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Research in English and Education Journal
Published by Universitas Syiah Kuala
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Core Subject : Humanities, Education,
Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
READ (Research in English and Education) Journal (e-ISSN 2528-746X) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It highlights and publishes works in the parameters of English education disciplines with notable attention to English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature. This journal accommodates students, lecturers and academicians in these fields as a compass to maneuver their work with broader audiences both within and outside academia. Its end is to offer a plausible and accessible venue for the distribution of their scholarly work into the public, professional, and academic discussion.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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Students’ perception toward English club activities Zulvy Melviza; Syamsul Bahri Ys; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study is intended to find out the perception of students toward English club activities in speaking. This study was conducted at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. The researcher used two instruments to find the data needed, namely; questionnaire and interview. Both questionnaire which adapted from Kasmalinda (2011) and interview were used by the researcher to figure out the perception of students toward English club activities in practicing speaking. The researcher combined both of the instruments to support the data of the research. the sample of this study was the students of SMAN 3 Banda Aceh who have participated English club. The researcher took 40 students as the sample (all English club members). Based on the data obtained from both instruments used, the findings showed that students perceived English club plays an important role in supporting students to practice speaking. The students also think that English club has a great way to encourage students’ motivation to practice speaking with friends. The students also viewed that they feel glad while joinning English club. In other words, English club gets them more experiences and more knowledge. In addition, the class atmosphere tends to be fun and comfortable and it makes them more interested in practicing speaking.
The correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension Syuqaira El Humaira; Endang Komariah; Nurul Inayah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This research is aimed to find out if there is a significant correlation between the reading speed of the XII grade students at SMA Negeri 3 Banda Aceh with their reading comprehension. The population for this study were all students of class XII at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. By using the random sampling, the researcher chose 31 students of class XII MIPA 6 as the sample. The data was collected by using reading speed and reading comprehension test. After the data was collected, the correlation data is processed using product moment formula. The rXY result achieved to 0.74. The result reveals that the rvalue, 0.74, was higher than the  rtable, 0.355. Referring to the table at significant level 0.05, the result means that there is a significant correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension difficulties encountered by senior high school EFL students Rizka Puji Lestari; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study aims at finding out reading comprehension difficulties faced by the EFL students and the factors of the difficulties faced by thirty second graders of senior high school Banda Aceh. This research used mix method and the data were collected through test and interview. This research focused on five aspects in reading comprehension namely main idea, detail information, inference, reference, and vocabulary. The data collected were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative approach was used to obtain the data about the frequency of students’ difficulties in reading comprehension, while the qualitative approach was used to find out the factors why students face the difficulties. Based on the result from the test, the researcher found that the major difficulty students face in reading comprehension text is vocabulary (27%), followed by main idea (23%), inference and reference (18%), and detail information (14%). Moreover, the result from the interview with five students who got the lowest scores in the test and an English teacher who teaches the class indicates that the factors why the students face the difficulties are the absence of extensive reading, inadequate vocabulary, type of text, type of questions, the absence of the use of reading strategy, and the uncertainty of students’ reading levels. The findings suggest the English teacher measures the students’ reading levels properly, clearly teach the reading strategy, and apply an interesting strategy in teaching reading to motivate the students to read in English more.
The implementation of Numbered Heads Together technique in improving speaking ability Amirullah Amirullah; Potjut Ernawati; Nurul Inayah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study is meant to figure out whether the implementation of Numbered Heads Together can improve students’ speaking ability in terms of descriptve text. The writer conducted an experimental research by using one group pretest-posttest. Total sample of students was 20 students and they were chosen by using purposive sampling technique. The instruments used to measure students’ speaking achievement by using oral performance test. There were three meetings for the treatments. The students’ pre-test mean score was 75.40 and posttest 80.70. Each aspect was improved after the treatment, i.e. Vocabulary 16 or (10.0%), fluency 17.6 or (9.50%), pronunciation was17.1 or (4.50%), comprehension 16 or (1.50%), grammar 14 or (1.00%). The writer used 5% (a=0.05) as significant value.  The t-test result, i.e. tvalue (2.34) was higher than ttable  (1.73) suggesting that Ha is accepted. This finding shows that the implementation of Numbered Head Together Technique improved second grade junior high school students’ speaking ability (vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, comprehension, grammar) in terms to describing people, places or things orally. Therefore, it is suggested that teachers who want to develop their students’ speaking ability use this technique.
