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EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics
ISSN : 25492144     EISSN : 25985140     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
English Journal of Indragiri (EJI) is a scientific journal which published by English Study Program FKIP Islamic University of Indragiri Tembilahan Riau. It covers studies in education, literature, and linguistics. Then it is published twice a year in January dan July. Six manuscript articles are published in each edition.
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A STUDY ON STUDENTS’ SCANNING ABILITY IN READING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SECOND YEAR OF SMPN 1 TEMBILAHAN Rusnida, Rusnida; Melda Yeni, Melda
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 1, No 2 (2017)
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The main purpose of this study was to know the students’ scanning ability in reading descriptive text. This research was conducted in the second year of SMPN 1 Tembilahan in November 2016. It was a descriptive research and used random sampling technique in selecting the sample. The total of the population in this research were 201 students and the researcher took 100 students or half of them to be the sample in this research. The data were collected by using a test in multiple choices. By the test, the researcher got the result that the students are able to find out the name of persons, numeric data, and the name of the place in reading descriptive text with the total mean score is 82.3 or in Very Good category level. The mean score of students’ scanning ability in reading descriptive text is different in each indicator, the students’ scanning ability in finding out name of person in reading descriptive text was 73.39, the students’ scanning ability in finding out numeric data in reading descriptive text was 83.14, and the students’ scanning ability in finding out name of place in reading descriptive text was 89.95. As a conclusion, by scanning the students understood and were able to find out the name of the person, numeric data, and the name of the place in reading descriptive text.
ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR YOUNG LEARNERS IN FIVE KINDERGARTENS IN INDRAMAYU Anggrarini, Natalia
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 2, No 2 (2018)
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Childhood Education essentially aims at providing stimulation in all aspects of child development especially in language development. This study is attempted to investigate activities in teaching English vocabulary to young learners. To provide good education in early childhood the teacher has to understand their characteristics and know their needs according to their developmental level. In accordance with the world of early childhood, children learn through play (learning through play) and interesting learning process for them (playing is learning).Thus, the teacher needs to provide activities that meet the students needs and present them in a proper way. This study describes the activities done by teachers in five kindergartens in Indramayu. The participants in this study were five teachers in those five kindergartens. The findings showed that the teachers in five kindergartens in Indramayu taught vocabulary by presenting some activities such as; listen and do, listen and repeat, modeling and demonstration, singing song, look and say, listen and identify, and question and answer. In Grade A the dominant activity was Listen and Repeat with frequency 40% in one semester while in Grade B, Look and say was the dominant activity with frequency 30,76% in one semester. Those activities are done based on the consideration that the activities done in Grade A were emphasized on their level of development such as imitating. While children in Grade B were more developed, the activities were emphasized on recognizing word and learn to pronounce it clearly. Keywords: Leaning Activity, Teaching Vocabulary, Teaching English for Young Learners
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING DEGREES OF COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVE BY USING PICTURES AT GRADE VIII MTS NURUL JIHAD TEMBILAHAN HULU Susanti, Susanti
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 1, No 1 (2017)
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This research aims at describing about whether or not the pictures are able to improve students’ ability in using degrees of comparison of adjective to 19 students of the grade VIII of MTs Nurul Jihad Tembilahan Hulu. In this research, the researcher conducted a research design by using CAR. The instruments used to understanding the different of pictures in form of multiple choice test, observation sheets, and interview. Based on the findings, the result of posttest on the first cycle gained 6 students (31.6%) who are able to pass the KKM by mean score 67.8. The score did not reach the criteria of successful. Meanwhile, the posttest on the second cycle gained 13 students (68.4%) who passed the KKM and derived mean score is 81.3, it has reached the criteria of successful. There was an improvement of the students’ ability in using degrees of comparison of adjective from cycle one and cycle two as much as 13.5%. Thus, the researcher did not continue to the next cycle. In addition, students’ responses to learning are generally positive. Most of them were interested and more able about the degrees of comparison of adjective. Not only by using pictures but also the ways in teaching learning able to improve students’ ability in using degrees of comparison of adjective. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the use of pictures and the ways in teaching learning process are able to improve students’ ability in using degrees of comparison of adjective.
