Abstract: The present study was aimed at investigating the correlation between students’ writing ... more Abstract: The present study was aimed at investigating the correlation between students’ writing anxiety and their writing achievement. Eighty five EFL students of English Education Study Program of FKIP at Sriwijaya University in academic year 2016/2017 were selected by using purposive sampling. The study used a quantitative research method of correlational design. The data were collected by distributing writing anxiety questionnaire and a writing test which were analyzed statistically. The results of correlational analysis showed that a fair negative significant correlation between students’ writing anxiety and their writing achievement with r obtained = -.545 and p-value -.000. Another finding from this study showed that a significant correlation between each aspect of writing anxiety to writing achievement (somatic anxiety was -.000, avoidance behaviour was -.000, and cognitive anxiey was -.000). Lastly, the contribution of writing anxiety on students’ writing achievement was ...
ENGLISH FRANCA : Academic Journal of English Language and Education, 2018
The objectives of this study were to find out (1) the completeness of the students’ comments on F... more The objectives of this study were to find out (1) the completeness of the students’ comments on Facebook, (2) the quality of the students’ comments, and (3) the percentage of how well the students identified the characters of a good paragraph. The population of this study was the fourth-semester Palembang class students of English Education Study Program 2013 of Sriwijaya University. The sample of the study was 48 students that were selected by using total sampling technique. The data were collected from the students’ comments on Facebook of Writing II class in the academic year 2015 and analyzed by using two rubrics containing scoring systems. The results showed that the completeness in giving comments on the Facebook group could be categorized into a very good category with the final score was 10. While, the quality of the comment from the students was also Good with the final score was 15.56. The percentage of how well the students identified the characters of a good paragraph wa...
The objectives of the study were to analyze whether or not there were a significant correlation a... more The objectives of the study were to analyze whether or not there were a significant correlation among English learning anxiety, speaking, and writing achievements of the eleventh graders’. The sample of the study were 112 eleventh graders’. They were selected randomly. The study used quantitative research design. The questionnaire and the writing and speaking tests were done to analyze the data. The researcher used foreign language classroom anxiety scale questionnaire to measure the students’ English learning anxiety with five-point likert scale, and speaking and writing tests were used to measure the students’ speaking and writing achievements. Pearson product moment correlation and regression were analyzed by using SPSS. The results of study were negative low correlation between English learning anxiety and speaking achievement (r=-.269 with p<0.01) and English learning anxiety and writing achievement (r=-.213 with p<0.05).
Script Journal: Journal of Linguistic and English Teaching, 2019
This study was aimed to find out whether or not (1) there is any significant correlation between... more This study was aimed to find out whether or not (1) there is any significant correlation between reading ability and reading habit, (2) There is any significant correlation between reading ability and internet use, (3) There is any significant correlation among reading ability, internet use, and reading habit of students of private junior high schools in Kecamatan Ilir Timur II Palembang. This study was a quantitative research approach with a corelational research design. The researcher collected the data through 2 instruments namely, reading test and questionnaires. A test was used to find out students’ reading ability and questionnaires were used to find out students’ reading habits and internet use. The population of this study was 803 and 120 for the population. To analyze the data, the procedures were presenting and describing the data, testing the hypotheses, and analyzing the regression. From the results, only internet use and reading ability that had a significant correla...
The objectives of this study was to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlati... more The objectives of this study was to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlation between saturation in learning and doing English assignment by using student work sheetof the 8th grade students of SMPN 9 Palembang and (2) whether or not there was a significant correlation between saturation in learning and doing English assignment by using student work sheet of the 8th grade students of SMPN 9 Palembang. The Pearson-product Moment correlation coefficient was used in this study. The population was the eighth graders of SMPN 9 Palembang and convenience sampling was applied to get the sample of the study. The samples of this study were 94 eighth grade students: VIII.2, VIII.4, and VIII.7. To collect the data, the sample of the study was given the saturation perception questionnaire in using student work sheet and their English scores was taken. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson-product Moment correlation in SPSS version 22. The result...
