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The Application of Question and Answer Method to Improve the Ability of Students Achievement Resa Mandaniyati; Ida Vera Sophya
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2017): December 2017
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The main problem in this study is whether to use the method question and answer can improve student achievement outcomes in class x Ma nurul ilmi Bategede on learning? The objectives to be achieved in this research are to improve student achievement in class X Ma nurul ilmi on English learning using the question and answer method. This research is a classroom action research conducted in two cycles, for each the cycle uses stages: (1) planning, (2) Acting, (3) Observation, and (4) Reflection. This research was conducted in Ma Nurul ilmi class X with students learning using the question and answer method and students learning without using the question and answer method. The results of the study indicate that the preparation and mastery of the material and knowledge of the principles in asking questions can improve the skills of the teacher or students in asking questions and opinions. which indirectly influences student achievement by changing the grades obtained by students. things that must be considered in the context of efforts to create a conducive academic environment, the preparation of teaching (with the question and answer method) questioning skills and empathy and democratic attitudes, teachers must always be developed in order to create an active learning process with the question and answer method.
Analysis of Speech Acts on Tony Abbott’s Statement Towards Bali Nine’s Death Penalty Marisatul Khasanah
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 1, No 1 (2017): June 2017
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This study is aimed at revealing the speech acts implemented on Tony Abbott’s speech towards Bali Nine’s Death penalty. It is a qualitative study which implements speech acts theories. The data are collected through documentary technique. The data has revealed that there are three types of illocutionary acts realized in the speech and the representative act accounts for the largest proportion with 15 out of 22 utterances of illocutionary acts. Abbott has succeeded in telling the world about their disappointment towards the case. He was also able to make suggestions, complaint, assumptions, and conclusions as well as statement of some facts. He used directives which were delivered both in direct and indirect way trying to spur the audience to make some actions. At last, by using commissive, he also succeeded in convincing his audience about the promise and guarantee he has made.Key words: Pragmatic, Speech, Speech Acts
Instructional Listening Materials Using Audio Visual (at Student English Club of IAIN Kudus) Hikam Arif; Aliffira Artamevia; Laily Nurunni’mah; Nurul Istiqomah; Dewi Qusrini; Alfu Nikmah
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 4, No 1 (2020): June 2020
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This study investigates the instructional listening materials. The reason of choosing this topic is based on the listening included in skill that assessed the most difficult in language skill. In addition, the audio-visual media is also interesting. With listen and watch the materials it will add the understanding of language. The aims of this research were to investigate the effectiveness of using audio visual to improve students listening skill, how the strategy to take advantage of audio-visual media to improve listening skills and to know attitudes of using audio visual in listening skill. The target of this research was the member of Student English Club of IAIN Kudus. The data were collected through questionnaire. The result of research showed that on the based questionnaire, the student gives positive attitude that the using audio visual is effective to improve listening skill.
THE EFFECT OF RAFT (ROLE, AUDIENCE, FORMAT AND TOPIC) STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILLOF RECOUNT TEXT Hamdani Hamdani; Nila Rahmadhani; Muhammad Kristiawan
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 1, No 1 (2017): June 2017
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This research was experiment, which aimed at finding out whether there was significant effect of RAFT strategy towards students’ writing skill of recount text or not. The population of this research were the students grade X MAN Lubuk Alung in academic year 2015/2016. It consists of 180 students. The technique of selecting sample was cluster sampling, and it was selected two classes, X4 treated through RAFT strategy while X3 was treated through conventional strategy.The data of this research were collectedthroughwriting test. The data analysis of post-test showed that the mean scoreof students’ writing skill in experimental class were 77.75with 6.51 standard deviation and the mean score of students’ writing skill in control class were67.58 with 6.42 standard deviation. Those data were taken after both classes given treatments for several times with tcalculated = 5.113 and ttable = 1.645. Itmeans the score of tcalculated was bigger than the score of ttable (tc> tt).Based on the analysis, it was concluded that RAFT strategy gave significant effecttoward students’ writing skill of recount text rather than conventional strategy. It was proven by students’ score in experimental class was higher than control class.Key words: RAFT strategy, writing skill, recount text, islamic high school
Improving Student’s Pronunciation by Using U Dictionary Application In TBI-C’18 IAIN Kudus M Akmalin Ni'am Zam Zami; Suciati Suciati
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 4, No 2 (2020): December 2020
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Pronunciation is an important think in learning English. many people assume that pronunciation is the hardest think in learning English. because of the speak muscle, which is usually using the first language, then must speak the word of second language or third language. So that the difficulties in speaking appear. It is influencing the English Education student in IAIN Kudus that English education students. The propose of this research is to improve English pronunciation of English Education Student C’18 IAIN Kudus. This study belongs to experiment research and using pre-test and post-test as the media. The focus of this research is in using U-dictionary to improve English education pronunciation.
