THE EFFECT OF AUDIOVISUAL METHOD ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 2 KENDARI

This study aims to find out whether there is a significant effect of applying audio-visual method on students’ Speaking achievement of second grade students at SMPN 2 Kendari or not. Population of this research is the entire second grade class in academic year 2017/2018 of SMPN 2 Kendari. The total numbers of the population are 280 students where class VIII B as experimental class and VIII A as control class were chosen as the sample of this study used purposive sampling technique. This study applied quasi-experimental design which concerned on two groups; they are control group and experimental group. These two groups received a different treatment. The implementation of audio-visual method was applied on experimental class. The data which analyzed in this study was quantitative data; it gained from the pretest and posttest result of the two classes which analyzed using descriptive statistic and inferential analysis (Independent sample t-test). The result shows that the gain of the mean score of experimental class 1.76 is higher than the gain score of control class 0.57. It shows that teaching speaking by Audiovisual method in the experimental class has a better effect in enhancing students’ speaking achievement. Then the result of hypothesis testing showed that the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.044 which smaller than (<0.05). Hence, it can be concluded that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted which means that there is significant effect of Audiovisual method on students’ speaking achievement at eight grade of SMP N 2 Kendari. Keywords: Speaking, Audiovisual, Learning method

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND STUDENTS’ TRANSLATION ABILITY AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF HALU OLEO UNIVERSITY

Emotional intelligence and translation ability level vary among individual students. The present study seeks to examine (1) the relationship between students’ emotional intelligence and their translation ability. It also aims at (2) determining which dimension of emotional intelligence can best predict students’ translation ability. The study employed a descriptive quantitative design. Participants of this study were the sixth semester students in Translation Class at English Education Department of Halu Oleo University. The population was 101 students and 80 students were taken as the sample using purposive sampling technique. The data were obtained from emotional intelligence questionnaire and students’ translation scores. The analysis used Pearson correlation and Regression analysis by using SPSS 20. The results reveal that (1) there is no significant relationship between emotional intelligence and students’ translation ability, and (2) one of the dimensions of emotional intelligence have statically relationship with students’ translation score that is self-regulation dimension. Keywords: Relationship; Emotional Intelligence; Translation Ability

THE EFFECT OF USING SCIENTIFIC APPROACH ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT GRADE EIGHT OF SMP MUHAMMADIYAH KENDARI

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of using Scientifics Approach on Students’ vocabulary achievement at grade eight of SMP Muhammadiyah Kendari. The research question of this study was “Is there any significant effect in using of Scientific Approach to increase the students’ vocabulary achievement at grade eight of SMP Muhammadiyah Kendari?” The objective of the study was to find out data and information whether there is a significant effect in using of Scientific Approach to increase the students’ vocabulary achievement at grade eight of SMP Muhammadiyah Kendari. The design of study was a pre-experimental design. The sample of this study was taken by using random sampling which consisted of 30 students. The instrument of this study was vocabulary test which consisted 40 items. The result of the study showed that there was a significant effect in teaching vocabulary through the use of Scientific Approach at grade eight of SMP Muhammadiyah Kendari. The average of students’ vocabulary achievement before using Scientific Approach was 4.99 which is in low category. Meanwhile, the students’ vocabulary achievement after using Scientific Approach was 7.59 which is in high category. The result of hypothesis testing proves that t-test = 25.36 was higher than t-table = 2.04. This finding shows that in teaching vocabulary by using Scientific Approach improve students’ vocabulary achievement at grade eight of SMP Muhammadiyah Kendari.

