{"title":"The Use of Video to Improve Students' Writing of Procedure Text at the Second Grade of SMPN 8 Bandarlampung","authors":"Elisa Rakhmawati, Ujang Suparman, G. E. Putrawan","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i2.202108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i2.202108","url":null,"abstract":"This research aimed to find out whether or not there was significant improvement of students’ procedure text writing after the implementation of video as media and to investigate students’ perception with regard to interest, challenge, choice and enjoyment of the implementation of video as media in language learning. This research was conducted through quantitative and qualitative approach. A total of 29 eighth graders of SMPN 8 Bandarlampung took part in the current study. The instruments used in this research were writing test (pre- and post-test) and questionnaire. The resultshowed that students’ average score in the pre-test was 53.93 and in the post-test was 59.13, the gain score was 5.20. The result of the Paired Sample t-test confirmed the hypothesis that there was significant improvement in students’ procedure text writing, p<0.05, p = .000. The results of the questionnaire showed that this learning medium helps students increase their interest, provides them with challenge, choice, enjoyment. Keywords: video, writing, procedure text, students’ perception","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"67 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":"125179583","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’ reading comprehension through question answer relationship (QAR) strategy at the first grade on SMAN 3 Kotabumi","authors":"Fitria Widia Astuti, Ujang Suparman, Hery Yufrizal","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v9.i4.202004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v9.i4.202004","url":null,"abstract":"The aims of this research are to find out whether there is a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension at the first grade of SMAN 3 Kotabumi before and after the implementation of QAR strategy and to investigate which aspect of reading comprehension improves the most after the implementation of QAR strategy. This research was a quantitative research which used a one group pre-test and post-test design. This research was conducted on January 17th to February 21st 2020 in which the population was the first grade of SMAN 3 Kotabumi. The sample of this research was class X MIPA 4 which consisted of 30 students. The data was analyzed by using Repeated Measure T-Test in which the criteria of accepted hypothesis were p < 0.05, and t-value > t-table. The result of this research showed that there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension after the implementation of QAR strategy. It can be seen from the students’ mean scores of pre-test and post-test which improves from 63.44 to 71.22 in which the gain was 7.78. The statistical analysis also revealed that t-value was higher than t-table (19.341 > 2.04523) with the significant level of 0.000. Besides that, the researcher also finds that making inference the aspect of reading comprehension which improves the most and the lowest was understanding vocabulary. It can be concluded that QAR strategy can be applied to improve students’ reading comprehension ability and all aspects of reading comprehension can be integrated using QAR strategy.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"132 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":"127589276","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 influence of Problem Based Learning towards students analytical exposition text writing achievement in senior high school of 14 Bandar Lampung","authors":"K. Utami, Ramlan Ginting Suka, L. Sholihah","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i3.202213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i3.202213","url":null,"abstract":"Writing has been one of the four skills in language learning that is very important to master. Analytical exposition text is one of the texts that should be mastered by the senior high school students. This research aims to find out whether there is a significant difference in students’ writing achievement before and after being taught with problem based learning and to investigate which aspect improves the most after the students being taught with PBL. Adapting a quantitative approach, this research was conducted through one group pretest and post-test design. The subjects of the research were thirty six students at Senior High School of 14 Bandar Lampung. The data were elicited through pretest and post-test in the form of analytical exposition text. The mean of both tests were analyzed using Paired Sample T-test with the significant level of 0.05. The result showed that there was a significant difference in students’ writing performance after they were taught with problem based learning concerning the gain of their score from the first to the second test. It could be seen from the computation that the significant values of the test were lower than alpha (0.00<0.05) while the t-value (7.595) was higher than t-table (2.0301). It was also revealed that organization was the most improved aspect among the others by having the gain of 0.375. Finally, it can be said that the problem based learning method can have a positive effect on the students’ analytical exposition text writing achievement. Keywords: Problem Based Learning, arguments, students’ writing achievement.","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":"125846217","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":"An analysis of students’ reading difficulties; a study at the first grade of SMKN 1 Simpang Pematang","authors":"Anggun khoirun nisak, Ujang Suparman, Ramlan Ginting Suka","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i3.202110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i3.202110","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to find out the students’ difficulties faced in comprehending English reading text and to know the factors of contributing to the students’ difficulties in comprehending English reading text. Furthermore, in this research used a descriptive qualitative study. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test and interview. The data were analyzed based on five classifications to find out students' difficulties in reading comprehending and four factors of contributing to the students’ difficulties. The result of this study showed that there were difficulties were faced by students in their reading, namely determining main idea 63 mistakes (16.4%), understanding vocabulary 89 mistakes (23.1%), making inference 88 mistakes (22.9%), locating reference 86 mistakes (22.3 %), and detail information 59 mistakes (15.3%). In addition, based on students' interview result, the factors of contributing to the students’ difficulties in comprehending English reading text were students’ background, vocabulary problem, sentence problem, and rhetorical structure. In this case, by knowing the students’ difficulties in comprehending English reading text, the English teacher should learn better and be more creative in applying the techniques of teaching reading skill. It is used to solve the students’ difficulties in comprehending the reading text. Keywords: Comprehending, reading text, reading difficulties.