Journal of Asian multicultural research for educational study, Feb 13, 2024
This research aimed to find out the types of students' learning styles, to investigate the approp... more This research aimed to find out the types of students' learning styles, to investigate the appropriateness of teaching material with students' learning styles and to find out the influence of teacher's learning material and students' learning styles to stuents' speaking skills. This research used Quantitative Descriptive. The data were obtained by using questionnaires, observation checklist and test. The subjects of this research were 30 students who studied in the Seventh Grade of SMP Pesantren IMMIM Makassar, selected by using a Random Sampling Technique.The findings of this research revealed that the types of students' learning styles were kinesthetic, (16 students 53%), auditory, (12 students 40%) and visual, (2 students 7%), As for the appropriateness of teaching material, it was not appropriate because the teacher used learning material for visual (4 items out of 7 items 57%), audio (3 items out of 6 items 50%), and kinesthetic (2 items out of 4 items 50%). Moreover, students' learning styles and teacher's learning material has significance influence toward speaking skill (Ftest 18.9> Ftable 3.09). Students' learning styles has significance influence towards speaking skill (Ttest > Ttable2.343) and teacher's learning material has no significance influence toward students' speaking skills (Ttest 0.808<Ttable2.343). Therefore, it can be concluded that the students' learning styles were mostly kinesthetic and auditory. The learning material used by the teacher was not appropriate because the teacher's learning material was mostly visual.
Ideas: Journal on English Language and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, Jun 10, 2022
This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers' feedbacks on the students' grammatical errors in t... more This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers' feedbacks on the students' grammatical errors in the students' descriptive text; (2) The students' responses towards the teachers' grammatical feedbacks in their descriptive text. The research design is Descriptive Qualitative Research conducted at SMP 1 Ma'rang Pangkep. The subject of research was three English teachers and thirty students who were selected by Purposive Sampling Technique. The instrument of data collected were teachers' corrective feedback and the student's response from the descriptive text. The result of the research showed that corrective feedback on the students' grammatical errors in descriptive texts was more dominant in syntax errors, in this case mis formation errors. These errors occurred because of student's mother tongue interference. The students still confused to choose the right word in a sentence because of the lack of knowledge or poor vocabularies and its used. Besides that, some students tried to translate the words one by one from Indonesian language into English without paying attention to the English structure rules. Students' response by imitating the teacher's corrective feedback. Because they were aware that the parts which were given feedback were incorrect and they agreed with the correction suggested by the teacher. Thus, they directly imitated the corrections and did not change any other parts. And a few students ignore.
Universal Journal of Educational Research, Dec 1, 2020
Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in compre... more Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in comprehending the reading texts, including their formal and content schemata. Therefore, this study aims to know the influence of these schemata especially the formal schemata, grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, in reading comprehension and further determine the dominant influence between grammatical and vocabulary knowledge. Samples of 40 EFL sixth semester students of Makassar Muhammadiyah University were selected by using the Simple Random Sampling Technique. The researcher obtained the data through proficiency tests of grammar and vocabulary and reading comprehension tests. The use of regression and correlation analysis is to analyze the collected data. The results indicated that the students' grammatical and vocabulary knowledge influence their reading comprehension significantly. Moreover, their grammatical schemata are more dominant than their vocabulary knowledge, showing the new aspect of this study from the latest research, i.e., the study of [6]. The result described that the schemata about grammar play a significant role in the EFL students' comprehension processing. The correlation analysis showed that the better grammatical competence students have, the better comprehension they do. Their understanding depended more on their competence about tenses (syntactic knowledge) than on their vocabulary knowledge. The contribution of this study is to give a new perspective about grammar and vocabulary schema in the EFL students using as cognitive structures in understanding English reading texts. It may also support developing a method that helps students use their linguistic knowledge to activate their background knowledge appropriately in understanding the different English reading texts.
