This research concerned with the English Education Study Program students’ recognition in pronouncing –ed ending words and the English Education Study Program students’ recognition of different enrollments. This research was a descriptive quantitative research. In this research, form of –ed ending pronunciation test of written sentences was used. The words used in the test items which consist of 40 questions. The data of this research was analyzed by using qualitative and quantitative method. The results of this research shows that the recognition of the English Education Study Program students in pronouncing –ed ending words was low with 46.6 of the average mean score. It confirmed the previous study on the ability in pronouncing morphophonemic or –ed ending words by Ningrum (2019) which conducted in the same place. Furthermore, comparison of the test result among three enrollments of samples shows that different mean score of first and third semester is 1.6 points. It is similar to the different mean score of the first and fifth semester students is 1.4 points. While, the different mean score of the fifth and third semester students is 3 points. It can be concluded that there are not any significant differences between them.
The objective of this research is to find out the students’ ability and the students’ problem in translating narrative text from Bahasa Indonesia into English in the fifth semester at the English education program of Universitas Bengkulu. This research was descriptive quantitative approach. The population of the research was the students’ from the fifth semester of English education study program. The samples were 49 students. The data of this research were collected by using test and interview.The data analysis was done by using Waddington range for students’ translation score table (2001). The result of the research showed that, the percentage of students’ ability in translating narrative text from Bahasa Indonesia into English was 61.22 % in level 3. It means that more than half of the sampels were in adequate level. Based on the interview the students’ problem in translating narrative text from Bahasa Indonesia into English was mostly in lexical and grammatical. Overall, the fifth semester students of English education study program of Universitas Bengkulu were able to translate the narrative text from Bahasa Indonesia into English
For students of English education, speaking skills are of paramount importance. However, in the context of English students at Universitas Bengkulu, many students seemed to still struggle with speaking skills. Therefore, to cope with this problem, this classroom action research was conducted with the aim of improving the speaking skills of students who took English conversation course by applying action learning strategy (ALS) since this strategy was scientifically promising. Two phases of the class action design were employed in this research project. The data were garnered using observations, interviews, and English-speaking test. It was evident from the first phase of observation that almost all students recommended the ALS. The data from the interview revealed that a significant proportion of students had profited from this approach, and there were few students who spoke in front of the class. The first phase's precise decision how an average score of 74 was attained by the students. At the second phase, the observation and interview data showed that nearly all students actively participated during discussions and had good improvements of English-speaking skills. The result revealed that the implementation of ALS in the conversation course in semester 1 improves S1 students’ speaking skills.
The aim of this research was to find out the types of word formation in medical terms in The Jakarta Post’s health articles. This research was designed as a descriptive qualitative research. The population of this research was all medical terms in The Jakarta Post newspaper. The sample of this research was medical terms found in seven health articles in The Jakarta Post newspaper which published from June until December 2016. Documentation was used as main instrument in this research. There were 10 types of word formation by Yule (2010). The result of this study showed, there are 55 data of derivation, 20 data of compounding, 16 data of borrowing, 11 data of acronym, 2 data of clipping, and one data of backformation. It can be concluded, there are six types of word formation were found in seven health articles. Further, there is no coinage, blending, conversion, and multiple processes were found in medical terms in seven health articles in The Jakarta Post’s newspapers.
Writing research article is one of requirement for a student�s university to be fulfilled before graduate. However, writing research article is not easy for the student. This research aimed to find out the difficulties in writing research article, the cause of the difficulties in writing research article and the way to overcome the difficulties in writing research article. The respondents of this research were 4 fresh graduate students who graduated in 2020 and the data ware obtained through interview. This research used descriptive qualitative method by using the procedures from Miles and Huberman (1994). The result of this study shows that the difficulties in writing research article were in finding references and struggle in using correct grammar, the worry about feedback from the readers was the cause of the difficulties and the fresh graduate had their own solution to overcome the difficulties in writing research article. In conclusion, the fresh graduate of the English Education Study Program of Bengkulu University faced various difficulties in writing research article and had cause of the difficulties in writing research article, but they had solution to deal with such difficulties.
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