THE INFLUENCE OF COLLABORATIVE WRITING TOWARDS STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY

The research reports on the Influence of Collaborative Writing Towards Student’s Descriptive Writing Ability. Collaborative writing technique was applied in this research to improve the student’s descriptive writing ability. The aims of the research were to know and to describe student’s descriptive writing ability and to know and to describe whether there is influence of Collaborative writing towards students’ descriptive writing ability. The research was conducted by using a quasi-experimental design with pre test and post test. The population of this research are the students at the first semester of the tenth class at SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampung that consisted of 49 students in 2 classes. The sample of this research were two classes, they were as control class and experimental class. Control class was taught by Individual writing while experimental class was taught by Collaborative writing. In getting the data, the writer used writing test. The result showed that based on the calculation, the writer got that  = 5.54 and  = 1.68 and 2.42. It means that . So, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. From the result above, the writer states that there is significance influence of collaborative writing towards students’ descriptive writing ability of the tenth class of the first semester at SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampung

Round Robin as an Interactive Technique to Teach Speaking

English is a language that is loved by everyone because of its role as the language that unifies the nation. Most people in the world speak English. No wonder if everyone is competing to be able to master this language in order to communicate and absorb information from outsiders. But in fact, English is still a scourge for most students in Indonesia. Moreover, there are four English skills that the students must master, namely, reading, writing, listening and speaking. Speaking is a productive skill. For some of English learners, speaking is the main point in learning English, but on the other hand, speaking is also a very difficult skill to master. Therefore, it requires various kinds of learning methods and techniques that can improve students' speaking skills. This study aims to see the effect of the round robin technique on students' speaking skills. This technique has many positive impacts on learning speaking in the classroom. This technique also makes students more interactive and raises the confidence of students to dare to speak English in their daily lives. This research is a quantitative study conducted at STKIP PGRI Bandar Lampung. There are two classes which are used as research subjects, namely the control class and the experimental class. The experimental class received treatments from the round robin technique, while the control class used the direct method

Pelatihan Bahasa Inggris untuk Para Calon Satuan Pengamanan di PT. Dua Sembilan Dua Ampuh Bandar Lampung

The training aims to help prospective security guards to broaden their horizons about English, as well as to facilitate the ability to read texts or instructions in English, and speak in English. By following this training, it is expected that the security guard candidates at Dua Sembilan Dua Ampuh company have improved in using English both oral and written. Community Service Activities are specifically intended for all prospective security guards who are members of Dua Sembilan Dua Ampuh company Bandar Lampung and currently undergoing Diksar totaling 25 participants. Based on observations of the enthusiasm of this training and also the process of carrying out activities, it can be concluded that this activity went smoothly and pleasantly. In addition, positive feedback from the participants also made this training very effective and efficient. Kata kunci: Diksar, bahasa Inggris, pelatiha

THE INFLUENCE OF INSTAGRAM’S PICTURES TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING SKILL

This research reports on the effectiveness of Instagram’s pictures towards the students’ essay writing skill. Instagram becomes one of the famous social media in the world, in this research Instagram is used as a medium to improve the students’ essay writing skill. The aims of the research were to know and to describe student’s essay writing skill and to know and to describe whether there is influence of Instagram’s pictures towards student’s essay writing skill. The research was conducted by using a quasi-experimental design with pretest and post-test. The population of this research are the students at the sixth semester of English education major at STKIP PGRI Bandar Lampung, that consisted of 76 students in 2 classes. The sample of this research were two classes, they were as control class and experimental class. Control class was taught by Individual writing while experimental class was taught by Instagram’s pictures. In getting the data, the writer used writing test. The result showed that based on the calculation, the writer got that  = 5.92 and  = 1.67 and 2.39. It means that . So, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted.From the result above, the writer states that there is a positiveinfluence of Instagram’s pictures towards students’ essay writing skill

Pelatihan Pembelajaran Menulis Teks Bahasa Inggris Melalui Teknik Dyadic Essay di SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampung

Writing difficulties are often found by students of SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampung in a full essay because students need extensive and complex knowledge. Based on the background above, we took the initiative to propose community service activities in SMA Bandar Lampung through training in learning to write English essay texts using the dyadic essay technique. The training aims to help students develop ideas when writing English essays. By taking part in this training, it is expected that the tenth grade students of SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampung will have an improvement in writing essays in good English. This Community Service activity is specifically aimed at all students of tenth class in SMA ADIGUNA Bandar Lampung, there are 86 students follow this training. Based on observations on the suitability of the schedule and carrying out activities, it can be concluded that this activity runs smoothly. In addition, enthusiasm, high enthusiasm, and curiosity and bias from the participants made the training of each material very effective and efficient

