Speaking is one of skills which should be mastered by students in studying English. However in Indonesian school hours the chance to practice speaking is limited. One way to obtain more practices to speak outside of school hours is by joining English club extracurricular program. English club as an English extracurricular program in state Madrasah Aliyah Pembangunan Mandirancan gives chance to students to speak in more flexible condition with their peers. Thus, it is interesting to investigate the impact students perception on English club extracurricular toward students‟ speaking skill. The 26 students joined English club extracurricular as the sample. The techniques used obtaining the data were observation, questionnaire and speaking test. It is suggested that the students should joined English club extracurricular because it can improve students‟ speaking skill.
Internet of Things (IoT) in the 4.0 industrial revolution is crucial for higher education. This mode is often assisted by the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), e.g. in the context of thesis writing. The ICT-assisted thesis writing is now a demand to empower student researchers. Thus, this paper attempts to evaluate the impact of the multimode thesis writing on the student psychological empowerment. Employing a case study, sixteen student-researchers from a private English college participated in this study. All participants had involved in multimode ICT-assisted thesis writing. Supervisor’ website, youtube, edmodo, and whatsApp were used to facilitate student researchers distance supervision. The data were gathered through questionnaires and a focused-group interview. The results revealed that the student researcher became voiced and more autonomous. They also felt more motivated for the thesis completion. Instead of having individual work, the student researchers engaged in a direct collaborative works. Thus, ICT-assisted thesis writing was empowering both for the supervisor and the student researchers. In addition, emerging issues and pedagogical implication were also discussed.
This research is designed to analyze students’ error on essay writing organization. The writers focus on the one category of error identifications that is organization. By conducting this research, the writers hope some development of students’ ability in arranging essay. By analazing the erros, students get feed back to develop their ability. This study was conducted descriptively and qualitatively in nature. It is designed to identify and to describe kinds of errors is made by the student in essay writing organization in the EFL classroom. To achieve the goal, the writers describe in detail all the data taken from the students’ works and interpreted to make an empirical generalization. This research was conducted in second grade of English department in one of the university in Cirebon. The writers use purposive random sampling. The result of findings show that 16 students stand in scale 3 which is equal with 64 %. Then, 7 students stand in scale 4 which is equal with 28 %. And the last, 2 students stand in scale 2 which is equal with 8 %. So that, the writer concluded that the students of second grade of UNSWAGATI Cirebon are adequate to fair on essay writing organization.
Guru merupakan pengelola dalam proses pengajaran, dan dalam pengelolaannya mereka dituntut kreatif dalam membangun proses pembelajaran yang menarik dan tercapai tujuan pembelajarannya. Dari hasil wawancara dan survei, ternyata masih banyak guru yang belum bisa untuk memanfaatkan fitur-fitur maupun aplikasi sebagai penunjang dalam pembelajaran daring. Hal ini akan menyulitkan pada rancangan proses kegiatan pembelajaran menulis yang dibuat yang meliputi materi, proses ajar, dan evaluasi. Keadaan ini akan membuat guru hanya terpaku pada buku ajar dan cara mengajar luring. Solusi dari permasalahan yang akan ditangani dalam kegiatan PKM ini adalah memberikan pelatihan menulis teks narasi menggunakan media cartoon story maker bagi guru dan siswa di SMA Negeri Cilimus Kabupaten Kuningan. Mitra pada kegiatan Program Kemitraan Masyarakat (PKM) yang diusulkan ini adalah guru dan siswa di SMA Negeri Cilimus Kabupaten Kuningan. Dengan kegiatan ini diharapkan dapat meningkatkan kemampuan guru dan siswa dalam pelajaran Bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia SMA Negeri Cilimus Kabupaten Kuningan merancang proses kegiatan KBM untuk peningkatan kemampuan menulis teks narasi.
The background of this research was based on problems that faced by students in reading class.The use of Reciprocal Method can be used as a teaching method to help teacher in teaching learning, especially in teaching reading comprehension. The study is aimed at responding the following question: 1) How is the implementation of reciprocal method in teaching reading comprehension?, 2)Is reciprocal method effective for students in learning reading comprehension. This research was conducted by using quasi experimental method.The method of the research was quantitative and qualitative. Data were obtained by giving test to the students of second grade (VIII C as experimental Group and VIII E as control group). The instruments that were used to collect data were pre-test and post-test as main instrument and questionnaire as second instrument. The test was used to know students' ability in reading comprehension before and after the teacher implementing Reciprocal Method. Questionnaire was used to know students' perception during teaching learning process. The data for this experimental study were students' reading pre-test post-test scores and students' activites results, and the reading scores were analyzed with Fraenkle and Wallen formula. The result of t is 6,6 t is 1,997 for α = 5%. So the account table conclusion is t is higher than t (t > t ). The research found that the reading account table account table scores of the experimental group is higher than the control group and it is also supported by the students' perception.Furthermore, the students' perception results indicate that there were positive responses towards the use of Reciprocal Method in teaching reading. It was effective both in arousing students' motivation and in improving their reading comprehension. From the results, using Reciprocal Method in teaching reading comprehension was expected to be a new contribution for helping teacher to conduct an effective and interesting learning in the classroom.
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