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The Use of Weblog in Improving Students’ Writing Skill Muhammad Fahreza; Zulfadli A. Aziz; Nurul Inayah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 3: August 2017
Publisher : Universitas Syiah Kuala

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This research is aimed at finding out whether the use of weblog improves students’ writing skill at SMPN 9 Banda Aceh or not. The sample of this research was the second grade students in the class of VII-1. The researcher used pre-experimental research with one group pre-test post-test design in analyzing the significant improvement. The data were gained quantitatively by administering pre-test and post-test. In analyzing the data, the researcher used statistical formula mean score and t-test. The finding shows that the mean score in the post-test was higher than in pretest. It shows that the mean score of posttest is higher (75) than the pretest score (57), so the different scores of the tests is 18. Moreover, the analysis of t-test showed that tscore ttable or 8.714 2.074 at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 22. The higher aspects were content and vocabulary (16 Point). Based on these results, it can be concluded that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. It suggests that the use of weblog can improve students’ writing skills in all aspects. Therefore, the Weblog is recommended as a good media in teaching writing.
Exploring EFL Students’ Efforts in Speaking Skill Indra Syahputra; Sofyan A. Gani; Nurul Inayah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 1, No 2: December 2016
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The purpose of this study was to describe the efforts that students made in developing speaking skill. Descriptive qualitative was used in this study; the subjects were 65 students at year 2015 studying at English Education department, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh. The instrument used in this study was questionnaire. The questionnaire questions were adapted from the activity scale from Pace Kuh. The questionnaire revealed that speaking experience such as communicating by using English with friends and family was the highest effort chosen by the students because it was very comfortable to perform speaking among the closest people. Club and organization was the lowest effort chosen by the student. The students took part in organization just to spend their spare time. The students thought that joining in an organization did not have contribution in developing their speaking skill. The implication of this study was to motivate the students to make some efforts to develop their speaking skill. Focusing in certain effort will help the students improve their speaking skill mastery. In addition, for the suggestion, the students should create activities that promote English communication in order to develop their speaking skill.
The correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension Syuqaira El Humaira; Endang Komariah; Nurul Inayah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This research is aimed to find out if there is a significant correlation between the reading speed of the XII grade students at SMA Negeri 3 Banda Aceh with their reading comprehension. The population for this study were all students of class XII at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. By using the random sampling, the researcher chose 31 students of class XII MIPA 6 as the sample. The data was collected by using reading speed and reading comprehension test. After the data was collected, the correlation data is processed using product moment formula. The rXY result achieved to 0.74. The result reveals that the rvalue, 0.74, was higher than the  rtable, 0.355. Referring to the table at significant level 0.05, the result means that there is a significant correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension.
The implementation of Numbered Heads Together technique in improving speaking ability Amirullah Amirullah; Potjut Ernawati; Nurul Inayah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study is meant to figure out whether the implementation of Numbered Heads Together can improve students’ speaking ability in terms of descriptve text. The writer conducted an experimental research by using one group pretest-posttest. Total sample of students was 20 students and they were chosen by using purposive sampling technique. The instruments used to measure students’ speaking achievement by using oral performance test. There were three meetings for the treatments. The students’ pre-test mean score was 75.40 and posttest 80.70. Each aspect was improved after the treatment, i.e. Vocabulary 16 or (10.0%), fluency 17.6 or (9.50%), pronunciation was17.1 or (4.50%), comprehension 16 or (1.50%), grammar 14 or (1.00%). The writer used 5% (a=0.05) as significant value.  The t-test result, i.e. tvalue (2.34) was higher than ttable  (1.73) suggesting that Ha is accepted. This finding shows that the implementation of Numbered Head Together Technique improved second grade junior high school students’ speaking ability (vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, comprehension, grammar) in terms to describing people, places or things orally. Therefore, it is suggested that teachers who want to develop their students’ speaking ability use this technique.