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Improving Writing Skill Using Chain Sentences on the First Semester Students' at Universitas Bhinneka PGRI Tulungagung Ika Rakhmawati
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 5, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v5i1.2753

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English learner has to master four skills namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing is considered as the important skill in linguistic. The students write the idea based on their mind in the written form. The students of the first semester have many difficulties in writing English. They do not know the pattern of the sentence properly. They do not master vocabulary and grammar. The important thing is English grammar which is very hard to be mastered by the students. The teacher should apply the appropriate method in conducting teaching and learning process in writing skill. Chain Sentences learning model is also a learning model that can be used Lecturer to change the atmosphere of learning in the classroom with more fun, so that students feel more interested. Because in this Chain Sentences learning model, this activity should be done in groups where when the first person has listened to the lecturers' sentence then, make a sentence from the last word of the first sentence becomes the first word of the second sentence, as well as the second student and so on. Based on the students’ score on preliminary study, it is shown that the students’ writing needed improvement caused their scores were low. There were 59,52% of 25 students who passed the writing test. The success of this class was less than 80%. The result could not achieve the criteria of success. It means that the students’ writing before the implementation of the strategy is quite weak. To improve the students’ writing, the researcher did this classroom action research. From first cycle, it is known that amount of the students who passed the vocabulary test increased. The result of the study on this cycle was 36 students passed the writing test. 82.71% of the students were successful and it had achieved the criteria of success. It means that the students’ writing skill improved after the strategy
Improving English for Banking Using Currency Converter Plus Application on the Fifth Semester Students' at Universitas Bhinneka PGRI Ika Rakhmawati
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 6, No 1 (2023)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v6i1.3859

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The material available at the university must adapt to the needs of the job market. From the case English for banking became one of the courses in the English study program at Bhinneka PGRI University. This course is held so that students know about banking which includes currency exchange rates in various countries, how to serve customers, words that are often used in banks, etc. the students experience difficulties in this study, especially in determining foreign currency exchange rates. The design of this research is a classroom action research with cycle model since this research is planned to improve the students’ English for Banking Material at the fifth semester of Universitas Bhinneka PGRI using Currency Converter Plus Application. Action research is a form of collective self-reflective enquiry undertaken by participants in social situations in order to improve the rationality and justice of their own social or educational practices, as well as their understanding of those practices and the situations in which the practices are carried out (Carr and Kemmis 1988: 5-6 in Smith, 2007). According to the result of Test Cycle I done in cycle I, it was found that the students who could reach the passing grade were 15 students (83%) and 3 students (17%) were failed. The criteria of success which had been determined was 80% of the students pass the passing grade and the standard value was 80. So, the action in cycle 1 was successful. The suggestion for the students by using Currency Converter Plus Application, the students can know much English For Banking Material and it makes students more active in teaching and learning process, for English lecturer should use Currency Converter Plus Application as alternative way in teaching English For Banking Material and for future researcher as the reference to make a further research.