Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching provides periodical academic publishing covering a wide range of language education disciplines. It is published by Department of English Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Tidar University. We intend to encourage scholars, academicians, students and researchers to publish articles and exchange their research work within the field of:
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USING RIPPLE TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE HORTATORY TEXT WRITING SKILL OF THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMA NEGERI 1 MAGELANG
Sari_ Yunita
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.254
Writing is one of the four skills in English which should be mastered by students of senior high school. However, students in the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang find difficulties in writing hortatory text. It is proved from the average score of writing skill (71) which does not reach the standard minimum score for English yet which is 78. Students’ difficulties in learning writing are because of many factors. One of them is teaching technique. Therefore, the writer conducted a study to overcome the problem by applying Ripple Technique. There are two main objectives in this study. The first is to know whether the use of Ripple Technique can increase the students’ hortatory text learning motivation. The second is to know how great the improvement of the students hortatory text writing skill after being taught by using Ripple Technique.The writer conducted a classroom action research (CAR). It was divided into Pre-Cycle, Cycle I, and Cycle II. Furthermore, the writer collected the data using non test (observation, questionnaire, and documentation) and test. The writer selected the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang, XI IPA 6 as subject of the study. There are 24 students in the class which consists of 15 females and 9 males.Based on the result, there was an improvement of students’ learning motivation in writing hortatory text. The writer’s observation and questionnaire showed that most of the students had behavioral change. It was proved from the result of the writer’s observation and questionnaire that increased. Beside, the improvement also showed from the test results. In Pre-Cycle test, the average score test was 71.96 which belong to good category. In Cycle I test, the average score was 78.63 which belong to good category while In Cycle II test, the average score was 82.17 which belong to good category. The improvement from Pre-Cycle test to Cycle II was 10.21 points.The writer concluded that the Ripple Technique could increase the hortatory text students’ learning motivation. In addition, it also improved the hortatory text writing skill of the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang in the school year 2017/2018. In brief, this technique help the students to build a background knowledge about the topic which they write in their text and gain more information to be developed. This technique is also interesting for the students to be more active in the learning process.
VIOLATION OF GRICE’S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE ON THE DIALOGUE OF “THE WILD DUCK” BY HENRIK IBSEN
Mufidah Ulin Nur
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.289
Communication is important for people in society. Pragmatics offers Grice’s cooperative principle to make the conversational contribution such as is required, context based acceptable, and accepted purpose of the talk. Violation on Grice’s maxims can cause misunderstanding which makes conversation fail. It also happens on the dialogue of drama, which is a representation of human’s communication. The subjectives of this research are to know kinds of maxims violation and the dominant maxim violation found on the dialogue of “The Wild Duck” by Henrik Ibsen are. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research. Furthermore, the technique of collecting data is documentation where the script of drama “The Wild Duck” by Henrik Ibsen as the basic data to be analized in term of violation of Grice’s cooperative principle. Then, to analyze the data, the writer uses Krippendorff (2004) content analysis. The result of this research shows there are 51 (100%) maxim violations. They are divided into 16 (31.37% ) violations of quantity maxim, 12 (23.53% ) violations of quality maxim, 12 (23.53%) violations of relation maxim, and 11 (21.57%) violation of manner maxim. Moreover, the dominant violation is quantity maxim with 16 (31.37%) violations of total findings.
LOGICO-SEMANTIC RELATION OF CLAUSES USED IN ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION WRITTEN BY THE THIRD SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Rizka Yuniar
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.247
In Indonesia, English language teaching concerns with text or genre. Consequently, systemic functional linguistics is important to apply in writing a text. However, students have difficulties of grammar, vocabulary, and how to construct word into syntactical construction. Students only concern with how to compose a text however it contains meaningless clauses. The writer is interested to choose a problem of constructing clause complex as source of the research.The objectives of this research are to identify the kinds of logico-semantic relation and to analyze the logico-semantic relation of clauses mostly used in analytical exposition written by the third semester students of Tidar University in the academic year 2017/2018.This study applies descriptive qualitative research which consists of detail description and explanation of logico-semantic relation of clauses in students’ writing. In conducting this research, the writer collected the documentation of students’ writing about analytical exposition. The data were analyzed by classifying the clauses and identifying kinds of logico-semantic relation proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014).Based on data analysis, it can be concluded that the analytical exposition texts analyzed in this research contain more logico-semantic relation of clauses such as expansion (elaboration, extension and enhancement) and projection (locution). It is noticed that expansion of enhancement is mostly used in the texts with 31 times or 41.89% of total occurrance and although the texts still need improvement in making a clause complex.
