Semester Students Of English Department Research Articles

Students Anxiety in Speaking English at Second Semester Students of English Department in Nommensen HKBP Medan

Students Anxiety in Speaking English at Second Semester Students of English Department in Nommensen HKBP Medan

An error analysis on translation made by the sixth semester students of English Department of IKIP Gunungsitoli

The Objective off this study are to describe (1) the kinds of error made by the 6th semester students of English Department when translating Indonesia text into English, (2) the dominant error made by students, 3) how students made the error when translating Indonesia text into English text. This study used the descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research is the 6th semester students and the object in this research is all the errors on translation made by students. The data collected to answer all the research problems are all the errors made by students. Based on data analysis, the writer finds that 1) students made error in Omission, Addition, Mis-formation, and Mis-ordering errors, 2) students made more dominant error in Mis-formation error, 3) students made error by: a) omitting an item that must appear in well-formed utterance, b) adding an item that must not appear in well-formed utterance, c) using the incorrect morpheme or group or structure, d) doing the incorrect placement of a morpheme or group of morpheme. The conclusion of this study is, the students are lack of vocabulary when doing translation. It is suggestion to the students to enrich their vocabulary and to the lecturer to enrich their students’ vocabularies by giving them daily new vocabularies.

Language Features Found in Essays About Madurese Art

This study aims to examine and explain language features in essays about Madurese arts. The writers uses qualitative descriptive methods to elaborate data. The source of the data in this study is essays by second semester students of English Department at Universitas Trunojoyo Madura which discuss about Madurese art. Meanwhile, the data of this study are characters, sentences, and paragraphs in essays that contain various language features. This study uses Gerot and Wignell (1995) theory of language features in descriptive essays. The result of this study shows that there are five language features that students use in their essays: the use of certain objects, the use of simple present tense, the use of noun and adjective phrases, the use of auxiliary, and the use of linking verb.

The Influence of Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Toward Their TOEFL Reading Comprehension Achievement

The vocabulary mastery becomes a support in learning the language. Vocabulary mastery as a trigger of someone’s achievement in TOEFL. The objective of this research is to measure the influence between the students’ vocabulary mastery toward their TOEFL Reading Comprehension achievement. The method used in this research was quantitative method. The design of this research was ex post facto design. The researcher used ex post facto design of this study to give the information about vocabulary mastery and TOEFL Reading Comprehension achievement. The result showed that the higher student’s vocabulary mastery, the higher TOEFL reading comprehension student will be. The result of calculation showed that in the significance degree of 0,05 it is obtained 0,324. By comparing the value of rx1x2 = 0,573 and ‘r’table = 0,324, the researcher makes an assumption that rx1x2 is bigger than ‘r’table 0,324 < 0,573. It can be concluded that there is significant positive influence between the students’ vocabulary mastery toward TOEFL Reading Comprehension achievement at the seventh semester students of English Department at Universitas Mayjen Sungkono in academic year of 2023/2024. It is hoped that in the future vocabulary learning will be further improved so that students can learn English more easily.

WRITING COMPARISON/CONTRAST PARAGRAPH WITH BLOCK STYLE

A comparison/contrast paragraph can be organized into two ways known point-by-point, and block model. The most of fifth semester students of English department at Nias Raya University, however, prefer to organize their writing with block model. The reasons for choosing the model were the purposes of this research. This research was carried out by using qualitative descriptive. The data were obtained through unstructured questionnaire. The result of this research showed that there are three reasons of the students in using block model in organizing the comparison/contrast paragraph; the first is easier to be organized; the next is good for the shorter paragraph; and the last is the similarities or differences between the compared subjects is understood easily. Hence, block organization for a comparison/contrast paragraph is the easiest way for the students to construct their paragraph to be interested writing rather than other style. Therefore, this information can be a consideration for the lecturer in teaching the type of the paragraph.

The Effect of Team Games Tournament (TGT) Method on the Vocabulary Mastery of Third Semester Students of South Tapanuli Muhammadiyah University

The purpose of this research was to find out the significant effect of TGT Method torward vocabulary mastery at the third semester English Department students of South Tapanuli Muhammadiyah University. The population was all of the third semester students with 120 students. The sample was 67 students which took by cluster sampling. This study was conducted to find out the cause and effect relationship, the research method used was experimental method. Then the data was collected by using instrument. The instrument used was multiple choice test. And to analyze the data the writer used statistic process, they were descriptive analysis and inferential analysis by using t-test formula. And from the data that has been collected, it was found that the result showed the score of ttest ttable (2.68 2.00).

