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Usman Kasim
Syiah Kuala University
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EFL students’ reading comprehension problems: Linguistic and non-linguistic complexities Usman Kasim; Siti Raisha
English Education Journal Vol 8, No 3 (2017): English Education Journal (EEJ)
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The goal of this study was to investigate how to overcome reading comprehension problems amongst students in an EFL classroom. Specifically, this study tries to identify both linguistic and non-linguistic reading comprehension problems. Further, the study focused on fifty of the fifth-semester students from the English department in the Teaching Faculty at Syiah Kuala University. Data collection was conducted by distributing the English Reading Comprehension Problems Questionnaire modified from Al Seyabi and Tuzlukova (2015). The data was analyzed by using quantitative analysis to get the mean scores and percentages. The results indicated that the students experienced the most reading problems in the areas of linguistics (69%). In addition, based on mean scores and percentages from the questionnaire, the results shown that the biggest reading comprehension problem was with semantics in which 81% of the participants considered unfamiliar vocabulary was their major problem in comprehending English texts. 
Using animation movie in teaching listening skill Nuril Ismi Putri; Usman Kasim; Tengku Maya Silvianti
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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The aim of this research was to find out whether the use of animation affects students’ achievement in listening skill of SMAN 11 Banda Aceh or not. The population of this study was the first grade students and the sample was the students in X IPA 4 where the number of students is 22 chosen by random sampling. The design of this study was a pre-experimental study. To obtain the data, the writer used 20 items of fill in the blank in pre-test and post-test. This research finds that the use of animation movie in the English teaching and learning process was effective to improve the students’ listening skill, especially vocabulary. The result of data collection in this study shows that average post-test score is higher (75.5) than the pre-test score (55.2). The calculation of t-observation (to) 4.20 is higher than t-table (tt) 2.02. It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. In conclusion, animation movie is an effective media in teaching listening skill. The students become active in discussion during the teaching and learning process.
QAR: Strategy implementation for reading comprehension of recount texts Nira Erdiana; Usman Kasim; Nadia Juwita
Studies in English Language and Education Vol 4, No 2 (2017)
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The objective of this research is to find out whether QAR strategy is effective in reading comprehension of recount text. This research uses experimental research design. This research took place at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri Model Banda Aceh. A second grade class was chosen as the research sample, which consisted of 36 students. The research instrument used to gather the data was a set of essay tests, which were divided to pre-test and post-test. The result of the research was analyzed by using paired t-test formula. The calculation result shows that the observed t value is less than t lower critical vaue in the t distribution table (-5.624 2.030) at the 0.05 level of significance with 35 degree of freedom. It means that null hypothesis (H0) is rejected, which proves that Question Answer Relationship strategy effectively improves the second grade students’ reading comprehension of recount text.
QAR: Strategy implementation for reading comprehension of recount texts Nira Erdiana; Usman Kasim; Nadia Juwita
Studies in English Language and Education Vol 4, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : Universitas Syiah Kuala

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The objective of this research is to find out whether QAR strategy is effective in reading comprehension of recount text. This research uses experimental research design. This research took place at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri Model Banda Aceh. A second grade class was chosen as the research sample, which consisted of 36 students. The research instrument used to gather the data was a set of essay tests, which were divided to pre-test and post-test. The result of the research was analyzed by using paired t-test formula. The calculation result shows that the observed t value is less than t lower critical vaue in the t distribution table (-5.624 2.030) at the 0.05 level of significance with 35 degree of freedom. It means that null hypothesis (H0) is rejected, which proves that Question Answer Relationship strategy effectively improves the second grade students’ reading comprehension of recount text.
Co-Authors Nadia Juwita Nira Erdiana Nuril Ismi Putri Siti Raisha Tengku Maya Silvianti