scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT’S SELF CONFIDENCE AND VOCABULARY MASTERY TOWARDS SPEAKING SKILL.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Teddy Setiawan ◽  
Muhammad Sulhan

<p><em>The objectives of this research is to know the Effects of Self-confidence and Vocabulary Mastery towards Students’ Speaking Skill – Survey at State Vocational High Schools, Tangerang City, Banten. </em><em>The research populations were 600 students and the samples were 60 students taken from eleventh grade SMKN 7 and SMKN 9 vocational high schools at second semester of 2019/2020 academic year in Tangerang city. The instruments of the research were composed of 25 items of vocabulary test questions and 40 items questionnaire of students’ self-confidence. This research was designed and calculated using quantitative calculation. The major findings of the research indicates that the effects of self-confidence and vocabulary mastery towards the students’ speaking skill of eleventh grade Tangerang City Vocational High School is of high level category. The results of the research are as follow:1)T</em><em>here are any significant effects of self-confidence and vocabulary mastery jointly towards students’ speaking skill at the State Vocational High Schools in Tangerang City, Banten. It is proved by the value of Sig is 0.000&lt;0.05 and the value of F<sub>test</sub> is 45.105. 2) There is a significant effect of self-confidence towards students’ speaking skill. It is proved by the value of Sig 0.042&lt;0.05 and t<sub>test </sub>of 2.075. 3) There is no significant effect of vocabulary mastery towards students’ speaking skill at the State Vocational High Schools in Tangerang City, Banten. It is proved by the value of Sig is 0.138&gt;0.05 and t<sub>test</sub> 1.502. </em><em>Based on the research findings it can be recommended that speaking skill requires high level of self-confidence and adequate vocabulary mastery. Speaking skill is not only influenced by vast amount of vocabulary mastery but other influential factors at the state vocational high schools in Tangerang city such as high level of self-confidence.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> </em><em>Self-confident, </em><em>Speaking</em><em> Skill</em><em> and Vocabulary Mastery.</em><em></em></p><p> </p>

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Verianus Da Silva Wadu ◽  
Supeno Supeno

<p><em>This research aims to get empirical data and analyze the effects of reading interest and vocabulary mastery on students’ writing skills at State Vocational High Schools in Tangerang City, Banten. This research was designed and calculated using quantitative calculation. The research findings indicated: (1) There are significant effects of reading interest and vocabulary mastery towards students’ writing skills. </em><em>It is proved by Sig is 0,000 &lt; 0,05 and the value of F<sub>0 </sub>is 47,110</em><em>. (2) There is a significant effect of reading interest on students’ writing skills. </em><em>It is proved by the Sig is 0,044 &lt; 0,05 and the value T<sub>o </sub>is 2,078</em><em>. (3) T</em><em>here is no significant effect of vocabulary mastery on students writing skills. The Sig proves it is 0,142 &gt;0,05, and the value of T<sub>o</sub> is 1,603. Due to the result, it can be inferred </em><em>that there was a significant effect of students’ reading interest and vocabulary mastery towards students’ writing skills. The students' higher writing skill is influenced by the vast amount of vocabulary mastery and other influential factors such as a high reading interest. </em></p>


ICCD ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 481-485
Author(s):  
Harfa Iskandaria ◽  
Anggraeni Dyah ◽  
Karya Subagya

High school in Indonesia has two types, specifically senior high schools and vocational schools (SMK). Vocational high schools in Indonesia have a lot of education focus which aims to provide education to their students so they can work immediately. One of the vocational schools in Indonesia is the Tangerang 4 Vocational High School which focuses on education in engineering. One of the engineering scopes at SMK Negeri 4 Tangerang is "Drawing Technique for Building" (Teknik Gambar Bangunan). "Drawing Technique for Building" is a vocational class that specializes in learning how to draw techniques for houses and buildings. As vocational students of "Building Drawing Technique", each student must learn how to draw techniques according to ISO standards complete with various etiquettes in manually, after proficient in drawing manually, students must learn AutoCAD, an software for drawing because this becomes the main competency as students "Building Drawing Techniques". To increase the capacity and capabilities of its students at SMK 4 Tangerang, the Budi Luhur University Architecture Study Program introduces one of the software related to building drawing The software introduced in Revit Architecture version 2013. Revit Architecture 2013 is a software that aims to create building construction designs for architects and supports the concept of BIM (Building Information Modeling). The output of this socialization is that students of SMK Negeri 4 Tangerang understanding about software for drawing techniques other than AutoCAD and various conveniences when drawing with Revit Architecture 2013 software


