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<![CDATA[APPLYING REALIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ON A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016) ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/geej.v3i2.707
<![CDATA[In learning process, a teacher is required to be able to select the appropriate method for teaching students to write text. One of the texts that should be learned by students is descriptive text. The purpose of this research is to improve students' writing descriptive text. It is an experimental study that employed One – Group Pretest-Posttest Design in which there was one class as an experimental class which was taught using Realia. The subject of this study conducted in class VII at SMPN 18 Banda Aceh. There were 21 students taken as sample of this research. Technique of data collection in this research is using test. While to analyze the data, the writer used quantitative analysis by using some statistical formulas. After the writer applied the media, the writer looked at a positive improvement on the students’ writing. It was turned out that this media really help students in writing descriptive text. The result of data analysis demonstrated that there was a significant difference on students’ achievement from both tests proved by average of the pre-test and post-test’s score. As a result, the post-test’s mean score (84, 07) is higher than pre-test’s mean score (60, 7), which the score of t-test was 18,45 and the value for t-table was 2,08 at a level of significance 0,05. It can be concluded that the students who were taught by using realia had a better performance in learning writing especially on descriptive text. In brief, realia enables to increase the students’ achievement in learning writing and it gave a positive effect on writing teaching and learning process. It helps students’ in writing a descriptive text by looking directly the object that they would describe.]]>
<![CDATA[COGNITIVE INQUIRY: IS ENGLISH REALLY DIFFICULT FOR SCIENCE STUDENTS? ]]>
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<![CDATA[Nyak Mutia Ismail]]>
<![CDATA[ Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/geej.v4i1.723
<![CDATA[Science students are known miserable in coping very well with language, especially English. This study searched for the truth of this proposition by evaluating the formative test items for senior high-school level used in a science-based school in Aceh, Indonesia. The sources of this study were 150 questions and 35 students’ answers on the pertaining tests for three different grades. The objective of this study was to find out the item facility and distractors’ efficiency of each test item used for science students in their formative test. Methodology deployed was qualitative approach using content analysis in the scope of finding the item facility and distractors’ efficiency for the test items. The result depicted that 84% of the items are in the ‘easy’ index, and 11% in ‘moderate’ index, and 4% ‘difficult’ index. Then, the data show that only 17% of the distractors’ are efficient. The conclusion is that the formative test items are, indeed, easy for science students but with one condition: most of the distractors do not work properly for their cognitive level.]]>
<![CDATA[THE ESSENTIAL OF REALIA: ESTABLISHING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY TO THE REAL WORLD ]]>
<![CDATA[Rosdiana]]>
<![CDATA[ Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/geej.v4i2.751
<![CDATA[Realia is a term for real things or concrete objects that are used in the classroom to build background knowledge and vocabulary. The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) students achievment in writing a descriptive paragraph using realia media for the second grade students of English department of STKIP BBG., (2) students’ ability in learning to write a descriptive paragraph with realia media. The design used in this research is descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research is English department students of STKIP BBG consist of 25 students. The method used in collecting data is through observation and test. The data analysis used in this study is qualitative and quantitative descriptive. The results show that (1) Learning to write paragraph description with mind mapping model by teacher is in accordance with existing theory. (2) The ability of second grade students of English department in writing the descriptive paragraph is quite good. The scores obtained are 78.13. Although the scores obtained have reached the good category, it seems that teacher performance needs to be improved again by providing more intensive exercises, both in making mind mapping and development into paragraphs, to achieve maximum results.]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF AUDIO VISUAL AS MEDIA IN ENHANCING STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018) ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/geej.v5i1.771
<![CDATA[Listening is a basic ability required in mastering English. The purpose of this article is to describe the utilization of audio visual media in improving listening skills of students majoring in STKIP Language BBG Banda Aceh. The main purpose of this research is 1) to know the application of learning development of audio-visual media in improving listening ability of first year English students of STKIP BBBG. 2) to know the increasing of listening ability of English student of second year students of STKIP BBBG after getting learning using audio visual media. This research is quantitative study. To achieve these objectives, purposive sampling is used which is focused on the first year student students semester II are taken as the subject of this research. Regarding the data analysis, mean, percentageandt-test scores for the dependent sample were employed. There sultindi cated that 1)thestudents’ English listening comprehension ability increased significantly after learning with video sand 2) students had positive attitude stoward susing video sin teaching listening skills.]]>
