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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ENGLISH TEACHERS QUESTIONS IN PROMOTING STUDENTS THINKING SKILL IN SMK NEGERI 10 MEDAN
Sharon Dinda N.H;
Sumarsih Sumarsih
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 10, No 4 (2021)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v10i4.29997
This study deals with teachers’ questions in promoting students’ thinking skill. The objectives of this study were to reveal the types of questions based on taxonomy that teachers used in classroom communicative practices and how the teachers employed strategies to stimulate students’ responses towards the teachers’ questions. A descriptive qualitative design was used in this study. The data was collected by observing two teachers in two classes of grade twelve. The findings of this study showed that the teachers used all of questions types. The type of teachers’ questions which were commonly used by the two teachers is Productive Questions. The cognitive domain which can be achieved from productive categories is creating level. Teacher A mostly used evaluative question. The cognitive domain which can be achieved from evaluative category is evaluating level. While, Teacher B mostly used productive questions. The cognitive domain which can be achieved from productive category is creating level. Furthermore, the less questions appearing is Empirical Question. So, the researcher can conclude that teachers’ questions can promote higher order questions instead of lower order questions. In addition, the two teachers used some strategies to stimulate students’ responses towards the teachers’ questions. Teacher A used rephrasing strategy, simplification strategy, decomposition strategy, and probing strategy, while Teacher B used rephrasing strategy, repetition strategy, and decomposition strategy.Keywords : Teachers Questions, Cognitive Domain, Question Strategy
THE EFFECT OF USING TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE STORYTELLING ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT
Yenni Rofina Simanjuntak and Lince Sihombing
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 4, No 2 (2015): Apr-June
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v4i2.2106
This study deals with the investigation of the effect of using Total Physical Response Storytelling on Students’ Speaking Achievement. This study was conducted by using experimental research. The population of the study was the third grade of SMP N 22 Medan. There were seventy two students used as the sample out of the research taken from two classes and they were divided into two groups namely the experimental group and control group. The experimental group was taught by using Total Physical Response Storytelling while the control group taught without using Total Physical Response Storytelling. The instrument of collecting the data was an oral test. To obtain the result of the reliability of the test, the researcher used the Product Moment Formula. The result of the calculation showed that the reliability of the test was 0.63, which means that the reliability of the test is high. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed that tobserved is exceeded than ttable (3,692 > 1,994) at the level of significance of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 70. The result of this study showed that the students’ speaking achievement taught by using Total Physical Response Storytelling is higher than those who taught without using Total Physical Response Storytelling.
DEVELOPING KAMISHIBAI MEDIA FOR WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Fitri Anisah Sitorus and Rafika Dewi Nasution
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 7, No 2 (2018): (APR-JUN)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v7i2.9200
The objective of this study was to develop Kamishibai media based on students’ needs. Research and Development was used as the research method. Research procedure was modified into four steps: Evaluation and Need Analysis, Media Design, Validation and Revision, and Final Production. The subject of this study was class VIII students of Mts. Muallimin Univa Medan, consisting of 44 students. The data were collected by giving Questionnaire to the students’ and interviewing to the teacher. The products had validated by experts validation (Material and Media). The average scores is 81 % from English Lecture and 84 % from English Teacher and the total average scores is 83 %. It means that developing Kamishibai media categories is relevant or appropriate for VIII Grade student of Mts. Muallimin Univa Medan.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH THROUGH THE FIVE-SENSE TECHNIQUE
Claudya Sinaga and Sri Juriaty Ownie
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 1 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i1.616
This study is aimed to find out whether the five-sense technique can improve the students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph. This study was conducted by using Classroom Action Research. The subject of this study is the second grade VIII-B students of SMP Trisakti 2 Medan. The number of the subject was 30 students. This thesis applied in two cycle and six meetings. The qualitative data were taken from diary notes, observation sheet and questionnaire sheet. The quantitative data were taken from the mean of the students’ score in writing test. Based on the data, the students’ score got improvement in every cycle. In Test I, the mean of the students’ scores was 61.43 while in Test II, the mean of the stydents’ scores was 70.46 and in Test III, the mean of students’ scores was 77.93. Based on the result of quantitative data, it was found that there was improvement on students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph.
DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE MEDIA TO TEACH SPEAKING SKILL FOR GRADE 11 STUDENTS
Anggi Yulihar and Nora Ronita Dewi
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 5, No 2 (2016): (APR-JUN)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v5i2.5303
The study deals with the developing interactive media for senior high school students. The objective of this study is to find out how to develop interactive media for better speaking skill of senior high school students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was 2016/2017 students of the eleventh grade of Class XI IPA4 in SMAN 1 Batang Kuis. The number of the students was 30 students. The data of this study was collected by using need analysis questionnaire and experts’ judgment. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of students’ need before developing interactive media. Experts’ judgment was calculated by using likert data, mean and criteria interval of expert judgment to know the validity of interactive media which has been developed. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’ judgment result was 4.80 which had a very good criteria interval. The result of the research find that interactive media is a very good to be used in teaching speaking skill.
