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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<![CDATA[IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXTS THROUGH DICTOGLOSS TECHNIQUE ]]>
<![CDATA[Nova Susanti and Lidiman S.M. Sinaga]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 1, No 2 (2012) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v1i2.402
<![CDATA[This research attempts to improve students’ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text by using Dictogloss Technique. The result showed the improvement of students’ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text. It was found that the mean of the students’ scores in every test was improved. In the first test, the mean was 38.7 and there was 2.3% of the students who got up 75 points (Minimum Completeness Criteria), in the second test, it was 65.1 and 19.04% of the students who got up 75 points, and in the last one, the mean was 79.4 and there was 73.8% of the students who got up 75 points. The students felt enthusiastic, enjoyable, and active in teaching learning process through Dictogloss Technique. The result of the research showed the progress of achievement scores, it can be concluded that Dictogloss Technique gives contribution to improve students’ achievement in writing hortatory exposition text. Keywords: Achievement, Writing, Hortatory Exposition Text, Dictogloss Technique]]>
<![CDATA[DEVELOPING READING MATERIALS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON CONTENT AREA ]]>
<![CDATA[Anggita Kasanra Lubis and Rafika Dewi Nasution]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 5, No 1 (2016): (JAN-MARCH) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v5i1.5287
<![CDATA[Reading is the basic in learning every subject. The more understanding the text, the more information students can gain. However, the reading materials that the students use is not appropriate based on syllabus. Therefore, the reading materials should be developed to fulfil the syllabus and the students' needs also. Because English is included Content Area Reading, so the development of reading materials is based on content area which focus on strengthen the vocabularies, specifically the unfamiliar ones, by giving glossary and related pictures. The developed text is only focus in the first semester which is descriptive and recount text. The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Medan. The data was taken from interviewing the English teacher and distributing questionnaires for 30 students in grade VIII-4. The data showed that students need materials which is related to their environment and constructed by familiar vocabularies. Based on the result of the study, conclusion and suggestion are directed to the English teacher who is teaching in that school to provide reading materials based on syllabus and students' needs regularly.]]>
<![CDATA[DEVELOPING GLOVE AND FINGER PUPPETS AS MEDIA FOR TEACHING SPEAKING AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP DHARMA PANCASILA MEDAN ]]>
<![CDATA[Gadis Wulandari]]>;
<![CDATA[Sumarsih Sumarsih]]>;
<![CDATA[Puan Suri Mira Anisa Sembiring]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 8, No 3 (2019): English Teaching ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v8i3.20889
<![CDATA[This study aimed at identifying the students’ needs of SMP Dharma Pancasila Medan in learning speaking using media that is glove and finger puppets. The nature of this study was Research and Development (R & D). The steps were conducting the needs analysis, planning, developing the media, obtaining the experts’ judgments, revising and finally writing the final product glove and finger puppets. This study involved 24 students of the first year students of SMP Dharma Pancasila Medan as the research subjects. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaires (needs analysis questionnaire and expert judgment questionnaires). The results of the needs analysis questionnaire were analyzed using percentage and the expert judgment were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Data got from the result of need analysis was being the basis in developing the product. The researcher was develop five puppets. All of the puppet was kind of animal: They are caterpillar, bee, ladybug, dragonfly, and butterfly. The puppet are use to help the students in describing animals. Then, based on the expert judgment, the media are appropriate for the first year students of junior high school. It was proved by the mean value of the appropriateness of the media is 3.6. It is categorized as “Very Good” as its positions is in the interval 3.28< x < 4.03.Key words: Teaching Media, Speaking Skill, Glove and Finger Puppets]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SENTENCE COMBINING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ]]>
<![CDATA[Rismawati and Siti Aisyah Ginting]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 3 (2013) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i3.670
<![CDATA[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.]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECT OF POW+TREE STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT ]]>
<![CDATA[Permadi Pasaribu and Isli Iriani Indiah Pane]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 5, No 4 (2016): (OCT-DEC) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v5i4.5364
<![CDATA[This study deals with the effect of POW+TREE Strategy on students’ ability inwriting hortatory exposition text.. The problem of the study is to find out whetherPOW+TREE Strategy significantly affects students’ ability in writing hortatoryexposition text or not. This study was conducted by using experimental design.The population of the study was the students of eleventh grade of SMA Methodist8 Medan in the academic year 2015/2016, there were 3 parallel classes of gradeXI. There were two classes selected to be sample. The Experimental group (XIIPA-2) was taught by applying POW+TREE Strategy, while the Control group(XI IPA-3) was taught by applying conventional strategy. The data of the studywas obtained from the students’ scores of writing test. There were two kinds oftest used in this study. They were pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzedby applying t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the result of the study showedthat t-observed (2.338) was higher than t-table (1.994) (t-observed > t-table) at thelevel of significance of p=0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) = 68. It can beconcluded that applying POW+TREE strategy significantly affects students’ability in writing hortatory exposition text, or in other words, the null hypothesisis rejected , therefore the alternative hypothesis is accepted.]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF STORY FACE IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT IN SMK SWASTA DWIWARNA MEDAN ]]>
<![CDATA[Maisaroh Sartika Damanik]]>;
<![CDATA[Rika Rika]]>;
<![CDATA[Yeni Erlita]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 8, No 4 (2019) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v8i4.24674
