Second Grade Students Of SMPN Research Articles

STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH BY GIVING WARM UP ACTIVITIES IN BEGINNING OF CLASS

The objective of this research was to find out Students’ motivation in learning English by giving warm-up activities at the beginning of class, (An Experimental Study at the Second Grade of SMPN 2 Mangarabombang, Kabupaten Takalar). This research applied a pre-experimental design with Pre-Questionnaire, Treatment and Post-Questionnaire. The population of this research was the second-grade students of SMPN 2 Mangarabombang, Kabupaten Takalar which consisted of VIII A, VIII B, and VIII. To find out the students’ involvement motivation, the researchers used a questionnaire. The questionnaire aimed to find the effects of warm-up activities on students’ motivation in learning English. The questionnaire used an attitude scale, they were: Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Undecided (UN), Disagree (D), or Strongly Disagree (SD). The students answered the question based on their perspective and their opinion. Warm-up activities affected the students’ perspective on learning English after being treated. The mean was improved by 8.24%, ranging from54.3 to 60.9. It indicates that students have a positive perspective on learning English after giving warm-up activities at the beginning of class. Warm-up activities affected the students’ extrinsic motivation in learning English after being treated. The mean is improved (5.78%) ranging from 55 to 59.56, which indicates that students’ extrinsic motivation is increased after giving warm-up activities at the beginning of class. It also shows that warm-up activities can create a good atmosphere and positive perspective for students and encourage students to be involved in classroom activities. Concern about that facts and based on the data analysis above and students’ journal analysis, the researcher would like to conclude that warm-up activities can affect students’ perspective and student's extrinsic motivation in learning English. So, we can make warm-up activities one of the options to face the class.

An Analysis Of Students’ Motivation In Teaching And Learning Process By Using Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform used to review students’ knowledge, for formative assessment or as a break from traditional classroom activities. Play is a social-centred process, able to boost motivation and promote learning across all levels and ages. With the growing push for creativity in the classroom as well as the application of effective technology in teaching and learning. The key of teaching and learning process affects the students’ motivation as well as the learning goals. This study was carried out to describe an analysis of students’ motivation in learning process by using Kahoot! and to describe Kahoot! is effective to motivate students in learning writing process. This research used qualitative method with the observation and questionnaires as the instruments. It involved about three classes of the second grade students of SMPN 1 Sumber. The Sample was VIII A, VIII B, VIII H consist of 100 students. The data was analyzed descriptively. The findings showed that the result of ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction) model of motivation defined the students motivated in learning process by using Kahoot! In addition, the result of the questionnaire Kahoot! was effetive to motivate student in learning writing process.

Teaching Speaking through Picture Series Media at the Second Grade of SMP Negeri 4 Natar

The objective of this research is to find out whether there is an improvement in students’ speaking ability after they are taught by using picture series at SMPN 4 Natar. This research was conducted at the second-grade students of SMPN 4 Natar in the academic year 2020/2021. There were five classes in the second grade of SMPN 4 Natar. Each class consisted of 23 students. The researcher took class VIII D. This research used one group pretest-posttest design by giving the pre-test, treatments, and the post-test. The instrument used to get the data in this research was speaking tests. Speaking tests in the forms of pre-test and post-test were done to collect the data. Then, the t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The result of the hypothesis test proves that using picture series can improve students’ speaking ability. It can be seen from the mean score of the pre-test and post- test which was analyzed through SPSS 16.00. The mean score of the pre-test was 53.7 and it was improved to 70 in post-test and the gain was 16.3. The result of the t- test shows that the level of significance is p < 0.05 and the significant two-tail is p=0.000. It can be said that using picture series csn improve students’ speaking ability.

Memory Trick Game Towards Students’ Enthusiasm In Learning Grammar

This was a qualitative research and aimed to investigate whether how memory trick game could improve students in learning grammar at SMPN 18 Mataram in the academic year of 2019/2020. The subject of this research was the second grade students of SMPN 18 Mataram that only one class consist of 15 students. This research was limited by the grammatical role only. The research instruments consisted of questionners, field note, and documentation. The data analyzed in transcript for the observation and taking note for shows that the students at SMPN 18 Mataram still low enthusiasm and comprehend the Memory Trick Game. The researcher took the research and has the provident which the questioner was looking for the students’ surface knowledge about the what is grammar and how enthusiasm student in learning grammar. The result of cycling process also shows that in the first cycle consist of three meetings, and the students were still need to be more concentrate in order to make them more understand in expanding their ideas into a good grammar. Then the cycle two was also consist of three meetings, the students’ score in this cycle was better than the cycle one. The memory trick game as the solution from the researchers also proved that there was an improvement from the first cycle to the second cycle.

