The advancements in technology make it unavoidable to be used as a teaching medium in education. Thus, this research aims to develop an interactive learning media in the form of an Android-based application as a teaching medium for writing descriptive texts in senior high school and to determine the validity of the media. The researchers applied the Research and Development (R&D) by employing t…
Jigsaw is a strategy for learning speaking in groups and discussing to increase students' speaking knowledge. The aim of this pre-experimental study was to find out whether there was a significant effect of the jigsaw strategy on the speaking knowledge of MAN 1 Pekanbaru students. Applying pre-test and post-test design. Cluster Random Sampling was used to select a group to represent the sam…
This research aims to investigate whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ academic self-efficacy and their English learning achievement at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru. Applying correlational research design, this research used quantitative approach. The population of the research is 250 students of tenth grade at SMAN 1 Pekanbaru, meanwhile the samples are 70 students, who we…
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 population of this research was 113 students which divided into 6A, 6B and 6C class as total number of the third year English Study Program Students of Universitas Riau. The r…
Teacher creativity in providing learning in the classroom is something that plays an important role in improving student learning abilities. Active Learning is a teaching method used by teachers in the classroom to improve students' learning abilities, both in increasing learning motivation, self-confidence, critical thinking and so on. In Active Learning there are various teaching techniques t…
This research aimed to find out how the perceptions of SMPS As-Shofa students on using Quizizz Application in learning English. The sample of this research was taken by using the total sampling technique that from ninth grade students of SMPS As-Shofa Pekanbaru. The number of samples was 55 students. The data was collected by using a questionnaire. There are 35 questions in total in the questio…
This descriptive research was aimed to find out what kind of translation method used by English Study Program Students of Universitas Riau in translating activity. The population of this research was sixth semester students of English Study Program Universitas Riau. There are two instruments of this research, the first test is about translating the English text into Indonesia and the second tes…
This study aims to find out the code mixing of English, The purpose of this study is to find out the types and the reason code-mixing. This study was examined using a qualitative descriptive approach as the data used came in the form of words, sentences and images. The results of the research are three types and six reason of code-mixing that appeared in Nadiem Makarim's Instagram comment …
English is a global language that is presently the official or dominant language in more than 60 nations, Lucantoni (2006). English is one of the foreign languages taught at junior and senior high schools, as well as colleges, in Indonesia. Based on the background above, the problem is formulated as follows “how is the vocabulary mastery of the second grade students of SMPN 34 Pekanbaru?”. …
This research aims to find out whether there is a significant effect of the Four-Square Writing Method on students’ achievement in writing recount text at the second-year students of SMPN 5 Pekanbaru. The research design in this research used quasi-experimental. The instrument in this research used writing test. The subject in this research is the second-year students of SMP Negeri 5 Pekanbar…
A genre of reading text includes the social function, text structure, and features. In this study, the author of the textbook "Talk Active" in English examined the genre of the reading passages. The goals of this study were to identify the genres that are present in the English textbook "Talk Active," as well as its social functions, generic structures, and linguistic characteristics. They also…
This research was conducted to find out and analyze errors made by students in writing recount text. The method of this research is qualitative descriptive method. To describe the errors, the writer classified the errors based on Betty S. Azar’s classification (1989) they are singular plural, word form, word choice, verb tense, add a word, omit a word, word order, incomplete sentence, spellin…
This study was conducted to analyzing EFL Learners’ strategy in apologizing. This was a descriptive qualitative study using a qualitative approach combine with descriptive statistics. The participants of this study were 32 EFL Learners that currently study in their second academic year in English Department of Universitas Riau. They were selected using cluster random sampling technique. The d…
In communicating, people may express themselves in a particular communication channel, spoken or written. For instance, people may use direct and indirect communication as their message’s perceived meaning varies depending on the tone of the messages. As a result, they may apply different levels of politeness. This research investigated politeness strategies used by George W. Bush in his …
This research was conducted to analyze the difficulty level in using gerund and infinitive. The design of this research is descriptive quantitative. The participants of this study were 37 students that are currently studying in their sixth semester of English Study Program of Universitas Riau and they were selected by cluster random sampling. In collecting data, the researcher used a test. Afte…
From the difficulty and necessity to mastering English as it is almost useful in every life aspect nowadays, the writer decides to conduct this study to examines the translation strategy of idiomatic expressions in Onward movie subtitles. It is a descriptive qualitative method one, aiming to find out the types of idiomatic expressions and the strategy employed to translate it. The two objective…
This study aims to investigate the types and purposes of code-mixing used in “Ini Talkshow” You Tube videos. The research utilized a descriptive qualitative and documentation method. The source of the data in this study are from 5 “Ini Talkshow” You Tube videos entitled “Ayu Gani Valerie dan Veronika malah takut sama Om Yoo, Cie Andre malu ketauan niruin Chef Juna, Unseen Before Sule …
The purpose of this study is to determine and explain how much influence between the perception of the social status of teachers on students' interest in becoming teachers. This research is descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The sample of this research was students of the Class of 2019 and 2020 of the Japanese Language Education Study Program, FETT Riau University, totaling 60 p…
The aim of this research is to find out political metaphors in headline news of The Jakarta Post and to figure out the type of conceptual metaphor that is most frequently used there. This is qualitative research with an analysis method. The data is taken from the headlines of the news on the politics section of The Jakarta Post from January 1st 2021 to January 31st 2023. From the research, it i…
The aims of this study were to find out the correlation between students' emotional intelligence and their achievement in reading comprehension.This study applied a correlational design. The population consisted of all of the fourth-semester students of the English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at Universitas Riau in the academic year 2020/2021. The writer used cluste…