Second Grade Students Of SMAN Research Articles

ANALISIS PENTINGNYA INTERAKSI KELAS DALAM PENGAJARAN KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA DI KELAS DUA SMA 6 BENGKULU

Abstract: This research is entitled "The Importance of Classroom Interaction in Teaching Speaking skills at Second Grade SMA 6 Bengkulu" The purpose of this research is to analyze how the importance of classroom interaction in teaching speaking skills in class. The method used in this research is using qualitative method, by using direct observation method to students and teachers in the learning process. The subjects in this research are an English teacher and second grade students of SMAN 6 Bengkulu. The result of this research is, class interaction is very important in learning speaking in class especially in learning English. Because through class interaction, we can find out the ability of students and how to develop and foster students' confidence to speak and interact during the learning process. In this context, the teacher has an important role in supporting classroom interaction because the teacher is a motivator as well as a facilitator to develop students' abilities. When learning English, it is found that there are still many students who are not confident and choose to be silent, and there are also those who speak but still use the mother tongue as a whole word with the excuse of not knowing and afraid of being wrong, therefore it is advisable for teachers to provide encouragement, motivation and praise that builds students' confidence to speak, especially using English.

The Ability of Second Grade Senior High School Students in Speaking Transactional and Interpersonal Conversation at SMA Negeri 7 Padang

Speaking is often tested to the students beside listening, reading and writing. Moreover, speaking is an important skill. Students can express their feeling, ideas or opinion through speaking. In addition, students should be able to retell meaning of the monologue and functional texts or produce a transactional/interpersonal dialogue. The object of the data is the second grade students of SMAN 7 Padang. Speaking test was used to get information about the students’ ability in transactional and interpersonal conversation. The indicators are grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. Based on the findings and discussion above there are four conclusions that can be drawn in this research. First, the ability of the students in speaking transactional and interpersonal conversation viewed from grammar aspect is fair. Second, the ability of the students in speaking transactional and interpersonal conversation viewed from vocabulary aspect is fair. Third, the ability of the students in speaking transactional and interpersonal conversation viewed from comprehension aspect was fair. Forth, the ability of the students in speaking transactional and interpersonal conversation viewed from fluency aspect is fair.

A Comparative Study On Speaking Skill Between Extrovert And Introvert Students At The Second Grade Of SMAN 3 Bukittinggi

The aims of this study were to know there was a difference between the extrovert and introvert students’ on their speaking skill and which one was better on speaking skill at the second grade students of SMAN 3 Bukittinggi. This research used descriptive quantitative method. The instrument of this research were questionnaire for classified the students based on their personality and speaking test for get their speaking score . The population was the second grade students at SMAN 3 Bukittinggi, meanwhile sample were 30 students who had been assigned purpossively. The finding showed; (1) There was difference between mean of extrovert students, which was (76.5) and the mean of introvert students, which was (82). (2)The result of ttes was -1,980 and it was smaller than ttable in the degree of significance 5% (2,048 > -1,980). The result showed that the students’ personality difference had no statistically difference to the students’ speaking skill. Based on the result of the research, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was rejected and null hypothesis (Ho) was accepted. In conclusion there was no difference between extrovert and introvert students in speaking skill of the second grade students of SMAN 3 Bukittinggi.

The Effect of Three-Step Interview on Students’ Speaking Ability (A Pre-Experimental Research of 2nd Grade Students of SMAN 1 Kabawo)

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of three-step interview technique on students’ speaking ability. The design of the study was pre-experimental design. The population of the study was all of the students of second grade students of SMAN 1 Kabawo in academic year 2020/2021. The sample of the study was 29 students from class XI IPA 3. They were chosen by using purposive sampling. The instrument of the study is oral test. The result shows that there is a significant effect of using three-step interview technique toward speaking ability of the students. It can be seen from mean score of post-test 2.7069 and mean score of pre-test 1.8534. It means that the students’ speaking ability in English speaking skill is improved. Besides, to prove the hypothesis, the researcher compares the t-test and t-table. The total of t-test was 9.44 and t-table was 2.048. So, t-test is higher than t-table or H1 was accepted. This shows that there is a significant effect of using Three-step interview technique on students’ speaking ability at second grade students’ of SMAN 1 Kabawo. It can be concluded that Three-Step Interview technique is appropriate to be used in teaching speaking to the students at SMAN 1 Kabawo.