Memory Trick Game Towards Students’ Enthusiasm In Learning Grammar

This was a qualitative research and aimed to investigate whether how memory trick game could improve students in learning grammar at SMPN 18 Mataram in the academic year of 2019/2020. The subject of this research was the second grade students of SMPN 18 Mataram that only one class consist of 15 students. This research was limited by the grammatical role only. The research instruments consisted of questionners, field note, and documentation. The data analyzed in transcript for the observation and taking note for shows that the students at SMPN 18 Mataram still low enthusiasm and comprehend the Memory Trick Game. The researcher took the research and has the provident which the questioner was looking for the students’ surface knowledge about the what is grammar and how enthusiasm student in learning grammar. The result of cycling process also shows that in the first cycle consist of three meetings, and the students were still need to be more concentrate in order to make them more understand in expanding their ideas into a good grammar. Then the cycle two was also consist of three meetings, the students’ score in this cycle was better than the cycle one. The memory trick game as the solution from the researchers also proved that there was an improvement from the first cycle to the second cycle.

Improving students’ content words vocabulary through songs at SMP Negeri 4 Bandar Lampung

abstract: The objectives of this research are to find out whether there is an improvement of students’ content words vocabulary after they are taught by using songs. This research was conducted at the second-grade students of SMPN 4 Bandar Lampung in academic year 2019/2020. The researcher took class VIII D. The instrument used to get the data in this research was vocabulary test. Vocabulary tests in the forms of pre-test and post-test were done to collect the data. Then, the t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The result of the hypothesis test proves that song gives a positive effect on students’ content words vocabulary. It can be seen from the mean score of the pre-test and post-test which was analyzed through SPSS 16.00. In the pre-test, the mean score was 75 and it increases to 80 in the post-test. It means that there is an increase of 5 points. The result of t-test shows that the level of significance is p < 0.05 and significant two tail is p=0.000. It can be said that song gives positive effect because it can increase students’ vocabulary. Keywords: improving, vocabulary, song

THE EFFECT OF RUNNING DICTATION TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECONDGRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 4 BATUKLIANG UTARAIN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

This research is aimed at finding out whether or not Running Dictation technique effective towards students’ reading comprehension at the second grade students of SMPN 4 Batukliang Utara in academic year 2018/2019. The research was quasi experimental design with non-equivalent control group design. The instrument used was multiple choice test (narrative text) which consisted of 25 questions and to collect the data used for pre-test and post-test. The population of the study was the second grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Batukliang Utara, which consisted of two classes with the total number of the students were 40 students. The researcher taken the sample by using total population sampling technique.The data was analysis using statistical formula of t-test. The statistical of the data gathered has been already counted. In this term, the result of the value, it is needed consult t-table by using N-1 as the degree freedom (df). The df is N-1 = 20-1= 19, having known the value of df, the researcher needed to cheeked up the t-table of df19. Theresearcher found that the value t-table was 2.093 for confidence level of 0.05 (95%) and the value t-test was 2.168. t-test was higher than t-table (2.168 > 2.093). In which t-test value was significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that Running Dictation technique is effective towards students’ reading comprehension at the second grade students of SMPN 4 Batukliang Utara in academic year 2018/2019.

THE EFFECT OF RUNNING DICTATION TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECONDGRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 4 BATUKLIANG UTARAIN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

This research is aimed at finding out whether or not Running Dictation technique effective towards students’ reading comprehension at the second grade students of SMPN 4 Batukliang Utara in academic year 2018/2019. The research was quasi experimental design with non-equivalent control group design. The instrument used was multiple choice test (narrative text) which consisted of 25 questions and to collect the data used for pre-test and post-test. The population of the study was the second grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Batukliang Utara, which consisted of two classes with the total number of the students were 40 students. The researcher taken the sample by using total population sampling technique.The data was analysis using statistical formula of t-test. The statistical of the data gathered has been already counted. In this term, the result of the value, it is needed consult t-table by using N-1 as the degree freedom (df). The df is N-1 = 20-1= 19, having known the value of df, the researcher needed to cheeked up the t-table of df19. Theresearcher found that the value t-table was 2.093 for confidence level of 0.05 (95%) and the value t-test was 2.168. t-test was higher than t-table (2.168 > 2.093). In which t-test value was significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that Running Dictation technique is effective towards students’ reading comprehension at the second grade students of SMPN 4 Batukliang Utara in academic year 2018/2019.

