Year Students Of SMPN Research Articles

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING METHOD TOWARD STUDENTS SPEAKING ABILITY AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH FOR EIGHT GRADE OF SMPN 3 BANJARBARU

English speaking ability an experimental is one of the language skill which become the main purpose for the English language learner at the school. The purpose of CLLM is to help the students to communicate in their daily life, but the achievement of the CLLM is felt difficult practically, because in fact, many students are still passive in the classroom. When the students communicate in the target language, students might encounter a situation in which they cannot find words to convey meaning. When the flow of communication in this situation of communication breakdown, they used Community Language Learning Method (CLLM) method to prevent the stagnation in conveying that messages and make the students find it enjoyable to learn. Therefore, this study concerns with students’ ability in learning English by using CLLM. This study is attempt to discover students’ speaking ability for the eight year students’ of SMPN 3 Banjarbaru in the school year 2023/2024. Two research questions formulated: (1) to what extent is the achievement of the speaking ability for the eight year students of SMPN 3 Banjarbaru in the school year 2023/2024? (2) to what extent is the effect of CLL toward students’ speaking ability for the eight year students of SMPN 3 Banjarbaru in the school year 2023/2024? This study was experimental research. So there were two groups of sample, they were experimental and control groups. The population of this study was 160 students. The researcher took 40 students as the sample. As the research instruments which was developed to collect data, the researcher provided some pictures, the students were asked to describe the pictures. While the students were describing the pictures, the researcher recorded it. After collecting and calculating the data, the researcher found that the mean score of pre-test and post-test for experiment group were 46.45 and 51.85, while for control group were 41.2 and 45.3. And in testing the hypothesis, the researcher used t-test formula. The researcher found that t-test was 2.280 and t-table in significant rank 0.05 (5%) was 2.021. It proved that t-test was higher than t-table (2.280 > 2.021). So the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It indicates that Community Language Learning Method (CLLM) was effective in speaking teaching for the eight year students of SMPN 3 Banjarbaru in the school year 2023/2024.

Students’ Anxiety Factors in Speaking English (a Case Study at the Third Year Students of SMPN 9 Parepere)

This study was conducted to determine the type of student speaking anxiety that predominantly occurs in English classes and to determine the factors of speaking anxiety faced by third-year students of SMPN 9 Parepare. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative. This study used questionnaires to determine the type of student speaking anxiety that was dominant in English classes totaling 35 students, then used interviews to determine the factors of student speaking anxiety in English classes by selecting a sample of 7 students from each class. Samples are taken using random sampling. The data analysis technique used is qualitative data analysis consisting of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results of this study showed that the dominant types of students' speaking anxiety were (1) Communication Apprehension with a score of 1173, (2) Test Anxiety scored 1630, and (3) Fear of Negative Evaluation scored 745. This means that most students worry about failing the speaking test and they still feel worried even though they have prepared well for speaking classes. They also still feel less confident with their appearance in front of the class because of their language competence. The factors of speech anxiety faced by students are influenced by four factors, namely cognitive, psychological, social, and physical factors

The Correlation between EFL Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their Reading Ability

This study examines the correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading ability. The purpose of the research is to know whether the correlation is evident between students' vocabulary mastery and their reading ability at the second semester of eight grade of SMPN 4 Pare in the academic year of 2020/2021. The researcher used a quantitative approach through correlational research. The researcher used correlational research design by vocabulary and reading tests to the second year students of SMPN 4 Pare. The researcher used a test that consists of 57 items as an instrument of this study. There were 34 students of the second year students of SMPN 4 Pare participating in this study. The study reveals that there is a strong significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading ability at r=.8769, p<.005. This study demonstrates that the vocabulary mastery is important for reading ability as vocabulary will enhance reading comprehension. Pedagogical implication of this study is discussed.

