scholarly journals The Development of Reading Materials in School Literacy Movements for Senior High School Students Based on Local Culture of Karo

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-288
Author(s):  
Yoana Stephani Tarigan ◽  
Biner Ambarita ◽  
Mutsyuhito Solin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
School Students ◽  
Development Study ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Senior High School Students

Literacy has the meaning and implications of basic reading and writing skills to acquire and manipulate knowledge through written texts, from metalinguistic analysis of grammatical units to the structure of oral and written texts. This study deals with the development of reading materials in school literacy movements for senior high school students based on local culture of Karo. The type of this study is development study that is the development of short story text reading materials based on character education as an ingredient in the school literacy movement. This development study refers to the development theory proposed by Borg and Gall. The conclusion of this study is the feasibility of reading material in the school literacy movement for senior high school students based on local culture of Karo is eligible and suitable to be used as reading material, based on the assessment of material experts, and design experts. The results of the assessment based on the responses of teachers and students in the Senior High School 1 of Berastagi concluded that reading material in the school literacy movement for senior high school students based on local culture of Karo had been found to be effective because it met the needs and overall criteria "very good".

scholarly journals THE NEEDS ANALYSIS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING COMPETENCE IN NATIONAL EXAMINATION: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Ari Mayang ◽  
Joko Nurkamto ◽  
Nur Arifah Drajati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading Competence ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Senior High School Students

The focus of this research is to asses the Reading competence needs of senior high school students in English National Examination (ENE) based on students’ perspective. The background in conducting this research mainly because of two things. The first one is the importance of curriculum evaluation behind the Needs Analysis itself. The  second one is the importance of the certain preparation for strengthening English material to face the English National Examination. Both of these backgrounds are equally important for students and teachers at once. The research questions of this study are framed within the scope of students’ perspective. The method of this research included some of questionnaires which was then analyzed using the five-points Likert Scale method. This research already debriefed 106 senior high school students in grade 12 from Boyolali regency, Central Java. They were involved in filling out the questionnaire where the results were used as the main data in this study. The final findings in this study include the fact that: (1) The Reading questions in National Examination are in moderate level of difficulty based on the students perspective, (2) The Reading National Examination materials are clearly taught by the teachers, (3) Reading is very important material to be mastered in National Examination, (4) The students are in moderate level dealing with their mastery of Reading material in National Examination, (5) The use of technology in Reading material learning is very important method based on students’ perception, and (6) The frequency of use of technology in Reading lessons by teachers is quite often (moderately) based on student opinions.

DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING SKILL FOR GRADE 11 STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggi Yulihar And Nora Ronita Dewi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Senior High School Students

The study deals with the developing interactive media for senior high school students. The objective of this study is to find out how to develop interactive media for better speaking skill of senior high school students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was 2016/2017 students of the eleventh grade of Class XI IPA4 in SMAN 1 Batang Kuis. The number of the students was 30 students. The data of this study was collected by using need analysis questionnaire and experts’ judgment. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of students’ need before developing interactive media. Experts’ judgment was calculated by using likert data, mean and criteria interval of expert judgment to know the validity of interactive media which has been developed. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’ judgment result was 4.80 which had a very good criteria interval. The result of the research find that interactive media is a very good to be used in teaching speaking skill.

LEXICAL AMBIGUITY IN READING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXTS FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putri Sembiring And Sortha Silitonga
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Lexical Ambiguity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Ambiguous Words ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Senior High School Students

The objectives of this study were to find out the types of lexical ambiguity and the most dominant type of lexical ambiguity used in analytical exposition texts in English Today 2 and Advanced Learning English 2 textbooks. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The research was mainly focused on the four types of lexical ambiguity proposed by Saeed, such as homonymy, polysemy, synonymy and antonymy. In carrying out this study, the data were taken from analytical exposition texts in reading materials and exercise material from the two English textbooks which contained of ambiguous words. The result of the study indicated the numbers of lexical ambiguity were 46 words within homonymy (34,8%), polysemy (28,2%), synonymy (19,6%), and antonymy (17,4%).

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