In a globalization era, everything depends on technology. Technology has been developing in the r... more In a globalization era, everything depends on technology. Technology has been developing in the role of teaching and learning process. This study aimed to find out: (1) the teachers’ perception of ICT use in their teaching and learning process; (2) to evaluate the progress of ICT integration program during the last five years at the school;(3) the problems faced by the teacher and students in using the ICT in the classroom; and (4) effects of using ICT in teaching and learning process. Twelve students and two teachers of English were chosen using purposive sampling as the respondents. Method of the study was descriptive qualitative research. The questionnaire, interview, observation, and documentation were used to collect the data. The results of the study showed that first, the teachers had positive attitude toward the use of ICT; second, the integration of ICT was found from the school’s facilities, the teachers’ participation in attending seminar and trainings, and the use of ICT...
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis mekanisme seleksi calon kepala sekolah/ madr... more Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis mekanisme seleksi calon kepala sekolah/ madrasah dalam program ProDEP ( Professional Development for Education Personnel ) di LPMP Provinsi Sumatera Selatan. Penelitian dilaksanakan di LPMP Provinsi Sumatera Selatan dengan narasumber sebanyak 10 orang. Pengambilan data menggunakan panduan wawancara dan data sekunder laporan Program ProDEP LPMP Provinsi Sumatera Selatan Tahun 2015. Analisis data menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif. Dari analisis tersebut diperoleh hasil sebagai berikut; 1) materi seleksi calon kepala sekolah belum mengacu kepada standar kompetensi kepala sekolah/madrasah sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia Nomor 13 Tahun 2007 tentang Standar Kepala Sekolah/Madrasah, dan 2) materi seleksi akademik yang diterapkan dalam seleksi ini tidak menggambarkan substansi akademik yang seharusnya. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian di atas maka direkomendasikan seba...
This study aimed to find out whether or not there was (1) an improvement significant difference i... more This study aimed to find out whether or not there was (1) an improvement significant difference in students’ reading descriptive text achievement before and after they taught using TPRC Strategy, (2) a significant difference in reading descriptive text achievement between students who were taught by using TPRC Strategy and those who are not. The sample of the study was 80 tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 10 Palembang selected by using purposive sampling. This study used quasi-experimental research design with pretest and post of experimental and control groups. The results of this study revealed that their past tense was a significant difference in reading descriptive text achievement between before and after being taught by using TPRC ( p -value > 0.05, p -value= 0.000), and there was a significant difference in reading descriptive text achievement between the students who were taught by TPRC strategy and those who were not ( p -value > 0.05, p -value= 0.000). It indicated ...
The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlat... more The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlation between pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song (2) how the pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song were. The study was correlational with Pearson-product moment analysis. The population of this study was 245 students of SMP Negeri 17 Palembang and selected by using purposive sampling technique. Class 7.6 was chosen as the sample and it consisted of 34 students. Since the two other students were absent, so the sample consisted of 32 students. To collect the data and to measure students’ listening to an English song, one song (Blue Night by MLTR) and pronunciation mastery test were given. The Pearson correlation was used in data analysis using SPSS 21. Furthermore, the correlation between the two variables was not significant since the r-obtained was lower than the value of r-table (.035>.349) at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). The value of probability (.84...
Abstract: The use of Indonesian language in teaching English practices still becomes an issue. T... more Abstract: The use of Indonesian language in teaching English practices still becomes an issue. There are teachers who agree with the use of Indonesian language in teaching English practices, but not a few teachers also disagree with it. Therefore, the aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was any significant correlation between students’ preferences on their teachers’ code-switching and reading comprehension achievement of Eighth graders of SMP Tri Dharma Palembang and the contribution from students’ preferences on their teachers’ code-switching to their reading comprehension achievement. The simple random sampling technique was used to get the sample. Therefore, 35 out of 140 students were selected to become the sample of the study. There were 3 instruments which were used in this study. The first instrument was students’ preferences questionnaire to know whether the students have negative or positive tendency toward the use of Indonesian language. The second inst...