USING Y CHART TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING SKILL OF THE SEVENTH GRADERS OF SMP 2 BOROBUDUR
Adirga Lucky Purnama
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.314
Writing is one of the language skills which has an important role for the students to express their feeling and ideas. However, the seventh graders of SMP Negeri 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018 still got difficulty in writing, especially in writing descriptive text. There are two objectives of this research. First, it is to know how great the use of Y Chart Technique can increase the learning motivation of descriptive text writing of the seventh graders of SMP N 2. Second, it is to know how great the improvement of the descriptive text writing skill of the seventh graders of SMP N 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018 who are taught by using Y Chart Technique. The writer conducted a classroom action research. The subject of this research was the class of VII A of SMP Negeri 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018 involving 17 females and 6 males. The writer implemented three phases in this research; they are Pre-Cycle, Cycle I and Cycle II. The writer used observation sheet, questionnaire, and documentations to collect the data. Based on the above results, the writer concludes that the use of Y Chart Technique can increase the students’ learning motivation in writing descriptive text and there is a great improvement of the descriptive text writing skill of the tenth graders of SMP Negeri 2 Borobudur in the school year 2017/2018. The writer suggests the teachers and the students to use Y Chart technique as an alternative teaching and learning.
USING REDW (READ, EXAMINE, DECIDE, WRITE) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE READING SKILL IN RECOUNT TEXT OF THE EIGHTH GRADERS OF SMP NEGERI 1 TEMANGGUNG IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017/2018
Winanti Enggar Muktisari
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.320
Reading is an important skill for students that should be mastered in English learning. However, the students of SMP Negeri 1 Temanggung in the school year 2017/2018 find difficulties in learning reading, especially reading the recount texts. The average score of the reading test which was only 55. This score does not reach the standard minimum of the learning target which is 70.The objectives of this research are to describe whether the use REDW strategy can improve the students’ learning motivation in recount text reading skill and to describe how great the improvement of the students’ recount text reading skill of the eighth graders of SMP Negeri 1 Temanggung in the school year 2017/2018.The researcher conducted a classroom action research which was divided into Pre-Cycle, Cycle I, and Cycle II. To collect the data, the researcher used test and non-test technique. The data were analysed using qualitative and quantitative data analysis technique. The researcher took VIII F of SMP Negeri 1 Temanggung as the subject of the research because it has the lowest average score of the reading test. There were 32 students.Based on the result, there is a positive change of the students motivation to learn English. The students participation also increases when the researcher uses REDW strategy and they are enthusiastic to improve their skill in reading a recount text. The result of the test shows the average score of the students who get 70 or higher increased 17.35 points, after they were taught using this strategy. In Pre-cycle, the students average score of reading test is 61.40. Moreover, they have been taught using this strategy, in Cycle I the score is 69.84. The average in Cycle II is 78.75. Based on the above description, the researcher concludes that there is a great improvement from Pre-cycle to Cycle II of the students’ learning motivation and their recount text reading skill.
USING QUARTET CARD AS MEDIA TO IMPROVE THE RECOUNT TEXT WRITING SKILL OF THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL STUDENTS OF INTENSIVE ENGLISH COURSE (IEC) MAGELANG IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017/2018
Kamalia Mardini
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.300
The goal of the English teaching and learning for senior high school students in Intensive English Course (IEC) is to be able to develop the four language skills, one of them is writing. The students’ achievement in writing recount text on the Elementary level of IEC is less than the standard minimum score of the learning target. This condition is caused by the students’ low motivation and the monotonous teaching media used by the teacher.To solve these problems, the researcher attempts to use Quartet Cards in teaching writing recount text. The objectives are to know whether the use of Quartet Cards can improve the students’ motivation in learning the recount text writing skill.This research belongs to Classroom Action Research and the subject of this research is the students of Elementary Level of Intensive English Course Magelang. The researcher implements Pre-Cycle, Cycle I and Cycle II. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. To collect the data, the researcher used non-test (observation, questionnaires and documentation) and test. The data was analyzed using qualitative and quantitative data analysis.Based on the researcher’s observation and questionnaire, it showed that there was an increase of the students’ learning motivation in writing recount text after the researcher taught using Quartet Cards. In addition, the improvement also occurred in writing test. In Pre-Cycle the mean score was 68.35, it became 74.85 in Cycle I and 81.40 in Cycle II. The total improvement from Pre-Cycle to Cycle II test was 13.05 points IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017/2018
USING GO FASTER TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT READING SKILL OF THE ELEVENTH GRADERS OF SMA NEGERI 3 MAGELANG IN SCHOOL YEAR 2017/2018
pri - yanti
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.270
ABSTRACTReading is one of the four language skills that should be mastered well be senior high school students in learning English, one of them is reading skill. This language skill, unfortunately, has not been well mastered by the eleventh graders of SMA N 3 Magelang. Mostly, the students find some difficulties in practising English reading activity. It becomes worse because of their low motivation in learning English. The fact shows that the students’ average score in reading skill is 68. It means that their average score was less than standard minimum score of passing grade which is 77. There are some factors that cause this condition. One of the factors is the monotonous way of teaching that makes the students have low motivation to study English reading. There are two objectives of this research. They are to know whether the use of Go Faster technique can increase the leraning motivation of the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 3 Magelang in reading of hortatory exposition text and to know how great the improvement of the students reading skill on hortatory exposition text who are taught using Go Faster technique. The writer took the eleventh graders of SMA N 3 Magelang as the subject of the research. The writer conducted a Classroom Action Research (CAR). It was divided into three phases, Pre-Cycle, Cycle I, Cycle II. The techniques used to collect the data were test and non-test techniques. The writer used score percentage in each cycle to analyze the data.The result of the test shows that the percentage of the students who got the score of 77 or above increased 12,27 point after they were taught using Go Faster Technique. In the Pre-Cycle, the students’ average score was 71,56 and after they were taught using Go Faster Technique in Cycle I, the score was 76.30. The average score in Cycle II was 83.83 and it means there was improvement 7.53 point from Cycle I. Then, there was also a positive change of the students’ motivation to learn English. They were enthusiastic to improve their skill in reading a hortatory exposition text.Based on the result above, the writer concludes that Go Faster Technique is one of the good technique of teaching reading especially reading a hortatory exposition text which are applied in senior high schools. This technique can improve the students’ motivation and their hortatory exposition reading skill. The writer recommends English teachers to use Go Faster Technique as an alternative way of teaching reading to senior high school students.
