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USING PRACTICE POSTERS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL
Authors: Baso Farisha Andi , Amelia Reskiwati
Published: December 2017

This research was aimed to explain the improvement of the students’ speaking fluency and the students’ speaking accuracy through the of discussion technique in teaching speaking. The research was implemented in SMP Pondok Pesantren Darul Aman Gombara Makassar at the eighth-grade students through a classroom action research (CAR). The researcher took 33 students as the subject of the research. The researcher taught speaking English using practice posters. To find the results, the researcher got the information from the students’ answers on oral test in the form of D-test, the test of a cycle I and test of cycle II. The result of the research using Practice Posters showed that the researcher used the CAR (Classroom Action Research) principle to collect the data. The research conducted through two cycles with each cycle consisted of four meetings. By implementing Practice Posters as a media in teaching speaking, the students had chanced to be active and cooperative in learning speaking so that the students’ speaking accuracy and the students’ speaking fluency achievement were improved significantly. It could be seen from the result of the students’ activities during the action, and the students’ speaking achievement in speaking. The mean score of the students’ speaking D - Test was 3.67. It was categorized as fair classification (low ability). While the mean score of the students’ speaking test in cycle I was 5.02. It is higher than the mean score of the students’ speaking test.  But the result was not significant from the result which was expected according to the background namely 6.5, so the research was continued to the cycle II and the mean score of the students’ speaking achievement of cycle II was 7.16. It was categorized as good. It also indicated that there was a significant score from the result expected in the background namely 6.5. The result above was acquired from the students’ speaking ability in terms of speaking accuracy and speaking fluency.
LEXICAL ERROR IN WRITING ENGLISH WORDS MADE BY STUDENTS OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Authors: Amin Bahrun
Published: December 2017

The objectives of the research are to find out: The lexical error in writing English noun made by the eighth-grade students of SMP Unismuh Makassar. The lexical error in writing English adjective made by the eighth-grade students of SMP Unismuh Makassar. What lexical error in writing English verb is made by the eighth-grade students of SMP Unismuh Makassar. The result of this research gives information caused by the lexical error of the student’s ability in writing English noun and adjective especially. For the teacher:  the result of this research can be a knowledge and references to all teacher why their students have low ability in writing vocabulary, and also find out the solution so that can create students whose more quality. For students: make students realize their mistake in learning vocabulary, and they can repair their mistake by changes their way in study vocabulary. For researcher: it can be known and references for researcher about the cause of lexical error in writing English words, it also becomes a description of some problem that faces in the school especially to students. Moreover, it can make research have more knowledge how to be a good teacher in the next future.Keyword: Lexical, writing, Junior high school, vocabulary, error
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH MINI-VIVA ASSESSMENT STRATEGY
Authors: Paturusi Muhammad Arief
Published: December 2017

Speaking or oral communication is a process between speaking and writing are productive skill, reading and listening are the receptive skill of understanding. The speaker has to encode the message that he wants? to convey an appropriate language. The objectives of the study are to find out the improvement of the students’ accuracy and fluency in speaking through the use of Mini-Viva Assessment Strategy. This research used a Pre-experimental Design with one group pre-test and post-test score that depended on the success of the treatment, it aimed to explain the effectiveness of Mini- Viva Assessment Strategy to improve speaking skill. Using Mini- Viva Assessment Strategy in teaching speaking is able to improve the students’ accuracy which deals with pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 BajengGowa. The students’ accuracy deals with pronunciation. It is proven by the improvement of the students’ pronunciation is 31.89%; the students’ accuracy deals with grammar.It is proven by the improvement of the students grammar is 56.80%, and the students’ accuracy deals with vocabulary. It is proven by the improvement of the students' vocabulary is 52.11%. Using Mini- Viva Assessment Strategy in teaching speaking is able to improve the students’ fluency which deals with self-confidence and smoothness at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Bajeng Gowa. The students’ fluency deals with self-confidence. It is proven by the improvement of the students’ self-confidence is 37.85%. The students’ fluency deals with smoothness. It is proven by the improvement of the students’ smoothness is 34.37%. Using Mini- Viva Assessment Strategy in teaching speaking is able to improve the students’ speaking ability which deals with accuracy and fluency at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 BajengGowa.The improvement of the students’accuracy is 46.15% and the improvement of the students’ fluency is 36.23%. Mini- Viva Assessment strategy is significant to improve the students’ speaking ability.Keywords: speaking, strategy, Mini-Viva Assessment,
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH EXPLICIT TEACHING STRATEGY
Authors: Qalby Nur
Published: December 2017

