scholarly journals THE USE OF GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD TO TEACH READING TO THE TENTH CLASS STUDENTS AT SMK YPM 12 TUBAN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Ali Fauzi

English is the first foreign language in Indonesia which is considered important in transferring and developing science and technology, arts and building the relationship among countries. Based on the 1994 basic course outline, the purpose of English teaching at Technical Senior High Schools is to develop the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The teaching of those four language skills can be done in integrative way in which the emphasis is on developing the students’ reading skill. The less attention to a certain language skill may cause the students’ unbalanced mastery of English. However, teaching reading using certain method like grammar-translation method is also important because by it students will be able to understand the English text, grammar and structure and translation well through which they will be a means of improving other skills such as speaking. From the reasons, the researcher wants to study about The Use of Grammar-Translation Method to Teach reading to the Tenth Class Students at SMK YPM 12 Tuban Academic Year 2020/2021. This title is chosen because he is sure that reading is also important besides speaking, writing and listening.   This study is in form of descriptive analysis which means that he describes what he finds in the real life and he reveals them to prove the rightness of his assumption. He tries to find the data and process them and just describes his finding. He analyzes and describes about the use of grammar-translation method in teaching reading and the problems the teacher and students face in the process of teaching and learning. Besides them, it is also prominent to tell the process or activities in the teaching of reading using grammar-translation method. It is hoped that some alternatives to solve these problems can be found. Therefore it is expected that this study will be useful for English teacher as the alternative method to teach reading, for the readers to add their knowledge about different ways in teaching reading and for the students in general to be the reference to add their knowledge and to do further research.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Akidatul Yusmalinda ◽  
Puji Astuti

This study focuses on English teachers’ methods in teaching reading comprehension of procedure text. The main purpose of this study is to describe the methods used by English teachers and reveal the strengths and weaknesses of those methods used for teaching reading comprehension of procedure texts. The research was a qualitative case study. The participants of this research were two English teachers at one of junior high schools in Semarang  in the academic year of 2019/2020. In collecting data, several data collection instruments were used, including: interview, observation guideline and document analysis checklist. The findings showed that English teachers planned the teaching materials and strategies in advance. They also used various methods in teaching reading of procedure text. Both teachers almost used the same methods which were audio-visual method, scaffolding, grammar-translation method, and project-based learning. The difference was in the step of the strategy implementation. In addition, the findings showed that the most appropriate method in teaching reading comprehension was grammar-translation method since it helped students comprehend the procedure text. There were several students who still had a hard time following the lessons. Teachers are supposed to make sure that all students have understood the whole text or not and they should observe the students’ situation and needs so that the teaching and learning is contextual.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Kitri Katon Peni

  The research examines: (1) the effectiveness of Contextual teaching and learning (CTL) compared to grammar translation method in teaching reading, (2) effect of intelligence quotient to reading comprehension, and (3) interaction between teaching methods and the  intelligence in teaching reading. The research was carried out at SMPN 14 Surakarta, using the  experimental design assigning 72 students as sample.  Data were collected using the documentary and test technique. To analyze the data, Multifactor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test of 2x2 and Tukey test were used. The results show that: (1) CTL was more effective than grammar translation method in teaching reading, (2) the students having high intelligence quotient had better reading comprehension than those having low intelligence, and (3) interactions occur between teaching methods and intelligence in teaching reading. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Eulis Rahmawati

This research investigates how process of speaking instruction takes place at IAIN SMH Banten. There are three main issues in the research problems: the process of teaching speaking, obstacles found in the teaching and learning process, and what efforts do they make to solve the obstacles in speaking. The process of teaching speaking discusses materials, preparation, procedures or steps in teaching speaking while obstacles and solutions discuss the speaking barriers that the students faced in speaking class and how they minimize the barriers. By applying descriptive qualitative research design to students of fourth semester in academic year 2014/2015, the result shows that the focus of speaking instruction at the fourth semester of English education department of IAIN SMH Banten seemed to let the students speak, without any language skills discussion as the feedback. At the same time, during the process of speaking instruction there are some problems faced by students. The first is  problem of limited English Competence dealt with students poor of vocabulary and the second is problems of psychological factors.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
I Wy. Dirgeyasa

The obejectives of this research are to know the improvement  of the students’ achievement in poetry mastery and their perception regarding to the semiotic method in teaching and learning poetry in  English Education Department, Languages and Art Faculty of State University of Medan. The research method used is the Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subjects of the research are the fifth semester of 37 students of 2013/2014 academic year. The data are collected by test in order to know the students’ achievment in poetry mastery. The students’ perception toward the implementation of the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry is collected by questionaire. The data are analyzed by descriptive analysis. The result of research shows that (1) the average score of the students’ achievement of poetry mastery is (71.75) or it increases (11,59) point from pre-test (60.16) and (2) in general, the students’ perception toward the semiotic method for teaching and learning poetry are good and positive.


At- Tarbawi ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahidah

The purpose of writing this article is to explain how education that understands the uniqueness of each student in individual learning or individual instruction. This writing method uses a descriptive analysis approach from a number of literatures from journals, books and other documents. There are four aspects of individual differences that must be considered by teachers and principals in a teaching and learning process that includes physical-motor differences, intelligence differences, differences in language skills, and psychological differences. Understanding individual differences here is by carrying out individualized instruction (individual learning). Also provides opportunities for children to learn independently (Independent Study) by developing individual learning (individual instruction) in accordance with the level of their needs.


