scholarly journals The Use of English Movie to Enhance Tenth Grade Students’ Pronunciation at SMA Angkasa 2, East Jakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Reggy Rayasa

This study aims at developing students’ pronunciation skills by using English movies as a teaching media and investigating the students’ perception of the use English movie in learning pronunciation. To attain the objectives, a two-cycled action research was conducted to 35 tenth graders at SMA Angkasa 2, East Jakarta in March to May 2017. Data were collected using test, some observation sheets, and a questionnaire. The results revealed that the movies developed the students’ pronunciation skills. Their poor pronunciation (indicated by the pretest mean score of 48,11) developed after participating in Cycle I (mean score, 62.5) and developed higher after Cycle II (mean score, 76.08). Along with the increase of frequency of watching the movies and the researcher’s improvement in facilitating the actions as well, the students’ enthusiasm and involvement in the actions keep on increasing. It was concluded that using use movies as teaching media is effective to develop students' pronunciation skills. EFL teachers are, therefore, recommended to use movies as an alternative media to develop students' pronunciation skills. Further studies are recommended to carry out experimental studies to see the degree of effectiveness of using movies in pronunciation teaching to senior high school students.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Fithriyah Putri Perdana ◽  
Sulistyaningsih

The purposes of this research are to describe the implementation of the teacher in teaching speaking descriptive text using facebook for Senior High School Students, and to describe the achievement of the students in speaking using facebook. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The data were taken from the tenth grade students of senior high school in Sidoarjo. The data collecting technique used instruments of observation field note, interview and test. From the observation field note was described that the implementation of teaching learning process given were: First, the way of speaking descriptive text was explained to the students. Second, the examples of generic structure of descrptive text were displayed. Third, the way to describe picture profile from the Facebook was explained to the students. The last, the pleasant atmosphere was created while the students tried to operate Facebook for describing the profile of someone. Further, the results of test had shown that the  students’ scores were good; with the average scores > 75. They show that the technique of Teaching Speaking Descriptive Text Using Facebook For Senior High School students is good for teaching speaking.  


Author(s):  
Iin Widya Lestari ◽  
Adi Isma

Teaching English is very challenging nowadays. Senior high school students urgently are needed to be communicative in using English well. They need to be able to develop their English skills well. Dealing with mastering English skills, vocabulary is one of the crucial language components in learning English. In fact, most of the students faced difficulty in acquiring and mastering English vocabulary to support and develop their English skills. English teachers need to apply the appropriate strategy and activity to improve students’ vocabulary. This research aimed to know the process of improving students’ vocabulary mastery by using translation activity for Senior High school students at SMAN 3 Bojonegoro. This research used classroom action research. The subject of this research was students of Social Program at 11 B. In collecting the data, the writers used test items and observation sheets. The test was given pre-test, test 1 and test 2. Then the writers analyzed the mean score of each test to find out the improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery after the action was done. The result shows that there is an improvement in students’ vocabulary mastery. It could be seen from the score of the pretest is 42, posttest 1 is 47,8 and posttest 2 is 61. After conducting action research, it shows that students made good improvements in learning vocabulary. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that using translation activity can improve students’ vocabulary mastery.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3147-3151

This research was conducted to investigate the impact of digital storytelling towards senior high school students’ speaking ability in various text genres, and analyze in what extend it works effectively. The researchers used an action research and random sampling technique. The steps in this design are Planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The sample of this research was 34 students of tenth grade science 4. The researchers defined there was difference between Cycle 1 (before giving treatment) and Cycle 2 (after giving treatment). In Cycle 1, only 15 students (44,11 %) could pass standard minimum criteria (KKM) with the upper value 75. On the other hand, Cycle 2 showed 27 students could achieve KKM. Futhermore, this method assisted teacher in comperending material, generated students’ critical thinking, creativities, and confidence not only in education field but also technology field. Overall, this research reveals there are significant influences of digital storytelling method towards senior high school students’ speaking ability in various text genres.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanti Herlanti

