scholarly journals A Study on The Second Year Students’ Ability to Comprehend Reading Text Based on The Level of Comprehension Questions at SMAN 1 Sijunjung

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-144
Author(s):  
Yessy Marzona
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling ◽  
Low Ability

This research was designed to describe the ability of the second year students to comprehend reading text according to the levels of question at SMAN 1 Sijunjung. To be more specific it aimed at describing students’ ability to comprehend reading text according to the levels of comprehension questions. This research was descriptive research. The population of this research was the second year students at SMAN 1 Sijunjung. The number of members of population was 165 students. The researcher took 80 students as the sample. In selecting sample, the researcher used stratified cluster random sampling technique. The data of this research were the students’ scores on comprehending text according to the levels of question. To take the data, the researcher used reading test. In analyzing the data, there were some steps she used: the first was presentation of raw scores and calculation of Mean and Standard Deviation. The second was classifying the students’ ability into high, moderate, and low ability. The third was determining the percentage of the students who had high, moderate, and low ability. The result of the data analysis showed that the ability of the second year students to comprehend reading text according to the levels of question at SMAN 1 Sijunjung was moderate. It was proved by the fact that 41 students (51.25%) had moderate ability. Specifically, the ability of the students to comprehend reading text at the level of comprehension questions was moderate. . It was proved by the fact that 55 students (68.75%) had moderate ability. Based on the findings above, it was suggested that the teachers give more exercises, beginning from the low levels of question to the high levels of question. It was also suggested to the teachers that they must promote a discussion to answer the questions on the texts being taught.

A Study on The Second Year Students’ Ability to Comprehend Reading Text Based on The Level of Knowledge Questions at SMAN 1 Sijunjung

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-143
Author(s):  
Yessy Marzona
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Knowledge Question ◽  
Analysis Question ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling ◽  
Low Ability

This study was designed to describe the ability of the second year students to comprehend reading text according to the levels of question at SMAN 1 Sijunjung. To be more specific it aimed at describing students’ ability to comprehend reading text according to the levels of knowledge question, comprehension question, application question and analysis question. This research was descriptive in nature. The population of this research was the second year students at SMAN 1 Sijunjung. The number of members of population was 165 students. The researcher took 80 students as the sample. In selecting sample, the researcher used stratified cluster random sampling technique. The data of this research were the students’ scores on comprehending text according to the levels of question. To take the data, the researcher used reading test. In analyzing the data, there were some steps she used: the first was presentation of raw scores and calculation of Mean and Standard Deviation. The second was classifying the students’ ability into high, moderate, and low ability. The third was determining the percentage of the students who had high, moderate, and low ability. The result of the data analysis showed that the ability of the second year students to comprehend reading text according to the levels of question at SMAN 1 Sijunjung was moderate. It was proved by the fact that 41 students (51.25%) had moderate ability. Specifically, the ability of the students to comprehend reading text at the level of knowledge question was moderate. It was proved by the fact that 53 students (66.25%) had moderate ability. Based on the findings above, it was suggested that the teachers give more exercises, beginning from the low levels of question to the high levels of question. It was also suggested to the teachers that they must promote a discussion to answer the questions on the texts being taught.

scholarly journals Students’ Reference Mastery in Narrative Text at XI GRADE of Senior High School

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Dahliana dahliana Dahliana ◽  
Muhammad Zaim
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Reference is an essential component for comprehending a reading text. In comprehending a text some students had problem such as their limited vocabulary, inability to interpret reference, and  lack  of  background knowledge. The purpose of the research was to find out the students’ reference mastery  in narrative text and students’ difficulties in mastering reference. This  research was a descriptive research. Random sampling technique was applied and twenty two students of XI grade of SMAN 1 Tempuling were taken as the subject of the research. The data were collected through quantitative and qualitative methods. Reading test was distributed to collect quantitative data, while interview was applied to gather qualitative data. The findings of this research reveal that the students’ reference mastery was in good category, but some problems still appeared which were affected by some factors; lack of practice, limited vocabulary mastery, and poor grammar mastery.  Thus, it can be concluded that the students’ reference mastery in narrative text needed to be improved.

scholarly journals An analysis of the third year english students` ability of fkip bung hatta university to write A cause and effect essay

