There have been studies suggesting that students' reading comprehension in English subject is influenced by the accuracy of teaching strategy use. The use of appropriate teaching strategies is required to accommodate the diversity of students' abilities. Therefore, measurements are needed to provide actual information about students' abilities. This study aims to examine the levels of students' reading comprehension by using RASCH model. The subjects of this study were8th grade students, totaling 200 responses on the teacher's reading comprehension test with five alternative responses. The data analysis used was the Rasch 1 parameter model consisting of person reliability, item-person distribution maps, and item-person suitability. The findings of this study indicated that the average reading comprehension ability of students was included in the high category with a value (Meanperson) of 1.29 logits above the average level of difficulty of the test items (Meanitem) of 0. Further research is expected to be conducted to prove whether the addition of test items affect the value of person reliability.
Learning a foreign language is generally one of the most challenging subjects in high school. This study discussed the beliefs of foreign language learning of high school students in Bangka Belitung, Indonesia, who planned on learning Arabic and Japanese, especially the prevalence of beliefs among different classes of learners (Arabic, Japanese and mix class) and between female and male students. The result of this study suggested that there were differences of the responses to the inventory among classes and gender but they were not significant. The students responded five aspects concerning the beliefs and they had the highest scores in Motivations and Expectations, especially the mix language class. Furthermore, female students had more positive opinion about foreign language learning, which matched some previous studies revealing that female learners were better than males in language learning.
This study investigated the common types of grammatical errors made by 3rd grade of secondary male and female students at SMP Muhammadiyah Pangkalpinang in writing procedure texts and to find out whether there was any significant difference in the errors committed by the students when grouped according to gender. The researcher specified this study in writing procedure text which focused on their errors. The research method used was quantitative. The samples of this study were 30 students that were taken from 9th grade of SMP Muhammadiyah Pangkalpinang. The data was obtained from the sentences written by the students and by means of the test. In this study, the result of the test was analyzed by paired sample t-test. In accordance with the result analysis, the study revealed two major findings. The result showed that there was a significant difference in the errors committed by the students when grouped according to gender. Therefore, the data further means that gender affects the number, and percentage of errors committed by the students.
This research was carried out to know the implementation of Teammate in improving students’ in speaking skill of procedure texts and to find out the significant difference between students' speaking ability of procedure texts using Teammate and Non-Teammate. The subjects of this study were students of class XI SMA Muhammadiyah. In this study, the researcher used a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental design. The results showed that the post-test mean score in the experimental group was higher (68.66) compared to the average score in the control group (63.72). Meanwhile, the results of the independent sample test of students' post-test between the experimental and control groups, obtained t in the same variance assumed to be 3.229 and significant (2-tailed) was 0.000. Because the t obtained is greater than the t-table ((3.229>0.0845)) and significantly (2-tailed) lower than the calculation with a significant level (.000<0.05). Based on the facts above, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between the samples, and Teammate Strategy improves students' speaking ability. Therefore, the results of this study are expected to contribute to the development of the teaching and learning process of English, especially for teaching and learning speaking skills
There have been studies suggesting that students' reading comprehension in English subject is influenced by the accuracy of teaching strategy use. The use of appropriate teaching strategies is required to accommodate the diversity of students' abilities. Therefore, measurements are needed to provide actual information about students' abilities. This study aims to examine the levels of students' reading comprehension by using RASCH model. The subjects of this study were8th grade students, totaling 200 responses on the teacher's reading comprehension test with five alternative responses. The data analysis used was the Rasch 1 parameter model consisting of person reliability, item-person distribution maps, and item-person suitability. The findings of this study indicated that the average reading comprehension ability of students was included in the high category with a value (Meanperson) of 1.29 logits above the average level of difficulty of the test items (Meanitem) of 0. Further research is expected to be conducted to prove whether the addition of test items affect the value of person reliability.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report shows that there are still some Asian countries at the lowest level in terms of achieving the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) such as the Philippines, Lebanon, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Saudi Arabia. Based on these problems, it is necessary to group countries in Asia based on PISA indicators so that the characteristics of each country can be known through the k-mean clustering algorithm method. The data in this study are secondary data from the 2018 PISA results which include variables in reading, mathematics, and science. The sample in this study were Asian countries that participated in PISA in 2018 totaling 17 countries. Based on the results of clustering, there are 3 clusters formed, namely, cluster 1 is China and Singapore, which are countries with PISA capabilities above average. Cluster 2 is a cluster consisting of Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Lebanon, and the Philippines with below-average PISA acquisition. Whereas in cluster 3 it is a cluster consisting of countries with medium capabilities in PISA acquisition such as Macau, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, and China-Taipei.
This study was carried out to analyze errors made by eleventh grade students in transforming active voices into passive voices. Specifically, it was carried out to identify common errors and obtaining the causes of errors made by the students in transforming active voices into passive voices. The research used descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected through tests and interviews with an English teacher and a number of students. The data test was identified, classified, and analyzed by using Dulay’s surface strategy taxonomy and the causes of errors were analyzed by using Petter Hubbard’s theory. The research revealed two major findings, (1) the most common errors made by students was misformation, which was most frequently produced by the students with a total error of 247 or 52%. It is followed by an error in omission with a total error of 115or 24%. Misordering with 98 errors or 20%, and the lowest is addition with 19 errors or 4%, (2) Based on Petter Hubbard’s theory, mother-tongue interferences, overgeneralization, and error was encouraged by the learning materials and methods used causing those errors.
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