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…
This research aims to find out speaking difficulties faced by the third year students of English Department FKIP Universitas Riau. This research is descriptive research that has one variable. The numbers of sample are 30 students chosen by using proportional sampling techniques. To find the difficulties in speaking of the students, there was a questionnaire used for collecting the data. The que…
This research is aimed at investigating the strategies in teaching reading comprehension used by English teachers of junior high schools in Rayon 2 Pelalawan Regency. Using total sampling, 63 teachers employed in this study were taken as the sample of this research. This study employed mixed method, combining quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection. The quantitative data were co…
This research is aimed at improving students’reading comprehension and identifying the factors that influence changing of students’s reading comprehension with applying KWL technique at grade nine of SMP N 30 Pekanbaru. Using random cluster sampling, 30 students employed in this study were taken as the sample of this research. This study employed mixed method, combining quantitative and qua…
This research is aims to find out the levels of students’ speaking and the dominant type of anxiety that occured in speaking performance of the Third Semester Students of English Study Program Fkip Universitas Riau. The research design of the research was quantitative descriptive research and the population of the research was third semester students of English study program fkip Universitas …
The purpose of this study was to determine how effective the Scaffolded Reading Experience Strategy is in teaching students to read descriptive texts. The analysis used in this research was descriptive. The population of this research was all the first year students of SMA N 1 Reteh in the 2019/2020 Academic Year and one teacher. The sample for this research was 34 students from X MIPA 2 class …
The objectives of this quantitative research are to find out self-efficacy of SMAN English teachers in using ICT, barriers they face, as well as the way they overcome the barriers. Using cluster random sampling, 20 teachers were taken as the sample. The data were collected through questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from Bandura (1997) and Catarina player-koro (2012). The result of the…
The objective of the research was to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’ reading interest and their reading speed. The subject of this research was the fifth semester students of English Study Program of FKIP UR 2020. This quantitative research used a questionnaire and reading speed tests. The data were collected Online using Google Form. The total number of …
The government in Indonesia issues new rules to prepare pre-service teachers to be professional teachers in the future by asking them to attend additional education named Teachers Professional Education Program (locally known as Program Profesi Guru). This Case Study aimed to identify the obstacles experienced by pre-service English teachers in FKIP Universitas Riau during the PPG program and t…
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 …