{"title":"Group Discussion As a Technique for teaching speaking for the tenth grade students in MAN Pinrang","authors":"E. Purwanti, Stai Ddi Pinrang","doi":"10.52622/joal.v2i1.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v2i1.46","url":null,"abstract":"Discussion is one of alternatives technique to help students to formulate their ideas and learn to communicate to the others. The group discussion could be a technique which might be worthy for students, because group discussion is a way where the students have opportunity to express their thinkings to discuss a certain subject, and share information. They can propose arguments, agreements, or disagreements to a topic, and they can also interchange their ideas, feelings, and experiences, and it gives students chances to speak. In this study is aimed to find out the effectiveness group discussion technique for teaching speaking for the tenth grade students in MAN Pinrang in Academic Year 2018/2019. This study was conducted at MAN Pinrang from July 17th, 2018 to August 7th, 2018. The population of this study was the whole tenth grade students which consist of 280 students, whereas the sample was 64 students which were chosen by random sampling technique. In collecting the data, the writer used oral test to measure the students speaking skill and it is administered twice, namely pre-test and post-test, then the data was analyzed by using SPSS. From the descriptive analysis, it was known that before the treatment the ability of both groups was relatively the same. The two group homogenous, before the treatment began because there was only a slight difference in result between the experimental group and control group. After receiving the different treatments, the result of the experimental group was better than of control group. Based on the statistical analysis, in can be seen that sig (2 tailed) 0,001 < 0,005 it means that there is a development after treated to the students’ speaking ability. From the result above, it can inferred that the group discussion as a technique for teaching speaking for the tenth grade students in MAN Pinrang in academic year 2018/2019 were effective.\u0000Key Words: group discussion, technique, students, speaking ability.","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84803189","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":"Use of Macromedia Flash Player as Media in Enhancing Students’ Writing Ability in the 1st Year Students of SMAN 1 Pinrang","authors":"Khaeril Amri","doi":"10.52622/joal.v2i1.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v2i1.47","url":null,"abstract":"This research was about the use of flash player as media in enhancing students’ writing ability in descriptive text at the 1st year students of SMAN 1 Pinrang. The principle problem was only one that was “To what extend does flash player as media enhance the students’ writing ability in writing descriptive text at the first year students of SMAN 1 Pinrang?” The objective of the research is “to find out the enhancement of the students’ writing ability in writing descriptive text”.The research was quasi Experimental Design using “Nonequivalent Control Group Design. The population of this research was the 1st year students of SMAN 1`Pinrang which consisted 270 students. The samples were taken by using cluster samping. The researcher took two classes randomly as the sample. It involved 60 students with X.2 consisted 30 students as experiment class and X.4 consisted 30 students as control class. In experiment class, the total mean score of post-test was 70.06 was greater than the total mean score in control class was 62.96. From the t-test, the researcher found that the value of t-test in post-test was greater than t-table (3.22 > 2.021). Based on the finding and discussion of the research, the researcher drew a conclusion that the use of flash player as media is effective to enhance the students writing ability in descriptive text at the first year students of SMAN 1 Pinrang.\u0000Keywords: Teaching writing, Macromedia flash player, Students writing ability","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89100623","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":"Android Based Educational Game in Learning and Teaching English Vocabulary","authors":"Insani Nurchintyawati, S.Pd.,M.Pd","doi":"10.52622/joal.v2i1.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v2i1.44","url":null,"abstract":"Vocabulary learning is often perceived as boring by learners, especially for those who grew up in the digital era. The use of online games in vocabulary learning and teaching can be one solution to solve this problem. Android is the current world-famous software nowadays. It is believed to help teachers in delivering knowledge effectively and efficiently. Therefore, this paper aims to illustrate the effectiveness of Android-based educational games to enhance the ability of learners in learning English vocabulary. The discussion includes overview about vocabulary, games, ICT tools in EFL classroom, and the use of educational games from Android (App Inventor) can improve students' English competence in learning vocabulary. Therefore, this paper will be explained about the use of Android-based educational games as one of the fun alternative teaching innovations to support creative teachers and students. And hopefully it can be useful and meaningful reference and information for the reader about the use of android based educational game in learning and teaching English Vocabulary. \u0000Keywords: Android based educational game, vocabulary, ICT tool.","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81878356","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 Using Sequence Picture Media in Teaching EFL Students in Writing Procedure Text","authors":"Jonris Tampubolon, Edi Suprayetno","doi":"10.52622/joal.v2i1.