Wahjuningsih Usadiati
English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Palangka Raya University

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TEXT RELATIONSHIP (ETR) AND VOCABULARY SELF-COLLECTION STRATEGY (VSS) ON THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 3 PALANGKA RAYA Antang, Henny Asihai; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih; Luardini, Maria Arina
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022): June 2022: Journal Compound
Publisher : Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Program Pascasarjana, Universitas Palangka Raya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37304/jcp.v10i1.4980

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The study is conducted in order to see weather there was significant and interaction effect of the ability of the students in reading comprehension of narrative text after using Experience Text Relationship (ETR) and Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS). The population of this study was the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Palangka Raya in academic year 2015/2016. The number of sample was 30 students. Reading comprehension test of narrative text were used as the instrument in order to collect the data needed. The research design was quasi-experimental and there were two group in this study: Experimental and Control Groups. The data were proccessed and analyzed according to folowing the steps: Assigning the groups, giving the pretest to both Experimental and Control Groups, giving the treatments, giving the posttest, and analyzing the data by using Paired Sample T Test by IBM SPSS version 23. The result of this study showed that the value of the data of posttest in the Control Group was 0.095. The significant value of the data of posttest in the Experimental Groups for ETR 0.000 and the significant value of the data of posttest in the Experimental Groups for VSS was 0.000 and in the experimental Group was 0.000. As 0.000 < 0.05. in this study, the hypothesis was accepted. Therefore, at the significant level 0.05, there is significant effect on the ability of the students in reading comprehension narrative text using Experience Text Relationship (ETR) and Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS).
SPEAKING IN PROCEDURE TEXT BY RETELLING USING PICTURE SERIES Tis’ah, J. Anhar Rabi Hamsah; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih; Luardini, Maria Arina
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): June 2019: Journal Compound
Publisher : Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Program Pascasarjana, Universitas Palangka Raya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (638.742 KB) | DOI: 10.37304/jcp.v7i1.261

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The main objective of the research was to know the effect of speaking of procedure text by retelling using picture series on students’ speaking achievement of MTs Miftahul Jannah Palangka Raya. Quasi-experimental research was done in randomized control group pre-test post-test design to the answer of the research problem. The population was the students of grade 7 of MTs Miftahul Jannah Palangka Raya, and the samples of grades 7A and 7B were taken randomly from the population to be the control and exerimental groups. The data were obtained from the scores of speaking taken from the samples of the research. To test the hypothesis of the research, statistical calculation was done using t-test. Based on the result of hypothesis test calculation, it was found that the value of tobserved was greater than the value of ttable. i.e. 20.019 > 1.671 that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. It means picture series gave effect on the speaking achievement of retelling of students of MTs Miftahul Jannah Palangka Raya. 
DEVELOPING A MODEL OF ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS USING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE (ESP) APPROACH FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM (SI) STUDENTS OF STMIK PALANGKA RAYA Rahmah, Miftahul; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih; Karani, Elanneri
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): June 2019: Journal Compound
Publisher : Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Program Pascasarjana, Universitas Palangka Raya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (1056.758 KB) | DOI: 10.37304/jcp.v7i1.262

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The lecturers of STMIK Palangka Raya were given the autonomy in developing the curriculum and syllabus of English subject so they must use English instructional material that related with the developed curriculum and syllabus. So that, the writer was interested in developing English instructional material and considering English for specific purpose as the approach in developing the material. The topics of the developed English instructional materials were about computer and technology. The subject of this R &D study was the Information System (SI) students of STMIK Palangka Raya. The research accomplished through the procedures of need analysis, first draft material development, expert validation, materials revision, material try out and final draft of material revision. The instrument used in this study consisted of observation, questionnaire and guided interview for the students, lecturers and also the expert validation. The data obtained were analyzed and described qualitatively. The result of the need analysis showed that the students were in the need of English Instructional Materials which were relevant to their major content course and their level of English proficiency. Related to this condition, the materials taken from some English for computer user books and some related websites. The data of try out showed that the effectiveness of the developed material in teaching learning process during try out, the observation and interview reflected that the students were very interested about the latest English Instructional Materials and they got involve actively in teaching learning process.
DEVELOPING A MODEL OF HOTS QUESTIONS FOR NARRATIVE READING TEXT FOR GRADE IX STUDENTS OF SMP N 2 JORONG Simanjuntak, Evelyn; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih; Karani, Elanneri
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019): December 2019: Journal Compound
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37304/jcp.v7i2.631