This paper discusses and shares some strategies of teaching critical reading which are hopefulll,... more This paper discusses and shares some strategies of teaching critical reading which are hopefulll, useful for teachers of English in having their students actively involved in reading activity in their classrooms. In high schools- SMPs or SMAs, teachers typically teach their students to read receptively. to read for information. What's more, many freshman students have not been taught to read actively or critically to construct knowledge as they read. Students gain knowledge by memorizing the statements r.vithirr a text. For them. as non-critical readers, texts provide facts. For critical readers, any text depicts the facts. They also recognize not only rvhat a text says, but also how that text portrays the issue described in it. A text is written in various ways as a typical creation of a unique author. For example, a non-critical reader might read a history book to leam the facts of the situation or to discover an accepted interpretation of those events. Whereas a critical ...
Abstract: The aims of this study aimed to find out whether or not Genre Based Approach was effec... more Abstract: The aims of this study aimed to find out whether or not Genre Based Approach was effective to be used in teaching English for eighth graders of SMP Negeri 1 Indralaya Utara. The key informants of this study were the teachers of English, the English subject supervisor, and the students of grade eight. The method of this study was qualitative descriptive research. The qualitative data were obtained through interview, observation, and documentation. The result showed that the genre based approach was not effectiveuse for the students of eighth graders of SMP Negeri 1 Indralaya Utara, even though the teacher had applied all of the steps in genre based approach. The results of this study showed that not more than half students succeed in achieving the passing grade of English subject and the rest still got score under the passing grade. Keywords: effectiveness, genre based approach, teaching English
Critical thinking skills, critical reading skills and reading comprehension were the most crucial... more Critical thinking skills, critical reading skills and reading comprehension were the most crucial life skills that should be mastered by the students, especially for university students. The objectives of this study were: (1) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation among students critical thinking skills and reading comprehension, (2) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation among critical reading skills and reading comprehension, and (3) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation among the predictor variables (critical thinking skills and critical reading skills) and the criterion variable (reading comprehension) of English Education Study Program students of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang. In this study, 90 undergraduate English Education Study Program of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang in the academic year 2018/2019 in the fourth semester were chosen as a sample by means of purposive sampling. This study conducted correlationa...
Abstract: The study aims to evaluate the implementation of the School-Based Curriculum (SBC) in i... more Abstract: The study aims to evaluate the implementation of the School-Based Curriculum (SBC) in improving the quality of learning of the SMPN 2 Banyuasin III of Banyuasin District as well as identifying the factors which support and hamper the SBC implementation. Some identified problems concerning the SBC in the school were the unpreparedness ofthe schoolin the development of implementing SBC and some teachers did not really understand how to apply the SBC in their teaching and learning process in the classroom. It is a descriptive qualitative study looking at the concerned indicators of the Educational National Standard (ENS) stipulated by the Government Regulation No. 19 of 2005. The data were collected by interviewing some key informants. The results of the study show that in general the school has implemented the SBC as recommended by the ENS andcan also develop the curriculum based on its capacity. Yet, there are some teachers still lacking skills in preparing their lesson pla...
Abstract: The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not the use of English Comic B... more Abstract: The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not the use of English Comic Book series could improve reading comprehension of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 32 Palembang. In this study, one group pre-test and post-test control group design was applied. The population was 170 seventh grade students in academic year 2013/2014. Purposive sampling method was applied and class VII.1 (N=34) and class VII.2 (N=34) were involved as the sample. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of the data analysis showed that the mean difference of the pre test and post test of the experimental group was significant (p < 0.05). The result of the independent sample t-test also showed that the mean differences of the post test of experimental group and control group were significant (p < 0.05). These results confirmed that the use of English Comic book series could be used as a reading material to help the seven graders of SMP Negeri 32 improve their readi...