Exploring Students' Difficulties in TOEFL Listening

The purpose of this study was to determine the difficulties that students face when listening to TOEFL Preparation Tests at the English Study Program, FKIP UKI TORAJA. The participants in this study consisted of 12 students from the 8th semester of the English Department at FKIP UKI Toraja. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method and collected data through interviews. The data was then analyzed using three main stages: data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. After analyzing and discussing the findings, it can be concluded that 8th semester English Department students at UKI Toraja encounter various difficulties when listening to TOEFL Preparation tests, which can be categorized into three main areas. Each category presents different challenges. Regarding the comprehension of listening materials, students face difficulties with complex grammatical structures, understanding every word in spoken discourse, interpreting the meaning of lengthy spoken texts, and encountering unfamiliar vocabulary. Additionally, students encounter difficulties related to listening itself, including anxiety, deducing the meaning of unknown words, lack of concentration, unclear pronunciation, difficulty with retention, losing focus, and listening without transcripts. Furthermore, students also face obstacles related to the physical setting, such as poor quality cassettes or discs, inadequate equipment, and background noise.

Students’ Perception of Using Podcasts to Improve Listening Skills at the 3rd Semester Students of English Department at Universitas Bandar Lampung

The process of developing listening skills involves capturing the speaker's words, grasping their intended message, and encompassing the roles of both speaker and listener, along with the auditory aspect. This study aims to investigate how students perceive the use of podcasts for enhancing listening skills among 3rd semester students in the English Department of Universitas Bandar Lampung. Employing qualitative methods, the research was conducted with a participant group of 34 students from the university's English Department. Data collection encompassed surveys and interviews involving 5 students. The collected data was analyzed by merging insights from both the surveys and interviews. The findings demonstrate noticeable enhancements in students' listening skills through the integration of podcasts as a learning medium. Consequently, students' viewpoints regarding podcast utilization for improving listening skills exhibited advancements in effectiveness and distinctiveness. Students expressed appreciation for the captivating and informative nature of this learning medium.

An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in Writing Made by English Education Students at IAIN Palopo

Considering the importance of grammatical knowledge in the writing process, this research aims at describing the grammatical errors that are committed by the fifth semester students of English Department at IAIN Palopo. The research study is classified into a descriptive-qualitative study. The data were collected from twenty two English texts written by the English Department students which were done as tasks and contained six familiar topics. Students were supposed to write an essay/paragraph about the given topics. In addition, the researcher had permission from the lecturer to take and analyse the students’ written works. The researcher and students’ written works are the main sources of data collection in this research. To identify the common errors, students’ writings were analysed with the help of checklists in order to classify different types of errors made by the respondents. The results of the study revealed that the most common and frequent errors made by the students are 387 (58.37%) places of omission errors, 213 (32.12%) places of mis formation errors, 131 (19.75%) places of addition errors, 8 (1.20%) places of mis ordering errors. Besides that, the causes of these errors were developmental found in 323 (36.17%) places, 306 (34.26%) of ambiguous, 205 (22.95%) of interlingual, and 59 (6.60%) unique errors. Based on these findings, teachers are suggested to raise students’ awareness on these errors and provide sufficient remedies to prevent students from internalizing such errors.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN FORMULATING RESEARCH INTRODUCTION THROUGH SCIENTIFIC APPROACH

This classroom action research was conducted to solve the students’ difficulties in designing a research introduction by applying scientific approach. The subjects were the sixth semester students of English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of HKBP Nommensen University Indonesia who took Writing Research Paper subject. There were 30 students and they were organized into 8 groups. This research occupied 2 cycles which involved 4 steps (planning, acting, observing, and reflecting) for each cycle. The findings showed that using scientific approach has successfully developed the students’ ability in designing introduction of a research. The development derived from the increasing of students’ mean score in pre-cycle (54), first cycle (67.73), and second cycle (77,5). The students’ difficulties (fail to identify problems of research, decide research title and determine technique of solving the problem) were also decreased significantly after the second cycle had been conducted.

