Chairina Chairina
Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh

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The Effect of Drama Technique in Teaching Speaking at Senior High School Students Armia Armia; Asnawi Asnawi; Chairina Chairina
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 4, No 3 (2019): August 2019
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This expermental study was aimed to find out whether the implementation of drama technique could enhance the students’ speaking skill at SMAN 1 Seulimum. The population of this study was the tenth grade students and the X-IPA 1 class was taken for the research sample. The design of this study was a pre-experimental study which consists of sixt meetings; first meeting was for pre-test, second, third, fourth, and fifth meeting were for treatments, and last meeting was for post-test. As the quantitative method, the researcher analysed the data by means of t-test. The result showed that there was significant difference on the students’ speaking skill taught by using drama technique. The students’ mean of pre-test’s score was 51.64. Then in post-test, the mean score of the students was 63.64. In other words, drama technique was successfully enhancing speaking skill for the tenth grade of senior high school students. Therefore, the drama technique may be one of the appropriate teaching tehniques for improving students’ English speaking ability.
The Use of Figurative Language in the Poems by John Ashbery Sri Wahyuna; Arifin Syamaun; Chairina Chairina
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 4, No 3 (2019): August 2019
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Figurative language was a part of the literary work which created from philosophical thought or the effect of poets’ feeling which played some words and used as an interesting and creative comprehension. This study discussed about the use of figurative languages in the poems by John Ashbery based on the theory of Bain, Baety, and Hunter (1973) and describing the contextual meaning of the figurative language. The design of this study was descriptive qualitative research in nature. The results of the study showed that some types of figurative language used in the poems by John Ashbery such as metonymy, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, etc. The writer collected the data through three poems by John Ashbery which were gathered from the poetry books by John Ashbery; A Wave Poem (1984), The Tennis Court Oath (2011), and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (2007). The use of figurative language is suggested to use in improving student’s critical thinking and creativeness.