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ENHANCING STUDENTS WRITING SKILL TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE TEXT USING PEER REVIEW AND FREE WRITING TECHNIQUES Sartika, Dewi; Arriyani, Nurfisi
English Community Journal Vol 4, No 2 (2020): English Community Journal
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32502/ecj.v4i2.3039

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The main purpose of this study was to see whether the use of peer review and free writing techniques was effective in improving students’ writing achievement in learning English as a Foreign Language. A non-randomized control-group pretest-posttest design was used. Out of the tenth graders SMA YPI Tunas Bangsa Palembang, 60 students were taken as the sample. There were three groups, each of which consisted of 20 students. The data were collected by asking students to write a composition that was evaluated by using Conventional Standard Written English rubric containing six aspects namely content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The data obtained were analyzed using one-way ANOVA. The findings showed that the two techniques were effective in improving the students’ writing achievement because the students were guided to check their friends' work and were encouraged to elaborate more ideas that they wanted to write freely.
THE RELIGIOUS VALUES IN TEACHING WRITING PERSUASIVE TEXT Dewi Sartika; Rachmanita Rachmanita
UAD TEFL International Conference Proceedings of the 4th UAD TEFL International Conference
Publisher : Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12928/utic.v1.161.2017

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Writing is sometimes neglected taught by the teacher due to the limitation of the time provided. Besides, in teaching writing, teacher tends to avoid the religious values in teaching writing persuasive text in order to build students’ character. However, students are required to master writing in order to express the idea or information in communication. Therefore, this  study  is an attempt to study the religious values in teaching writing persuasive text. The population of this study was  all of the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 1 Kandis  Ogan Ilir. The samples were chosen by purposive sampling method.  As a result, two classes consisting of thirty students  in each classes were selected as the samples. The qualitative approach was used in this study and  observation  is the main instrument used to get the  data about the process of teaching writing persuasive text. The observation done from the beginning to ending of  teaching and learning process of writing persuasive text. Based on the observation, it was indicated  that the students were interested in learning writing persuasive text and got some religious values to build their characters. In addition, the students were eager to write persuasive text because of interesting materials. They could explore their idea freely by writing the main information and writing information explaining the religious values in writing persuasive text. By teaching writing persuasive text including the religious values, hopefully the teacher of English can select the material and content of the subject matter which infused the religious values during the classroom.
The Use of Collaborative Writing Technique in Improving Student's Writing Achievement Dewi Sartika
Language and Education Journal Vol 1 No 1 (2016): Language and Education Journal
Publisher : Relawan Jurnal Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52237/lej.v1i1.6

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Writing as the productive skill is needed to be master by the students so as to communicate and share the information in the written form. However, students still do not aware of the importance of writing skill. As a result, students face some problems in writing, such as have a lot mistakes in students’ writing due to the limitation of the time, lack of idea and vocabulary, and less concentration. Therefore, the objective of this study was to find whether collaborative writing technique was effective or not to improve students’ writing achievement. Quasi experimental method and nonrandomized pre-test post-test control group design were used. Study population was used as the samples and flip of cubic was used to determine the experimental and control groups. As a result, morning class was selected as the experimental group and afternoon class was selected as the control group. Content validity was used to check the validity of the test and tried out of the test was applied to find out the reliability of the test. Written test was used in which the students wrote one out of the topics provided. Then, the raters judged the students’ writing based on the rubric containing the four components, namely organization, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary. To analyze the data, t-test was used. The results showed that the mean difference between post-test in the experimental and control groups was 19.166, tobtained was 5.545 at the significant level of p<0.05. It meant that collaborative writing technique was effective to improve students’ writing achievement.
ENHANCING STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT BY USING PROFESSOR KNOW-IT-ALL STRATEGY Mimiliah; Dewi Sartika
Language and Education Journal Vol 1 No 2 (2016): Language and Education Journal
Publisher : Relawan Jurnal Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52237/lej.v1i2.10

