THE EFFECT OF THINK-PAIR-SHARE (TPS) STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF ISLAMIC BOARDING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAHRUL ‘ULUM PERHENTIAN RAJA DISTRICT OF KAMPAR REGENCY

Think-Pair-Share (TPS) strategyhelps students get ideas and discuss their ideas with each other to improve their speaking ability. This strategy gives chance to the students to think, to answer, and to help with each other. Based on the preliminary research at the Second Year Students of Islamic Boarding Senior High School Bahrul ‘UlumPerhentian Raja District of Kampar Regency, the writer found that the students’ speaking ability is still low. Thus, the writer is interested in carrying out this research. There are two formulations of the problem in this research, they are: a. How is the use of Think-Pair-Share Strategy to improve students’ speaking ability? b. Is there any significant effect of Think-Pair-Share Strategy to improve students’ speaking ability? The subjects of this research are the teacher andthe second year students of Islamic Boarding Senior High School Bahrul ‘UlumPerhentian Raja District of Kampar Regency in 2010/2011 academic year.The objects of this research are the use of Think-Pair-Share strategy to improve students’ speaking ability and the effect of Think-Pair-Share strategy to improve students’ speaking ability. The techniques of collecting data used in this research are observation and oral presentation test. There are two variables that are operated in this research: variable X is Think-Pair-Share strategy, and variable Y is students’ speaking ability. The data were analyzed by using SPSS computer program with Independent Samples T-Test formula. Based on the observation, it was obtained that the result of observation of the use of Think-Pair-Share strategy is that 100% of the indicators were done by the writer. It is categorized very good. Then based on the data analysis, the total post-test score of the experimental class is 1126 and the mean score is 66.2. While the total post-test score of the control class is 1036 and the mean score is 60.9.Therefore, the students’ speaking score at the experimental class is higher than the students’ at the control class. After analyzing the data by using SPSS computer program, it was found that tobservationis 3.310, which is greater thanttableat 5% (2.04) and 1% (2.75) level of significance. It can be concluded that 2.04 2.75. It means that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected, while the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Thus, there is significant effect of think-pair-share strategy to improve students’ speaking ability at the second year of Islamic Boarding Senior High School Bahrul ‘UlumPerhentian Raja District of Kampar Regency

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BRAINSTORMING IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT THE FIRST YEAR OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 12 PEKANBARU

The research’s purpose is to explain and describe the implementation of brainstorming in teaching English at the First Year of Senior High School level. This research was held at the First Year of Senior High School 12 Pekanbaru. There were three English teachers who had participated as the informants. To collect the data from the informants, the researcher used the technique of interview and observation. Instrument of interview was used to collect detailed qualitative data expressed in the respondent’s own words in order to describe the implementation of brainstorming in teaching English at the first year of Senior High School 12 Pekanbaru. Then, instrument of observation was used to crosscheck the interview result. Both instruments obtained the data in the form of verbal or non-numerical (qualitative data). The obtained data from the observation and interviews had analyzed by interpretive techniques. The result of this research showed that the activities of English teachers in the implementation of brainstorming at the First Year of Senior High School 12 Pekanbaru were varies. However, the researcher found and identified some common ways in the implementation of brainstorming. The ways were in the beginning, teachers explained the objective of brainstorming. Then, teachers used various activities to brainstorm students’ ideas (e.g. word map, making list of words, etc.). Commonly, teachers recorded students’ responses on the board. Teachers established a short time limit (e.g. 5-10 minutes). Teachers did not judge on students ideas in order to gain as many as students’ ideas. At the end, teachers announce the topic of the lesson. Based on the result of this research, it is suggested for both teachers and students to pay much more attention to the ways of developing various brainstorming activities with the students. For English teachers of other schools who do not yet use brainstorming or use it only partially are suggested to try or expand its use

THE CONTRIBUTION OF COLLABORATIVE STRATEGY READING TOWARD THE SECOND YEAR STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION AT MA AL- KAUTSAR BOARDING SCHOOL

