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A STUDY ON THE WRITING ENGLISH BUSINESS LETTER DIFFICULTIES AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT OF SMKN 1 BANDAR SEIKIJANG Dahler Dahler
Lectura : Jurnal Pendidikan Vol. 5 No. 1 (2014)
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP), Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/lectura.v5i1.149

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Students at the first year students accounting department of SMKN 1 Bandar Seikijanghad problems in writing English business letter. They were facing difficulties type of Englishbusiness letter. The Purpose of this research was to find out what kind of difficulties in writing theEnglish business letter faced by the first year students accounting department of SMKN 1 BandarSeikijang. The design of this research was survey. Sample of the research was 23 students at thefirst year students accounting department of SMKN 1 Bandar Seikijang. Instrument used wasquestionnaire. The questionnaire was about the students’ difficulties in writing the Englishbusiness letter. The questionnaire was analyzed by using percentage formulation. The result ofanalyzing data that the students’ response toward their difficulties in writing the English businessletter was making up negative response with 71.73%.In conclusion, the students at the first yearstudents accounting department of SMKN 1 Bandar Seikijang had trouble in studying style ofletter in English business letter.
Improving Students Speaking Skill By Using Activities Through Songs at the First Year Students of Class B Semester of English Department Faculty Teachers Training and Pedagogy Lancang Kuning University Dahler Dahler
Lectura : Jurnal Pendidikan Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015)
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP), Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/lectura.v6i2.191

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The objective of this research was to find out whether students’ activities throughsong can be used as media for improving the students speaking skill. The participants of thisstudy were the students of semester two B of the English department of Education Facultyand Teachers Training Lancang Kuning University academic year 2009/2010. The number ofsubjects in this research was 21 students. The writer conducted an action research to find theanswer of the problem. In solving the problem, the writer carried out in two cycles, whicheach cycle had four meetings. It was done from April 12th, 2010 until Mei 31st , 2010. Theresearcher and collaborator gathered the data in each meeting in cycle 1 and 2 from thechecklist of observation for teacher and students, field note/recording test and interview.After analyzing the data, it was found that the activities through song improved the students’speaking skill and influenced all indicators of speaking skill in term of accent, grammar,vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Furthermore, it built up the students confidence andparticipation in class. The researcher concluded that the students’ activities through song canimprove the students’ speaking skill.
IMPROVING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING NLP STRATEGY AT VIII GRADE OF SMPN 11 DURI Dahler Dahler
Lectura : Jurnal Pendidikan Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016)
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP), Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/lectura.v7i2.247

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This research is based on the problem faced by the students such as: difficulty inunderstanding the generic structures of descriptive text and the difficulties in developingparagraph. The purpose of this research was to improve the students’ writing skill by usingNeuro Linguistics Programming (NLP) strategy at VIII grade of SMPN 11 Mandau Duri. Theresearch design was Classroom Action Research (CAR) consisted of two cycles. The datawere collected by using test, field note, observation sheet, and interview. Then, the datacollected were analyzed by using scoring rubric of writing descriptive text. The result showedthat students’ ability in writing descriptive text could be improved. It could be seen frombased score of students writing skill was 38 (failed) improve to 51 (failed) in cycle 1 to 70(Pass) in cycle II. It was caused by some factors, those were the teacher gave motivation,created enjoyfull experience, comfortable class and used various media. In conclusion, theuse of NLP strategy has many beneficial.
The Effect of Using Content-Purpose-Audience (CPA) Strategy toward Students’ Writing of Analytical Exposition Text at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru Dahler Dahler
Lectura : Jurnal Pendidikan Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017): Lectura: Jurnal Pendidikan
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP), Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/lectura.v8i1.280

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The research was conducted at eleventh grade SMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru inteaching writing analytical expoition text. The researcher used Content-Purpose-Audience (CPA) strategy because the strategy could facilitate the language skillsparticularly writing. The purpose of this research were to find out significant toeffect of using Content-Purpose-Audience (CPA) strategy toward students’writing ability in analytical exposition text at the eleventh grade students of SMANurul Falah Pekanbaru. The type of this research was quasi-experiment research.The numbers of participants in this research were 62 eleventh grade students ofSMA Nurul Falah Pekanbaru. The sample of this research by using clusterrandom sampling. The sample of this research were classes XI.IIS.2 as theexperimental class and XI.IIS.1 as control class. Instrument used in this researchwas test. In collecting the data, researcher gave the test write analytical expositiontext. The data was analyzed by using SPSS. The researcher found that the valueSig. (2-tailed) from the control class and experimental class is 0.001 < 0.05, it isreject Ho. It means there was different ability between students’ score of theexperimental class and control class in terms of writing an analytical expositiontext. Thus, it can be concluded that the strategy Content-Purpose-Audience (CPA)effective for teaching writing analytical exposition text.
UPAYA ORANG TUA DALAM MENANAMKAN KEBIASAAN BELAJAR YANG BAIK TERHADAP SISWA Dahler Dahler
Lectura : Jurnal Pendidikan Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): Lectura: Jurnal Pendidikan
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP), Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/lectura.v9i2.1596

