This present community service activity aims at giving an understanding of the use of Mendeley application comprehensively in a research article for the lecturers of the Faculty of Language and Literature at Nasional University. The method of implementing this activity was divided into three steps in workshops model: (1) practical guidelines and tips on how to write at national accredited journals, (2) introducing Mendeley, and (3) practice of Mendeley. The result of the community service activity indicates that this activity help the lecturers in the citation writing process in case of in writing bibliography. Mendeley makes writing bibliography more effective and efficient. In understanding the citation process, verification will be more accurate and easier for other researchers to trace research. From these result, it can be concluded that this activity needs an intensive socializations on the use of Mendeley as an application of citations. The lecturers get the positive impact of this activity. The positive feedback of the lecturers was shown interactively during the implementation activities. It can be seen through their testimonials.
Getting knowledge by reading is one of the prominent ways, and reading comprehension is a skill to help students in learning process. In fact, there are many EFL students have some difficulties in reading comprehension. The objective of this study is to analyze the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension skills. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this study, and by using purposive sampling, 98 students of Basic Reading Class at English Education Program in University of Indraprasta PGRI were engaged. The data collected by administering the questionnaires, then it was analyzed to find out what kind of the difficulties faced by EFL students in reading comprehension. The questionnaires were administered in collecting the data, and it was analyzed descriptively to know what kind of reading comprehension difficulties faced by EFL students. According to the results, the most reading difficulty faced by the students are distinguishing between main ideas and supporting details, getting main idea between paragraphs, the topic of the texts from other culture, relating topic and background knowledge, understanding vocabulary and inferring the text. Based on these findings, some reading strategies should be applied to figure out these barriers in reading comprehension skills.
ABSTRAKNovel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"s melibatkan aspek emosi, peristiwa, misteri dan horror yang mana membuat perasaan pembaca luluh. Novel ini menceritakan pada kita tentang kepribadian rangkap yang banyak lakon dan film, dan juga berpengaruh dalam perkembangan dari pemikiran bawah sadar melalui perawatan yang baik dari dokter yang professional yang meminumkan obat kepada orang gila agar bisa memisahkan pribadi yang baik dari jahat. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menggambarkan aspekaspek moral didalam karakter utama pada novel Strange of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. Didalam metode penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan dua sumber data utama, pertama adalah diambil dari novel yang berjudul Starange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde dan kedua diambil dari Internet. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa aspek -aspek moral dari Mr Utterson yakni sebagai orang yang baik; dia mempunyai hubungan yang baik dengan masyarakat dan dia memiliki hubungan yang baik dengan Tuhan. Sehingga dia adalah seorang manusia yang baik.
Pendidikan adalah kebutuhan setiap individu, sehingga pendidikan pada usia dini menjadi tingkat pendidikan yang penting. Pada tingkat ini, tersedia berbagai lembaga pendidikan, baik lembaga pendidikan informal, non-formal, ataupun formal. Salah satu lembaga pendidikan non-formal pada tingkat usia dini adalah Taman Belajar AR Raihan. Lembaga ini membantu para siswanya dalam mendapatkan pembelajaran di berbagai bidang, termasuk pembelajaran akademik. Salah satu pembelajaran akademik tersebut adalah pembelajaran bahasa Inggris tingkat Taman Kanak-kanak. Berdasarkan konsep pembelajaran menyenangkan, berbagai pendekatan pembelajaran dan media pembelajaran dibutuhkan untuk meningkatkan suasana kelas yang lebih menarik dan menyenangkan. Dengan berfokus pada penggunaan media flash card, tim pelaksana memberikan pelatihan penggunaan media tersebut dalam meningkatkan penguasaan kosa kata siswa. Dengan cara ini, siswa diharapkan dapat lebih tertarik dan lebih bahagia dalam mengikuti pembelajaran bahasa Inggris.
This study aims to analyze and classify what types of mistakes made by learners (in this case the second grade students of Indraprasta University PGRI) in applying the simple past tense in the text of recount text. The errors are defined according to Mariusz Trawinski's theory. In addition, this study aims to obtain percentage of each type of mistakes made by learners, as well as to uncover the most dominant mistakes made by learners in using the simple past tense in the text recount. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method, while the general pattern or research design used by the researcher is a case study. Furthermore, the authors chose the second level of students who numbered 25 people as subjects in this study. The data in this research is obtained through the test of making recounts to the students. The result of the error analysis process is that learners perform three types of errors which are regular verb, irregular verbs, and auxiliary verbs. It is seen from the percentage of each type of error, the auxiliary verb is the most commonly performed error type with a percentage of 42.23%. Furthermore, errors in irregular verb is 33.90%, whereas the type of regular verb error is 29.87% of the total errors made by the learner. And from the side of the taxonomy of surface tactics or surface strategy taxonomy, errors in regular verb, irregular verb, and to be auxiliary consist of misformation, misordering, omission, and addition error. The highest error on auxiliary verb is misformation. The highest error on irregular verb is misformation. And the highest error in regular verb is omission. This shows that the use of simple past tense in writing recount text is still difficult to understand the students of the second grade of PGRI Indraprasta University. Keywords: simple past, recount texts ABSTRAK
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