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Register : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning of FBS UNIMED
ISSN : -     EISSN : 26559854     DOI : 10.24114
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.
Articles 493 Documents
THE EFFECT OF VISUAL MEDIA ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT Arie Dwiutami and Rafika Dewi Nasution
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 5, No 2 (2016): (APR-JUN)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v5i2.5341

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This study focused on finding out the effect of Visual media on students’ achievement in writing procedure text. This study was conducted in experimental design. The population of this research was the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Stabat. There are 60 students of seventh grade as sample of the research. This study was conducted by using random sampling. The sample was divided into two groups, experimental group and control group. The experimental group was taught by using Visual media (picture), while the control group was taught by using Video. The instrument of collecting the data was a written test. To obtain the reliability of the test, the researcher used scoring rubrics. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The calculation shown that t-observed is higher than t-table (3.52 > 2.00) at the level signivicance (α) 0.05 with the degree of freedom 58 (df = N-2). It means that there was a significant effect of using Visual media on students’ achievement in writing procedure text. So, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY WORKSHEET USING SCIENTIFIC APPROACH ON WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 2 BABALAN Amalia Chandra Dewi; Rahmad Husein; Safrida Lubis
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 9, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (1237.286 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v9i1.24651

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DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY WORKSHEET USINGSCIENTIFIC APPROACH ON WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FORTHE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 2 BABALAN*Amalia Chandra Dewi**Dr. Rahmad Husein, M.Ed.**Safrida Lubis, S.Pd., M.Hum.ABSTRACTSDewi, Amalia Chandra. Registration Number: 2133121003. DevelopingStudents’ Vocabulary Worksheet using Scientific Approach on WritingDescriptive Text for the Seventh Grade Students at SMP Negeri 2 Babalan. AThesis. English Education Program, State University of Medan, 2020.The aimed of this study was to develop students’ vocabulary worksheet based onscientific approach on writing descriptive text for seventh grade students at SMPNegeri 2 Babalan. This study was conducted by using Research and Development(R&D) design through six stages; gathering information and data, analyzing data,designing materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product.The subjectof the study was grade VII of SMP Negeri 2 Babalan. The instruments of datacollection were gathered by administering interview and distributingquestionnaire. The study conducted interview to the English teacher anddistributing questionnaire to 27 respondents to get the students’ needs. Theinterview and questionnaire results proved that the students need vocabularyworksheet based on scientific approach in writing descriptive which can helpstudents to enrich the vocabulary. The product has been validated by an Englishlecturer and an English teacher with the average score is 4.6. The product wascategorized as “Very good” students’ vocabulary worksheet in writing descriptivetext. The final product of this study was a set of developed students’ vocabularyworksheet in writing descriptive text, it consisted five parts which were adaptedfrom Scientific Approach. Every part has 3-5 tasks that covered the learningneeds. It also has key words and the topics that are going to be done by thestudents in the first page of every part of the worksheet.Keywords : Vocabulary, Worksheet, Scientific Approach, Research andDevelopment (R&D), Writing Descriptive Text
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE REPORT TEXT THROUGH FILM Esra N.F. Hutahaean and Tjut Ernidawati
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 4 (2013)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i4.841

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This research concerns on improving students’ writing achievement in the report text through film.  The objective was to find out the improvement of students’ writing achievement in writing the report text through film. This research was conducted by using action research method. The subject of the research was XI IPA grade students of SMA SWASWTA JOSUA Medan. The numbers of students were thirty one students. They were taught writing the report text through film. The instruments used were writing report text test, diary notes, interview sheets, questionnaire sheets and observation sheets. In analyzing data, the mean of students’ score for the first competency test was 43.1, for the second competency test was 64.8 and for the third competency test was 76.3 and the total percentage of improvement from the first competency test to the third competency test was 84.1%. The conclusion is that through watching film can improve the students’ writing achievement in the report text. It is suggested that teachers should apply watching film as one of media to improve students’ writing achievement in the report text.
DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING TEXT MATERIAL FOR STUDENTS IN SMK NEGERI 10 MEDAN Geby Cindy F.Sitanggang and Busmin Gurning
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 6, No 1 (2017): (JAN-MARCH)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v6i1.5373