AN ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC APPROACH IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT SMA NEGERI 6 MEDAN
Khairunnisa Fitri Nasution;
Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Siregar;
Puan Suri Mira Annisa Sembiring
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 8, No 3 (2019): English Teaching
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v8i3.20910
This study was about an analysis of Scientific Approach in teaching English classroom. The aimed of this study were (a) to analyze the implementation of the five scientific approach in English language teaching, and (b) to find out how the teachers comprehend the concept of Scientific Approach. The subject of this research were the English teachers of SMA NEGERI 6 MEDAN. This research used descriptive qualitative research. To answer the problems of the study, the data were collected in three ways by observing, recording, and interviewing. The data were analyzed based on Miles and Huberman (1994). The result of this study were the following, (a) the first teacher was implement the observing, experimenting, and communicating process. The second teacher was implement the experimenting, associating, and communicating process. The teachers have not implemented all the five stages of Scientific Approach, (b) it found that the teachers showed lack of comprehension relating to the concept of Scientific Approach.Keywords: Scientific Approach, 2013 Curriculum, Implementation.
IMPROVING STUDENT’S VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT IN WITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH MAKE A MATCH METHOD
Irma Lely Lumban Gaol and Johan Sinulingga
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 2, No 4 (2013)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v2i4.691
This study is concerned with the improving student’s vocabulary achievement in writing descriptive text through Make a Match Method. The objective of this study was to discover whether the use of Make a Match Method could significantly improve students’ vocabulary achievement in writing descriptive text. This study was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research which was carried out in two cycles in six meetings. The subject of this study was students of SMA Negeri 1 Pollung which consisted of 34 students. The instruments for collecting data were descriptive writing test, observation sheet, questionnaire sheet, and diary notes. The techniques for data analysis were quantitative and qualitative. It was found that teaching-learning process ran well. Students were active, enthusiastic and interested on writing descriptive text. The result of this study showed that the use of Make a Match Method significantly improved student’s vocabulary achievement in writing descriptive text.
THE EFFECT OF 3H (Here, Hidden, and in my Head) STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT
Ika Nurkasih and Berlin Sibarani
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 6, No 1 (2017): (JAN-MARCH)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v6i1.5370
This study was intended to find out the effect of applying 3H (Here, Hidden, and in my Head) Strategy on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this study was the second year students of SMP Al Hidayah Medan. The sample of this research was two classes which consisted of experimental and control group which were chosen by using clustering technique. There were thirty students which were taken as the sample in each class. The experimental group was taught by 3H (Here, Hidden, and in my Head) Strategy while control group was taught without 3H (Here, Hidden, and in my Head) Strategy. The instrument of collecting the data was multiple choice test which consists of 20 items. To obtain the reliability of the test, the researcher used Kuder Richardson (KR 20) formula. The calculation showed that the reliability is 0.84 (very high). The data were analyzed by using t-test. The calculation showed that t-observed (5.2) was higher than t-table (2.00) at the level of significance (ơ) 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) 58. The result of this study showed that 3H (Here, Hidden, and in my Head) Strategy was significantly affect on students’ reading comprehension achievement.
THE IMPACT OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES TO SEO JIN-WOO CHARACTER IN REMEMBER KOREAN DRAMA
Benazir Isna;
Bima Prana Chitra
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol 10, No 1 (2021)
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DOI: 10.24114/reg.v10i1.24680
THE IMPACT OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES TO SEO JIN-WOO CHARACTER IN REMEMBER KOREANDRAMABenazir Isna 1, Dr. Bima Prana Chitra M. Hum 2Fakultas Bahasa dan KomunikasiUniversitas Harapan MedanEmail: isnabena11@gmail.comAbstractThe objective of this research are characterization of Seo Jin Woo, impact of traumatic experience to SeoJin Woo, Psychoanalysis of Seo Jin Woo character and moral values presented in Remember drama. Thisresearch used descriptive qualitative research. The data of this research were script, character, anddrama on Remember (2015) as the source of data. This research focuses on characterization of Seo JinWoo Nurgiyantoro (1955), traumatic experience by Seo Jin Woo character based on DSM (1980),psychology of Seo Jin Woo character based on theory Sigmund Freud (1896), and moral values in dramaRemember based on Hurlock, Elizabeth ( 1972:386).Keywords: Characterization, Traumatic experience, Psychoanalysis, Moral
READING EXERCISES FOR VIII GRADE STUDENTS BASED ON BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
Intan Permata Sari 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.v6i3.6705
This study is aimed at (1) analyzing reading exercises based Bloom’s taxonomy for VIII grade in English on Sky textbook. (2) Found the distribution of the lower and higher order thinking skill in reading exercises. (3) To reason for level reading exercises. After analyzed the data, the result of the data analysis also infers that the six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in reading exercises weren’t applied totally. The creating skill doesn’t have distribution in reading exercise, and the understanding – remembering level more dominant than another levels. The distribution of the higher order thinking level was lower than the lower order thinking level and the six levels are not appropriate with the proportion for each level of education based Bloom’s taxonomy, such as the distribution of the creating level in the reading exercise must be a concern because no question that belong to the creating level. It was concluded that reading exercises in English on Sky textbook cannot improve students' critical thinking skills for VIII grade.