The aim of this study is at examining how well the students’ ability in mastering the text and the main idea, and how they could improve their ability in understanding the text especially to find out the main idea from the text. The object of this study was 10 students from semester I in Intensive Reading Comprehension class. The data was obtained from the result of students’ worksheets and questionnaires distribution. In finding out the result, The data was analyzed by using descriptive qualitative. The result shows that the students’ ability in mastering reading text was categorized in poor level of understanding main idea. Besides, the result of questionnaire indicated that the main problem in reading lesson is that the methods used and the class situation. Therefore, the students do self motivation to enrich and memorize new vocabularies as an effort in improving their reading understanding. The implication of this study is to give the input to the lecturer of Reading subject to apply the appropriate method and technique, and create a nice class environtment.
Public Speaking is one of the courses learned by the students at universities. In this pilot study, the purpose was to investigate the students strategies in coping with anxiety in English Public Speaking course. Participants of the study were two junior students of English Education Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Aceh, Banda Aceh in Aceh Province, Indonesia. The study purposively selected them based on their gender and class engagement in the Public Speaking course in 2019/2020 academic year. The study used the qualitative method, with interview to collect the data. Findings showed that the students applied several strategies to deal with their speech anxiety, including having adequate preparation and practice and using hand and body movements when delivering a speech. This study recommends that teachers promote such strategies to other EFL students so that they can overcome their fear of public speaking.
Reading is not just as a simply reading but it requires a good understanding to get the meaning of the written text. Some students yet face difficulty in receiving the meaning of the text. So, the aim of this study is to analyze the difficulties faced by the English Department students in mastering reading text, especially about finding and understanding the main idea. It also studies how the students deal with their difficulties in Intensive Reading Comprehension class. To reach the goal, 10 students were taken randomly as the participants. Question sheets were distributed to the participants and also supported with interview. They helped the writer in collecting the data about the students’ difficulties. From the gaining data, it is found that most students had problem in mastering reading text especially in understanding main idea that caused by lacking of vocabulary mastery. To deal with this problem, the students tried some ways by practicing reading aloud, having group learning, and asking the lecturer to use the appropriate technique in teaching learning reading comprehension.
This study was aimed at improving vocabulary mastery through games. It is to see whether game can improve students’ vocabulary mastery and to know the effectiveness of using game in teaching class. The participants of this study were 10 students and one English lecturer at University of Muhammadiyah Aceh. The data were obtained from questionnaires that distributed to students and interview one lecturer to add more information. In analyzing the data, this study applied the qualitative descriptive method. The result of this study reveals that the implementation of game in teaching learning process is effective in which it encourages students’ motivation and involvement during the learning process. Indeed, it becomes the relevant way for lecturer to improve students’ vocabulary mastery.
Communication plays the most important role in a family. Due to family is the smallest unit in society, it influences the family members to have good values in communication to be implemented in society, later. Furthermore, Islam has its own perpective on communication. It guides the family to interact among the siblings and so forth. Islam shows the principles that should be obeyed to create comfort life. PENDAHULUANManusia dan komunikasi adalah hal yang tak terpisahkan. Sebagai makhluk sosial manusia berkomunikasi baik secara verbal ataupun non verbal kepada manusia lainnya. Sejak dilahirkan manusia sudah berkomunikasi dengan manusia lain dengan cara menangis. Dengan tangisan, bayi mengirimkan pesan pada orangtua sebagai tanda apakah ia lapar, haus maupun membuang kotoran. Komunikasi memegang peranan paling penting dalam kehidupan manusia. Dengan demikian, kesalahan komunikasi akan menimbulkan masalah-masalah kompleks dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Komunikasi yang terhambat dan tidak berjalan sebagaimana mestinya menjadi penyebab gangguan dalam ranah sosialisasi. Gangguan komunikasi antara satu individu dengan individu lain maupun terhadap kelompok sosial akan dapat memicu konflik yang tidak sederhana, bahkan bisa berlangsung terus menerus jika tidak dicari pemecahan masalahnya. Mukodi dan As"adi Muhammad. 2009. "Agar Anda Tidak Pikun dan Renta di Hari Tua", (Yogjakarta: Garailmu), hal. 48. Semakin banyak peristiwa memilukan yang terjadi di negara kita, contohnya tawuran, persekusi, zina dll. Jika ditilik mengapa terjadi hal demikian adanya komunikasi yang tidak efektif atau tidak tersampaikannya pesan. Sedangkan Erich Fromm memberikan ungkapan yang indah dan menggelitik "jika ingin membangun bangsa, bangunlah masyarakatnya; jika
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