This research aimed at explaining the improvement  of the  students’ reading comprehension focused on identifying the main idea and getting detail at SMP Negeri 33 Makassar. To explain the improvement, the researcher used a classroom action research  (CAR)  which was  conducted in  two cycles  in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken from the second-grade student of SMP Negeri 33 Makassar with the number of the subject i.e. 30 students which consisted 14 men and 16 women. Based on the text above the research findings indicated that the use of Explicit Teaching Strategy was significant in improving the students’ reading comprehension which focused on identifying the main idea and getting detail. It was proved by the mean score of Diagnostic Test was 4.94 that classified poor. The improvement in Cycle I was 6.11 that classified fair and Cycle II was 7.26 that classified fairly good. While the standard target achievement was 6.5, it means that the standard target achievement had been achieved.Keywords: reading comprehension, main idea, classroom action research
USING AUTHENTIC MATERIAL TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL
Authors: Mallapiang Yasser
Published: December 2017

The research is aimed to find out the Authentic Materials improve the students’ listening comprehension in terms of inferred meaning comprehension at the Second Year Students’ of SMP Negeri 4 Makassar. This research was an Experimental Research. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 4 Makassar. The subject of the research is class VIII.And in the academic year of 2014-2015 which consists of 30 students, involved 16 men and 14 women who were taken as the responders of the research. The instrument of this research is listening test namely fill the blank test. The finding of this research shows the mean score of students on pre-test in utterance was 3.13. This was categorized as the poor category and after post-test was 6.3 become fair. The mean score on the pre-test, in conclusion, was 3, 53. This was categorized as very poor and after post-test were 6.8 become fairly good.  The use of authentic materials is one of a good technique in teaching listening Skill. The data indicates that this technique had succeeded to improve the students’ listening skill in terms of inferred meaning comprehension at the Second Year Students’ in SMP Negeri 4 Makassar. Keywords: authentic materials, listening, inferred meaning
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AND THEIR VOCABULARY MASTERY
Authors: Mahmudah Dzur Rif'ah
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to find out the correlation between students’ writing ability and their vocabulary mastery of the eighth-grade students SMP Handayani Sungguminasa Gowa. The problem statement of the research was, “Is there any correlation between students’ writing ability and their vocabulary mastery?” The research used a Descriptive Research, the instrument of this study tested, namely writing ability (in terms of rewriting of the story in the film) test and vocabulary mastery test. The population of this research is to the eighth-grade students of SMP Handayani Sungguminasa Gowa which consists of 28 students, all of them were the sample. Therefore, this research used cluster sampling. The result of the data analysis shows that the students’ writing ability (in terms of rewriting of the story in the film) stated in 60.00 of the mean score, where their vocabulary mastery test stated 61.00 of the mean score. Coefficient correlation between both variables shows that there is a significant correlation between students writing ability and their vocabulary mastery, it has lies between 0,600 - 0,800 which is categorized as substantial.Keywords: correlation, writing, vocabulary, ability
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH PRAISE-QUESTION-POLISH (PQP) TECHNIQUE
Authors: Latif Hasnawati
Published: December 2017

The research aimed at improving the ability of the eighth year students of SMP Negeri 33 Makassar to write narrative text in terms of organization and language use by using Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) Technique. For the purpose, this research employed Classroom Action Research in which the researcher worked in planning, implementation of action, observation, and reflection on the data collected from the teaching and learning process and the students' writing products. The subjects of this research were 30 students of the first year students of SMP Negeri 33 Makassar in the academic year 2012/2013. The study was conducted in the diagnostic test and two cycles, each cycle was carried out in four meetings. The findings indicated that using Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) Technique could improve the students' ability in writing narrative text. Before giving implementation the researcher gave the students diagnostic test and the mean score of diagnostic test was 40,2 (Poor). Then the researcher conducted the cycle 1 and the cycle 2, and the result showed that the students' scores in the cycle 1 and cycle 2 improved. In cycle 1, the mean score of students was 68,7(Fair), meanwhile, the mean score of students in cycle 2 was 80,2 (Fairly good). The score of students’ writing in term of the organization in d-test was 50,4 (Poor) but after application of PQP ( Praise-Question-Polish ) Technique the students’ score became 67,8 (Fair) in cycle I, whereas in cycle 2 the students’ score was 79 (Fairly Good). The score of students’ writing in term of language use in d-test was 49,8 (Poor). In cycle I, it was improved became 69,4 (Fair) whereas in cycle 2 the students’ score was 80,7 (Fairly Good). The percentage of students’ participation in the first meeting of the cycle I was 65,8 % and it was improved became 82,5 % in the last meeting of cycle 2.Keywords:  writing, organization, language use, Praise – Question- Polish
INFERENCE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ LITERAL COMPREHENSION
Authors: Jumiati Andi Asri
Published: December 2017

