The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Si Belmi game in improving students' speaking skills in spoken recount in terms of their pronunciation and hesitation. This study used a pre-experimental design with quantitative methods. The instrument used is a monologue test, both pre-test and post-test. Data collection consisted of six meetings. The first meeting was a pre-…
speaking. In listening students often get difficulties to catch what they listen whether it is from native speaker or not in doing listening activities. To increase the listening ability, the students should practice effective listening activities and other subject that is able to influence the skill. The students should apply some ways to motivate themselves in order to improve their ability i…
This research aimed to find out the difference between male and female eleventh-grade students of Senior High School 12 Pekanbaru in vocabulary learning strategies and also to know the most and least common vocabulary learning strategies used by them. The sample of this research was taken by using the quota sampling technique. The number of students was 40 males and 40 females. The data was col…
The objectives of this study were to perceive vocabulary mastery of students, reading comprehension of students, and whether there is a correlation between these two topics. The data were taken from 29 students in the second year at SMK Abdurrab. The tests were employed to quantify two variables, namely vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The statistical analyzes were performed with S…
The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between reading habits and reading comprehension in a recount text among 10th grade students at SMK Abdurrab Pekanbaru. The low student comprehension capacity was predicated on the research problem of capturing information included in complicated reading materials. And students have reading habits and reading speed is quite low. As a re…
The purpose of this research found the perception of students on online English learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The researcher conducted sample testing in two classes, namely X IPA 3 and XII IPA 2, at SMA Negeri 1 Peranap. This research is descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The data was collected through a questionnaire using a Google Form shared in the WhatsApp group of …
This research identifies students’ perspectives on using VTC applications as a platform for English teaching & learning in English Study Program, Riau University. The objectives of the research are to describe: students’ thoughts, impressions, and experiences during the VTC learning period and students’ profiles in terms of using videoteleconferencing applications from the students’…
As one of the kinds of literary genres, short story can be applied in language classroom. The use of literarture in the form of short story can build the enjoyable and attractive for the students. The aims of this study was to find out the ability of the sixth semester students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau in analyzing short story. There were 33 students of 6A English Study Pr…
This descriptive research aimed to find out the ability level of the second-year students of SMA Negeri 2 Tebing Tinggi in writing a formal invitation letter. The subjects of this study were the second year students of SMA Negeri 2 Tebing Tinggi who were selected by using the cluster random sampling technique. 25 students employed in this study used the Writing Test. The results of the data ana…
The objective of this research was to find out students' perceptions on the use of group discussion through zoom meeting in speaking class during online learning. This research uses Descriptive approaches to quantitative methods. The sample for this research included 80 students from the English department, Universitas Riau who experienced in the use of group discussion through zoom meeting in …
This correlation research was conducted to discover the correlation between students’ family support and English learning achievement of the third-year students of the English study program Universitas Riau. The instruments of this research were the students’ family support questionnaire and students’ English learning achievement score. The questionnaire is Social Family Support Scale. Th…
This quantitative descriptive study aims to find out the students' ability in writing recount text. The sample of this study was 27 students of class VIII 1 MTs Hubbulwathan Duri. This research used cluster random sampling technique. The instrument used written test in which students wrote their own recount text according to a theme that has been determined by the writer. In analyzing the data,…
The aim of this study was to find out the types of slang word-formation and the kind of meaning in the slang words found in the song lyrics in Divide Album by Ed Sheeran. This study used a qualitative descriptive design. The researcher used the theory of slang word-formation by Mattiello (2008) to classify the slang word-formation and the theory of seven types of meaning by Leech (1981) to orga…
this descriptive research is aimed to find out the awareness of reading strategies of the third semester students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau. The sample of this research is one of three classes of the second year students of English Study Program which were chosen by using cluster random sampling technique. The number of sample is 37 students. The data were collected by givi…
This study aimed to know the students’ perception on their learning reading online of the second-year students of English study program FKIP Universitas Riau. A descriptive-quantitative approach research design was used to conduct this study. The total number of participants is 119 students from the second semester of English study program, classes 4A, 4B, and 4C in the academic year 2019/202…
This research aimed to discover the. Correlation. between morphological. awareness and vocabulary. Mastery of the 5th semester. Students. of English, Department of FKIP Universitas Riau. The research design was correlation design for the student’s morphological. awareness and vocabulary mastery. There were 39 students of the 5th semester of English Department of FKIP Universitas Riau selected…
The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover the types of code switching employed by the characters in dialogues, as well as the reasons why characters in the novel The Proposal of Love change their language from Indonesia language to English. The information was examined using two methods: descriptive analysis and documentation analysis. The data analysis revealed that characters in t…
This study investigated the types and functions of taboo words uttered by the characters in the TV Series the Umbrella Academy 2. This study used Azzaro’s (2005) theory which consists of five types of taboo words; mental, physical, religious, scatological, and sexual, and two main functions of taboo words; swearing and insults. This study used a descriptive qualitative method, and the data so…
This research aims to identify and describe the students’ perception on using Schoology application in learning English during pandemic Covid-19. The population of this research is the second year students of SMP Cendana Pekanbaru. The number of sample is 44 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. Data of this research were collected through an online questionnaire using…
This research shed light on the types of refusal strategies employed by the EFL learners of the English Study Program of Universitas Riau. This is using a descriptive qualitative study. The participants of this research involved 35 EFL students of the English Study Program selected by using the cluster random sampling method. The data was acquired using a DCT (Discourse Completion Task) as the …