The Effectiveness of Task Based Intruction (TBI) toward Students’ Interest in Learning English Vocabulary at SMPN 1 Sambelia

This research was aimed at find out whether or not using Task Based Intructionhas positive effect toward students’ interest in learning English vocabulary. Thisresearch was an experimental research.The population the second year students of SMPN 1 Sambelia in academic year 2021/2022 was 209 students. The sample of the research was 54 students. The sample was taken by cluster random sampling technique. The instrument that was used test (20 items) and questionnaire. The score were analyzed by used descriptive and inferential analysis. Descriptive analysis was used to describe mean, mode, median, and standard deviation of group according to AnasSudijono:2007, and inferential analysis was used to describe the value of t-test for comparison between t-table. It was showed that the value of-test = 2.575 was higher than the value of t-table = 1.675. So, using Task Based Intruction approach has positive effect toward students’ interest in learning English vocabulary at SMPN 1 Sambelia.

The Students Ability in Using Countable and Uncountable Nouns: at Second Year Students of SMPN 1 Aikmel in East Lombok

The Students Ability in Using Countable and Uncountable Nouns: at Second Year Students of SMPN 1 Aikmel in East Lombok

The Correlation between Students' Intelligence Level and their Achievement in Learning English

The objective of the research was to find out the correlation between the students intelligence and their achievement in learning English at SMPN 27 Makassar. The design of this research was descriptive and employed correlational method. The population of this research was the second year students of SMPN 27 Makassar. The technique of sampling applied cluster random sampling which the total of sample was 20 students. The instruments of this research were IQ test and English test. To find out students achievement in learning English, the researcher tested the students using multiple choice test that consisted of materials from their handbook. To find out the level of students intelligence, the Psychological Department Team of State University of Makassar was given IQ test. To find out the correlation from both variables, the researcher used Pearson r formula. The result of the test shows that most of the students’ intelligence was categorized as dull average and the students’ achievement was 6.35 which is categorized as fair achievement. The result data found that there was no significant correlation between the students’ intelligence level and their achievement in learning English at the second year of SMPN 27 Makassar.

The Use of Relay Race Game to Increase The Students' Performance Speaking Ability

Through observations made on students of SMPN 2 Pangale Kab, Mamuju Tengah, specially in class VIII it was found that students did not show motivation in learning English in school. Therefore, the researcher decided to use a Relay Race game to solve problems. Expected via a Relay Race Games are used, students motivation can be increased and improved see how the steps in the game can improve students motivation in learning English second year students of SMPN 2 Pangale Kab, Mamuju Tengah. The design of this study is a quantitative method using a quasi-experimental design (nonequivalent control group) with to groups, namely the exprtmental group and the control group. The study population was second year students in SMPN 2 Pangale Kab, Mamuju Tengah consisting of two classes in which the total number was 40 student. The sample of this research was purposive sampling technique. Researchers tookone class, VIII which was divided into two groups, the first group was VIII (A) as an experimental group consisting of 20 students and the second group was VIII (B) because the control group consisted of 20. Data collected trought pretes and posttest. The the method Relay Race game can improve students English ability the apply the discussion method. The results of this study indicate how students speak significantly improve.

The Use of Snowball Throwing in Teaching Reading at The Second Year Students of SMPN 8 Palopo

This thesis uses snowball to improve student reading with the research question, "How to use snowball throwing in SMPN's second-year students. This research employed Classroom Action Research (CAR) with cycles: first cycle, second cycle. Each cycle consists of four steps: planning. Acting, observing, reflecting. Four meetings during the research cycle. Class VIII, three samples of this study, consisted of 20 students. The study result revealed that Cycle 2 was better than Cycle one scores. During the lesson, the students showed great enthusiasm. Cycle 2's mean score is 82,75, and the percentage of student activity observation The student reading mastery increases after Cycle 2. The appropriate way to teach reading using snowball throwing is: (1) giving students more motivation to build confidence and spirit to study hard and be active in learning. (2) Before starting the learning process, more explanation of the material and giving the game than allowing the students to say what they do not understand. (3) Giving reward/gift for appreciation, (4) grouping students into a small group of 5 students. (5) Narrative text glossaries (6) Observers and writers were observing student activities. (7) Testing students to know the students ' improvement in reading after Using Snowball Throwing Learning (focus on the narrative text)

Pengaruh Strategi Critical Incident Pada Hasil Pembelajaran IPA The Effect Of Critical Incident Strategy On Science Learning Output

Critical incident is one of the learning strategies that can be used to improve the student ability in understanding of science. This study was conducted to determine the effect of critical incident strategy on students’ science learning output. The study used experimental design method by using pretest-posttest control group design. Population of this study was the second year students of SMPN 12 Kerinci. The subject was divided into two groups, which are the control and experimental class. The result showed that the number of students in the experimental class can achieve excellent score; it was increased from 3 students (at the pretest) to7 students (at the posttest). Meanwhile, it was not occurred in the control class. It indicates that this strategy can improve students’ learning output of science. Thus, Critical incident strategy has significant effect on students’ learning output based on t-test at the significance level α = 5% obtained tcount=2,85 while ttable=2,02 (2,85 > 2,02).