International journal of English language studies, Mar 2, 2023
The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the implem... more The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the implementation of Project-based Learning in Writing Activities. Project-Based Learning is an instructional model aiming to focus learners on complex issues that need to be investigated and comprehended the subject matter through investigation. The research method used was the Qualitative Method with descriptive analysis. The data were obtained using two kinds of instruments. An open-ended Questionnaire is used to know teachers' perceptions toward Project-based Learning. In contrast, an observation checklist is used to know the implementation of Project-based Learning applied by the teacher in writing activities. The descriptive analysis found that the teacher's perspective toward Project-based Learning in the teaching and learning process was positive. The teachers most agreed that PjBL assists teachers in maintaining classroom discipline and a pleasant atmosphere, and PjBL can improve students' discipline towards assignment deadlines. Conversely, teachers were skeptical that Project-based Learning could strengthen student-teacher relationships, considering that the teacher's role in Project-based Learning is "only" a facilitator. Other findings revealed that the teachers' implementation of PjBL in writing activities still does not adhere to PjBL syntax, mainly in designing a plan for the project and evaluation stages. Therefore, it suggested that teachers be aware of their role in implementing Project-based Learning to ensure the objectives of the Projcet-based Learning models are adequately met.
Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Nov 15, 2013
This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students' ability in translating Englis... more This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students' ability in translating English into Indonesian specially for Recount text in terms of the meaning and style of the original text. The researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) to explain the improvement, which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken at the second year of Junior High School 2 Sungguminasa with the number of the subject i.e. 36 students. The research findings indicate that the application of Duff's Principles is significant in improving the students' translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text. It is proved by the mean score of cycle I is 60.27 then improved to be 72.49 in cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 56.45. It means that there is the improvement of the students' translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text.
International Journal of English Learning and Applied Linguistics (IJELAL)
The research aimed at finding out whether or not (1) there was a significant effect between socio... more The research aimed at finding out whether or not (1) there was a significant effect between socioeconomic status on students’ speaking skill, and (2) there was a significant effect between motivation on students’ speaking skill at second semester of English Department Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar. The research method was Descriptive Quantitative Research. The data collected through questionnaires (to obtained students’ socioeconomic status and motivation) and lecturer's document (to obtained students’ speaking score). From the population of 61 students in Academic Year 2021/2022, the researcher chose 30 students as sample by using random sampling techniques. The data analyzed by using Multiple Liniear Regression Analysis in SPSS. The result of data analysis, it found 1) based on T-test, the results of socioeconomic status on students’ speaking skill were T-test 1.456 > T-table 1.703, indicating there was no significant effect of socioeconomic status on students’ speaking...
International Journal of English Learning and Applied Linguistics (IJELAL)
The research aimed to find out how students’ perception and its’ influence toward students’ speak... more The research aimed to find out how students’ perception and its’ influence toward students’ speaking performance. There were two types of perception recorded, namely self-perception and exteroception. Self-perception is a perception that is formed based on internal factors or from within , while exteroception is a perception that is formed based on external factors or from outside of a person . The research methodology used was quantitative research. The data obtained using two instruments, namely close-ended questionnaire and students’ speaking performance score. The data were analysed through Multiple Linear Regression Analysis . The results of data analysis from 46 samples found that 1) Students’ self-perception (72.09) and exteroception (67.85) categorized as good perception, 2) Simultaneously, self-perception and exteroception has significance influence toward speaking performance (F-test 8.73 > F-table 4.07). 3) Self-perception has significance influence toward speaking ...
This research aims to find out whether Duolingo Application can improve the vocabulary of the st... more This research aims to find out whether Duolingo Application can improve the vocabulary of the students especially in verb (transitive and intransitive verbs) in Second Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Kelara. The researcher applied Pre-Experimental Method by using one group pre-test and post-test design and collected data by giving pre-test and post-test. The sample for this research was Class VIII.3 of SMP Negeri 1 Kelara that consisted of 18 students. The sample was taken by using Purposive Sampling Technique and the data was analyzed by using IBM SPSS statistics version 26. Based on the research findings, the improvement of students' vocabulary by using the Duolingo Application in second grade of SMP Negeri 1 Kelara was good, because before using the Duolingo application the average score of students was 27.22, but after the students used the Duolingo application, the average score of students increased to 76.78. This significant improvement occurred because the Duolingo Application g...
Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, May 12, 2017
This research aims to find the improvement of the students' reading in literal comprehension espe... more 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 purpose of this research is to find out the validity of National Examination’s item 2019 in E... more The purpose of this research is to find out the validity of National Examination’s item 2019 in English Subject in reading skill in SMA Negeri Matakali, KabupatenPolewali Mandar.The research used descriptive quantitative method. The subject of this research is English teacher at SMA NegeriMatakali, Lesson plan of English, Curriculum 2013 and National examination’s document in English subject 2019. The data of the research was taken by using document analysis and interview. The result of this research showed 11 of 50 question’s item in National examination in English subject 2019 are in line with English materials which are taught in SMA Class XII at first semester. It means 22% from the total number of National Examination.
