This pre-experimental study was conducted by using One-Group PretestPosttest design to find out whether or not there is a significant effect of using Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) strategy on the ability of the second year students of SMPN 1 Siak Kecil in comprehending recount texts. The sample of the research was 27 students of class VIII-2 and obtained by using cluster sampling tec…
This study aimed at (1) finding the types of reference as cohesive device in essays written by the fourth semester students of the English study program Universitas Riau, and (2) calculating the frequency of reference used in essays written by the fourth semester students of the English study program Universitas Riau. Documentation such as written texts was the main technique of collecting the …
Nowadays, e-mail is one of general ways to communicate or to send messages between students and lecturer in academic purposes. This study aims to find out the ability of the English Department students of FKIP Universitas Riau in writing an e-mail to the lecturer. This study used the second semester students in academic year 2018/2019 as the population. Simple random sampling used to take the s…
The objectives of this research are to find out the level of speaking anxiety experience by the first year students of English Study Program of Universitas Riau and the factors contributing to it. This is mixed-method research; a research combines both quantitative and qualitative paradigms. Using cluster random sampling, 30 students were taken as the sample of this research. The data were coll…
This research was aimed to find out the ability of the fourth semester students’ morphological awareness in English Study Program, Universitas Riau. The population of this research was the fourth semester students. The number of sample was 23 students selected randomly from 3 classes (A Class, B Class, and C Class) by using cluster random sampling technique. The instrument used to collect the…