Sense Properties of Sentences in Descriptive Text Written by the Tenth Graders at SMA N 4 Magelang in the Academic Year 2017/2018
Bilqis Tri Widya Ningrum
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.315
This study investigates sense properties of sentences in descriptive text written by the tenth graders at SMA N 4 Magelang in the academic year 2017/2018. The objectives of this research are to find out the sense properties of sentences are used and the most dominant sense properties of sentences is used in descriptive text. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The researcher used descriptive text written by the tenth graders at SMA N 4 Magelang as the data source. The researcher employs documentation as the method of collecting data. In analyzing the data, the researcher describes the type of sense properties of sentences found in descriptive text by referring to the theory by Hurford and Heasley (1983). Based on the data analysis, there were 50 sentences of analytic sentence, 68 sentences of synthetic sentence, and 0 sentence of contradictory sentence from 118 sentences. In this research, the students mostly used synthetic sentence in their descriptive text.
USING INSTAGRAM STORY TO ENHANCE THE NARRATIVE TEXT WRITING SKILL OF THE TENTH GRADERS OF SMA NEGERI 1 MAGELANG IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017/2018
agustina lestari wilujeng
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.316
Writing is one of the English language skills that should be mastered by the students of senior high school. Some of the tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang still get difficulties in writing English especially narrative text. There are two main objectives of this research. The first one is to know whether the use of Instagram Story can increase the learning motivation of writing narrative text and the second is to know how great the enhancement of the narrative text writing skill of the tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang who are taught by using Instagram Story is. The writer conducted a classroom action research. To collect the data, the writer used test and non-test techniques. The data were analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative data analysis technique. The result of analysis of the data showed that the use of Instagram Story can increase the students’ learning motivation and enhance their writing skill in narrative text. Based on the results above, the writer concluded that Instagram Story can increase students’ learning motivation of writing Narrative text of the tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang in the school year 2017/2018. There is also a great enhancement of the Narrative text writing skill of the tenth graders of SMA Negeri 1 Magelang in the school year 2017/2018 who are taught by using Instagram Story.
USING FISHBONE TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE READING SKILL OF NARRATIVE TEXT IN THE TENTH GRADERS OF SMA N 1 GRABAG IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2017/2018
Niken Utari
Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language, and Language Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2018): Journal of Research on Applied Linguistics, Language and Language Teaching
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DOI: 10.31002/jrlt.v1i2.319
Reading is one of the four language skills of English that is difficult for most of students. This problem is also faced by tenth graders of SMA N 1 Grabag. The result of the average of score of the reading test is 44.8, it is less than the standard minimum which is 67. There are several factors which influence students’ low reading skill, some of them are the students’ low motivation in learning English and they feel bored to the teacher’s teaching technique. The writer conducted the research to overcome that problem by applying Fishbone Technique. There are two objectives of this study; the first is to describe the increase of learning motivation in reading narrative text of the tenth graders who are taught using Fishbone technique. The second is to explain the improvement of narrative text reading skill of the tenth graders who are taught using Fishbone technique. This is a classroom action research. The subjects of the study were 26 students of X IPS 4 of SMA N 1 Grabag in the school year 2017/2018. It was divided into Pre-Cycle, Cycle I, and Cycle II. The writer used test, questionnaire, documentation, and observation to collect the data. The data were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative data analysis technique. The result of the observation and questionnaire show that there are improvement of the students’ motivation after the writer taught the students using Fishbone technique in narrative text reading skill. It was proved by the change of students’ behavior from Pre-Cycle to Cycle II. In Pre-Cycle, the test result was 44.8, in Cycle I is 83.26, and in Cycle II is 87.69. The result of this research shows that the students’ reading skill in narrative text improves in each cycle after they are taught using Fishbone technique. Based on the result above, the writer recommends the teacher to apply Fishbone Technique as an alternative way of teaching reading narrative text.