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Nira Erdiana
Universitas Syiah Kuala
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Factors Affecting Listening Comprehension Zia Syahreza; Syamsul Bahri Ys; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 4, No 4 (2019): December 2019
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Students who enroll in the English Department are taught by the lecturers by using English. Therefore, the skill of listening is the main and the most important aspect needed to figure out teacher’s meaning. Relating to students listening comprehension, they encountered some difficulties. Thus, the aim of this study is to find out what factors affect students’ listening comprehension in the English Department of Syiah Kuala University. This study was conducted at English Department of Teacher Training and Education faculty of Syiah Kuala University. 20 Seventh semester students of English Department were selected as sample of this study. The method of this study was a quantitative descriptive study. The writer used a questionnaire which consist of 43 questions as an instrument of this study. The result of questionnaire become the main data of this study. The data was calculated by using statistical formula. The result of this study revealed that the most dominant factor affecting students’ listening comprehension skill was physical setting factor, 32%out of 100% followed by failure to concentrate factor (23%), content of Listening text factor (20%), Psychological characteristic factor (19%), speaker factor (14%), listener factor (10%), and linguistics feature (9%) lastly. Therefore, it is recommended for head office of English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Syiah Kuala University to upgrade the equipment used to conduct listening activity.
Information Gap in teaching speaking Rini Venta Almira; Zulfadli A Aziz; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study aims at examining whether or not the use of information gap technique can improve students’ performance in English speaking ability and helps teachers in teaching speaking. In order to cope the problems faced by the students in learning speaking, the experimental of pre-test and post-test design was undertaken. The instrument used to collect the data in this study was a set of test. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic formula. The result of the test was analyzed by using speaking criteria suggested by Brown (2001). From the result of the study it reveals that the result of post-test is higher than the result of pre-test after the information gap technique was applied. It shows that the implementation of information gap can give a significant improvement to the students. It explicitly means that information gap can be one of alternative techniques used by teacher in teaching English particularly in teaching speaking in junior high schools.
Students’ perception toward English club activities Zulvy Melviza; Syamsul Bahri Ys; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study is intended to find out the perception of students toward English club activities in speaking. This study was conducted at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. The researcher used two instruments to find the data needed, namely; questionnaire and interview. Both questionnaire which adapted from Kasmalinda (2011) and interview were used by the researcher to figure out the perception of students toward English club activities in practicing speaking. The researcher combined both of the instruments to support the data of the research. the sample of this study was the students of SMAN 3 Banda Aceh who have participated English club. The researcher took 40 students as the sample (all English club members). Based on the data obtained from both instruments used, the findings showed that students perceived English club plays an important role in supporting students to practice speaking. The students also think that English club has a great way to encourage students’ motivation to practice speaking with friends. The students also viewed that they feel glad while joinning English club. In other words, English club gets them more experiences and more knowledge. In addition, the class atmosphere tends to be fun and comfortable and it makes them more interested in practicing speaking.
Techniques Mostly Used by English Teachers of SMAN 4 Wira Bangsa Melaboh in Teaching Speaking Ayatullah Rohullah Khomaini; Bukhari Daud; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 3, No 3 (2018): August 2018
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Speaking is one of language skills required to learn for all senior high school students. SMAN 4 Wira Bangsa Meulaboh is one of senior high schools whose students have a good speaking proficiency as they succeed in winning some competition held in West Aceh regency. This study aimed at finding out the techniques mostly used by English teachers to teach speaking at SMAN 4 Wira Bangsa Meulaboh. This study was a qualitative study. Total sampling technique was employed to select three English teachers at SMAN 4 Wira Bangsa Meulaboh. The instrument used to collect the data was interview. The result showed that there was no dominant technique used by English teachers at SMAN 4 Wira Bangsa. They used debate technique, role play and jigsaw. The teachers also said that they frequently change the techniques based topic of the subject. The interview results also indicated that all of the teachers tried to present authentic material to the speaking class. Based on the interview, it was also obtained that the common mistakes did by English teachers were overused of mother tongue and choosing technique without considering the students’ level.  It is expected that the teachers do collaborative work in determining which technique work better to certain topic compared to other techniques.  