THE INFLUENCE OF COLLABORATIVE WRITING TOWARDS STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY

The research reports on the Influence of Collaborative Writing Towards Student’s Descriptive Writing Ability. Collaborative writing technique was applied in this research to improve the student’s descriptive writing ability. The aims of the research were to know and to describe student’s descriptive writing ability and to know and to describe whether there is influence of Collaborative writing towards students’ descriptive writing ability. The research was conducted by using a quasi-experimental design with pre test and post test. The population of this research are the students at the first semester of the tenth class at SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampung that consisted of 49 students in 2 classes. The sample of this research were two classes, they were as control class and experimental class. Control class was taught by Individual writing while experimental class was taught by Collaborative writing. In getting the data, the writer used writing test. The result showed that based on the calculation, the writer got that  = 5.54 and  = 1.68 and 2.42. It means that . So, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. From the result above, the writer states that there is significance influence of collaborative writing towards students’ descriptive writing ability of the tenth class of the first semester at SMA Adiguna Bandar Lampun

Kesalahan Penggunaan Kata Hubung dalam Karangan Deskripsi pada Siswa Kelas X SMA Perintis 2 Bandar Lampung

This research aims to describe and analyze the level of student ability in using conjunctions in descriptive essays for class  add references to books in the school library, especially those related to the use of descriptive essays.  The problem raised in this research is the ability to use conjunctions in descriptive essays in class X even semester students at SMA Perintis 2 Bandar Lampung.  To achieve the research objectives mentioned above, the author uses a descriptive method, namely by analyzing the accuracy of the use of conjunctions in descriptive essays written by students, calculating and percentageing the level of student mastery in using conjunctions in descriptive essays based on the rules for using conjunctions well and correctly. The results of the research show that students' mastery of using conjunctions in descriptive essays is relatively poor

WORD GROUPING ACTIVITY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY: A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH

This research aimed to improve students' vocabulary mastery through Word Grouping Activity. The subject of this research was the 11th IPA 6 At SMA Negeri 16 Bandar Lampung. It consisted of 30 students', this research used Classroom  Action  Research (CAR) which was consisted of 2 cycle in collecting the data, the writer used test and non-test. The test used in this research were formative and summative test. Meanwhile in non-test, the writer used observation sheet and field note. In analyzing the data, the writer used quantitative and qualitative method. Refer to the result of the test, it showed that there were 13 students who got score > 75 with the presentage 70.67 % in first cycle. Meanwhile, there were 22 students who got score > 75 with the presentage 78.67 % in the second cycle. In the other hand, the mean score of the students' learning activity in the first cycle was 6.4 and in the second cycle was 7.29.It showed that were was an Increased in the students' learning activity. Based on the result of the research, the Word Grouping Activity can improve students' vocabulary mastery through at the eleventh grade at SMA Negeri 16 Bandar Lampung.

Reciprocal Teaching Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension: Action Research

The objectives of this research were to improve the students’ learning activity and reading comprehension by using the Reciprocal Teaching Strategy. This strategy helps students with four steps, such as predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. In this research, the writer used Classroom Action Research as the design in collecting the data. The research implementation of research was in two cycles. The sample of this research was in one class only with 27 students. The writer used an observation sheet and reading test in form of was multiple choice and consisted of 40 questions, it aimed to get the score of students’ reading comprehension and used observation sheet for the students’ learning activity. The findings of this research showed Reciprocal Teaching Strategy was successful to improve students’ learning activity and reading comprehension. It can be seen from the average score of students’ learning activity and reading comprehension. The average score of students’ learning activity was increased from the first cycle 6.66 while in the second cycle 7.67, it was from less active to active criteria. Then, it was found that the average score in cycle 1 was 67.4 or 51.85% of students who passed Minimum Mastery Criteria while in cycle 2 was 76.5 or 85.19% of students who passed Minimum Mastery Criteria.  Therefore, the implementation of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy was successful to be used in improving the students’ learning activity and reading comprehension in the tenth grade of SMKN 9 Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2022/2023

THE INFLUENCE OF PEER EDITING ONLINE TOWARDS THE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL

Lots of students find the difficulties when they have to put their thoughts into writing. Moreover, when they need to do the proofreading and editing their own writing, this inevitably makes writing exceptionally tiring and distressing. In this study, researchers focused on a series of writing processes, especially editing and proofreading activities. The objective of this research was to find out the influence of Peer Editing online technique towards the students’ research proposal writing skill and to know and to describe whether the effectiveness of the students’ research proposal writing skill who learn through peer editing online is higher than those who learn through conventional technique. The research was conducted by using a quasi-experimental design with pretest and post-test. The population of this research are the students at the fifth semester of English education major at STKIP PGRI Bandar Lampung that consisted of 63 students in 2 classes. The sample of this research were two classes, they were as control class and experimental class. Control class was taught by Individual writing while experimental class was taught by peer editing online technique. In getting the data, the researchers used writing test. The result showed that based on the calculation, the researchers got that = 5.41 and = 2.00 and 2.66. It means that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. From the result above, the researchers state that there is an improvement and an significant influence of Peer editing online technique towards students’ research proposal writing skill