{"title":"The Correlation between Students’ Grammar Mastery and Writing Ability in Descriptive Text of the First Grade Students in MAN 1 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Inanda Narvika, D. Supriyadi, Rafista Deviyanti","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i3.202112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i3.202112","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of the study were to find out the correlation between students’ grammar mastery and writing ability and to find out what aspect of writing has the most correlation on students’ grammar mastery. This research used quantitative approach. The subject of the research was the first grade students of MAN 1 Bandar Lampung. It consisted of thirteen classes; the total number of population was 439 students. By using sample random sampling, the sample of this research was 40 students taken from twelve classes (3 and 4 students in each class). A set of the grammar test in the form of multiple choices was used to measure students’ grammar mastery and writing test was used to measure students’ writing ability. Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPSS 25.0 for windows was applied in this research to analyze the data. The result indicated that there was a correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their writing ability since the significant value was 0.730 resided between 0.600 - 0.800, which means the strength is high correlation. The data indicated that Sig. (2- tailed) = 0.00 which was lower than 0.05. This suggests that a student who has high scores in grammar mastery, she or he also get a good score in writing. It was assumed that language use was the aspect of writing has the most correlation on students’ grammar mastery because; it was found that during the writing test, the students showed various errors, such as using incorrect tenses and unstructured sentences. From the research findings, it can be concluded that there was a positive correlation between students’ grammar mastery and writing ability in descriptive text and language use was the aspect of writing that most correlated with grammar mastery.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"90 7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116301723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use Of Jigsaw Strategy To Improve Students' Reading Comprehension Achievement At SMKN 1 CANDIPURO","authors":"T. Alawiyah, Ujang Suparman, K. Nisa","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202105","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this research are to find out the improvement of the students' reading ability before and after the implementation of jigsaw strategy and also to identify student perception about the use of jigsaw strategy at SMK N 1 Candipuro. This research was a quantitative research and the method was one group pretest and post-test design. The reading test was administrated as the instrument in this research. In pre-test, students mean score was 53. 86 while in post-test it increases to 65.46; the gain obtained in pre-test to post-test is 11.59. The analysis of SPSS 20 shows that there is improvement of students' reading ability after the implementation of jigsaw strategy; Based on seeing the analysis of students' work in pre-test and post-test on each aspect of reading. It could be found that determining main idea was the aspect that increased the most. Keyword: Jigsaw strategy, Reading","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126494766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A correlative study between students’ listening habit with English songs and their vocabulary mastery at SMAN 16 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Katline Balerina, Tuntun Sinaga, Novita Nurdiana","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i3.202207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i3.202207","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"75 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128173168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Students' Vocabulary Mastery Through Short Movie of The Fisrt Grade Students at SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Revina Damayanti, D. Supriyadi, K. Nisa","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i3.202107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i3.202107","url":null,"abstract":"Vocabulary is one of the English components that needs to be mastered by the learners, yet most of the students have big problems in mastering vocabulary. Based on the researcher’s observation during PLP, it was found that at X and XI class had lack of vocabularies. The objectives of this research were to find out i) the significant improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery after being taught through short movie at the first grade of SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung and ii) the type of vocabulary which improves the most. The approach of this research was quantitative. There were 30 students of the first grade chosen. Vocabulary tests were used to collect the data. The researcher used a single group pretest-posttest design. The data were also computed by using SPSS 25.0 for Windows. The result showed that the mean of students’ vocabulary score was getting higher after the teacher utilized short movie, by having the number of 77.13. In addition, the gain of the test was 0.1832. It was found out that the students got higher enhancement in mastering the words of verb. The gain for this aspect was 0.25824. Besides, the mean of the tests were also increased from 6.3 in pretest to 7.3 in posttest. Keywords: vocabulary, vocabulary mastery, short movie","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133173553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. S. Pangestu, Muhammad Sukirlan, Novita Nurdiana
{"title":"The correlation between students' frequency of listening English songs and students vocabulary mastery","authors":"M. S. Pangestu, Muhammad Sukirlan, Novita Nurdiana","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i3.202212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i3.202212","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed to know : \"The Correlation Between Students Frequency of Listening English Songs And Students Vocabulary Mastery\". SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung in academic year 2020/2021. The research method of this research was a quantitative. The population of the research was the eleven grade students of SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung in academic year 2020/2021, the number of students was 35 students. The researcher gave a questionnaire to know students frequency of listening English songs, and test to know the students vocabulary mastery. The data that has been gathered was analyzed by Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Data Analysis shows that there is significant correlation between two variable since p<0.05 (p=0.342). It can be happened because most of students use their time to listening English songs and it can enrich their vocabulary. Keywords: Frequency of Listening English Songs, Vocabulary Mastery","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127796709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effectiveness