This study intends at investigating how often and for what reasons English Study Program Students using English. The research is a mixed study applying combined quantitative and qualitative methods, with 118 English Department students from the Universitas Riau's class of 2019 serving as the population. The researcher used two instruments: questionnaires and interviews to collect the data. Ques…
This research aimed to find out the correlation between students’ mobile technology usage and TOEFL listening proficiency in the sixth semester of the English Study Program of FKIP Universitas Riau. The sample of this study was 36 students in the sixth semester of the English Study Program of FKIP Universitas Riau who were chosen by using the Cluster Random sampling technique. This study used…
This research aims to find out what cultural contents are represented in English textbooks for grade 10th of Vocational High School. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this research to analyze cultural content in three textbooks: "Forward an English," "Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/SMK Kelas X Edisi 2017," and "English for SMK." The data was collected through document analysis and using …
This study, which employs a descriptive qualitative methodology, intends to investigate the types and purposes of code-switching employed in (by hosts and guests) Breakout NET TV. This study applied Poplack's (1980) theory for the types of code-switching, which consists of three types of code-switching: intra-sentential switching, inter-sentential switching, and tag-switching and Hoffman's…
The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of metaphor and the conceptual metaphor of women in song lyrics by Christina Aguilera and Little Mix. This research was conducted at the library of the University of Riau, Pekanbaru, Riau. Using qualitative research because the data is in the form of words and using descriptive qualitative which focuses on describing the conceptual metaphors …
This research aimed at finding the students’ perceptions on the use of instructional media by the English teachers. 30 students were taken as the sample of this research using cluster random sampling. This research employed a quantitative method of data collection. The data were collected from a questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 15 items. The findings of this study revealed th…
This research aims to introduce teaching media based on an interesting media use wordless picture books to improve students’ narrative writing abilities. The research design in this research used quasi-experimental. The instrument in this research used writing test. The subject in this research are the eighth-grade students of SMP Islam As-Shofa Pekanbaru. Purposive sampling technique was emp…
This research aimed to find out the types of slang words that used by all characters in ‘Suicide Squad’ movie. The design of the research was descriptive qualitative research. The data source was the ‘Suicide Squad’ movie directed by David Ayer. The movie was released in 2016 and its duration was about 2 hours 17 minutes. The data of this research were the slang words that were found in…
The purpose of this research was to examine the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension of the second grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Tapung Hilir. A correlational designed was used in this research. The sample was 80 students of second grade senior high school selected through using cluster random sampling. In addition, there were two data obtained as part of this …
The purpose of this study is to identify and characterize Lakoff and Johnson’s types of conceptual metaphor employed by Camila Cabello in her song lyrics from her self-titled debut album Camila, as well as to determine the prevalent form of metaphor. This is a qualitative study with Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). Six tracks from the album were chosen for analysis. There were 65 data…
This research aimed to develop interactive quizzes based on Wordwall Application for English Study Program in the Pre-intermediate Structure Class. This study employed Research and Development (R&D) design with ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) as the development model. The data were collected using Google Forms consisting of a set of written statements for v…
In this modern era, technology has the potential to make life easier and more efficient, especially in education. Where technology is able to solve learning problems. Teachers are encouraged to use technology as a tool or medium to boost student excitement for learning English, especially vocabulary, because there are so many students who are not interested in studying. The purpose of this stud…
This research intends to find out whether or not there is a correlation between students’ subject-verb agreement mastery and their writing ability of descriptive texts at SMAN 2 Tapung. There were 56 tenth grade students of social science major chosen as samples. The instruments were subject-verb agreement test and writing descriptive text test. The subject-verb agreement test was used to ass…
This reseacrh consists of two variables, they are English teachers’ questioning skills as the independent variable (X) and students’ participation as the dependent variable (Y). The objective of this research is to find out whether or not there is a positive and significant correlation between the English teachers' questioning skills and their students' participation in the EFL learning pro…
Vocabulary is a key when people learning English. The abilities of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in the target language may be impacted by a lack of vocabulary knowledge. This study aims to discover the difficulties and factors faced in enlarging vocabulary by the third grade students of SMAS IT Mutiara Duri. The research design was descriptive, and selected using cluster sampling. …
Repetition is a learning strategy that has been known for many times and still used by the teacher as it helps them in teaching-learning process in the classroom. This study aimed to investigate how student-teachers use repetition in their first teaching practice experience. The researcher tried to find out the kinds of word repetitions that are mostly repeated by student-teachers and also dete…
The aim of this study was to find out the ability of the eighth grade students of SMPN 20 Pekanbaru in comprehending procedure texts. The population of this research was the eighth grade students of SMPN 20 Pekanbaru. There were 30 students who participated in this study. The research instrument was multiple choice questions, which consisted of 30 questions. The test given included 5 components…
English is a foreign language in Indonesia. English is important because it is the international language. During classroom activities, teachers and students switched from English to Indonesian and other local languages. This research aims to analyze code- collected using an observation checklist and recording to gather the data in the use of code switching used by an English teacher of SMA Neg…
This descriptive research aimed to find out the ability of the third-year students of the English study program in paraphrasing a paragraph. 39 students of the third-year students in the English study program Universitas Riau in the academic year 2021/2022 were the sample of this research. The sample was chosen by using the cluster random sampling technique. The data of this research were the p…
TOEFL test is taken to measure someone’ English Proficiency in order to be able to connect to community around the world. TOEFL test is also set as one of requirements for college students for college admission and graduation. This study aimed to find out students’ perceptions toward TOEFL prediction as one of the graduation requirements at Universitas Riau. This study employed descriptive-…