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"47 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":"124011798","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' reading comprehension ability of Descriptive text through Mind Mapping strategy at the first grade of MTSN 1 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Fathia Rahmania, Ujang Suparman, Rafista Deviyanti","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i1.202105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i1.202105","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this research were to find out whether there is any significant difference of the students’ reading comprehension at the first grade of MTsN 1 Bandar Lampung before and after the implementation of mind mapping strategy and to find out the students’ responses on the implementation of mind mapping strategy at the first grade of MTsN 1 Bandar Lampung. The design used was one group pretest posttest. The subject of the research was the first-grade students of MTsN 1 Bandar Lampung. VII C was chosen as the experimental class and VII D was chosen as the control class. The instrumen were reading test and questionnaire. The data were in form of scores taken from pretest and posttest. The result indicated that there was an improvement of students’ reading ability viewed from the pretest to posttest score (30.72 to 57.82) after they had been taught using mind mapping technique. Besides, a set of questionnaire was used to find out the students’ responses toward the mind mapping technique. It was found that majority of the students had positive responses toward the mind mapping technique. Thus, it can be concluded that Mind Mapping technique facilitates the students to improve their reading ability.","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":"130712231","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}
Galih Aisha Oktiasti Isella, Ari Nurweni, L. Sholihah
{"title":"Aspects of writing and its correlation with students’ reading habit of the eleventh grade in SMAN 1 Natar","authors":"Galih Aisha Oktiasti Isella, Ari Nurweni, L. Sholihah","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202102","url":null,"abstract":"This research was intended to investigate what aspect of writing has the highest correlation with students’ reading habit. This research is quantitative using ex-post facto design. The study was conducted on 28 students of the eleventh grade in SMAN 1 Natar. Research instruments included reading habit questionnaire and writing test. This research used scoring rubric for writing test which covered five aspects of writing; content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic. The data were in form of scores taken from questionnaire and writing test. Moreover, the score of each aspect of writing was analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis in SPSS 20.0 along with the score of reading habit to get the correlation between two variables. The result of analysis showed that the coefficient correlation between content aspect and reading habit was determined to be 0.514. Thus, it was implied that content aspect has the highest correlation with reading habit among the five aspects of writing.","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":"130831113","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’ writing achievement using Visual Thinking strategy for junior high school students","authors":"Kurniandani Rosaida, A. Setiyadi, G. E. Putrawan","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202212","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to find out: 1) whether there is statistically significant difference of students’ writing skill in describing people between the pretest and the posttest in the implementation of visual thinking strategy, 2) which aspect improved the most after the implementation of visual thinking strategy. This research was a quantitative research. The subjects of the research were 30 students at the first grade of SMPN 1 Rawajitu Timur. The writing test was 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 visual thinking strategy and the aspect of writing that improved the most after the implementation of visual thinking strategy was grammar. Moreover, the mean score of posttest (70.5) was higher than the pretest (56.7) with the gain was 13.8. Overall, regarding to the results above, it can be stated that visual thinking strategy is effective to improve students’ writing skill in describing people. Keywords: visual thinking strategy, writing, describing people.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"9 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":"129083049","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 correlation between students’ activity in playing English video games and student’s vocabulary mastery at SMAN 1 Bandar Lampung","authors":"M. Farhan, F. Munifatullah, K. Nisa","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202289","url":null,"abstract":"The primary goals of this reasearch are to find out the correlation between students’ activity in playing English video games and students’ vocabulary mastery. This research was conducted in SMAN 1 Bandar Lampung. The subject were 36 students of XI MIPA 2 as the subject of the research. Questionnaires and vocabulary test were used to collect the data. This research was using correlation through the application of quantitative methods by collecting the data from the test. The result of questionnaires showed that there were 20 students who had high level of playing English video games, 13 students had medium and 3 students had low. Meanwhile, the result of the vocabulary test showed that there were 2 students got outstanding level of vocabulary mastery. 18 students got good, 10 students got satisfactory, and 6 students got very weak. According to the result of the analysis and statistical calculation it is found that rxy is 0.604, which means there is significant correlation between students’ activity in playing English video games and students’ vocabulary mastery.","PeriodicalId":300659,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet: Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"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":"125543626","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’ content words vocabulary through songs at SMP Negeri 4 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Melita Fisilia Olani, Ari Nurweni, Ujang Suparman","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v10.i4.202111","url":null,"abstract":"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","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":"132759960","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}
Novita Nurdiana, G. E. Putrawan, Rafista Deviyanti, K. Nisa
{"title":"Student's perception of the TOEFL preparation course proposal team","authors":"Novita Nurdiana, G. E. Putrawan, Rafista Deviyanti, K. Nisa","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11.i1.202288","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to explore students'' perceptions about the TOEFL preparation class that has been held by the Language Center of the University of Lampung within a year, which later the results of this research can be used as material for future evaluations towards achieving better quality. This research is a type of qualitative research. In addition, observations and questionnaires will also be distributed to support interviews so that the data obtained are more valid. The subjects in this study were 11 students from various faculties who took the TOEFL class preparation course. Qualitative data related to student perceptions will be analyzed manually based on Descriptive and In-Vivo coding. As a result, from what the participants knew about the TOEFL class is they know it very well. The facilities provided are still lacking, the material provided was well packaged and quite easy to understand, the method used was still too simple and unattractive, the study schedule could be better arranged and learning could start on time. In this study, there were 5 students from various faculties who were involved as participants. Each of the students and students were interviewed. The questions asked cover several topics, namely what they know about the TOEFL class at the Lampung University language lab, the facilities provided, the material being taught, the teaching techniques used and the time management applied.","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":"133318461","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}