Abstract: The present study was aimed at investigating the correlation between students’ writing ... more Abstract: The present study was aimed at investigating the correlation between students’ writing anxiety and their writing achievement. Eighty five EFL students of English Education Study Program of FKIP at Sriwijaya University in academic year 2016/2017 were selected by using purposive sampling. The study used a quantitative research method of correlational design. The data were collected by distributing writing anxiety questionnaire and a writing test which were analyzed statistically. The results of correlational analysis showed that a fair negative significant correlation between students’ writing anxiety and their writing achievement with r obtained = -.545 and p-value -.000. Another finding from this study showed that a significant correlation between each aspect of writing anxiety to writing achievement (somatic anxiety was -.000, avoidance behaviour was -.000, and cognitive anxiey was -.000). Lastly, the contribution of writing anxiety on students’ writing achievement was ...
ENGLISH FRANCA : Academic Journal of English Language and Education, 2018
The objectives of this study were to find out (1) the completeness of the students’ comments on F... more The objectives of this study were to find out (1) the completeness of the students’ comments on Facebook, (2) the quality of the students’ comments, and (3) the percentage of how well the students identified the characters of a good paragraph. The population of this study was the fourth-semester Palembang class students of English Education Study Program 2013 of Sriwijaya University. The sample of the study was 48 students that were selected by using total sampling technique. The data were collected from the students’ comments on Facebook of Writing II class in the academic year 2015 and analyzed by using two rubrics containing scoring systems. The results showed that the completeness in giving comments on the Facebook group could be categorized into a very good category with the final score was 10. While, the quality of the comment from the students was also Good with the final score was 15.56. The percentage of how well the students identified the characters of a good paragraph wa...
The objectives of the study were to analyze whether or not there were a significant correlation a... more The objectives of the study were to analyze whether or not there were a significant correlation among English learning anxiety, speaking, and writing achievements of the eleventh graders’. The sample of the study were 112 eleventh graders’. They were selected randomly. The study used quantitative research design. The questionnaire and the writing and speaking tests were done to analyze the data. The researcher used foreign language classroom anxiety scale questionnaire to measure the students’ English learning anxiety with five-point likert scale, and speaking and writing tests were used to measure the students’ speaking and writing achievements. Pearson product moment correlation and regression were analyzed by using SPSS. The results of study were negative low correlation between English learning anxiety and speaking achievement (r=-.269 with p<0.01) and English learning anxiety and writing achievement (r=-.213 with p<0.05).
Script Journal: Journal of Linguistic and English Teaching, 2019
This study was aimed to find out whether or not (1) there is any significant correlation between... more This study was aimed to find out whether or not (1) there is any significant correlation between reading ability and reading habit, (2) There is any significant correlation between reading ability and internet use, (3) There is any significant correlation among reading ability, internet use, and reading habit of students of private junior high schools in Kecamatan Ilir Timur II Palembang. This study was a quantitative research approach with a corelational research design. The researcher collected the data through 2 instruments namely, reading test and questionnaires. A test was used to find out students’ reading ability and questionnaires were used to find out students’ reading habits and internet use. The population of this study was 803 and 120 for the population. To analyze the data, the procedures were presenting and describing the data, testing the hypotheses, and analyzing the regression. From the results, only internet use and reading ability that had a significant correla...
The objectives of this study was to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlati... more The objectives of this study was to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlation between saturation in learning and doing English assignment by using student work sheetof the 8th grade students of SMPN 9 Palembang and (2) whether or not there was a significant correlation between saturation in learning and doing English assignment by using student work sheet of the 8th grade students of SMPN 9 Palembang. The Pearson-product Moment correlation coefficient was used in this study. The population was the eighth graders of SMPN 9 Palembang and convenience sampling was applied to get the sample of the study. The samples of this study were 94 eighth grade students: VIII.2, VIII.4, and VIII.7. To collect the data, the sample of the study was given the saturation perception questionnaire in using student work sheet and their English scores was taken. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson-product Moment correlation in SPSS version 22. The result...
