Speaking is one of the productive skills in English competence which can help us to interact with other people. However, in a class, not all the students can make equal improvement in speaking skill even though they get the same treatment from the teacher. It happens because there are many factors that influence students’ speaking performance. One of the factors is affective factor that can be from students’ personality. In this category, personality can be classified into two types, they are extrovert and introvert. This present study investigates the correlation between extrovert personality and introvert personality and students’ speaking performance at the students in English Study Program of Halu Oleo University in the fourth semester. Total 35 students were selected as the sample and their personality type was determined by using Mark Parkinson Personality Questionnaire and their speaking score from the speaking test. The objective of the study is to examine, whether there is correlation between extrovert-introvert personality and students’ speaking performance or not and also to know which personalities have better achievement in speaking performance. This study applied descriptive quantitative design. The personality and the students score were correlated by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The result of correlation testing reveals that there is no significant correlation between extrovert personality and speaking performance (0,575 > 0,05) and also there is no correlation between introvert personality and speaking performance (0,505 > 0,05). Then, other result shows that introvert students have better achievement in speaking than extrovert students, which means score of introvert is 77,56 while mean score of extrovert is 75,56.
This research was accomplished to find out whether English textbook “When English Rings A Bell” for Junior High School on seventh grade fulfilled each criterion of textbook evaluation criteria. The researcher used qualitative analysis as the research design. The data source was collected from English textbook “When English Rings A Bell” for Junior High School on seventh grade. The instrument of this study was textbook evaluation criteria. The researcher collected the data by using checklist to evaluate the textbook then analyzing the data shown from the checklist and making some interpretations, and finally describing the results from the assessment table. The result confirmed that English textbook “When English Rings A Bell” for Junior High School on seventh grade was categorized as inappropriate book because there were only four of fourteen sub- criteria which were fulfilled, namely the objectives were given in the beginning of the book and each chapter, the topic or materials were suitable with the objectives, there were visual materials relevant with the topic, and the instructions of the exercises were clear and easy to understand in terms of completed by examples, while the rest ten criteria were not fulfilled. It was recommended to the teacher to cover the weaknesses of the book by their teaching style or to find another reference outside this textbook. Keywords: Textbook, Evaluation Criteria
The tradition of 'falia' is the cultural local wisdom of the Muna community, as a specific culture is explored from their life experiences from generation to generation in the past. 'Falia' is a prohibition that cannot be violated either individuals or groups. However, it has been eroded by the era of globalization lately and its generation is slowly forgetting it, whereas the meaning of 'falia' has a universal humanism value, pedagogic which is used as a guide to create harmony and social order, has noble character.The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze (1) forest preservation, (2) sex education, (3) respect for work performance of others, (4) work ethic, (5) ethics. The method used in this research is designed descriptively qualitative; located in Muna District; data collection is done by observation, interview and documentation. Data analysis technique is used by data reduction, data presentation, conclusion and verification. The results of this study found in the field are (1) advocating to conserve forests, (2) to avoid free sex, (3) to appreciate the services and works of others, (4) the Muna community is very tenacious, diligent, steadfast, and high work ethic, (5) they have good manners and ethics.
This study aimed to describe the reflection of the professionalism of general English lecturers at USN Kolaka. This reflection was very important as the first gateway for evaluating the quality of general English learning at USN Kolaka. The study was motivated by the university’s low state of general English learning. For this purpose, this study used a qualitative descriptive method. Data were collected through questionnaires and in-depth interviews with 8 (eight) general English lecturers at USN Kolaka. The results of the questionnaire showed that the 8 (eight) lecturers reflected on their professionalism at a high level, In contrast, the results of the interview confirmation showed that every professional indicator has been carried out but not optimally. Thus, it was concluded that there was an effort by the general English lecturer at USN Kolaka to improve their professionalism. This study recommends follow-up support from the university to increase the number of lecturers in terms of good governance management process for lectures welfare.
Vocabulary becomes the main problem that encountered by the students in SMP Negeri 14 Kendari. Less motivation and interest are factors that affect students in learning vocabulary. The research question of this study was “Is there any significant effect of semantic feature analysis on students’ vocabulary achievement at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari?” The objective of this study was to find out whether semantic feature analysis has an effect on students’ vocabulary achievement at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari. The population of this study was all students at second grade of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari who registered on second semester in academic year 2017/2018 with the total number of students’ were 205 students. The samples of this study were all students at class VIII.2 with total number of students are 30 and it taken by using simple random sampling. The instrument of this study was vocabulary test which consisted of 25 items (5 items matching with the synonym, 10 items matching with the meaning, 5 items complete the sentences and 5 items fill in the blank test). They were administered into two groups as the pre test and post test. The researcher used Paired Sample T-test in SPSS 16 to analyze the result of the research whether there is a significant effect of semantic feature analysis on students’ vocabulary achievement after analyzed the normality of the data in experiment class. Based on the analysis result of pre-test and post-test through SPSS in form of test, it found that the probability (Sig. 1-tailed) was 0.000 (ρ < 0.05) and the calculation of tcount (10.070) was higher than ttable (1.699) in the level of significance 0.05, df = 29. It indicated that null hypothesis (H0) was totally rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was completely accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is enough evidence to claim that semantic feature analysis strategy has significant effect on students’ vocabulary achievement at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari.Keyword: Vocabulary, Semantic Feature Analysis
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