Kampus Mengajar is one of the Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) programs issued by the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia in early 2020 with the goal of improving the quality of university graduates so that they can compete in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 and society 5.0, as well as increasing the professionalism of students as prospective teachers in…
The purpose of this study was to determine the English Department students’ perceptions of flipped classroom implementation in semantic class at Universitas Riau. This investigation used a mixed method. The data were gathered through a quantitative method by questionnaire and a qualitative method by interview. The researcher analyzed the quantitative data using SPSS and displayed the qualitat…
This research discusses the correlation between two variables, namely vocabulary mastery and writing descriptive text ability of the first-year students, at SMPN 1 Tebing Tinggi. The researcher used a quantitative research method as the data approach. The population was the first-year students with a total of 124 students. The researcher used a simple random sampling technique and selected 32 s…
By conducting this research, the authors aimed to identify the types of errors made by students in constructing passive sentences. The study used descriptive qualitative research. Data collection was carried out in MAN 1 Siak with its sample of 11th grade students. The initial step was to conduct a short interview with an English teacher from the school, and then give 40 questions about passive…
This study aims to determine whether Index Card Match has an effect in Teaching-Learning simple present tense and simple past tense among the secondgrade students of SMP Islam Al-Azhar Pekanbaru, which consist of 50 students from two classes, where 8A as Experimental Class and 8B as Control Class. This study is conducted by test and questionnaire. In order to determine the result of the tes…
The advancements in technology make it unavoidable to be used as a teaching medium in education. Thus, this research aims to develop an interactive learning media in the form of an Android-based application as a teaching medium for writing descriptive texts in senior high school and to determine the validity of the media. The researchers applied the Research and Development (R&D) by employing t…
Jigsaw is a strategy for learning speaking in groups and discussing to increase students' speaking knowledge. The aim of this pre-experimental study was to find out whether there was a significant effect of the jigsaw strategy on the speaking knowledge of MAN 1 Pekanbaru students. Applying pre-test and post-test design. Cluster Random Sampling was used to select a group to represent the sam…
This research aims to investigate whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ academic self-efficacy and their English learning achievement at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru. Applying correlational research design, this research used quantitative approach. The population of the research is 250 students of tenth grade at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru, meanwhile the samples are 70 students, who we…
This research is aims to find out the levels of students’ speaking and the dominant type of anxiety that occured in speaking performance of the Third Semester Students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau. The population of this research was 113 students which divided into 6A, 6B and 6C class as total number of the third year English Study Program Students of Universitas Riau. The r…
Teacher creativity in providing learning in the classroom is something that plays an important role in improving student learning abilities. Active Learning is a teaching method used by teachers in the classroom to improve students' learning abilities, both in increasing learning motivation, self-confidence, critical thinking and so on. In Active Learning there are various teaching techniques t…
This research aimed to find out how the perceptions of SMPS As-Shofa students on using Quizizz Application in learning English. The sample of this research was taken by using the total sampling technique that from ninth grade students of SMPS As-Shofa Pekanbaru. The number of samples was 55 students. The data was collected by using a questionnaire. There are 35 questions in total in the questio…
This descriptive research was aimed to find out what kind of translation method used by English Study Program Students of Universitas Riau in translating activity. The population of this research was sixth semester students of English Study Program Universitas Riau. There are two instruments of this research, the first test is about translating the English text into Indonesia and the second tes…
This study aims to find out the code mixing of English, The purpose of this study is to find out the types and the reason code-mixing. This study was examined using a qualitative descriptive approach as the data used came in the form of words, sentences and images. The results of the research are three types and six reason of code-mixing that appeared in Nadiem Makarim's Instagram comment …
English is a global language that is presently the official or dominant language in more than 60 nations, Lucantoni (2006). English is one of the foreign languages taught at junior and senior high schools, as well as colleges, in Indonesia. Based on the background above, the problem is formulated as follows “how is the vocabulary mastery of the second grade students of SMPN 34 Pekanbaru?”. …
This research aims to find out whether there is a significant effect of the Four-Square Writing Method on students’ achievement in writing recount text at the second-year students of SMPN 5 Pekanbaru. The research design in this research used quasi-experimental. The instrument in this research used writing test. The subject in this research is the second-year students of SMP Negeri 5 Pekanbar…
A genre of reading text includes the social function, text structure, and features. In this study, the author of the textbook "Talk Active" in English examined the genre of the reading passages. The goals of this study were to identify the genres that are present in the English textbook "Talk Active," as well as its social functions, generic structures, and linguistic characteristics. They also…
This research was conducted to find out and analyze errors made by students in writing recount text. The method of this research is qualitative descriptive method. To describe the errors, the writer classified the errors based on Betty S. Azar’s classification (1989) they are singular plural, word form, word choice, verb tense, add a word, omit a word, word order, incomplete sentence, spellin…
This study was conducted to analyzing EFL Learners’ strategy in apologizing. This was a descriptive qualitative study using a qualitative approach combine with descriptive statistics. The participants of this study were 32 EFL Learners that currently study in their second academic year in English Department of Universitas Riau. They were selected using cluster random sampling technique. The d…
In communicating, people may express themselves in a particular communication channel, spoken or written. For instance, people may use direct and indirect communication as their message’s perceived meaning varies depending on the tone of the messages. As a result, they may apply different levels of politeness. This research investigated politeness strategies used by George W. Bush in his …
This research was conducted to analyze the difficulty level in using gerund and infinitive. The design of this research is descriptive quantitative. The participants of this study were 37 students that are currently studying in their sixth semester of English Study Program of Universitas Riau and they were selected by cluster random sampling. In collecting data, the researcher used a test. Afte…