THE EFFECT OF PWIM (PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL) ON STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

This research aimed at investigating whether there is a significant effect of Picture Word Inductive Model on students’ competence in writing narrative text. The design of this research was Pre-Experimental design one group pre test and post test. The population of this research was all first grade of class IPA of Senior High School 4 Wangi-Wangi. The sample of this research was class IPA 1 which consists of 20 students. The instrument of this research was writing test in narrative genre and the criteria of students’ writing were assessed from five aspects of writing, namely content, organization, language use, vocabulary and mechanics. The data were obtained by using two essay writing tests. They were pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was given before treatment and the post-test was given after treatments in order to know the students’ competence before and after treatment of Picture Word Inductive Model. The data were analyzed by using SPSS in form of Paired Sample T-test. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant effect of Picture Word Inductive Model on students’ competence in writing narrative text. It proved by the result of hypothesis testing using paired sample t-test. The mean score of pre-test was 59.77 and mean score of post-test was 76.67. Moreover, as a result the probability score of .000 (p score) was less than the level of significance (p ≤ 0.50. Therefore, it can be said that using Picture Word Inductive Model gives significant effect to increase students’ competence in writing narrative text at class IPA 1 of Senior High School 4 Wangi-Wangi.

CHALLENGES FACED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN REMOTE AREA BASED ON SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT POINT OF VIEW (A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS OF SOUTHEAST WAWONII SUBDISTRICT)

The objective of this research is to find out challenges faced by English teachers in the remote area based on school-based management point of view. The method used in this research was qualitative method with phenomenological approach. It was conducted at SMP Negeri1 Wawonii Tenggara, SMP Negeri 2 Wawonii Tenggara, and SMP Negeri 2 Wawonii Tenggara. The total subjects of this research consisted of 3 English teachers who were not native resident of the study location. The data were collected by in-depth interview, observation, and documentation study. The data were analyzed by using modification of Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method in Creswell (1998). The data analysis indicated that challenges faced by English teachers based on two aspects of School-based management were as follows: (1) challenges faced by English teachers in remote area based on teachers’ role as a teacher/an educator, (2) challenges faced by English teachers in remote area based on teachers’ role in organizing school-based management. The result showed that there were some challenges that the teachers faced namely: inadequate school facilities, lack of parents’ motivation to their children, lack of students' competence, and overburdened with more duties and responsibilities. To overcome the teachers’ challenges were not only the teachers’ responsibility but also the components of school itself, including headmaster, administrator staff, society and students’ parents to realize their role in School-Based Management and work together with good coordination to get the purpose of implementing School-Based Management.

THE PREDICTION OF TOLAKI LANGUAGE EXTINCTION AT PUNGGALUKU VILLAGE, LAEYA SUB DISTRICT, SOUTH KONAWE REGENCY

This research discussed the language extinction in Tolaki language for Tolakinese who lived in Punggaluku village. Language contact that has occurred at multilingual society in Punggaluku became an interesting phenomenon to be learnt because it had close relationship with the use of ethnic language of the residents in this village. This study focused on the endangered level of Tolaki language extinction and predicted the Tolaki language extinction at Punggaluku Village, Laeya Sub district. The main data of the research were taken in Punggaluku Village, Laeya Sub district, South Konawe Regency. Observation and interview were used by the researcher in collecting the data from informants in this area. The result of this research showed that Tolaki language was potentially threatened as a severely endangered language. It was indicated from the parents were not transmitted Tolaki language to their children and the low frequency in using Tolaki language among old generation. It caused the young generation could not speak Tolaki language and final effect of this phenomenon was language extinction. Futhermore, the researcher predicted 30 years ahead, Tolaki language will be extincted in Punggaluku village, Laeya Sub District, South Konawe Regency.

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE TEACHER’S NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT SMAN 14 BOMBANA

