scholarly journals ENHANCING WRITING ABILITY THROUGH IDEA LISTING TECHNIQUE

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zaini Miftah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
English Department ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
The Third ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

The study is aimed at developing the Idea Listing Technique (ILT) to enhance the students‟ writing ability. The Classroom Action Research was applied in this study. The subjects of the study were 31 students, the students taking the course of Writing II, of the third semester of English Department of one State Islamic College at Palangka Raya, Indonesia, in the 2012/2013 academic year. The findings show that the implementation of ILT can enhance the students‟ ability in writing expository paragraph. It is indicated by the enhancements of the percentage of the students achieving the score greater than or equal to C (60-69), and of the percentage of their involvement in the writing activities during the implementation of ILT in Cycle I and II. Thus, the enhancement of the students‟ ability in writing expository paragraph can be reached but it should follow the appropriate procedures of the implementation of ILT having been developed.Keywords: Idea Listing Technique, Writing Ability, Paragraph Writing, Expository Paragraph

scholarly journals Using Powerpoint Media to Learning Outcomes Theme 4 Sub-theme 2 Learning 6 in Class III Students of SD Negeri 1 Karanganyar Academic Year 2020/2021

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1016
Author(s):  
Yuliana Yustina Pancawati
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Class Iii ◽  
The Third ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Grade Iii

<p><em>The purpose of this research was to improve learning outcomes in theme 4 sub-theme 2 learning 6 grade III elementary schools with a powerpoint media. The research conducted was a Classroom Action Research (PTK) with three cycles, with each cycle consisting of two meetings. The stages of each cycle are planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. Each meeting is carried out a pre test and post test to determine the progress of students. In the first cycle the students who completed after carrying out the post test were 35%. In the second cycle students who completed after carrying out the post test were 60%. In the third cycle students who completed after carrying out the post test were 90%. These results indicate that powerpoint media can improve student interest and learning outcomes, especially grade III theme 4 sub-theme 2 learning 6 at SDN 1 Karanganyar.</em></p>

scholarly journals Penerapan Metode Field Trip untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menulis Puisi pada Siswa Kelas V-B MIN Wonosari Gunungkidul

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Muh Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Field Trip ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Poetry Writing ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

This study aims to determine the efforts to improve the poetry writing ability of VB graders in MIN Wonosari, Gunungkidul Regency by using the field trip method 2015/2016 academic year. This research is a classroom action research. The subjects of this study were all students of V-B MIN Wonosari Gunungkidul Regency, amounting to 21 students consisting of 8 male students and 13 female students. Classroom action research steps include the activities of planning, implementation, observation, testing, and documentation. The results of the study can be concluded that: (1) the use of field trip methods can improve students' poetry writing skills-average value in the V-B MIN Wonosari class in Kab. Gunungkidul in the pre-cycle was 49.52 with learning completeness 42.86% with sufficient criteria. After carrying out learning with the field trip method increased in the first cycle, the average value became 76.19, with learning completeness of 61.90%, including good criteria. In the second cycle, the average score became 76.72, with 80.95 learning completeness, including very good criteria. (2) There is an increase in the implementation of the learning process and students. From these data, it can be concluded that the application of field trip methods can improve the ability to write poetry in students of V-B MIN Wonosari class, Kab. Gunungkidul.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN TEKNIK THINK PAIR SHARE UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA PADA MATA KULIAH READING COMPREHENSION

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Titik Hardewi Yani ◽  
Sesmiyanti Sesmiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
English Department ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
English Program ◽  
Academic Year

This research problem comes from low of students’ score of reading comprehension at English program academic year 2012/2013. It could be seen from some students failed in reading comprehension I. In order to researcher would do classroom action research by applying Think Pair Share technique to improve students reading comprehension on reading II. Purpose of this research were to describe applying Think Pair Share technique on reading comprehension of English program and knowing how can Think Pair Share improve students’ reading comprehension. In collecting data, researcher used qualitative data that consist of observation sheet, field note, and interview. In quantitative data, she used tasks and tests. In making note about what happened in this research, she helped by collaborator who teach reading comprehension too in English Department. This classroom action research consisted of two cycles; each of cycles consisted of four meeting. Three meeting did treatments, and one meeting for test. Related to finding of this research, Think Pair Share technique could improve reading comprehension. In addition, the factor that influence students’ learning by applying this technique were interesting technique, interesting topic of learning material then lecturer guiding on students in understanding learning material. The improvement of students’ learning could be proved on students’ score in each cycles. Mean score students’ reading comprehension for the first cycle was 63.8, then second cycle was 73.3. This research can be concluded that classroom action research by applying Think Pair Share technique could improve students’ reading comprehension on Reading II course at English program STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat.

