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IMPROVING STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH DEBATE Rica Umrina Lubis; Indra Kurniawan Siregar
Journal of English Education and Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Journal of English Education and Linguistics
Publisher : Program Studi Tadris Bahasa Inggri Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Mandailing Natal

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.56874/jeel.v2i1.396

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Speaking is one of the important skills in language learning. Speaking is the act, utterance or discourse of one who speaks. It also can be defined as an activity in giving and asking information as if dialoguing by two or more people. In speaking, there is a process of communication between speaker and listener. People put ideas into words, talking about perceptions and feeling they want other people to understand. The writer observed that most students are difficult to put ideas into word through communication in speaking English. To solve the problem, the writer conducted classroom action research, by implementing debate. The writer applied two cycles in this research. Each cycle consist of three meetings. The participant of this study was one class consists of 32 students. The instrument for collecting the data was speaking test, observation sheet and document. Based on the research result, showed the progressive mean of the students. The first meeting was 46,87, second meeting was 50,09, third meeting was 60,28, the fourth meeting was 65,12, the fifth meeting was 73,56 and the sixth meeting was 77,81. So, the mean in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle.It is indicated that the application of debate technique improve students’ speaking skill.
THE EFFECT OF LEARNING STRATEGIES AND COGNITIVE STYLE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION Siregar, Indra Kurniawan; Lubis, Rica Umrina; Ali, Muttaqin Kholis
PENDIDIKAN SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI Vol 11 No 4 (2024)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Situbondo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47668/edusaintek.v11i4.1449

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The objectives of the study were to (1) determine students' achievement in reading comprehension as taught by reciprocal teaching (RT) and collaborative strategies reading (CSR); (2) determine students' achievement in having dependent and independent cognitive styles; and (3) determine how learning strategies and cognitive style affect one another. The research population comprised 154 students from five classrooms in SMP Negeri 1 Angkola Timur's VIII class. Sixty-one students were sampled using cluster random sampling; of these, thirty students from class VIII-2 were taught the reciprocal teaching-learning strategy, and thirty students from class VIII-1 were taught the collaborative strategic reading (CSR) learning technique. The test was used as a means of gathering data. The findings indicated that: (1) students taught the Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) learning strategy X ̅ = 16.53 had higher achievement than students taught the Reciprocal Teaching learning strategy X ̅ = 15.43; (2) students with field-independent cognitive style X ̅ = 16.09 had achievement than students with field-dependent cognitive style X ̅ ̅ = 15.80 with Fcount = 7.79 > Ftable = 1.00; and (3) there is an interaction between learning strategies and cognitive styles on reading comprehension achievement.