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Students still have difficulty in comprehending the reading text. Hence, the objective of the study was to find out whether Professor Know-It-All strategy could improve the tenth-grade students’ reading achievement at SMA Meranti Pedamaran or not. The population of this study was all the tenth-grade students of SMA Meranti Pedamaran. The sample was chosen using purposive sampling method, therefore, two classes; experimental group (class X.3) and control group (class X.2) were taken as the samples and each of them consisted of 36 students. To conduct this study, the quasiexperimental method was used. The written test in the form of multiple choices was administered in order to collect the data. The test was tried out to nonsample students at SMA Meranti Pedamaran in order to know the reliability and validity of the test. Before analyzing the data using the t-test, the normality and homogeneity were found. After the data were considered normal and homogenous, the result of independent sample t-test showed that t-obtained (4.960) was higher than ttable (1.9944) and pvalue (0.000) was less than ᾳvalue (0.05), it showed that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It meant that Professor Know-It-All strategy could improve the tenth-grade students’ reading achievement at SMA Meranti Pedamaran. In brief, Professor Know-It-All Strategy could improve students’ reading achievement because this strategy guided them to comprehend the reading texts given during the treatment by asking and answering the questions posed by their classmates.
THE USE ENGLISH ISLAMIC SONGS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING ACHIEVEMENT Dewi Sartika
Language and Education Journal Vol 2 No 1 (2017): Language and Education Journal
Publisher : Relawan Jurnal Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52237/lej.v2i1.18

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Listening plays important role in communication. In fact, students had troubles in understanding someone spoke. The aim of this study was to improve students listening skill by using Islamic English songs. The method was a classroom action research that consisted of pretest, two cycles, and posttest. Each cycle consisted of four steps: planning, action, evaluation, and reflection. The subject was the second semester of English Language Education Department of FKIP Islamic University of Ogan Komering Ilir that consisted of 24 students. The instrument was a written test and analyzed by mean score formula. The result showed that in the pretest, the students’ mean score was 51.46 (low), in cycle 1, the students’ mean score was 61.46 (moderate), and in cycle 2, the students’ mean score was 70.29 (moderate). In the posttest, the students’ mean score had improvement (80.13) which was in good category. Therefore, it could be concluded that the use of English Islamic songs improved the second-semester students’ listening skill. English Islamic songs stimulated students to listen to something so that they could identify the words and comprehend the content of the songs well.
THE USE OF FACT QUESTION RESPONSE (FQR) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT Dewi Sartika
Language and Education Journal Vol 3 No 1 (2018): Language and Education Journal
Publisher : Relawan Jurnal Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52237/lej.v3i1.38

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Reading is beneficial for students to obtain new information and enlarge their knowledge. In fact, students still face some obstacles in comprehending the reading of report text. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to find out whether there was a significant difference in students’ reading achievement of report text between the students who were taught using Fact Question Response (FQR) strategy and that of those who were not. This study used quasi experimental method. The selected samples were used purposive sampling method, therefore, two classes out of seven classes. The accurate data were collected by using written test in the form of multiple choice. Based on the analyzing of independent sample t-test, the result showed that The comparison of the result of posttests between the experimental and control groups showed that the means difference of both tests was 6.08 and t-obtained (2.82) was higher than t-table (2.000) at the significant level of p<0.05. The students in the experimental group had better improvement in reading achievement because Fact Question Response (FQR) strategy guided them to survey the chapter to get general idea, to develop their way of thinking, engages the entire class to interact and share their experiences. In other words, there was a significant difference in students’ reading achievement of report text between the students who were taught using Fact Question Response (FQR) strategy and that of those who were not.
THE USE OF READER’S THEATER IN TEACHING READING Peni; Dewi Sartika
Language and Education Journal Vol 4 No 2 (2019): Language and Education Journal
Publisher : Relawan Jurnal Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52237/lej.v4i2.124

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One of the ways to get new information is by reading. By reading, students are expected to get knowledge and be familiar with what is stated in the content of the text. Nevertheless, students are still have some problems in comprehending the reading text which makes their reading achievement were low. To overcome the students’ problems in reading, the teacher could implement the reader’s theater strategy. Therefore, this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the reader’s theater on students’ reading comprehension achievement. To conduct the research pretest posttest nonrandomized control group design, involving two groups was applied. The samples of this research were the students of the eleventh-grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Tanjung Raja. Based on the calculation using independent sample t-test, it was indicated that the reader’s theater could improve students’ reading comprehension achievement. The use reader’s theater was likely to be more effective in improving students’ reading achievement particularly in terms of vocabulary and comprehending the text. In addition, readers’ theater strategy can help the teacher in teaching reading narrative text because by using readers’ theater, students focused on the content of the text.
Correlation between reading habit and writing skill of the eighth graders at SMP Negeri 6 Kayuagung Riska Yohana; Dewi Sartika; Rekha Asmara
Language and Education Journal Vol 6 No 2 (2021): Language and Education Journal
Publisher : Relawan Jurnal Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.52237/lej.v6i02.278

