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English teachers’ perception on teaching English vocabulary using songs as media for senior high school in Bandar Lampung Refa Nisa Yolanda; Ujang Suparman; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 10, No 1 (2021): U-JET
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Abstarct. The objective of this research is to find out teachers’ perception on teaching English vocabulary using songs as media for Senior High School. This is a quantitative research. The sample of the research was 50 Senior High School English teachers in Bandar Lampung. The data were obtained from the close-ended questionnaire through Google form and were analyzed using SPSS. The result of this research showed that the teachers have positive perception on the use of songs to improve students’ vocabulary especially in the effect of songs in learning vocabulary.Keywords: teachers’ perception, vocabulary, song.DOI: 10.23960/UJET.v10.i1.202111
The Use Of News Item On YouTube To Improve Students' Speaking Ability At Grade XII Of SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung Annisa Azzahra; Mahpul Mahpul; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 10, No 2 (2021): Vol 10, No 2 (2021): U-JET
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In learning speaking, the students of Senior High School should be able to speak English appropriately. In the real condition, some students of Senior High School found difficulties in speaking English that is caused of some factors. One of the factors was how the teacher delivered the material. The materials were given by the teachers were not interesting. To make them interested and wanted to share their feelings in speaking English, the researcher used news item video as the media in the process of teaching and learning English. The research was intended to find out statistically significant improvement of the students’ speaking ability after they got treatment by using news item video. The subjects of the research were 27 students at SMAN 2 Bandar Lampung. There were three raters who assessed students’ speaking ability. The data were collected through speaking test (pretest and posttest). The paired simple t-test was used to analyze the data collected from both the pretest and posttest. The result showed that the news item video had statistically significant improvement on the students speaking ability with the significant level 0.05. This suggest that the news item video facilitates students to improve their ability of speaking.Keywords: Speaking, news item video, news item text, YouTube. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23960/UJET.v10.i2.202107
Students’ understanding on idiom at second grade of SMAN 13 Bandar Lampung Ani Lestari; Feni Munifatullah; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 10, No 3 (2021): U-JET
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This research was the replication research from Li and Lewis (2019) entitled “Understanding metaphor; problem for Chinese Readers”. This research aims to know students’ understanding on idiom by analyzing whether idioms affect sentence comprehension. The subjects were students in grade XI of SMAN 13 Bandar Lampung. The researcher took one class as the sample of 25 students randomly. This research was analyzed using descriptive statistic method. In collecting the data, the researcher used a test in the form of Westlife songs and task completing. The result showed that the students understanding in both literal meaning and idiom were still low, their average score was under 60. So, it is suggested to the teacher to be creative and give more guidance in teaching idiomatic material, since we know that idiomatic understanding is one of important knowledge, and for the students also have to upgrade their idioms understanding by practicing and using them in daily conversation.doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23960/UJET.v10.i3.202109
Improving students’ ability in mastering simple present tense by using Duolingo App Suci Handayani; Deddy Supriyadi; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 12, No 1 (2023): U-JET
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The objective of this research is to investigate the significant improvement in students’ ability in mastering simple present tense after being taught by using Duolingo app. This research was quantitative and used a one-group pretest-posttest design as the research design for this study. This research involved the students of VIII 1 class at SMP Negeri 1 Sukadana which consists of 30 students. In collecting the data, the pre-test and post-test were administered. The data were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-Test (SPSS 25.0 for windows) to test the hypothesis in which the significance was determined by α0.05. The result of data computation of the value of 2-tailed significance was 0.000.05 which is lower than 0.05. Based on that result it is indicated that there is a significant improvement in students’ ability in mastering simple present tense after being taught by using Duolingo app.Keywords: simple present tense, duolingo application
Improving students' writing achievement in descriptive text through FRESH technique at the first grade of SMPN 32 Bekasi Grace Yosephine Silaban; Flora Flora; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 11, No 4 (2022): U-JET
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The objectives of this research were to find out whether there is a significant improvement in students' writing achievement of descriptive text because of using FRESH (Fact, Reason, Elaboration, and Shift) and to determine which aspect of writing improves the most. The population of this research was the first grade students of SMPN 32 Bekasi in the academic year 2021/2022. The sample of this research was class VII I which consisted of 29 students. This research was quantitative research by using One Group Pre-test and Post-test Design. The writing test was used as the instrument for pre-test and post-test. The data were taken from the test and they were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-test. The result of this research showed there is a significant improvement of students’ writing achievement of descriptive text after the implementation of FRESH since the value of the significant level was 0.00 that lower than 0.05. On the other hand, all aspects of writing improved regarding the results, but the organization was improved the most. Briefly, it could be concluded that FRESH enabled to improve the students’ writing achievement.Keywords: writing, descriptive text, FRESH technique
The use of selection and organization strategies to improve second-grade students' reading comprehension of exposition text at SMAN 1 kebun tebu Fatimah Azzahra; Feni Munifatullah; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 12, No 2 (2023): U-JET
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The research was conducted to find out whether there is any significant improvement on students’ reading comprehension of analytical exposition text after the use selection and organization strategies. This research is quantitative research and used one group pretest-posttest design as the method. The subject of this research is 36 students at second grade of SMAN 1 Kebun Tebu in class XIIIS 3. Instruments that used in this research were reading test.The data were collect through paired samplet-test SPSS 16.The results of the research ,  there is significant improvement on student’s reading comprehension of analytical exposition text after the use selection and organization strategies. The results showed that the students’ mean score on the pre-test was 61.22 and the mean score on the post-test was 70.67.
Direct written corrective feedback to improve students' writing achievement Dzaky Martadho; Ari Nurweni; Fajar Riyantika
U-JET Vol 12, No 2 (2023): U-JET
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The objectives of the research were to find out whether there was any improvement of the students’ writing skill in recount text after they have been taught by implementing direct written corrective feedback and to find out which aspect of writing that improves the most after the implementation of direct written corrective feedback in terms of micro skills. This research is a quantitative research. The design used was  one group pretest and posttest because the students’ writing skill was measured in one group of participants before and after the treatments were administered. The subjects were 28 students of class VIII A of SMPN 38 Bandar Lampung. The instrument was a writing test in form of essay. The data were in form of scores taken from the pretest and posttest and were analyzed by using Paired Sample t- test. The result showed there was a statistically improvement of students’ writing skill in recount text viewed from the pretest score to the posttest score (60.91 to 76.39) after they have been taught by implementing direct written corrective feedback. Furthermore, the feedback technique was not only effective in improving students’ recount writing in general, but also effective in improving students’ score in all aspects of writing: content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanics.  Language use was the aspect of writing that improved the most by direct feedback technique in terms of micro skills. Keywords: Direct written corrective feedback, recount text, writing.