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USING SONGS IN THE SPEAKING CLASS: Improving Students’ Abilities in a Relaxing Way. Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v1i1.448

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This Classroom Action Research (CAR) aimed to find out whether students’ activities through song can be used as media for improving the students speaking skill. The participants of this study were 21 students of English department, Lancang Kuning University academic year 2012/2013. This present study conducted in two cycles, and each of the cycle had four meetings during April - Mei 2012. After analyzing the data, it was found that the activities through song improved the students’ speaking skill and influenced all indicators of speaking skill in term of accent, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Furthermore, it built up the students’ confidence and participation in class. The researcher concluded that the students’ activities through song can improve the students’ speaking skill.
THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN TRANSLATING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: A Study at the English Department Students of FKIP Unilak Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v1i2.451

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This research was conducted to find out to what extent is the students’ ability in translatingdescriptive text at fifth semester of English Education Department of FKIP Lancang Kuning University. Theresearch using cross sectional survey design as evaluation program. The amount of the participant in thisresearch was 24 students selected by using convenience sampling technique. In order to collect the data of this research, the researcher used descriptive text as the instrument of test. In analyzing the data to categorize the students’ ability in translating descriptive text, the researcher used descriptive statistics. The students’ ability in translating descriptive text was categorized into Good. The result of analysis showed that average score of 24 students in translating descriptive text was 73.96. It is hoped that the finding of the present study will be useful for the teaching of English, especially in translating descriptive text.
COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING (CLL): Empowering Speaking Skill at SMP Bina Mitra Wahana Pekanbaru Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v2i1.460

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The purpose of this research is to identify the effect of using Community Language Learning (CLL) Methodtowards speaking skill. This experimental design uses 48 students from class VII of SMP Bina Mitra Wahana Pekanbaru. The VIIA sets as the experiment class and VIIB set as the control class. Instrument in this research was oral test. The data were analyzed using t-test. The result of the test showed that the average score of students’ pre test was 68,50 and then the average of students post test was 74,58. The results of this research found that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and rejected a hypothesis null. It can be seen from the t-test (0.000) significant at the level of 0.05. The result of N-Gain of experimental class was 0,31. It means that the significant of strategy that used in experimental class was Middle because the average of N-Gain was 0.31. From the above explanation, the researchers concluded that Community Language Learning (CLL) Method effective for teaching speaking skill.
CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH: Using Semantic Mapping in Teaching Descriptive Paragraph Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v2i2.462

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This classroom action research conducted to 38 participants at the seventh grade class D of SMPN 29 in2011/2012 academic years. It tries to improve their writing skill by applying semantic mapping strategy. Theresearcher collecting writing tests, observations, field notes, and interview as the instrument. The date reveals that improvement exists after the treatment on the students' writing skill. The data indicates that some factors influenced their improvement. The first was brainstorming process that led them easy to convey and think about the ideas. The second was the categorization process that made them easy to determine kinds of the idea. The third was the mapping process made them easy to write a good descriptive paragraph. The last was the teacher’s roles facilitated them to have an effective class.
Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Listen Read Discuss (LRD) of Recount Text Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v3i1.472

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In this research, researcher found that students had low in reading comprehension of recount text.Where, the students’ average score of reading comprehension in recount text was 60. It can not pass the standard minimum of school. This research is classroom action research. And the researcher used listen Read Discuss strategy to solve the students’ problem. The purpose of this research was to solve students’ problem in reading comprehension of recount text. This research was done in two cycle, and the result of analysis showed that the average score of the students based score was 60. The average score of the students in cycle I was 77, although the students’ average have been improved, the researcher conducted cycle II. It because there is one indicator that could not pass the passing grade. And students’ average in cycle II was 83. It had improvement 23 points from based score to cycle II. And the researcher concluded that applying Listen Read Discuss strategy could better to solve students’ reading comprehension problem in recount text.
THE EFFECT OF IRE (INITIATION-RESPONSE-EVALUATION) STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST GRADE OF SMAN OLAHRAGA RIAU PEKANBARU Megi Andela; Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v4i2.489

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The students at first grade of SMAN Olahraga Riau Pekanbaru had some problems in reading narrative text. Based on observation, the researcher tried to solve the phenomena by using IRE (Initation-Response-Evaluation). The purpose of this study was to find the effect between students taught with IRE (Initation-Response-Evaluation) by not using a strategy. Measuring the tested the effectiveness of the IRE (Initation-Response-Evaluation) Strategy in teaching narrative text reading. This type of this research is Quasi Experiments. The population of this study is the first grade of SMA Olahraga Riau Pekanbaru. The population is 99 students. The samples there are 48 students: Xis1 25 students as control class and Xis4 23 students as experiment class. The experimental class result in the average pre-test is (60.00) while the control is 61.40. It was explain that the experiment class value is lower. After the researcher did the treatment with IRE strategy, showing that the average experiment class is higher than the control class with an average of experiment class was 69.78 while in the control class 66.40 from the test results. Researcher got sig value (0.000) < (0.05). In conclusion, there is an effect between students taught by using the IRE strategy by not using a strategy. This strategy is effective in teaching narrative text reading