IMPROVING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL OF STEC FUNCTIONARIES THROUGH ENGLISH AREA Alfian R Maulana; Taranindya Zulha Amalia
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 2, No 2 (2018): December 2018
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The purpose of this study was to find out how the application of the English area in IAIN Kudus where the aim of the English Area is improving English speaking skills. This program is carried out by one of the organizations at IAIN Kudus that called STEC (Student English Club), an organization oriented in English. The implementation of the English Area is because in learning languages, an effective method to actually use it is only through habituation. Therefore, the English Area is one of the objects of research on how to learn language habits to improve speaking skills effectively.
Stimulating Students’ English Learning Motivation Through Drama at Islamic Preschool Education Department Tarbiyah Faculty of STAIN Kudus Taranindya Zulhi Amalia
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 1, No 1 (2017): June 2017
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This research aims at identifying the effectiveness of drama as a model of teaching in stimulating students’ English learning motivation at Islamic Preschool Teacher Education (PGRA) of STAIN Kudus. This field research which applies qualitative approach has English lecturers and students of PGRA as primary sources while articles and books related to drama, preschool, and English learning motivation as secondary data. The techniques of data collection are observation, interview, and documentation. In analysing the data, there are reduction, display, and verification by Miles and Huberman.   The result and discussion of the study answer the problem statements as follows: (1) The criteria of drama consist of topics, scenario, players, time allotment, settings, practices, character buildings as well as decorations and documentation, (2) the drama which comes from friendship and constructs communicative competence motivates the students’ English learning. While the developments consist of  pronouncing and  producing the dialogues of drama as well as breath, vocal, mental, character building, and English skills, (3) the effectiveness is started in some processes. It is started from the drama preparation, consultation and asking lecture’s advices.Keywords: drama, English learning motivation, islamic preschool education
The Efforts to Create an Efficient Online Learning M. Akmalun Ni’am Zam Zami; Ulin Nuha
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 4, No 1 (2020): June 2020
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The propose of this study was to find the effort which can use to realize e-learning efficiently. The research is focus on the problem how is the learning model on e-learning that is efficient. This is a qualitative research and uses descriptive qualitative. The results show information’s about the lack of liveliness of students in managing their time which cause their e-learning to become not efficient. This writing will examine about the efforts in realizing the e-learning efficiently
THE EFFECT OF USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS INNOVATION TO ORGANIZE MILLENNIAL COLLEGE STUDENTS’ IDEAS ON ENGLISH WRITING M Noor Sulaiman Syah
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): June 2018
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Organizing ideas was one of the crucial problems in the millennial era faced by the first grade English department students at IAIN Kudus in English writing. To encounter that problem, the observer (who was also the English writing lecturer) proposed the students to use the innovation of graphic organizers techniques to organize their ideas on English writing. For that reason, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of graphic organizers innovation in organizing students' ideas on English writing ability as well as their attitudes towards this essential language skill. The sample of this study was composed of 10 first semesters of English department students at STAIN Kudus during the academic year 2017-2018. This study (within subject design) was conducted in three phases. Two main sources were used to generate data for the study: (1) samples of students' English writing before and after the graphic organizers intervention, and (2) a writing attitude survey which was administered twice before and after intervention. The writing scores of the participants before and after the graphic organizers' intervention were compared and analyzed quantitatively using the test of significance to see if there were any distinctions between means of the scores. The data generated through the writing attitude survey was analyzed qualitatively to identify any changes in students' attitudes. The results of this study proved that the innovation of the graphic organizers techniques had significantly enhanced the millennial students' ability to organize ideas on English writing and had positively impacted their attitudes towards this skill. These results suggest that graphic organizers innovation can be an effective support in teaching writing for EFL learners. 
The Implementation of Discovery Learning in Teaching Writing Recount Text: The Case 12th Grade Student of 01 Batealit Vocational High School, Jepara Nurul Aslimah; Alfu Nikmah
Britania Journal of English Teaching Vol 2, No 2 (2018): December 2018
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The purpose of the study is to know the implementation using discovery learning method to teach writing recount text 12th grade student of 1 Batealit Vocational High School and to know the surplus and deficiency by using discovery learning method. The respondent of this research are the English teacher and the student of agriculture 12th grade. And the method are using interview and class room action research. The result is discovery learning method is more comprehensive than doesn’t using discovery learning. Although there are many difficulty to apply this method because some of them didn’t familiar with this method and most of the students are the lazier person but they are smart students. After applied the discovery learning they more pleasant with English.