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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH ACCELERATED LEARNING
Nur Asiah Manik and Bachtiar
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.840
This research concerns on improving students’ achievement in reading descriptive text through accelerated learning. The objective was to find out the improvement of students’ achievement in reading descriptive text. This research was conducted by using action research method. The subject of the research was VIII-2 students of SMP Taman Harapan Medan. The numbers of students were thirty students. They were taught reading descriptive text through accelerated learning. The instruments used were reading descriptive text test, diary notes, interview sheets, and observation sheets. In analyzing data, the mean of students’ score for the first competency test was 49,67, for the second competency test was 68,67 and for the third competency test was 82,6 and the total percentage of improvement from the first competency test to the third competency test was 66,6%. The conclusion is that through accelerated learning can improve the students’ reading achievement in descriptive text. It is suggested that teachers should apply accelerated learning as one of strategy to improve students’ reading achievement in descriptive text.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT THROUGH COOPERATIVE INTEGRATED READING AND COMPOSITION (CIRC) TECHNIQUE
Paramita and Rahmah
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.667
This study focuses on improving students’ achievement in writing News Item text through Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Technique. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the grade X students of SMA Mitra Inalum. Twenty four students were taken as the sample. The research was conducted in two cycles. First cycle was conducted in four meetings. The second cycle was conducted in two meetings. The instruments for collecting data were quantitative data (writing test) and qualitative data (observation sheet, diary note, and questionnaire sheet). Based on the data analysis, students’ score kept improving in every test. The mean of the students’ score in the first competence test was 38.4, in the second competence test was 75.4 and in the third competence test was 81.9. The result showed that Cooperative Integrated and Reading Composition (CIRC) technique improved students’ achievement in writing news item text.
IMPROVING GRADE VIII STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT IN RECOUNT TEXT BY USING TWO STAY – TWO STRAY STRATEGY
Elvi Rodiana Dalimunthe and Meisuri
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.659
This study deals with improving students’ reading comprehension through Two Stay – Two Stray Strategy. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of the research was class VIIIC MTs. Lab. IKIP Al- Wasliyah Medan which consisted of 34 students. The research was conducted in two cycles and every cycle consisted of four meetings and two meetings. The instruments for collecting data were quantitative data (multiple choice test) and qualitative data (diary notes, observation sheet, and interview). In test I, the mean score was 63.28. in test II, the mean score was 67.96. and in test III the mean score was 72.96. It can be concluded that Two Stay – Two Stray Strategy could improve students’ reading comprehension.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT BY APPLYING TIC-TAC-TOE GAME
Rini Susanti and Zainuddin
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.668
This study deals with improving the students’ vocabulary achievement byapplying Tic-tac-toe Game. The subject of this study was grade VIII1 2012/2013students of SMP Negeri 1 Payung, desa Batukarang. The total number of the classis 36 students. This study applied classroom action research which consisted oftwo cycles. Three meetings were for first cycle and two meeting for second cycle.The data were collected qualitatively and quantitatively. The data werequalitatively collected from questionnaires sheet and observation sheet, whilequantitatively from the scores of vocabulary tests; orientation test, test I, and testII. After analyzing the data, it was found that there was an improvement ofstudents’ vocabulary achievement. It was proven by the increasing of the meanscore of the students’ vocabulary scores in each test where mean score of the firsttest was 56.94, the second test (test I) was 69.30 and the third test (test II) was80.14.