UTILIZING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE GAMES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

This study is aimed at finding the utilizing of communicative language games in improving students' speaking ability at second grade students of SMPN 4 Praya Barat Daya. This study was an action research which comprised two cycles. It involved an English teacher and 24 students of second grade at SMPN 4 Praya Barat Daya. The steps of this study were reconnaissance, planning the actions, implementing and observing the actions, and reflecting the actions done. The data of this study were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process during the implementation of the actions and interviewing the students and the English teacher. The data were collected using field notes and interview transcription. The quantitative data were taken by assessing the students speaking ability using pre-test and post-test in the form of students' scores. The research finding shows that the use of the communicative language games is effective to improve students' speaking ability. The games are accompanied with other actions such as using classroom English, applying varied themes, using adequate media, doing language form activities, giving feedback, giving rewards, doing group works and rearranging the students seating arrangement. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of communicative language games is able to improve students' speaking skills at second grade students of SMPN 4 Praya Barat Daya.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RANSOM NOTE GAME IN LEARNING VOCABULARY AT SMPN 1 KERUAK

This research was aimed at finding out the effectevenness of Ransom Note Game in learning vocabulary. this research was quasi experimental design. The populations of this research were all of students at second grade students of SMPN 1 KERUAK that consist of 284 students that consist of eight different classes. In which the sample of this research used two classes where VIII.1 Class as experimental group consisted of 32 student and VIII.3 as control group consisted of 31 students. The experimental was taught by Ransom Note Game Game and control group taught by Puzzle Game. The instruments that used were objective test with multiple choices, matching word, fill in the blank and true or false. The analysis used t-test formula. The result of the analysis, showed that the value of to (t obtained) 2, 0888 was higher than tt (t table) 1, 8702, the significant level 0, 05. Based on the result of this investigation, it was proved that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In other words, there was significant effect of Ransom Note Game in learning vocabulary at the second grade students at SMPN 1 KERUAK in academic year 2016/2017.

THE USE OF TEAM GAME TOURNAMENT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ELT CLASSROOM INTERACTION AND READING COMPREHENSION IN RELATION TO SELF-EFFICACY

This research is aimed to find out the implementation of Team Game Tournament to improve students’ classroom interaction and reading comprehension viewed from self-efficacy. The subject of this study was 30 students at second grade students of SMPN 5 Kopang. Which consists of 14 males and 16 females. This study was classroom action research (CAR) with two cycles, each cycle consists of four steps: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The first cycle was focused on the students’ classroom interaction. Meanwhile, the second cycle was oriented to solve the students’ improvement of reading comprehension. The data gathering used reading test, observation sheet, and questionnaires and analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative approach. The result of the questionnaire showed the students score in the first cycle was 16.86 or 56% and the second cycle showed the students' score was 27.10 or 90.3% indicating the target of 75 of the minimum criterion has been achieved, it means that the action was stopped in the cycle 2. In other words, the students’ classroom interaction and reading comprehension in relation to self-efficacy was improved by implementing team game tournament (TGT) for the eighth-grade students of SMPN 5 Kopang.

THE USE OF THINK INSIDE THE BOX STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY AT SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 4 PRAYA BARAT DAYA

The research is aimed to the use of think inside the box strategy be able to improve students vocabulary mastery. The subject of this study was 20 students at second grade students of SMPN 4 Praya Barat Daya. In which consist of 8 males and 12 females. It was classroom action research with two cycles, each cycles of four steps: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The data gathering used written test, and questionnaires and analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative approach. At the result of the first cycle was failed where the mean score of pre test was 62.35 and class percentage was 30% and he mean score of post test was 70.25 and class percentage was 65% and the result of the second cycle that the mean score was 80,2 and the class percentage was 80% indicating the target of 75 of the minimum criterion has been achieved, it means that the action was stopped.

