This study aims to examine the usage of Edmodo for writing 1 subject for English Department students of StatePolytechnic of Padang. The design of this research is experimental design; two classes became the experimental and control groups.There were 25 students in experimental group and 27 students in control group. Edmodo was used in experimental group while thecontrol group was taught without using Edmodo. SPSS program was used to analyse the data. The result showed that theexperimental group had improved significantly in their post test result. The paired samples statistics result showed that the mean ofexperiemental group post test was 70.32, while the control group post test was 63.94. For the t test result, the p value (0.000) was lessthan 0.05 for the experimental group, which means that the null hypothesis was rejected. On the other hand, the p value of the controlgroup (0.06) was greater than 0.05 which means the null hypothesis was retained. From the statistic result, the study has proved thatthe use of Edmodo in writing class can improve students’ writing ability. Therefore, the researchers suggest other lecturers to use thedevice. However, further study may need to involve larger population in order to elucidate further the efficacy of this application.
Translation is a process to render the meaning from the source text into the target text. A translator, however, will find some problems during translation process. Equivalence is the case which often appears (i.e. culture specific concept, the source-language concept is not lexicalized in the target language, source-language word is semantically complex, etc). To cope with equivalnce problems in translation process, some experts suggest some strategies which can be applied in doing translation. Some strategies are transference, naturalization, cultural equivalent, etc. The strategies which often appears in the example texts in this paper are transference, naturalization, descriptive equivalent, couplet and through-translation. It is recomended that translator apply the strategies if only there is no equivalence problem in target language.
ne"> This research addresses the use of technology, especially information technology, by promoting the use of electronicportfolio (e-portfolio) for improving students' English skills. Some experts have suggested the use of e-portfolio for students inindependent learning activities and others proposed this as one of alternative assessment tools. Barret (2005) defines e-portfolio as thestore to collect and organize portfolio artifacts in many types of electronic media such as audio, video, graphic, and text; it usuallyuses hypertext links to manage the materials, connect evidence to appropriate outcomes, goals or standards. However, the term of eportfolio has not been popular among English teachers in Indonesia, especially in English Department of the State Polytechnic ofPadang, although some lecturers in this institution have been using social media in giving instructions, collecting assignments andgiving feedback to students. Moodle LMS has been applied as a platform for the e-portfolio in this research. This research examineswhether the use of e-portfolio improves students’ English skills. The English skills include four skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking,and Writing. An experimental research design will be employed. More specifically, this article discusses the students’ responsestoward the use of Moodle LMS in their learning. The questionnaire was distributed to students to find out their perceptions aboutMoodle LMS. It was found that 64.62% of the responses indicates positive perceptions. In other words, the students gave positiveresponses to the use of Moodle LMS. It can be concluded that Moodle LMS is considered to be used supporting the use of e-Portfolioin the next main study, which will be conducted as an experimental study.
Abandoned children is one of the problems faced by Padang city. Many reasons make the number of abanded children still high. Although, the news about abandoned children have been posted in newspaper, magazine even online and social media, but seen that they just inform in partially. Therefore the researchers conducted a project on presenting the data on the picture of abanded children in padang in form of radio feature. It is expected that this radio feature can give useful information about the reason why they “work on the street”, the life that they run everyday. Hence it is hope that it can touch the human care of people and government to find the best solution for them. The data was gotten from the result of interview by using recorder tools. Then Cool Edit Pro 2.1 application was used to edit and mix the voice . Moreover this project applied the stages of making radio feature likes pre-production, production and post-production. The result of thisl project were in form of audio, radio feature with 15 minutes duration, and the English script with 756 word.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat apakah dengan penggunaan portofolio kemampuan mahasiswa dalam mamahami Grammar dapat meningkat. Hipotesis yang diajukan pada penelitian ekperiment ini adalah penggunaan portofolio oleh mahasiswa dapat meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam memahami English Grammar. Portofolio itu sendiri adalah kumpulan hasil karya siswa yang bermanfaat dan dapat mempresentasikan usaha, kemajuan dan prestasi siswa dalam satu atau lebih wilayah kurikulum (Paulson, Paulson dan Meyer, 2003). Penelitian ini juga dilatarbelakangi oleh penelitian sebelumnya yang telah dikakukan oleh penliti sendiri tentang pemanfaatan portofolio untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menerjemah mahasiswa di Jurusan Bahasa Inggris Politeknik Negeri Padang. Penelitian tersebut membuktikan bahwa telah terjadi peningkatan kemampuan dalam penerjemahan pada kelompok eksperimen setelah menggunakan portofolio pada mata kuliah Theory and Practice of Translation 2. Semua data yang sudah terkumpul diolah dengan uji t menggunakan program SPSS. Berdasarkan hasil pengolahan data terdapat perubahan yang signifikan antara pre test dan post test pada kelompok eksperimen dimana mahasiswa tersebut mendapatkan tindakan berupa pemberian portofolio yang harus mereka isi dengan materi yangberhubungan dengan mata kuliah Grammar II. Namun demikian, hasil pre test dan post test yang didapat oleh partisipan pada kelompok kontrol juga meningkat secara signifikan walaupun mereka tidak mendapat tindakan yang sama dengan kelas eksperimen.
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