THE EFFECT OF APPLYING FOUR SQUARE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Henny Andriani and Siti Aisyah Ginting
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.661
This study aims to discover the effect of applying Four Square Graphic Organizeron students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It was conducted by usingexperimental research design. The population of this research was the seventh(VII) grade students of SMP Sultan Iskandar Muda Medan with four parallelclasses. The samples of the research were two classes divided into two groups,experimental and control group which were chosen by using random samplingtechnique. Fifty students were taken as the samples. The experimental group wastaught by using Four Square Graphic Organizer, while the control group wastaught by using freewriting technique. The instrument for collecting the data was awriting test. Pearson Product Moment formula was applied to obtain the reliabilityof the test. Based on the calculation, it shows that the reliability of the test was0,84 categorized as high reliability. Then, after analyzing the data, it was foundthat the value of tobserved was 3,66 with the degree of freedom (df)=48 at the levelof significance p(0,05) = 2,01. It means that tobserved is higher than ttable (3,66 >2,01). The result of this study shows that Four Square Graphic Organizer has asignificant effect on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SENTENCE COMBINING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Rismawati and Siti Aisyah Ginting
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.670
This study aims to discover the effect of applying sentence Combining Technique on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research was the eight (VIII) grade students of SMP Swasta Prayatna Medan with eight parallel classes. The samples of the research were 20% of the totaling number of students divided into two groups, experimental and control group which were chosen by using random sampling technique. Seventy two students were taken as the samples. The experimental group was taught by using Sentence Combining Technique, while the control group was taught by using conventional teaching. The instrument for collecting the data was a writing test. Pearson Product Moment formula was applied to obtain the reliability of the test. Based on the calculation, it shows that the reliability of the test was 0.86 categorized as high reliability. Then, after analyzing the data, it was found that the value of tobserved was 5.57 with the degree of freedom (df)=70 at the level of significance (α = 0.05). It means that tobserved is higher than ttable (5.57 > 1.67). The result of this study shows that Sentence Combining Technique has a significant effect on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT ON RECOUNT TEXT THROUGH PEER RESPONSE TECHNIQUE
Muhammad Guntar and Masitowarni Siregar
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.662
The objective of this study is to improve the students’ speaking The main objectiveof this study is to know how effective the use of Peer Response Technique in teachingwriting recount texts is. This study was conducted under the consideration that thestudents often get difficulties in retelling events in their own activities. In order toachieve the objective of the study, the writer designed an action research. The subjectsof this study was the first grade students of SMA An-Nizam Medan. The number of thesubjects of this study was 27 students. During the research, the students becoming thesubjects were taught by using Peer Response technique in teaching writing recounttexts. There were two cycles in this action research. Each cycle consisted of four phases.Before giving treatments in those two cycles, the students were given pre-test. Aftereach treatment in each cycle, the students were tested. And the last, they were givenpost-test and questionnaire. The result of this research showed that the students’ abilityin writing recount texts improved after a series of treatments given in the cycles. It canbe seen by comparing the means of their tests. The mean score for the pre-test was56.96, the mean score for test 1 was 69,85 while the mean score for the post-test was78,11. It is clear that after applying Peer Response Technique in each treatment, themean of each test improves and gets better. The use of Peer Response technique is oneof the ways to make students interest in studying English especially writing recounttext.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT BY USING CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Siti Rina Anugerah and Sortha Silitonga
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.671
This study was conducted as an attempt to improve students’ vocabulary achievement on Grade VIII by applying crossword puzzle. It was conducting by using Classroom Action Research. The subject was 38 students of grade VIII of SMPN 35 Medan and was conducted in two cycles. It is consisted of two kinds of instruments namely quantitative and qualitative data. For quantitative data was used vocabulary test which was teachers’ made, and for qualitative data were used diary notes and interview sheets. Based on the data and data analysis, it can be seen that there was an improving of students’ score in cycle I and cycle II, which can be approved from the mean of each test, that were 65.90, 73.92, and 81,25. After applied the crossword puzzle, it can be seen that that vocabulary achievement of the students in SMPN 35 Medan was increase. The research result showed that the application of crossword puzzle in teaching English especially in vocabulary is an effective way to improve the students’ achievement.
IMPROVING STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING REPORT BY USING CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING (CTL) STRATEGY
Jelita Panggabean and Johan Sinulingga
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.657
This study deals with the improvement of the students’ achievement in report writing by using Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) strategy. This study tries to find out to what extent using CTL could improve students’ report writing. Subject of the study this research was the 2012/2013 second year – students of SMA Santo Thomas 4 Binjai, Medan. There were two kinds of data collected during the study, qualitative and quantitative data. The instrument for collecting the quantitative data was writing test while the qualitative data were diary notes, observation sheet, and questionnaire sheet. The qualitative data showed that the students were interested in the Contextual Teaching and learning (CTL) strategy. Based on the data analysis, the mean of the students score for the orientation test was 53.28, for the first cycle was 71.42 and second cycle was 84.28. The conclusion is that the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) strategy can improve the student’s report writing Achievement.
THE EFFECT of SERIES of PICTURES MEDIA on STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT in WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT
Naomi Lamtio Hutapea and Anni Holila Pulungan
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.664
This study deals with the effect of using media Series of Pictures on students’ achievement in writing narrative text. The method of the research was quasi experimental design. Population of the study was grade XI of SMA BUDI MURNI. Two classes were chosen as purposive sampling. The classes were divided into two group was taught by using series of pictures and the control group without using the picture. The data were acquired by administered the pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 17.00. The mean score of the control group in pretest = 40.46, experimental group = 40.40. In post-test, mean score of the control group =46.94 while the experimental group =53.71.