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Wacana : Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajaran
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THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON DIFFICULTIES IN LISTENING FOR MINI TALK AT ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF BENGKULU UNIVERSITY Fitra Florensia; Kasmaini Kasmaini; Sufiyandi Sufiyandi
Wacana: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajaran Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Wacana, Vol. 19, No. 1, Januari 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33369/jwacana.v19i1.23032

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This research aimed to find out the perception on difficulties faced by the fourth semester students of English Education in listening for mini talk and the strategies used by the students of English Education to succeed in listening for mini talk. The respondents of this research were 70 students of fourth semester of English education study program Bengkulu University in academic year 2021/2022. This research used descriptive quantitative method. The gathering of the data by using questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire adopted from Hamouda (2013).  The result of this study showed that the difficulties in listening for mini talk such as: physical setting, listening material, lack of concentration, speaker, listener, psychological characteristics and linguistic aspects. While the way to overcome the difficulties in listening for mini talk were practice listening to familiar topics, knowing the topic of listening, watching speech frequently, practicing English with friends. 
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS WITH ACTION LEARNING STRATEGY AT EIGHTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL (A Classroom Action Research at Eight Grade Students of SMP N 01 Kota Bengkulu) Dorea Afrilia Wulandari; Kasmaini Kasmaini; Indah Damayanti
Wacana: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajaran Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Wacana, Vol. 19, No. 1, Januari 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33369/jwacana.v19i1.23033

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This research aimed to see the improvement of students’ speaking skill in english lesson by using action learning strategy at eighth grade. The participants of this research were 32 students form VIII.6 class consisting on 15 male and 17 female. This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The data were obtained through the observation and speaking test. To determine students who are successful in improving speaking skills based on the KKM (Minimum Completeness Criteria), which is 80. To analysis the data, the researcher used two steps, namely scoring students speaking skills use quantitative data and calculating the students’ score. The results of this study showed an increase in students' speaking ability. The results of this research indicate an improve in students' speaking ability. Students who experienced an increase in speaking skills in the preliminary data was 62.5%, or 20 students, the cycle I was 75% or 24 students and the cycle II was 84.375% or 27 students. While students who did not succeed in the preliminary data was 37.5% or 12 students, the cycle I was 25% or 8 students and the  cycle II was 15.675% or 5 students. Based on the results of interviews conducted by researchers to several samples of students, several factors were found that were able to improve students' speaking skills. These factors were the comfort that students get while studying, giving reward points to attract students' interest and teachers applied some learning tricks  to attract students' attention while studying.
The Correlation Between Students’ Perception of Google Translate and Their English Writing Skill Roy Yan Kurniawan; Wisma Yunita; Dedi Sofyan
Wacana: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajaran Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Wacana, Vol. 19, No. 1, Januari 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33369/jwacana.v19i1.23047

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The aim of this research was to find out the correlation of students’ perception of Google Translate and their writing skill. This research was a correlational research. The population of this research was the Fourth Semester English Education Study Program Students of Universitas Bengkulu. The samples were taken by using total sampling. There were 74 students as the samples from two classes of Paragraph Writing subject. There were two research instruments used in this research, Questionnaire and Documentation of student writing score. In analysis data, the researcher used Correlation Product Moment formula developed by Carl Pearson and the researcher using statistical analysis program SPSS. Based on the data analysis, it was found that the r-count was 0.469. It means that the correlation between the students’ perception of Google Translate and their writing skill was moderate. As a result of this, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Since r-count 0.469 was higher than the r-table 0.296, the correlation was significant. Based on the research finding, it can be concluded that there was a moderate correlation between students’ perception of Google Translate and their writing skill. It means that Google Translate was not a really dominant factor that affects writing skill of the fourth semester students of the English Education Study Program of Universitas Bengkulu.  

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