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Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension by Using Problem-based Learning Strategy Wandi Syahfutra; Siti Niah
Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi Informatika dan Sains Vol 1 No 1 (2019): Journal of Education Informatic Technology and Science (JeITS)
Publisher : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

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Abstrak This study explores an improving students’ reading comprehension by using problem-based learning strategy by formulating quasi-experimental design of Darma Yudha Junior High School. Reading is one of subject that some of Indonesia students faced many difficulties to understand for some reasons. The strategy selection has an important role to create the expectation of the teachers that can be answered by the implementation of creative method, interested materials or enjoyable learning process. Problem-based learning (PBL) is one of strategy of expressing ideas to experience real life context to build critical thinking and problem solving skill. In problem-based learning, students work in collaborative groups to identify what they need to learn in order to solve a problem. The goals of problem-based learning include helping students develop; 1) flexible knowledge, 2) effective problem-solving skills, 3) effective collaboration skills, 4) life-wide learning and 5) intrinsic motivation. In other hand; PBL is well suited to helping students become active learners because it situates learning in real-world problems and makes students responsible for their learning. Based on the result of research, it is found that PBL is one of instructional strategy that offers potentials help to improve students’ reading comprehension and motivation. Keywords: reading comprehension, problem-based learning, and motivation.
The Influence of PGR (Practice, Generalization, Reinforcement) Technique toward Students’ Ability to Distinguish between Gerund and Present Participle Siti Niah; Wandy Syahfutra; Prih Febtiningsih
Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi Informatika dan Sains Vol 1 No 2 (2019): Journal of Education Informatic Technology and Science (JeITS)
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Abstract The objectives of the research were to investigate the influence of PGR technique toward student’s ability to distinguish between Gerund and Present Participle and to know the students’ ability to distinguish both of them. The researcher applied quasi experimental method and quasi experimental design (time series) O1, O2, O3, O4, O5, O6 to find the “t” value of the scores and percentage to calculate the data from the tests. The research was conducted at the third semester students of English Education Department Faculty of Teachers Training and Educational Science Pakuan University Bogor. The researcher choose purposive sampling to take one class from 5 (five) classes and 21 (twenty one) students as the sample. The result of the research shows that there is a positive influence of PGR technique and it is proved by the “t” table of the research 4.47 which is higher than the critical value of “t” with 0.01 level of significance (2.845) and the level of 0.05 (2.086) for two tailed test. The result of the tests also shown that the students will be easier understand the difference between gerund and present participle by PGR technique. Keywords: Grammar, Gerund, Present participle, PGR Technique.