scholarly journals The Use of Picture Media to Enhance Students’ Writing Ability of Recount Text at MTs N 1 of Bengkulu City, Bengkulu

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Dedi Efrizal
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
English Subject

Abstract: The Use of Picture Media to Enhance Students’ Writing Ability of Recount Text at MTs N 1 of Bengkulu City, Bengkulu. This study was carried out to improve the students’ writing ability through Pictures media in Second Year Students at Mts N 01 of Bengkulu in the academic year 2018-2019. The subjects of this study have consisted of 42 students. The method used in this study was Classroom Action Research (CAR). The Classroom Action Research design applied in this study was a collaborative classroom action research. It means that the researcher collaborated with the English teacher of Mts N 01 of Bengkulu as an observer and collaborator. The study was carried out in three cycles. Each cycle consisted of three meetings. The data were gathered in this study through field notes, and test. The result of the study showed that there was an improvement in students’ writing ability. Most of the students gradually gained good scores at the end of each cycle. The score of Minimum Mastery Criterion- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) of English subject was 70 (seventy). In the cycle, the result of the students' score was poor. In cycle 2 the result of the students' score has some signs of progress, and in the cycle 3, the result of the students' score has improved effectively than action in the cycle before where the mean score of students was in 75 (Good). In addition, there was a positive response from the English Teacher about implementing the action. In conclusion Pictures, media could solve the students’ problems and improve their writing ability.Abstrak: Penggunaan Media Gambar untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Menulis Teks Recount Siswa di MTs N 1 Kota Bengkulu, Bengkulu. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menulis siswa melalui media Pictures pada Siswa Kelas Dua di Mts N 01 Bengkulu pada tahun akademik 2018-2019. Subjek penelitian ini terdiri dari 42 siswa. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK). Desain Penelitian Tindakan Kelas yang diterapkan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian tindakan kelas kolaboratif. Ini berarti bahwa peneliti berkolaborasi dengan guru bahasa Inggris Mts N 01 dari Bengkulu sebagai pengamat dan kolaborator. Penelitian dilakukan dalam tiga siklus. Setiap siklus terdiri dari tiga pertemuan. Data dikumpulkan dalam penelitian ini melalui catatan lapangan, dan tes. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan kemampuan menulis siswa. Sebagian besar siswa secara bertahap memperoleh skor bagus di akhir setiap siklus. Skor Kriteria Penguasaan Minimum- Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) mata pelajaran bahasa Inggris adalah 70 (tujuh puluh). Pada siklusnya, hasil nilai siswa buruk. Pada siklus 2 hasil skor siswa memiliki beberapa tanda kemajuan, dan pada siklus 3, hasil skor siswa telah meningkat secara efektif daripada tindakan dalam siklus sebelum di mana skor rata-rata siswa berada di 75 (Baik) . Selain itu, ada tanggapan positif dari Guru Bahasa Inggris tentang penerapan tindakan. Kesimpulannya Pictures, media dapat memecahkan masalah siswa dan meningkatkan kemampuan menulis mereka.

scholarly journals The Effect Of Creativity Toward Students’ Achievement in Writing Ability

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Ning Setio Wati
Keyword(s):  
New Product ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
English Department ◽  
Writing Achievement ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
The Third ◽  
Academic Year

Writing is an activity to write and reformulate ideas to create meaning on a paper. In teaching writing, there are many influences, such as creativity. Creativity is an ability to create new product that can be useful and effective in original of thinking. This research is aimed at finding out whether creativity has significance influences toward writing achievement. The research was conducted at IAIN Metro in the academic year of 2012/2013. The population of this research was the third semester students of English Department of IAIN Metro. The result of this research is the students who have creativity could give significant effects on the students' writing ability and the creativity that was given by the lecturer was effective.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF INSIDE OUTSIDE CIRCLE (IOC) MODEL TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILLS AND COOPERATION TO THE THEME OF ENERGY AND CHANGES TO THIRD GRADE STUDENTS OF SD NEGERI 1 KUTOSARI IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indri Novianti ◽  
Kartika Chrysti Suryandari ◽  
Rokhmaniyah Rokhmaniyah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Oral Exam ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Grade Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Speaking Skills

