MAIN IDEA MEMORY STORAGE AS THE WAY TO TEACH READING COMPREHENSION FOR INDONESIAN EFL LEARNER

English is international language that used to communicate between people in the world with different language background. In Indonesia, English as foreign language that taught in the school, so all of Indonesian students learn English as the main subject lesson in the school. In learning process there are lot of difficulties that faced by students, one of them is reading, reading is process gaining the meaning in the text that conveyed by author, students must understand the meaning of the text both of lexical and phrase, so main idea memory storage as the best technique in teaching English h for the students

TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CONCEPT ORIENTED READING INSTRUCTION (CORI) STRATEGYTO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 13 LUBUKLINGGAU

The problem of this research was to find out whether or not it is significantly effective to improve reading comprehension through Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) Strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Lubuklinggau in the academic year 2016/2017. The strategy applied was pre experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design.. The sample was taken through cluster random sampling. The result was VIII.2 class with the total number of 28 students. The data were collected through test consisted of 25 items of multiple choices. The data were analyzed through four techniques: 1) Students’ Individual Score, 2) Minimum Mastery Criteria, 3) Normality and 4) Paired t-test calculation. The result of this study: (1) The mean students’ score in the pre-test was 64.00, (2) The mean score of post-test was 76.00 and (3) the result of paired t-test was 11.43, which was higher than 1.703 value of the t-table of 27 (28-1) with 95% significant level for one tailed-test. In this research the researcher formulated two hypotheses. They were null hypothesis (Ho) and alternative hypothesis (Ha). Based on the result of the paired t-test calculation showed that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It meant that it was significantly effective to Teach Reading Comprehension through Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) Strategy to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 13 Lubuklinggau in the academic year of 2016/2017

IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY’ USING GAMES INVOLVING PICTURES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The objectives of the study are to describe and find out the effectiveness the teaching of English vocabulary using games involving pictures in class activities at the third grade students of Elementary School. This study is action research. The subject of study is the third grade students of Elementary School of Piri Nitikan Yogyakarta. There were 17 students in the class. The data were collected from the observation, interview and test. The data were analyzed from field notes, interview transcript, the observation sheets and test result. It is concluded that using games involving picture in the class can make some progress to the students. The students can increase their vocabulary mastery and their ability both in writing words and in speaking. The students can pronounce the English words correctly. Besides, using games involving picture make the students active and enjoy English class.

SCAFFOLDED READING EXPERIENCE (SRE) IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

The scaffolded reading experience framework consists of a set of prereading, during-reading, and post-reading activities to use with any genre of text, including fiction and nonfiction. The aim of this study was the effectiveness of scaffolded reading experience in teaching reading comprehension to the students of Musi Rawas University? The method used in this research was quasi-experimental method. The population of this study was all of the students of Musi Rawas University. The sample of this study was students of accounting study progrom in first semester taken through convenience non random sampling. The data were collected through a written test. It was pre-test and post test. The data analyzed through t-test formula. From this study it was found that the students’ pre-test average score in the experimental group was 55 and in the control group was 53.91. Meanwhile the students’ post-test average score in the experimental group was 80 and the students’ average score in the control group was 75. In addition of t-obtained were 2.049 where the value of t-table was 1.684 at df 74 in significance level of 0.05 and with one-tailed testing. Since the value of t-obtained was higher than the critical value of the t-table (2.049>1.684), it can be concluded that, teaching reading comprehension by using scaffolded reading experience (SRE) to the students of Musi Rawas University was effective.

AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF ANY MINUTE

This research is an annotated translation. The object of the research is an English novel entitled Any Minute. The problems of the research are: 1) What are the difficulties the translator/researcher encountered during the process of translating the novel Any Minute? and 2) What are the solutions for those problems/difficulties? The objectives of this research are: a) to attain factual information concerning the problems/difficulties faced by the researcher and b) to solve the problems/difficulties in the course of translating the source text. In this annotated translation research, the translator/researcher uses the introspective and retrospective methods. The result and analysis reveal that there are 2 words, 8 phrases, 2 clauses, 8 sentences, and 5 idioms from the 25 data of the aspects of languages analyzed that were difficult for the translator/researcher. Those difficulties were at the same time became the problems of the translator/researcher. The solutions of the problems were attained by the annotation or analysis done relevant to the translation strategies and translation theories.