THE USE OF THINK INSIDE THE BOX STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY AT SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 4 PRAYA BARAT DAYA

The research is aimed to the use of think inside the box strategy be able to improve students vocabulary mastery. The subject of this study was 20 students at second grade students of SMPN 4 Praya Barat Daya. In which consist of 8 males and 12 females. It was classroom action research with two cycles, each cycles of four steps: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The data gathering used written test, and questionnaires and analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative approach. At the result of the first cycle was failed where the mean score of pre test was 62.35 and class percentage was 30% and he mean score of post test was 70.25 and class percentage was 65% and the result of the second cycle that the mean score was 80,2 and the class percentage was 80% indicating the target of 75 of the minimum criterion has been achieved, it means that the action was stopped.

THE INFLUENCE OF VISUALIZATION STRATEGY ON READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

The objective of thisresearch was to know the effect of using Visualization Strategy in teaching recount text on reading comprehensionability at the second grade students of SMPN 4 Kerinci. Then, the type of the researchwas quasi experimental research. Besides, the population of the research was the second grade students of SMPN 4 Kerinci, it was 75 students. Moreover, the sample of this research consisted of 50 students from two classes. There were experiment class and control class. The analysis of data used t-test. The result of the research showedthat there was significance effect of using Visualization strategy toward students’ reading comprehension of recount text. It could be seen of hypothesis was gotten the mean of control class was 60 and the standard deviation was 102 while the experimental class was 67,8 and standard deviation was 118,16. And after doing t-test, it was found that tobserve = 2,6> ttable = 1,68. It can be summarized that there was the significant effect of using visualization strategy in the students’ reading comprehension achievement of recount text.

THE EFFECT OF PICTURE WORD INDUCTIVE MODEL (PWIM) STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING VOCABULARY

This study aimed to find out is there any signifiacnt effect or not Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) toward students’ motivation in studying vocabulary at second grade students of SMPN 2 Terara in academic year 2018/2019. This research was an experimental research (quasi-experimental with nonequivalent control group design). The population of this research was all of the second grade students of SMPN 2 Terara which consist of four classes. The samples were VIII B students’ as experimental group and VIII C students’ as control group. They were chosen by using purposive sampling technique. Experimental group was treated by using Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) and control group was treated by Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) that usually used by the teacher. The instruments that were used were vocabulary test and questionnaire. The researchers used SPSS 25 to compute the data. The results of the research were as follows: the data was analyzed using t-test. The result of the research showed that, there was positive effect of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) strategy toward students’ motivation in vocabulary mastery. The result of t-test calculation showed that t-test was higher than t-table (t-test = 6,119 and t-table = 2,021) at confidence of interval 0.05 (95%), df = 23+23-2=44. Therefore, Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. From the result of data analysis above, the researchers concluded that there was a significant effect of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) toward students’ motivation in vocabulary mastery at second grade students of SMPN 2 Terara in academic year 2018/2019.

Using Social Interactive Writing for English Language Learners (SWELL) with Fairy Tales Videos in Teaching Writing

This research aims to investigate whether the use of SWELL method with fairy tale videos improves the students’ writing ability and to find out which writing components mostly affected by the use of SWELL method. This research was conducted using a quasi-experimental design. The population of the research was the second grade students of SMPN 5 Marioriawa in academic year 2015/2016 which consisted of two classes (56 students). The sample was drawn using cluster random technique. The number of students in the class was 28 students. The research instrument used was writing test. The data obtained through the test were analyzed quantitatively by using 21.0 version of SPSS program. Based on the data analysis, the research findings reveals that there is a significant differentce of the students’ writing skill after being taught by using SWELL method. It is proved by the data that had been processed through SPSS program. The result showed that the mean score of students in experimental group was greater than the mean score in control group (85.03>67.180, with t-test value is lower than the probability value (0.000<0.05). It indicates that there is a significant improvement of students’ writing ability after the treatment. The writing skill of the second grade students of SMPN 5 Maroriawa can be improved significantly by using SWELL method with fairy tale videos. For the writing components that mostly affected by SWELL method. For different aspects of writing, content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic, vocabulary is the most affected by the use SWELL method. The highest score in term of vocabulary was 18 with the percentage 90 with the highest converted score 87.55 categorized as very good categorization.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND ANXIETY IN SPEAKING AT SMPN 3 JANAPRIA

