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JURNAL SMART
Published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Pringsewu
ISSN : 23562048     EISSN : 2356203X     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
SMART: Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics ISSN: 2356-2048, e-ISSN: 2356-203X a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by Language Centre STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in collaboration with Asosiasi Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (APSBI). The journal publishes both conceptual and research-based articles within the fields of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. Its scope encompasses English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, Asesment Language, Translation, vocabularies, Curriculum, semantics, syntax, syllabus discourse, english skills, teaching method,structure pragmatics, sociolinguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics. It published biannually in the months of January and August.
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FLOUTS OF THE MAXIMS IN INTERVIEW BETWEEN BARRACK OBAMA AND ROBIN ROBERTS OF ABC NEWS "GOOD MORNING AMERICA," Seftika, author
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 1 (2015)
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Cooperative principle plays an important role in communication. It is one of major principles which guide people’s communication. It’s application in spoken is interested the researcher to analyze the flouting of cooperative principle maxims in Interview between president Barack Obama and Robin Roberts of ABC News "Good Morning America". This study aimed to find out which maxims are flouted in Barrack Obama’s interview. In collecting the data, the researcher used documentation. Descriptive qualitative method was employed in processing the transcription data. It was analyzed using the theory of Grice’ s conversational maxims. Having analyzed the data. The write found the result that there are eighteen flouts of maxims which found in the interview. Based on the finding, it can be concluded that the flouting of maxims also occurred in formal communication such as in president’s interview. Moreover, the interviewee disobeyed these maxims for getting particular purposes.Key words: Cooperative principles; maxims; and flouting; interview
INTEGRATING ROUNDTABLE BRAINSTORMING INTO TEAM PAIR SOLO TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN WRITING OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS Sutarno, author
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 1 (2015)
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The objectives of the study are to find out the application of integration of roundtable brainstorming into team pair solo technique in writing of descriptive texts and to investigate the improvement of students’ participation and achievement after taught by using the integration of the techniques. This study was an action research which was carried out through a preliminary study, first and second cycle activities. The subjects of this study were VII grade students of State Junior High School no.1 Semaka, Tanggamus, Lampung consisting of thirty two students. To collect the data, the researcher used instruments inform of interview, observation sheets, writing tests, and questionnaires. The findings of the research showed that students’ participation improved from the preliminary study, first and second cycle. In the preliminary study there were twenty six students classified as poor, six students classified as fair and no student classified as good in participation. While in the first cycle there were three students classified as fair and twenty nine students classified as good in participation and in the second cycle all students were classified as good in participation. The students’ writing also improved. The average score of students writing in the preliminary study was 53.31, first cycle was 64.41, and second cycle was 72.56.Key words: Roundtable Brainstorming, Team Pair Solo Technique, Students’ Participation, Writing Descriptive Texts
IMPROVING THE SKILL AND THE INTEREST OF WRITING ADVERTISEMENTS AND POSTERS THROUGH ESA SEQUENCE Fatma Yuniarti, author
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 1 (2015)
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The action reserach aims at improving the students’ writing skill especially to write advertsements and posters. Both are the short functional texts to be learned at the second semester. According to the data on pre cycle, the students of second semester got difficulties to write advertisements and posters. A treatment was necessary to help the students overcome their problem. To consider the related literature, the writer decided to implement ESA sequence (Harmer 2001) in the class. The elements of teaching in ESA Sequence are Engage (to arouse the students’ interests), Study (learn the language focus), and Activate (use the language freely and communicatively). The data were taken from the test of the linguistic competence mastery, the students writing, and the questionnaire. The students’ linguistic competence got increased as shown by the score (58 in pre-cycle, 66 in cycle 1, and 70 in cycle 2). The students’ ability to write the short functional texts also get improved as indicated by the average score on writing tasks (53 in pre-cycle, 63 in cycle 1, 72 in cycle 2). The interest also gets better as shown by the score of the questionnaire (22,3 in pre-cycle, 33,5 in cycle 1, and 37 in cycle 2). It means ESA Sequence can improve the studets’ ability to write advertisements and posters.Key words : advertisement, ESA (Engange Study Activate), poster
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF KNOW-WANT TO KNOW-LEARNED (KWL) STRATEGY IN READING COMPREHENSION Dian Rakhmawati, author
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 1 (2015)
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The objectives of this research are to identify the effectiveness of KWL as the strategy in teaching reading comprehension to the second grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Metro. The quantitative research was conducted and this study is population research, because all the member of population is taken as sample, which consisted of 41 students of XI IPA class.To collects the data the researcher used pre-test and post-test. The test is in the form of multiple choices. To know whether there is a significantly difference between the students’ pre-test scores with their post-test scores, the writer analyzed the data by using Paired Sample T-test. Before the instrument was used in a research, the instruments of pre-test and post-test has been tried out in order to achieve good validity and reliability. The research findings show that in the pre-test, the students’ lowest score was 62.50 and the highest score was 80.00 with the mean 70.0000. Meanwhile, in the post-test, the students’ lowest score was 62.50 and the highest score was 90.00 with the mean 72. 4390. It means that KWL strategy is effective in teaching reading comprehension. It can also be proved by value of t-test with probability (Asymp.Sig.2 tailed) was less than the level of significance (0.002 < 0.05).Keywords : Effectiveness; KWL Strategy; Reading Comprehension.
