Register : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning of FBS UNIMED
REGISTER Journal is a quarterly publication presenting articles on English Language Teaching. The contents include analysis, studies, application of theories, research reports, materials development and reviews.
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IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTION BY APPLYING THE TEAM-GAMES-TOURNAMENT TECHNIQUE
Bunga Ria Sebayang and Amrin Saragih
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 4 (2013)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i4.842
This study attempted to improve the students’ achievement in writing description by applying the Team-Games-Tournament Technique. This study was conducted by applying classroom action research. The subject of the research was the grade VII students of state Junior High School Swasta Laksamana Martadinata Medan. The numbers of the students were 50. The research was done into two cycles in which the first cycle consisted of three meetings and second cycle consisted of three meetings. The instruments used in this study were writing test, interview sheet, diary note, and observation sheet. The techniques for data analysis were qualitative and quantitative. In analyzing the data, the mean of the students’ score for the pre-test was 57.6, for progressing-test I was 65.38, for progressing-test II was 74.82, and the post-test was 82.24, and the total percentage of the improvement from the pre-test into post-test was 88 %. The findings showed that the students’ score kept improving in every evaluation. It means that the application of Team-Games-Tournament Technique potentially improves the students’ achievement in writing description text.
STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLE IN READING COMPREHENSION AT THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA SWASTA TELADAN MEDAN TEMBUNG
Fani Maries F H Nst and Rita Suswati
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 6, No 1 (2017): (JAN-MARCH)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v6i1.5372
The purpose of conducting this research was find out whether the most dominantlearning style in reading comprehension and to find out which is the fasteststudents‟ learning style in reading comprehension at the tenth grade students atSMA SWASTA Teladan Medan Tembung in academic year 2016/2017. Therewere 239 students from 5 classes as the subject of this research. In this case, theresearcher collected the data by using learning style questionnaire andobservation. The result showed that auditory learning style is the most dominantlearning style at the tenth grade students at SMA SWASTA Teladan Medan, thepercentage was 52.30%, it means 125 from 239 students prefer to hear than readand move. The second was visual learning style, score 30.54% , means tha 73from 239 students prefer to read. Then, kinaesthetic learning style, the sore,17.15%, means that only 41 students prefer to move. For the fastest student‟s inreading comprehension came from visual students or visual learners. They getscore 55%, followed auditory 40%, and kinaesthetic 5%.
DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE WRITING WORKSHEET DESCRIPTIVE TEXT TO PROMOTE HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILL FOR EIGHT GRADE STUDENT AT MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH NEGERI 2 MEDAN
Firsty Azirila Putri;
Rahmad Husein;
Safrida Lubis
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 9, No 3 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v9i3.24684
Putri, Firsty Azirila. Registration Number: 2153121012. Developing Interactive Writing Worksheet to Promote Higher Order Thinking Skill for Eight Grade Student at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri 2 Medan. English Education Program, Universitas Negeri Medan, 2020. The aimed of this study was to develop students’ interactive writing worksheet descriptive text to promote higher order thinking skill. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) through six stages: gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product. The subject of the study was grade VIII at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri 2 Medan. The instruments of the data collection were gathered by interview the teacher and giving the questionnaire. The study conducted interview to English teacher and giving the questionnaire to 35 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire result proved that the students’ need English learning media which can motivate the students to understand about interactive writing worksheet descriptive text. The product had been validated by the experts namely English teacher and English lecturer. The product result was Interactive Writing Worksheet which had been modified to promote Higher Order Thinking Skill. The result of the experts’ validation showed that the media was appropriate to be used on the interactive writing worksheet by getting the average score is 4.5 categorized excellent.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT BY APPLYING ANAGRAM PLUS FLASHCARDS AT THE SMP NEGERI 7 PEMATANGSIANTAR