The Implementation of Talking Football Game Towards Students’ Speaking Skill at Second Semester English Department of STKIP Dharma Bakti Lubuk Alung

The purpose of this research was to know the students’ speaking ability by implementing Talking Football Game at second semester English Department students of STKIP Dharma Bakti Lubuk Alung. This research was experimental research called One-Shot Case Study which used one class as the sample. The population of this research was second semester English Department students of STKIP Dharma Bakti Lubuk Alung registering in 2014-2015 Academic Year. The data of this research were collected by using oral test. The data were analyzed by t-test formula. From the calculation of the result of the test, it was indicated that tcalculate was 3, 22 and ttable 2, 02 with a = 0,05. So, it means that tcalculate was greater than ttable and the hypothesis was accepted. The result of this research showed that Talking Football Game increase students’ speaking ability. It implied that Talking Football Game could be used as a technique of teaching speaking ability at second semester English Department students of STKIP Dharma Bakti Lubuk Alung year of 2014-2015.

Psychological Readiness of Intrinsic Motivation for the Second Language Leaners

This paper aims at answering on how intrinsic motivation has affected the second language learners and on why this intrinsic motivation has influenced the acquisition and the competence toward the language mastery. By applying a descriptive qualitative approach taken from 10 interviews to the third semester students of English Department of Islamic State University Salatiga, this paper also uses library research from papers to be analyzed and organized to set the conclusion. From the result, it is concluded that intrinsic motivation is the most dominant factor for the students to study foreign language, here English. Therefore, this motivation seems complicated when both the lecturer and the supporting environment were absence. Later, this motivation contributes to the competence owned by the students which is supported by the awareness to be more engaged and active in the language learning and acquisition process.

Students’ Perception Toward Implementation Of Blended Learning Method In English Language Teaching (ELT) After Pandemic at Forth Semester Students of English Department at Fatoni University

The purpose of this study is to learn what the fourth semester English Department students at Fatoni University think about using blended learning in the teaching of English as a second language (ELT). This study used a closed-ended questionnaire with 16 statements and 7 numbers for Focus Group Discussions as part of its descriptive method of data collection. Purposive sampling was used to collect the data from a class of 21 students. This study's findings revealed that students had a favorable opinion of applying the BL method to ELT. The respondents' positive evaluation was based on their knowledge of the received BL method of instruction. It is clear from the survey that the students enjoy learning when the lecturer uses the BL method. In addition, the advantage of the BL method for the students increased their interest in studying. Additionally, it is evident from the survey responses from the students that they benefited from the approach, one of which was a rise in their level of engagement and responsibility in their studies.

APPLYING QUIZIZZ APPLICATION AS AN ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR EFL STUDENTS

Quizizz is a free online-based formative assessment tool that allows the teacher to conduct both assessments in class or online teaching. This study used Quizizz as an assessment tool for the midterm exam of the first semester English department or EFL students in IAIN Parepare. The method used is technology-based applied research. The instrument used was a midterm exam for the English department students. The midterm exam consists of 15 questions with multiple choice question types. This exam was attended by 18 students. The questionnaire was made using a Mentimeter. The use of Quizizz has a good and positive impact and response. The level of accuracy of students' success in answering questions correctly in this class was 78%. The highest score is 100% and the lowest is 61%. Then 85% prefer Quizizz as an assessment tool compared to paper and google forms.

STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING A NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

