scholarly journals The Effort to Increase the Students’ Achievement in Poetry Mastery through Semiotic Method

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
I Wy. Dirgeyasa
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Average Score ◽  
State University ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year

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.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH GUESSING WORDS GAME FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 10 PALU

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Arika Nurul Iftitah ◽  
Abdul Gafur Marzuki ◽  
Ana Kuliahana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Learning English

The objectives of this research was to know the process of learning English vocabulary by using guessing words game and to know the students’ problem in learning English vocabulary by using guessing words game for the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 10 Palu in academic year of2019/2020 with the use of guessing words game technique. In this research, the researcher used qualitative research method. The researcher chose class VII D as sample which consisted of 23 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used four kinds of instruments, they were: observation,interview, test and document. Based on the observation, there are some problems in the teaching and learning. To solve those problems, the researcher implemented guessing words game as vocabulary activities. This research was conducted through classroom action research that consisted of two cycles. Each cycles consisted three meetings. The result of the research showed that there were some improvements of the students’ vocabulary. In cycle 1 average score was 62,86 there were some unsuccessful score. Meanwhile, in cycle 2 average score was 72,34 the implementation of guessing words game was successful in developing students vocabulary. Guessing words game gives better result to develop the students’ vocabulary. In other words, guessing words game is effective to use in teaching English vocabulary.

scholarly journals THE IMPROVING STUDENTS’WRITING SKILL THROUGH CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Megawati Megawati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
English Education ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Clustering Technique ◽  
Vocabulary Building ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
The Subject

Students four grade semester English Education Department have difficult in writing. They have  limitation in English vocabulary building, students didn’t understand  systematically in writing. They usual use common words in writing English so that they weak in writing skill. Lecturer choose clustering technique to improve students’writing skill. The advantages this technique can mapp students’mind, an idea or theme with symbols and diagram after that they can improve become written or text. Furthermore all of the content in which they want to write based on the outline. This research aim to know improving students’writing skill  through clustering technique on students STKIP Kusuma Negara, Jakarta. It is qualitative research using classroom action research method. It was conducted two cycle. Each of cycle consist of four steps. There are planning, acting, observing and reflecting. This research was conducted with the subject twenty five students in fourth semester English Education STKIP Kusuma Negara Jakarta. Data were collected  through interview, observation and test. The result of this research is improving students’writing skill through Clustering Technique showed an increasing percentage and average score. Cycle I was  32 % students pass in writing skill or the average score is 73.28, in Cycle II was 88 % students pass in writing skill or the average score is 81.6. The students given positive responses, they were enthusiastic and motivated when they written in English by Clustering Technique. Based on the result, it  can be concluded Clustering Technique could improve the students’writing skill on STKIP Kusuma Negara.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PUBLIC SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH THE USE OF VIDEOTAPED FEEDBACK

Ta dib ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Zulhermindra Zulhermindra ◽  
Hadiarni Hadiarni
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
English Education ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Final Test ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aimed to improve students’ public speaking skills at the English Education Department (JTBI) of IAIN Batusangkar through the use of videotaped feedback. The research was a Classroom Action Research (CAR) whose participants were the fourth semester students. The data were collected through observation, test, and interviews and were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings shows that the use of videotaped feedback improved the students’ public speaking skills in which the average score  increased from 6.95714 (Mid Term Test) to 7.026 (Final Test). This implies that there was an increase in the ability of students from the level of need improvement to the satisfactory. Even in the aspects of Introduction, Body, Conclusion and Time, which were the focuses of this class action research, there were increases from 7.38, 7.1, 6,8, and 6.6 (UTS) to 8, 7.5, 7,3 and 7.2 (UAS) respectively. It also means that there were increases in students’ public speaking skills in all four aspects, which were from satisfactory (Introduction, Body), and need improvement (Conclusion, Time) to good (Introduction), and satisfactory (Body, Conclusion and Time). It is expected that the results of this study can be applied to other aspects of public speaking skills and other similar subjects.

scholarly journals OPTIMALISASI PEMBELAJARAN SEJARAH DENGAN PENERAPAN METODE ACTIVE DEBATE