of English songs in teaching pronunciation to senior high school students at MAN 1 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Jihan Khairunisa, S. Sudirman, Deddy Supriady","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v9.i3.202108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v9.i3.202108","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this research were to find out whether there was a significant difference in students’ pronunciation ability after the implementation of English songs in the teaching-learning process and the students’ perception towards the use of English songs as the teaching media. The approach of the research was quantitative. The subjects were 36 students of class X MIA 5 at MAN 1 Bandar Lampung in 2019/2020 academic year. Pronunciation tests, recording, and questionnaire were used to collect the data. The students’ pronunciation scores were taken from the pretest and the posttest which had been recorded by the audio recorder and compared by using Paired Sample T-Test with the significant level 0.01. The results showed that there is a significant difference in students’ pronunciation ability after the implementation of English songs from the pretest (25.07) to the posttest (50.32). Moreover, the questionnaire was analyzed by using a Frequency Distribution Table. The results showed that out of 36 students, 34 of them had positive perception toward the implementation of English songs in learning pronunciation with a percentage of 94.4%. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the use of English songs is effective in teaching pronunciation. Keywords: English songs, teaching pronunciation, perception.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115389840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Based Reading Exercises in an EFL Textbook for the Second-Grade Students of Senior High School","authors":"Nurul Walikhtira Pratiwi","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202103","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research was to find out whether reading exercises in an EFL textbook for the second-grade students of senior high school are in accordance with HOTS indicators. This research adopted qualitative descriptive research and content analysis method. The object of this research was the reading comprehension essay questions in the Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas XI textbook published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2018. The items of the essay reading questions were analyzed using the cognitive levels of the revised Bloom’s taxonomy. As the result, the researcher found that the questions categorized as HOTS level obtain 63 out of 94 questions (67%). Meanwhile, 31 out of 94 questions (33%) were categorized as LOTS level. It indicated that this textbook concentrated more on higher-level thinking questions since the most dominant level in the textbook was higher order thinking skills (HOTS).","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123693193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicative language teaching in improving Student’s speaking achievement","authors":"Retno Setianingsih, Mahpul Mahpul, L. Sholihah","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202296","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the research was to find out whether there is an improvement in the students’ speaking achievements after being taught through the weak version of the Communicative Language Teaching method. The population of the research was the students of the second year of SMKN 2 Bandar Lampung. The sample of the research was twenty students of Eleventh Grade BKP (Bisnis Konstruksi dan Property) 3. The research used one group pre-test post-test design and the data were taken from the tests. The data were analyzed by using SPSS statistics 20. The result of the research indicated that there was a significant improvement in the students’ speaking achievement after being taught through the Communicative Language Teaching method. The mean score of the post-test (9.8) was higher than the mean score of the pre-test (7.2). By using the t-test, it was found that the sig (p) value is less than the sig level 0,05 (0.000 < 0.05) and the t-value (8.664) was higher than the t-table (1.729). It can be concluded that the implementation of the weak version of the Communicative Language Teaching method significantly improved students’ speaking achievement.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117081697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Speaking through Picture Series Media at the Second Grade of SMP Negeri 4 Natar","authors":"Ferry Sepriyanto, Ujang Suparman, Novita Nurdiana","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202295","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128676933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The implementation of Mind Mapping technique in teaching writing at the second grade of Junior High School 3 Trimurjo","authors":"Monica Salisa Rahmawanda, Flora Flora, Gita Hilmi Prakoso","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i1.202103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i1.202103","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this research are to find out: 1) Whether there is any significant improvement of students’ writing ability of descriptive text after being taught through mind mapping technique, 2) Which aspect of writing improved the most after being taught by using mind mapping technique and 3) What is the students’ perception towards the implementation of mind mapping technique in descriptive text writing. This research was a quantitative research used a one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects were 23 students of class VIII A at SMP N 3 Trimurjo in 2019/2020 academic year. Writing tests and questionnaires were administered as the instrument of the research. The data were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-test in which the significance level was determined by p<0.05. The result of the research showed that the value of significant level was 0.00<0.05. It means that there was an improvement in students’ writing ability of descriptive text after the implementation of mind mapping technique and the aspect of writing that improved the most after the implementation of mind mapping technique was content. Furthermore, the result of questionnaires showed that most students (75.86%) gave positive towards the implementation of mind mapping technique in descriptive text writing. Most of the students agree that mind mapping technique can help them in composing writing, make them enjoyed and relaxed in composing writing, make them more interested and motivated in writing. But, almost of them disagree that by using mind mapping technique, they do not have any difficulties to make writing anymore. It means that even they have positive perception towards the implementation of mind mapping technique in descriptive text writing, they still have another difficulty in composing it. Keywords: mind mapping technique, writing ability, students’ perception","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129107094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}