PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education)
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Students’ Motivation in Learning English
Neng Aprilia Purnama;
Neng Sri Rahayu;
Rasi Yugafiati
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p539-544
Motivation is one of the most significant things in learning process. Without motivation, the purposes of learning is tough to be achieved. When learners have it in learning process, they will more understand with the materials, especially English. The goal of this study is to know how students’ motivation in learning English of eight grade at MTs Mathla’ul Anwar Sukaguna. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data was carried out by using a questionnaire of students’ motivation which have ten items adapted from Clement, Dornyei, & Noels (1994) and used an interview which have five questions. The data were processed in the percentage and descriptive explanation. The main findings described that the learners are entirety highly motivated. Based on this study’s findings, students of eighth grade at MTs Mathla’ul Anwar have that motivation, it is based on the outcome of questionnaire and interview. From the output of questionnaire, most of students choose the agree statements. It means that students has an savor in learning English. Furthermore, the yield of interview expressed that students have highly interesting in learning English. But in this case, the teacher have to be more creative in using the media, strategy, or delivered material in teaching learning activity to improve students’ motivation.
STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BASED ON ITS GENERIC STRUCTURE AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENT OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Novia Sartika;
Mochamad Nurdin
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p436-441
Study of language skills in English is pretty important to increase students’ skill in study English. One of the most important skills is writing. It can make students share the ideas into written form in the text or paragraph with the right order of generic structure. The purposes of this study are to find out the students ability in writing descriptive text and to find out whether students writing descriptive are already well organized or not. The research method used qualitative research method. The researchers took 33 students as respondents. The data analysis took from the students’ descriptive text results. Based on the data analysis, the researchers found 15 or 45 % students created the descriptive text and 18 or 55 % students created the report text. It showed 10 or 30 % students created the paragraphs of descriptive text properly based on its generic structure and 5 or 15 % students could not apply it properly. It can be concluded that most of the students’ paragraphs are well organized. Meanwhile, the other students could not make it properly, because they still confused and could not distinguish the differences between descriptive text and report text.
LEXICAL COHESION IN NEWS ARTICLE ON THE JAKARTA POST ENTITLED “WHY FULL DAY SCHOOL WILL NOT WORK IN INDONESIA?”
Puspita, Galih Setia;
Khairun Nisa, Farida Rizkiyah;
Suprijadi, Dasep
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p507-513
The purpose of this study is to investigate what types and what is mostly found of lexical cohesion in the news article. Written texts are different from spoken interaction. To make the readers know what the writers mean, the writers should compose a well formed of the text. Cohesion is an aspect of a text, which entails that the letter forms a unified whole, rather than unrelated sentences. Cohesion plays a special role in the creation of text. There are two main types of cohesion there are grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion consist of reference, ellipsis, substitution and conjunction, whereas lexical cohesion has two aspects, they are reiteration and collocation. Lexical cohesion refers to the way related words are chosen to link elements of a text. This study used qualitative research as the research method. Based on the result of this study, it can be concluded that there are six types of lexical cohesion and the types of lexical cohesion which is mostly used by the writer is repetition but this article is lack of antonym. And the use of lexical cohesion in writing a text can deliver the meaning of whole text itself for the readers easily and clearly.
THE USE OF CONJUNCTION: ELABORATION IN DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH
Febru Setimaji;
Teguh Abdulah;
Acep Haryudin
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p475-481
Abstract Speaking is kind of communication that human needs to give same understanding of mind and works. The term of ‘speech’ has meaning to give some explanation from speaker to audience with many intention from the speaker based on their speech. The speech of Donald Trump at his first state on the january 2018 giving some explanation about the condition in USA today. This research giving the information about the use of conjunction: elaboration in Donald trump speech. The research goal to give some explanation about the types of conjunction and the meaning inside of it. This research used qualitative with the method have been used by the writers is textual analysis method as supported by Frey, et al. The analysis of data show us the precentage of subtype of conjunction: elaboration that Donald trump’s use at his speech are Expository 60%, Exemplifying 8%, Corrective 8%, Particularizing 8%, Resumptive 8%, Verifactive 8%. Donald Trump used appositive so often rather than using clarification on his speech. It means he is less doing clarification to have understanding between him and the audience
“Improving The Students’ Writing Narrative Text by Applying Cooperative Learning Type Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD)”
Enry Pratama Poetra;
Devi Sansan Gustiana;
Iman Santoso
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p588-593
This research aimed to analyze the student teams achievement divisions (STAD) technique of cooperative learning approach to improve writing narrative text. This study was a quantitative method and pre-experimental design in this research,the subject of the study was implemented in RPL 1 class tenth grade students of SMK Mahardhika Batujajar west Bandung in the 2018- 2019 academic years as sample. The data were obtained from several sources including the data analysis of pretestand posttest, then the dataanalysis of descriptive statistics and N-Gain. The results of this reserach that student teams achievement division(STAD) technique is effective in teaching writing narrative text data from classroom observation and students texts show the improvement in students writing skill in writing narrative text. The students write a good narrative text with clear generic structures and can understood the linguistic. It could be seen from the average of posttest results was 78.87 and the data avarege of pretest results in class research was 41.17 the difference score pretest and postest showed the STAD technique can improve students ability writing narrative text.Key Words: Cooperative Learning, STAD, Writing, Narrative text.
