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ENHANCING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH ABILITY BY USING REALIA Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni; Brigitta Septarini Rahmasari
Jurnal Pendidikan Edutama Vol 6, No 1 (2019): January
Publisher : IKIP PGRI Bojonegoro

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30734/jpe.v6i1.272

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Abstract: The aim of the research is to know the strenghts and weaknesses of using realia. The reseacher used classroom action research. The research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four steps. They are planning, acting, observation, and reflecting. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, interview, and observation. In analyzing the data, the researcher used statistic descriptive. The research implementations showed that there was an improvement in students’ speaking ability after Realia implemented in the teaching and learning process, and the students showed better achievement in speaking ability. The strengths were the students become active in classroom, enthusiastic, excited and motivated in the class. The students give more attention to the lesson and they were attracted to do the exercise during teaching learning process. The students more focused to the lesson during the activity in teaching learning process. The activities of Realia is attracted the students’ motivation and interested to the students. The researcher found that that Realia make the class becomes conducive. Meanwhile the weaknesses of using realia are the student had a difficulties to speak something caused of the limited vocabularies and confused how to pronounce the word in English and it spends much time to prepare the media. Keywords :Realia, English ability, Enthusiastic Abstrak: Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kekuatan dan kelemahan menggunakan realia. Peneliti menggunakan penelitian tindakan kelas. Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam dua siklus. Setiap siklus terdiri dari empat langkah yaitu perencanaan, tindakan, observasi, dan refleksi. Dalam mengumpulkan data, peneliti menggunakan tes, wawancara, dan observasi. Dalam menganalisis data, peneliti menggunakan statistik deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah Realia diimplementasikan dalam proses belajar mengajar, dan siswa menunjukkan prestasi yang lebih baik dalam kemampuan berbicara. Kekuatan menggunakan realia adalah siswa menjadi aktif di kelas, antusias, bersemangat dan termotivasi di kelas. Para siswa lebih memperhatikan pelajaran dan mereka tertarik untuk melakukan latihan selama proses belajar mengajar. Para siswa lebih fokus pada pelajaran selama kegiatan belajar mengajar. Kegiatan Realia menarik motivasi siswa dan tertarik kepada siswa. Peneliti menemukan bahwa Realia membuat kelas menjadi kondusif. Sementara itu, kelemahan menggunakan realia adalah siswa memiliki kosakata yang terbatas dan kesulitan dalam pengucapan bahasa Inggris dan menghabiskan banyak waktu untuk mempersiapkan media.Kata Kunci: Realia, Kemampuan Bahasa Inggris, Antusias
The implementation of word splash strategy in teaching reading Ragil Setiyawan; Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni
English Teaching Journal : A Journal of English Literature, Language and Education Vol 6, No 1 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas PGRI Madiun

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (281.826 KB) | DOI: 10.25273/etj.v6i1.4447

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Reading is one of the basic skills which must be mastered by students especially in Junior High School. Word Splash is one of strategy in teaching reading. Word Splash is a strategy that is used to make prediction about the text that they will read. The purpose of the research are to describe the implementation of Word Splash strategy in teaching narrative reading, to describe the problems and to describe the solutions teaching narrative reading by using Word Splash Strategy. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative. The techniques of collecting data are observation, interview and documentation. The techniques of data analysis that used in this research are data condensation, data display and drawing conclusion and verification. The result of this research are: (1) The procedures of the implementation of Word Splash strategy are divided into three activities namely pre-activities, whilst-activities, post-activities. In pre-activities, the teacher gives greeting and check student attendance list. In whilst-activities, the teacher explains about the steps of Word Splash strategy. In post-activities, the teacher gives a review, conclusion and closing. (2) The problems of using Word Splash strategy are: the students difficult to make correct sentences. The students are confuse about the rule of Word Splash strategy. The students are difficult to understand when the teacher uses an unfamiliar narrative story. (3) The solution of the problems are: The teacher helps the students to make correct sentences. The teacher explains the strategy twice. The teacher uses a familiar narrative story.  The teacher also suggested to improve their knowledge about various teaching strategy which is simple and efficient as like as using Word Splash strategy. The school is suggests to improve their teaching strategy which must not be expensive but it is interesting to be learned. Other researcher are suggests to take benefit of this research, so they can improve the quality of this research for other research in the different situation
THE USE OF ELECTRONIC STICK FIGURES FOR TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT TO THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 WUNGU Rara Wisna Sumiastari; Nuri Ati Ningsih; Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni
English Teaching Journal : A Journal of English Literature, Language and Education Vol 5, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : Universitas PGRI Madiun