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This study concerns on how reading text material are developed for vocational school. This study was conducted by using Research and Development (R & D) design through six phases; gathering information and data, analyzing data, designing new materials, validating by experts, revising, and final product. The subject of this research was class XI SMK N 10 Medan consisting of 22 students. Instrumentations for collecting data were questionnaire and interview. After analyzing the data, the researcher got the students’ need in learning English in term of vocation that they have. The data were gathered by administering interview and distributing questionnaire to 25 respondents to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results prove that the students need English reading materials which contain English for cosmetology major. Thus, developing materials were procedure text. The developed teaching material were related to the vocation that the students had; it was beauty major. The products have been validated by experts. The average scores are 4,25 from English subject teacher and 4,17 English lecturer. It means the developing materials categorized as relevant or appropriate for students of beauty major grade XI.
DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING OF STUDENTS WITH NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE MAJORS Miftahul Mar'ie Susetio; Berlin Sibarani
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 10, No 2 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (464.253 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v10i2.29955

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This study aimed at identifying how the students of natural and social science majors write descriptive text writing based on the usage of process. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The sources of data were taken from natural and social science students’ descriptive text writing. The results of this research showed that the natural science and social science students used types of process differently in writing their descriptive text. The students from natural science used relational process as the dominant type of process in their description. From 150 types of process used in 13 texts, they use 104 relational processes, it’s 69.33%. They tend to use verbs such as ‘be/is/am/are as attributes and identifications, they also tend to use ‘have/has’ which refers to possession. On the other hand, the dominant type of process used in social science students’ descriptive text writing is existential process. From 107 types of process used in 13 texts, 50 (46.7%) of them are existential process. The findings of the study also showed that the different use of types of process from natural and social science students affected their way in describing object and their way in writing descriptive texts.Keywords: Descriptive, Writing, Process, Natral Science, Social Science
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT BY APLLYING INDEX CARD MATCH STRATEGY Amelia Sri Rizky Sitepu and Masitowarni Siregar
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 3, No 3 (2014)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v3i3.1372

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The objective of this study is to find out whether the application of Index Card Match Strategy can improve students’achievement in writing procedure text. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the grade elevent students of SMA N 1 Lau Baleng. The research was conducted in two cycles. The first cycle consisted of three meetings and the second cycle consisted of two meetings. The instruments for collecting data used writing test for quantitative data and as the quantitaive data used diary notes, questionnaires sheet, interview and observation sheet. Based on the writing tests result, the students score improved in every test. In orientation test, the mean score was 50,28. In cycle 1 the mean score was 64,96 and the mean score cycle II was 77,35. Based on the diary notes and observation sheet, students shown their progress in learning writing English by the application of Index Card Match Strategy and the classroom action research. Students enjoyed the process of learning writing English concluded from the interview sheet. In line with the data, it was found that the index card match strategy can improve students’achievement in writing pocedure text.
DEVELOPING READING MATERIALS FOR COMPUTER AND NETWORK ENGINEERING AT SMK SWASTA KARYA BAKTI PADANG CERMIN Suwarni Aditya and Anni Holila Pulungan
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 6, No 3 (2017): (JUL-SEP)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v6i3.6708

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This research is aimed to develop reading materials as a material in teaching reading, easy to be learnt and can be used for teaching reading descriptive text. This study is developmental research uses Borg and Gall’s model. The validator of the reading materials are two experts. This instruments employed in this study are questionnaires, interview, observation, document. The finding of this study is the percentage showed that the developed reading materials were 83.2 % valid. The study takes place in SMK Swasta Karya Bakti Padang Cermin to the students of eleventh grade, academic year 2016/2017. The samples are 21 students which is given new reading materials for the research. The scoring system was based on 5 aspect they are; linguistic, process, product, content layout and suggestions. The result shows that there is an increase of students’ ability in reading descriptive text by developing reading materials as the materials in teaching reading. Therefore, the researcher suggest to English teacher to develop reading materials as one of the alternative ways to increase the students’ descriptive text in reading ability.
STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING PROCESS OF RECOUNT TEXT FOR EIGHT GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Stevani Simanjorang; Anni Holila Pulungan
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 10, No 3 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (334.591 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v10i3.29980