The research aims to ‘The Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Students Problem in Speaking English a... more The research aims to ‘The Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Students Problem in Speaking English at Third Semester of Fkip Muhammadiyah Makassar University in the Academic Year Of 2020/2021. In this research, the researcher used the Qualitative research method. The researcher used Purposive Sampling technique to determine the sample. The researcher chose the third semester as sample that consisted of 30 students. In collecting data, the researcher used observation and interview. Based on the result of the research, the researcher found that the psychological problems of the students were fear of making mistakes, lack of confidence, nervous of facing new guy(anxiety), and factors caused the problems were bad pronunciation, low vocabulary, worry of people think, fear of judging. Those result were proved the previous related studies which Fitriani et al (2005), Xinghua (2007) claimed that students’ psychological problems were fear of making, lack of confidence and anxiety, which caused ...
The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the im... more The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the implementation of Project-based Learning in Writing Activities. Project-Based Learning is an instructional model aiming to focus learners on complex issues that need to be investigated and comprehended the subject matter through investigation. The research method used was the Qualitative Method with descriptive analysis. The data were obtained using two kinds of instruments. An open-ended Questionnaire is used to know teachers' perceptions toward Project-based Learning. In contrast, an observation checklist is used to know the implementation of Project-based Learning applied by the teacher in writing activities. The descriptive analysis found that the teacher's perspective toward Project-based Learning in the teaching and learning process was positive. The teachers most agreed that PjBL assists teachers in maintaining classroom discipline and a pleasant atmosphere, and PjBL can imp...
This study aims at finding out the students’ grammatical competence in speaking skills especially... more This study aims at finding out the students’ grammatical competence in speaking skills especially in the use of simple present tense at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Makassar. The method of this research was Descriptive Quantitative Method. Data of the research were collected through speaking test. The sample of this research was class XI IPA 3 from SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Makassar. The sample was taken by using Purposive Sampling Technique.Based on the results of the research, it was found that the students’ grammar competence in speaking skill in of XI IPA of SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Makassar is categorized into poor level. It was found that the students are difficult to form the sentence well and to arrange correct sentence when speaking. It was based on the result of test given dealing with the classification of students’ score.
The objective of this research is to describe the learning strategies used by male and female stu... more The objective of this research is to describe the learning strategies used by male and female students in mastering English vocabulary at MTS Ma’ Arif Banyorang. This Research used a qualitative descriptive. The population in this study is Seventh Grade Students of MTS Ma’ Arif Banyorang. In this research used purposive Sampling Technique in determining the sample. So, the total sample is 15 students. The Instrument of the research is interview with in-depth interview in order to elicit detailed information for the objective of the research. The results of the research shows that the vocabulary learning strategies for male, the strategies are (1) Watching movies, (2) Listening to music, Podcasts, YouTube, (3) Playing game. Meanwhile, the vocabulary learning strategies for female are (1) Memorizing, (2) Reading books, journals, articles, (3) Practicing speaking alone by the mirror, (4) Grouping Discussion. Bases on the findings the conclusion of the research is Male and Female stude...
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers’ feedbacks on the students’ grammatical err... more This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers’ feedbacks on the students’ grammatical errors in the students’ descriptive text; (2) The students’ responses towards the teachers’ grammatical feedbacks in their descriptive text. The research design is Descriptive Qualitative Research conducted at SMP 1 Ma’rang Pangkep. The subject of research was three English teachers and thirty students who were selected by Purposive Sampling Technique. The instrument of data collected were teachers’ corrective feedback and the student’s response from the descriptive text. The result of the research showed that corrective feedback on the students’ grammatical errors in descriptive texts was more dominant in syntax errors, in this case mis formation errors. These errors occurred because of student’s mother tongue interference. The students still confused to choose the right word in a sentence because of the lack of knowledge or poor vocabularies and its used. Besides that, some students t...
EXPOSURE : JURNAL PENDIDIKAN BAHASA DAN SASTRA INGGRIS, 2018
This research aims to find the improvement of the students’ reading in literal comprehension espe... more 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 wa...
Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in compre... more Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in comprehending the reading texts, including their formal and content schemata. Therefore, this study aims to know the influence of these schemata especially the formal schemata, grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, in reading comprehension and further determine the dominant influence between grammatical and vocabulary knowledge. Samples of 40 EFL sixth semester students of Makassar Muhammadiyah University were selected by using the Simple Random Sampling Technique. The researcher obtained the data through proficiency tests of grammar and vocabulary and reading comprehension tests. The use of regression and correlation analysis is to analyze the collected data. The results indicated that the students' grammatical and vocabulary knowledge influence their reading comprehension significantly. Moreover, their grammatical schemata are more dominant than their vocabulary knowledge, showing the new aspect of this study from the latest research, i.e., the study of . The result described that the schemata about grammar play a significant role in the EFL students' comprehension processing. The correlation analysis showed that the better grammatical competence students have, the better comprehension they do. Their understanding depended more on their competence about tenses (syntactic knowledge) than on their vocabulary knowledge. The contribution of this study is to give a new perspective about grammar and vocabulary schema in the EFL students using as cognitive structures in understanding English reading texts. It may also support developing a method that helps students use their linguistic knowledge to activate their background knowledge appropriately in understanding the different English reading texts.
EXPOSURE : JURNAL PENDIDIKAN BAHASA DAN SASTRA INGGRIS, May 19, 2014
This research aimed to identify the kinds of error in the use of Past Tense in writing recount te... more This research aimed to identify the kinds of error in the use of Past Tense in writing recount text and the dominant error made by the Second Year Students of SMP Unismuh Makassar. This research is Case Study Research. The research was conducted in SMP Unismuh Makassar. The population was the Second Year Students in Academic Year 2013-2014. The researcher took Class B1 which consist of 19 students.The instrument used was writing test. Writing test was used to find out the kinds of errors made by the students in writing recount text. By using this instrument, the researcher analyzed detail informations about the errors in the use of Past Tense in writing recount text. The students errors were classified into four categories based on the kinds of error. Those are error of omition with 12 errors, error of addition with 31 errors, error of misformation with 166 errors, and error of misordering with 5 errors. The students made the dominant error in misformation category. It can be seen from the percentage result where misformation were 77,57%, then followed error of addition were 14,48%, error of omition were 5,61%, and misordering were only 2,34%. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the Second Year Students(Class B1) of SMP Unismuh Makassar had many errors in writing recount text. The students should be given intensive exercises in the use of Past Tense in writing recount text. It is quite necessary for the Second Year Students and the English Teacher of SMP Unismuh Makassar to be informed about the result of this research, so they can improve their teaching learning process.
Script Journal: Journal of Linguistic and English Teaching, Apr 25, 2017
Reading skill is one of the four main language skills taught in the classes of the English Depart... more Reading skill is one of the four main language skills taught in the classes of the English Department of Faculty of Education of Islamic University of Malang (FKIP Unisma). As the result of teaching reading had not achieved satisfactory result, the researcher conducted a study to find out how texts structure tasks can improve the students' reading comprehension. This research was using a classroom action research. It comprised four phases: planning, implementation, observation and reflection, those were adopted from Kemmis and Taggart's action research model (1988). The subjects of the study were the four semester students of the English Department of FKIP Unisma in 2006 academic year. In the procedures and implementation process, one cycle consisting of four actions was done. The instruments used in the study were observation sheets and test. The observation sheets were made two forms. One form of observation sheets was to observe the teacher in implementing the action and the other observation sheets were used to observe the students' activities or reaction to the teachers' activities during the learning-teaching process. The second instrument used was a test.The test result showed that the students' mean score was 75.88 and the lowest score the students obtained was 65. The researcher decided that no more cycle was needed for the study had met the criteria of success. The action was considered successful if the students' mean score reached 75 or under the category of B+, and the lowest score the student obtain was not less than 65.00.
This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students’ ability in translating Engli... more This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students’ ability in translating English into Indonesian especially for Recount text in terms of the meaning and style of the original text. The researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) to explain the improvement, which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken in the second year of Junior High School 2 Sungguminasa with the number of the subject i.e. 36 students. The research findings indicate that the application of Duff’s Principles is significant in improving the students’ translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text. It is proved by the mean score of the cycle I is 60.27 then improved to be 72.49 in cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 56.45. It means that there is the improvement of the students’ translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text. Keyword: ...