In a globalization era, everything depends on technology. Technology has been developing in the r... more In a globalization era, everything depends on technology. Technology has been developing in the role of teaching and learning process. This study aimed to find out: (1) the teachers’ perception of ICT use in their teaching and learning process; (2) to evaluate the progress of ICT integration program during the last five years at the school;(3) the problems faced by the teacher and students in using the ICT in the classroom; and (4) effects of using ICT in teaching and learning process. Twelve students and two teachers of English were chosen using purposive sampling as the respondents. Method of the study was descriptive qualitative research. The questionnaire, interview, observation, and documentation were used to collect the data. The results of the study showed that first, the teachers had positive attitude toward the use of ICT; second, the integration of ICT was found from the school’s facilities, the teachers’ participation in attending seminar and trainings, and the use of ICT...
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis mekanisme seleksi calon kepala sekolah/ madr... more Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis mekanisme seleksi calon kepala sekolah/ madrasah dalam program ProDEP ( Professional Development for Education Personnel ) di LPMP Provinsi Sumatera Selatan. Penelitian dilaksanakan di LPMP Provinsi Sumatera Selatan dengan narasumber sebanyak 10 orang. Pengambilan data menggunakan panduan wawancara dan data sekunder laporan Program ProDEP LPMP Provinsi Sumatera Selatan Tahun 2015. Analisis data menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif kualitatif. Dari analisis tersebut diperoleh hasil sebagai berikut; 1) materi seleksi calon kepala sekolah belum mengacu kepada standar kompetensi kepala sekolah/madrasah sebagaimana dimaksud dalam Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Republik Indonesia Nomor 13 Tahun 2007 tentang Standar Kepala Sekolah/Madrasah, dan 2) materi seleksi akademik yang diterapkan dalam seleksi ini tidak menggambarkan substansi akademik yang seharusnya. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian di atas maka direkomendasikan seba...
This study aimed to find out whether or not there was (1) an improvement significant difference i... more This study aimed to find out whether or not there was (1) an improvement significant difference in students’ reading descriptive text achievement before and after they taught using TPRC Strategy, (2) a significant difference in reading descriptive text achievement between students who were taught by using TPRC Strategy and those who are not. The sample of the study was 80 tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 10 Palembang selected by using purposive sampling. This study used quasi-experimental research design with pretest and post of experimental and control groups. The results of this study revealed that their past tense was a significant difference in reading descriptive text achievement between before and after being taught by using TPRC ( p -value > 0.05, p -value= 0.000), and there was a significant difference in reading descriptive text achievement between the students who were taught by TPRC strategy and those who were not ( p -value > 0.05, p -value= 0.000). It indicated ...
The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlat... more The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was a significant correlation between pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song (2) how the pronunciation mastery and listening to an English song were. The study was correlational with Pearson-product moment analysis. The population of this study was 245 students of SMP Negeri 17 Palembang and selected by using purposive sampling technique. Class 7.6 was chosen as the sample and it consisted of 34 students. Since the two other students were absent, so the sample consisted of 32 students. To collect the data and to measure students’ listening to an English song, one song (Blue Night by MLTR) and pronunciation mastery test were given. The Pearson correlation was used in data analysis using SPSS 21. Furthermore, the correlation between the two variables was not significant since the r-obtained was lower than the value of r-table (.035>.349) at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). The value of probability (.84...
Abstract: The use of Indonesian language in teaching English practices still becomes an issue. T... more Abstract: The use of Indonesian language in teaching English practices still becomes an issue. There are teachers who agree with the use of Indonesian language in teaching English practices, but not a few teachers also disagree with it. Therefore, the aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was any significant correlation between students’ preferences on their teachers’ code-switching and reading comprehension achievement of Eighth graders of SMP Tri Dharma Palembang and the contribution from students’ preferences on their teachers’ code-switching to their reading comprehension achievement. The simple random sampling technique was used to get the sample. Therefore, 35 out of 140 students were selected to become the sample of the study. There were 3 instruments which were used in this study. The first instrument was students’ preferences questionnaire to know whether the students have negative or positive tendency toward the use of Indonesian language. The second inst...