THE ADJACENCY PAIRS IN “TALK ASIA” INTERVIEW BETWEEN INDONESIA PRESIDENT SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO WITH STEVENS FROM CNN
Ai Siti Nurhasanah;
Ajeng Febrina Yolanda;
Trisnendri Syahrizal
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p442-448
This research focus on adjacency pairs in “Talk Asia” Interview between President SBY with Stevens from CNN. This research had aimed to find out what types of AP and preference structure used in“Talk Asia” Interview between Indonesian President SBY with Stevens from CNN. Qualitative method was used to analyze this research. The researchers take the interview from CNN between Indonesia president SBY with Stevens as the instrument for research. The result found that was four question-answer, two assessment-agreement/disagreement, one request-acceptance/refusal, one farewell-farewell, it means that the dominant type of AP in “Talk Asia” Interview between Indonesia President SBY with Stevens from CNN is question-answer. For preference structure there are two preferred and one dispreferred.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING SHORT FUNCIONAL TEXT CONGRATULATION AND COMPLIMENTING USING PICTURE SEQUENCES
Januar Tri Sejati;
Mohamad Ikhsan Aditia
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p545-550
This study was aimed to improve student’s ability in writing short funcional text congratulation and complimenting using picture sequences at X MA Nurulhidayah Batujajar in the academic year of 2018/2019 as the subject of the study consists 32 students. This study was conducted for two months.The CAR was done based on Kurt Lewins’ design. The writer did two cycles which each cycle consists with planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. For data were gathered through qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were gained by analyzing the interview and observation result, while quantitative data were obtained from the students’ writing score of pretest and posttest.The finding of this study showed that there was improvement on the student’s ability in writing short funcional text congratulation and complimenting using picture sequences. It can be seen from the mean score of pretest was 56.75. Then, the mean score of posttest cycle 1 was 66.37 and the mean score of posttest cycle 2 was 72.62. so the criteria of success was achieved. from the result of questionnaire, it showed that there was improvement of positive responses in the teaching-learning process of writing short funcional textcongratulation and complimenting. Related to the result of observation and interview, it can be concluded that the students’ ability in writing short funcional texcongratulation and complimenting using picture sequences improved and the students’ were motivated in the teaching-learning process.
ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE STUDENTS WRITING OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IN A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Bara Vera;
Acep Haryudin;
Windy Herdiyanti
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p514-520
One of English skills which is important to be mastered by the students’ is writing skill. Writing is a creative and expressive process. Students need to explore their ideas and compose into a good text. The objectives of this research is to find out types of error and the most dominant error writing using simple present tenses in a descriptive text made by the seventh grade students of MTs Asih Putera. The research design is qualitative design. The data were gathered from students’ test as a document analysis. Then, the researcher analyzed, classifying errors the students’ work based on types of errors by Dulay (1982). For calcuting the data, the researcher used one formula to know percentages errors. The result of this research, showed that there are 73 items of errors which occur in students’ sentence. It is found that 42 items or 57,53% errors are omission, 10 items or 13,70% are addition, 16 items or 21,92% are misformation, and 5 items or 6,85% are disordering. The conclusion based on the research result data, most student were made error in using simple present tense in a descriptive text, especially was ommision errors.
Students’ Perception Towards the Teacher’s Billingual Language Use in an EFL Classroom
Satriah, Siti;
Agustina, Tiara;
Kareviati, Evie
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p482-488
This research aims to analyze about the students’ perception towards the teacher’s bilingual language use in an EFL classroom and to find out the benefit of it. The participants of this research were 32 students of eleventh grade in social 1 at MA Negeri Cimahi. This research employed qualitative research as research methodology and the descriptive research as research design to analyze the data. The instruments that used in this research were questionnaire and interview. Based on the result of questionnaire, the researchers found that students gave positive response of 45,3% by answering “agree” and it proved that students perceived positively towards the bilingual language that is used by the teacher in the EFL classroom. While the result of interview revealed that basically students thought that the teacher’s bilingual language use can help them in learning English and make them easy to understand the material. So, it can be concluded that students perceived positively towards the languages that the teacher use in EFL classroom. The result of this research is expected teachers can be better in using the language instruction in the EFL classroom, which is it will be useful and makes students easier in the learning English process.
IMPROVING STUDENTS LISTENING SKIL USING ENGLISH STORIES WITH AUDIO APPLICATION
Putri, Fadhila Bestary;
Widia, Wida;
Santoso, Iman
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol 2, No 4 (2019): VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4, July 2019
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DOI: 10.22460/project.v2i4.p449-454
This research is a classroom action research that doing in one of SMK Kesehatan in Kabupaten Bandung Barat. Classroom action research is a research that did by teacher in the class to improve students ability in a learning teaching process, in this case their score. This research is done for maintain or solving the teaching English problems in the class. Listening skill is the one of the skill in language that important for our life. Every person starts their capability in language with great listening training. With this skill we can processing some informations and messages that tells by other person into our own understanding. Innovation in learning method such as using application in mobile phone surely can catch students attention in learning English, this teaching media can help them to improve their listening skill. And also can reduce some boredome in teaching leaning process. This research was done by using Listen English Audio Book smartphone application. This application contain the sound of narrators that telling the stories. It also contain the written text of the story which narrators tells about. The writer did a pretest before she start the treatment, the treatment itself and post test after the treatment to measure students ability in listening skill. At the pretest, the student’s average score are 4.56 move to the first post test the student’s average score increase to 6.68 and continued increase up to 7.55 at second posttest.