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v2i1.48","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching EFL students are both challenging and demanding as English is neither the students’ mother tongue nor their second language. Therefore, it is essentially required to select an effective way or technique in achieving the objectives of the lesson. This study was aimed to investigate the use of sequence picture technique and its effectiveness in teaching EFL students how to write a procedure text. This study was conducted by using quantitative research with one group pretest-posttest design at Universitas Prima Indonesia. The steps involve administering pretest measuring the dependent variable, applying the experimental treatment X to the subjects; and administering a posttest again measuring the dependent variable. There were 40 students taken as the subject of the study. The data were collected through a pretest and a posttest. The result on this study showed that the students’ responses and performances were improved. It can be seen from the finding which showed that students’ percentage in using the language components such as grammar, sequence words, commands or imperative sentences, and adverbial phrases accurately. The result of the questionnaire also showed that the students considered sequence picture technique was effective in helping them write procedure text correctly. \u0000Key Words: EFL Students, Procedure Text, Sequence Picture Media","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"2021 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87952924","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 ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN PODCAST RUANG SANDI VIDEOS BY SANDIAGA UNO","authors":"Risa Dui Sitorus, Rotua Elfrida","doi":"10.52622/joal.v2i1.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v2i1.58","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to find the types of illocutionary acts and the most dominant types of illocutionary acts of illocutionary used by Sandiaga Uno. The source of data of this study was taken from 4 videos that uploaded in Youtube Channel Podcast Ruang Sandi from March-April 2021. And this study only focuses on the illocutionary acts used by Sandiaga Uno. The writer uses a qualitative descriptive method to describe the illocutionary acts by using the theory proposed by Searle in Rahayu (2018:177). After analyzing, the writer found 5 types of illocutionary acts used by Sandiaga Uno in the 4 videos, namely Assertives 33,8%, Directives 29,5%, Commisives 8,4%, Expressives 21,1%, Declaratives 7,04%. Based on the percentage, the most dominant used or the most frequently appeared is Assertives 33,8%. And the types of illocutionary acts assertives used by Sandiaga Uno to informing, describing, and asking to do something and telling the truth about something.\u0000Keywords : Pragmatics, Illocutionary Acts, Sandiaga Uno","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83995881","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":"Correlation between Emotional Intelligence and English Achievement of the 2015/2016 Fifth Semester English Literature Students of UIN Alauddin Makassar of UIN","authors":"Aswinda Darwis","doi":"10.52622/joal.v2i1.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v2i1.45","url":null,"abstract":"This research is intended to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and English achievement of the fifth semester students of English literature department of UIN Alauddin Makassar and to explore how the high, moderate, and low achiever students learn and engage in English. In conducting the research, the researcher used mixed method in which both quantitative and qualitative approach were applied. Emotional intelligence questionnaire by Goleman was administered to 33 students and their scores were correlated to their English achievement (GPA) by using Pearson correlation coefficient. Observation and interview were carried out to get more detailed information about how the high, moderate, and low achiever students learn and engage in English. The result revealed that there was significant correlation between emotional intelligence and English achievement of both the high and moderate achiever of the fifth semester students of English literature department of UIN Alauddin Makassar. While for the low achievers there was not significant correlation. In addition, the high, moderate, and low achiever students were different in learning and engaging in English.\u0000Key Words : Correlational Research, Emotional Intelligence, English Achievement","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85245661","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 Relevancy of Teaching Method in Teaching Reading Comprehension with Syllabus and Lesson Plan A Case Study in Junior High Schools in Perbaungan.","authors":"Menry Tampubolon Tampubolon","doi":"10.52622/joal.v1i1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v1i1.34","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to describe the relevancy of teaching method in teaching Reading Comprehension with Syllabus and Lesson Plan in Junior High Schools in Perbaungan. The relevance that used is the relevance of an assumption to a context. The subjects of this study are the five English teachers of four Junior high Schools in Perbaungan. The instruments for collecting data used are : observations, treatment and the method of this study is qualitative research method. The data was taken after giving treatment. After conducting the research, it was found that two teachers used KWL Method in teaching Recount text, one teacher used PORPE Method in teaching Narrative text and they applied their teaching methods in teaching learning process in teaching Reading Comprehension are relevance with Lesson Plan and Syllabus result the students’ achievement in reading comprehension is high and above KKM ( Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal / Minimal Completeness Criteria), one teacher applied his teaching method in teaching learning process in teaching Reading Comprehension is not relevance with Lesson Plan and Syllabus and one teacher did not apply a teaching method in teaching learning process in teaching Reading Comprehension.