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 …
This study is intended to find out the ability level of the second-year students of MTs Darul Hikmah Pekanbaru in writing descriptive texts. This study concerns five aspects of writing: grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, organization, and content. The data collection technique is a writing test. The students' writing results are checked and scored by the rater. The research findings are as follows…
This research aims at finding out the levels and the major causes of speaking anxiety experienced by the third-year students at SMPN 2 Bayat Kabupaten Kepulauan Anambas. Total sampling was used in this research since the pool of participants was relatively small consisting of 13 students in total. For the purpose of collecting the data, students were asked to fill out a set of a modified versio…
This research aims to investigate students' perception on using Google Classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic in learning English. The subjects of this study were all eighth grade students of Islamic Junior High School (SMP Islam) As-Shofa Pekanbaru with the total of 105 students. This research was conducted by using a mixed method that uses quantitative and qualitative methods. In collecting t…
The impossibility to continue the conventional classroom created an inevitable situation where online learning is the most suitable solution at the moment to keep up the learning process amidst the pandemic. It is presumably familiar to students, but the sudden change of online learning being applied sporadically to regularly arise an issue of how the students perceive, access, react to it and …
This research aims to know the significant effect of PQRST (PREVIEW, QUESTION, READ, SUMMARY, and TEST) strategy on reading comprehension ability of the first year students at SMAN 1 Sabak Auh District Siak Regency. Previously, the researcher found that 65% of the students have difficulties in comprehending the reading passage about descriptive text. It could be identified from the students’ …
The pandemic of Covid-19 has given a big impact on education in Indonesia, from face-to-face learning to online learning. This is a qualitative descriptive study of students’ perception of the implementation of online learning during the pandemic of Covid-19. There were eight students of English Study Program Universitas Riau involved in this study, selected using the purposive sampling techn…
This research discusses about the English Department students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning for learning content courses in online learning. This study is a quantitative descriptive study that involved 114 English Department students taking semantic classes at Universitas Riau. The participants were selected through a saturated sampling technique. The data were collected fr…
Recently, FKIP Universitas Riau launched TEACHERS as core values that must be possessed by all members of the academic community: lecturers, students and employees. Each letter in the word TEACHERS has its own meaning. This study aims to add sufficient documents of TEACHERS abbreviation indicators which are linked to professional teachers’ competency. Specifically, the purpose of this stu…
This research was aimed to find out the Ability of the Second Year Students of the Vocational High School (SMK) Taruna Satria Pekanbaru in Comprehending Narrative Texts. The population of this research was the Second Year Students of the Vocational High School (SMK) Taruna Satria Pekanbaru. The number of samples was 32 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The research i…
The study aimed to analyze the form of code mixing used in Pekanbaru billboard advertisements and to find out the dominant English lexical categories in Pekanbaru billboard advertisements. This research is qualitative research with descriptive analysis methods to find the percentage of data. The source of the data in this research is from billboard advertisements in Pekanbaru. The researcher co…