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: This research aimed to improve students’ writing ability of narrative text at the first grade o... more : This research aimed to improve students’ writing ability of narrative text at the first grade of SMA Islam Nusantara Malang. Joint construction is a teaching technique that can be used to help teacher in improving students’ writing ability. This study used a classroom action research design. This classroom action research design was conducted in one cycle which consisted of three meetings and last meeting for test. Subject of this study was on the first grade of SMA Islam Nusantara Malang in first grade of IPA with eleven students. Researcher did a pretest to know students’writing ability. Results of students’ score were lower than standard minimum score. Lesson plan was designed as a teaching instruments to reach criteria of success in SMA Islam Nusantara Malang. Criteria of success is 75.00. Besides implementing a joint construction, field notes helped this study to know the process in improving students’ writing ability. Based on result of test and field notes, this study stopp...
AbstractThe aim of this study was to know whether or not there is significance effect between bra... more AbstractThe aim of this study was to know whether or not there is significance effect between brain dominance and student’s English achievement in MTs Ma’arif NU. The research design in this study is quantitative Ex post- facto design. The subject in this study consists of 20 students. An ex post-facto research design was used in this research. The sample was 20 students and (13 male and 7 female) were selected by the researcher. The Instruments of the research were brain dominance questionnaire adopted from Kurniawan 2013) and English final score achievement in the second semester of the 8th grade student at MTs Ma’arif NU which was taken from their English teacher. The result showed that sig (2- tailed) level was .972 >0.05. And the t-obtained from the data analysis was -0,036. with the df 18 at 0,05 is 1.725. And the result of the data t-value lower then t critical value. It means that there was no significant effect between brain dominance and student English achievement. Acc...
AbstrakThe aim of this research is to describe the speaking difficulties faced by good speaking a... more AbstrakThe aim of this research is to describe the speaking difficulties faced by good speaking achievers, and to explain learning strategies used by good speaking achiever of English department of University of Islam Malang overcome their difficulties. Here, good speaking achievers are the forth semester students who can speak English very well in which they get A score in every semester and participated in competition related to English. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The researcher took two selected participants from the fourth grade of University of Islam Malang. The researcher used three instruments; interview guide, document and documentation. The finding of the study explained that mostly good speaking students had difficulties in learning speaking. The problems faced by the learners were lack of vocabulary, difficult in pronunciation, nervousness and less confident. The participants also had some strategies to overcome their problems. To encourage new vocabu...
Abstract: Microteaching is one way to prepare pre-service teachers to teach perfectly when practi... more Abstract: Microteaching is one way to prepare pre-service teachers to teach perfectly when practicing teaching. However, in microteaching there are unexpected problems by pre-service teachers, such as procedural, managerial, psychological, instructional, and professional. From some of these problems the researcher has the aim of the study of enriching strategies and overcoming problems encountered by pre service teachers when teaching practice. The research study design of this study was descriptive qualitative. The population of the study was students of eight-semester in University of Islam Malang.The participant were 60 pre-service teachers. The instrument of the research was questionnaire and interview. The questions of the test were made by the researcher. For getting valid test, the text of the test was measured by using data triangulation. From the difficulties above, some of pre-service teachers getting problems in preparing mentally, teaching materials, and knowledge so tha...
Abstract: This article aims to describe the vocabulary learning strategies used by high achievers... more Abstract: This article aims to describe the vocabulary learning strategies used by high achievers. The research design used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study were fourth semester students who were high achievers in the English Education Department. The subjects in this study were 10 students. To collect data in this study, the researcher using questionnaires to get validity of the data and interviews as supporting instruments. The questionnaire consisted of 25 multiple choices which included 6 kinds of vocabulary learning strategies according to Oxford (1990). The results of this study are high achievers using memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective, and social strategy in learning vocabulary. Meanwhile, the strategy most often used by high achievers is the compensation strategy. The researcher offer suggestion as follows: 1) For teacher, this research can provide information related to various strategies in learning vocabulary...
Universitas Islam Malang, Jul 1, 2020
This current research focused on identifying the contributing factors of students' anxiety and to... more This current research focused on identifying the contributing factors of students' anxiety and to describe the type of anxiety that faced by low and high speaking achievers. This study used descriptive qualitative research method. The result of this research showed that both categorized students placed at "anxious" (low speaking achievers) and "mildly anxious" (high speaking achievers). It also gives a description that anxious students do not have a low score and mildly anxious students may not always have a good score. In this research, 2 anxious students are having a bit lower score from the other students, meanwhile 2 other students with mildly anxious having satisfactory score. The percentage of students' response was also classed into three type of anxiety. 33.3% of students experienced communicative apprehension, whereas 30.3% feel anxious in test anxiety, and 36.4% of them were getting anxious in fear of negative evaluation. The last type of anxiety got the highest percentage.