The purpose of this research was to find out the improvement of the students’ comprehension in literal comprehension by using Inference Strategy at the second-year students’ of SMA YAPIP Sungguminasa  Gowa. As has been stated in the previous chapter, the present research investigated the use of Inference Strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension in literal and interpretative comprehension. The research employed a pre-experimental design in SMA YAPIP Sungguminasa Gowa. Therefore, the findings and discussion in the previous chapter, the researcher conclude as Inference Strategy can improve the students’ reading comprehension in literal comprehension. It was proved by 74% of improvement which indicates that post-test value was higher than the pre-test while pre-test was 47, 73 and posttest 83, 22.Keywords: comprehension, literal, reading, inference strategy
THE USE OF MISTAKE BUSTER TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL
Authors: Amin Bahrun
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to find out whether or not Mistake Buster Technique is effective to be used in writing a recount composition and find out the extent to which Mistake Buster Technique improve the ability of students in writing a recount composition for the Second Grade Students. A  quasi-experimental design was employed  with two  classes of the  second graders at  one school  in Makassar selected  purposively as a sample.  The data were obtained through a pre-test and a post-test.  The writing  assessment was adopted  from  Depdikbud  (1996)  covering language use and organization.  The findings were analyzed statistically sing independent t-test procedure.The research findings indicated that the use of Mistake Buster Technique could improve the students‘ writing skill in language use and organization in writing recount composition. It was proved by the students’ mean score of experimental class in pre-test was (10.125) and in post-test was (65.5).While the mean score of control class in pre-test was (9.375) and in post-test was (41.125). The findings of this research shows that the value of t-test in the posttest is higher than t table (4.28 > 2,02). It means that there was a significant difference of the students’ writing skill in language use and organization in writing recount composition before and after being taught using Mistake Buster Technique at the Second Grade of SMPN 33 Makassar. The statistical computation showed that Mistake Buster Technique was likely effective in improving the students’ writing skill on language use and organization in writing recount composition.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH THROUGH DRAW LABEL CAPTION (DLC) TECHNIQUE
Authors: Sastrawati Ika
Published: December 2017

This research aimed at find out the improvement of the students’ writing descriptive paragraph viewed from its content with unity and completeness, language use dealing with tense and preposition through DLC Technique at the eighth grade of MTs.Muhammadiyah Tongko. The technique of this research was a classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The instrument of the research was observation sheet and writing test indicated that the students have high score in writing achievement. The location of this research was taken at the eighth grade of MTs.Muhammadiyah Tongko with a number of the subject were 30 students. The research findings indicated that the application of DLC Technique was significant in improving the students’ writing descriptive paragraph viewed from content and language use. It was proved by the mean score of cycle I was 63.99. It was classified as fair then improved to be 75.50. It was classified as good in cycle II. They are higher than the mean score of diagnostic test namely 50.99 that classified as poor. Therefore there was the improvement of the students’ writing descriptive paragraph viewed from its content with unity and completeness, and language use dealing with tense and preposition.
USING INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION TO ENRICH THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY MASTERY
Authors: Asmayanti St
Published: December 2017

