Effendy Gultom
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Journal : SOROT: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Sosial

A STUDY ON THE ABILITY OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 10 SIAK IN COMPREHENDING ENGLISH FABLES Gultom, Effendy; Pravitasari, Dwi
SOROT Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat Universitas Riau

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (135.035 KB) | DOI: 10.31258/sorot.8.2.147-152

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Reading English text is very important because it gives usan opportunity to gain knowledge. In English learning, being able toread English text well is a necessity. Therefore, good ability in readingEnglish texts is very important for the students. Reading processinvolves the interaction between readers and the texts. In otherwords, reading is an activity which makes the readers’ minds active.In reading activities, the students need to understand not only theirtext books but also any kinds of printed media such as: magazines,newspaper, etc. However, the students often feel bored when theyread because the texts are too long and contain many difficult words.Therefore, they get difficulties to understand them. As a result, theirability in reading English texts is low.
USING SEMANTIC MAPPING AS AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE READING ABILITY OF THE FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN 005 LENGGADAI HILIR ROKAN HILIR Gultom, Effendy; Rosdayanti, Rosdayanti
SOROT Vol 9, No 1 (2014)
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Reading is one thenecessary skills that foreign languagelearners must achieve. Reading is not as simple as learning to spelland read sentences, but it is more complex than that. Readinginvolves the process of decoding, predicting, and many otherssimultaneously so that the reader can comprehend the text well.However, reading has become a ghost upon the students since itrequires the students to find some information within the text but thestudents are lazy to pay attention to it. Therefore, it is quitechallenging to teach reading. Good teaching has to apply a goodstrategy to encourage the students to be involved in the classactivities. One of the strategies is using semantic mapping. Accordingto Thomas, H. Estes (1999) Semantic Mapping is a strategy thatallows the students to organize their prior knowledge in these formalrelations, and thus provide themselves a basis for understanding whatthey are about to read and study. Semantic mapping provides agraphic structure of the knowledge that can be used to organize newideas as they are understood.
USING WORD GRID GAMES TO INCREASE THE VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 8 PEKANBARU Hidayat, Sandi Ade; Gultom, Effendy
SOROT Vol 8, No 2 (2013)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat Universitas Riau

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (119.745 KB) | DOI: 10.31258/sorot.8.2.162-166

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Vocabulary plays an important role in learning a foreignlanguage. It is an element that links the four language skills: speaking,listening, reading and writing. In order to communicate well in aforeign language, students need to have sufficient vocabulary. Afterthat, they need to understand the structure, function, etc. Toenrichtheirvocabulary.There are many useful approaches can be used. Oneof them is using games.