IMPROVING STUDENTS WRITING SHORT STORIES THROUGH WATTPAD APPLICATION

This research aims to determine the role of the Wattpad application in honing the ability to write short stories for second grade students of SMAN 3 Praya. This type of research uses qualitative research with descriptive methods. The subjects of this research were students of class XI IPA 2 at SMA Negeri 3 Praya in the academic year 2022/2023, consisting of 13 boys and 18 girls. The researcher uses observation sheets, interview, and documentation to collect the data. The results of this research show that the Wattpad application makes it easy to train readers' imaginations and provide ideas that can be developed more broadly, Wattpad trains them to empathize, so they can pour various emotions into their stories and teach students how to write good and correct stories, so that there is a desire to be able to write for students after reading several stories contained in the Wattpad application. The conclusion from the research was the Wattpad application can help students to improve students' writing short stories because in the Wattpad application they learn to make good stories, use the right words and build emotions in a story.

The Implementation of Tongue Twister Method to Improve Students’ English Pronunciation

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of the tongue twister method on students' pronunciation. This research employed quantitative research with a quasi-experimental design. The population of this study is the second-grade students of SMAN 1 Campalagian, 150 students, and the sample consists of 32 students who are divided into two groups; the control group (16 students) and the experimental group (16 students). The control group was taught using the song technique while the experimental group was taught using the tongue twister method. The researchers used test (Pre-test and post-test) as the instrument in the study. Based on the test results, the researchers conclude that the average post-test score is higher than the pre-test, those are (60>55) and (75>65). This research indicates that there is a significant difference in value between the two. Therefore, it can be concluded that students make improvement in learning pronunciation through tongue twisters.

Improving the Students’ Listening Ability through Broadcast Voice of America (VOA) Learning English to the Second Grade Students of SMAN 1 Peusangan Siblah Krueng

This study describes classroom action research conducted in the second grade of SMAN 1 Peusangan Siblah Krueng to improve students' listening Ability through the application of Broadcast Voice of America (VOA) Learning English as a media. The research method used in this class is a collaborative classroom action research method by collaborating with the English teacher at SMAN 1 Peusangan Siblah Krueng. This classroom action research was carried out in two cycles. Each cycle consists of 4 stages, namely the planning stage, the implementation stage, the observation stage and finally the reflection stage. To obtain data in this study, qualitative and quantitative data were used as seen from various activities carried out in improving listening ability through the application of Broadcast Voice of America (VOA) Learning English. The purpose of this research is to know Broadcast Voice of America (VOA) Learning English improve the students listening ability, to know the students’ response toward in listening ability after using Broadcast Voice of America (VOA) Learning English, and to find out the teacher performance in teaching and learning process by the implementation of Broadcast Voice of America (VOA) Learning English.

The The Influence of Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes In Context On Developing Students’ English Vocabulary at Sman 2 Garut

Vocabulary through morphemes provides meaningful vocabulary acquisition skill. Students learn to guess the word meaning by looking for prefixes and suffixes in context. The students analyze prefixes and suffixes within the words. Then, the students analyze other context clues such as part of speech around the words. The purpose of this research is to uncover the significant difference between the influence of teaching prefixes and suffixes in context and without context toward students’ English vocabulary development. This research uses quantitative study in line with experimental method. This research was held in SMAN 2 Garut located at Jalan Guntur No. 3 Leles Garut. The population of this research is eight classes of students in the second grade of SMAN 2 Garut. The writer chooses two classes to be sample of the research, they are class XI IPA 1 as experimental group and class XI IPS 1 as the control group. The total numbers of the sample are 66 students. Pre-test and post-test are used to collect research data. Analisis butir soal pilihan ganda is used to test the validity of the data. To find out the reliability of the data, the writer uses split-half method as proposed by Suharsimi Arikunto ( 2009: 93). Because the data distribution is normal, t-test formula is used to analyze the data. Students’ diversity scores averages show that the experimental group gets 40 and the control group gets 30.15. It means that there is positive progress of the experimental group after having the treatment. Based on the data analysis, tcounted = 3.5 and ttable= 1.99. Because tcounted= 3.5 is out of Ho acceptation area, between ttable = -1.99 and 1.99, so that Ha is accepted. It means that Ha is accepted, there is significant difference of influence between teaching prefixes and suffixes in context and without context toward students’ English vocabulary development in the Second Grade Students of SMAN 2 Garut on ninety five percent (95%) significance level.