THE ABILITY OF STUDENTS OF ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM 2017/2018 YEAR, ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF INDRAGIRI TO DISTINGUISH PRESENT PARTICIPLE FROM GERUND Mustajib, Agus
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 2, No 1 (2018)
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 AbstractLanguage is purely human and non-instinctive method because language is the most frequently used and most highly developed form of human communication. And language is a distinctly human instrument, although other animals produce sounds and noises, the human language alone is articulated into words and alone is capable of expressing an infinite variety of thought. Languages are not just sets of symbols. They also often conform to a rough grammar, or system of rules, used to manipulate the symbols. The grammar of a language is a complex and highly structured affair because it operates in terms of concepts and categories which have to be defined in the same way. So we need grammar in using English and the understanding about grammar also influences our ability in English. The students of English study program 2017/2018 year, Islamic university of Indragiri are the students who are obliged to use English in almost all subjects. So, the researcher is eager to know their ability to distinguish present participle from gerund can be as a measure and correction for them how far their understanding about English. In conclusion, the students of English study program to distinguish present participle and gerund has percentage, there was 62.02 % the correct answer, while the percentages of the incorrect answer was 37.98 %. From the percentage of the correct answer above can be said that the ability of the 2017/2018 year students of English study program, Islamic University of Indragiri in distinguishing present participle from gerund is good. Keywords: Distinguishing, present participle, gerund.
AN INQUIRY ON THE STUDENTS’ WRITING COMPETENCE OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT Amri, samsul
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 1, No 2 (2017)
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Writing competence has been being appealing topic to investigate in order to achieve adequate and accurate final statement. One of the phenomena was on writing Analytical Exposition text. It is one of genres that is taught for Senior High School students. This existing study purposed to settle to what extent the students’ writing competence of Analytical Exposition text. To augment the objective, it was designed as survey research, which took 40 students of the elventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Tembilahan as the participants. They were asked for writing an Analytical Expostion text. The assessment aspects involved grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, fluency, and organization. After analyzing the data, the results display that the students’ competence on each of writing component was extremely diverse. Their grammar competence was 72.5, which was in good level, vocabulary mastery was 74.38, which was categorized as good level, mechanic mastery was 67.92, which was in enough level, fluency was in 64.17, which was classified as enough level, and organization was 68.33 which was in enough category. Then overall the students’ writing competence was 69.4 which was classified as enough level. It is suggested that they need to refine their performance to get better results.
THE EFFECT OF COMIC STRIPS ON SECONDARY EFL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITING ABILITY Ridhwan, M.; Ihsan, Muhammad Taufik; Naskah, Naskah
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 2, No 2 (2018)
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the significant effect of using comic strips strategy toward students’ reading comprehension and writing ability at MTsN 1 Pekanbaru. A Quasi-Experimental by Non-equivalent Pre-test and Post-test Group was applied as a designed for study. The sample was two classes (VIII 3 and VIII 4) consisting 20 students of treatment class, and 20 students of control class. The data were computed using SPPS 20.0 to analyze Independent sample t-test and Paired sample t-test. The finding of this study revealed that there was a significant effect on students’ reading comprehension by using comic strips strategy, it shown on paired sample t-test; treatment class was 77 and control class was 64.5, the hypothesis testing showed the result of post T-test -7.149, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000, if we act to null hypothesis (Ho) that is 0.05, it means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of Ho. The data also revealed that there was a significant effect on students’ writing ability, it shown on paired sample t-test; treatment class was 79.6 and control class was 54.2, the hypothesis testing showed the result of post T-test -21.9, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000, if we act to null hypothesis (Ho) that is 0.05, it means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of Ho. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. From those data it can be summarized that there is a significant effect of using comic strips strategy on students’ reading comprehension and writing ability. Keywords: Comic Strips, Reading, Writing.
