Kanji is a means of communication in Japanese society in writing. Inside the kanji there are elements that represent the basic meaning called bushu. Therefore, an understanding of bushu is necessary to understand the kanji. This study aims to describe the changes in the meaning of bushu kanji, namely hi hen and renga found in Jouyou Kanji (daily use of kanji). The method used in this study is a…
Kanji is one of the four characters used by Japanese people. Bushu is a form element that represents the basic meaning of a kanji. Understanding of bushu is necessary to understand a kanji. This study aimed to describes the meaning and the semantic change of te-hen Bushu. This research is limited to kanji characters containing te-hen bushu in Jouyou Kanji (daily use of kanji). The method used i…
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 study aims to collect information, complete data and analyze it related to the meaning of abstinence in the tradition of making the route Cerenti District, Kuantan Singingi District. The method in this research is to use analytical descriptive method, namely by analyzing and describing descriptively the data obtained in the study, decomposed in the form of words not numbers. The technique …
The aims of this study are (1) Describing the types of persona deixis in the Mata Najwa episode “Who is Afraid of Vaccines?” (2) Explaining the persona deixis reference in Mata Najwa episode “Who is Afraid of Vaccines?”. This type of research is a qualitative research. The method used is descriptive method. The data source for this research is the Mata Najwa Youtube channel, which conta…
Positive character portraits of the main character of the film Kaasan Ore Wa Daijoubu can help learners, especially Japanese language students, regarding the positive character potraits contained in the film Kaasan Ore Wa Daijoubu. Both in understanding the meaning and the right types of positive characters so that they can be realized in everyday life. The purpose of this study is to describe …
Sentence-final particle in Japanese called shuujoshi. This study discusses the Japanese sentence-final particle and its equivalent in Indonesian. The particle particles as object to discuss in this study, namely zo. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. A data in this study is collected from reading the conversational dialogues in manga. The results is founding the sentences in man…
This study discusses the types and analysis of figure of thought meanings contained in the lyrics of anime Soundtrack Kimi no Nawa. This study aims to identify the type of figure of speech and analyze the meaning in the lyrics of the song. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method using the Cognitive Linguistics approach proposed by Lakoff and Johnson. It is found that t…
Reading is one of the important skills in improving language skills. There are several factors that affect the ability to read, including understanding grammar, mastery of vocabulary, ability to read letters, background knowledge, and other factors. Japanese uses some letters in its writing system, one of the letter using in Japanese writing system is kanji. Kanji are letters that consist of e…
The purpose of this research is to find out the usage of first deiksis persona, second deiksis persona, and third deiksis persona in the questions of choukai JLPT N3. The method used was descriptive qualitative, while for data collection technique used was listening and note-taking techniques. The analysis of deiksis persona form used pragmatics theory of deiksis persona by Levinson (1983). The…
This research discusses about politeness scale in drama Great Teacher Onizuka 2012. The purpose of this research is to find out how the politeness scale of the main character's speech in that drama. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive method. The data is obtained by listening to the conversations spoken by the main character. Then the speech which has a politeness scale is rec…
This study discusses the meaning of Japanese proverbs that use color. Every Japanese proverb has a variety of meanings contained in it. In this study, we will discuss the meaning of Japanese proverbs that use color. The data from this study is a collection of Japanese proverbs that use color. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The source of proverb data from this…
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 …