The aim of this research is to investigate the realization of the rhetorical move structure and language features in research article abstracts in the fields of socioeconomic, mathematics, and engineering. The study utilizes Hyland's (2000) rhetorical framework as the analytical framework for analysis. The research methodology employed is descriptive qualitative analysis. The dataset compri…
This research aimed at findings the correlation between students' habit in watching English movies and their pronunciation ability. It was conducted at SMPN 1 Bukit Batu. The background of conducting this research is to see how the possibility of students' habit in watching English movies influenced students' pronunciation ability. This research applied a quantitative approach with a correlatio…
This research aims to identify and describe the types of metaphors used by advertisers in Advertisements of Drink Products and to discover the dominant type of metaphor. This qualitative research with analysis method. The data source was obtained from advertisements that appeared on internet media which were observed from Monday, June 20th, 2022 until June 26th, 2022 the data obtained was colle…
This research was purposed to discover whether there was a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau and their reading comprehension. The population was the second semester of English Study Program FKIP Universitas Riau. The sample was chosen by cluster random sampling and there were 2A as the sample. Vocabulary test was used to find out t…
Writing is one of the basic skill that must be mastered by students or learners to comprehend English. However, it is difficult to do for some reason. The Objectives of this research are (1) to find out whether there is an effect of POWER Strategy on third-year senior high school students’ explanation text writing ability or not and (2) to find out whether there is any significant difference …
This study intends at investigating how often and for what reasons English Study Program Students using English. The research is a mixed study applying combined quantitative and qualitative methods, with 118 English Department students from the Universitas Riau's class of 2019 serving as the population. The researcher used two instruments: questionnaires and interviews to collect the data. Ques…
This research aimed to find out the correlation between students’ mobile technology usage and TOEFL listening proficiency in the sixth semester of the English Study Program of FKIP Universitas Riau. The sample of this study was 36 students in the sixth semester of the English Study Program of FKIP Universitas Riau who were chosen by using the Cluster Random sampling technique. This study used…
This research aims to find out what cultural contents are represented in English textbooks for grade 10th of Vocational High School. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this research to analyze cultural content in three textbooks: "Forward an English," "Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/SMK Kelas X Edisi 2017," and "English for SMK." The data was collected through document analysis and using …
This study, which employs a descriptive qualitative methodology, intends to investigate the types and purposes of code-switching employed in (by hosts and guests) Breakout NET TV. This study applied Poplack's (1980) theory for the types of code-switching, which consists of three types of code-switching: intra-sentential switching, inter-sentential switching, and tag-switching and Hoffman's…
The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of metaphor and the conceptual metaphor of women in song lyrics by Christina Aguilera and Little Mix. This research was conducted at the library of the University of Riau, Pekanbaru, Riau. Using qualitative research because the data is in the form of words and using descriptive qualitative which focuses on describing the conceptual metaphors …
This research aimed at finding the students’ perceptions on the use of instructional media by the English teachers. 30 students were taken as the sample of this research using cluster random sampling. This research employed a quantitative method of data collection. The data were collected from a questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 15 items. The findings of this study revealed th…
This research aims to introduce teaching media based on an interesting media use wordless picture books to improve students’ narrative writing abilities. The research design in this research used quasi-experimental. The instrument in this research used writing test. The subject in this research are the eighth-grade students of SMP Islam As-Shofa Pekanbaru. Purposive sampling technique was emp…
This research aimed to find out the types of slang words that used by all characters in ‘Suicide Squad’ movie. The design of the research was descriptive qualitative research. The data source was the ‘Suicide Squad’ movie directed by David Ayer. The movie was released in 2016 and its duration was about 2 hours 17 minutes. The data of this research were the slang words that were found in…
The purpose of this research was to examine the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension of the second grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Tapung Hilir. A correlational designed was used in this research. The sample was 80 students of second grade senior high school selected through using cluster random sampling. In addition, there were two data obtained as part of this …
The purpose of this study is to identify and characterize Lakoff and Johnson’s types of conceptual metaphor employed by Camila Cabello in her song lyrics from her self-titled debut album Camila, as well as to determine the prevalent form of metaphor. This is a qualitative study with Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). Six tracks from the album were chosen for analysis. There were 65 data…
This research aimed to develop interactive quizzes based on Wordwall Application for English Study Program in the Pre-intermediate Structure Class. This study employed Research and Development (R&D) design with ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) as the development model. The data were collected using Google Forms consisting of a set of written statements for v…
In this modern era, technology has the potential to make life easier and more efficient, especially in education. Where technology is able to solve learning problems. Teachers are encouraged to use technology as a tool or medium to boost student excitement for learning English, especially vocabulary, because there are so many students who are not interested in studying. The purpose of this stud…
This research intends to find out whether or not there is a correlation between students’ subject-verb agreement mastery and their writing ability of descriptive texts at SMAN 2 Tapung. There were 56 tenth grade students of social science major chosen as samples. The instruments were subject-verb agreement test and writing descriptive text test. The subject-verb agreement test was used to ass…
This reseacrh consists of two variables, they are English teachers’ questioning skills as the independent variable (X) and students’ participation as the dependent variable (Y). The objective of this research is to find out whether or not there is a positive and significant correlation between the English teachers' questioning skills and their students' participation in the EFL learning pro…
Vocabulary is a key when people learning English. The abilities of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in the target language may be impacted by a lack of vocabulary knowledge. This study aims to discover the difficulties and factors faced in enlarging vocabulary by the third grade students of SMAS IT Mutiara Duri. The research design was descriptive, and selected using cluster sampling. …