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-133
Author(s):  
Rahmi Amiladini ◽  
Lisa Tavriyanti ◽  
Yandri Yandri
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Class B ◽  
English Students ◽  
Essay Test ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling ◽  
Low Ability

This research has attempted to describe the ability of the third year English students` ability of FKIP Bung Hatta University to write a cause and effect essay. The design of this research was descriptive. The numbers of population of this research were 122 students. The writer used cluster random sampling technique to determine the sample since the students were separated into four classes (A, B, C, and D). The writer chose one class as a sample of this research. Class B was decided to be the sample of this research. The numbers of this class were 20 students. The writer used writing essay test to collect data. Generally, the result of data analyzing the data showed that the ability of FKIP Bung Hatta University of the third year English students to write a cause and effect essay was moderate. It could be seen that 20% students had high ability, 70% had moderate ability, and 10% had low ability. Finally, based on the result above, the writer suggests the teachers to give more knowledge, explanation, practice in order to help students to improve their ability to write cause and effect essay. And students should do a lot of practices in order to improve their ability to write cause and effect essay.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Students’ Writing Skill In Descriptive Text At Grade X1 Ipa 1 Of Man 2 Padang

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Lailatul Husna
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Text Quality ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Simple Sentences ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling ◽  
English Subject

This research was a descriptive research with the main aim to analyze the students’ descriptive text quality in English subject. The components that were analized  analyzed in the descriptive text written  by the students were developing ideas, organizing ideas, grammar, vocabulary and mechanics. These five components were analyzed based on the five categories, they are excellent, good, satisfactory, weak and poor. The participants of this research were 30 students in their second year of MAN 2 Padang. The topic was about  places, in which the students chose the place that they want to describe. The technique used to get the participants of the reserach was cluster random sampling technique. The data of the research were taken by using writing test. In this research it was found that the students faced some difficulties in organizing ideas and developing ideas. Some of the students were unable to develop the ideas well. It was also found in their second writing, there were no improvements on the developing ideas. Furthermore, the students were unable to identify and describe the objects in organizing ideas components. In the grammar components, the students did not find major difficulties because the tense was simple present tense which was expressed only in simple sentences. For the vocabulary component, it was found that few students were unable to use the appropriate words to describe the place and they used some Indonesian words too. For the mechanics component, the students did not find major difficulties in using the appropriate mechanics. Based on the result of the research, the students are suggested to pay attention to the whole components of the descriptive text especially in developing and organizing ideas components. It is suggested to the teacher of MAN 2 Padang to use an effective strategy and give various ways to develops students’ ideas. The teacher should help the students to brainstorm the ideas or make an outline of their writing, to help the students to organize and develop their ideas well.      

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SCANNING SKILL IN READING TEXT AT SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF MTs THAMRIN YAHYA RAMBAH HILIR

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Wirda Jannatul Jannah
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Good Level ◽  
Second Grade Students ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

The purpose of this research was to find out the second grade students’scanning skill in reading text at MTs Thamrin Yahya Rambah Hilir. The research design was a descriptive qualitative. The population was second grade students with total number of 77 students and the sample were 26 students. The sample was taken by cluster random sampling. In collecting the data the researcher used reading test it was narrative text to got the data. In analyzing the data the researcher used the components of Narrative Text such as  Orientation, Complication, and Resolution. Based on the result of analysiss, the researcher found 4 students (15,3%) had excellent level, 7 students (26,9%) had good level, 11 students (42,3%) had average level, and 4 students (15,3%) had fair level and there were no students who got poor category. It means that students’ scanning skill in narrative text at second grade students of MTs Thamrin Yahya was average.  

scholarly journals KEEFEKTIVAN METODE LEARNING STARTS WITH A QUESTION PADA PEMBELAJARAN GEOMETRI

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Lingga Nico Pradana
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Test Method ◽  
The Third ◽  
Presentation Method ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Geometry Learning ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

This purpose of the research was to determine the effectiveness of learning start with a questionmethods on geometry learning. The effectiveness of these methods would be compared withpresentation method. The method of this research was quasi experimental method with 2x1factorial design. The population in this study was the third semester students at PGSD IKIPPGRI MADIUN while the sample was 3G as an experimental class and 3C as the control class.The sampling technique used was cluster random sampling. Methods of data collection in thisstudy was test method and divided into two: pre-test and post-test. Data analysis techniquesused in this study is a t-test with two independent samples. The results of this study were learningstarts with a question method was more effective than presentation method.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION TO TEACH SPEAKING VIEWED FROM STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisyah Sunarwan
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
The Third ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Multifactor Analysis ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

