{"title":"Improving students’ reading comprehension through visualization strategy","authors":"I. G. S. Yasa, Heri Yufrizal, Novita Nurdiana","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202206","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed to improve students' reading comprehension ability through the visualization strategy, and also to investigate students’ perception toward the use of the visualization strategy. The subjects were 30 students of class VIII at SMPN 1 Seputih Raman. One group pre-test and post-test designs were used in this research. The instruments used in this research were reading comprehension tests (pre-and post-test) and questionnaires. The result of this research showed that the student's average progress score from pre-test was 52.37 and became 70,67 in post-test. After that, the Paired Sample t-test confirmed the hypothesis proposed by the researcher that there were significant differences in students' reading comprehension ability at the p<0.05, p = .000. The results of the questionnaire to answer the second research question showed that most of the students' perceptions above 70% were in the high category. Therefore, based on the result, it is concluded the student’s perceptions toward the use of visualization strategy were classified as a positive perception.","PeriodicalId":360647,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"94 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":"115712943","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":"Investigating English teacher’s teaching strategies in teaching reading comprehension","authors":"Endang Komariah, Ika Apriani Fata, Sheila Prisilia","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202208","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims at investigating types of teaching strategies used by an Englishthe teacher and analyzing how she implemented them in teaching reading comprehension in senior high school. In order to observe the teacher’s strategies and how they were being applied, this study employed qualitative design. The instruments used to collect the data were observation, interview and document. The subject was an English teacher at SMAN 11 Banda Aceh.The results of the observation indicates that teacher used partial questioning strategy, review strategy, and feedback strategy. However, the teacher did not elaborate questioning strategy in her lesson plan. The teacher mixed questioning and review strategies at the beginning of the lesson and continued with feedback at the end of the lesson.Those strategies were very useful in attracting students’ attention, boosting up their confidence and keeping them focus on the lesson if managed properly.","PeriodicalId":360647,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"83 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":"127130874","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 reading comprehension using descriptive text related to the local culture at the second grade of SMA Negeri 14 Bandar Lampung","authors":"Ni Gusti Ayu Putu Mona","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202202","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed to find out whether there is significant difference after the implementation of descriptive text related to the local culture toward students’ reading comprehension and to investigate how the students’ appraisal after the implementation. Adapting quantitative approach, this research was conducted through one group pre-test and post-test design. The result showed that there was significant difference of students’ reading comprehension after they were taught through descriptive text related to the local culture concerning the gain of their score from the first to the second test. It could be seen from the computation that the significant value of the test were lower than alpha (0.00<0.05) while the t-value (9.342) was higher than t-table (2.0322). It was also revealed that students had a positive appraisal after the implementation. It could be seen from the computation that frequency of students above 70% with range frequency (70-100%) who had a high appraisal were 25 and the frequency of students under 55% with range frequency (1-54%) who had a low appraisal were 6. Most of the students accepted the implementation of descriptive text related to the local culture. Thus, local culture can be used as reading material in teaching and learning English. The students have a good score after implementation and they also enjoyed the activities and learning process of reading that has been provided.","PeriodicalId":360647,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"40 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":"115980879","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":"Using silent demonstration to increase students’ writing in procedure text at the second grade students of SMK-SMTI Bandar Lampung","authors":"Sefira Sefriadi, Patuan Raja, Dian Shafwati","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v11i2.202204","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed to find out whether there is a significant improvement of students’ writing ability before and after being taught through Silent Demonstration. By applying quantitative approach, the researcher intended to discuss the difference of students’ procedure text writing. The researcher chose XI APL 2 at SMK-SMTI Bandar Lampung students as a sample, which the number of students reached 37 people using purposive sampling. This study employed one-group pre-test and post-test design by comparing the mean score of the tests. The result showed that the mean of post-test, which is 79.49 is higher than the mean of pre-test at 64.03. In addition, the significance of the test is 0.000 lower than 0.05. It can be also supported by the evidence that verifies the statement was the t-value which showed higher number than t-table by having the result 19.407 > 2.0281.","PeriodicalId":360647,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"19 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":"126544985","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 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH MIND MAPPING AND DIRECTED READING THINKING ACTIVITY","authors":"Ulfah Shadrina Adani, Hery Yufrizal, Feni Yufrizal","doi":"10.23960/ujet.v8.i4.201901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23960/ujet.v8.i4.201901","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed at examining: (i) the significant difference on students’ reading comprehension after being taught through Mind Mapping technique and Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) technique in narrative text and (ii) the aspects of reading skills that the highest increase. The subjects of this research were VIII B and VIII E which consisted of 28 students of SMP Negeri 25 Bandar Lampung. The data were collected by using the objective reading test in the form of multiple choices and analysed by using Independent Sample T-Test in SPSS version 16.0. The result of this research showed that there was significant difference of students’ reading comprehension after being taught through Mind Mapping technique and Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) technique since the t-value greater than t-table (3.648 > 1.674) at the significant level of 0.01. Then, main idea, vocabulary and reference were the aspects that improved better.","PeriodicalId":360647,"journal":{"name":"U-Jet Unila Journal of English Language Teaching","volume":"22 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":"115262855","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}