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Many researches have shown the facts that the students’ skills in writing can be improved by having a good reading habit. It was convinced that the students reading habit has great impact on the improvement of students’ writing ability. The students who read extensively will acquire more vocabularies that lead them to have greater proficiency in writing. Therefore, this study was purposed to know whether reading habit of the eighth graders of SMPN 6 Kayuagung was significantly correlated to their writing skill. By means of Purposive sampling, 124 students of the whole number of the population were selected as the sample. A correlational study was applied. A questionnaire and written test were distributed to get the data. Twenty items of a ready-made questionnaire were used to know students’ habit in reading and a writing test was administered to measure students’ writing skill. The writing test was reliable because its reliability coefficient was 0.942. In data analysis, Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient on SPSS 20 was used. The findings revealed that r-obtained (0.685) was bigger than the value of r-table (0.176) at p-value which was less than 0.05. Thus, the formulated hypotheses were proved. In other words, there was a significant correlation between reading habit and writing skill of the eighth graders at SMPN 6 Kayuagung.
AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERROR IN WRITING PERSONAL LETTER Dewi - Sartika; Inka Sundari; Ratna Nery
ELT Echo : The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context Vol 6, No 2 (2021): DECEMBER
Publisher : IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24235/eltecho.v6i2.9346

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This study aimed to  find out grammatical errors  in writing personal letter and the most grammatical errors made by the eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir. This study used descriptive qualitative research method. The subject of the study was the eleventh social one students of SMA Negeri 5 Ogan Komering Ilir in the academic year of 2020/2021. The technique of collecting the data were a writing testusing google form. To check the validity and reliability of the test, a triangulation method was applied. The information was presented in a descriptive manner and assessed using a percentage calculation. The calculations presented that the students made 12.5% sentence pattern errors, 24.1% tense errors, 9.17%pronoun errors, 2.5% preposition errors, 20% punctuation errors, and 31.66% spelling errors.The most dominant of grammatical errors made by students was error of spelling (31.66%). 
Word Splash Strategy in Reading Comprehension Class Rekha Asmara; Dewi Sartika
Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Vol 20, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : LINGUA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra

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Abstract: Today, technology and literacy in the area of education 4.0 has increasingly been used in many language classes. The changes in literacy conception demands the capabilities of teachers and students in utilizing digital tools in the classroom activities. Computer as one of the digital tools offers teachers some new interesting strategies for teaching reading com- prehension. Unfortunately, to comprehend a reading text in English is not easy. Many students face some problems in comprehending a text. They need to read many times to comprehend the text. The problem in reading comprehension does not only derive from students, but it is also influenced by teachers’ teaching methods or strategies, and the quality of the teachers them- selves. Moreover, reading without interest can inhibit readers to comprehend the texts well. Thus, Word Splash strategy is believed as one of the strategies that can decrease the student’s problem in comprehending the content of the text and eventually make students love reading. Keywords: education 4.0, digital tools, word splash strategy Abstrak: Saat ini, teknologi dan literasi di era Pendidikan 4.0 telah digunakan dalam kelas-ke- las pembelajran Bahasa. Perubahan terhadap konsep literasi meminta guru dan siswa untuk memaksimalkan perangkat digita dalam kegiatan kelas. Komputer sebagai salah satu alat yang menawarkan berbagai strategi baru kepada guru untuk mengajarkan pemahaman memba- ca. Sayangnya, untuk memahami teks bacaan Bahasa Inggris tidaklah mudah. Banyak siswa meng¬hadapi banyak basalah dalam memahami isi bacaan. Mereka perlu membca teks be- rulang-ulang demi mahami bacaannya. Masalah dalam memahami bacaan ini tidak hanya diala- mi oleh siswa saja, namun juga dipengaruhi oleh metode dan strategi mengajar guru, dan kual- itas guru terse¬but. Terlebih lagi, membaca tanpa diiringi dengan minat, dapat mempengaruhi pemahaman siswa terhadap teks tersebut. Sehingga, Word Splash Strateg dipercaya sebagai salah satu strate¬gi yang dapat mengurasi permasalahan siswa dalam memahami konten bacaan dan membuat siswa menyukai kegiatan membaca. Kata-kata kunci: pendidikan 4.0, perangkat digital, word splash strategi