Journal of Asian multicultural research for educational study, Feb 13, 2024
This research aimed to find out the types of students' learning styles, to investigate the approp... more This research aimed to find out the types of students' learning styles, to investigate the appropriateness of teaching material with students' learning styles and to find out the influence of teacher's learning material and students' learning styles to stuents' speaking skills. This research used Quantitative Descriptive. The data were obtained by using questionnaires, observation checklist and test. The subjects of this research were 30 students who studied in the Seventh Grade of SMP Pesantren IMMIM Makassar, selected by using a Random Sampling Technique.The findings of this research revealed that the types of students' learning styles were kinesthetic, (16 students 53%), auditory, (12 students 40%) and visual, (2 students 7%), As for the appropriateness of teaching material, it was not appropriate because the teacher used learning material for visual (4 items out of 7 items 57%), audio (3 items out of 6 items 50%), and kinesthetic (2 items out of 4 items 50%). Moreover, students' learning styles and teacher's learning material has significance influence toward speaking skill (Ftest 18.9> Ftable 3.09). Students' learning styles has significance influence towards speaking skill (Ttest > Ttable2.343) and teacher's learning material has no significance influence toward students' speaking skills (Ttest 0.808<Ttable2.343). Therefore, it can be concluded that the students' learning styles were mostly kinesthetic and auditory. The learning material used by the teacher was not appropriate because the teacher's learning material was mostly visual.
Ideas: Journal on English Language and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, Jun 10, 2022
This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers' feedbacks on the students' grammatical errors in t... more This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers' feedbacks on the students' grammatical errors in the students' descriptive text; (2) The students' responses towards the teachers' grammatical feedbacks in their descriptive text. The research design is Descriptive Qualitative Research conducted at SMP 1 Ma'rang Pangkep. The subject of research was three English teachers and thirty students who were selected by Purposive Sampling Technique. The instrument of data collected were teachers' corrective feedback and the student's response from the descriptive text. The result of the research showed that corrective feedback on the students' grammatical errors in descriptive texts was more dominant in syntax errors, in this case mis formation errors. These errors occurred because of student's mother tongue interference. The students still confused to choose the right word in a sentence because of the lack of knowledge or poor vocabularies and its used. Besides that, some students tried to translate the words one by one from Indonesian language into English without paying attention to the English structure rules. Students' response by imitating the teacher's corrective feedback. Because they were aware that the parts which were given feedback were incorrect and they agreed with the correction suggested by the teacher. Thus, they directly imitated the corrections and did not change any other parts. And a few students ignore.
Universal Journal of Educational Research, Dec 1, 2020
Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in compre... more Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in comprehending the reading texts, including their formal and content schemata. Therefore, this study aims to know the influence of these schemata especially the formal schemata, grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, in reading comprehension and further determine the dominant influence between grammatical and vocabulary knowledge. Samples of 40 EFL sixth semester students of Makassar Muhammadiyah University were selected by using the Simple Random Sampling Technique. The researcher obtained the data through proficiency tests of grammar and vocabulary and reading comprehension tests. The use of regression and correlation analysis is to analyze the collected data. The results indicated that the students' grammatical and vocabulary knowledge influence their reading comprehension significantly. Moreover, their grammatical schemata are more dominant than their vocabulary knowledge, showing the new aspect of this study from the latest research, i.e., the study of [6]. The result described that the schemata about grammar play a significant role in the EFL students' comprehension processing. The correlation analysis showed that the better grammatical competence students have, the better comprehension they do. Their understanding depended more on their competence about tenses (syntactic knowledge) than on their vocabulary knowledge. The contribution of this study is to give a new perspective about grammar and vocabulary schema in the EFL students using as cognitive structures in understanding English reading texts. It may also support developing a method that helps students use their linguistic knowledge to activate their background knowledge appropriately in understanding the different English reading texts.
International journal of English language studies, Mar 2, 2023
The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the implem... more The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the implementation of Project-based Learning in Writing Activities. Project-Based Learning is an instructional model aiming to focus learners on complex issues that need to be investigated and comprehended the subject matter through investigation. The research method used was the Qualitative Method with descriptive analysis. The data were obtained using two kinds of instruments. An open-ended Questionnaire is used to know teachers' perceptions toward Project-based Learning. In contrast, an observation checklist is used to know the implementation of Project-based Learning applied by the teacher in writing activities. The descriptive analysis found that the teacher's perspective toward Project-based Learning in the teaching and learning process was positive. The teachers most agreed that PjBL assists teachers in maintaining classroom discipline and a pleasant atmosphere, and PjBL can improve students' discipline towards assignment deadlines. Conversely, teachers were skeptical that Project-based Learning could strengthen student-teacher relationships, considering that the teacher's role in Project-based Learning is "only" a facilitator. Other findings revealed that the teachers' implementation of PjBL in writing activities still does not adhere to PjBL syntax, mainly in designing a plan for the project and evaluation stages. Therefore, it suggested that teachers be aware of their role in implementing Project-based Learning to ensure the objectives of the Projcet-based Learning models are adequately met.
Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Nov 15, 2013
This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students' ability in translating Englis... more This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students' ability in translating English into Indonesian specially for Recount text in terms of the meaning and style of the original text. The researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) to explain the improvement, which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken at the second year of Junior High School 2 Sungguminasa with the number of the subject i.e. 36 students. The research findings indicate that the application of Duff's Principles is significant in improving the students' translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text. It is proved by the mean score of cycle I is 60.27 then improved to be 72.49 in cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 56.45. It means that there is the improvement of the students' translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text.
International Journal of English Learning and Applied Linguistics (IJELAL)
The research aimed at finding out whether or not (1) there was a significant effect between socio... more The research aimed at finding out whether or not (1) there was a significant effect between socioeconomic status on students’ speaking skill, and (2) there was a significant effect between motivation on students’ speaking skill at second semester of English Department Universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar. The research method was Descriptive Quantitative Research. The data collected through questionnaires (to obtained students’ socioeconomic status and motivation) and lecturer's document (to obtained students’ speaking score). From the population of 61 students in Academic Year 2021/2022, the researcher chose 30 students as sample by using random sampling techniques. The data analyzed by using Multiple Liniear Regression Analysis in SPSS. The result of data analysis, it found 1) based on T-test, the results of socioeconomic status on students’ speaking skill were T-test 1.456 > T-table 1.703, indicating there was no significant effect of socioeconomic status on students’ speaking...
International Journal of English Learning and Applied Linguistics (IJELAL)
The research aimed to find out how students’ perception and its’ influence toward students’ speak... more The research aimed to find out how students’ perception and its’ influence toward students’ speaking performance. There were two types of perception recorded, namely self-perception and exteroception. Self-perception is a perception that is formed based on internal factors or from within , while exteroception is a perception that is formed based on external factors or from outside of a person . The research methodology used was quantitative research. The data obtained using two instruments, namely close-ended questionnaire and students’ speaking performance score. The data were analysed through Multiple Linear Regression Analysis . The results of data analysis from 46 samples found that 1) Students’ self-perception (72.09) and exteroception (67.85) categorized as good perception, 2) Simultaneously, self-perception and exteroception has significance influence toward speaking performance (F-test 8.73 > F-table 4.07). 3) Self-perception has significance influence toward speaking ...
This research aims to find out whether Duolingo Application can improve the vocabulary of the st... more This research aims to find out whether Duolingo Application can improve the vocabulary of the students especially in verb (transitive and intransitive verbs) in Second Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Kelara. The researcher applied Pre-Experimental Method by using one group pre-test and post-test design and collected data by giving pre-test and post-test. The sample for this research was Class VIII.3 of SMP Negeri 1 Kelara that consisted of 18 students. The sample was taken by using Purposive Sampling Technique and the data was analyzed by using IBM SPSS statistics version 26. Based on the research findings, the improvement of students' vocabulary by using the Duolingo Application in second grade of SMP Negeri 1 Kelara was good, because before using the Duolingo application the average score of students was 27.22, but after the students used the Duolingo application, the average score of students increased to 76.78. This significant improvement occurred because the Duolingo Application g...
Exposure: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, May 12, 2017
This research aims to find the improvement of the students' reading in literal comprehension espe... more 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 purpose of this research is to find out the validity of National Examination’s item 2019 in E... more The purpose of this research is to find out the validity of National Examination’s item 2019 in English Subject in reading skill in SMA Negeri Matakali, KabupatenPolewali Mandar.The research used descriptive quantitative method. The subject of this research is English teacher at SMA NegeriMatakali, Lesson plan of English, Curriculum 2013 and National examination’s document in English subject 2019. The data of the research was taken by using document analysis and interview. The result of this research showed 11 of 50 question’s item in National examination in English subject 2019 are in line with English materials which are taught in SMA Class XII at first semester. It means 22% from the total number of National Examination.