CODE-SWITCHING IN THE ENGLISH TEACHING TO NON-ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS

Code-switching is a phenomenon studied in sociolinguistics. It exists in multilingual societies like in Indonesia, where people use more than one language to communicate including in classroom interaction, especially in the process of teaching English as a foreign language. This research aimed to find out the types and the functions of code-switching used by English lecturers in teaching English to Non-English Department Students at FKIP of Lambung Mangkurat University in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. This research was conducted through the descriptive-qualitative method. The subjects were the lecturers of English class for Non-English Department Students or Mata Kuliah Dasar Umum (MKDU) Bahasa Inggris Class. The researchers used observations and confirmed the results from the interviews. The data were analyzed by data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification. The research result indicated that in the process of teaching English, the lecturers sometimes switched their languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia, Banjarese, and Arabic. There were three types of code-switching used by the lecturers which were tag-switching, intrasentential-switching, and intersentential switching. While for the function, there were three functions of code-switching used by the lecturers which were topic-switch, affective-function, and repetitive function. In conclusion, the lecturers switched their languages in some types and for various functions depending on the situation of their teaching activity and students’ need

THE CORRELATIONS AMONG LEARNING MOTIVATION, WRITING ANXIETY AND NARRATIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMA ETHIKA PALEMBANG

Writing English text is basic competence that students must be common to write because writing plays an important role to enable the students to describe their ideas in logical and in a communicative way. The objectives of this research were to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation between learning motivation together with writing anxiety and writing achievement. The method used was descriptive method and the design was in the form of correlational research. By using total sample, 97 students of SMA ETHIKA Palembang were chosen as the sample of this research. Two questioners and writing test were administered to collect the data. The research results show that (a) there was a positive significant correlation between learning motivation and writing achievement (r=0.845), (b) there was no significant correlation between writing anxiety and writing achievement (r=-0.053), (c) the multiple correlation analysis of all independent variables showed a positive and significant correlation (r= 0.845). Regression analysis showed that learning motivation influenced or contributed partially 84.5% to writing achievement and writing anxiety partially contributed 5,3%, the combination of learning motivation together with writing anxiety contributed 71.5% to writing achievement.

TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL

Berbicara merupakan salah satu kemampuan yang harus dimiliki oleh siswa dalam belajar bahasa Inggris, karena berbicara digunakan sebagai alat untuk berkomunikasi satu dengan yang lainnya. Pada abad ke-21 ini, banyak sekali inovasi pembelajaran yang diperkenalkan sebagai alat untuk belajar berbicara, salah satunya adalah teknologi modern. Dalam pembelajaran, banyak jenis teknologi modern yang diperkenalkan untuk membantu siswa dalam belajar berbicara, seperti laboraturium bahasa, video, satelit, internet, blog, kamus digital, dan lainnya. Teknologi modern tersebut bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam berbicara terutama berbicara bahasa Inggris.

TEACHING ENGLISH TO ADULT STUDENTS AT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (LP2M) EL-RAHMA EDUCATION CENTER PALEMBANG

The Objectives of the study are to describe the system used in Teaching English as a foreign language at LP2M El-Rahma Education Center Palembang, whether or not it is relevant with the principles of the procedure for the development of instructional system and to find out whether the system is suitable to the adult student’s needs or not. A descriptive method was used in this research, becauase the writer described the data as they are. The subject of the study is the population of the second semester students of LP2M El-Rahma Education Center Palembang in the academic year 2006/2007, there are 180 students from the population 40 students are taken as the sample randomly. The data are obtained through documentation, interview to the English instructors who taught at LP2M El-Rahma Education Center Palembang . Observation and Questionaire given to the students. The data are analyzed by means of percentage . Based on the results of the data analysis, the writer found that the system used in TEFL at LP2M El- Rahma Education Center Palembang was relevannt to the system of teaching and the system applied was not suitable to the students’ needs. they needed to learn English computer science in the term of writing grammatically, speaking with public either science textbooks espeacially which are written in English.