THE USE OF MOBILE ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (MALL) IN TEACHING STUDENTS’ LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

This research is aimed to investigate is there any significant effect of using Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) towards students’ listening and speaking skill on the eleventh grade of SMAN 1 Tirtayasa in academic year 2020-2021. The population is the second grade students of SMAN 1 Tirtayasa. The sample of the research is two classes. They are XI IPA 1 as the controlled class and XI IPA 3 as experimental class. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The experimental group was taught by using Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) through Talk English Application (TEA) which is connected to the smartphone, while the controlled group was taught by using conventional technique. The instrument was used to collect the data by answering the questions of listening and make conversation video in pair for speaking. After analyzing the data, it was found that there was significant different effect between the class which taught by using MALL and the class taught by conventional with paired sample t-test. The result of the test shows a significance value of 2 tailed 0.000 <0.05. It means that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. The score of the result that teaching by using Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) was higher than taught conventional. Then, the researcher confirmed the findings of the learning outcomes by using MALL besides being able to develop students' listening and speaking skills, Students have easier access to material about daily conversation. Students are assisted by an application that is integrated into their smartphones, an application that guides learning English interactively. Students also can hone their listening and speaking skills at the same time because in learning using Talk English Application (TEA) students are trained to understand the speaker's expressions and respond to what the speaker says.

Bosting of writing skill by using interactive venn diagram technique

The title of this research is “bosting of writing skill by using interactive venn diagrm technique (A lesson Study base at SMA 2 peusangan). The problem of the research is : How is the implementation of writing by using interactive venn diagram to second grade students of SMAN Peusangan through lesson study ?
 The purpose of the research is : To bosting students’ writing skill through the implementing interactive venn diagram technique to the second grade students of SMAN 2 Peusangan. Writing is generally considered the most difficult skill to learn, not only because of the need to master many English skills; reading, writing, and listening, but also because of the differences between the rules of the learner's mother tongue and the language being studied. There were some difficulties that students face during writing the descriptive paragraph. First, the problem in developing the ideas. Some students wrote many main ideas in one paragraph; the idea of the paragraph was still ambiguous. Sometimes, it is also found that some paragraphs were written in one sentence only, The idea of the paragraph was still not clear. Second, the problem in organizing the ideas to write a narrative text. Third, the students found difficulties in grammar. Third, the students found difficulties in grammar. Fourth, when students proceed writing something, many problems could be found, Some students are lack of vocabularies and they also have difficulties in developing their ideas related to their topic. The Fifth difficulty was students’ related with spelling, punctuation and capitalization.
 . Lesson Study is a study used by researchers with the aim of boosting students' writing skills with one or more technique in their class. The instruments used to collect the data are writing test and questionnaires.
 Based on the analysis of the students’ writing test, the researcher explained that the average persentage of the writing test is 49,33 %, the percentage showed that the problems are faced by students was from many aspect, such as : Feeling Crisis of IdeasIt is very difficult to start writing, for fear of being wrong/lack of confidence, or wanting the writing to be perfect immediately.

Investigating Indonesian Spelling Error on the Learners’ Composition

The aim of this research was to investigate errors in the implementation of EBI (Indonesian Spelling System) on the learners’ composition of the second grade students of SMAN 05 Kepahiang. In order to analyze the case deeply and comprehensively, this research was designed by using qualitative approach and content analysis method with data gathering techniques in the form of documentation. The data of this research were collected through purposive sampling and analyzed by using an interactive model consisting of four stages: data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and withdrawal conclusion. The result of this research revealed that the learners’ errors in the implementation of EBI on their composition included misusing of capital letters, italics, prepositions, commas, and compound words. In academic writing, the errors need to be avoided as such errors can interfere with the effectiveness and efficiency of the learners’ composition in Indonesian.

A correlative study between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery at SMAN 16 Bandar Lampung

This research was intended to find out whether there is any significant correlation between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery. This research was quantitative, and the design was ex-post facto design; so, there was no treatment in this research. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMAN 16 Bandar Lampung. 30 students of XI Science 1 were taken as samples through the use of cluster random sampling. A listening habit with English song questionnaire and a vocabulary test were used to obtain the data. Moreover, the data was analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPPS 20.0. The result of analysis showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery since the r-value (0.770) was higher than the r-table (0.361). It means that H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. This indicates that the more students listen to English songs, the higher their vocabulary score. Moreover, for those who are used to listen to English songs, it is likely to be easier for them to comprehend what they hear. As a conclusion, the habit of listening with English songs helps the development of vocabulary mastery.