Facing students’ difficulties in grammar acquisition, different teaching technique is introduced.... more Facing students’ difficulties in grammar acquisition, different teaching technique is introduced. Classroom based online game is one of the technique that can be used to improve students’ grammar mastery issue. This techique is an instructional activity that uses online platform for learning games which can be utilized to introduce, test and revise variety of material including language lesson. The objective of this study was to find out whether the use of classroom based online game technique in teaching English could improve grammar mastery of the first semester students of English Department, University of Islam Malang. The research design of the study was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in one cycle consisting of four meetings. The subject of this study were 25 first semester students of English Department. In this study, the researcher used some instruments; those were: field note to take the information of the students’ activities in the classroom and gramm...
Abstract: This article aims at knowing the students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary and the ... more Abstract: This article aims at knowing the students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary and the strategies that used by the students to overcome their difficulties in learning vocabulary. Adequate vocabulary will help students in mastering four skills in English which cover listening, speaking, reading, and writing.The research design of this study was descriptive qualitative. The population of this study was the higher achievers in English subject at seventh-grade students at SMP Wahid Hasyim Malang. The instrument that used in this research was a questionnaire. The finding of the study showed that each student in the seventh grade of SMP Wahid Hasyim Malang has their own difficulties in learning vocabulary. However, the majority of the students have the same difficulties. They are the pronunciation of the word, the use of the word appropriately, understanding the meaning of the word, and the lack of their motivation in learning English. Each student also has their own strategies ...
The objectives of this study were to reveal students’ listening comprehension difficulties and st... more The objectives of this study were to reveal students’ listening comprehension difficulties and strategies to overcome the listening comprehension problems by high achievers. The strategies were necessary to improve the listening skill and counter the difficulties in listening comprehension. The research method was qualitative research method. The participants of this study were four students. The researcher was asked for recommendation to the listening lecturers, then the researcher met them personally, then the researcher conducted the open-ended interview session to collect the data. The researcher was used familiarizing and organizing, coding and reducing, and interpreting and organizing to analyze the collected data. The findings of the research explained that the difficulties included limited vocabulary, speed of native speakers’ speech, natives speakers’ accent, classroom environment, lack of concentration and motivation. However, the students’ strategies were the use of media...
: This research aimed to improve students’ writing ability of narrative text at the first grade o... more : This research aimed to improve students’ writing ability of narrative text at the first grade of SMA Islam Nusantara Malang. Joint construction is a teaching technique that can be used to help teacher in improving students’ writing ability. This study used a classroom action research design. This classroom action research design was conducted in one cycle which consisted of three meetings and last meeting for test. Subject of this study was on the first grade of SMA Islam Nusantara Malang in first grade of IPA with eleven students. Researcher did a pretest to know students’writing ability. Results of students’ score were lower than standard minimum score. Lesson plan was designed as a teaching instruments to reach criteria of success in SMA Islam Nusantara Malang. Criteria of success is 75.00. Besides implementing a joint construction, field notes helped this study to know the process in improving students’ writing ability. Based on result of test and field notes, this study stopp...
AbstractThe aim of this study was to know whether or not there is significance effect between bra... more AbstractThe aim of this study was to know whether or not there is significance effect between brain dominance and student’s English achievement in MTs Ma’arif NU. The research design in this study is quantitative Ex post- facto design. The subject in this study consists of 20 students. An ex post-facto research design was used in this research. The sample was 20 students and (13 male and 7 female) were selected by the researcher. The Instruments of the research were brain dominance questionnaire adopted from Kurniawan 2013) and English final score achievement in the second semester of the 8th grade student at MTs Ma’arif NU which was taken from their English teacher. The result showed that sig (2- tailed) level was .972 >0.05. And the t-obtained from the data analysis was -0,036. with the df 18 at 0,05 is 1.725. And the result of the data t-value lower then t critical value. It means that there was no significant effect between brain dominance and student English achievement. Acc...
AbstrakThe aim of this research is to describe the speaking difficulties faced by good speaking a... more AbstrakThe aim of this research is to describe the speaking difficulties faced by good speaking achievers, and to explain learning strategies used by good speaking achiever of English department of University of Islam Malang overcome their difficulties. Here, good speaking achievers are the forth semester students who can speak English very well in which they get A score in every semester and participated in competition related to English. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The researcher took two selected participants from the fourth grade of University of Islam Malang. The researcher used three instruments; interview guide, document and documentation. The finding of the study explained that mostly good speaking students had difficulties in learning speaking. The problems faced by the learners were lack of vocabulary, difficult in pronunciation, nervousness and less confident. The participants also had some strategies to overcome their problems. To encourage new vocabu...
