Improving the Students’ Speaking Ability of Report Text through Stop Motion Video Technique in Junior High School

This research was Classroom Action Research. This research aimed at implementing stop motion video technique to improve students speaking ability of report text in junior high school and the students’ perception in implementation of stop motion video technique to improve the students’ speaking ability of report text. The subject of this research was the second grade of junior high school. The focus of this research was the students’ speking ability. The data were in the form of students’ speaking score. The data were obtained through conducting teaching learning process. The result of this research was that there were improvement in students’ speaking ability through Stop Motion Video technique in whole skills. The improvement was up to 40%-90%. They were pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and understanding. The students’ perception showed that all of the students were motivated after conducted this learning technique. This was showed by the questionnaires filled by the students.

Penggunaan Know What Learned (K-W-L) Strategy untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Siswa Membaca Report Text

Penelitian ini bertujuan meningkatkan kemampuan membaca teks ilmiah dengan menggunakan Strategi K-W-L (Know-What-Learned) pada siswa SMA kelas XI IPA. Partisipan penelitian ini berjumlah 36 siswa dipilih menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. lnstrumen penelitian terdiri atas terdiri atas tes dan non-tes. Adapun instrumen tes berupa pilihan ganda yang berjumlah 20 item. Sedangkan instrumen non-tes lembar pengamatan. Prosedur pengumpulan data melalui pemberian tes tertulis dan pengamatan. Prosedur analisis data berdasarkan siklus (di setiap akhir siklus). Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hasil tes tentang kemampuan menulis siswa diperoleh nilai rata-rata siklus I sebesar 74,14 hasil rata-rata siklus II sebesar 83,06 hasil tersebut menunjukkan kenaikan sebesar 8,92 point dari siswa yang tuntas belajar pada siklus I 66,65% dan pada siklus II siswa yang tuntas belajar sebesar 83,32% terjadi kenaikan sebesar 16,67% berarti hasil belajar siswa dapat meningkat, dengan menggunakan strategi pembelajaran K-W-L. Hasil dari kedua siklus ini didukung oleh data hasil pengamatan selama proses penelitian berlangsung. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa strategi K-W-L dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa pada Aspek Membaca Report Text.

Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Siswa pada Materi Report Text Melalui Pembelajaran Berdiferensiasi di Kelas IX.A SMP Negeri 1 Sape Tahun Pelajaran 2020/2021

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sejauh mana peningkatan hasil belajar siswa kelas IX.A pada materi report text. Penelitian dilakukan pada Kelas IX.A di SMP Negeri 1 Sape semester 2 Tahun Pelajaran 2020-2021. Subjek penelitian sebayank 33 siswa. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian tindakan kelas yang terdiri dari dua tindakan siklus yaitu I dan siklus II. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif berupa tes tulis dan metode penelitian kualitatif menggunakan lembar pengamatan dan lembar refleksi diri. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran berdiferensiasi dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar pada materi report text dengan pencapaian ketutasan belajar dari kondisi awal pra siklus diperoleh 36,36% menjadi 66,67% pada siklus I dan pada siklus II mencapai 90,91%.

PENERAPAN MEDIA GAMBAR MATERI TEKS OBSERVASI PELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA SISWA KELAS III MIN 11 BANDA ACEH

