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Research in English and Education Journal
Published by Universitas Syiah Kuala
ISSN : -     EISSN : 2528746X     DOI : -
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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An Analysis of Code Mixing in Indonesian Movie Cek Toko Sebelah Muhammad Ricky Adrean; Bukhari Daud; Kismullah Kismullah
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 4, No 4 (2019): December 2019
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In using the language, people have a variety of style, one of them is code mixing. Indonesian-English code mixing often uses by teenagers because of influence of popular movie like Cek Toko Sebelah that contain code mixing. The teenagers who watched this movie may be exposed to every aspect presented in the movie, including language use along with code-mixing phenomenon in it. Thus, it is significant to investigate the use of code mixing in this movie. The aim of this study is to find out the types of code mixing that are used in Cek Toko Sebelah movie and also to figure out the type of code mixing that is most frequently used in Cek Toko Sebelah movie. This study used qualitative method. In collecting the data, the writer used observation sheet and classified the data into 3 types of code mixing based on Muysken’s (2000) theory. The result of this study showed that 32 data or (63%) are categorized as insertion, 19 data or (37%) are categorized as alternation and no data of congruent lexicalization. The most frequently used type of code mixing in Cek Toko Sebelah movie was insertion.
The Role of English Teachers in Guiding Students to Win the English Debat Competition Wiradarsia Wiradarsia; Potjut Ernawati; Asnawi Muslem
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 1: February 2017
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This study aims at investigating empirical data on the role of the English teachers in guiding the students to win the English competition in the form of qualitative study. The study was carried out at SMPN 19 Percontohan Banda Aceh in February 2016. The objective of this study was to identify the roles the English teachers. The roles of the teacher were adapted from Harden and Crosby those roles include information provider, model, facilitator, assessor, planner, and resource material creator. The sources of the data were from informants and classroom observation and the data were collected through observation and interview. In analysing the data, the writer used interactive model analysis including reducing the data, presenting the data, and drawing conclusion.  The results of this study indicate that the roles of the English teacher of Percontohan Junior High School play a big contribution on students’ success in winning the English contest competition. Besides, this school provided extracurricular clubs which help students to improve and increase their skill.
An Analysis of Language Styles Used in Fly-Tipping Spots in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar Putra Phoenna; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Masrizal Mahmud
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 6, No 3 (2021): August 2021
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Language style is the choice of words used by the speaker when speaking in different circumstances. Fly-tipping is an illegal dump of waste by people in certain area. The purpose of this study is to find out the types of language style used in fly-tipping spots in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar. The source of data is warning boards and signs in 50 fly-tipping spots in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar. The research design used is descriptive-qualitative research with content analysis approach. The instrument that is used to collect the data in this research is observation sheet. The data were analyzed and classified based on the types of language style proposed by Joos (1976) as cited in Hamdany and Damanhuri (2017). In analyzing the data, the researcher uses the data analysis method proposed by Miles et al. (2014) that the data are analyzed through three steps, those are data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results of this study show that from 50 data that are analyzed, the researcher only found three types of language style that are used. Those are formal style with 21 occurrences, consultative style with 22 occurrences, and casual style with only 7 occurrences. However, the researcher did not find any use of frozen style and intimate style from the analysis. This shows that people are more likely to use a clear, formal, and neutral language such as formal and consultative style to express something to the public, especially at the fly-tipping spots in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar.
Teacher’s Experience in Teaching Speaking Using Role Play Technique Nur Raihan; Siti Sarah Fitriani; Chairina Chairina
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 3, No 3 (2018): August 2018
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This study aimed at analyzing the way the teacher teaches speaking using role play technique and investigating the drawback of role play steps implemented by the teacher while teaching speaking. Descriptive qualitative study was undertaken by observing and interviewing an English teacher at Fatih Bilingual School. The result of the observation was analyzed by using role play procedure proposed by Huang (2008). The result of the study revealed that there were two steps of role play that were modified by the teacher and one step that was skipped by the teacher while she implemented role play technique in teaching speaking. In conclusion, there were two steps that not related to the theory.
The Perceptions of Students on the Importance of English Speaking Skill in the Tourism Sector Syahwil Saputra; Endang Komariah; Yuliana Natsir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 3: August 2017
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The objective of this study is to find out the perceptions of students on the importance of English speaking skill in the tourism sector. The instruments used to collect the data were the questionnaire and interview. Both the instruments were adapted from Arslan and Akbarov (2012). The set of interview questions were adjusted by the writer to figure out the perceptions of students toward the importance of English speaking skill in tourism sector. The subjects of this study were the fourth and sixth semester students of Tourism Academy of Muhammadiyah Aceh. The writer took 25 students as the sample. The data were analyzed by using qualitative data analysis (data reduction, data display, and conclusion). Based on the data obtained from both instruments, the findings showed that the majority of students perceived that English speaking skills in the tourism sector was important. It can be seen from the data result based on each category of the questionnaire item. More than 50% of the respondents perceived that English for tourism was attractive to learn. Furthermore, 90% of the respondents stated that English for tourism was useful in finding future jobs. Based on the third category, there were 91% of the respondents stated that English was important in facilitating communication process in the tourism sector. Moreover, there were 56% of the respondents stated there was an impact of speaking English to native language. The last category, 91% of the students perceived that they were aware of basic terms of tourism in English. 