The research aimed to find out the improvement the students’vocabulary in terms of improving their understanding about of nouns and adjectives. To explain the increase, the researcher used a classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles in which each cycle consisted of four meetings.The subject was the students at the eight grade of SMP Askari Pallangga Gowa. The number of samples consisted of 37 students. The research findings indicated that using Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition could improve the students’ vocabulary of noun and adjective.It was proved by the result of the diagnostic test, the students’ mean score got was 53.78. After applying the Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in cycle I, the students’ achievement increased to be 63.6.  In cycle II the students’ vocabulary increased to be 85.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT THROUGH PATTERNED PARTNER READING
Authors: Ardiana Ardiana
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to find the use of Patterned Partner Reading strategy improve the students reading comprehension at the SMP Muhammadiyah Limbung. The researcher used A Classroom Action Research (CAR). The researcher had conducted two cycles, where each cycle consisted of four meetings. This classroom action research was one at SMP Muhammadiyah Limbung. As subject in this research was the second class with students’ number as about 30 students consist of 7 man and 23 women. The instruments were observation sheet and test sheet. The research findings indicated that the application of patterned partner reading strategy was effective and significant in improving the students’ reading skill especially students’ reading comprehension. It was proved that the mean score of D-Test was 60.8, Cycle I 75.5 and after conducted Cycle II improved to 93 And based of mean score of students’ reading comprehension during two cycle researcher found percentage improvement that is from D-Test to Cycle I is 24.17% and from Cycle I to Cycle II is 23.17 and D-Test to Cycle II 52.96%. It means that there was the improvement of students’ reading comprehension on learning process.
THE USE OF BILINGUAL MAGAZINE AS MEDIA TO DEVELOP THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY
Authors: Daddi Herlina
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to explain the improvement of students’ vocabulary of the noun (abstract noun and concrete noun), Verb (regular verb and irregular verb) and adjective (Descriptive adjective).The method of this research was classroom action research consisted of two cycles. One cycle consists of four meeting. Thus there were eight meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research was done at the second year of SMA Negeri 1 Enrekang. As the subject of this research was class XI in 2011/2012 academic year with students’ number about 31 students. These consist of 23 women and 8 men. The instruments of this research were observation sheet and vocabulary test or evaluation. The findings of the research were the students’ score in vocabulary mastery through the bilingual magazine. Before applying this media in teaching and learning vocabulary, the students’ mean score in D-test was 4.6 (poor). After applying bilingual magazine as a media of teaching and learning process, in cycle I the students’ mean score improved to 5.35(fair) and then in cycle II also improved to 7.20 (fairly good).
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSITION-ACTION-DETAILS STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT
Authors: Muhalim Muhalim
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to explain the improvement of the students’ writing ability and the students’ response through the implementation of “Transition-Action-Details” strategy in teaching writing. The researcher used a classroom action research principle to collect the data that consisted of two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four meetings. The findings of the research were the improvement of students’ writing ability in cycle I to  cycle II was 12.2%, and the other side, students’ participation or activeness at cycle I in the 1st meeting was 45%, 2nd meeting 59%, 3rd meeting was 63% and 4th meeting was 73 %. So the average score was 60%. Where in cycle II, in the 1st meeting was 67%, 2nd meeting was 72%, 3rd meeting was 68% and 4th meeting was 78%. There is a significant score in the average score (71.87%). Based on the average score above, it had improvement from cycle I to cycle II (11.64 %).
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION ABILITY THROUGH NRT (NOTICING-REFORMULATION TASK)
Authors: Mallapiang Yasser
Published: December 2017

This research aimed at explaining the improvement of the students’ pronunciation ability in terms of English consonant dealing with fricative and affricative and English vowel dealing with front vowel and central vowel. To explain the improvement, the researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken at the eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Jeneponto with the number of the subject 28 students with 25 women and 3 men. Instruments are pronunciation/reading test and observation. The findings of the research were students’ improvement in English consonant of the English fricative consonant was 2.9 in data source (D-Test), 4.2 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.4 in cycle 2 whereas in English affricative consonant was 3.0 in data source (D-Test), 4.2 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.6 in cycle II. The students’ pronunciation ability of English front vowel was 3.3 in data source (D-Test), 4.6 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.7 in cycle 2. English Central Vowel was 3.4 in data source (D-Test), 4.7 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.8 in cycle 2.The students’ observation was 50.1 % in cycle 1 and it became 72.9 % in cycle 2. It means that NRT (Noticing-Reformulation Task)is one of the effective teaching strategies for the eleventh grade students at SMK Negeri 1 Jeneponto to improve their pronunciation ability.
THE USE OF AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD IN TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMK YAPIP MAKASSAR SUNGGUMINASA
Authors: Abduh Nurdevi Bte
Published: December 2017

Listening is one of the four basic skills in learning a foreign language besides listening, reading, and writing. It has been taught since the students entered a junior high school, however, there are some difficulties faced by vocational school students to listen to the recording. After doing observation, some teachers say that they still have difficulties to teach listening to students since students are not able to express what is on their minds because of their lack of actual language. To help the teachers in teaching listening to students, teachers may use an interesting teaching method to present their teaching materials that also help them in creating a fun class. One of the alternative methods is Audio-lingual teaching method. The objectives of the study were to explain the students’ ability to recognize word meaning in the context and to recognize the content of the text. The design of the research used a collaborative classroom action research (CAR). This kind of research was designed by a group which consisted of teacher and researcher from the educational university. The place of this research was in SMK YAPIP MAKASSAR. The samples in this research were the students at the second year of class 2 Akuntansi 1. After conducting the research, the students’ means score showed the improvement in cycle 2. It is concluded that using audio-lingual could help to improve students’ listening comprehension.Keywords: listening comprehension, audio-lingual, recognizing word meaning and the content of the text, classroom action research
TEACHER’S STRATEGY IN MAINTAINING THE FLOW OF STUDENTS’ ENGLISH INTERACTION IN SPEAKING CLASS
Authors: Daddi Herlina
Published: December 2017