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Rita Fransina Maruanaya ◽  
Thomas Köhler

This study aimed to measure the validity and reliability of the questionnaire in the context of scientific research on the cooperation of vocational high schools and industry for example in the field of Hotel management. Participants (n=20) were teachers of Vocational High Schools and Trainers of Hotels. This is a quantitative study. The validity test was conducted through items content validity using Pearson Correlation Product Moment. The Cronbach Alpha value was applied to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. The result showed that questionnaire is valid with 35 questions and the values of Cronbach Alpha are Variable 1= 0,94 (perfect), Variable 2=0,84 (high), Variable 3= 0,53 (average), Variable 4=0,92 (perfect). Based on the results, it can be stated that the questionnaire is valid and reliable. Therefore, it can be used as an instrument for a study


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Meita Anisa Saputra*

Data from the City Blitar City Police Unit in 2016, as many as 1,799 or 15.9% of students committed traffic violations, from January to March 2017 as many as 438 or 11.3% of students committed  traffic violations. In addition to violations, 25 or 15.1% of traffic accidents involving students occurred. The accident caused 68 students to become victims. In 2017 January to March as many as 6 or 12.5% students were involved in traffic accidents. The accident caused 21 students to become victims. According to the data, it can be seen that the number of traffic violations in Blitar City is dominated by students, both students of junior high schools, senior high schools or vocational high schools. Then the Save Our Student (SOS) program was implemented to reduce the number of traffic offenses for students. The Save Our Student (SOS) Program is a Satlantas Polres Blitar Kota program in collaboration with schools, both Middle School (SMP), Senior High School (SMA) or Vocational High School (SMK) in Blitar City. The Save Our Student (SOS) Program is a program based on Law Number 22 Year 2009 concerning Road Traffic and Transport and the Safety riding program. The Save Our Student (SOS) program is not just a momentary program, but an ongoing program in an effort to reduce the number of traffic violations on students in the City of Blitar. The Blitar City Police Traffic Unit Police in implementing the Save Our Student (SOS) Program needs a communication strategy, where the success rate of a goal will be achieved along with how the communication strategy is carried out in implementing the Save Our Student (SOS) Program. The purpose of the program, which is to reduce the number of traffic violations among students and prevent traffic accidents with fatality fatalities will be achieved.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-151
Author(s):  
IIN ASIKIN ◽  
Sylviana Murni ◽  
Ma’ruf Akbar ◽  
Ma’ruf Akbar

This study aimed to determine the impact transformational leadership on employee engagement teachers of state vocational high schools. This research uses the quantitative-causal approach as the method of survey research. This approach was chosen to analyze the relationship patterns between variables with the aim to know the direct effect of a set of exogenous variable toward the endogen variable. In this research, transformational leadership is an exogenous variable, and employee engagement is an endogen variable. This research was conducted in  The State Vocational High Schools in Depok City (West Java Province).  The analysis unit in this research is the teachers from The State Vocational High Schools. The population is all the teachers in State Vocational High Schools which live in Depok with a total of 166 teachers out of 4 schools. The samples were selected with the simple random sampling method by choosing the members of the population randomly, ignoring the classes (levels) of each of the population members, bearing in mind that the population is homogenous and has a large number. From the existing population, the number of samples was calculated with the Slovin formula. Therefore, the sample used in this research is 118 teachers. To obtain data in this research, a questionnaire was used for the two variables: transformational leadership (X), and employee engagement  (Y).  All the questionnaires were filled in by teachers from The State Vocational High Schools in Depok. The analysis technique used is the path analysis.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Suci Dwina Darma ◽  
BAMBANG SUWARNO ◽  
Mulyadi Mulyadi

