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RETAIN (RESEARCH ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN INDONESIA)
ISSN : 23562617     EISSN : -     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. RETAIN publishes articles within the scope of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
Articles 894 Documents
The Effect of Animation Video on Junior High School Student Reading Comprehension alfiansyah bagas utama
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol 12 No 01 (2024)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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In this research entitled “The Effect of Animation Video on Junior High School Student Reading Comprehension.” the goal of this research to investigate the effect of animation videos on junior high school students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. This research was quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test. The participants in this study were 63 students, 32 for the experimental group and 31 for the control group of 8th grade students in junior high school. This class chose based on the teachers who provide classes with the same competence as the daily values ​​of their students. The result of this study showed that there were significant differences between students before and after treatment. In conclusion, video animation as a learning medium for learning reading comprehension and narrative text material has a positive impact. Key terms: Video animation, reading, reading comprehension, and narrative text
Students’ Perception of Quizizz on Reading Comprehension at One Vocational High School in Jombang Zharifah Arihhana Hadi Putri
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol 11 No 03 (2023)
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Nowadays, technology is already corporate with most peoples' activities. One example of the use of technology in education is a variety of learning tools that could help a learner achieve a better understanding during the teaching-learning process in the class more efficiently and effectively. One of the learning media tools used in the English learning process is Quizizz. The researcher wants to know students' ideas and experiences using Quizizz in reading comprehension. This study is qualitative research, with ten students from 10th grade at one vocational high school in Jombang as participants. In this study, the researcher used semi-structured interviews. This study's results reveal that most students are already familiar with Quizizz to implement in reading comprehension. They believe that Quizizz is a better learning media to use than traditional media and want to use it in every English lesson. Quizizz has many benefits, such as being easy to use, helping recall material for learning better, and making them feel motivated when they see the ranking leaderboard. Quizizz has drawbacks in the teaching and learning process as well. Keywords: Quizizz; students’ perception; reading comprehension.
Students’ Writing on Narrative Text in Secondary EFL Classroom Tabitha Intan Hariono
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol 12 No 01 (2024)
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Abstract Writing is one of the activities that students consider difficult when learning English. Writing becomes challenging due to psychological, linguistic, and cognitive problems. Narrative text was chosen as the type of text that was researched in this present study since it is familiar to students’ world by exploring students’ creative thinking. . This research aims to: (1) Explaining how the students’ develop their narrative writing text in secondary EFL classroom; and (2) Explaining how the students’ encountered the difficulties in writing narrative text. This research was descriptive qualitative that aims to describe the ninth-grade that collected through students’ writing task interview and interview. The students’ writing task has four component categories, such asexcellent to very good, good to average, fair to poor, and very poor. Mostly, the students could develop orientation, complication, resolution, and coda well in their narrative writing text. They really understood what should be elaborated in those each text structure of narrative text. Meanwhile, from the results of interviews, student responses show that students experience difficulties in the lack of motivation during the writing process, the difficulty of using past tense sentences and limited vocabulary that has an effect on the processing of story structures. This difficulty can be overcome through consultation and internet media as their support in writing narrative text. Keywords: narrative text, difficulties in writing narrative text, narrative text development for EFL.
Using Animation Video to Enhance EFL Students' Listening Comprehension Muhammad Ibrahim Insan Al Hakim
RETAIN : Journal of Research in English Language Teaching Vol 12 No 01 (2024)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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Animation video is a type contemporary entertainment that blends speech, music, and visuals with moving pictures. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not students’ listening comprehension significantly improves after receiving instruction via animated videos. This research employed a quantitative methodology. The Visual Communication Design Major (DKV) was chosen as the subject of this research at one state vocational highschool in Surabaya. Class 10 DKV 1 served as the experimental group, and class 10 DKV 2 as the control group in this research.The study’s findings indicate a substantial difference in post-test results between the experimental and control groups, indicating that the experimental group’s pupils had much higher listening comprehension than the control group’s. Thus, it can be said that using animated videos about describing person and describing things as an instructional tool at the treatment stage is very effective in improving the experimental group’s pupils’ listening comprehension in this present research.