\u0000Key words : Relevancy, Teaching Method in Teaching Reading Comprehension, Syllabus, Lesson Plan.","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82736681","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 Students’ Ability in Expressing Gratitudeand Appreciation by Using Think Pair Share Strategy at Sixth Grade Students of SD Yabes School Medan","authors":"Marice Saragih, Jonris Tampubolon","doi":"10.52622/joal.v1i1.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v1i1.38","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this research are to find out the students ability in expressing gratitude and appreciation by using Think-Pair-Share Strategy and to find out the achievement levels of the students ability in expressing gratitude and appreciation by using think pair share strategy at the sixth grade students of SD Yabes School. The good teacher is able to find the good strategy in the teaching and learning process so that the students will interest to study English. One of strategy used in teaching speaking ability in express gratitude and appreciation is Think-Pair-Share Strategy. The population of this study was all of the sixth grade students of SD Yabes School which consist of 30 students, all the population used as the sample so that the sample consist of 30 students.This study use quantitative research using an experimental design and control design, the examiner intentionally revised appearance of the difference and then it was examined how the result was. This research required two groups of student namely experimental group and control group. experimental group was treated with Think-Pair-Share Strategy during speaking. where as control group was treated without Think-Pair-Share. From the total score pre test of the experimental class (1.600) and the total score pre test of the control class (1.360) can be concluded that the achievement of both group was the same. After getting the treatment (Thik-Pair-Share), the total score post-test of the experimental (2.337) was higher than the total score post-test of the control class (1.686) which did not get the treatment. It can be said that teaching Think-Pair-Share gave positive effect on the students, speaking achievement in expressing gratitude and appreciation\u0000Key Words : Gratitude and Appreciation, Think-Pair-Share Strategy","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"92 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72371284","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 Deaf Students’ in Writing English Text by Using Recount Text","authors":"Sri Ninta Tarigan","doi":"10.52622/joal.v1i1.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v1i1.35","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of this study is how Recount Text application in writing English text was and what the obstacle was. The purpose of this research is to find how Recount Text application in writing in English was and to find out what the obstacles was. The method used in this research was qualitative method in the form of case studies. The population was students of SLB Taman Pendidikan Islam. The number of students consists of 7 students and the whole will be sampled in the study. The conclusion of this research was found that recount text need more practice. It means that the application of recount text was not implicate well in Extraordinary School (SLB) Taman Perguruan Islam Medan. Teacher should be given many vocabularies. Vocabularies were the important things in writing text. How students able write well if they did not have vocabulary references. The solution of this problem was deaf students should be given short story so they can not only enjoy the story but also have many vocabulary references. The location of this research was in the Disable School (SLB) ABC Taman Pendidikan Islam (TPI) which was located at Jl. Sm. Raja Km. 7 no.5 Harjosari Medan. The conclusion of this research was found that recount text need more practice. It means that the application of recount text was not implicate well in Extraordinary School (SLB) Taman Perguruan Islam Medan.\u0000Keywords: writing achievement, recount text, kids with special needs","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80847675","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 Effect of Using Reading Short Story in Students’ Vocabulary Mastery at SMP HKBP Pajak Baru Belawan","authors":"Melly Stevani Aritonang, Sondang Manik","doi":"10.52622/joal.v1i1.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/joal.v1i1.37","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed to answer the question about the implementation of short story technique whether it can enrich the students’ English vocabulary at Class VIII SMP HKBP PAJAK BARU BELAWAN or not, This is an experimental research. the writer tested the null hypothesis (Ho) which stated that the use of short story cannot enrich the students’ English vocabulary at Class VIII,.The text that used for short story technique in this reseacrh was monologue text (a text that displays story teller) this research focused on narrative text (imaginative experiences) particularly, narrative text was related to the syllabus of the second semester for second grade of junior high school. After the Pretest, Treatment and Post test, there is a significant difference of mean score got both of experimental group (75.25) and the control group (72,75). T-observe > T – table ( P = 0,05) df (38), or 4,46 > 1,686 (P = 0,05). It means that alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Thus it can be conclude that by using Reading Short Story affects the students’ vocabulary masterthat there is a significant effect of Reading Short Story in students’ vocabulary mastery. In other words, alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected\u0000Keywords: implementation of short story technique,reading short story","PeriodicalId":31863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Linguistics","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90054883","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}