AN ANALYSIS ON TENTH STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING REPORTED SPEECH OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH TEMBILAHAN Baroroh, Umi; Ardian, Edi
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 1, No 1 (2017)
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This research is purposed to know students’ ability in using Reported speech. The problem of this research is students’ ability in using Reported Speech in unknown yet. Therefore, to solve the problem in this research was descriptive quantitative research. The population of the research was students at grade X of SMA Muhammadiyah Tembilahan. The number of population in this research was 22 students.In this research the researcher used total sampling technique as the taking sample technique, because sample in this research was all of the population and it was less than 100. The data collecting technique in this research was used test in essay test. The number of the items was 25 questions. The students were changed Direct speech into Reported speech. The finding of this research shows that the mean score of the first indicator (Simple Present Tense into Simple Past Tense) was 49.31 it was categorized in enough level. The result of the second indicator (Simple Past Tense into Simple Past Perfect Tense) was 56.95it was categorized enough level. Then, the total mean score from two indicators before the researcher could concluded the result of this research that the students’ ability in using Reported Speech was enough with mean score 52.54. In addition, the students’ classification score showed that 5 students who get good score, 12 students who get enough score, and 5 students who get poor score. Therefore, could be concluded that the students have low ability in using Reported Speech.
A STUDY ON ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS (A Descriptive Research at SMPN 2 Tembilahan Hulu) Ahmad, Ahmad; Iratna, Iratna
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 2, No 1 (2018)
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AbstractThe main purpose of this study was to investigate English teachers’ pedagogical cempetencies in teaching and learning process and its supporting factors. It was conducted at the English teachers at SMPN 2 Tembilahan Hulu. It was a descriptive quantitative research. The sample of this study were five English teachers at SMPN 2 Tembilahan Hulu. The data were collected by using questionnaire sheet. By the questionnaire sheet, the researcher got the results that the teachers’ pedagogical competencies in teaching and learning process at SMPN 2 Tembilahan Hulu was at good level with the percentage 73.73%. Where the teachers’ pedagogical competencies of the first teacher was at good level (71.00%), the second teacher was at good level (78.00%), the third teacher was at good level (70.00%). It is the same with the fourth and fifth teacher. They were also at good level (78.00%). By the questionnaire sheet, the researcher also got the results that supporting factors of teachers’ pedagogical competencies in teaching and learning process are dominant on the social environment factor. Based on the result of this study, it revealed taht the English teachers at SMPN 2 Tembilahan Hulu understand and recognize about teachers’ pedagogical competencies in teaching and learning process. Keywords: Pedagogical Competencies, Teaching Learning Process.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING MIND MAPPING AND GUIDED QUESTIONS AT FOURTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM AT ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF INDRAGIRI TEMBILAHAN Mustajib, Agus
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 1, No 1 (2017)
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This objective of this research is to know whether Mind Mapping is more effective than Guided Question in teaching speaking for fourth semester of English education study Program at Islamic University of Indragiri Tembilahan. In experimental research, the researcher deals with the research instrument of collecting data: (1) giving the pre-test (2) dividing the classes who have Mind Mapping and Guided Question (3) applying the teaching technique to the students (4) giving post test, and (5) analyzing the students’ score to decide the teaching technique whether or not it is effectives. The research findings show that the use of Mind Mapping can affect the students’ speaking ability optimally. It is proved from research findings which t-observed value 3.189 is higher than t-table of 1.671 at the significant level of 5% which means that the Mind Mapping is more effective than Guided Question to speaking ability; therefore it is recommended that the lecturers are suggested to apply Mind Mapping in speaking activity, to be more creative and innovative in using various kinds of interesting teaching technique with accompany the materials.
THE USE OF LRD (Listen-Read-Discuss) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP N.2 TEMBILAHAN Erma Purwanti, Sri
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri) : Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol 1, No 2 (2017)
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The aim of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using LRD Strategy in improving students’ reading comprehension of the second-grade students at SMPN.2 Tembilahan. LRD strategy is a literacy strategy that builds students’ prior knowledge before they read a text. It is a powerful tool for engaging struggling readers in classroom discussion. There were two classes taken by the researcher, experimental group, and control group. The treatment was given to the experimental group for eight meetings. The materials were Recount text and Descriptive Text. The instrument used was multiple choices test consisting of 30 questions. By the end of the meeting, the researcher gave them post-test. The result of the analysis shows that the LRD strategy significantly improves the students’ reading comprehension

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