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Teachers are required to have good reading material with various questions excercices to meet students’ interest to improve their reading ability. This developmental research was undertaken to develop a model of instructional material of HOTs questions for narrative reading texts for IX grade students of SMPN 2 Jorong. The development of the model in R & D research involved the following steps: needs assessment, reference study, material development, expert validation, tryout, revision, and final product. The subject of the research was the students of grade IX of SMPN 2 Jorong. The instruments to take the data were observation sheet, questionaire sheet, students’ test result, and test sheet. After all of the steps were done, the final product was in form of instructional material consisting of: Cover; Introduction, and Content. The content of the product consisted of Unit 1 and Unit 2, which contained narrative reading texts entitled Hansel and Grethel, Malin Kundang, and Rapunzel taken and modified from the internet. Each story was inserted with HOTS questions to ask the students to generalise, analyse, compare, distinguish, and to correlate.Based on the result of the expert validation, the model of HOTS questions for narrative reading texts for IX grade students of SMPN 2 Jorong was very effective and advisable to be implemented.
THE SOURCES OF LANGUAGE ANXIETY IN PUBLIC SPEAKING AMONG DAYAKESE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY Nurwanto, Ahmad; Karani, Elanneri; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): December 2020: Journal Compound
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This research was done to investigate the sources of language anxiety in public speaking and to find out the students’ ways to reduce their anxiety among Dayakese students of semester 4 class A English Education Study Program in the University of Palangka Raya. open-ended questionnaire, observation, and interview as the main of the data. Twenty one of Dayakese students as participants. They filled out 9 items of questionnaire and interview was done with 6 items related ways to reduce their anxiety. The observation was done related to students behavior while speaking performance. The result from open-ended questionnaire show that most of the students suffered from anxiety in public speaking performance because of the aspects of self-related, lecturer-related, classmates-related, and the material-related. The result of interview show that students had their own ways to reduce their anxiety which are mental and physical. Mentally, they prepared and asked their classmates to help them speak well by giving comments and suggestions. Physically, they did relaxation and be confidence before doing speaking performance. The result of observation participants went blank and lost utterences during speaking performance. Besides that, lower voice, unclear pronounciation, unnecessary movements, and dry mouth were show students behavior during speaking performance. 
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT THROUGH MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE USING PICTURE SERIES AT CLASS XI OF SMKN 1 KAMIPANG Rahmanti, Kitri; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih; Karani, Elanneri
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): December 2020: Journal Compound
Publisher : Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Program Pascasarjana, Universitas Palangka Raya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (694.63 KB) | DOI: 10.37304/jcp.v8i2.2438

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The present research aimed at finding out how mind mapping using picture series can make students interested in teaching and learning process of writing and finding out whether the application of mind mapping using picture series could improve students’ skill in writing procedure text at class XI SMKN 1 Kamipang in the Academic Year 2019-2020. To reach the aims of the research, the researcher used a classroom action research design where the researcher asked the students’ responses and did action research with the application of mind mapping using picture series for the students to write procedure text. There were 17 participants in the research which consisted of 8 females and 9 males. The present research was conducted in two cycles. The results of the finding showed that (1) mind mapping using picture series made the students interested to learn English writing. Before the actions were conducted, the students were less motivated in the teaching and learning process. After the implementation of the actions, they were more enthusiastic to get involved in the teaching and learning process. They became active and paid attention during the lesson. Besides, the students were autonomous in learning without depending on their friend’s works in doing the tasks; (2) The application of mind mapping using picture series can improve students’ skill in writing procedure text at class XI SMKN 1 Kamipang in the Academic Year 2019-2020. Based on the calculation of the percentage, the students who achieved score 65 and more were 100 %. It was higher than 80%. It can be concluded that the classroom action research was categorized successfully. In conclusion, the application of mind mapping using picture series can make the students interested in learning English writing and it also can improve the students’ writing skill of procedure text. 
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LITERACY ACTIVITY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF THE NINTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 3 PALANGKA RAYA IN SCHOOL YEAR 2019/2020 Hamzah, Zulfikar; Karani, Elanneri; Usadiati, Wahjuningsih
Journal Compound: Improving the Quality of English Education Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): December 2020: Journal Compound
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (632.091 KB) | DOI: 10.37304/jcp.v8i2.2439

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This research was conducted through a descriptive qualitative method to find out the implementation of literacy activities on students' reading of descriptive text of the ninth grade students at SMP Negeri 3 Palangka Raya. The research wanted to know the process of literacy activities in two classes, i.e. the ninth grade room seven and the ninth grade room eight by using observation sheets, questionnaire, field notes obtained from the students’ journals, and tasks of reading comprehension. The results show that: 1) the literacy activities of the ninth (IX) grade room seven and ninth (IX) grade room eight of SMP Negeri 3 Palangka Raya were done at the time of implementation, place of implementation, types of activities, types of the title of description text and follow-up activities as follows: the timing for the implementation of literacy activity was on time according to the schedule. All students carried out the literacy activities and they started recording literacy activities in their journals. The sources of the texts that read by the students were English Textbooks containing the English Descriptive Texts to be read until finish. The process of reading for literacy activities was centralized, i.e. at the ninth (IX) grade room seven and ninth (IX) grade room eight of SMP Negeri 3 Palangka Raya; 2) The description of the students in their reading habits of the ninth (IX) grade students room seven and the ninth (IX) grade students room eight room were written in the field – notes (Students’ Journal). The description included date or day of the literacy activity, title or writer of the text, page of the text, date, and comments written by the students in Indonesian language in based on the Minister of Education of Republic Indonesia’s version and completed with the summary; 3) the problems faced by the students of the Ninth (IX-7) Grade Room Seven and the Ninth (IX-8) Grade Room Eight in SMP Negeri 3 Palangka Raya were stated in medium, hard, and very hard columns about the reading comprehension texts used in literacy activities, and these problems were used as references for the English teachers to evaluate again the students’ reading comprehension of English descriptive text; and 4) from the 26 students’ scores of the ninth (IX) grade room seven and 24 students in the ninth (IX) grade room eight who followed the post-literacy reading comprehension task, there was 4% or only 1 student in each room who has completed and fulfilled the criteria of minimum of mastery or KKM.