Author(s):  
Çiğdem Kan

Effective social studies instruction should intend to train young individuals who are interested, are capable of participating in the learning process, are capable of utilizing technology, have a good memory, look forward to the future with confidence, and transfer the knowledge they acquire at school to daily life. The aim of the present research is to determine the problems experienced in the instruction of social studies course based on teacher views and the means for an efficient social studies instruction. Thus, the case study method, a qualitative research design, was employed in the present study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 teachers, employed in five middle schools in Elazığ province urban center, during the 2016-2017 academic year, and the data were analyzed with descriptive analysis. Thus, it was determined that the inadequacy of course hours and the redundancy and complexity of the topics were the main problems experienced in social studies courses and these were identified as the factors that led to the lack of student interest. According to the views of the teachers, efficient social studies instruction requires a focus on current issues, requires employment of available technologies, and should allow the individuals to transfer content knowledge to life. It is concluded that an efficient social studies instruction would be possible through the transfer of knowledge to real-life situations, the employment of technological tools, active student participation, the simplification and the elimination the discontinuities between textbook content.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Ahpudin Ahpudin

This research was conducted in class IX G MTs Negeri 1 Kota Serang with 28 students, nine male students, and 19 female students in the 1st semester of the 2015-2016 academic year. The stages are planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting in each cycle, and this research was completed in two cycles. The research data obtained through observations by researchers is data on the results of learning the skills of passing big ball games obtained through performance from the psychomotor domain. Data analysis in this study used descriptive analysis using percentage techniques to see trends that occur in learning activities. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the Contextual Teaching and Learning learning model in improving basketball passing skills in the IX class of Penjas Orkes subjects at MTs Negeri 1 Kota Serang semester 1 of the 2015-2016 academic year. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the Contextual Teaching and Learning learning model can improve basketball passing skills in the IX class of Penjas Orkes subjects at MTs Negeri 1 Kota Serang in the 2015-2016 academic year, where learning outcomes in the initial conditions are 67.86% or 19 students, at the end of the first cycle it became 78.57% or 22 students. Atat the end of the second cycle, it became 92.86% or 26 students.


2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Raissi

Nowadays most of the scholars in the field of foreign/ second language teaching emphasized on learner centered approaches of language teaching and replacing them by old ones. In this research, researcher examined two different teaching approaches which are very common in Iran where English considered as a foreign language, namely Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Grammar Translation Method (GTM). Two groups of thirty participants have been participated in this study namely control and treatment groups. Students of the treatment group have received the CLT instruction in which they had high amount of interaction in the considered classes during 14 weeks of the classes while students in the control group didn’t receive any interaction in the target language by implementing GTM approach. Pretest and delayed posttest have been used in this study for measuring student’s proficiency during the course instruction. Results of the experiment have been analyzed descriptively which shows that by implementing CLT among nonnative students, their general knowledge of English can be improved significantly. At the end of the research some useful pedagogical implications have been proposed by the researcher.   Keywords - Language teaching and learning, interaction hypothesis, Communicative Language Teaching, Grammar Translation Method, English as a Foreign Language.


Author(s):  
Devi Siti Sihatul Afiah

This research aims at revealing: (1) To find out whether Grammar TranslationMethod can improve the reading ability; (2) To find out the strengths and weaknesses of Grammar Translation Method.The Class Action Research was carried out in MA Salafiyah Cirebon in academic year of 2011/2012 from April to June 2012. The population was the first semester of MA Salafiyah in academic year of 2011/2012. The number of population was 22 students.The results of this research were: (1) The Grammar translation Method can Improves the students' reading ability, it can be seen in the table 1; (2) The strengths of Grammar Translation Method was the students challenged to read the difficult texts. And the weakness of Grammar Translation Method was felt bored to memorize the vocabularies and irregular verb.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Fatkhan Amirul Huda ◽  
Munawar Thoharudin

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to find objective information about the ability of teachers in the teaching and learning process of Integrated Social Sciences subjects in the social interaction class VII in SMP Negeri 4 Dedai 2018/2019 Academic Year. The research method is descriptive method, the form of research is descriptive analysis. The population in this study where students of grade VIII of 24 students. Data collection techniques using direct observation techniques, direct communication, indirect communication, and study documentation. Based on the results of teacher and student interviews conducted shows that the learning process carried out has been effective and efficient. Efforts to overcome the obstacles in the process of teaching and learning include teachers understanding student characteristics, understanding the components of the method of evaluation and understanding the environmental conditions in learning. Based on the results of research in general about the ability of teachers in the teaching and learning process of Integrated Social Sciences subjects on the subjects of social interaction are categorized as good.Keywords: Teacher’s Ability, Teaching and Learning Process.Abstrak: Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui informasi yang objektif mengenai kemampuan guru dalam proses belajar mengajar mata pelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial Terpadu pada matari interaksi sosial kelas VII di SMP Negeri 4 Dedai Tahun Pelajaran 2018/2019. Metode penelitian yaitu metode deskriptif, bentuk penelitian adalah deskriptif analisis. Populasi penelitian adalah siswa kelas VII sebanyak 24 siswa. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik observasi langsung, komunikasi langsung, komunikasi tidak langsung, dan studi dokumentasi. Berdasarkan hasil wawancara guru dan siswa yang dilakukan menunjukan bahwa proses pembelajaran yang dilakukan telah efektif dan efisien. Upaya mengatasi faktor hambatan dalam proses belajar mengajar antara lain guru memahami karakteristik siswa, memahami komponen metode dengan evaluasi dan memahami kondisi lingkungan dalam belajar. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian secara umum tentang kemampuan guru dalam proses belajar mengajar mata pelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial Terpadu pada matari interaksi sosial dikategorikan baik.Kata Kunci: Kemampuan Guru , Proses Belajar Mengajar


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