<![CDATA[EFL STUDENTS ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENGLISH ACADEMIC WRITING ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019) ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/geej.v6i1.870
<![CDATA[Writing has become the most incredible and difficult skills for EFL learners to master relating to generate and organize ideas. This research tried to investigate the importance of writing skill in English Writing subject specifically about students’ responses toward writing difficulties. Thus, the objectives of the study are describing the EFL students’ attitude toward writing, discovering the EFL students’ view of writing difficulties and discovering students’ effort to improve their writing skill. This is a qualitative research conducted through analysis of a questionnaire, interview and students’ written compositions. The survey involved 25 EFL (English as a foreign language) students from the English department of UIN Ar-Raniry who attended Writing class. Data were gathered through questionnaires and one-to-one semi-structured interviews. The results from the questionnaire indicated that the students who have moderate attitude to writing, view writing as difficult, and stressful. Meanwhile, those who have high attitude, mostly suppose writing as interesting and challenging. The result shows that the students encountered numerous difficulties while composing writing: effects of L1 transfer lack of reading, motivation, and practice. Most of the students find it very challenging to obtain sufficient and relevant source information, paraphrase or summarize information, and they are not accustomed to use an English academic writing style. The finding of interview also reveals that several efforts that the students do to improve their writing skill, among others are practice writing with their friend, reading a lot for knowledge and ideas, and composing journal writing. This finding implies that the students should be helped to acquire skills that will enable them to express their ideas clearly and effectively in writing.]]>
<![CDATA[GALLERY WALK: AN ALTERNATIVE LEARNINGSTRATEGY FOR STUDENTS’WRITING ACHIEVEMENT ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Getsempena English Education Journal Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019) ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/geej.v6i2.886
<![CDATA[This study aims to improve students' ability to write complimenting English texts. The subjects of this study were 28 students of class X-IPA1 SMA 5 Banda Aceh. This research is a classroom action research (CAR) consisting of 2 cycles. Each cycle includes planning (planning), implementation (Action), observation (Observation), and reflection (Reflection). The data of this study were collected through performance, student observation sheets and management of learning by the teacher. The results showed that the students' ability to write English complimenting texts in the first cycle reached 60.09% and in the second cycle increased to 83.33% of students who achieved KKM 75. This means that the established indicators have been reached which determined that this study was successful if 85% of students reached KKM 75. By thus it can be concluded that the application of the Gallery Walk method can improve capabilitiesstudents in writing a complimenting texts. In this connection, it is recommended that teachers apply the Gallery Walk method in teaching English, especially forteaching writing skills.]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF DICTATION-COMPOSITION TECHNIQUE TO DECREASE STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN WRITING (AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH FOR THE FIRST GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA NEGERI 4 BANDA ACEH) ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Jurnal Metamorfosa Vol 7 No 2 (2019) ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia, STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena ]]>
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<![CDATA[Penelitian ini menerangkan tentang penggunaan teknik mendikte-mengarang (dictation-composition)untuk mengurangi kesalahan siswa dalam menulis. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari kesalahan yang paling banyak dilakukan oleh siswa setelah dictation-compositionditerapkan dan untuk mengetahui apakah teknik tersebut dapat mengurangi kesalahan siswa dalam menulis atau tidak. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dimana data penelitian diperoleh dengan menggunakan tes dan dokumentasi tes menulis siswa. Objek dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas I SMA Negeri 4 Banda Aceh. Berdasarkan data dari dokumentasi tes menulis siswa, kesalahan yang paling banyak dilakukan oleh siswa setelah dictation-compositiondilaksanakan adalah kesalahan tata bahasa dengan total persentase data adalah 46,42%. Sementara itu, data dari tes dianalisis dan dihitung dengan menggunakan rumus statistik. Hasil dari tes menunjukkan bahwa skor rata-rata pre-test adalah 38.80, sedangkan skor rata-rata post-test adalah 40.61. Selanjutnya, hasil dari t-test = 2.12 dan t-table = 1.70. Ini membuktikan bahwa skor t-test lebih tinggi daripada t-tabel, sehingga hipotesis alternatif (Ha) diterima dan hipotesis nol (Ho) ditolak. Abstract This research reports an investigation of the use of dictation-composition to decrease students’ errors in writing. The objectives of this study are to determine the most errors made by the students after the dictation-composition implemented, and to find out whether dictation-composition technique decreases the students’ errors in writing or not. The research was conducted by using quantitative research and the data was collected using test and documentation of students' writing test. The object of this research was the students at the first grade of SMA Negeri 4 Banda Aceh. Based on the data from documentation of students' writing test, it showed that the most errors made by the students after the dictation-composition implemented was in grammatical errors with the total of data percentage is 46.42%. Meanwhile, the data from test was analyzed and calculated by the statistical formula. It showed that the mean score of pre-test was 38.80, while the mean score of post-test was 40.61. Furthermore, the result was showed that t-test = 2.12 and t-table = 1.70. It means that t-test score was higher than t-table, so the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Keywords: Dictation-Composition Technique, Descriptive Text, Errors, Writing]]>
