Kegiatan pengabdian ini didasari oleh kebutuhan guru-guru TK dalam membaca sound symbols yang berkaitan dengan pengucapan yang benar pada kosakata bahasa Inggris untuk level dini yang akan terus diingat oleh peserta didik pada usia ini. Berdasarkan analisis tersebut, pengucapan sebagian besar guru-guru TK di sekolah mitra dianggap masih rendah dalam membaca sound symbols bahasa Inggris. Berdasarkan analisis kebutuhan ini, tim merasa perlu untuk melaksanakan kegiatan workshop/pelatihan untuk guru-guru TK Education 21 Kota Pekanbaru yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca sound symbols berkaitan dengan pengucapan yang benar. Kegiatan ini akan dilakukan dalam 2 sesi. Pada sesi pertama, guru-guru TK di sekolah mitra diberikan pembekalan ilmu tentang sound symbols, dan contoh kosakata pada level usia dini/TK. Selanjutnya, pada sesi kedua, guru-guru TK di sekolah mitra tersebut akan diberikan waktu untuk menjawab pertanyaan sound symbols disertai dengan contoh. Dengan adanya kegiatan ini, tim pelaksana kegiatan menargetkan dan berharap agar guru-guru bahasa Inggris di sekolah mitra mampu mengucapkan kosakata sesuai dengan sound symbols dengan benar dan dapat menerapkannya di kelas.
This research aimed to study about students’ understanding of English Collocation at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Bahasa Asing (STIBA) Persada Bunda. It was done since there were many unnatural and unacceptable words used by the students both in their conversation and writing. There are two categories of English collocation. They are grammatical and lexical collocations. The research was conducted to find which category and sub-category that were more problematic for STIBA students. There were 40 STIBA students taken as the sample of this research. The students were asked to do a test consisting of grammatical and lexicalcolloction. The aim of the test was to find out their understanding about English Collocation. The result showed that grammatical collocation was more difficult than lexical. The mean score was 11.02 : 13.55 for grammatical and lexical collocations. Grammatical mean score was lower than the other one. Besides, the students cannot answer all the questions in grammatical because the persentage was only 90 % while in lexical, the student can answer all questions perfectly (100%). Moreover the most difficult sub-category was noun + preposition with 10.7 of score. By doing more practices the students were expected to be able to increase their understanding about English Collocation.
Speaking is one of important language skills that EFL learners should study. Many learning techniques and strategies have been created from many works to improve learners speaking skill. These techniques can make students more active in class and improve their speaking skill. This situation also happens to STIBA's students. Almost all of them passed English speaking class with grade B in average, but actually they are still having difficulties in speaking. Indonesia language as their mother tongue is very dominated in their academic activities. It means that there are hidden difficulties behind their good score in speaking class so that the researcher needed to conduct this study. There were fifty six STIBA's students used as the participants to answer the questioners. The questioners were analyzed descriptively to find out the hidden difficulty. The result explained that they are still having difficulties in vocabulary, learning experience, and lack of preparation.
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