This qualitative mini-research aimed to reveal the strategy used by a teacher in speaking class. The researcher observed a teacher in one of the private university in Makassar for three meetings in a speaking class. In addition, the researcher did an interview with the teacher and her fifteen students who attended in her class. The finding implied that the teacher employed communicative approach by giving pair and group work activities. She also applied a rule Don’t Speak in Bahasa (no one is allowed to speak in Indonesia including herself) with reward and punishment. Moreover, the interview indicated that the teacher’s strategy in speaking class motivated the students to speak fully in English and built up their confidence. Keywords: speaking, strategy, rule.
EFL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF THE LECTURERS’ COMPETENCE BASED ON THEIR BACKGROUND
Authors: Syam Nunung Anugerawati
Published: December 2017

This study aimed at finding out and describing (1) how the EFL students perceive the lecturers’ competence viewed from their educational qualifications (Bachelor, Master, Doctor, or Professor), (2) how the EFL students perceive the lecturers’ competence viewed from their personal background in terms of age (young and old),  and (3) how the EFL students perceive the lecturers’ competence viewed from their personal background in terms of gender (male and female). The results of the research are expected to give meaningful information to the readers, particularly the students, about how to behave and communicate well with the lecturers without paying attention to their background. The research findings showed that the students perceived the lecturers with Master degree are more competence and have a good person rather than lecturers with Bachelor Degree and Doctorate Degree viewed from their educational background. If they are viewed from their personal background in terms of age and gender, students perceived that male and young lecturers are more competence than female and old lecturers, but female and old lecturers have a better personality than male and young lecturers.     Keywords: Perception, competence, educational and personal background
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE TEST-TAKING STRATEGIES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN TOEFL READING COMPREHENSION OF THE STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT STATE UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR
Authors: Sukmawati Sukmawati
Published: December 2017

This study investigated the correlation between cognitive test-taking strategies and achievement in TOEFL reading comprehension. It was conducted to find out: (1) the most dominant cognitive test-taking strategy applied by the students of English Department at the State University of Makassar, (2) the TOEFL reading achievement of the students of  English Department at the State University of Makassar, (3) the correlation between students’ cognitive test-taking strategies and their achievement in TOEFL reading comprehension. The research applied correlation research design. This research was conducted to the fourth-semester students in three fields of study at English Department of the State University of Makassar. There were 20 students were from English Education, 12 students from English Literature and 15 students from Business English. The data were collected through documentation of TOEFL reading comprehension score and questionnaire. The research result showed that (1) comprehending strategy was the most dominant cognitive test-taking strategy applied by the students of English Department at the State University of Makassar, (2) the TOEFL reading achievement was achieved into the fair category. It was proven by mean score 42.51 range from 21-30 score. (3) There was a correlation between cognitive test-taking strategies and TOEFL reading achievement with r = .822 classified as a high category in which score interval was higher than 66. Therefore, cognitive test-taking strategies have a role toward TOEFL reading achievement.Keywords:  Cognitive Test-Taking Strategies, TOEFL Reading Comprehension, Correlating Strategies, and Achievement.
IMPROVING THE LISTENING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE STUDENTS OF SMU NEGERI 1 SUNGGUMINASA THROUGH THE USE OF KANGGURU ENGLISH LEARNING PACKAGES
Authors: Syamsinar Syamsinar
Published: December 2017

The objectives of the research were to find out whether or not the use of KangGuru English Learning Packages can improve the listening achievement of the students of SMA Negeri 1 Sungguminasa in learning to listen. The research Pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The procedure of collecting data involved administering pre-test before treatment and then post-test. The population of this research was the eleventh year students of SMA Negeri 1 Sungguminasa, academic year 2015/2016 which consisted of 360 students. The sample was taken by random sampling technique, where the researcher took 4 students in every class and the total of the sample was 36 students. The result of the mean score of the students’ listening achievement before being taught through KangGuru English Learning Packages was 62,33 and it was classified as “fair”. Whereas, after doing the treatment, the mean score was 90,69 and it was classified was “very good”. To find out the significance of the difference between pre-test and post-test, the researcher applied t-test. The value of t-test was 11.57 which was greater than the value of t-table 1.689 at the level of significance 0.05 and the degree of freedom was 35. It was revealed that KangGuru English Learning Packages significantly improved the listening achievement of the students.Keywords: Listening, Achievement, KangGuru English Learning Packages.
THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN USING DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN
Authors: Paturusi Muhammad Arief
Published: December 2017