Writing ability in the process often did not get attention. Because in the lifetime of many students were able to read the text but were difficulty writing the text. The students find difficulty to begin and develop the idea or idea into a script. Beside that, the students difficulty writing text in the learning of writing especially write the report text result of teacher observation often limited to one english text book and less gives a reference or example of an observation based resport text from another source. The purpose of the study to find out how the application of media pictures observation of language Indonesia lesson for class III MIN 11 Banda Aceh. This study used a research approach qualitative. The research indicates that used media picture successfully improves students ability in learning writing ability in observation the text. That increase in the from of a students individually is 100 % over 70. Abstrak Kemampuan menulis dalam pelaksanaannya sering tidak mendapat perhatian. Hal itu dikarenakan dalam kesehariannya banyak siswa mampu dalam membaca teks tetapi mengalami kesulitan dalam menulis teks. Siswa kesulitan memulai dan mengembangkan ide atau gagasannya tersebut ke dalam sebuah tulisan. Di samping siswa mengalami kesulitan dalam menulis, dalam pembelajaran menulis terutama menulis teks laporan hasil observasi guru sering kali hanya bersumber dari satu buku teks Bahasa Indonesia, dan kurang memberikan referensi atau contoh tentang teks laporan hasil observasi dari sumber lain. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui bagaimana penerapan media gambar materi teks observasi pelajaran Bahasa Indonsesia siswa kelas III Min 11 Banda Aceh. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dengan penerapan media gambar berhasil meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam pembelajaran menulis teks observasi . Peningkatan itu dalam bentuk siswa secara individual 100% mencapai nilai di atas 70. Kata kunci: Penerapan, Media Gambar, Teks Observasi

CORRELATION AMONG GRAMMAR MASTERY AND VOCABULARY SIZE TOWARD TRANSLATION ABILITY ON REPORT TEXT

The crucial problem of translating Indonesia to English language are the students’ lack of knowledge and mother tongue (source language) that two of them are grammar and vocabulary. The researcher focused to measure the correlation among grammar mastery and vocabulary size toward translation ability on report text at seventh semester students in State Islamic Institute of Palangka Raya that use quantitative method with a correlational design. The researcher’s instruments were three test which were grammar mastery, vocabulary size, and translation test that were tested to the 32 students’ translation class in academic year 2017/2018. The numerical data were analyzed by Pearson Product Moment that showed that: (1) the most students got “fail” (43.75%) grammar mastery, (2) the most students got “excellent” (46.875%) vocabulary size, (3) the most students got “enough” (87.5%) translation ability. The significant correlation among three variables were proved by correlation coefficient 0.604 (strong category), Fchange > Ftable = 8.349 > 3.33, and the contribution of grammar mastery and vocabulary size delivered 36.5%. Thus, it sums that students’ grammar mastery and vocabulary size correlate with the quality of students’ translation ability on report text at seventh semester students in academic year 2017/2018. Keywords: Grammar Mastery, Vocabulary, Translation

The Developing of Rhetoric and Grammar by Using Grammarly Chrome at SMAN 3 Lembar Academic Year 2020/2021

The purpose of this study is to know whether using Grammarly Chrome is able to increase students’ rhetoric and grammar competence in constructing the report text writing. The method of study used is class action research (CAR) which consists of two cycles and each of them has four steps such as planning, action, evaluation, and reflection. This study focuses on students’ competence in constructing an English report text. The data collected method is the students’ worksheet result after getting the treatment of the teaching-learning process with Grammarly Chrom's help. The result of study indicated that there was a significant increase in student’s competence in terms of constructing the report text. In the 2nd cycle is found the students’ worksheet result average is 85, and there were about 95% of students has achieved a score ≥ of 75. While in the 1st cycle is found the students’ average is 77, and there was 63% of students have achieved a score ≥ of 75. And students respond in using Grammarly Chrome is found significantly interested which’s about early 18 students actively followed the process of teaching learning in the 1st cycle, while in the 2nd cycle students who interested increased into 22 students, based on the data, the using Grammarly Chrome may increase students’ rhetoric and grammar competence, it could give positive influence in terms of constructing an English writer of the report text.

AN ANALYSIS ON THE STUDENTS' ERROR IN WRITING REPORT TEXT AT EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 6 TIMANG GAJAH

This research aims to determine the students' errors in writing report text at eight grade SMP N 3 Timang Gajah students. The research was conduct using a qualitative approach with a descriptive design. The primary data source is the eighth-grade students and the teacher English at SMP N 3 Timang Gajah. The data collection instrument uses observation sheets, interview sheets, and the documentary (test) study and the researcher's data analysis using Miles and Huberman models, including data reduction, display, and verification. The percentage of grade VIII students' achievement in writing report text in the reference made is low, namely only reaching: general nouns 22.04%, at present tense 22.57%, on linking verbs 29.17% and action verbs are 26.21%. In conclusion, the students still error in writing report text at grade VIII students of SMP N 3 Timang Gajah. Therefore, they should have great motivation and interest in learning report text and get used to practicing it in everyday life.