<em>The study aimed to apply the steps of inside outside circle (ioc) model and to improve student speaking skills and cooperation. The research was a collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR) carried out in three cycles. The subjects were  third grade students of SD Negeri 1 Kutosari in academic year of 2019/2020. Qualitative data was the application of Inside Outside Circle (IOC) model. Quantitative data was the increasing student speaking skills and cooperation. The results showed that Inside Outside Circle (IOC) model improved student speaking skills and cooperation in five steps. It was proven by oral exam percentages which were 70.32% in the first cycle, 79.83% in the second cycle, and 89.01% in the third cycle. The  student cooperation percentages were 60.83% in the first cycle, 75.57% in the second cycle, and 84.25% in the third cycle. It concludes that there is significant improvement of student speaking skills by the application of Inside Outside Circle (IOC) model.</em>

scholarly journals THE USE OF LITERACY-INSTRUCTIONAL CATEGORY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Setiarini Setiarini
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
English Department ◽  
Writing Improvement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Score Result ◽  
Reading Activities

This investigation examined the use of Literacy-Instructional Category on students’ reading comprehension. Particularly, there are two objectives of the study. The first is to explore the students’ writing improvement when they engaged in the first cycle of reading activities by employing literacy instructional categories. The second is to explore the students’ reading comprehension by using instructional categories. Thirty students from English Department of IAIN Salatiga participated in the study and they were in the third semester. A classroom action research was employed to answer the research problems. Three cycles were done to complete this action research. Based on the score result gathered from the cycles, the students’ reading comprehension improved. The student’s scores were not more than sixty because they did not understand intensively rereading activities in cycle one. But students’ score increased in cy- cle two and cycle three. In cycle three, rereading activities followed transformed practice (critical framing) lead the better improvement in their reading comprehension.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE AT TENTH GRADE of MA MA’ARIF ROUDHOTUT THOLIBIN METRO

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Desi Dwi Suryani ◽  
Anindya Muhti Apriliani
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Text Clustering ◽  
Collaborative Action Research ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Clustering Technique ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
The Third ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Academic Year

The objective of this research was to improve the students’ writing ability in descriptive text through clustering technique at the tenth grade of MA Ma’arif Roudhotut Tholibin Metro in academic year 2018/2019. This research was conducted at tenth grade in second semester at MA Ma’arif Roudhotut Tholibin Metro in academic year 2017/2018. The design of this research was classroom action research (CAR). This research was applied collaborative action research, this research was done in two cycle. It  is done with; planning, acting, observation and reflecting. In collecting data, the writer uses; test,observation and questionnaire. the application of the clustering technique could improve the students’ writing ability in descriptive text. Based on the results of the observation obtained the students more understanding to make descriptive sentences, and make the descriptive sentences into a descriptive text. The activity make the student become interested to describe the pictures or object, students more active and more anthusiasm in the writing learning process. Then, in Cycle 1 students passed is 15 (60%). In cycle 2 students passes the KKM (80%). Was improved 20% in cycle 2. By this number, the researcher concludes that the minimum target of success, that is 70% of the students in a class, has been achieved in cycle 2, and from the third data we can conclude it was prove that clustering technique can positively improve the students’ writing ability in descriptive text at tenth grade of MA Ma’arif Roudhotut Tholibin Metro in academic year of 2018/2019   Keyword : Improve Student’s Writing, Descriptive Text, Clustering technique.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA BAHASA INGGRIS MELALUI PENDEKATAN KOMUNIKATIF MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI BAHASA INGGRIS UNISBA

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Dian Dian Fadhilawati
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
English Department ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Communicative Approach ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

This study aims at seeing process freshmen of English Department students at Balitar Islamic University improve their English speaking proficiency implementing communicative approach as the teaching teachniques. This study implemented classroom action research, and was conducted for one semester in the academic year 2014/2015. Improvements were focused on fluency, accuracy and cohesiveness involving 26 subjects.  Conducted in two cycles that succesviley involved research procedures on planning, acting, observing, and reflection, this study revealed the following findings.  First,  speaking fluency of the learners increases from 65% in the first cycle into 85% in the second cycle.  Second, speaking accuracy improves from 68% in the first cycle into 88% in the second cycle.  Third, cohesiveness of uttarences imoproves from 70% in the first cycle into 86% in the sevond cycle.

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

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