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY MASTERY AND READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 GUNUNGSARI

The research entitled The Correlation Between Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension aims at finding out there is whether any correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at the second year students of SMPN 3 Gunungsari. This research was designed by using descriptive quantitative method. The research took 30 students as sample of this study. To analyses the data this research used statistic computation by product moment correlation, to get the final score. The data found that the mean score of reading comprehension was 54.4 and vocabulary was 53,6. After computing by the statistical analysis of Product Moment, the value shows 1.631 while the t-table was 1.671 and 2.390. This result of this investigation indicated that there is no significant between vocabulary and reading comprehension. The value of t-test was 1.631 is lower than 1.671 and 2.390 in 0.05 and 0.01 significant level. While the degree of freedom (df) = 60. It can be concluded that there is no correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.

Implementing Peer Assessment to Improve the Writing Ability of the Second Year Students of Smp Negeri 44 Muaro Jambi

This research report is written to promote the use of peer assessment in EFL classrooms at SMP level. On the basis of a preliminary study done at SMPN 44 Muaro Jambi and the growing interest of the use of alternative assessment strategies led to the idea to conduct a study to implement an applicable and appropriate strategy of peer assessment to improve the writing ability of the second year students of SMPN 44 Muaro Jambi. The researcher designed a classroom action research (CAR) study. It began with a try out. A plan was then made in order the procedures implemented could facilitate the second year students of SMPN 44 Muaro Jambi to handle peer assessment properly and improve their ability in writing a descriptive paragraph as well. It was continued by implementing the plan, observing and evaluating or reflecting. The findings showed that the appropriate strategy of peer assessment in writing instructions to improve the students’ ability in writing a descriptive paragraph requires teachers to follow procedures; telling the purpose of conducting peer assessment, encouraging collaborative work, encouraging impartial assessment, giving clear and detailed guidelines, building students’ self confidence to write and assess, encouraging students’ self confidence to write and assess, and ensuring follow up tasks.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN TEACHING THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE AT SMPN 12 BATAM

This study was aimed to identify t The Effectiveness of Using Communicative Approach in Teaching the Simple Past Tense. This research employed quantitative research method. The design of the collecting the data that used in research are, questioner method, test method, library method, observation method and interview method. This research was conducted at class of second year students of SMPN 12 Batam in the academic year 2018/2019. As for the time the researched held on 31 March 2019 until 25 May 2019. In this research, the populations of the study were students in second year students at SMPN 12 Batam in the academic year 2018/2019. There were students from two classes, whereas the samples are 62 students, where 30 students from class VIII-4 (control class) and 32 students from VIII-5 ( the experiment class). This research was concluded that the effectiveness of using communicative approach in teaching the simple past tense: A case study of second year students at SMPN 12 BATAM in the academic years 2018/2019. The result was the calculation of the t-test, it was obtained that the t-observed was 5.506 and t-table was 2.042 at the level of significant 0, 05. It was obtaining that t- observed > t-table, it means the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and Ho rejected.

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIETY TO THE STUDENTS SKILL IN ENGLISH TO THE SECOND YEAR STUDENT OF SMPN 5 TANDUN

The pupose of this research is carried out in order to find out how far the influence of society to the students skills in English to the second year students of SMPN 5 Tandun in 2018/2019 academic year is. The library research is applied based on the needs of the books as the sources of the theories and informations, and the field research is applied on the need ofdata from the field, in this case from SMPN 5 Tandun. As the instrument for collection the data, the writer uses test. After getting the data, the next step which is done by the writer is analizing it by using the statistical analysis. The students‟ skill English are also influenced by other factors, like the students‟ motivation, interest, aptitute, the method applied by the teachers in teaching, the school facilities, the family factor, etc. After finishing collecting and analyzing the data it has been known that there is a significant influence of society to the students‟ skill to the second year students of SMPN 5 Tandun. It means that the hypothesis of this research is accepted.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ENGLISH MOVIE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITTLES IN TEACHING VOCABULARY AT THE EIGHTH YEAR STUDENTS OFSMPN 1SELONG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019