The objective of the research was to find out the Students’ Difficulties in Using Demonstrative Pronoun at the second year of SMP Aisyiyah Sungguminasa. The researcher applied descriptive quantitative approach as the method for analyzing the data. The researcher collected the data through objective test and questionnaire. The objective test was used to find out the students ability in using the demonstrative pronoun. The test formulated with 20 items multiple choice and a questionnaire was used to find out the students difficulties in using a demonstrative pronoun, the sample of this research was the second year students of SMP Aisyiyah Sungguminasa in academic year 2014/2015, the sample consisted of 26 students which were taken from the population, 26 students. The data obtained from the test were firstly tabulated, and then analyzed into the technique of percentage and mean analysis. The result of the research data showed that the ability of the second year students of SMP Aisyiyah Sungguminasa found difficulty in using Demonstrative Pronoun with the total mean score 41or classified as fair with the highest score was 60 and the lowest score is 1.6. The finding also showed that among the 26 students, there were 47.25% the students face difficulties in using Demonstrative pronoun “this” in sentences correctly. While there was 65.38% the students faced difficulties in using “that”. In using demonstrative pronoun “these” there were 93.26% the most error. And there was 44.61% the students faced difficulties in using demonstrative pronoun “those”. The researcher concluded that almost all of students got the difficulties in using the demonstrative pronoun. The difficulties were caused the students had less understanding about demonstrative pronoun because they never learned about it before.Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Demonstrative Pronoun
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
Authors: Natsir Ratu Yulianti
Published: December 2017

The objective of the research was to find out the improvement students’ speaking ability by using Synchronous Communication strategy at the second grade of SMA 1 Mappakasunggu. This research used Classroom Action Research that consisted two cycles. The research population was the second grade of SMA 1 Mappakasunggu academic year 2014/2015. The sample of this research consisted of 27 students. The researcher obtained the data by using speaking test and observation sheet. The findings of the student's speaking test in cycle I and cycle II had significantly different scores.  There was a better increase of gains by students at the end of action of the second cycle. The research findings indicated that the application of Synchronous Communication strategy was significant in improving the students’ speaking ability of accuracy which focused on vocabulary and fluency which focused on self-confidence. It was proved by the mean score of diagnostic test was 4.5 that classified poor, the improving in cycle 1 was 6 that classified fair and cycle 2 was 7 that classified good. It means that there was the improvement of the students’ speaking ability in SMAN 1 Mappakasunggu.Keywords: Speaking Ability, Synchronous Communication Strategy
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEBATE TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN SPEAKING
Authors: Baso Farisha Andi
Published: December 2017

This study aimed at finding out the students’ speaking skill by using debate.The research design used a pre-experimental, in which it used the pre-test and post-test comparison to find out the result of the research. The population of the research was all students of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Perguruan Tinggi Islam Makassar which consisted of three classes. Each class consists of more than 20 students, so the total number of population was 85 students. Among the total number of population, the researcher took one class to be a sample of this research by using purposive sampling technique. The instruments of this research were speaking test and recording. To analyze the score of the students’ achievement in pre-test and post-test, the researcher used t-test analyses. The result of the data showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. The value of t-test (6.35) was greater than the t-table (1.729) at the level of significant (p) = 0.05 and degree of freedom (df) = 19. It can be said that the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted. Which means that there was a significant difference between the students’ speaking ability before and after using debate or it can be said that the use of debate was effective in improving the students’ speaking skill at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Perguruan Tinggi Islam Makassar?Keywords: Debate Technique, Speaking Ability
CODE-SWITCHING BETWEEN THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS OF THE CONVERSATION
Authors: Hamid Siti Maryam
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to describe code switching who used by the Teachers and the students especially kinds and functions to contribute to the interaction in conversation in the classroom. Codeswitching is an alternate use of two or more languages in the same utterance or conversation in a bilingual or multilingual conversation. Previous research has established that code-switching can be interpreted as a resource for bilingual or multilingual children to accomplish specific communicative goals. However, code-switching in educational settings has not been welcomed. Previous research has reported that code-switching in an educational context is considered as a deficit of interactional skills. To describe the functions, the researcher used a descriptive research which was conducted observation and interview. The location of this research was taken from the eighth-grade students of SMAN 1 Tombolo Pao, Gowa Regency with a number of the subject were 2 teachers and 36 students. The research findings of the study showed that teachers do code-switch in the conversation in the classroom, despite their claim that they do not. The English teachers used English and Indonesian. The English teachers made code switching for (1) to make questions, (2) unpleasant feeling, (3) to strengthen request or command, (4) repetition used for clarification reiteration of a message, (5) to give advice, (6) to create humor. And the students' used code switching to made they are easy to speak English and easy to understand what they want to say. Switching from English to Indonesian or other languages can also be employed as the communication strategy in English conversation classroom. The English teachers employ code switching to minimize either student's miscomprehension on the lesson or students’ difficulties in understanding the English lesson given by the English teachers in the classroom.Keywords: Code Switching, Teacher and Students Conversation
Parents’ Roles in Preventing Drug Abuses among Teenagers (A Case Study in Banda Aceh)
Authors: M. Nur Chairan
Published: December 2017