There are some reasons why the students are hard to get information from reading text. First, there are some difficult words that the students found. They do not know the meaning. In other words, the students have limited vocabulary. The students are hesitant to remember new words, because they often get bored with it. Second, the teachers do not use a suitable reading strategy to solve the problem. It influences on the students reading comprehension. Third, there is a limited time that the teacher and students have to learn reading text, so, comprehending a reading text becomes more complicated for the students. The subject of the research is the all second year students of MA Al-Kautsar Boarding School, and the object is students’ reading comprehension, there are five classes, which comprise of 150 students. Because the number of population was relatively big, the writer uses randomization technique to see equal competency from the student, after implementing try out, the writer has 60 students as homogeneity sample, by flapping a coin, one group was randomly chosen as experimental group and other control group. There are two variables which are operated in this research, variables X: experiment class and control class and variable Y: students’ reading comprehension. The data analysis was analysis by using formula “independent sample T-test. t o = 2 2 1 1 N SDy N SDx Mx My Based on the data analysis, the writer concludes that: the mean of students who are taught by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) or experimental group is 23.97, while the mean of students Control group without using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is 5. The standard deviation of the students who are taught by using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is 1.77 and the standard deviation of the students without using Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is 3.03. And the Tcalculation is 8.66. Because of the Tcalculation is higher than Ttable, so, the significant is 6.66.. The hypothesis calculation, the calculated is 9.31 by using t-table at the 05 level of significant and 60 degree of freedom 58 resulted in a figure is 2.00. Since the t-calculated is bigger than t-table, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Consequently the alternative hypothesis is accepted. It means that the use of collaborative strategic reading is able to help the students’ reading comprehension

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LEARNING MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF MADRASAH ALIYAH KAMPAR TIMUR

This research is known there is any significantly positive correlation between students learning motivation and their reading comprehension at the second year of Madrasah Aliyah Kampar Timur. This study is correlation research. It is two variables; the location and the time of the research were conducted at Madrasah Aliyah Kampar Timur, especially at the second year students from May to August 2010. The subject of this research is the second year students of Madrasah Aliyah Kampar Timur and objects of this research are students learning motivation and their reading comprehension. The population is small therefore the writer took all the population as sample. So, the population of the research is 64 students. To get the data in this research, the writer used two techniques called Questioner and test. In the questionnaire consisted of 20 items. While, test consisted 50 questions. To get the data the writer user the formula: [ ] ∑ ∑ ( ) [ ] ∑ ∑ ( ) ∑ ∑ ∑ − − − = 2 2 2 2 . . . . N X x N y y N xy x y r xy Finally the writer get the result of research that the writer can conclude that there is significantly positive correlation between learning motivation and reading comprehension. Because the score obtained (0,513)is compared to the r table of product moment, where at level 5% is 0,250 and 1% is 0,325%, the score obtained is bigger than r table either at level 5% and 1%. It can be formulated as 0, 250<0, 513>0,325. It means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. In other word, it can be seen that reading comprehension might be caused by their learning motivation

The Effect of Using Choral Reading Method on Students’ Reading Comprehension and Their Vocabulary Mastery At Islamic Junior High School of Islamic Boarding School Technology of Riau Pekanbaru

This research was aimed to find out whether there was a significant effect of using Choral Reading Method on students’ reading comprehension understanding and their vocabulary mastery at Islamic Junior High School of BoardingSchool Technology of Pekanbaru. This research was a Quasi-Experimental research. The subject of the research was the students of class VIII at Islamic Junior High School BoardingSchool Technology Pekanbaru, involving two classes: 1 experiment class and 1 control class. The samples in this research were 40 students taken from 102 population. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, questionnaire, and observation, then they were analyzed by independent Statistic Sample t-test and paired sample t-test by using Effect Size Formula. Finally, the researcher found that the significant scores were 0.000 and 0.000 which were smaller than p (0.005). It means that there was a significant effect of using Choral Reading Method toward students’ reading comprehension understanding and their vocabulary in the pretest and posttest in experiment class. Besides that, the score of eta square was 0.88 and 0.84. In other words, there was a significant effect of using Choral Reading Method toward students’ reading comprehension understanding and their vocabulary mastery on the narrative text, and the effect was categorized as a medium effect. The conclusion was that Choral Reading Method could be applied to the learning of reading and vocabulary mastery at Islamic Junior High School of BoardingSchool Technology of Pekanbaru

THE EFFECT OF USING ELICITATION TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 01 SENTAJO RAYA KUANTAN SINGINGI REGENCY

