This research aims to analyze the types of metaphor used by journalist on COVID-19 issues in English newspaper and to find the dominant type of metaphor. This is a qualitative research with analysis method. The newspaper were used on this research are The Jakarta Post and China Daily. The newspaper during October 2020 were used and analyzed on COVID-9 issues only. There were 38 collected data f…
This research is intended to describe a descriptive study which is to find out the ability of the first-grade students of SMK Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru in comprehending Descriptive Texts. This is quantitative investigation, the subject of this investigation was the first-grade students of SMK Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru which consisted of 33 students. The data collection method used is a descriptive me…
This study seeks to search the types of code mixing and the dominant of code mixing which are often used the television program in Master Chef Indonesia Season 5. In this study research, descriptive analysis and documentation method were applied. The finding discovers that the types of code mixing which had been observed in the television program are the intra- sentential code mixing 89%, intra…
This study investigated the types of complaining strategies produced by the EFL learners of English Study Program at the University of Riau. This was descriptive qualitative study accompanied by descriptive statistics. The participants of this research were 36 EFL students of the English Study Program elected by using cluster random sampling technique. The data was collected by using a DCT( Dis…
The monotone teaching style of English subject in senior high school affect the students' eagerness in the learning process. Thus, it needs an innovation to create an interactive learning media. The purpose of this research is to design and develop a feasible interactive e-module using the Flip Builder application on the Explanation Text material with an environmental approach for grade XI seni…
This research was aimed to find out the types of expressive speech acts and the context of the expressive speech acts uttered by the main character in Joker movie. The design of the research is descriptive qualitative research. The data source was Joker Movie directed by Todd Phillips. The movie was released in 2019 and its duration was about 1 hour 55 minutes. The data of this research were ut…
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…
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…
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 …
The aims of this research were to find out the correlation between students’ vocabulary size and students’ TOEFL score. This was a quantitative research with 39 students as a sample. This research used the Vocabulary Size Test to measure the student vocabulary size. This research got the students’ TOEFL score from the UPT Bahasa University of Riau. The result showed that the average of st…