A correlative study between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery at SMAN 16 Bandar Lampung

This research was intended to find out whether there is any significant correlation between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery. This research was quantitative, and the design was ex-post facto design; so, there was no treatment in this research. The population of this research was the second grade students of SMAN 16 Bandar Lampung. 30 students of XI Science 1 were taken as samples through the use of cluster random sampling. A listening habit with English song questionnaire and a vocabulary test were used to obtain the data. Moreover, the data was analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPPS 20.0. The result of analysis showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery since the r-value (0.770) was higher than the r-table (0.361). It means that H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. This indicates that the more students listen to English songs, the higher their vocabulary score. Moreover, for those who are used to listen to English songs, it is likely to be easier for them to comprehend what they hear. As a conclusion, the habit of listening with English songs helps the development of vocabulary mastery.

The Rapid Learning Shift In The Time Of Covid-19: Exploring The Efl Learners’ Speaking Anxiety

The rapid learning shift due to the existence of Covid-19 was mandatory to be conducted at school. Due to this matter, the teaching and learning approach has been shifted from having face-to-face interaction in the classroom to distance learning and to the mixture between face-to-face interaction and distance learning. The goal of the research was to figure out the EFL learners’ anxiety due to the rapid shift learning in this covid-19 pandemic. This study was conducted at second grade students of SMAN 8 Mataram. The finding shows that a high level of anxiety of the EFL learners’ contribute to the students speaking performance. When building communication with others, the EFL learners speaking skill were not performed well due to their high speaking anxiety. The main causes of the EFL learners anxiety were lack of confidence, fear of making mistakes, lack of practice, and low speaking skill level.

Apply Learning Strategies to Improve grade Speaking Skill Of the Second grade Students at SMAN 4 Sidrap

The objectives of this study were to identify the problems of the second grade students in speaking English and to discover the effective steps of the learning strategy to improve the speaking skill of the second grade students at SMAN 4 Sidrap in the academic year 2021. This study applied a classroom action research and was conducted in two cycles consisting of planning, acting, observing, evaluating, and reflecting. Subjects of the research were the second grade students of SMAN 4 Sidrap in the academic year 2021. Data collecting techniques used were observation, interview, diary and speaking test. Data analysis techniques used were descriptive analysis. Based on the research, there were four strategies applied in cycle I, i.e., the strategies of asking for clarification or verification, grouping, repeating and placing new words into a context. The result of strategies application in cycle I gave positive and negative responses that it did not give much significance to the students‟ speaking skill. The highest speaking score of the students in cycle I was 18. Therefore, revision was done. There were two strategies that must be revised in cycle II, which were the strategies of grouping and repeating. As the revision was done in cycle II, students showed positive response and gave significant improvement to the students‟ speaking skill. The highest speaking score of the students in cycle II was 27. Thus, it can be concluded that the learning strategy is successfully implemented and improves the speaking skill of the second grade students at SMAN 4 Sidrap in the academic year 2021.

IMPROVING STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH SOCIODRAMATIC PLAY AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 2 MAMUJU

This study aims at finding out the effectiveness of sociodramatic play in improving students' speaking skills. This study is quantitative research with Classroom Action Research (CAR) design. Data sources of the study were the second grade students of SMAN 2 Mamuju. The participants were taken through purposive random sampling technique. Data were collected by using observation, test and questionnaire. In this study, post-test was conducted in three cycles. The results of the study show that students had made some progress during the learning process. In pre-test, most of the students were having poor speaking skills with as many as 53% participants were in this category. However, there were significant improvements toward students' speaking skills with no more students with both very poor and poor speaking skills in third cycle. From the result of the test, it can be concluded that sociodramatic play is useful to improve the students' speaking skills. In addition, most of students feel interested in and enjoy the learning process by having sociodramatic play in speaking class.