This study is generally attempted to find out whether there is or there is not the correlation between students’ motivation and anxiety in speaking for second grade students of SMPN 3 Janapria in academic year 2018/2019. The method of this research was applied correlative research. The population of this research was second grade students of SMPN 3 Janapria which consisted of 22 students, 11 male and 11 female. The technique which used to analysis the data was test formula. From the result of the data found out the score ofr count = 0,334. If the error level is set in 5%, and N = 22 so the r table = 0,423. It means r count is lower than r table or 0,334 ≤ 0,423. Therefore the alternative hypothesis is rejected. In other word there is no significant correlation between students’motivation and anxiety in speaking for second grade students of SMPN 3 Janapria. Key Words: Motivation, Anxiety, Speaking.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND ANXIETY IN SPEAKING AT SMPN 3 JANAPRIA

This study is generally attempted to find out whether there is or there is not the correlation between students’ motivation and anxiety in speaking for second grade students of SMPN 3 Janapria in academic year 2018/2019. The method of this research was applied correlative research. The population of this research was second grade students of SMPN 3 Janapria which consisted of 22 students, 11 male and 11 female. The technique which used to analysis the data was test formula. From the result of the data found out the score ofr count = 0,334. If the error level is set in 5%, and N = 22 so the r table = 0,423. It means r count is lower than r table or 0,334 ≤ 0,423. Therefore the alternative hypothesis is rejected. In other word there is no significant correlation between students’motivation and anxiety in speaking for second grade students of SMPN 3 Janapria. Key Words : Motivation, Anxiety, Speaking.

The Correlation between Self Assessment and Motivation in Learning English of the Second Grade Students of SMP Negeri 6 Palembang

AbstractThere is no single magical formula for motivating students. Many factors affect a given student'smotivation to work and to learn. This study focused on the correlation between self assessmentand motivation in learning English of the Second Grade students of SMPN 6 Palembang. Thereare four objectives in this study:1) to find out how the second grade students of SMP N6Palembang motivation in learning English is; 2) to find out how the second grade students ofSMPN 6 Palembang self assessment is; 3) to find out whether or not there is any significantcorrelation between self assesment and motivation in learning English of The Second GradeStudents of SMPN6 Palembang; and 4) How much self assesment contribute to Students’motivation in learning English of The Second Grade Students of SMPN 6 Palembang. The datawere collected by using questionnaire of 70 students that were taken as the samples by usingrandom sampling. Then, it was analyzed by using Person’s Product Moment CorrelationCoefficient and the calculation was done by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science).The result of the study showed that 72.9% of the second grade students of SMP N6 Palembanghad good motivation in learning English and 67.1% of the second grade students of SMPN 6Palembang also had good self assessment. In addition, the degree of correlation coefficientproved strong with the value of correlation 0.715 and self assessment itself contributed 51.1% tothe students’ motivation in learning English. From the above explanation, self assessmentproved significantly has a very important role in learning language especially English.Keywords: motivation, self assessment, English learning

THE APPLICATION OF WORD ASSOCIATION GAME IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENT OF SMPN 5 PUJUT

This research is aimed to know how to applycation of Word Association Game in improving students’ vocabulary mastery at the second grade students of SMPN 5 Pujut in academic year 2016/2017. This study focused on two statement of the problem, that are 1. Is Word Association Game able to improve students’ vocabulary mastery at the second grade students of SMPN 5 Pujut, and 2. What are the students perception towards the use of Word Association Game in improving students vocabulary mastery at the second grade students of SMPN 5 PUJUT.The method of this research used quantitative and qualitative method in the from of CAR. The data were gathered througsh quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data indicate students’ vocabulary score of pre test and post test and the result of questionnaire of students perception. Then the techniques which were used to collect the data were vocabulary test wich consisted of 25 items with 4 options of answere multiple choiches and limited responds. The finding of this study showed that there was improvement on the students’ vocabulary mastery. It could be seen from the mean score of pre test was 60, 26 and class that percentage was 26% and the mean score of post test was 82, 43 and class presentage was 82% indicating the target of 76 of the KKM 76 had been achieved. Based on the result persentage data in questionnaire such as SS was 75%, S was 13%, TT was 11%, TS was 0%, and STS was 0%. The results of the quastionnaire shows that students respons is very good.