The research aims to ‘The Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Students Problem in Speaking English a... more The research aims to ‘The Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Students Problem in Speaking English at Third Semester of Fkip Muhammadiyah Makassar University in the Academic Year Of 2020/2021. In this research, the researcher used the Qualitative research method. The researcher used Purposive Sampling technique to determine the sample. The researcher chose the third semester as sample that consisted of 30 students. In collecting data, the researcher used observation and interview. Based on the result of the research, the researcher found that the psychological problems of the students were fear of making mistakes, lack of confidence, nervous of facing new guy(anxiety), and factors caused the problems were bad pronunciation, low vocabulary, worry of people think, fear of judging. Those result were proved the previous related studies which Fitriani et al (2005), Xinghua (2007) claimed that students’ psychological problems were fear of making, lack of confidence and anxiety, which caused ...
The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the im... more The research aimed to determine teachers' perception toward Project-based Learning and the implementation of Project-based Learning in Writing Activities. Project-Based Learning is an instructional model aiming to focus learners on complex issues that need to be investigated and comprehended the subject matter through investigation. The research method used was the Qualitative Method with descriptive analysis. The data were obtained using two kinds of instruments. An open-ended Questionnaire is used to know teachers' perceptions toward Project-based Learning. In contrast, an observation checklist is used to know the implementation of Project-based Learning applied by the teacher in writing activities. The descriptive analysis found that the teacher's perspective toward Project-based Learning in the teaching and learning process was positive. The teachers most agreed that PjBL assists teachers in maintaining classroom discipline and a pleasant atmosphere, and PjBL can imp...
This study aims at finding out the students’ grammatical competence in speaking skills especially... more This study aims at finding out the students’ grammatical competence in speaking skills especially in the use of simple present tense at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Makassar. The method of this research was Descriptive Quantitative Method. Data of the research were collected through speaking test. The sample of this research was class XI IPA 3 from SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Makassar. The sample was taken by using Purposive Sampling Technique.Based on the results of the research, it was found that the students’ grammar competence in speaking skill in of XI IPA of SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Makassar is categorized into poor level. It was found that the students are difficult to form the sentence well and to arrange correct sentence when speaking. It was based on the result of test given dealing with the classification of students’ score.
The objective of this research is to describe the learning strategies used by male and female stu... more The objective of this research is to describe the learning strategies used by male and female students in mastering English vocabulary at MTS Ma’ Arif Banyorang. This Research used a qualitative descriptive. The population in this study is Seventh Grade Students of MTS Ma’ Arif Banyorang. In this research used purposive Sampling Technique in determining the sample. So, the total sample is 15 students. The Instrument of the research is interview with in-depth interview in order to elicit detailed information for the objective of the research. The results of the research shows that the vocabulary learning strategies for male, the strategies are (1) Watching movies, (2) Listening to music, Podcasts, YouTube, (3) Playing game. Meanwhile, the vocabulary learning strategies for female are (1) Memorizing, (2) Reading books, journals, articles, (3) Practicing speaking alone by the mirror, (4) Grouping Discussion. Bases on the findings the conclusion of the research is Male and Female stude...
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers’ feedbacks on the students’ grammatical err... more This study aimed to find out (1) The teachers’ feedbacks on the students’ grammatical errors in the students’ descriptive text; (2) The students’ responses towards the teachers’ grammatical feedbacks in their descriptive text. The research design is Descriptive Qualitative Research conducted at SMP 1 Ma’rang Pangkep. The subject of research was three English teachers and thirty students who were selected by Purposive Sampling Technique. The instrument of data collected were teachers’ corrective feedback and the student’s response from the descriptive text. The result of the research showed that corrective feedback on the students’ grammatical errors in descriptive texts was more dominant in syntax errors, in this case mis formation errors. These errors occurred because of student’s mother tongue interference. The students still confused to choose the right word in a sentence because of the lack of knowledge or poor vocabularies and its used. Besides that, some students t...
EXPOSURE : JURNAL PENDIDIKAN BAHASA DAN SASTRA INGGRIS, 2018
This research aims to find the improvement of the students’ reading in literal comprehension espe... more 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 wa...
Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in compre... more Many studies imply that EFL students broadly use their schemata or background knowledge in comprehending the reading texts, including their formal and content schemata. Therefore, this study aims to know the influence of these schemata especially the formal schemata, grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, in reading comprehension and further determine the dominant influence between grammatical and vocabulary knowledge. Samples of 40 EFL sixth semester students of Makassar Muhammadiyah University were selected by using the Simple Random Sampling Technique. The researcher obtained the data through proficiency tests of grammar and vocabulary and reading comprehension tests. The use of regression and correlation analysis is to analyze the collected data. The results indicated that the students' grammatical and vocabulary knowledge influence their reading comprehension significantly. Moreover, their grammatical schemata are more dominant than their vocabulary knowledge, showing the new aspect of this study from the latest research, i.e., the study of . The result described that the schemata about grammar play a significant role in the EFL students' comprehension processing. The correlation analysis showed that the better grammatical competence students have, the better comprehension they do. Their understanding depended more on their competence about tenses (syntactic knowledge) than on their vocabulary knowledge. The contribution of this study is to give a new perspective about grammar and vocabulary schema in the EFL students using as cognitive structures in understanding English reading texts. It may also support developing a method that helps students use their linguistic knowledge to activate their background knowledge appropriately in understanding the different English reading texts.
EXPOSURE : JURNAL PENDIDIKAN BAHASA DAN SASTRA INGGRIS, May 19, 2014
This research aimed to identify the kinds of error in the use of Past Tense in writing recount te... more This research aimed to identify the kinds of error in the use of Past Tense in writing recount text and the dominant error made by the Second Year Students of SMP Unismuh Makassar. This research is Case Study Research. The research was conducted in SMP Unismuh Makassar. The population was the Second Year Students in Academic Year 2013-2014. The researcher took Class B1 which consist of 19 students.The instrument used was writing test. Writing test was used to find out the kinds of errors made by the students in writing recount text. By using this instrument, the researcher analyzed detail informations about the errors in the use of Past Tense in writing recount text. The students errors were classified into four categories based on the kinds of error. Those are error of omition with 12 errors, error of addition with 31 errors, error of misformation with 166 errors, and error of misordering with 5 errors. The students made the dominant error in misformation category. It can be seen from the percentage result where misformation were 77,57%, then followed error of addition were 14,48%, error of omition were 5,61%, and misordering were only 2,34%. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the Second Year Students(Class B1) of SMP Unismuh Makassar had many errors in writing recount text. The students should be given intensive exercises in the use of Past Tense in writing recount text. It is quite necessary for the Second Year Students and the English Teacher of SMP Unismuh Makassar to be informed about the result of this research, so they can improve their teaching learning process.
Script Journal: Journal of Linguistic and English Teaching, Apr 25, 2017
Reading skill is one of the four main language skills taught in the classes of the English Depart... more Reading skill is one of the four main language skills taught in the classes of the English Department of Faculty of Education of Islamic University of Malang (FKIP Unisma). As the result of teaching reading had not achieved satisfactory result, the researcher conducted a study to find out how texts structure tasks can improve the students' reading comprehension. This research was using a classroom action research. It comprised four phases: planning, implementation, observation and reflection, those were adopted from Kemmis and Taggart's action research model (1988). The subjects of the study were the four semester students of the English Department of FKIP Unisma in 2006 academic year. In the procedures and implementation process, one cycle consisting of four actions was done. The instruments used in the study were observation sheets and test. The observation sheets were made two forms. One form of observation sheets was to observe the teacher in implementing the action and the other observation sheets were used to observe the students' activities or reaction to the teachers' activities during the learning-teaching process. The second instrument used was a test.The test result showed that the students' mean score was 75.88 and the lowest score the students obtained was 65. The researcher decided that no more cycle was needed for the study had met the criteria of success. The action was considered successful if the students' mean score reached 75 or under the category of B+, and the lowest score the student obtain was not less than 65.00.
This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students’ ability in translating Engli... more This research aimed at finding out the improvement of the students’ ability in translating English into Indonesian especially for Recount text in terms of the meaning and style of the original text. The researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) to explain the improvement, which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken in the second year of Junior High School 2 Sungguminasa with the number of the subject i.e. 36 students. The research findings indicate that the application of Duff’s Principles is significant in improving the students’ translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text. It is proved by the mean score of the cycle I is 60.27 then improved to be 72.49 in cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 56.45. It means that there is the improvement of the students’ translating ability in terms of meaning and style of the original text. Keyword: ...
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