The Effect of Talking Chips Towards Students’ Self-Assurance in Speaking Skill

This research is aimed to find out whether Talking Chips has positive effect or not toward students’ self-assurance in speaking of the second grade students at SMAN 4 Mataram. The research was experimental research and the design used was Pre Experimental with one group without control group and used one group pre-test post-test design only. The population of the study was the second grade students of SMAN 4 Mataram which consisted of one class (19 students). One class was chosen by using accidental sampling technique and the result was XI IPS 1. In collecting the data pre-test and post-test were done. And then, the data analyzed by using SPSS. The result of data analysis showed that t-test was 3.457 and t-table was 2.109, it means that t-test was higher than t-table as the level of significance level 0,05. It can be concluded that teaching self-assurance in speaking skill at SMAN 4 Mataram using talking chips produce much greater change in the students’ self-assurance in speaking. On the other words, talking chips technique is effective in teaching self-assurance in speaking at SMAN 4 Mataram.

The Effect of Discipline and Learning Ways on English Achievement through Learning Motivation as a Moderator Variable

This research was carried out to describe and analysis; (1) whether there is simultaneously positive significant effect of discipline and learning ways on English achievement at the second grade students of SMAN 1 Grogol is or not, (2) whether there is partial positive significant effect of discipline on English achievement at the second grade students of SMAN 1 Grogol is or not, (3) whether there is partial positive significant effect of learning ways on English achievement at the second grade students of SMAN 1 Grogol is or not, (4) whether there is positive significant effect of discipline and learning ways on English achievement through learning motivation as a variable moderator or not. The research used descriptive quantitative approach as the research design. The data analysis method was regression while the techniques of collecting data were survey by giving questionnaire and from student report value. In this research, the population consists of 104 students of second grade. The result showed that: discipline, learning ways and learning motivation have simultaneous and partial positive significant effect on English achievement.
 
 Key words: Discipline, Learning Ways, English Achievement, Learning Motivation.

The effectiveness of using short story in improvinv students' verbal vocabulary mastery at the second grade students of SMAN 2 Bulukumba

The researcher aims at finding out the effectiveness of using short storyin improving students’ verbal vocabulary mastery. The subject of the research was the second grade students of SMAN 2 Bulukumba. In collecting the data, this research used pre-test and post-test. The type of this research was quantitative with quasi-experimental design. It was applied with two group’s pre-test and post-test design. The population of this study is 215 students from the second grade students of SMAN 2 Bulukumba. This study is quantitative research with quasi experimental design by using 27 students in control class and 30 students in experimental class. This is proved by figure of means group, the standard deviation and value of t-test which revealed that the mean score of experimental group is higher than the mean score of control group. The result in t-test of experimental class is higher than t-table. It showed that t-table 1, 25>t-table at significance level 2,0 and 12,89> 2.045 t-table at 0,05 (98%). It means that using short story was more effective in improving students’ verbal vocabulary mastery at the second grade students of SMAN 2 Bulukumba.

THE EFECT OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

The objective of this study was to find out the significant difference before and after the students being treated by classroom interaction strategy in speaking class. The researcher used quantitative method and preexperimental design to analyze research problem. This study was conducted to the second grade students of SMAN 6 Garut on 21th July until 5th August 2016. The data were collected through a speaking test, the test was consists of expressed argumentative text. Firstly, students had to express their opinions about the phenomenon surrounding without being given treatment. In this test, the researcher gave the topic about social media. Secondly, the students expressed their opinions after treatment. The treatment was the researcher teach the students how to expressing opinion, asking other people’s opinion and saying agreement. The test was given to measure the students’ speaking skill after treatment. The researcher investigated the data and collected the score pretest and post-test based on the scoring system. In analyzing the data, the researcher calculated the data used t-test, the researcher checked the normality of the data using Liliefors test to find out whether the distribution of data was normal, and so the researcher used t-test to clarify whether or not his hypothesis is accepted. The research findings showed that was a difference before and after the students being treated classroom interaction in speaking class. The result of the data showed that = 8,374 was greater than = 2,924. It proved that the result of post-test was better than the result of pre-test. In order to find out the significance of the improvement between pre-test and post-test, t-test was applied. After having the test of significance, the result of pre-test showed that the average score of pre-test was 67. Whereas, the averages score of post-test were 73. From the data showed, the result of the post-test in speaking test was better than the result of pre-test. From the result, it could be concluded that there are the significance of the improvement from pretest and post-test