Abstract: Microteaching is one way to prepare pre-service teachers to teach perfectly when practi... more Abstract: Microteaching is one way to prepare pre-service teachers to teach perfectly when practicing teaching. However, in microteaching there are unexpected problems by pre-service teachers, such as procedural, managerial, psychological, instructional, and professional. From some of these problems the researcher has the aim of the study of enriching strategies and overcoming problems encountered by pre service teachers when teaching practice. The research study design of this study was descriptive qualitative. The population of the study was students of eight-semester in University of Islam Malang.The participant were 60 pre-service teachers. The instrument of the research was questionnaire and interview. The questions of the test were made by the researcher. For getting valid test, the text of the test was measured by using data triangulation. From the difficulties above, some of pre-service teachers getting problems in preparing mentally, teaching materials, and knowledge so tha...
Abstract: This article aims to describe the vocabulary learning strategies used by high achievers... more Abstract: This article aims to describe the vocabulary learning strategies used by high achievers. The research design used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study were fourth semester students who were high achievers in the English Education Department. The subjects in this study were 10 students. To collect data in this study, the researcher using questionnaires to get validity of the data and interviews as supporting instruments. The questionnaire consisted of 25 multiple choices which included 6 kinds of vocabulary learning strategies according to Oxford (1990). The results of this study are high achievers using memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective, and social strategy in learning vocabulary. Meanwhile, the strategy most often used by high achievers is the compensation strategy. The researcher offer suggestion as follows: 1) For teacher, this research can provide information related to various strategies in learning vocabulary...
Universitas Islam Malang, Jul 1, 2020
This current research focused on identifying the contributing factors of students' anxiety and to... more This current research focused on identifying the contributing factors of students' anxiety and to describe the type of anxiety that faced by low and high speaking achievers. This study used descriptive qualitative research method. The result of this research showed that both categorized students placed at "anxious" (low speaking achievers) and "mildly anxious" (high speaking achievers). It also gives a description that anxious students do not have a low score and mildly anxious students may not always have a good score. In this research, 2 anxious students are having a bit lower score from the other students, meanwhile 2 other students with mildly anxious having satisfactory score. The percentage of students' response was also classed into three type of anxiety. 33.3% of students experienced communicative apprehension, whereas 30.3% feel anxious in test anxiety, and 36.4% of them were getting anxious in fear of negative evaluation. The last type of anxiety got the highest percentage.
Facing students’ difficulties in grammar acquisition, different teaching technique is introduced.... more Facing students’ difficulties in grammar acquisition, different teaching technique is introduced. Classroom based online game is one of the technique that can be used to improve students’ grammar mastery issue. This techique is an instructional activity that uses online platform for learning games which can be utilized to introduce, test and revise variety of material including language lesson. The objective of this study was to find out whether the use of classroom based online game technique in teaching English could improve grammar mastery of the first semester students of English Department, University of Islam Malang. The research design of the study was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in one cycle consisting of four meetings. The subject of this study were 25 first semester students of English Department. In this study, the researcher used some instruments; those were: field note to take the information of the students’ activities in the classroom and gramm...
Abstract: This article aims at knowing the students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary and the ... more Abstract: This article aims at knowing the students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary and the strategies that used by the students to overcome their difficulties in learning vocabulary. Adequate vocabulary will help students in mastering four skills in English which cover listening, speaking, reading, and writing.The research design of this study was descriptive qualitative. The population of this study was the higher achievers in English subject at seventh-grade students at SMP Wahid Hasyim Malang. The instrument that used in this research was a questionnaire. The finding of the study showed that each student in the seventh grade of SMP Wahid Hasyim Malang has their own difficulties in learning vocabulary. However, the majority of the students have the same difficulties. They are the pronunciation of the word, the use of the word appropriately, understanding the meaning of the word, and the lack of their motivation in learning English. Each student also has their own strategies ...
The objectives of this study were to reveal students’ listening comprehension difficulties and st... more The objectives of this study were to reveal students’ listening comprehension difficulties and strategies to overcome the listening comprehension problems by high achievers. The strategies were necessary to improve the listening skill and counter the difficulties in listening comprehension. The research method was qualitative research method. The participants of this study were four students. The researcher was asked for recommendation to the listening lecturers, then the researcher met them personally, then the researcher conducted the open-ended interview session to collect the data. The researcher was used familiarizing and organizing, coding and reducing, and interpreting and organizing to analyze the collected data. The findings of the research explained that the difficulties included limited vocabulary, speed of native speakers’ speech, natives speakers’ accent, classroom environment, lack of concentration and motivation. However, the students’ strategies were the use of media...