The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover the types of code switching employed by the characters in dialogues, as well as the reasons why characters in the novel The Proposal of Love change their language from Indonesia language to English. The information was examined using two methods: descriptive analysis and documentation analysis. The data analysis revealed that characters in t…
This study investigated the types and functions of taboo words uttered by the characters in the TV Series the Umbrella Academy 2. This study used Azzaro’s (2005) theory which consists of five types of taboo words; mental, physical, religious, scatological, and sexual, and two main functions of taboo words; swearing and insults. This study used a descriptive qualitative method, and the data so…
This research aims to identify and describe the students’ perception on using Schoology application in learning English during pandemic Covid-19. The population of this research is the second year students of SMP Cendana Pekanbaru. The number of sample is 44 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. Data of this research were collected through an online questionnaire using…
This research shed light on the types of refusal strategies employed by the EFL learners of the English Study Program of Universitas Riau. This is using a descriptive qualitative study. The participants of this research involved 35 EFL students of the English Study Program selected by using the cluster random sampling method. The data was acquired using a DCT (Discourse Completion Task) as the …
This study is intended to find out the ability level of the second-year students of MTs Darul Hikmah Pekanbaru in writing descriptive texts. This study concerns five aspects of writing: grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, organization, and content. The data collection technique is a writing test. The students' writing results are checked and scored by the rater. The research findings are as follows…
This research aims at finding out the levels and the major causes of speaking anxiety experienced by the third-year students at SMPN 2 Bayat Kabupaten Kepulauan Anambas. Total sampling was used in this research since the pool of participants was relatively small consisting of 13 students in total. For the purpose of collecting the data, students were asked to fill out a set of a modified versio…
This research aims to investigate students' perception on using Google Classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic in learning English. The subjects of this study were all eighth grade students of Islamic Junior High School (SMP Islam) As-Shofa Pekanbaru with the total of 105 students. This research was conducted by using a mixed method that uses quantitative and qualitative methods. In collecting t…
The impossibility to continue the conventional classroom created an inevitable situation where online learning is the most suitable solution at the moment to keep up the learning process amidst the pandemic. It is presumably familiar to students, but the sudden change of online learning being applied sporadically to regularly arise an issue of how the students perceive, access, react to it and …
This research aims to know the significant effect of PQRST (PREVIEW, QUESTION, READ, SUMMARY, and TEST) strategy on reading comprehension ability of the first year students at SMAN 1 Sabak Auh District Siak Regency. Previously, the researcher found that 65% of the students have difficulties in comprehending the reading passage about descriptive text. It could be identified from the students’ …
The pandemic of Covid-19 has given a big impact on education in Indonesia, from face-to-face learning to online learning. This is a qualitative descriptive study of students’ perception of the implementation of online learning during the pandemic of Covid-19. There were eight students of English Study Program Universitas Riau involved in this study, selected using the purposive sampling techn…
This research discusses about the English Department students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning for learning content courses in online learning. This study is a quantitative descriptive study that involved 114 English Department students taking semantic classes at Universitas Riau. The participants were selected through a saturated sampling technique. The data were collected fr…
Recently, FKIP Universitas Riau launched TEACHERS as core values that must be possessed by all members of the academic community: lecturers, students and employees. Each letter in the word TEACHERS has its own meaning. This study aims to add sufficient documents of TEACHERS abbreviation indicators which are linked to professional teachers’ competency. Specifically, the purpose of this stu…
This research was aimed to find out the Ability of the Second Year Students of the Vocational High School (SMK) Taruna Satria Pekanbaru in Comprehending Narrative Texts. The population of this research was the Second Year Students of the Vocational High School (SMK) Taruna Satria Pekanbaru. The number of samples was 32 students selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The research i…
The study aimed to analyze the form of code mixing used in Pekanbaru billboard advertisements and to find out the dominant English lexical categories in Pekanbaru billboard advertisements. This research is qualitative research with descriptive analysis methods to find the percentage of data. The source of the data in this research is from billboard advertisements in Pekanbaru. The researcher co…
This research aims to analyze the types of metaphor used by journalist on COVID-19 issues in English newspaper and to find the dominant type of metaphor. This is a qualitative research with analysis method. The newspaper were used on this research are The Jakarta Post and China Daily. The newspaper during October 2020 were used and analyzed on COVID-9 issues only. There were 38 collected data f…
This research is intended to describe a descriptive study which is to find out the ability of the first-grade students of SMK Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru in comprehending Descriptive Texts. This is quantitative investigation, the subject of this investigation was the first-grade students of SMK Darel Hikmah Pekanbaru which consisted of 33 students. The data collection method used is a descriptive me…
This study seeks to search the types of code mixing and the dominant of code mixing which are often used the television program in Master Chef Indonesia Season 5. In this study research, descriptive analysis and documentation method were applied. The finding discovers that the types of code mixing which had been observed in the television program are the intra- sentential code mixing 89%, intra…
This study investigated the types of complaining strategies produced by the EFL learners of English Study Program at the University of Riau. This was descriptive qualitative study accompanied by descriptive statistics. The participants of this research were 36 EFL students of the English Study Program elected by using cluster random sampling technique. The data was collected by using a DCT( Dis…
The monotone teaching style of English subject in senior high school affect the students' eagerness in the learning process. Thus, it needs an innovation to create an interactive learning media. The purpose of this research is to design and develop a feasible interactive e-module using the Flip Builder application on the Explanation Text material with an environmental approach for grade XI seni…
This research was aimed to find out the types of expressive speech acts and the context of the expressive speech acts uttered by the main character in Joker movie. The design of the research is descriptive qualitative research. The data source was Joker Movie directed by Todd Phillips. The movie was released in 2019 and its duration was about 1 hour 55 minutes. The data of this research were ut…