This research aimed to find out the difficulties faced by the English teachers in Vocational High Schools in designing a lesson plan (RPP) based on KTSP. It employed a descriptive quantitative method. The population of this research was 23 respondents, from all teachers which have followed KTSP training. The sample was taken by using total sampling techniques. To collect the data, the researcher used the questionnaire. It was consist of 37 questions that it was divided into 9 aspects in a lesson plan namely; standard of competence, basic competence, indicator, the aims of learning, teaching material, the methods/techniques, the steps of learning activity, the tools/sources of material, and evaluation. It used the percentage formula and weighted mean formula to analyze data. The result of the research showed that there were not any significant difficulties in designing a lesson plan (RPP) based on KTSP faced by the English teachers in Vocational High Schools because all aspects were in sometimes/moderate predicate. It indicated that in designing a lesson plan (RPP) based on KTSP was not significant difficult. Beside that, according to the result above, the most difficult aspects were none aspect because it also with sometimes predicate. It indicated that the English teachers in Vocational High School did not find any significant difficulties in writing all aspects of the lesson plan. 


Author(s):  
Mukhammad Syaom Barliana ◽  
Djohar Maknun ◽  
Kunthi Herman

The policy to increase ratio of the number of students between vocational high school (SMK) and senior high school (SMA) being 70:30 in 2014, needs to be supported by policy to improve both quality and quantity of teachers, infrastructures, diversification of skills, and absorption of graduates in job market. Using quantitative descriptive approach, this research reveals that availability of infrastructures in all vocational high schools in Bandung city at present, and how the projection in the future. The result of this research shows that at present situation, when the comparison of the number of students SMK:SMA is 50:50, it proves that generally SMK with state status just fulfill exactly about 75% equipment and quality in accordance with infrastructure national standards.


Author(s):  
Endriana Retno Safitri ◽  
Lutfiyah Nurlaela ◽  
Tri Rijanto ◽  
Munoto Munoto

Industry 4.0 is the state of the industry in the face of the 21st century when there is a massive change through technology that opens a barrier between the digital and physical worlds. There will be many types of jobs lost, and new types of jobs will emerge. Faced with this, high mastery skills are required by graduates. In vocational high schools the mastery of skills is done by sending students directly into industrial work practices. But are IWP activities really able to be used to improve skills in dealing with Industry 4.0? What types of skills students must master when dealing with industry 4.0 This article will conduct a study of various related literature about IWP and industry 4.0. The results of the study will link the effects resulting from IWP activities and needs in industry 4.0. The results of the study indicate that the IWP program in vocational high schools needs some improvement to be able to produce vocational high school graduates who are ready to face industry 4.0.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
S Syamsinar ◽  
K Khaeruddin

The objectives of this research aimed at (i) finding out the causes of the problems in teaching English at vocational high schools and (ii) finding out the possible solution toward the problems of the teachers in teaching English subject at vocational high schools. The researcher applied purposive sampling technique in selecting the participants. The participants consisted of two advanced teachers and two beginner teachers at vocational high schools in Somba Opu sub-district. The additional participants were two headmasters that focused on the possible solution dealing with the problem found by the English teachers at VHS. This research under applied descriptive approach and qualitative method. The data were collected by using two instruments namely semi-structured interview and observation checklist. The data were analyzed by using the framework of Miles and Huberman’s (2012) namely data reduction, data display, and drawing then verifying conclusion. The results of this research mentioned nine causes of the problems on the professional competence of English teachers in teaching at vocational high school and the possible solution toward the causes. The outline of the causes of the problems on professional competence are the less effort of the English teachers to improve the linguistic aspects, lack of English for Spesific Purpose knowledge, less of communicative competence, less preparation of teaching contents, less in using ICT as a teaching method and lack in managing the time and managing the class. The possible solution can draw in this research that the English teachers at VHS have to consider the students’ need, prepare the teaching planning and involved in the teaching training. Thus, this research might become a recommendation to the government and the Educational trainer for facilitating the English teachers at VHS with education training of ESP knowledge and supporting the teachers in developing their professional competence.


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