The Use of Animation Videos to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill Cut Irmayunda; Sofyan A. Gani; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 5, No 2 (2020): June 2020
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The objective of this study is to figure out whether the use of animation videos improve students’ speaking skill to the second-year students at SMP Negeri 16 Banda Aceh. The method of this study was quantitative research (experimental study) with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample of this research was one class at VIII-1 which consists of 30 students. The researcher used simple random sampling to determine the sample. The researcher used an oral test to collect the data about giving a dialogue (an expression to invite someone) with their partner. In analyzing the data, the researcher used a statistical formula to measure the data. The calculation result showed that the mean score of students' pre-test score was 21 and the mean score of the post-test was 41. Then, the t-score was 4.89 and the t-table was 2.045. It can be seen that the t-score was higher than the t-table. In conclusion, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. As a result, the use of animation videos in learning English improves students speaking skills.
The Implementation of Scientific Approach in Teaching English Based on 2013 Curriculum Burhanuddin Burhanuddin; Arifin Syamaun; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 3, No 3 (2018): August 2018
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2013 curriculum applies scientific approach in the formal learning process, and the scientific approach offers more chance for students to get more involved in the learning process. The scientific approach stimulates students to think creatively through some steps, and that draw the writer’s attention to conduct such research regarding the scientific approach to prove if implementation of scientific approach can stimulate student to think creatively as result of learning process. This research focuses on the implementation of scientific approach in the classroom at SMA Lab School Unsyiah. This research gather data from two sources; observation during English class to examine the implementation of the method in the class and conducting interview with English teacher to gain deeper data regarding the implementation of scientific approach. Result of this research showed the implementation scientific approach during learning process still need improvement. That was caused by unequal chance received by students to directly participate in the whole steps of scientific approach. Naturally, the implementation of scientific approach is helpful and should be applied during teaching and learning process in school to stimulate students’ activeness.
Reading comprehension difficulties encountered by senior high school EFL students Rizka Puji Lestari; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study aims at finding out reading comprehension difficulties faced by the EFL students and the factors of the difficulties faced by thirty second graders of senior high school Banda Aceh. This research used mix method and the data were collected through test and interview. This research focused on five aspects in reading comprehension namely main idea, detail information, inference, reference, and vocabulary. The data collected were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative approach was used to obtain the data about the frequency of students’ difficulties in reading comprehension, while the qualitative approach was used to find out the factors why students face the difficulties. Based on the result from the test, the researcher found that the major difficulty students face in reading comprehension text is vocabulary (27%), followed by main idea (23%), inference and reference (18%), and detail information (14%). Moreover, the result from the interview with five students who got the lowest scores in the test and an English teacher who teaches the class indicates that the factors why the students face the difficulties are the absence of extensive reading, inadequate vocabulary, type of text, type of questions, the absence of the use of reading strategy, and the uncertainty of students’ reading levels. The findings suggest the English teacher measures the students’ reading levels properly, clearly teach the reading strategy, and apply an interesting strategy in teaching reading to motivate the students to read in English more.
Teachers’ view in improving students’ speaking ability through pictures Muflihatun Muflihatun; Bustami Usman; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 1: February 2017
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In curriculum 2013, students are expected to use English in oral communications related to the skill pictures are frequently use teaching. Descriptive is a text that often use in speaking. Unfortunately, student lack of vocabulary, no ideas, and not enough information to describing something in detail; based on the problems, teachers’ try to solve it in classroom activity. One of them is media picture that used by teacher to attract student’s attention and motivations. This study was descriptive qualitative. To find the data the researcher ask  teachers’ view’ on the impact of media picture in improving students speaking ability; by using interview and recorded.  The researcher found that positive view of teachers’ related to pictures. In addition, pictures are easy to obtain, colorful is better to attract students’ attentions. It was give many contributions in field of education.