Sartika Manurung and I Wayan Dirgayasa Tangkas
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 3, No 2 (2014)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v3i2.1130
This study focused to improve Students’ Vocabulary Achievement by Applying Anagram PlusFlashcards. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of thisstudy was students in class VII-7 of SMP Negeri 7 Pematangsiantar. There were 32 studentstaken as the subject. The instrument for collecting data were the test for vocabulary and diarynotes, questionnaire sheets, observation sheet, and interview for process of teaching andlearning vocabulary. The data were analyzed by descriptive analysis. The result of the researchshowed that the mean of students’ score in pre-test was 56.41, the mean of students’ score inpost-test I was 69.22. The mean of students’ score in post-test II was 76.72. There wereimprovement of students’ achievement from 56.41-76.72 about 20.31 point and that score(76.72) was excelled the indicator (75). Based on diary notes, questionnaire sheets,observation sheet, and interview, it found that teaching and learning process ran well.Students were active, cooperative, enthusiastic and interested in learning vocabulary.There were 16 students (50%) agreed that the students active in learning process, 20students (62.5%) were interested, 20 students (62.5%) were enthusiastic and 19 students(59.37%) were agreed that strategy of learning was effective. It can be concluded that theapplication of anagram plus flashcards had successfully improved the students’ vocabularyachievement at the SMP Negeri 7 Pematangsiantar.
STUDENTS’ LEARNING STYLES IN LEARNING ENGLISH SPEAKING OF X GRADE AT SMA NEGERI 1 SIMPANG EMPAT
Novita Sari Lubis and Indra Hartoyo
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 6, No 3 (2017): (JUL-SEP)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v6i3.6707
The title of this thesis is Students Learning Style in Learning Speaking of Ten Students at SMA Negeri 1 Simpang Empat. The purpose of conducting this research was to find out whether the most dominant type of students learning style in learning speaking and to find out what is the learning style realized in English Speaking of ten students at SMA Negeri 1 Simpang Empat in academic year 2016/2017. There were 10 students as the subject of this research. In this case, the researcher collected the data by using learning style questionnaire and observation. The result showed that auditory learning style is the most dominant learning style at the tenth grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Simpang Empat, the percentage was 60%, it means 6 from 10 students prefer to hear than read and move. The second was kinaesthetic learning style, the score, 20%, means that only 2 students prefer to move. Then, visual learning style has same dominant with kinesthetic, the score, 20% , means that 2 from 10 students prefer to read. For the fastest student’s in reading comprehension came from auditory students or auditory learners. They get score 50%, followed visual 20%, and visual 10%.
DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC E-LEARNING LISTENING MATERIALS OF NARRATIVE TEXT BASED ON LOCAL FOLKLORE FOR THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS
Titania Ayu Dwisari;
Anni Holila Pulungan
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 10, No 3 (2021)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v10i3.29981
The objective of this study was to develop authentic E-learning listening materials of narrative text based on local folklore for the tenth-grade students in SMA Plus Sedayu Nusantara. This study was conducted by using Research and Development design through six stages; gathering data and information, need analysis, materials development, validating by experts, revising, and final product. The subject of the study was the tenth-grade students in SMA Plus Sedayu Nusantara. The data were gathered by reviewing documents, conducting an interview with the English teacher, and distributing the students' needs analysis questionnaires to X MIA 4 consists of 27 students to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results proved that the students needed authentic E-learning listening materials based on local folklore. The developed reading materials were validated by two experts which scored 3.52 and 4.79 on average. The scores approved that the authentic E-learning listening materials based on local folklore were valid and very valid to use for the tenth-grade students in SMA Plus Sedayu Nusantara. The result of the product was distributed to the students through Blog.Key words: Development, E-learning, Listening Materials, Authentic Materials, Local Folklore, Blog.
THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SAVI MODEL ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT IN ORAL DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Azrina Manja and Anni Holila Pulungan
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 4, No 2 (2015): Apr-June
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v4i2.2099
This study was conducted as an attempt to find out the effect of applying SAVI model on Students’ students’ speakingAchievement in oral descriptive text. This study used the experimental design. The population of this study was the students of MAN Kualuh Hulu. The subject of this study was the 2013/2014 tenth grade students of MAN Kualuh Hulu. This study was conducted with two randomized groups namely experimental group and control group. The control group was taught by conventional method while experimental group was taught by applying SAVI model. The instrument used in this study was an objective test. To obtain the reliability of the test, the researcher used Kuder-Richardson (KR-21) formula. The calculation shows that the reliability was 0.67 (reliabity). The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation shows that t-observed (5.36) is higher than t-table (1.996) at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 68. Therefore, null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that SAVI Model significantly affect the students’ speaking achievement in oral descriptive text.
DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS FOR GRADE ELEVENTH STUDENTS IN SMK FARMASI YPFSU-MEDAN
Caterin Grace Ivana Siregar and Siti Aisah Ginting
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 7, No 1 (2018): (JAN-MARCH)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v7i1.9182
This research aimed to develop appropriate English reading materials for grade eleventh students in SMK Farmasi-YPFSU Medan. The research was conducted by Research and Development (R & D) design by adapting Borg and Gall’s research theory (2003) through six steps, such as: (1) Gathering data and information, (2) Analyzing data, (3) Designing new materials, (4) Validating new materials by experts, (5) Revising, and (6) Final product. The data of this research were the existing reading materials and the results of need analysis. The sources of the data were the textbook, students and teacher. The class consisted of 30 grade eleventh students. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaire, interview, and documents. The questionnaire was analyzed as quantitative data and the interview result was analyzed as qualitative data. The questionnaire and interview was done to get the students’ need. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students need English reading materials which cointain English for pharmacy program. Thus, developing English reading materials were procedure text. The developed procedure texts were related to the pharmacy program. The products have been validated by experts. The average scores are 4,03 from English Lecturer and 4,57 from English Teacher. It means the developing reading materials categorized as appropriate or relevant for the grade eleventh students in SMK Farmasi-YPFSU Medan.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH METACOGNITION METHOD
Meisalina Lourensia Tarigan and Rahmah
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 1, No 2 (2012)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v1i2.401
The study aims at improving students’ achievement in reading comprehension applying Metacognition Method by conducting classroom action research. The population of this research twelfth grade students of SMP Negeri 41 Medan. The number of the students was 33 students. There were two kinds of data collected during the study, qualitative and quantitative data. The instrument for collecting the quantitative data was objective test of reading comprehension, while the instruments for qualitative data were gathered through interview, diary notes, and observation sheet. The qualitative showed that the students were interested in Metacognition Method. Based on the data analysis, the mean of the students score for orientation test was 52, 12 and for test in cycle I was 63, 63 and for test in cycle II was 76, 51. The conclusion is that Metacognition Method can improve the students’ achievement in reading comprehension. Keywords : Reading, Comprehension, Metacognition Method
THE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK USED IN THE FIRST GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BASED ON CURRICULUM 2013
Wita Nurhikmah and Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Siregar
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 5, No 1 (2016): (JAN-MARCH)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v5i1.5285
The objectives of this study were (1) to analyze feasibility of content (2) to analyze feasibility of presentation in the English Textbook “Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK Kelas X” according to Curriculum 2013. This study used descriptive qualitative. The data collected for this study were from “Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK Kelas X” published by Yrama Widya with the writer Otong Setiawan Dj. There are 12 chapters within this textbook and the writer determined to study 6 out of 12 chapters as the sample for the whole book. The results of this study were (1) the feasibility of content in English Textbook “Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK Kelas X” according to Curriculum 2013 with percentage 89.58%. (2) the feasibility of Presentation in English Textbook “Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK Kelas X” according to Curriculum 2013 with percentage 88.88%. (3) KD and KI in this textbook also according to Curriculum 2013.Therefore, it can be concluded that English Textbook “Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA-MA/SMK Kelas X” published by Yrama Widya, in terms of feasibility of content and feasibility of presentation, was good to be used in the first grade of senior high school using curriculum 2013.