching learning process was based on the improvement of teaching learning behavior in the classroom. The change of behavior was notified from the classroom observation, field notes and interview which were discussed with the collaborator in the reflection stage. ESA strategy was found out helpful to improve students speaking ability. Keywords: Speaking, ESA Strategy, Job Interview

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