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kesadaran metakognitif dan pengetahuan metakognitif peserta didik tingkat Sekolah Menengah Atas. Kesadaran metakognitif merupakan potensi yang dimiliki peserta didik. Pengetahuan metakognitif merupakan kondisi aktual yang ada pada peserta didik. Penelitian bersifat survei ditindaklanjuti dengan eksperimen terbatas. Survei dilakukan di tingkat Sekolah Menengah Atas. SMAN dan MAN di Kota Bogor dan Jakarta menjadi populasi target. Sampel penelitian sebanyak 204 orang peserta didik. Eksperimen terbatas dilakukan pada kelas X SMA Peminatan IPA di SMAN Jakarta Selatan dengan melibatkan 71 peserta didik. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kesadaran metakognitif (zona potensial) peserta didik rata-rata berada pada kisaran 7583 atau katagori baik, namun pengetahuan metakognitif (zona aktual) berada pada kisaran 10-15 atau katagori sangat buruk. Standar proses yang ditawarkan kurikulum 2013 belum dapat menarik peserta didik pada zona ideal yaitu pengetahuan metakognitif sama dengan kesadaran metakognitif. Kata Kunci: metakognitif, kurikulum 2013, zona aktual, zona potensial, zona ideal SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AND METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE IN ACHIEVING THE GRADUATE STANDARD IN THE 2013 CURRICULUM Abstract: This study was aimed to describe senior high school students’ metacognitive awareness and metacognitive knowledge. Metacognitive awareness is the students’ potential while metacognitive knowledge is the actual conditions that exist on the students. The study was a survey followed by a limited experiment. The survey was conducted in senior high schools, state senior high schools, and Isamic senior high schools in Bogor and South Jakarta. The sample consisted of 204 students. The limited experiment was carried out in the tenth grade of SMA Peminatan IPA in state senior high schools in South Jakarta involving 71 students. The findings showed that the students ‘ metacognitive awareness was at the range between 75-83 or in the good category while the students’ metacognitive knowledge was at the range between 10-15 or in the very poor category. The process standard offered by the 2013 curriculum has not been able to attract students to the idea level, that is, the metacognitive knowledge and the metacognitive awareness was of equal level. Keywords: metacognitive, 2013 curriculum, actual zone, potential zone, ideal zone


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Adityo Prawinanto ◽  
Barli Bram

This paper analyzed the lexical density of the adjective and noun clauses in an English textbook for senior high school students in Indonesia. It aimed to discover whether or not the textbook was suitable for the students in terms of lexical density. The researchers employed a content analysis approach to analyze data. There were 116 sentences, containing adjective and noun clauses, which were investigated. The researchers implemented the lexical density theory and the lexical density indicators to determine the average level of the lexical density measurements. Results showed that there were three lexical density levels found in those adjective and noun clauses. The three levels were low, medium, and high. The average level of the lexical density obtained from the adjective and noun clauses in the textbook was 47%, which was categorized as low lexical density. Thus, the researchers concluded that the English textbook for the tenth-grade students published by the Indonesian Government was appropriate for the students.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
NFN Suharti

This development aims to create a product of anecdote learning model book based on STAD and Make A Match on the tenth grade senior high school students. It can be used to facilitate teachers and students to identify the structure of anecdote. It uses Research and Development/R&D of Dick and Carey’s learning model. The results show that it has fulfilled the standard validated by material expert test, linguist test, educational practitioner test, and media expert test with the average score of 92, very feasible/very good criteria. The students’ learning outcomes of the experimental group are excellent with the average of individual cognitive, individual affective, and the group affective score of 96. The students' learning outcomes of the field test group are excellent with the average of individual cognitive, individual affective, and group affective score of 97. The percentage of teachers and students’ response rate are 96%, excellent qualifications. It applies qualitative descriptive and descriptive statistical analysis. Based on the development findings, it can be concluded that the development of anecdote learning with STAD Model and Make A Match on the tenth grade senior high school students can be employed by teachers in the classroom learning.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 788
Author(s):  
Risa Mufliharsi ◽  
Eva Nurul Candra

Neuro-linguistic programming is known as an alternative approach and technique especially in English. However, in praxis, many teachers didn’t apply it in the classroom. that is why in this community service, the team will have training for teacher and simulation for tenth-grade students about NLP. To differentiate conventional techniques by a teacher, a team focused on the exploration of teacher and students’ participation through the training and simulation. To find out whether NLP as an approach and technique can increase teacher and students’ participation during classroom instruction, the team investigated teacher and students’ perception. The team used four sets opened questionnaires. Each of them is five opened questions. There are two similar sets of opened questionnaires which administered before and after simulation for students. Besides, there are two equivalent sets of opened questionnaires for a teacher that administered before and after training.


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