Investigating English speaking skill problems encountered by students at Islamic modern boarding schools Misna Amelia; Endang Komariah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This research is intended to analyze English speaking skill problems encountered by students. The sample of this research was 26 students from XI-MIA 1 class who have learned English for five years. They were chosen purposively. The data of this research were collected through speaking test and interview. The interview was conducted to see the students who got very low score from the speaking test. The findings from the speaking test showed that the students faced the problems in five aspect of speaking skill; pronunciation, grammar, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. The most dominant problems are pronunciation, grammar and fluency. The findings from the interview showed that the students they faced many problems such as inhibition, nothing to say, law participation and mother tongue used. To conclude, the students of Babun Najah Islamic Modern Boarding School faced the problems in speaking.
Using Picture Series to enhance students’ ability in narrative writing Khotimah Khotimah; Bukhari Daud; Burhansyah Burhansyah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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The objective of this study is to figure out whether the use of picture series can improve students’ ability in narrative writing skill, especially on the content aspect of the third grade students at MTsN Rukoh Banda Aceh. Most of the third grade students at MTsN Rukoh Banda Aceh felt difficult to generate and develop their ideas in writing form. By this reason, the researcher conducted experimental-quantitative research with the pre-test and post-test control group design to the students by using picture series to help them improve their writing. The samples of this study were class XI–1 as the experimental class and class XI-5 as the control class, which were chosen by using random sampling. In this study, the data was collected by means of writing test, consisting of pre-test and post-test. The result of this study showed that the improvement of the experimental class was higher than that of the control class. It was known from the comparison of the improvement of their average score in both classes on the content aspect of writing that is 7.26 in the experimental class and 3.28 in the control class. Besides, the result of the hypothesis testing shows that the score is 0.000 which is lower than 0.05 (0.0000.05), which means the research hypothesis that “the use of picture series can improve the students’ ability in narrative writing skill especially on the content aspect” is accepted.
Using animation movie in teaching listening skill Nuril Ismi Putri; Usman Kasim; Tengku Maya Silvianti
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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The aim of this research was to find out whether the use of animation affects students’ achievement in listening skill of SMAN 11 Banda Aceh or not. The population of this study was the first grade students and the sample was the students in X IPA 4 where the number of students is 22 chosen by random sampling. The design of this study was a pre-experimental study. To obtain the data, the writer used 20 items of fill in the blank in pre-test and post-test. This research finds that the use of animation movie in the English teaching and learning process was effective to improve the students’ listening skill, especially vocabulary. The result of data collection in this study shows that average post-test score is higher (75.5) than the pre-test score (55.2). The calculation of t-observation (to) 4.20 is higher than t-table (tt) 2.02. It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. In conclusion, animation movie is an effective media in teaching listening skill. The students become active in discussion during the teaching and learning process.
Teaching question sentences by using Five Fingers Technique Rahmi Daniati; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Diana Achmad
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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Grammar has an important role in building good sentences. In learning grammar, the students are usually taught about phrases, clauses, sentences, and also question sentences. Tocreate question sentences, there is a technique that can be used by the students; this is called five fingers technique. Therefore, this research aims to find out whether five fingers technique can improve the students’ ability in making question sentences. The study was encouraged by the problems faced by the students in learning question sentences and the need of fun activity in teaching learning process. This study used one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample of the study was class VIII-1 which consisted of 29 students. Random sampling technique was used by the writer to choose the sample. Based on the tests results, where the score of post-test was higher than the score of pre-test, it can be concluded that using five fingers technique which use the fingers as the tool to memorize the types of question sentences (wh-question, yes/no question, positive tag question, negative tag question, and assumption question) can improve the students’ ability in making question sentences. Therefore, it is recommended for the teachers to use five fingers technique in teaching question sentences.
Information Gap in teaching speaking Rini Venta Almira; Zulfadli A Aziz; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 2: June 2017
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This study aims at examining whether or not the use of information gap technique can improve students’ performance in English speaking ability and helps teachers in teaching speaking. In order to cope the problems faced by the students in learning speaking, the experimental of pre-test and post-test design was undertaken. The instrument used to collect the data in this study was a set of test. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic formula. The result of the test was analyzed by using speaking criteria suggested by Brown (2001). From the result of the study it reveals that the result of post-test is higher than the result of pre-test after the information gap technique was applied. It shows that the implementation of information gap can give a significant improvement to the students. It explicitly means that information gap can be one of alternative techniques used by teacher in teaching English particularly in teaching speaking in junior high schools.

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