This investigation was aimed to identify the effectiveness of using English movie with English subtitles in teaching vocabulary in the form comprehension of descriptive text at the eighth year students of SMPN 1 Selong Lombok Timur in the academic year of2018/2019. Learning out comes in this research included learning achievement in the form of cognitive skill and vocabulary mastery. This research was a quasi-experimental research. The population is the whole class VIIISMPN1Selong. Sampling was done by random sampling technique for the population in the unit class. Samples of study were class VIIIA as a control class that uses conventional teaching (lectures) and VIIIB as an experimental class that use media movie with subtitles. The data were obtained through pre test to know the students’ ability. Statistical test used to test the hypothesis was Mann Whitney U test with a normal curve approach Z performed on the data post-test. Data post-test showed at the 0.05significance level, the value of Z table=1.99, and Z count (3.25)>Z table (1.99). Because Z count is greater than Z table, then Ha accepted and Ho is rejected. It was found that the result of this research was the using of media movie with English subtitles was effective in increasing knowledge of vocabulary in class VIII SMAN 1Selong Lombok Timur in the academic year of 2018/2019.

TEACHING STUDENT'S SPEAKING ABILITY USING TIME TOKEN ARENDS

Speaking is one of skills that should be mastered by all of students who learn English. However, passive students face some difficulties in speaking. They are less confident, so they difficult to talk in present of the class. Regarding this, the teacher should teach using appropriate strategy to improve students’ speaking ability and to increase their confidence. This research was conducted to find out whether Time Token Arends can improve students’ speaking ability. This research was arranged using Classroom Action Research. The sample taken by using purposive sampling technique. The writers took 32 students of class X IPS 1 in one of a senior high school in Cianjur as the sample of this research. The result showed that Time Token Arends can improve students’speaking ability, especially in encouraging passive students become active students.Aratry. S, Rumiri, A. & Desri, M. S. (2017). The Effect of Please Strategy on the Ability of the first year Students of SMPN 5 Pekan baru in Paragraph writing. FKIP Universitas Riau.Arends, R. (2009). Learning to teach. United States: McGraw Hill.Arikunto, S. (2013). Prosedur Penelitian. Jakarta: PT. Rineka Cipta.Babie, E. (1990). Survey Research Methods (2nd ed.). California: Wadsworth Publishing company, 2nd ed.Brown, H. D. (2001). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5 editions). New York: Pearson Education Inc.Hatch, E. M., & Farhady, H. (1982). Research design and statistics for applied linguitics. Rowley, Mass: Newbury House.

AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF USING PUNCTUATION MADE BY STUDENTS IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 WERA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

Abstract: Punctuation is set of mark used in writing to clarify the meaning and to separate the sentences, word and part of word. The using of punctuation is considered as the important aspect in productive writing skill. Therefore, it was important students to master it. The purpose of this study is to find out the students’ errors in using punctuation in descriptive text made by second year students of SMPN 3 Wera in academic year 2017/018. The subject of this study is students’ from second year in SMPN 3 Wera. The mixed method qualitative and quantitative used in this study. The study applied purposive sampling. The researcher took 21 students as a sample at a class. In collecting the data, this study used observation and writing test as the research instrument then followed by analyzing the data using formula. This study found that were two kinds of punctuation and two types of errors (period, comma, omission and addition) which classified, there are 42 errors that occurs made by the students which consist of 11 or 26% students made errors in period, 15 or 36% errors of comma, 4 or 10% errors of addition and 12 or 28% errors of omission. The dominant errors showed by the students in form of comma which 15 or 36% errors. Based on the result of this study, the researcher concluded that the students still made many errors in using punctuation

