This pre-experimental study was conducted by using One-Group Pretest-Posttest design to find out whether or not there is a significant effect of using Think-Pair-Share strategy on the ability of the second year students of SMPN 10 Pekanbaru in comprehending recount texts. The sample of the research was 37 students of class VIII-8 and obtained by using cluster sampling technique. The result of t…
This present study was aimed to find out whether there was a correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Simpang Kanan Rokan Hilir. The population was the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Simpang Kanan Rokan Hilir. The sample, consisting of 38 students was chosen by using cluster random sampling. The instruments were reading questio…
The research was aimed to investigate whether clustering technique can affect students’ writing ability. The research was conducted at the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Rengat. In conducting the research, the researcher applied a pre-experimental method with XI IPA 1 as the sample. There were 36 students as the sample of this research. This research design used one group pre-test post-t…
The objective of this research is to determine the correlation between self-esteem and writing ability of the first year students of SMAN 1 Pekanbaru. This is a correlational research that hastwo variables. The sample of this research is one class consisted of 36 students. The class was chosen by using Cluster Random Sampling Technique.Self-esteem questionnaire and writing test were used to col…
This research is aimed to find out the correlation between the anxiety of the second year students of English Study Program and their essay writing ability. The sample of this research is one of three classes of the second year students of English Study Program that were chosen by using cluster random sampling technique. The number of sample is 38 students. There were two types of data collecte…
This descriptive study aimed to find out the ability of the Second Semester Students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau in changing active sentences into passive voice. There were 37 students as the sample of this research. The data were collected by administering a set of test to the students in the form of written test and were analyzed quantitatively. The findings of the study we…
The aim of this research was to find out the vowels that are difficult to pronounce by the third year students of MTs Darul Hikmah Pekanbaru and the sources of errors made by them. There were 251 population and only 22 students as the sample through cluster random sampling technique. The test was taken in audio recording. After analysing the data, it can be concluded that the most difficult vow…
Slang is confidential, informal English spoken which created and used by a particular community. This study discusses about an analysis of slang in Black Panther movie. The purpose of this study is to find the type and the meaning of slang used in a Black Panther movie. The source of the data was taken from the script of Black Panther movie. The Black Panther movie is classified as African acti…
This research was intended to find out whether or not there was a significant effect of Mind Mapping Technique on the ability of the first grade students of SMPN 25 Pekanbaru in comprehending Descriptive Texts. The research design was pre-experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The samples were class VII 7 students chosen by using cluster random sampling technique. T…
This study was aimed to analyze what syntactic errors made by the second grade students of SMK PGRI Pekanbaru in writing descriptive text. The population was all of the second grade students of the school in the 2018/2019 academic year. The number of the sample was 30 students chosen by using cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected by using a written test. The data were analy…
The main, objectives of the study are to find out; 1) the students’ grammar mastery, 2) the students’ writing ability and 3) the correlation between grammar mastery and writing ability. The population of the study is 104 third year students, the sample is 22 students by using the cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected through 40 questions (grammar test) about students’…
This study was aimed at describing the ability of the second year students of SMPN 4 Pekanbaru in using prepositions. The population of this study was all of the second year students of SMPN 4 Pekanbaru in the 2018/2019 academic year. The number of sample was 37 students who were chosen by using cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected by administering a test to the students i…
The purpose of this study is to find out the ability of the second grade students of SMPN 6 Tambusai in writing descriptive texts. In this research, the data was obtained from students’ writing scores. The test is in the form of an essay, because the test required the respondents to give the answer in the form of written descriptive text. There are five components of writing: grammar, organiz…
This research is aimed to find out the reading ability of the second year students of SMPN 6 Tambusai. The population of this research is the second year students of SMPN 6 Tambusai. The number of sample is 30 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The instrument to collect the data was multiple choice test items with 30 questions. . Each text consist of 6 questions which…
This correlational research is aimed to find out whether there is a correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension’s ability of the fifth semester students of English Study Program FKIP-UR. The sample was 28 students selected through cluster random sampling. The instruments used in this research were the vocabulary and reading TOEFL test items. The research finding revealed …
This research was aimed at finding out the reading ability of the first year students of SMP Negeri 1 Pekanbaru in comprehending descriptive texts. The population of this research was the first year students of SMP Negeri 1 Pekanbaru. The number of sample was 34 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The instrument to collect the data was multiple choice test items with 3…
This research was aimed at finding out the correlation between reading habit and reading comprehension of the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau. The researcher implemented a quantitative correlational research design. The number of sample are 37 students chosen by using cluster random sampling. There were two data obtained in this research: students’ read…
This research is a descriptive-quantitative research design which aimed to investigate the vocabulary size of English study program students of Universitas Riau. The subjects of the study were the sixth-semester students majoring in English study program of Universitas Riau. Forty sample students were chosen using proportionate stratified random sampling. Students vocabulary size was measured U…
The objectives of this research are to find empirical evidence of grammatical errors made by the second year students of English Study Program of Universitas Riau in writing descriptive essay and to find the sources that caused the errors. This is quantitative research with descriptive approach. Using cluster sampling, 25 students of class B were taken as the sample of this research. The data w…
The purpose of this study is to find out the ability and the level of the first year students’ ability in comprehending descriptive text on heritage at MTsN 1 Dumai. The ability is about comprehending descriptive text on heritage in general and for each components of reading comprehension in terms of finding main ideas, factual information, the meaning of difficult words, finding reference an…