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dyah Kumalasari
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Stage Iv ◽  
State University ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Active Debate ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract  This research is intended to solve the problem of optimizing the application of active debate method to improve of learning quality of History Reflection subject at the History Education Department of Social Science and Economics Faculty of the State University of Yogyakarta. The research is designed as a classroom action research, applied to the sixth semester students, from January to July of the 2006 academic year. The research is conducted in two cycles of actions through four stages: the stage I and II encompassing the First Diagnostic and Therapy stage, and the stage III and stage IV constituting the Repeated Diagnostic and Therapy Stage. The data of study were collected by means of observations and interviews as well as evaluation of the quality of discussing skills with the grading scores of 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the data obtained were then analyzed using a t-test. Findings of the classroom action research through optimizing the application of the active debate method to the learning process of History Reflection subject show the significant improvement in learning process and achievement. Qualitatively, the quality of learning process increase significantly and quantitatively the learning achievement improved the averaged achievement of 2,3. Therefore, the research has been able to increase the averaged achieved score of 79,6, with a t-coefficient of 2,89344047 at the level of significance of 1% (very significant). Keywords: Active Debate Method, Historical Learning, Learning Quality

scholarly journals IMPROVING LISTENING SKILL OF STUDENTS USING METACOGNITIVE INSTRUCTION

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Ida Nurhidayah ◽  
Nadiah Ma’mun
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Metacognitive Instruction ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Listening Ability ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Test Result

This study is aimed to describe the implementation of metacognitive instruction and to improve students’ listening ability on TOEFL listening comprehension section by using metacognitive instruction at the second semester students of English Education Department of Walisongo State Islamic University Semarang in the academic year of 2015/2016 and to know the enhancement of students’ listening ability on TOEFL listening comprehension section after being taught using metacognitive instruction. The design of this study is classroom action research that was conducted in two cycles with four activities in each cycle, they are planning, acting, observing, reflecting. Pre-cycle was also done before this study was conducted. The result of this study showed that using metacognitive instruction could improve students’ listening ability on TOEFL listening comprehension section. This was proved by the enhancement of students’ test result that improved in every cycle. The result of the study also showed that metacognitive instruction could improve the students’ listening ability on TOEFL listening comprehension section.

Getting EFL Learners to Speak: Obstacles and Solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Eulis Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
English Competence ◽  
Academic Year

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.

METODE DEMONSTRASI DAN LATIHAN GUNA MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR SKETSA PADA SISWA KELAS X DKV DI SMK NEGERI 9 MEDAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 435
Author(s):  
Lystia Nurhaliza Hasibuan ◽  
R. Triyanto ◽  
Raden Burhan ◽  
Mangatas Mangatas
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Training Method ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
And Training