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25273/etj.v5i2.5447

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Writing English is considered as the most difficult skill among the other language skills (reading, speaking and listening). Therefore, it is important for the English teachers to find some creative ways to teach writing instead of only directing student to write without thinking how to facilitate them. Because of that reason, appropriate media is needed and should be used to help students master writing. Moreover, the use of multimedia in teaching and learning process is able to make the lesson become memorable and understandable. Therefore, Electronic stick figures in the form of multimedia are believed considerably suitable for teaching writing recount text. The result of this research show that the implementation of Electronic stick figures in teaching writing recount text are explaining material, introducing Electronic stick figures, and doing the task. Besides, advantages of Electronic stick figures in teaching writing are the use of Electronic Stick Figure can improve students’ learning process especially in writing, The Electronic Stick Figure is simple drwaing, Electronic Stick Figure helps the students to dig up their ideas and construct the text-type more easy, and the students very enthusiatic in a class.. Some disadvantages of the implementation of Electronic stick figuresare  teaching and learning using Electronick Stick Figure is not all class have a LCD, and the students still difficulties in past tense and some students’ vocabulary is lack, so that students less in making a good sentence.
Improving students’reading ability by using question-answer relationship Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni
Linguista: Jurnal Ilmiah Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pembelajarannya Vol 1, No 1 (2017)
Publisher : Universitas PGRI Madiun

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QAR (Question- Answer Relationship) strategy is a teaching strategy which asks the students to read narrative text and classify question and answer it into each of QAR categories. The objective of this research is to determine whether or not Question Answer Relationship Strategy can improve reading ability of the second semester students of Universitas PGRI Madiun. This research is classroom action research consisting of two cycles. Each cycle consists of four steps. They are planning, action, observation and reflection. The result of this research shows that the students’ reading ability is increase. It can be proven from the mean score of cycle one is 70.56 and cycle two is 75,83. The researcher also found that QAR helps the students to understand the text. The students are interested in answering the question based on the text, are motivated to read the text, and feel not bored in teaching reading process
Enhancing Students’ Learning Outcomes through MALL in English Intensive Program for Railway Mechanical Technology Damar Isti Pratiwi; Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni; Ainun Fikria; Riana Eka Budiastuti
International Journal of Language Education Vol. 7, No. 2, 2023
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26858/ijole.v7i2.22839

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This study attempts to investigate students’ learning outcomes in English Intensive Program through Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) for Railway Mechanical Technology. The program was designed as a TOEFL preparation class that utilized Google Form, Quizizz, and Kahoot! As game-based learning (MALL platform). It was a case study on the 3rd year students of the Indonesian Railway Polytechnic (N=46). The observation was conducted during 20 meetings (40 hours). The data were collected through pre-test and post-test, then analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired t-test, Pearson r correlation, and Cohen d effect size. The passing grade score determined by the college (480) was also an additional consideration analysis. The results indicate significant impacts and a large effect on students’ learning outcomes after joining the English Intensive Program through MALL. Nonetheless, the English Intensive Program implementing MALL had a moderate correlation and was less effective in enhancing students’ learning outcomes. These findings shed light on the benefits and constraints of implementing MALL in the English Intensive Program.
The Implementation of Blended Learning in Teaching Reading Comprehension at the Senior High School Wiki Harianti; Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni; Arri Kurniawan
Applied Research on English Education (AREE) Vol 1, No 1 (2023): January 2023
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

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Reading is an important activity for obtaining information. This research tries to investigate the use of blended learning in teaching reading, and the purpose is to describe: the implementation of Blended Learning in teaching reading comprehension, the outcome of using Blended Learning in teaching reading toward the student’s mastery of reading, and the advantages and disadvantages of Blended Learning in teaching reading comprehension. This research employed a qualitative research approach to describe data. This research used a descriptive qualitative type of research. The data collection was done by using observation, interviews, and documentation. The source of data were social situations, participants, and documents, and to take the data uses, purposive sampling. The sample is XC. In addition, the steps of analysis in research are data reduction, data display, and conclusion and verification. The result of this research is there are three procedures of using blended learning: pre-activity, whilst activity, and post-activity. The outcome of implementing blended learning is the student’s achievement better. The advantages are: the students can access the internet to get more information, are more accessible to answer the exercise and translate the reading, be more accessible r to understand the text, and it is more practical and effective. The disadvantages are the internet signal, power outages, the ability to operate the computer application, facility of the computer itself. In addition, there is a suggestion for future research. The researcher invites the other researchers to do another study on blended learning.Keywords: teaching; reading; blended learning