Drug abuse has became a serious problem and related to many aspects of human beings physically, psychologically, socially, etc. It is also leaded to early death, physical disability, social lost, economic impact, etc. Therefore, it is highly recommended appropriated approaches in preventing drug abuse. One basic purpose of this research was to find out the parents’ roles in preventing drug abuse among teenagers. That parent is obligated to educate their children as a main responsibility to God by having the children. Children are educated regularly in any occasions and conditions. The research applied the qualitative approach where the data collection was interview. The research location was in Banda Aceh. In addition, the samples of the study were unemployed and employed parents. The results of the research describes the efforts of parents in preventing their children from abusing drug, parents’ role as supervisors, indeed, parents should know their children friends, solving family problems, collaborating with educational institutions (schools or universities), collaborating with home environment, morever, it could be understood that to stop drug abuse need all parties involvement. Ideally, it should be started from the family. It is believed family is the first “school” for children. The role of parents however is very important in preventing drug abuse as a role model, a guider, a supervisor, in addition, parents need to know their children friends, to solve family problems, to collaborate with educational institutions (schools or universities),and to collaborate with environment nearby the home.
Law Part of the Framework for Accountability in Policy Interpretation and Practice
Authors: Abbasi Vanessa , Marzieh Karolina
Published: December 2017

Law can increasingly be seen as part of the framework for accountability in policy interpretation and practice. This is reflected in important judgments in the UK and European context, where courts have been proactive in challenging restrictive interpretations by agencies of their legal duties, or even by parliament in law-making that is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Without attention to the practice environment for legal and ethical practice, the role of law in welfare reform will be compromised, however robust the legal framework. Subsequently, empirical work has explored how social workers learn about the law, in both practice and academic environments, and how they use that learning. This paper considers the complex relationships between law, welfare policy and social work practice, to address the question of what role legal frameworks might play in achieving welfare policy and professional practice goals. These debates illustrate is the essentially contested nature of the relationship between law and practice and the delicate balance between law and ethics within a framework for professional accountability. It is hardly surprising, perhaps, that law is often seen by practitioners as alien and hostile territory.
The Effectiveness of Human Resource Planning on the Administration Staff
Authors: Sufriadi Sufriadi
Published: December 2017

This research aimed to determine the planning arrangement, the implementation effectiveness and the efforts to overcome the obstacles in the planning and implementing human resource planning on the administration staff at the Faculty of Education and Teacher Training of UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. Administration and human resource management are the capital of the development in which the purpose of it is to gain the improvement in all aspects. Human resources are very valuable that require a serious planning when adopted into an organization. Human resources are known as a crucial component, recognized as a universal element in the organization effectiveness and a key to a competitive profit source. Besides giving an excellent service to the society, the task of human resources is to complete all the programs or the activities related to the government policies that affect human welfare in positive ways. The research used the qualitative method with case study design because the focus of this research was the specific phenomenon, the human resource planning on the staff administration.
PENGARUH MOTIVASI KERJA DAN KEPEMIMPINAN KEPALA SEKOLAH TERHADAP KINERJA GURU SMP NEGERI DI KABUPATEN PEMALANG
Authors: Wihartuti Wihartuti , Soegito Soegito , Nurkolis Nurkolis
Published: December 2017