The Use of the Bits and Pieces Game on Students’ Achievement on Writing Report Text

This experimental research intended to examine the effects of the Bits and Pieces game on students’ achievement in the writing report text. Sixty-eight students in the tenth grade participated in an experimental class taught through the Bits and pieces game. The participants in the control class taught through the Conventional teaching method. After the treatment was done, the students in both grades were tested. As the results, the mean average showed that there was an increase in writing scores. Additionally, the score in the experimental class showed that the Bits and Pieces game was adequate to be taught. Nevertheless, the score in the control class showed that the Conventional teaching method was not effective to be taught because there was no significant difference between the score in the pre-test and post-test. Furthermore, learning through the Bits and Pieces game encourages students’ broader skills of cooperation and negotiation.

Grammatical Cohesive Devices in Reading Text: A Discourse Analysis of English Test for Junior High School

Reading text, besides being used as teaching media, is also used in an assessment measurement. However, in reality, many students have difficulty understanding the reading text due to several factors such as the text is too long, incohesive between words, and even incoherent between paragraphs. To avoid these factors, important to analyze the use of cohesive devices in reading texts. The present study aimed to investigate grammatical cohesive devices in the reading text of the English National Final Examination test for Junior High School in the 2017-2018 academic year in Indonesia. The current research attempted to: (1) find out the kind of grammatical cohesion devices that were applied in sixteen reading texts of the English National Final Examination test, (2) explore the use of reference, substitution, ellipses, and conjunction to describe the cohesiveness that was applied in sixteen of the reading texts, consisting of a short functional, narrative, descriptive, recount and report text. The reading texts were analyzed using Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) theory related to grammatical cohesion devices. The steps of data analysis were through the process of collecting, counting, categorizing, and assessing the grammatical cohesion devices. The findings revealed that 621 grammatical cohesion devices were used in the English National Final Examination reading text. Further, the findings explained that 67.47% of grammatical cohesion device was the reference (419), 5.15% was the substitution (32), 2.58% was the ellipses (16), 24.80% was the conjunction (154). The findings also indicated that the limited use of grammatical cohesion devices in the present study showed a lack of a variety of grammatical cohesion in terms of form and variation devices. Although the reading text of the English Final Examination was somewhat cohesive, some areas still need improvement. Implications for teachers and educators are to give more attention to the coherence of the reading text. A cohesive reading text will provide an understanding of both the form and content of the text. For reading text scriptwriters, they must pay attention to grammatical cohesion devices so it becomes more varied and not monotonous. Besides, students need to be given material related to cohesion because knowledge of cohesion is very useful in the mastery of their language, especially in reading and writing skills.

The Effectiveness of Writing Warm-Ups Strategy to Students' Writing Skill

Writers need to have a warming up before beginning to write. It is the fundamental thing to be done by students as writers for stimulating their critical thinking. It is also useful for them to be easier in developing their ideas at writing activities. The objective of this research investigation was to find out an effectiveness of writing warm-ups strategy on students’ writing skill: report text. Research method used was pre-experimental with only one group pre-test and post-test design. Population was all the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri H. Wukirsari which consisted of 139 students. Sample was taken through cluster random sampling, and number of sample was only 28 students. Written test (report text) was given to students’ sample in collecting the data. In analyzing the data, researcher used individual score, Mastery Minimum Criteria, and matched t-test. Based on the data analysis, the students’ mean score of pre-test was 54.67 and students’ mean score of post-test was 75.10. Result of t-test was 3.88 and t-table was 1.701 since the degree of freedom significant level of it one tailed test. Hence, matched t-test was higher than t-table. For other words, it meant that alternative hypothesis was accepted, and null hypothesis was rejected. In conclusion, it was completely effective to apply writing warm-ups strategy on students’ writing skill of report text.