The objectives of the research are to examine: (1) whether Content-Based Instruction is more effective than Audio-Lingual Method to teach speaking to the third semester students of STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2012/2013; (2) whether the students having high creativity have better speaking skill than those having low creativity; and (3) whether there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity in teaching speaking. The method in this research was experimental study. It was conducted at the third semester students of STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2012/2013. The sample of the research was two classes; C consists of 40 students as an experimental class and E consists of 40 students as a control class. The sampling technique used was cluster random sampling. Each class was divided into two groups (the students having high and low creativity). The techniques of collecting data were creativity test and speaking test that were tried out to know their readability. The data were analyzed by using Multifactor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test of 2 x 2 and Tukey test.The result of data analysis shows that: (1) Content-Based Instruction is more effective than Audio-Lingual Method to teach speaking (2) the students having high creativity have better speaking skill than the students having low creativity and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ creativity in teaching speaking. Based on the finding, it can be concluded that Content-Based Instruction is an effective method to teach speaking.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN SISWA DALAM MENYELESAIKAN SOAL-SOAL BANGUN RUANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Rika Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Student Difficulties ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
Practice Questions ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling ◽  
Spatial Problems

This research is a qualitative descriptive research. The population is all students of class VIII even semester of SMP Negeri 5 Bandar Lampung totaling 187 students. Sampling technique a. The technique used in this study is the cluster random sampling technique. Because the population is more than 100 people, the authors determine the sample in this study is 16% or as many as 30 students. This study aims to: (1) determine the percentage of students' abilities in solving spatial problems, (2) find out the causes of students' difficulties in solving spatial problems, (3) find out how to overcome students' difficulties in solving spatial problems. . Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded: (1) students who are able to solve spatial problems are 62.99% and those who have difficulty are 37.01%, (2) the causes of students experiencing difficulties in solving spatial problems are (1) students do not understand the concept of building space in applying it to a problem, (2) students are not careful in working on every question that exists. As for how to overcome student difficulties, namely: (1) increasing students' ability to understand the concept of building space by giving emphasis when delivering material (2) more evaluation in the form of practice questions at the end of each learning activity, (3) giving homework for finalize the material that has been presented.

scholarly journals Students' Ability in Writing Hortatory Exposition of Eleventh Grade Students at SMAN 14 Pekanbaru

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

This research represents the descriptive research to describe students’ ability of eleventh grade students at SMAN 14 Pekanbaru in writing hortatory exposition text. The total number of eleventh grade students at SMAN 14 Pekanbaru in academic year 2015/2016 was 210 students that consisted of 7 classes. In this research, the researcher used ‘cluster random sampling technique” to choose the sample, and the total sample of this research amount to 30 students. The data was collected through writing test, where the students were asked to write a hortatory exposition text based on the topics that were provided by researcher of this research. The test was done around 90 minutes for every time of the test. The students’ entire test was scored by two persons as scorers of this research. Those two scores gave scores to the students’ test based on the criteria in the instrumentation of this research. The result showed that the student’ ability in writing hortatory exposition text was categorized “average to good”. It can be proven by the average of students’ writing test score that was 61.65 that cannot achieve the passing grade yet.   Key words: Writing Ability, Hortatory Exposition Text  

scholarly journals STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH IN COKROAMINOTO UNIVERSITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermini Hermini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Total Population ◽  
American English ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
British English ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Cluster Random Sampling

This research aims to find out   (1). Variety of English that the students use most  in Cokroaminoto University of Palopo (2). The students’ perceptions toward American and British English. It is a descriptive research. The population of this research is the seventh students of Cokroaminoto Palopo which consists of three parallel classes. The total population is 120 students. Cluster random sampling technique is used to determine the sample. This research took one class as sample. The result of this research shows the students use American English variety in vocabulary even though they think that they mix both varieties of English and they have ever exposed both of varieties, the students prefer American English in teaching learning process as they think that it easy to be pronounced and understood and it is frequently used by them. Other result shows that the students mostly notice the differences between American and British English on pronunciation. But minority of the students still  think that British English is cool, more formal, general variety of English and they like it. 

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