Advertising is a message that connects advertisers with consumers. An automotive advertisement titled Toyota Doraemon is made in series using Doraemon character. Toyota insert the advantages of its product in every scene and storyline. As a medium of information, advertisements are interesting to observe and disassemble the contents of the message so that hidden meaning behind the signs is…
This research discussed the meaning of words formed by the profession marking suffix -shi (-師) and -fu (-婦) in Japanese. This research used a qualitative descriptive, especially a method by using morphology and the meaning of kanji. The data were collected from the Japanese printed dictionary, the online Japanese dictionary on the weblio.jp website, the aedict online dictionary, and Japanes…
Japanese Languange Proficiency Test (JLPT) is a test held to measure Japanese language skills. This study aims to find out how the use of learning strategies according to Oxford (1990) by students who have passed JLPT N3. This study used descriptive qualitative method. The study was conducted by conducting interviews with data sources. The data sources in this study were 7 students of clas…
This descriptive research aimed to find out the anxiety level of XI MIPA 4 students of SMA N 3 Mandau in speaking english as foreign language. The subjects of this study were XI MIPA 4 students of SMA N 3 Mandau in the academic year 2020/2021. 34 students employed in this study as a sample used The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale questionnaire, developed by Horwitz et al. (1986). It co…
This descriptive quantitative research was designed to discover the proficiency of the third-semester students of the English study program FKIP Universitas Riau in comprehending the Reading Section of TOEFL. The population of this research was the third-semester students of the English study program FKIP Universitas Riau which consisted of 119 students. The sample was 119 students selected by …
This research aimed to investigate the eighth-semester students’ dominant errors on reading skills for TOEFL at English Study Program FKIP Riau University. The eighth-semester students of the English Study Program in the academic year 2020/2021 were the population of this research. Eighty six samples were selected using the proportional random sampling technique. This quantitative research us…
This study aims to find out what kinds of grammar learning strategies are mostly employed by the students of English Study Program of Universitas Riau. The subjects of this study were second-year students of the English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Riau (2019 batch). This study used a total population sampling technique which means the entire population …
The purpose of this study is to find out the students' perceptions on the use of Google Classroom on listening comprehension subjects during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, the method was quantitative research and the instrument used was a questionnaire designed by Chyntia (2018) and Shaharanee et al. (2016). There were 20 items in the questionnaire. Eighty-five student…
This study investigated types and functions of code-switching, employed by the EFL learners at one of the Universities in Riau Province, Indonesia while having an interaction with each other in informal or formal settings. This was a descriptive study that used a qualitative approach. The conversation occurred naturally through phone calls and interviews were used to collect the data. The natur…
The aim of this study was to identify the type and meanings of Japanese onomatopoeia in One Piece comic. The qualitative descriptive methods of this study used phonology and morphology to explain the sounds of onomatopoeia. The data in this study is onomatopoeia words of the giongo type. Onomatopoeia is divided by sound replication from inanimate objects which is nature and treated objects. Gis…
This study aimed to analyze the quality of summative test that was conducted by the teacher at the eleventh grade of SMA Nurul Pekanbaru and was constructed as descriptive quantitative research. The sample consisted of 53 students in the second semester of the academic year 2020/2021 and was selected by using total sampling with the lottery method. Furthermore, the instrument of English final t…
The education sector has been currently facing the impact of COVID-19, which requires all teaching and learning activities to be carried out online. Of course, this is a demand for teachers in choosing learning media with an online learning system. Many applications can be used as media in teaching during this pandemic, one of which is Google Classroom. In several schools in Mandau, the teacher…
This research is aimed to find out whether or not there is significant effect of PENS strategy on students’ ability at SMP IT Madani Pekanbaru in Writing. The research design is a pre-experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample was all of students VIII. The pre-test and post-test were applied. The data were statistically analyzed by using the t-test formula.…
The education sector has been currently facing the impact of COVID-19, which requires all teaching and learning activities to be carried out online. Of course, this is a demand for teachers in choosing learning media with an online learning system. Many applications can be used as media in teaching during this pandemic, one of which is Google Classroom. In several schools in Mandau, the teacher…
This research aimed to analyse students’ English receptive skills through the TOEFL score and their difficulties in answering the test of the English Study Program Students FKIP Universitas Riau. This research was descriptive quantitative research, with 95 students as the sample. This research used students TOEFL scores that the researcher got from UPT Bahasa Universitas Riau and question…
This research was conducted to find out the students’ ability in comprehending recount texts. This descriptive research design took place in SMP N 1 Kuantan Hilir Seberang. The sample was 22 students from VIII2 class that were selected by using cluster random sampling. There were 40 questions in this test. The researcher used the validity and reliability formula of theory Heaton 1991 in analy…
The research entitled the basiacuong tradition in Batu Belah Village, Kampar District, Kampar Regency. This study aims to determine how the form of the oral tradition of basiacuong in bakapuong nemo. Bakampuong nemo is a tradition that is still carried out by the Kampar people to negotiate or express opinions. Oral traditions are very diverse, both in terms of form and way of saying. This type …
Researcheran this is aimed at identifying and outlining the types of rhetorical and figurative language styles on Covid-19 discourse on Instagram social media. The spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia is getting longer and wider to various regions. The Indonesian government began to appeal to the public to stay at home to stop the spread of the virus. The government appealed to the public throug…
This study discusses student’s errors in using punctuation when writing narrative text and analyzes what possible causes of errors in writing punctuation in narrative text which made by the tenth year students of SMAN 2 Tapung. In this study, 30 students employed were taken as the sample of this research. These 30 students consits of 3 classes, there for classes X1, X2, and X3, each class is …
This study aims to determine the level of ability to understand anecdotal texts, and determine the differences in the ability to understand anecdotal texts per class, X grade students of Riau Taxation Vocational School. This research method is descriptive quantitative. The population in this study amounted to 92 people and the samples obtained using the Slavin formula were 75 people. The data c…