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Journal : English Language Study and Teaching Journal (ELASTE)

The Use of Mediated Instruction of Text (MIT) Strategy in Teaching Reading Comprehension Nora Fitria; Sariakin Sariakin; Ratna Fitra Saiful
English LAnguage Study and TEaching Vol 2, No 2 (2021): ELASTE
Publisher : Universitas Serambi Mekkah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (289.962 KB) | DOI: 10.32672/elaste.v2i2.3694

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The study was aimed to find out if there is a significant difference between the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 13 Banda Aceh who are taught reading comprehension by MIT strategy  and those who are taught without using MIT strategy. This study belonged to experimental study. The population of this study was all of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 13 Banda Aceh in the academic year of 2017/2018. The total population was 151 students who were composed of five classes; class VIII1, class VIII2, class VIII3, class VIII4, and class VIII5. The sample of this study was taken randomly with the total of 70 students, 35 students in experimental group and 35 students in control group. Choosing class as experimental and control group was also done randomly. The data were gotten through test; pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 18.0. The result of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 13 Banda Aceh who are taught reading comprehension by using MIT strategy and those who are taught without using MIT strategy. It can be proven from the result of this study, where the result of t-test of post-test for both group was 3.07. While the result of  t-table with the level of significance 0.05 was 0.67. Thus, t-test (3.07) was greater than the t-table (0.67). Based on the result of the study, English teachers of SMP Negeri 13 Banda Aceh, especially those who teach reading comprehension, should implement MIT strategy in teaching and learning process because the implementation of the strategy can increase the students’ reading comprehension mastery.
The Use of Code-Switching Method to Improve Female Students’ Speaking Skills Nur Mina; Cut Mulia Zuhra; Nora Fitria
English LAnguage Study and TEaching Vol 4, No 1 (2023): ELASTE
Publisher : Universitas Serambi Mekkah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32672/elaste.v4i1.6226

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Speaking is the way to express the idea with others in the social community. Many students still have difficulties in mastering speaking skills. This problem was also faced by the students of SMP Islam Ibnu Khaldun Banda Aceh in learning speaking. The reasons why they get difficulties in speaking include having lack of vocabularies to express idea and being not confidence to speak in English. Therefore, this research apllied code-switching method in speaking class in order to make the students easier to speak in English. This research was quantitave which is one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this research are all taken as the sample , which are 30 female students in the eighth grade of SMP Islam Ibnu Khaldun Banda Aceh. The data were gathered through test.. The data were analyzed after getting the score of the students’ test and  processed by using t-test formula in SPSS version 23. The result showed that there was an improvement on students’ speaking skill after the implementation of code-switching method. The mean score of post-test was 49.07, while the pre-test was 27.73. Besides, the result of t-test showed that the score increased by about 21.34. Finally, from the explanation above it can be concluded that there was a significant difference between the students’ speaking achievement before and after teaching speaking by using code-switching method.
The Students’ Perception of Instagram Accounts in Improving English Speaking Skills Rahma Utari; Nora Fitria; Muhammad Usman
English LAnguage Study and TEaching Vol 4, No 1 (2023): ELASTE
Publisher : Universitas Serambi Mekkah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32672/elaste.v4i1.5821

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This study aimed to determine students' perceptions of English learning accounts on Instagram in improving speaking skills and to find out what effects students get from English learning accounts on Instagram in improving speaking skills. The research method used in this study was a mixed–method design. The population in this study were all English education students at Serambi Mecca University, while the selected sample of this study were odd-semester students of English Education who actively used Instagram and also followed English learning accounts on Instagram. They were consisting of 8 semester-1 students, 7 semester-3 students, 12 students from semester 5, and 7 students from semester 7. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. This study used a questionnaire and an interview as instruments. Quantitative data were collected from the questionnaire using a Likert scale. While from the interview, qualitative data was gathered using a semi-structured set of questions. The data from the questionnaire were analyzed using the percentage formula, while the data from the interview was described in detailed words. This research found that 97% of students believe that the material shared by English learning accounts on Instagram was easy to understand, and 100% of students stated that they were motivated by material shared by English learning accounts on Instagram. It was concluded that accounts that share English learning materials on Instagram can be learning media for students.