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JURNAL SMART
Published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Pringsewu
ISSN : 23562048     EISSN : 2356203X     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
SMART: Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics ISSN: 2356-2048, e-ISSN: 2356-203X a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by Language Centre STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in collaboration with Asosiasi Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (APSBI). The journal publishes both conceptual and research-based articles within the fields of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. Its scope encompasses English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, Asesment Language, Translation, vocabularies, Curriculum, semantics, syntax, syllabus discourse, english skills, teaching method,structure pragmatics, sociolinguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics. It published biannually in the months of January and August.
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COLLABORATIVE WRITING: PRODUCT AND STUDENTS’ REFLECTIONS Wulandari, Fitri
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26638/270.203X

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Producing a jointly written text becomes popular investigation in some studies.  The main concern of the study was to investigate the students’ writing product and students’ reflection in collaborative writing. The study was mixed-method research with the exploratory design.  49 third year students at English Education Department in the academic year of 2016-2017 of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung attended the study.   The study compared texts produced by pairs with those produced by individual learners as the sources of quantitative data and the students’ reflection as qualitative data. The study also elicited the learners ‘reflections on the experience of collaborative writing. The study found that the students’ writing score that work in pairs/collaboratively was higher than individual work product. Writing collaboratively also give positive impact on the students’ social aspect. They learned to work in team and reduced their feeling of under pressure.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY THROUGH STORYBOARD Janah, Miftahul
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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This study is a classroom action research which intended to improve students’ writing ability through Storyboard. The participants were the fourth semester students of English Department of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu in academic year 2014/ 2015. The instruments used in collecting data were observation, questionnaire, and documents.  Observation is used to know what is really happening in the class and the condition when the class activity is taking place. Questionnaire is used to know the students’ perception towards Storyboard in improving their writing ability, and documents is used to get students’ written texts. Then, 1) assembling the data, 2) coding the data, 3) comparing the data, 4) building meanings and interpretations, and 5) reporting the outcomes, are the steps in analyzing the data. Having analyzed the data, it was found that there was improvement of the students’ activeness in writing activity and in writing ability.
POLITE REQUEST STRATEGIES BY MALE AND FEMALE OF ENGLISH LEARNERS Habibi, Fajri
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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The present study investigated request strategy by non-native English speakers. The study focused at the rank of imposition in the choice of request and politeness strategy between twenty five males and females of postgraduate English students Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. The data were collected by discourse completion tests (DCT) which consisted of six situations. Their responses were categorized using the scale of Trosborg request theory and Brown and Levinson politeness. The findings showed that the students utilized hearer oriented conditions strategy when uttered to the hearer with higher status. However, the male students tended to use direct request strategy in the situation when they had high position status. The combination request strategy was used to pressure the intention of request utterance. The male and female students also used some supportive moves in their utterance.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DAIRY IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT Yuliani, Sri; Fitriana, Mareta
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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The aim of the study was to find out whether or not it is effective of using diary in teaching writing recount text to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang. The method used in this study was the quasi experimental.  The number of  sample  were  76 students taken by using purposive non random sampling and divided into experimental and control group.  The result of test was analyzed by using independent sample t-test. The result of  the study indicated that the mean of post test in experimental group was 67.01 and the mean of post test in control group was 62.34. t-obtained was 3.972 at significant level p<0.05 for two tailed test and degree of freedom was 74, t-table was 1.9925. Since the value of t-obtained was higher than t-table, so null hypothesis   was rejected and alternative hypothesis  was accepted. It can be stated that the using of diary was effective in teaching writing of recount text  to the tenth grade student of SMA Negeri 2 Palembang. 