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui besarnya pengaruh: (1) motivasi kerja guru terhadap kinerja guru, (2) kepemimpinan demokratik kepala sekolah terhadap kinerja guru dan (3) motivasi kerja guru dan kepemimpinan demokratik kepala sekolah terhadap kinerja guru.Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah guru SMP Negeri Se Kecamatan Pemalang tahun pelajaran 2015/2016 sebanyak 367 orang dengan sampel 111 orang. Alat pengumpul data yang digunakan adalah kuesioner dan analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif, uji persyaratan, uji hipotesis yang dianalisis menggunakan regresi linear sederhana dan ganda.Hasil uji prasyarat menunjukkan bahwa data berdistribusi normal, homogen, linear, tidak terjadi heteroskedastisasi, dan tidak terjadi multikolinier. Berdasarkan uji hipotesis dapat dijelaskan: (1) motivasi kerja guru berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru, dinyatakan dengan persamaan Y = 103,622 + 0, 624 X1. Nilai R squere menunjukkan 0,339 setara 33,9% motivasi kerja mempengaruhi kinerja guru, (2) kepemimpinan kepala sekolah berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru, dinyatakan dengan persamaan Y = 92,694 + 0, 630 X2 dan Nilai  R squere menunjukkan 0,338 setara  33,8% kepemimpinan kepala sekolah dapat mempengaruhi kinerja guru, dan (3) motivasi kerja dan kepemimpinan kepala sekolah berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru, dinyatakan dengan persamaan Y= 88,355  + 0,379 X1 + 0,368 X2 dan nilai R squere menunjukkan sebesar 0,396 setara 39.6%, selebihnya (60,4%) kinerja guru dipengaruhi oleh variabel lain.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, motivasi kerja guru dan kepemimpinan kepala sekolah berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja guru, baik secara parsial maupun simultan.
PENGARUH PERAN KEPALA SEKOLAH DAN IKLIM ORGANISASI TERHADAP KINERJA SMK SWASTA DI KABUPATEN PEMALANG
Authors: Munarti Sri , Sudharto Sudharto , Adbdullah Ghufron
Published: December 2017

Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini adalah: (1) menganalisis pengaruh peran kepala sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah, (2) menganalisis pengaruh iklim organisasi sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah, (3) menganalisis pengaruh peran kepala sekolah dan iklim organisasi sekolah secara bersama-sama terhadap kinerja sekolah di SMK Swasta Kecamatan Taman Kabupaten PemalangPopulasi dalam penelitian ini adalah guru SMK Swasta di Kecamatan Taman Pemalang sebanyak 252 orang. Sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 146  sesuai  teori yang dikembangkan oleh Isacc dan Michael (Sugiyono, 2010: 126) dengan taraf kesalahan sebesar 5%. Penetapan sampel menggunaklan teknik proporsional random sampling.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1) korelasi variabel peran kepala sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah sebesar 0,471 cukup kuat,  dengan pengaruh variabel peran kepala sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah sebesar  22,7%, (2) korelasi variabel iklim organisasi sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah sebesar 0,238 rendah,  dengan pengaruh variabel iklim organisasi sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah adalah  sebesar 23,8%, (3) hasil uji regresi ganda diperoleh besaran nilai R2 adalah 0,224 artinya bahwa besaranya pengaruh variabel supervisi kepala sekolahdan iklim organisasi sekolah terhadap kinerja sekolah adalah 22,4%, sedangkan variabel lain yang berpengaruh adalah sebesar 85,3%, dengan persamaan regresi Y = 2,129 + 0,405 X1 + 0,045 X2.
SiteWit Corporation: SQL or NoSQL? That is the Question!
Authors: Berndt Don , Lasa Ricardo , McCart James
Published: December 2017

Ricardo Lasa, CEO and co-founder of SiteWit Corporation, and his team faced a critical technology challenge in scaling the core database systems to meet rapidly escalating data volumes. Should he stick with well-known relational database technologies? Or should he re-implement core components in newer, highly distributed NoSQL databases in search of competitive advantages?
LifeInsure: Choosing a PAS to Manage and Maintain Their Product Lifecycle
Authors: Gasant Kaasiefa , Van Belle Jean-Paul
Published: December 2017

Joseph Bromer, Head of IT Solutions Delivery at LifeInsure Emerging Markets, deliberated on a challenge that he had just been given. TIBCO, a vendor supporting ObjectStar, notified LifeInsure that support for the application would cease at the end of 2017. ObjectStar was the Product Administration System (PAS) system used by LifeInsure. The ObjectStar platform was called Alpha and was used in over 200 applications. There were a number of risks, which added more pressure including the scarcity of skills and an aging workforce, but the key risk related to this was the lack of ongoing support.
Virtualization Footprint: Why Re-Invest?
Authors: Thomas Marc , Van Belle Jean-Paul
Published: December 2017

Mark Dumas, a Systems Specialist at a Telecommunications Company located in South Africa needed to make decisions regarding the current virtualized infrastructure platform. These decisions also involved the renewal of hardware that had reached the end of its maintenance period and the latest virtualization platform software. Dumas further needed to formulate a plan to ensure that there was enough capacity for systems to meet current and future growth.