The Effectiveness of Smart Board Media in Teaching Reading for Junior High School Student Hasna Topal; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 4, No 3 (2019): August 2019
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The use of media is really helpful in assisting the teacher in teaching and learning process. However, the effectiveness of smartboard media in teaching reading has not been testified. Thus, the objective of this study is to figure out the effectiveness of smart board media in teaching reading for junior high school students. This study was conducted in Fatih Bilingual School Banda Aceh. Second-grade students from Fatih Bilingual School were chosen as the sample of this study. Two types of tests, which were pre-test and post-test, were the instrument of this study. The data was analyzed by using statistical formula. The methodology of this study was Experimental design. The revealed data showed that the mean score for pre-test and post-test was 73.75 and 78.44 respectively. The comparison of the score between pre-test and post-test was gained through calculating the gain score, which were 2.26. Based on the result of hypothesis testing, the result of t-score in this study was 2.07 and t-table was 2.13. This result indicated that the alternative hypothesis of this study (Ha) is rejected (2.072.13).
The Implementation of Context Clues Strategy in Infering the Meaning of Unknown Vocabulary to Improve Reading Skill Riska Mauliza; Iskandar Abdul Samad; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 4, No 2 (2019): June 2019
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A key to reading comprehension is understanding the message conveyed and it depends heavily on the understanding of the meaning of words appeared in the text. For students, reading comprehension becomes one of the skills that they are more familiar with since they deal with reading texts every day even in examinations. This situation drives students to cope with many unfamiliar English words causing them stuck in comprehending the message conveyed. Therefore, assisting students to improve their comprehension by inferring word meaning from context is very important. Corresponding to the idea, the writer did an experimental study to implement context clues strategy which (is believed) can help students to infer words meaning in reading text. The study was implemented on 20 students of XII IPS3 of SMAN 12 Banda Aceh to figure out how the strategy assists the students in inferring the meaning of unknown words. The result shows that the students’ comprehension improves well reflected on the mean score got by students from pretest and posttest increasing from 54.5 to 80.25. The development can be achieved since the strategy trains and guides the students to find out the clues provided in the text in the form of definition, synonym, antonym, example, or inference, that help them to guess the meaning of the word. In conclusion, context clues strategy does assist the students in inferring words meaning from context. Hence, it is suggested for English teacher to apply it in classroom in order to facilitate students’ reading comprehension.
Co-Authors Almira, Rini Venta Arifin Syamaun Arifin Syamaun Ashra Winda Berliyani Asnawi Muslem Ayatullah Rohullah Khomaini Aziz, Zulfadli A Bahri Ys, Syamsul Berliyani, Ashra Winda Bukhari Daud Bukhari Daud Burhanuddin Burhanuddin Burhanuddin Burhanuddin Bustami Usman Bustami Usman, Bustami Cut Irmayunda Cut Nurul Akhmal Daud, Bukhari Dekhnich, Olga V. Delfira Aulia Dian Fajrina Diana Achmad Diana Fauzia Sari Endang Komariah Endang Komariah Endang Komariah, Endang Fajriani, Ukhti Fany Fadilla Farisa, Lila Fitria, Shaumi Hasna Topal Herman Rusli Ihsan Nazir Intani Ratu Maulina Irmayunda, Cut Iskandar Abdul Samad Iskandar Abdul Somad Khomaini, Ayatullah Rohullah Lestari, Rizka Puji Lie, Jacqueline Lila Farisa Masrizal Mahmud Maulina, Intani Ratu Mauliza, Riska Melisa Safitri Melviza, Zulvy Muflihatun Muflihatun Muflihatun, Muflihatun Nadia Juwita Nazir, Ihsan Nur Mulia Nanda Rini Venta Almira Riska Mauliza Riska Ramadhani Rizka Puji Lestari Safhida, Maya Saiful Marhaban Shaumi Fitria Shindy Khusuma Dwitami Siti Rahmani Siti Sarah Fitriani, Siti Sarah Sofyan A. Gani Sofyan A. Gani Sulastri Panjaitan Syahreza, Zia Syamaun, Arifin Syamsul Bahri Syamsul Bahri Syamsul Bahri Ys Syamsul Bahri Ys Syarifah Nisa Khaira Topal, Hasna Usman Kasim Usman Kasim Wildan Wildan Ys, Syamsul Bahri Yunisrina Q. Yusuf Zia Syahreza Zulfadli A Aziz Zulvy Melviza