This article presents the result of a descriptive research on the students’ ability in writing a narrative paragraph at the English Department of Bung Hatta University. The research sample comprises 37 sophomores and they were selected by using total sampling technique. The data were collected by administering a paragraph writing testand analysed by using a descriptive statistics. The results of data analysis show that most students had very high ability to express the content and to apply mechanics in writing a narrative paragraph, but less than half students had very high ability to use vocabulary and to apply correct grammar. Moreover, the majority of students had moderate ability to organize a narrative paragraph. Based on the accumulative result of data analysis, it can be concluded that the students had a high ability in writing a narrative paragraph, and further research is needed to find out why their ability to organize the paragraph is not high. REFERENCES Andayani, T &Arono. (2016). Improving Students’ Ability in Writing Narrative Text by Using Picture Series for the Eighth Grade Students of Junior High School. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature.2 (2),1-10. Anker, S. 2010. Real Writing with Readings: Paragraphs and Essays for College, Work, and Everyday Life. Boston: Bedford. Aulia, M. D.(2017). Students’ error analysis of cohesive devices in writing narrative paragraph (a case study of the seventh semester students of English Education Department at FKIP UMSU).Jurnal UMSU-Jurnal Online UniversitasMuhammadiyah Sumatera Utara.Retrieved December 6, 2020, from http://repository.umsu.ac.id/handle/123456789/4063 Brown, H. Douglas &Abeywickrama, Priyanvada. (2010). Language Assessment: Pronciples and Classroom Practices (Second Edition). New York: Pearson Education, Inc. Checkett, G. F., &Checkett, L. (2010).The Write Start: Sentences to Paragraphs with Professional and Student Readings. Fourth Edition.Boston: Wadsworth. Evans, V. (2000).Successful Writing Proficiency.Berkshire: Express Publishing. Frestisia, S. (2017).An Analysis of the Second Year Students’ Difficulties in Writing Argumentative Paragraph at English Department of Bung Hatta University.(Unpublished Thesis). Padang: Bung Hatta University. Gay, L.R., Mills, G. E., &Airasian, P. W. (2012).Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications (10thed.) New Jersey: Parson Education, Inc. Heard, J., Tucker, T. (2016).Advanced Writing: An Accelerated Method for University Students.(E-book Available Online) http://cgpsl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/115.pdf Jayanti, I. D. (2017). An Analysis of the Second Year Students; Ability to Write a Descriptive Paragraph at the English Department of Bung Hatta University.(Unpublished Thesis). Padang: Bung Hatta University. Murthofi?ah, A. (2019). An analysis of grammatical errors in students’ narrative paragraph of the fourth semester students of English Department of IAIN Salatiga in the academic year 2019/2020.Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies.Retrieved March 5, 2021, from http://e-repository.perpus.iainsalatiga.ac.id/6369/ Oktawati, H. (2020). Students’ Writing Ability in Narrative Paragraph at Third Semester of English Education Program of STKIP YPM Academic Year 2020/2021.Inovish Journal, 5 (2).Retrieved March, 15, 2021 from http://ejournal.polbeng.ac.id/index.php/IJ/article/view/1708 Pardiyono. (2016). Genre: Mastering English Through Context. Yogyakarta: Andi Offset. Refnaldi., Al-Hafizh, M., &Ardi, H. (2016). Writing: From Paragraphs to Esssays. Padang: UniversitasNegeri Padang. Refnita, L. (2016). Writing: From Sentence to Paragraph. Padang: Bung Hatta University Press. Refnita, L. (2018). Educational Research: A Guide for Beginners. Padang: LPPM Universitas Bung Hatta. Refnita, L. (2020). Writing: From Paragraph to Paragraph. Padang: LPPM Universitas Bung Hatta. Savage, A., &Shafiei, M. (2007).Effective Academic Writing 1: The Paragraph. New York: Oxford University Press. Sonanda, S. N. (2018). Analysis of the Second Year Students’ Problem in Writing a Narrative Paragraph at the English Department of Bung Hatta University.(Unpublished Thesis). Padang: Bung Hatta University. Sunarwan, A. (2016). Increasing Students’ Narrative Paragraph Writing Ability through the Use of Picture Sequence.Pedagogy: Journal of English Language Teaching. 4 (1), 29-39. Yuliani, R. (2018). The First Year Students’ Vocabulary Mastery in Education Topic at English Department of Bung Hatta University.(Unpublished Thesis). Padang: Bung Hatta University.

Utilizing Songs and Stories on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using songs and stories on second language vocabulary acquisition for the first semester English Department students during the academic year 2012-2013. The study was an attempt to answer the following research questions: (i) Can songs and stories be an effective activity for teaching vocabulary? (ii) Will songs and stories enhance students' acquisition of vocabulary more effectively? The results of this study showed that songs and stories positively improved the level of the students.

The Effectiveness of Digital Story Telling in EFL Classroom

The research aims to find out the effectiveness of Digital Story Telling media in listening class students at University of PGRI Yogyakarta. This research was experimental research which used quasi experimental method. Therefore, the data were collected by observation, interview, test, and questionnaire. Samples of this research were 28 students of 10 male and 18 female in the second semester English department students. The samples were divided into two groups, there were experiment group and control group. Both of groups were given pretest before treatment and posttest after treatment. Students in experiment group got treatment to study English listening by Digital Story Telling. The result of the research shows that Digital Story Telling is effective to improve listening skill. Result of the hypothesis measured from the post-test of the experiment class. The result shows the value of significance t-test is 0.000 which is lower than 0.05. It means that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. Mean of control group in pre-test is 34.28, thus in experiment group is 37.85. Mean of control group in post-test is 39.28, while in experiment group 47.14. It concludes that Digital Story Telling as media is effective to improve student in learning listening at second-semester student in English Language Education Study Program at the University of PGRI Yogyakarta.

