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Improving Students Ability in Writing Essay Through “Free Weekly Writing” Activity Humaira Humaira; Siti Lamusiah; Isnaini Isnaini; Ilham Ilham
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 7, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (302.808 KB) | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v7i2.1721

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Free weekly writing is designed for students to write in every week using free topic based on students’ passion. This action research investigated the effectiveness of implementing free weekly writing in improving students’ writing ability. The participants of this study were 35 students at the VI semester of English Department, FKIP UM-Mataram in academic year 2015-2016. The data were collected by four stages of action research; planning, action, observation, and reflection. The finding of the research proved that almost 83% passed the passing grade. Means that only about 17% students failed to reach the passing grade.  There are some factors affected the students’ ability in writing, they were; (a) a writer is forced to read a lot from many sources and having the knowledge, (b) a writer must have well understanding about content and focus of writing, (c) grammatical competence, (d) comprehending the rules of punctuation of in writing, (e) a professional writer must have own characteristic.
The Use of Question Cards Techniques to Improve Students’ Speaking Ability at Class VII of Muhammadiyah Junior High School of Mataram Humairaa Humaira; Isnainib isnaini; Hidayati Hidayati; Rima Rahmaniah; Irwandi Irwandi
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 9, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v9i1.4914

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This study aims at determining the effectiveness of using "Question Cards" in improving students speaking ability at class VII of SMP Muhammadiyah Mataram. This study is part of a pre-experimental study known as a pre-test and post-test group design, in which the sample is given a pre-test before treatment and a post-test after treatment. There was no control group in this investigation; instead, only one experimental group was used. This study takes a quantitative approach to its findings. The participants in this study were seventh-graders from Muhammadiyah Mataram Junior High School, who were divided into only one class of 16 pupils. Purposive sampling is the approach used. The use of the "Question Cards" strategy in increasing the speaking skills of SMP Muhammadiyah seventh grade students can be concluded as "successful" in this study. This is demonstrated by the students' pre-test and post-test scores, namely, the t-test score is 5.313, the consultation on the t- table at 99 percent points to 2.60, and it can be concluded that the comparison of t-test and t-table is 2.60 5.313, or in other words, the student's test results exceed the minimum standard of achievement. 
Using of “I Love You 3000” Song in Pandemic Era in Teaching English at Mining Department of Engineering Faculty Hidayati Hidayati; Muhammad Hudri; Isnaini Isnaini; Rima Rahmaniah; humaira Humaira
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 9, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v9i1.4915

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Vocabulary is one of the English components or sub-skill that must be taught to the students. The vocabulary has the role to develop the four language skills, they are listening, reading, writing and speaking. Many vocabularies that the students have, is the easier for them to develop it, especially in the pandemic era because of COVID-19, the teacher have to use a media like an English song to enrich the students at Mining Department of Engineering Faculty vocabularies. In order that, the purpose of this study was to investigate the use of song as a media whether it is effective or not in teaching vocabulary. The total population of this study involved 92 students but the sample of by using the purposive technique sampling got 20 students in A class as a control and 20 students at B for experimental class. The instrument of this study used multiple choice tests which consist of 20 items. The data was collected by using pre-test and post-test, then followed by analyzing the data based on Arikunto’s theory using descriptive design. As well as the manual computation the result also showed that the score of the t-test was 4.741. The researcher compare that t-table at the degrees of freedom (df) (Nx + Ny)-2 . df = 20 + 20 – 2 = 38. The degree of freedom of 38 is at the competence interval of 0.05 (95%) is 2.024 and 0.01 (99%) is 2.711. the comparison is done between t-test formulated with t-table in which results is 4.741 it is to found that the t-table of “t” indicated: t-test 4.741 > t-table. It means that the mean score of the experimental class was higher than control class. So, the researcher concluded that the use of song “I Love You 3000” is effective in teaching learning English at Mining Department in academic year 2018/2019 and it means that the use of song as an alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.