This research aims to find out if there is a significant correlation between English department students’ habit in watching English movies and their vocabulary knowledge. This is a correlational research that has two variables. The number of sample is 80 students chosen by using cluster random sampling. Questionnaire and vocabulary test were used to collect the data. The data were collected t…
This research was aimed to find out how is the students’ ability in comprehending English reading texts at SMAN 1 XIII Koto Kampar. The design of the research was one class for try-out test and one class for real test. The population was the eleventh-grade students of academic 2020/2021. The sample was 25 students of class XI MIPA 2 which were chosen by using lottery. The data were collected …
This research aimed to see the effect of role play as one of teaching technique can improve students’ speaking ability. This research was library research by collecting eleven journals on the use of role play technique for students as the sources of data. The result of data analysis showed that implementing role play could improve students’ speaking ability. It was as shown in the find…
This study aims to collect information, complete data and analyze it related to the meaning of abstinence in the tradition of making the route Cerenti District, Kuantan Singingi District. The method in this research is to use analytical descriptive method, namely by analyzing and describing descriptively the data obtained in the study, decomposed in the form of words not numbers. The technique …
The aims of this study are (1) Describing the types of persona deixis in the Mata Najwa episode “Who is Afraid of Vaccines?” (2) Explaining the persona deixis reference in Mata Najwa episode “Who is Afraid of Vaccines?”. This type of research is a qualitative research. The method used is descriptive method. The data source for this research is the Mata Najwa Youtube channel, which conta…
Positive character portraits of the main character of the film Kaasan Ore Wa Daijoubu can help learners, especially Japanese language students, regarding the positive character potraits contained in the film Kaasan Ore Wa Daijoubu. Both in understanding the meaning and the right types of positive characters so that they can be realized in everyday life. The purpose of this study is to describe …
Sentence-final particle in Japanese called shuujoshi. This study discusses the Japanese sentence-final particle and its equivalent in Indonesian. The particle particles as object to discuss in this study, namely zo. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. A data in this study is collected from reading the conversational dialogues in manga. The results is founding the sentences in man…
This study discusses the types and analysis of figure of thought meanings contained in the lyrics of anime Soundtrack Kimi no Nawa. This study aims to identify the type of figure of speech and analyze the meaning in the lyrics of the song. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method using the Cognitive Linguistics approach proposed by Lakoff and Johnson. It is found that t…
Reading is one of the important skills in improving language skills. There are several factors that affect the ability to read, including understanding grammar, mastery of vocabulary, ability to read letters, background knowledge, and other factors. Japanese uses some letters in its writing system, one of the letter using in Japanese writing system is kanji. Kanji are letters that consist of e…
The purpose of this research is to find out the usage of first deiksis persona, second deiksis persona, and third deiksis persona in the questions of choukai JLPT N3. The method used was descriptive qualitative, while for data collection technique used was listening and note-taking techniques. The analysis of deiksis persona form used pragmatics theory of deiksis persona by Levinson (1983). The…
This research discusses about politeness scale in drama Great Teacher Onizuka 2012. The purpose of this research is to find out how the politeness scale of the main character's speech in that drama. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method. The data is obtained by listening to the conversations spoken by the main character. Then the speech which has a politeness scale is rec…
This study discusses the meaning of Japanese proverbs that use color. Every Japanese proverb has a variety of meanings contained in it. In this study, we will discuss the meaning of Japanese proverbs that use color. The data from this study is a collection of Japanese proverbs that use color. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The source of proverb data from this…
This research aims to find out what is the learning ability of the second-year students of SMAN 1 Pekanbaru in reading comprehension about descriptive texts, narrative texts, and recount texts. This is descriptive research. The numbers of sample are 72 students chosen by using cluster random sampling. Reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. The data were collected through 42 m…
This research is aimed to find out whether there is a correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability of the fifth semester students of English Department Universitas Riau. The population is the fifth semester students of English Department Universitas Riau. The sample was chosen by using cluster random sampling and class A is used as the sample. Multiple choice test was used to know…
This pre-experimental study is aimed at finding out if there is a significant effect of Word Cluster teaching technique on the ability of the second students of SMPN 1 Pangkalan Lesung in comprehending descriptive texts. The design of the study is one group pre-test-treatment-posttest design. There are 3 classes in the second year. Class VIII B in the second semester of academic year 2018/2019 …
This research was aimed at analysing students’ strategies in giving compliments. This was descriptive qualitative research using a qualitative approach accompanied by descriptive statistics. This research involved 39 EFL students as the participants in the academic year 2019/2020 selected using cluster random sampling technique. The instrument used to collect the data was a DCT (Discourse Com…
This study aims to find out what cultures are and how cultures are applied in English textbooks for third-grade junior high school students. The data for this research is an English textbook entitled English Think Globally Act Locally revised 2018, English in Focus for Grade IX SMP and Bright an English Course for Junior High School revised edition. The samples in this study were words, picture…
This descriptive research designed to discover the ability of the third semester students of the English study program FKIP Universitas Riau in writing a paragraph. The population of this research was the third semester students of English study program FKIP Universitas Riau and consisted of 121 students. The sample was 38 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique and lottery…
Conversational implicature refers to the intent of an utterance. Conversational implicatures are not always conveyed orally, but also in writing. Conversations that contain implicatures are also commonly found in novel quotes. The problem in this research is what kinds of conversational implicatures are contained in Asri Aci's Melodylan novel and what are the conversational implicatures in Asri…
The development of literature in Indonesia has progressed rapidly. Various phenomena about women have inspired authors to express their creations, such as women's emancipation, women's images, and portraits of women's struggles. Characters in a story have different behaviors, in this study, especially on the behavior of female characters. Behavior is a reflection of a person's mental or mental …