The Influence of Using I Spy Game towards Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Shaumi Fitria; Iskandar Abdul Samad; Nira Erdiana
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2021): June 2021
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Vocabulary is one of the basic and most important aspects in learning a language. In the learning process, learners need to know lots of words of the target language with such various techniques. Students’ vocabulary mastery is influenced by many factors. In this research, researcher wants to know if there is significant influence towards the students’ vocabulary mastery by using a game called I Spy as the technique used in this research. This research is a quantitative approach with pre-experimental design, one group pretest-posttest. The subjects of this research were the first grade students of junior high school. The class chosen as the experimental class was VII2 which consisted of 30 students at SMP Negeri 2 Takengon with 15 female students and 15 male students. The data was collected from the pretest and posttest result and analyzed by using statistical formula. The analysis result of this study proved that the students’ posttest scores are significantly increased higher than the pretest scores which the mean of pretest was 46.7 and the mean of posttest was 70.5 and the gain between the means was 23.8. According to the data analysis result, it can be inferred that students’ tests scores increased after the I Spy game technique was applied which means that it also influences students’ vocabulary mastery.
Students’ Difficulties in Mastering Structure and Written Expression Of Paper-Based TOEFL Muhajir Muhajir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 3, No 2 (2018): June 2018
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Obtaining a score of TOEFL higher than 500 has been proven difficult. Some studies showed that students had biggest problems in answering section two of PBT TOEFL. Therefore, this study was aimed at investigating difficulties encountered by advanced EFL learners in mastering structure and written expression tested in PBT TOEFL. The PBT TOEFL test, designed by ETS, was conducted to 25 advanced undergraduate students, selected by using a convenient sampling technique, at Syiah Kuala University. The test consisted of 40 multiple choice questions and the students completed it within 25 minutes. The result revealed that the students faced a serious problems with redundancy (48%), followed by verb form (53%), pronoun error (55%), plural (55%), WIAS (57%), parallelism (59%), article (60%), word order (61%), conjunction (62%), deleted word (71%), prepositional phrase (71%), word choice (73%), and part of speech (74%). It was concluded that redundancy was the most difficult aspect for the students. Hence, it is suggested that university lectures who teach structure pay more attention to this aspect.
The Effect of Using English Video Clips with Pair Work Activity on Students’ Speaking Skil Rosmawar Rosmawar
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 3, No 1 (2018): February 2018
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This research focused on the effect of using English video clip with pair work activity on students speaking skill  at first grade students (VII-4) of MTsN 2 Banda Aceh. The purpose of this experimental quantitative research was to look at the effect of using English video clip with pair work activity on students speaking skill. The sample of this study was 25 students of class VII-4. In selecting the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling. In collecting the data, the  researcher used test (pretest and postest) as the instrument  and it was analyzed by using sample t-test. From the result of the study, it was found that the mean score of pre-test was  55,4 and the mean score of post-test was 81,2. It was clearly seen that the mean score of post-test was higher than the mean score of pre-test. Then, t-test was 4,534 and critical value in  t-table (0,05) was  1,711, Meaning that t-score was higher than t-table (t-score = 4,534 t-table = 1,711). It means the altenative hypothesis (Ha) of this research  was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. In conclusion, teaching English by using  English video clip with pair work activity can give a significant effect toward the students’ speaking skill. Therefore, it is recommended that using English video clip with pair work activity can be alternative media used by the teacher in teaching English particularly in teaching speaking.
The Analysis of Negotiation of Meaning Strategy Used by English Teacher in Classroom Interaction Lidya Rahmah; Endang Komariah; Iskandar Abdul Samad
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 5, No 3 (2020): August 2020
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This paper reports on analysis the negotiation of meaning strategy employed by English teacher in classroom interaction. This qualitative research conducted at SMAN 3 Banda Aceh. The result of the research showed that the second-grade English teacher used negotiation of meaning strategy in which appeared in different amount and frequency. Trigger appeared as the most frequent component of negotiation of meaning strategy produced by the teacher during the interaction, meanwhile, self-modification of response (SMR) is the most significance way the teacher response the students’ signal in negotiating the conversation. In the wake of conducting this research, bringing negotiation of meaning strategy in dealing with communication impasses in the classroom in exceptionally proposed for both teacher and EFL students.
The Use of Comic to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill at Junior High School Afwun Kamil; Endang Komariah; Yuliana Natsir
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 2, No 3: August 2017
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The objective of this experimental study is to know the achievement of students reading comprehension after implementing comic as learning media. The population was all of the eighth grade students of SMPN 17 Banda Aceh. The sample was the students of class VIII-9 (experimental class) and VIII-6 (control class). True Exprimental Design is used in this study. The writer conducted pre-test, treatment and post-test to collect data, and used gain score calculation. The mean score of pre-test in experimental class was 62 and post-test was 75.6, while the mean score of pre-test in control class was 36.8, and post-test was 59.2. The gain score of experimental class was 9.78, while control class was 8.11. It indicated that there was an improvement of students’ achievement both of classes. However, the improvement of students’ achievement in experimental class is higher than control class. Moreover, the analysis of t-test showed that tscore ttable or 2.36 1.68 at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 25. It is clear that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that comic is effective media in teaching learning reading recount text.

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