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 …
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 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…
This research is aimed to find out the ability of the students in writing procedure texts made by the third year students of SMP Negeri 2 Kubu Babussalam. This is quantitative descriptive research. The population of this research was the third year students of SMP Negeri 2 Kubu Babussalam. The sample of this research was 25 students of 9.1 class who have been selected using cluster-sampling tec…
The aim of this research is to find out the level of the first year students of SMK Labor Binaan FKIP Universitas Riau in vocabulary mastery. The sample of this research is ADP 2 which was choosen by using cluster random sampling technique. The number of the student is 30 students. The data obtained by giving multiple choice test. About the test, the students are asked to choose the appropriate…
Motivation is an essential factor that affects the process of foreign language acquisition. The objective of this research is to find out the level of motivation in learning English and the dominant type of motivation whether instrumental or integrative motivation. This research used mixed method research. The population of this research was the first year students of English Study Program FKIP…