Grammatical Errors in Writing Essay Made by the Fifth Semester Students of English Department of Universitas PGRI Kanjuruhan Malang

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa kesalahan grammar yg di tulis oleh mahasiswa semester 5 di kelas Writing dengan menggunakan teori error analysis oleh Dulay (1982) yang fokus pada surface strategy taxonomy. Penelitian ini menggunakan design penelitian kualitatif. Data di ambil dari tulisan mahasiswa semester 5 Universitas PGRI Kanjuruhan Malang. Peneliti menggunakan 1 kelas yang terdiri dari 29 mahasiswa sebagai partisipan penelitian. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti menjadi instrumen utama. Peneliti terlibat dalam setiap kegiatan penelitian dalam mengumpulkan, menganalisa, mengklasifikasi, dan menyimpulkan data. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, 132 kesalahan grammar ditemukan. Kesalahan tersebut di klasifikasikan dalam empat kategori yaitu error omission, error addition, misformation error, dan misordering. Misformation error adalah jenis kesalahan yang paling umum dilakukan oleh mahasiwa di tulisan mereka (48%). Error omission menjadi peringkat kedua yang dominan (21%). Kesalahan selanjutnya adalah error addition (20%) dan misordering (11%). Kesimpulannya, hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa mahasiswa masih memiliki kesulitan grammar dalam menulis karena frekuensi kesalahan mereka yang masih cukup tinggi. Oleh sebab itu, dosen diharapkan membuat koreksi dan memberikan penjelasan lebih lanjut tentang kesalahan grammar mahasiswa dalam proses belajar mengajar. Dosen juga di harapkan dapat menggunakan berbagai metode pengajaran sesuai kebutuhan siswa.

MORPHOLOGICAL ERROR ANALYSIS ON WORD CLASSES FOUND IN STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING OF THE FIFTH SEMESTER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT NOMMENSEN HKBP UNIVERSITY (NHU) MEDAN

The writer did a research of fifth semester English department students at Faculty of Art and Nommensen HKBP University Medan. This research entitled : Morphological Error Analysis on Word Classes Found in Students’ Descriptive Writing of The Fifth Semester English Department at Nommensen HKBP University (NHU)- Medan The writer asked the students to write a descriptive text. When they did the test, they felt confuse to write words with correct morphology. The result of the analysis was found that they knew about morphology, but they are confused to apply that. After they finished to write a descriptive text, the writer analyzed them. The writer underlined and classified the errors into four word classes on Morphological error. There are four word classes of morphological Errors, they are noun morphological errors, verb morphological errors, adjective morphological errors and adverb morphological errors . The result of the analysis, the writer concluded that there are four word classes was found by the writer, namely noun morphological errors, verb morphological errors, adjective morphological errors, and adverb morphological error. The data of morphological erors are found 154 errors. The percentage of errors in noun morphological was 52 errors i.e, 33,8%, errors of verb morphological was 91 errors or, 59,0%, errors of adjective morphological was 7 errors i.e, 4.6%, and error of adverb morphological was 4 errors i.e, 2.6%. The result of the analysis was found that the students knew about morphology but they are still confused to write words based on the correct morphology, so they made the errors. Looking at the percentage it shows verb morphological was 91 errors or 59,0%, of 154 errors, it means that verb is mostly used in a text, to express the ideas or activities .
 
 Key words : Morphological Error , Word Classes , Descriptive Writing 

TEACHING READING BY COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC READING: AN ACTION RESEARCH

English language learners experienced difficulties in understanding readings in English. This research aims to improve students’ reading comprehension by implementing Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) at second semester students of English Department, STKIP Panca Sakti Bekasi. This research used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) was conducted in two cycles. There are qualitative and quantitative data collected in this research. The former data were gained by analyzing field note, observation sheet and interview while the latter ones were obtained from pre-test, post-test and portfolio of pre-cycle, cycle I and cycle II. The result shows that the mean score of students’ reading performance increases in four dimensions not only on literal, interpretative, applicative but also on critical understanding. The finding indicates that the students’ mean score at pre-cycle (68) increases to 77 and to 87 in the first and second cycles respectively. For interpretative understanding, the average score at pre-cycle was 61, increasing to 69 in the first cycle and to 80 in the second cycle. For applicative understanding, the average score at pre-cycle was 62, increasing to 64 in the first cycle and to 84 in the second cycle. Finally, the critical understanding also increases, from 59 at pre-cycle to 65 in the first cycle and to 85 in the second cycle. Therefore, the implementation of CAR effectively improves the students’ reading performance.