BUILDING VOCABULARY USING POP SONGS Rahmatika Kayyis, author
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 1 (2015)
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The objective of the study is to find out whether there is a significant difference between the vocabulary mastery of first semester students taughtusing English pop songs and that taught without using English pop songs as a medium. This study involved 64 students of first semesterof STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in the academic year of 2012/2013 as the objects of the study. The result of the study shows there is a significant difference in the student’s vocabulary mastery between the experimental group who are taughtusing English pop songs and that taught without using English pop songs as a medium.The mean of post test score of the experimental group is 16.93 while the mean score of the control group is 14.54. The result of t-test shows that t-observed value which is higher than the t-value of the table (2.572>1.99), with a probability value of 0.008 which is lower than the significance level (0.008 < 0.05). In conclusion, the use of English pop songscould improve the students’ vocabulary mastery.Keywords: Vocabulary, English Pop Songs
LEARNING CELL TECHNIQUE TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT Rakhmawati, Dian
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 2 (2015)
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Abstract The purposes of this study are to identify the differences of reading comprehension in control and experimental group of senior high school students and to find out the effectiveness of Learning Cell as the technique in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text.The quantitative method was conducted in this study and the researcher used Nonequivalent Control Group Design which the observation is done twice, before and after treatment. The subject of this research was two groups, which consist of 34 students in each group.Then reading comprehension test was used as research instrument. The result of the t-test computation showed that tobserved was higher than t table (6.184>2.036), with the degree of freedom 32 and the level of significance 0.05 and the probability (Asymp.Sig.2 tailed) was lower than the level of significance (0.000<0.05). It can be concluded that the null hypothesis of no difference was rejected. In other words, teaching reading comprehension by using learning cell technique is effective than teaching reading comprehension by using conventional way. Keywords: Learning cell, reading comprehension, narrative text 
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL Episiasi, Episiasi; Ardayati, Ardayati; Novianti, Sinta
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 2 (2015)
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Abstract The problem of this study was “Is it significantly effective to use pictures to improve students’ speaking skill to the sixth semester students of English Education Study Program at STKIP PGRI Lubuklinggau?”. This study was conducted to find out whether it is significantly effective to use pictures to improve students’ speaking skill. There were two hypotheses; null hypotheses (H0) and alternative hypotheses (Ha). The sample of the study was 23 students which were taken through cluster random sampling. Research method of this study was pre-experimental with one group pre-test and post-test design. The writer used speaking test and analyzed the data by using conversion of score range, individual score, and match t-test. Based on the result of data analysis, it was found out that students’ average score in the pre-test was 46.43 and post-test was 60.54. Finally, the results of matched t-test calculation shows that the t-obtain was higher than t-table. The t-obtained was 31.37 while the t-table was 1.717. It means that the null hypotheses (Ho) was rejected and automatically the alternative hypotheses (Ha) was accepted. It can be concluded that it is significantly effective to teach speaking skill by using pictures. Keywords: Effectiveness, Speaking, Picture
ANALYSING THE STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERROR ON WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT Janah, Miftahul
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 2 (2015)
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Abstract This qualitative study described about grammatical error on students narrative writing. The participants were the second semester students of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in academic year 2013/ 2014. In collecting data,this study uses forms with general, emerging questions to permit the participant to generate responses. Then, gathering word (text) from the participants, and collecting information from individual of participants. Data analysis tends to consist of text analysis, to involve developing a description and themes, then interpretation tends to sonsist of stating the larger meaning of the findings. After analysing the students writing, it was found that most of mistakes made by students were: missing subject, missing be in simple predicate, wrong simple predicate missing be, superfluous be, misinformation of passive form, the verb comes after the subject, pronoun form, agreement, and reference. Key Word: Grammar,Grammatical Error, Writing Skill, Narrative Text
USING INQUIRY-BASED TEACHING (5E) IN TEACHING VOCABULARY VIEWED FROM STUDENTS’ LOCUS OF CONTROL Kayyis, Rahmatika
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 2 (2015)
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Abstract The objectives of the research are to find out: (1) whether inquiry-based teaching is more effective than grammar-translation method to teach vocabulary; (2) whether the students who have high locus of control have better vocabulary than those who have low locus of control; and (3) whether there is an interaction between teaching methods and locus of control in teaching vocabulary.The factorial design method 2x2 was employed in this research. The population of the research was the students of fourth semester of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in the academic year of 2014/2015. Based on the test of the hypotheses, it can be concluded that inquiry-based teaching is not significant effective method to teach vocabulary. The conclusion is the measurement effectiveness of the method is not determined by the levels of the students’ locus of control Keywords: Vocabulary, Inquiry Based Teaching, Locus of Control
ACTION RESEARCH : IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPOKEN INTERACTIONS THROUGH POSTER SESSION Seftika, Seftika
JURNAL SMART Vol 1, No 2 (2015)
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Abstract Spoken interaction is beneficial in learning a language. In fact the classrooom interaction did not take place well. Due to the lack of students’ interaction, this study aimed to improve students’ spoken interaction through Poster Session. A classroom action research was carried out at the English major students at the fourth semester of STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung.In collecting the data the researcher used observation, test, and documentation. The data collected were analyzed and synthesized both qualitatively and quantitatively, and then meaning and interpretation were built to know clearly the process which was occurred during the research. The results indicate that there is improvement of Students’ spoken interaction using Poster Session. Poster Session facilitates students to practise English spoken interaction, it enhances them to be involved in learner-learner interaction. Due to the fact that their interaction is great, it influences their speaking skill.  Key Words: Interaction, speaking, Poster Session

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