This study aims to find out the ability of the second year students of SMPN 13 Pekanbaru in writing recount text. The population of the study were all second year students of 2019/2020 as big as 300 persons. Due to the big size of the homogeneus population, the simple random sampling is used to take the sample as many as 30 students (10%). Writing test was administered to collect the needed dat…
This research aims to find out the ability of the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP UR in understanding English poetry. The number of samples was 40 students of the fourth semester students of English study program FKIP UR which was decided by using the Cluster Random Sampling technique. The data were collected by administering a written test where the students are obliged …
The purpose of this research was to find out the correlation between the anxiety level and the speaking ability of the second year students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau. The research design of the study was quantitative research and the population of the study was the second year students of English study program FKIP Universitas Riau. Thus, 35 participants selected from the s…
This research aims to investigate to what extent the English teachers of public junior high schools in Tampan Sub-District Pekanbaru have used ICT and identify the barriers they face in the use of ICT in their teaching process. The researchers selected 16 English teachers as the sample using total sampling method. This research applied a mixed-method, combining quantitative and qualitative meth…
This pre-experimental research was aimed to find out whether or not there was a significant effect of Jigsaw strategy on the ability of the first year students of SMKN 2 Kepenuhan Rokan Hulu in comprehending recount text. This research design used one group pre-test and post-test. The sample of this research are taken by using cluster random sampling technique and that falls to Tata Busana clas…
The aim of this research was to find out the effect of Small Group Discusstion Technique on the Ability of the Second Year Students of SMP N 5 Kerinci Kanan in Comprehending Report Texts. There were 98 population and only 32 students as the sample through cluster random sampling technique, which cluster random sampling allows the writer to collect data into small, more effective groups. The tes…
This study was aimed at investigating the use of instructional media by pre-service English teachers during teaching practicum. This study was descriptive quantitative research. This research was conducted by spreading questionnaire to all students who take teaching practicum in 2018. There are 85 students that is given the questionnaire to be filled trough their email and sent it back to the r…
This study aims to identify the students’ acceptance level of the use of Google Classroom as a platform in Blended-learning and to compare the results between three departments of Language and Arts department in FKIP of Universitas Riau. Data of this survey research were collected through an online survey and analysed descriptively. The questionnaire in the survey used Technology Acceptance M…
This research aimed to determine the correlation between the motivation and speaking ability of the second year students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Pekanbaru. The sample of this research was all class of the second year students consisted of 37 students. The sample was chosen by using Proportional Sampling Techniques. The questionnaire and speaking test used to collect the data in this research. The…
this descriptive research was conducted in order to find out the taboo words in the hitman’s bodyguard movie. The data were collected using the sociolinguistic approach. The data were in the form of utterances, while the contexts of the data were the dialogues uttered by the characters in the movie. The sources of the data were the video of Hitman’s Bodyguard movie and its transcript. The d…
This research is aimed to find out the correlation between vocabulary knowledge and writing ability of the third year students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau. The sample of this research was class 6B, consisting of 35 students. The data were collected using two kinds of test; namely, a vocabulary test and writing test. The result of this research showed the third year students o…
This research is aimed at exploring the correlation between interest in reading English texts and reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMAN Binaan Khusus Kota Dumai. A correlational research design was used in this research. Two classes cosisting of 60 students were chosen by using cluster random sampling. There were two data obtained in this research: the percentage of stude…
The objective of this research is to find out the types of grammatical errors made by the tenth grade students of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru in the academic year 2018/2019 in writing recount texts. This research used a descriptive method. The participants of this research were 65 students of class X MIPA 3 and class X IPS 6 of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru. The students were selected to be the sample using cluster …
The research was aimed to investigate whether problem-based learning (PBL) method can affect students’ speaking ability. The research was conducted at the first year exact science students of SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru. The number of the students was 324 in 9 classes. Due to the large population, the cluster random sampling was used to determine the sample, then lottery taking is applied with the…
The main objective of study was to examine the correlation between reading speed and reading comprehension in narrative texts of the second year students of SMA N 1 Mandah. To collect the data a reading speed test and a reading comprehension test were administered. The reading speed test was in a spoken form and the reading comprehension test was in the form of multiple choice questions. A clus…
This research is aimed at developing English instructional tools (lesson plan and students’ worksheet) by applying inquiry-based learning as one of the learning model suggested in the 2013 curriculum and to find out the validity level of developing English lesson plan and students’ worksheet by applying inquiry-based learning in teaching recount texts for the first year students of SMA. Thi…
Language Style is the formality construct of the language used to communicate with other people. This study aims to analyze the types of language style used and the dominant type used in “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” movie. The movie is classified as a young-adult romantic movie directed by Susan Johnson and was released on August 17 2018 on Netflix. The source of the data was taken…
The aim of this study was to find out the second year students’ ability level of SMKN 3 Pekanbaru in reading comprehension. The design of the study is quantitative research paradigm. The population of this research were all the second year students of SMKN 3 Pekanbaru divided into 5 majors ; Hotel Accommodation, Culinary Art, Patisserie, Design Fashion and Beauty Class. The total number of t…
This pre-experimental research aimed to find out whether there was a significant effect of using Question – Answer Relationship strategy on The Ability Of The First Year Students of SMK N 1 Minas In Comprehending Recount Texts. The research design is a pre-experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test dessign. The sample was X TITL chosen by using cluster sampling technique. The…
This research was aimed at finding out the ability of the second year students of SMPN 1 Kerinci Kanan in comprehending recount texts. The population of this study was the second year students in academic year 2018/2019. The sample size was 30 students out of the population chosen by using cluster random sampling. The data were collected by administering a reading test of recount texts. The col…