This paper discusses and shares some strategies of teaching critical reading which are hopefulll,... more This paper discusses and shares some strategies of teaching critical reading which are hopefulll, useful for teachers of English in having their students actively involved in reading activity in their classrooms. In high schools- SMPs or SMAs, teachers typically teach their students to read receptively. to read for information. What's more, many freshman students have not been taught to read actively or critically to construct knowledge as they read. Students gain knowledge by memorizing the statements r.vithirr a text. For them. as non-critical readers, texts provide facts. For critical readers, any text depicts the facts. They also recognize not only rvhat a text says, but also how that text portrays the issue described in it. A text is written in various ways as a typical creation of a unique author. For example, a non-critical reader might read a history book to leam the facts of the situation or to discover an accepted interpretation of those events. Whereas a critical ...
Abstract: The aims of this study aimed to find out whether or not Genre Based Approach was effec... more Abstract: The aims of this study aimed to find out whether or not Genre Based Approach was effective to be used in teaching English for eighth graders of SMP Negeri 1 Indralaya Utara. The key informants of this study were the teachers of English, the English subject supervisor, and the students of grade eight. The method of this study was qualitative descriptive research. The qualitative data were obtained through interview, observation, and documentation. The result showed that the genre based approach was not effectiveuse for the students of eighth graders of SMP Negeri 1 Indralaya Utara, even though the teacher had applied all of the steps in genre based approach. The results of this study showed that not more than half students succeed in achieving the passing grade of English subject and the rest still got score under the passing grade. Keywords: effectiveness, genre based approach, teaching English
Critical thinking skills, critical reading skills and reading comprehension were the most crucial... more Critical thinking skills, critical reading skills and reading comprehension were the most crucial life skills that should be mastered by the students, especially for university students. The objectives of this study were: (1) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation among students critical thinking skills and reading comprehension, (2) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation among critical reading skills and reading comprehension, and (3) to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation among the predictor variables (critical thinking skills and critical reading skills) and the criterion variable (reading comprehension) of English Education Study Program students of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang. In this study, 90 undergraduate English Education Study Program of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang in the academic year 2018/2019 in the fourth semester were chosen as a sample by means of purposive sampling. This study conducted correlationa...
Abstract: The study aims to evaluate the implementation of the School-Based Curriculum (SBC) in i... more Abstract: The study aims to evaluate the implementation of the School-Based Curriculum (SBC) in improving the quality of learning of the SMPN 2 Banyuasin III of Banyuasin District as well as identifying the factors which support and hamper the SBC implementation. Some identified problems concerning the SBC in the school were the unpreparedness ofthe schoolin the development of implementing SBC and some teachers did not really understand how to apply the SBC in their teaching and learning process in the classroom. It is a descriptive qualitative study looking at the concerned indicators of the Educational National Standard (ENS) stipulated by the Government Regulation No. 19 of 2005. The data were collected by interviewing some key informants. The results of the study show that in general the school has implemented the SBC as recommended by the ENS andcan also develop the curriculum based on its capacity. Yet, there are some teachers still lacking skills in preparing their lesson pla...
Abstract: The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not the use of English Comic B... more Abstract: The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not the use of English Comic Book series could improve reading comprehension of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 32 Palembang. In this study, one group pre-test and post-test control group design was applied. The population was 170 seventh grade students in academic year 2013/2014. Purposive sampling method was applied and class VII.1 (N=34) and class VII.2 (N=34) were involved as the sample. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of the data analysis showed that the mean difference of the pre test and post test of the experimental group was significant (p < 0.05). The result of the independent sample t-test also showed that the mean differences of the post test of experimental group and control group were significant (p < 0.05). These results confirmed that the use of English Comic book series could be used as a reading material to help the seven graders of SMP Negeri 32 improve their readi...
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