<![CDATA[AN OVERVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Jurnal Visipena Vol 7 No 1 (2016) ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian (LP2M) STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/visipena.v7i1.297
<![CDATA[The application of linguistics to the study and improvement of language teaching, language learning, language planning, communication between groups, speech therapy and the management of language handicap, systems of communications, translating and interpreting, and lexicography. The bulk of the work of applied linguists to date has related to language teaching and language learning and especially English as a foreign or second language. This study tries to review the study of language, concerns itself with all aspects of how people use language and what they must know in order to do so. As a universal characteristic of the species, language has always held a special fascination for human beings. This study try to explore the branches of linguistics are concerned with how languages are structured, how languages are used, and how they are spoken.]]>
<![CDATA[PENGARUH CRITICAL READING MAHASISWA TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN CRITICAL WRITING: (Deskriptif Study pada Mahasaiswa Jurusan Bahasa Inggris UIN-Ar-Raniry) ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Jurnal Visipena Vol 7 No 2 (2016) ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian (LP2M) STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena ]]>
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DOI: 10.46244/visipena.v7i2.310
<![CDATA[Tujuan utama dari penelitian ini adalah untuk meninjau dan menganalisis Pengaruh Critical reading Mahasiswa terhadap kemampuan siswa dalam Critical writing. Ini adalah penelitian lapangan yang mengamati cara mengajar Critical Reading pada mahasiswa Jurusan Bahasa Inggris di UIN-Ar-Raniry. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana critical reading siswa mempengaruhi prestasi critical writing mereka. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, purposive sampling digunakan di mana 25 siswa kelas Akademik Reading diambil sebagai subjek penelitian ini. Selain itu, sumber utama data penelitian ini adalah tulisan siswaa. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan deskripsi data dan penyajian data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada efek yang baik dalam penerapan critical reading terhadap prestasi siswa dalam critical writing. Materi yang dipilih oleh dosen mampu mendorong siswa dalam melakukan critical writing . Ini menunjukkan bahwa siswa yang kompeten untuk berlatih critical reading bahwa mereka dapat memahami teks dan merespons teks. Para siswa juga lebih aktif dalam interaksi kelas dan diskusi untuk merespon teks. Para siswa lebih sensitif dan lebih toleran dalam melihat isu-isu dan keragaman dalam menanggapi isu-isu. Mereka bersedia mendengarkan pendapat orang lain dan memikirkan kembali tentang pendapat mereka sendiri. Akhirnya, mereka mampu menyajikan alasan dalam diskusi sehingga mereka mampu membuat keputusan dan penilaian tentang masalah ini berdasarkan pertimbangan yang masuk akal. Oleh karena itu, disarankan agar program pengajaran seperti apa yang telah dilaksanakan dalam penelitian ini harus diterapkan dalam tingkat pendidikan tinggi lainnya. Pengajaran critical reading dapat diajarkan secara terpisah atau diajarkan dengan pengajaran membaca bahkan untuk pengajaran menulis. Akhirnya, kemampuan siswa dalam mengungkapkan argumen juga harus menempatkan penekanan kuat dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris, terutama di tingkat pendidikan yang lebih tinggi.]]>
<![CDATA[Subject-Verb Agreement in EFL Students’ Perception ]]>
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<![CDATA[ Almufi Jurnal Pendidikan Vol 1 No 2 (2021): Vol. 1, No. 2 Agustus (2021) ]]>
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<![CDATA[Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kemampuan menulis mahasiswa dalam menggunakan subject-verb agreement di STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Partisipan penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa semester II STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena yang berjumlah 19 mahasiswa. Instrumen pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah daftar pertanyaan (tes) dan wawancara. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui jenis kesalahan subject-verb agreement oleh mahasiswa dan persepsi dosen terhadap kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan subject-verb agreement. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan mahasiswa masih rendah dalam menggunakan subject-verb agreement, dimana mahasiswa sulit membedakan subject/verb tunggal dan jamak. Data analisis menunjukkan lebih dari 50% mahasiswa tidak mampu menggunakan kata kerja sesuai dengan subjek yang tersedia untuk kalimat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa, lebih dari 40% mahasiswa mampu memilih kata kerja yang tepat untuk kalimat yang disediakan dalam soal tes. Hal ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa setengah dari sampel tidak mampu menyelesaikan tes dengan kualifikasi yang cukup untuk penggunaan aturan subject-verb agreement.]]>