<![CDATA[THE USE OF STORY FACE IN TEACHING READINGCOMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT IN SMK SWASTADWIWARNA MEDAN*Maisaroh sartika Damanik**Rika**Yeni ErlitaABSTRACTThis study was aimed to find out the process of teaching reading comprehensionthrough story face of narrative text and students’ problems in the process oflearning reading comprehension through story face of narrative text. The researchwas conducted by using descriptive qualitative. The data were analyzed byqualitative analysis technique which consists of three procedures, namely: datacondentation, data display and drawing/conclusion. The data were the result ofobserving and interviewing of students at SMK Swasta Dwiwarna Medan. Thedata were analyzed based on teaching reading comprehension through story faceby Randolp (2012). The findings showed that the process of teaching learningreading by using story face could help the students in learning reading butteaching reading comprehension by using story face was still less effective ingrade tenth in SMK Swasta Dwiwarna Medan. The teacher had followed theprocedure well based on the Randolp(2012), but the teacher did not manage thetime well. There were some students’ problems in learning readingcomprehension of narrative text by using story face. The problems were: (a)students lack vocabulary mastery, (b) The students had problem to decode wordsand sentence, (c) Students had problem to get main idea of the text and to figureout the inference of the text, (d) Students had habit of slow reading, (e) Studentshad problem in working memory to remember the text, (f) students were beingpassive during learning process and they did not confidence, they felt afraid tomake a mistake in learning reading.Key words:Reading comprehension, students’ problems in learning reading,Story Face, Teaching reading story face.]]>
<![CDATA[THE CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT OF READINGMATERIALS IN ENGLISH ALIVE TEXTBOOK BASED ON SYLLABUS INDICATORS OF KTSP FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS ]]>
<![CDATA[Syarifah Fitriani and Masitowarni Siregar]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 6, No 2 (2017): (APR-JUNE) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v6i2.6393
<![CDATA[The Objective of this study was to describe clearly about the conformityAssessment of reading materials in English Alive textbook for eleventh gradestudents of Senior High School with the requirements in the school-basedcurriculum (KTSP). The research method was document analysis. The data weregathered from English Alive textbook and the syllabus of English subject for theeleventh grade students of Senior High School. After obtaining the data, theresearcher analyzed the data from the reading material contents in the textbookwith the requirements specified in the KTSP by calculating the score of the datafrom the analysis. The findings of this research state that 85.7% of text types inthe textbook meet the text types specified in the KTSP, 93,7% of the readingindicators meet the indicators specified in the KTSP,100% of generic structuresmeet the requirements specified in the KTSP. The total score for the all of aspectsin reading material are 93,2%. It shows very good as the criteria of conformitylevel. Based on the results,the reading indicators, reading text types, and featuresof reading text types (generic structures) in English Alive textbook are alreadydeveloped in accordance with the requirements specified in the School-BasedCurriculum (KTSP).]]>
<![CDATA[DEVELOPING READING WORKSHEET BASED ON TASKBASED LANGUAGE TEACHING TO TEACH STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION FOR THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA NEGERI 3 MEDAN ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurhanifa Lubis]]>;
<![CDATA[Anni Holila Pulungan]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 10, No 3 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v10i3.29971
<![CDATA[The objective of this study was to develop reading worksheet based on taskbased language teaching to teach students’ reading comprehension for tenth grade students at sma negeri 3 medan. 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 Negeri 3 Medan. The data were gathered by reviewing documents, conducting an interview with the English teacher, and distributing the students' needs analysis questionnaires to X MIA 2 consists of 35 students to get the students’ needs. The interview and questionnaire results proved that the students needed reading worksheet based on task-based language teaching. The developed reading worksheets were validated by two experts which scored 3.77 and 3.87 on average. The scores approved that the reading worksheet based on task-based language teaching were very valid and suitable to use for the tenth-grade students in SMA Negeri 3 Medan. The result of the product was distributed to the students through bit.ly/TBLTworksheetKey words: Development, Reading, Worksheet, Task-Based Language Teaching.]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECT OF APPLYING PQRST METHOD ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ]]>
<![CDATA[Herbiana Sipayung and Lince Sihombing]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 4, No 1 (2015): Jan-March ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v4i1.2091
<![CDATA[This study deals with the effect of applying PQRST method on students’ reading comprehension. The objective of this study is to find out whether PQRST method significantly effect on students’ reading comprehension or not. This study was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of the study was the students of grade X of SMA Negeri 1 Sidamanik. There were sixty students as the sample of the research. This study conducted with two randomized groups namely experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using PQRST method while control group was taught using traditional method. The data of the study were obtain from students’ score of test. To determine the reliability of the test, the writer used the Kuder Richardson formula (KR-21). The result of the study showed that reliability of the test was 0.618. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula, the analysis showed that score students in the experimental group was significantly higher than that of students in the level of control group at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58 the t-observed is 5.333 while t-table is 2.000. It can be concluded that applying PQRST method significantly affects on students’ reading comprehension. It means that the hypothesis is accepted.]]>
<![CDATA[THE EFFECT OF USING DEMONSTRATION METHOD ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT ]]>
<![CDATA[Yusrida and Masitowarni Siregar]]>
<![CDATA[ REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 1, No 1 (2012) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v1i1.342
<![CDATA[The objective of this study was to find out whether demonstration method has a significant effect on students’ achievement in writing procedure texts. The population of the study was 90 third year students at SMP Negeri II Tambangan, in three classes. Sixty students were taken as the sample by using random sampling. The sample was divided in to two groups. Thirty students as the experimental group were taught by using a demonstration method and thirty students as the control group were taught by using a teacher’s method. The instrument used in this study was a writing test. To obtain test reliability, the Person Product Moment Formula was used and the calculation showed that the reliability of the test was 0.95. Then, after analyzing the data, it was found that the t-test was 3.33 with a freedom degree of 58 at the level significance (p = 0.05) = 2.000 meaning that t-test was higher than t-table (3.33 > 2.000). Based on the result, the Ha was accepted. The result suggested that the demonstration method had a significant effect on students’ achievement in writing procedure text. Key Words: Demonstration Method, Teacher’s Method, Writing, Procedure Text.]]>