Based on School Based Curriculum (SBC), speaking is one of the English language skills that must be taught and learned in Senior High School. State Senior High School 01 Sentajo Raya Kuantan Singingi Regency is a school which uses SBC as the curriculum in the teaching and learning process. After doing observation in this school, the researcher found that the students still had difficulties in speaking English. The students were difficult to communicate their ideas in English. In this case, the teacher was expected to find a good method in order to give a good contribution to increase students’ ability in speaking English by applying elicitation technique as a replacement of previous technique used by teacher which were Total Physical Response and 2 cycle 4 stages. This research aimed at finding out whether there was a significant effect of using elicitation technique on speaking ability of the students at Senior High School 01 Sentajo Raya Kuantan Singingi Regency. It consisted of two variables, those were the use of elicitation technique was as an independent variable or variable X and students’ speaking ability was as a dependent variable or variable Y. The design of this research was quasi - experimental research. In analyzing the data, the writer used statistical analysis which used SPSS 17.0 computer program. It was obtained that tobserved was higher than ttable. It means null hypothesis (H0) is rejected, and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It could be stated that 2.02 < 5.676 > 2.72. In conclusion, there is a significant effect of using elicitation tecnique on the students’ speaking ability at State Senior High School Sentajo Raya Kuantan Singingi Regenc

PENGARUH PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF TIPE GROUP INVESTIGATION TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN KONSEP MATEMATIS DITINJAU BERDASARKAN KEMANDIRIAN BELAJAR SISWA SEKOLAH MENENGAH PERTAMA DI PEKANBARU

Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh rendahnya pemahaman konsep matematis siswa dan belum dilaksanakannya model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe group investiation di SMP Negeri 40 Pekanbaru. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemahaman konsep siswa yan menggunakan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe group investigation dengan siswa yang belajar menggunakan pembelajaran langsung jika ditinjau berdasarkan kemandirian belajar pada siswa SMP Negeri 40 Pekanbaru. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian Quasi Eksperimen dan desain yang digunakan adalah Posttest-Only Control Design. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa SMP Negeri 40 Pekanbaru, dengan sampel siswa kelas VII-B dan VII-D. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah angket untuk mengukur kemandirian belajar dan tes uraian untuk mengukur pemahaman konsep matematis siswa. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan peneliti yaitu uji-T dan ANOVA dua arah. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa: 1) Terdapat perbedaan pemahaman konsep matematis antara siswa yang belajar menggunakan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe group investigation dengan siswa yang belaja rmenggunakan pembelajaran konvensional, 2) Tidak terdapat perbedaan pemahaman konsep matematis antara siswa yang mengikuti pembelajaran dengan model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe group investigation dengan pembelajaran langsung jika ditinjau dari kemandirian belajar, 3) Tidak terdapat pengaruh interaksi antara model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe group investigation yang ditinjau berdasarkan kemandirian belajar terhadap pemahaman konsep matematis siswa. Secara umum, model pembelajaran kooperatif tipe group investigation berpengaruh terhadap pemahaman konsep matematis yang ditinjau berdasarkan kemandirian belajar pada siswa SMP Negeri 40 Pekanbaru. Kata Kunci : Model Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Group Investigation, Pemahaman Konsep Matematis, Kemandirian Belajar

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING INTEREST AND THEIR WRITING ABILITY AT TENTH GRADE OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 KAMPAR

The purpose of this study were to identify students’ reading interest and students’ writing ability in descriptive text at tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Kampar. This research was correlational research. It was conducted to find out the correlation between students’ reading interest and their writing ability at tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Kampar. In accordance with the symptoms, the writer has seen some problems that should be discussed and overcome, those are: some of the students read in their spare time but they still faced difficulties to use appropriate vocabulary in writing, some other students have a willingness to read but they still faced difficulties to express ideas in writing, and some of the students read continuously but they still faced difficulties in organizing ideas and sentences. The specific objective of this research was to find out whether there is or no significant correlation between students’ reading interest and their writing ability. The population of this research was the tenth grade students which consisted of 8 classes. The total population of this research was 288 students. Because the population was too large, so the reasearcher ufsed simple random sampling technique to take the sample. Thus, the researcher took 44 students as the sample of this research. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire to measure students’ reading interest and writing test to measure the students’ writing ability. The researcher analyzed the data by using Pearson Product Moment formula of SPSS Version 16.0. Based on the results, it was found that the mean score of students’ reading interest was 67.75 (good level), while their writing ability was 65.66 (sufficient level). In terms of the correlation between students’ reading interest and their writing ability, the researcher found that sig. (2-tailed) < α = 0.000 < 0.005. Thus, the researcher concluded that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. Moreover, the researcher found that the value of correlation coefficient (r) was 0.850 which indicated that there was a very strong positive correlation between the two variables. Based on the research findings, it could be concluded that there was a significant correlation between students’ reading interest and their writing ability at tenth grade of State Senior High School 1 Kampar. Keywords : Correlation, Reading Interest, Writing Ability