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Writing is very important and most required in academic field. Students Writing is the process of describing a language so that the message conveyed by the writer can be understood by the reader. Kingston (2002:3) state that student’s achievement in learning English is only measured by the productive skills, especially the writing performance. Writing is one way to express ideas, experiences and feelings in written form. This study aims to determine the difficulties experienced by students when writing recount text in junior high schools. This research was conducted by analyzing students dffculties in recount text according to the theory of Heong et al. (2012) and the factor of students difficulties by Zaenudin (2015: 10) state that these factors include: (a) their lack of fluency in issuing ideas using English. (b) they are not accustomed to using English in daily communication, (c) lack of understanding of students about the generic struscture and language feature, (d) lack of their ability to think abstractly. Data sources were two eighth grade students in one school. Junior High School (SMP) in Sidikalang, Indonesia. Data collection techniques by observation and interviews. The data analysis technique is descriptive analysis. The data obtained will be analyzed using the analysis procedure by Flower and Hayes (1981). According to Flower and Hayes (1981), cognitive process analysis to gather student protocols will be given the opportunity to write recount texts with different themes and then ask them to write out loud near the tape recorder, and ask students to think and write, they are asked to say everything that comes to their mind as they write, including distorted ideas, false starts, and incomplete or fragmented thinking. writers are not asked to get involved or analyze themselves when writing, but only to think hard when writing like people who talk to themselves. The findings obtained are: difficulties experienced by students, namely difficulty generating ideas and difficulty organizing ideas, and the factors that influence these difficulties are students' lack of understanding of themes, language features and general structures, b. Students are not fluent in expressing ideas using English, Students are not used to using English in daily communication, d. Low student interest and motivation in writing English.Keywords: Difficulty, Writing, process, Recount text, Student
THE EFFECT OF APPLYING DEMONSTRATION METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN SPEAKING SKILL AT THE THIRD GRADE OF SMK PAB 3 MEDAN ESTATE Meryanti Napitupulu and Anni Holila Pulungan
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 4, No 2 (2015): Apr-June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v4i2.2100

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This study was conducted as an attempt to discover the effect of applying Demonstration Method on students’ achievement in speaking skill. It was an experimental research. The subject was students of Grade XII, Vocational High School (Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan: SMK), which consisted of 79 students. The research was divided into two groups: experimental and control groups. The instrument used to collect the data was speaking test. To obtain the reliability of the test, the writer applied Kuder Richardson 21 formula. The result of the reliability was 0.7, and it was found that the test was reliable. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The analysis showed that the scores of the students in the experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of the students in the control group at the level of significant m = 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 77, t-observed value 8.9 > t-table value 1.99. The findings indicate that using Demonstration Method significantly affected the students’ achievement in speaking skill. So, English teachers are suggested to use Demonstration Method in order to improve students’ achievement in speaking skill.
DEVELOPING ESP READING MATERIALS FOR PHARMACY STUDENTS OF SMKF PHARMACAMEDAN Chantika Amalia Rizki and Neni Afrida Sari Harahap
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 7, No 1 (2018): (JAN-MARCH)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (514.503 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/reg.v7i1.9183

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This study deals with the developing of ESP Reading materials for students of vocational school. The objectives of the study are to analyze the reading materials which are appropriately used for pharmacy students and to develop the reading text materials for pharmacy students for relevant materials which are appropriate with to the needs of Pharmacy students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) method. The subject of the research was 2017/2018 students of the eleventh grade of class B at SMKF Pharmaca Medan. The number of the students was 33 students. The data of this study was collected by need questionnaire analysis, interview analysis, expert judgment and selective reading text. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of student’s need before developing ESP Reading materials particularly procedure text. Expert judgment data were calculated by using criteria interval of Expert judgment to know validity of the ESP reading materials which has been developed. The ESP reading material was in the form of reading text and reading skill which consisted of sixteen tasks. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’s judgment result was 4.4 which had a very good criteria interval and categorized as relevant.The result of the research to find that the developed ESP Reading material was a very good material to be used in teaching learning.