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Keluarga sebagai pendidikan lingkungan adalah wadah pertama anak belajar bersosialisasi, dalam hal ini anak mulai belajar memahami aspek penting, salah satunya adalah menanamkan kebiasaan belajar kepada anak. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkapkan upaya orang tua dalam menanamkan kebiasaan belajar yang baik kepada siswa dalam hal di SMP Negeri 9 Pekanbaru, menyusun rencana belajar bersama anak, mendampingi dan membantu anak dalam belajar untuk tidak duduk sepanjang waktu, memberikan pujian kepada anak-anak, mengenali kekuatan anak-anak dalam belajar, membantu anak-anak untuk mengurangi kecemasan dan kebosanan dalam belajar. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif, seluruh populasi siswa kelas VII, VIII, dan IX pada siswa di SMP Negeri 9 Pekanbaru dan sebanyak 664 sampel yang diperoleh 87 siswa. Temuan penelitian mengungkapkan upaya orangtua dalam menanamkan kebiasaan belajar yang baik terhadap siswa Pekanbaru sudah baik.
USING SONGS IN THE SPEAKING CLASS: Improving Students’ Abilities in a Relaxing Way. Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v1i1.448

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This Classroom Action Research (CAR) aimed to find out whether students’ activities through song can be used as media for improving the students speaking skill. The participants of this study were 21 students of English department, Lancang Kuning University academic year 2012/2013. This present study conducted in two cycles, and each of the cycle had four meetings during April - Mei 2012. After analyzing the data, it was found that the activities through song improved the students’ speaking skill and influenced all indicators of speaking skill in term of accent, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Furthermore, it built up the students’ confidence and participation in class. The researcher concluded that the students’ activities through song can improve the students’ speaking skill.
THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN TRANSLATING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT: A Study at the English Department Students of FKIP Unilak Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v1i2.451

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This research was conducted to find out to what extent is the students’ ability in translatingdescriptive text at fifth semester of English Education Department of FKIP Lancang Kuning University. Theresearch using cross sectional survey design as evaluation program. The amount of the participant in thisresearch was 24 students selected by using convenience sampling technique. In order to collect the data of this research, the researcher used descriptive text as the instrument of test. In analyzing the data to categorize the students’ ability in translating descriptive text, the researcher used descriptive statistics. The students’ ability in translating descriptive text was categorized into Good. The result of analysis showed that average score of 24 students in translating descriptive text was 73.96. It is hoped that the finding of the present study will be useful for the teaching of English, especially in translating descriptive text.
COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING (CLL): Empowering Speaking Skill at SMP Bina Mitra Wahana Pekanbaru Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v2i1.460

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The purpose of this research is to identify the effect of using Community Language Learning (CLL) Methodtowards speaking skill. This experimental design uses 48 students from class VII of SMP Bina Mitra Wahana Pekanbaru. The VIIA sets as the experiment class and VIIB set as the control class. Instrument in this research was oral test. The data were analyzed using t-test. The result of the test showed that the average score of students’ pre test was 68,50 and then the average of students post test was 74,58. The results of this research found that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and rejected a hypothesis null. It can be seen from the t-test (0.000) significant at the level of 0.05. The result of N-Gain of experimental class was 0,31. It means that the significant of strategy that used in experimental class was Middle because the average of N-Gain was 0.31. From the above explanation, the researchers concluded that Community Language Learning (CLL) Method effective for teaching speaking skill.
CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH: Using Semantic Mapping in Teaching Descriptive Paragraph Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v2i2.462

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This classroom action research conducted to 38 participants at the seventh grade class D of SMPN 29 in2011/2012 academic years. It tries to improve their writing skill by applying semantic mapping strategy. Theresearcher collecting writing tests, observations, field notes, and interview as the instrument. The date reveals that improvement exists after the treatment on the students' writing skill. The data indicates that some factors influenced their improvement. The first was brainstorming process that led them easy to convey and think about the ideas. The second was the categorization process that made them easy to determine kinds of the idea. The third was the mapping process made them easy to write a good descriptive paragraph. The last was the teacher’s roles facilitated them to have an effective class.
Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Listen Read Discuss (LRD) of Recount Text Dahler Dahler
ELT-Lectura Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): ELT-Lectura Studies and Perspective in English Language Teaching
Publisher : Universitas Lancang Kuning

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31849/elt-lectura.v3i1.472

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In this research, researcher found that students had low in reading comprehension of recount text.Where, the students’ average score of reading comprehension in recount text was 60. It can not pass the standard minimum of school. This research is classroom action research. And the researcher used listen Read Discuss strategy to solve the students’ problem. The purpose of this research was to solve students’ problem in reading comprehension of recount text. This research was done in two cycle, and the result of analysis showed that the average score of the students based score was 60. The average score of the students in cycle I was 77, although the students’ average have been improved, the researcher conducted cycle II. It because there is one indicator that could not pass the passing grade. And students’ average in cycle II was 83. It had improvement 23 points from based score to cycle II. And the researcher concluded that applying Listen Read Discuss strategy could better to solve students’ reading comprehension problem in recount text.