AbstrakPenelitian ini dilaksanakan di SMK Negeri 9 Medan, Jenis penelitian yaitu Penelitian Tindakan Kelas. Subjek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas X DKV 1 yang berjumlah 36 orang siswa terdiri dari 20 laki-laki dan 16 perempuan, Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar sketsa, melalui motode demonstrasi dan latihan. Berdasarkan hasil observasi awal yang di temukan oleh peneliti, masih rendahnya hasil belajar sketsa siswa. Peneliti melakukan pre test untuk mengetahui kondisi awal sebelum dilaksanakannya tindakan persiklus. Hasil pre test menunjukkan masih rendahnya ketuntasan belajar siswa, dari 36 orang siswa hanya 7 orang siswa (19,4%) yang tuntas dalam pembelajaran sketsa. Penelitian ini menggunakan motode pembelajaran demonstrasi dan latihan. Pada siklus I diperoleh 24 orang siswa (66,7%) yang tuntas dan 12 orang siswa (33,3%) yang tidak tuntas. Dengan begitu, peneliti melanjutkan ke siklus II dengan perolehan 35 orang siswa (97,2%) yang tuntas dan 1 orang siswa (2,8%) tidak tuntas dalam pembelajaran sketsa. Terdapat peningkatan dari siklus I ke siklus II sebesar 30,5%, maka peneliti tidak melanjutkan ke siklus berikutnya. Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan motode pembelajaran demonstrasi dan latihan dapat meningkatkan kemampuan belajar sketsa pada siswa kelas X DKV 1 di SMK Negeri 9 Medan Tahun Pembelajaran 2019/2020.Kata Kunci: hasil belajar, sketsa, demonstrasi, latihan.AbstractThis research was conducted at SMK Negeri 9 Medan. The research employs a classroom action research method. The research subject was the ten grade students of DKV 1 with a total of 36 students consist of 20 men and 16 women. This research aims to improve skectch learning outcomes through demonstration and training method. Based on the results of preliminary observations found by researcher, the researcher found the low student sketch learning outcomes. The researcher used a pre-test to determine the initial conditions before the pre-cycle action was carried out. The result of pre-test showed that students' learning completeness was still low. From 36 students only 7 students (19,4%) who complete in sketching learning. This research was taught by using demonstration and training learning method. In cycle I, there were 24 students (66,7%) was complete and 12 students (33,3%) was incomplete. Therefore, the researcher proceed to cycle II with the acquisition of 35 students (97,2%) was complete and 1 students (2,8%) was incomplete in sketch learning. There was increase from cycle I to cycle II of 30,5%, the researcher does not proceed to the next cycle. Thus, it can be concluded that the use of demonstration and training method can improve the ability in sketch learning of the ten grade students DKV I at SMK Negeri 9 Medan in the academic year 2019/2020. Keywords: learning outcomes, sketch, demonstration, training.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF TIPE TALKING CHIPS PADA MATERI KEANEKARAGAMAN HAYATI DI MAN 1 MEDAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashar Hasairin ◽  
Dewi Apriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This study aims to determine the improvement of student learning result and activities by using the cooperative learning model of Talking Chips type on the subject matter of Biodiversity in class X MIA1 MAN 1 Medan T.P. 2018/2019. The research method is classroom action research and the subject of this research are students of class X MIA1 as many as 35 people. The instrument that used in the study are test of student learning result namely pretest and postest as many as 30 questions and observation sheets of student activities. The results showed that based on the learning result of the first cycle, the average score of pretest was 40.6 increased to 68.6 in the postest. At the second cycle, there was an increase from 62.8 in the pretest to 74.5 in the postest. In this study, the data of individual and classical learning completeness criteria are obtained as follows: as many as 30 out of 35 students or 85.72% who scored above 70 or equal to 70, and 5 other students or 14.28% got a score below 70. Based on observations of student activities, the percentage of students who were active in the first cycle was 48.2% with total of students 17 out of 35 students, and students who were active in the second cycle was 80% with total of students 28 from 35 students

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS TEKS DESKRIPSI DENGAN MEDIA GAMBAR BERSAMBUNG

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Budiyono Budiyono
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Descriptive Writing

The objective of this research was to know the improvement of students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using picture series media. The subject of the research was students on class H at VII (seven) Junior High School 19 Bengkulu City, there were 23 students. The form of this research was a classroom action research. The data of this research were gathered from the descriptive writing test and analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The result showed that there are an improvement of students’ ability in writing descriptive text by using picture series media on class H at VII (seven) Junior High School 19 Bengkulu City. It can be seen from the writing result on cycle I that students’ average score 70 (enough) and increased with 76,04 (good) after repaired on cycle II, then increased again after repaired on cycle III with 86,17 (very good).

PENERAPAN METODE DISKUSI SYNDICATE GROUP UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEAKTIFAN BELAJAR SISWA KELAS V SDN BERU 02 WLINGI

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Saiful Amin ◽  
Siti Khotimah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Allocation Of Time ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Local Levels

This study aims to apply the syndicate group discussion method to increase students' learning activeness of fifth class in SDN (public elemantary school) Beru 02 Wlingi on legislation central and local levels matter. This type of research is a classroom action research. Collecting data using observation sheet and field notes. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. The results of study showed that the syndicate group discussion method can increase students' learning activeness, with increase the average score from the first cycle to the second cycle is 23.67. The suggestion that need to regulate the allocation of time on discussion and better manage classes with the implementation of learning.<br /><strong>Keywords:</strong> syndicate group discussion method; students' learning activeness<span class="fontstyle0">This study aims to apply the syndicate group discussion method to increase students'<br />learning activeness of fifth class in SDN (public elemantary school) Beru 02 Wlingi on<br />legislation central and local levels matter. This type of research is a classroom action<br />research. Collecting data using observation sheet and field notes. Data were analyzed<br />using descriptive analysis. The results of study showed that the syndicate group<br />discussion method can increase students' learning activeness, with increase the average<br />score from the first cycle to the second cycle is 23.67. The suggestion that need to<br />regulate the allocation of time on discussion and better manage classes with the<br />implementation of learning.<br /></span><span class="fontstyle2">Keywords: </span><span class="fontstyle0">syndicate group discussion method, students' learning activeness</span>

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