THE EFFECT OF LEARNING CELL TOWARDS STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY IN READING

The aims of this research was to find out whether learning cell has an effect toward students’ reading ability at the eight year students of SMPN 4 Lingsar Lombok Barat in The Academic Year of 2016/2017. This research was an experimental research consists of four classes as population and one class taken as sample by using purposive sampling technique. In sustaining the research result, the data was collected by using a reading test in the form of multiple choices and creativity questionnaires. Then, the data were analyzed by using statistic and descriptive analysis. Based on The data analysis, it can be found that the average score of experimental group was 61.72 for the reading test meanwhile for the creativity mean score was 14.05. To know the correlation level the researcher used r-test in which the result was 1.059 in other word it has a strong correlation level. Then to know the significance correlation of the result, the score was identified by using t-test, the result shows that t0 (t-obtain) > tt (t-table) or 17.738 > 1.69. Thus, it can be concluded that learning cell has a significant effect toward the students’ reading at SMPN 4 Lingsar Lombok Barat in The Academic Year of 2016/2017.

INTERACTIVE STRATEGY TRAINER FOR ACTIVE READING AND THINKING (ISTART) FOR THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

This research aims to find the improvement of the students’ reading in literal comprehension especially main idea and supporting idea in reading comprehension use of ISTART Strategy at Class VIII.5 of SMPN 2 Sungguminasa in the 2012/2013 Academic Year. The researcher used a Classroom Action Research (C.A.R). It was consisted of two cycles. In each cycle consisted of four meetings. The research subject was the students in class VIII.5; it consisted of 35 students with 18 men and 17 women. The researcher obtained the data by using reading test and observation sheet. The research findings indicates that using ISTART Strategy could improve the students’ reading comprehension, from table 1 indicated that there was improvement the students’ Main Idea from cycle I to cycle II, where as in cycle I the students’ achievement main idea in reading was 6.65, but after evaluation in cycle II the students’ main idea in reading became 7.36. The other hand the students’ supporting idea in reading was improved cycle I to cycle II, where as in cycle I the students’ supporting idea in reading was 6.78 but after evaluation in cycle II the students’ supporting idea in reading became 7.38. It means that the use ISTART Strategy could improve the students’ reading comprehension at VIII.5 Class of the second year students of SMPN 2 Sungguminasa.

THE USE OF SEMANTIC MAPPING TO INCREASE STUDENTS VOCABULARY AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 9 MATARAM IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

Semantic mapping is introduced as a vocabulary presentation technique. The purpose of this research is to know the effectiveness of using semantic mapping indeveloping students’ vocabulary to the second year students’ of SMPN 9 Mataram in Academic year 2014/2015. The population of the study was the second year students of SMPN 9 Mataram, there are six classes and every class consist of 26 students’, so, the total number of the population were 180 students, and the researcher only took one class is VIII A, with consist of 26 students.This study is kind of pre-experimental in research designed pretest-posttest group, using a measurement technique in form of multiple choicesand semantic mapping which consist of 30 test items. Based on the data analysis the mean score of pre-test 39, qualifying “POOR” and mean score ofpost-test88 qualifying average to “GOOD”, and the result of t -test that is 45,6. Based on the distribution t-table with db=26, the research showed the distribution t-table was 99 % trust interval and level of significant 1%. And the result confirmed that the using of semantic mappingtechnique in teaching vocabulary at the eight class students is effective in increasing student’s vocabulary mastery.

An Analysis of Student’s Speaking Anxiety and its Effect on Speaking Performance

This study was carried out to seek if there is a negative psychological factor known as anxiety could really affect students’ speaking performance and to find the difference in speaking performance between students with higher level of anxiety and students with lower level of anxiety and also to seek which of the factors of anxiety is dominant. The participants of this research were the first year students of SMPN 2 Bandar Lampung. There were 27 students in that class. The research design was ex post facto to seek the correlation between the variables. Questionnaire and speaking test were used as data collection and then they were analyzed by using Independent T-Test and Linear Regression to test the hypotheses. The results show that the students’ speaking performance significantly differs between the two groups. The mean score of higher level of anxiety students was 62.37 while the mean score for lower level of anxiety students was 83.81. Based on the analysis by using Mann-Whitney U Test, it shows that lower level anxiety students have higher score in speaking performance than those with higher level of anxiety as the computation resulted in p value at 0.005. The next analysis by using Linear Regression resulted in r2 ­­ (0.319). The data show that speaking anxiety may give negative contribution to the overall students’ speaking performance achievement. It also found that nervousness is dominant factor followed by worry and tension.