LOCAL CULTURE STORIES AS ALTERNATIVE READING MATERIALS FOR STUDENTS (A CONTEXTUAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR HIGH AND LOW INTEREST) Al Amin, Ahmad Fitri
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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This study aims to examine the effectiveness of contextual learning using local culture based stories to improve the skill in reading comprehension especially for narrative texts for students with higher and lower interest in MTs Nahdlatul Muslimin Kudus. The study was conducted using factorial design with two research groups and two control groups. The participants of this study were two classes. The number of subjects was 30 in a class. The data were collected by using a pretest and a posttest. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for analyzing the tabulated data. The result shows that there was a significance improvement between pretest and posttest in both control and experimental group with the level of significance 0.000. This means both methods are effective in improving the students’ reading skills both for the students with higher and lower interest. The analysis of covariance shows that there was no significant interaction between the contextual learning using local and non-local culture based stories, students’ interest, and reading comprehension skills with the level of significance 0.380.
THE EFFECTS OF LOGICAL THINKING AND VOCABULARY MASTERY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN EAST JAKARTA mulyadi, mulyadi
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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ABSTRACTThe aim of this research is to find out and analyze empirically the effects of logical thinking and vocabulary mastery towards students’ reading comprehension. Research method used was survey. The observed population of this research is twelfth grade students from SMA Negeri 88, SMA Negeri 98 and SMA Negeri 106 in East Jakarta.The sample was taken through simple random sampling and 60 students as samples of this research. For collecting data, the instruments used in this research were tests (multiple choices) to measure Logical thinking, vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.  The data then was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, multiple correlation coefficient, and determination coefficient and regression analysis. Previously, the requirements test has been accomplished before analyzing the data, such as normality and linearity test. The result of this research explained that there is significant effect of logical thinking and vocabulary mastery concurrently toward students’ reading comprehension with correlation coefficient 0,901 and determination coefficient 0,812 or 81,2%. The regression equation is stated Ŷ=17.894+0.543X1+0.386X2. The result has also shown Fobserved =122,732 > 3,16 (Ftable) and Sig= 0,000 < 0,05.Partially, there is significant effect of logical thinking towards students’ reading comprehension. The result has shown the score of Sig = 0,000 < 0,05 and ttest = 4,324. There is significant effect of vocabulary mastery towards students’ reading comprehension. The result has shown the score of Sig= 0,000 < 0,05 and ttest = 3,924.Keywords: Logical Thinking, Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension
THE USE OF RIDDLES GAME TO TEACH SPEAKING TO THE STUDENTS Episiasi, Episiasi
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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The objective of this study was to find out whether or not it was significantly effective to use Riddles Game to teach speaking at the eleventh grade students. The method applied was pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample was 29 students which taken through cluster random sampling. The writer used oral test as technique for collecting the data. The data obtained were analyzed through four techniques : (1) The mean students’ score in the pre-test was 56.25, (2) The mean students’ score in the post- test was 75.96, (3) The result of normality test in the pre-test was 6.79 and in the post-test was 8.73 and (4) The result of matched t-test was 7.61, which was higher than 1.701 value of the table with the degree of freedom (29-1) 28 with 5% signficant level for one tailed test. So, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that, it was sigificantly effective to use Riddles Game to teach speaking.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ORAL PRESENTATION IN PROMOTING LEARNER AUTONOMY IN CLASS Kayyis, Rahmatika
JURNAL SMART Vol 3, No 1 (2017)
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In class of Phonetic phonology, students having confusion about a huge differences of each symbol and its phoneme between Indonesia and English. Only by giving them a lecturer in each meeting would not satisfy their needs. As it simply cannot keep up with it, learners have to be able to process and investigate their curiosity on their own autonomously.  Oral presentation is believed as one of implementations to promote learner autonomy in University environment. 32 students in the class divided into 10 groups presented several topics about phonetic and phonology. The data were collected through observation, interview, and questionaire. Then, they were analyzed using the steps in case study research method. The finding shows that oral presentation had given them “freedom”to discover and autonomy to do their own learning. They also given good response relating of  what they had learnt dan investigated during teaching learning in Phonetic and Phonology Class.

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