An Analysis of the Ability of the First Year Students of Sman 1 Banuhampu in Comprehending Narrative Texts

The aim of this study is to find out the ability of the first year students of SMAN 1 Banuhampu in comprehending narrative texts. The population of this research were all of the first year students of SMAN 1 Banuhampu which consist of 238 students. There were 33 students who participated in this study. The instrument was a test adapted from authentic material and consists of 35 questions. The frame of the test covers 7 components: main idea, factual information, contextual meaning, reference, restatement, generic structure and language feature and had 5 questions for each component. Before the test was administered, the test was tried out to find out the difficulty level and the reliability of the test. To analyze the data, the raw scores and the level of ability of the students was calculated and identified by using the classification of ability level by Harris (1974). The result showed that the ability of the first year students of SMAN 1Banuhampu in comprehending narrative texts was at average to good level with mean score 72.12. Therefore, it can be concluded that most of the students were able to comprehend narrative text. However, the students are suggested to learn the seven components in comprehending narrative text that will help them in comprehending others reading texts

Kemampuan Siswa dalam Memahami Teks Bahasa Inggris pada Siswa Semester Kedua di Sman 1 Benai

This research was designed to describe the students' ability incomprehending English texts. The aim was to find out students ability in comprehendingthe text. This descriptive research took place in SMAN 1 Benai in March 2016. Thesample was 40 students from XI IPA3 class that took by using cluster random sampling.In collecting the data, there were 30 questions that included in this test. The durationtime for doing the test was 90 minutes. The data was analyzed by calculating thestudents' score individually and finding out the mean score. The students' scoreclassified into five level mastery; they are: very poor, poor mediocre, good, andexcellent. The data was presented by using graphic. Based on the result finding of thisresearch, the students' ability in comprehending English texts at second year of SMAN1 Benai was in good level. Meanwhile, the mean score of the whole students' scores was62.2

The Effect of Paired-story-telling Technique on the Speaking Abiliity of the Second Year Students of SMP N 8 Pekanbaru

The main objective of this study was to find out the effect of Paired-Story-Telling technique on the speaking ability of the second year students of SMP N 8 pekanbaru. This study was an experimental research with one group pre-test post-test design. The population of this research was the second year students of SMP N 8 pekanbaru. In this research, a single group was selected to be a sample by using cluster random sampling. The sample that has been choosen was class VIII.8 consisting of 39 students. a speakingl test was used to get the score of the students before and after taught by using Paired-Story-Telling technique. After all the data were collected, the writer calculated and analyzed them by using Microsoft excel 2010 and T-test formula. It was found that t-test score was 13.30 while t-table was 2.024. Since t-test was higher than t-table, it can be concluded that there is a significant effect of Paired-Story-Telling technique on the students' speaking ability of the second year students of SMP N 8 Pekanbaru that can be seen from the t-test result and the improvement of the students' scores in post-test

An Analysis of the Ability of the Second Year Students of Sman 2 Pangkalan Kerinci in Comprehending Procedure Texts

The aim of this study is to find out the reading ability of the second year students of SMAN 2 Pangkalan Kerinci in comprehending procedure texts. The population of this research were all of the second year students which consisted of 253 students. There were 25 students who participated in this study. The instrument was a test adapted from authentic material. The frame of the test covers 8 components such as: finding main idea, finding factual information, finding meaning of difficult word, finding references, finding inferences, finding social function, finding generic structure, and finding language features. Each component consist of 4 question and for finding generic structure and language features consist of 3 question because the generic structure question and the language features is too difficult for the students. The test containing 30 items was used to collect the data. Before the test was administered, the test was tried out to find out the difficulty level and the reliability of the test. To analyze the data, the raw scores of the students were calculated and the level of ability was identified by using the classification of ability level by Harris (1974). The result showed that the ability of the second year students of SMAN 2 Pangkalan Kerinci in comprehending procedure texts was at Average to Good level with mean score 67. Therefore, it can be concluded that most of the students were able to comprehend procedure texts. However, the students are suggested to do more practice in reading procedure texts in order to comprehend procedure texts to improve the ability in reading due to the poorness of their reading ability

A Study on the Ability of the Second Year Students of Sman 1 XIII Koto Kampar in Comprehending Narrative Texts

This descriptive research was aimed at finding out how the ability of the second year students of SMAN 1 XIII Koto Kampar in comprehending narrative texts.The design of the research was one class for try out test and one class for real test. The population was the second year students at second semester of academic year 2016/2017. The sample was 29 students of class XI IPS 1 which were chosen by usinglotre. The data were collected by giving 8 narrative texts in form 40 multiple choices. The results of the data analysis showed that the mean score of the students' ability in compreheneding narrative texts is 64,48. It means that the ability of the second year students of SMAN 1 XIII Koto Kampar in comprehending narrative texts categorized into good level

Correlation Between Self-efficacy And The Listening Comprehension Of The Eighth Semester Students Of English Study Program Fkip-ur

This correlational research is aimed to find out whether there is a significant correlation between self-efficacy and the listening comprehension of the eighth semester students of English Study Program FKIP-UR. The sample was 35 students selected through purposive sampling technique. The instruments used in this research were the questionnaire on self-efficacy and the documentation of the students' TOEFL listening comprehension score provided by the Language Centre of Universitas Riau. The research findings revealed that the self-efficacy of the eighth semester students of English Study Program FKIP-UR was at the average level (180.60), and their listening comprehension was at the mediocre level (49.83). The cross tabulation analysis showed that the students who had higher self-efficacy had a high tendency to have better listening comprehension score level. Based on Pearson correlation analysis, it was obtained that the correlation coefficient between students' self-efficacy and the listening comprehension was 0.786 with the Sig. value=0.00. Hence, it could be concluded that there was a significant correlation between self-efficacy and the listening comprehension of the eighth semester students of English Study Program FKIP-UR. The interpretation of the correlation coefficient showed that there was a strong positive correlation between both variables. As a consequence, the null hypothesis was rejected