Many teachers understand that the use of nonverbal communication in teaching process is a good way to support the students’ understanding. By this effort, students may reach good comprehension through their belief for every act of teaching and learning process. This belief can be scripted to picture their perception. The students’ perception is all the students’ mental images and feeling which happen during their activities in the school. This means that any activities where the students gain information, the perception exist there. In this thesis, the students’ perception determines the function of the teacher’s nonverbal communication. The aim of this research was to investigate the students’ perception on the teacher’s nonverbal communication in teaching English at SMAN 14 Bombana. The research used a qualitative design with the subject of the study was class X and XI IPA. The total numbers of these two classes were 47. The researcher used classroom observation sheet and semi-structure interview as the instrument of the research, the interview which was the questions were formulated but, in the field, the interviewer might modify the format or questions during the interview process. This process took place to both of the students and the teacher. After collecting data, the data was analyzed descriptively. The result showed that the students agreed that the use of nonverbal communication in the teaching and learning process works. All of the expected meaning behind the nonverbal communication could be understood by the students well. The entire teacher’s nonverbal communication where the researcher focused namely gestures, eye contact, and tone of voice functioned well. Most of the students agreed that the teacher’s nonverbal communication made them motivated to learn, focused their attention, and made them eagerly to speak, and sometimes, it made the students proud

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 4 KENDARI

The objective of this study was to determine the correlation between the students‟ motivation and their speaking competence at grade 11 of Senior High School 4 Kendari. The design of this study was quantitative research and the population was all grade 11 students at Senior High School 4 Kendari with the total numbers of students was 620 students. The sample of this study was class XI MIA 7 (36 students). The instrument of this study were questionnaire and students‟ speaking score. The researcher collected the data by using questionnaire adapted from Sun (2009) as the data of students‟ motivation and final speaking score to get data about students‟ speaking achievement. To analyze the data, the researcher used descriptive statistic to view the students‟ speaking achievement and their motivation based on five categories are; very low, low, medium, high, and very high. The result of this study showed that students‟ speaking achievement was mostly categorized in good criteria. It also showed that the students were highly motivated to learn speaking English by using video blog. The result of inferential statistics analysis showed that there was a significant correlation between students‟ motivation and their speaking achievement at grade 11 of Senior High School 4 Kendari. It was proved by the result of product moment correlation (rxy = 0.487), which was higher than r-table = 0.329.It means that motivation and achievement had a positive correlation.

THE ANALYSIS OF SYNONYMS ON WANCI DIALECT IN KEPULAUAN TUKANG BESI LANGUAGE (A Case Study at Liya Togo Village)

This study aimed at investigating the synonym on Wanci Dialect (WD) in Kepulauan Tukang Besi Language (KTBL) at Liya Togo village. The research questions of this study were “What are the forms of synonym and how are the synonyms of KTBL used? ‟. Relating to the research question above, the researcher formulates two main objectives namely: to describe clearly the synonym found in WD and the use of every synonym in WD. The researcher used a qualitative approach with a case study design. The data found out from the informants. The utility of this research is as additional information about synonym found in WD to increase and maintain the local language. This research only focuses on noun, verb and adjective categories. The Result of this research shows that in Kepulauan Tukang Besi where Wanci dialect spoken especially at Liya Togo Village, there were nine nouns that are synonymous. Then, there were three adjectives that are synonymous. In addition, there were fifteen verbs that are synonymous.

THE EFFECT OF USING MNEMONIC STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 2 RAHA

Most of the students felt difficult in learning a language because they had little vocabulary. It was caused by the students were easy forgetting new words they had learned. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate whether there was any significant effect of using Mnemonic strategies on students’ vocabulary achievements at the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Raha. This research used quasi experimental design and the population was all seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Raha in academic year 2017/2018. The samples of this study were class VII11 as the experimental group and VII10 as the control group. The research instrument was using 40 questions of vocabulary test. To collect the data, the researcher gave pre-test, taught by Mnemonic strategies, and gave post-test. There were four techniques that applied in the learning process were rhyme, keyword, visualization, and narrative chain. The result showed students’ mean score in experimental group was 53.54 and 74.71 at post-test, while mean score in control group was 57.27 and 68.75 in post-test. Based on the calculation of T-test, score of tcount = 5.828 was higher than ttable = 2.00 and the pvalue = 0.000 was lower than = 0.05. Therefore, could be concluded that there was a significant effect of using mnemonic strategies on students’ vocabulary achievement at the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Raha.