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Students’ Response on Information-Gap Task in Improving Speaking Skill Yosa Lanovastia; Sofyan A. Gani; Yuliana Natsir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 1, No 2: December 2016
Publisher : Universitas Syiah Kuala

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This descriptive qualitative research was conducted to discover the students’ response towards the implementation of Information-Gap Task in improving speaking skill at SMA Tunas Bangsa, South West Aceh. The subject of this research was 32 studentsof class IX chosen through purposive sampling technique. The data were collected through questionnaire items which was adapted from the formula of Taylor-powell and Bahous, et al. The result of this research showed that most students gave positive response toward the implementation of Information-Gap Task and they agree that Information-Gap Task can help, motivate and attract them in improving speaking skill. Only a few   they do not enjoy the speaking practice through Information-Gap Task. In brief, the implementation of Information-Gap Task by the teacher improves students’ speaking skill and helps students to cope with their speaking problem.
The Perceptions of Students on the Importance of English Speaking Skill in the Tourism Sector Syahwil Saputra; Endang Komariah; Yuliana Natsir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 3: August 2017
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The objective of this study is to find out the perceptions of students on the importance of English speaking skill in the tourism sector. The instruments used to collect the data were the questionnaire and interview. Both the instruments were adapted from Arslan and Akbarov (2012). The set of interview questions were adjusted by the writer to figure out the perceptions of students toward the importance of English speaking skill in tourism sector. The subjects of this study were the fourth and sixth semester students of Tourism Academy of Muhammadiyah Aceh. The writer took 25 students as the sample. The data were analyzed by using qualitative data analysis (data reduction, data display, and conclusion). Based on the data obtained from both instruments, the findings showed that the majority of students perceived that English speaking skills in the tourism sector was important. It can be seen from the data result based on each category of the questionnaire item. More than 50% of the respondents perceived that English for tourism was attractive to learn. Furthermore, 90% of the respondents stated that English for tourism was useful in finding future jobs. Based on the third category, there were 91% of the respondents stated that English was important in facilitating communication process in the tourism sector. Moreover, there were 56% of the respondents stated there was an impact of speaking English to native language. The last category, 91% of the students perceived that they were aware of basic terms of tourism in English. 
The Use of Comic to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill at Junior High School Afwun Kamil; Endang Komariah; Yuliana Natsir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 3: August 2017
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The objective of this experimental study is to know the achievement of students reading comprehension after implementing comic as learning media. The population was all of the eighth grade students of SMPN 17 Banda Aceh. The sample was the students of class VIII-9 (experimental class) and VIII-6 (control class). True Exprimental Design is used in this study. The writer conducted pre-test, treatment and post-test to collect data, and used gain score calculation. The mean score of pre-test in experimental class was 62 and post-test was 75.6, while the mean score of pre-test in control class was 36.8, and post-test was 59.2. The gain score of experimental class was 9.78, while control class was 8.11. It indicated that there was an improvement of students’ achievement both of classes. However, the improvement of students’ achievement in experimental class is higher than control class. Moreover, the analysis of t-test showed that tscore ttable or 2.36 1.68 at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 25. It is clear that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that comic is effective media in teaching learning reading recount text.
The Investigation of Linguistic Contrains in Writing Faced by Junior High School Students Mirda Mirda; Bukhari Daud; Yuliana Natsir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 4: December 2017
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This thesis was conducted to investigate the language constraints in writing that experienced by the second grade of junior high school students at Ishafuddin, Banda Aceh. It is also to see the teachers’ efforts in helping the students in solving the problems. The research design of this study is descriptive qualitative. The sample of this study are two teachers at second grade of junior high school Inshafuddin. This study used documentation and interview as instruments. The result of document collection showed that the biggest problems faced by the students was mechanics, followed by vocabulary and the content as the third problem. The last problem was organization. From the interview, it was found that the two teachers help the students with all the aspects of writing as well as additional effort like giving them assignment, bringing the dictionary, asking them to study outside the classroom, and correcting paper wih students.