Improving Students´ Speaking Motivation Through a Counseling Technique at Year-8 of SMP N 3 Kutowinangun

This study was aimed at Improving Students´ Speaking Motivation Through a Counseling Technique at Year-8 of SMP N 3 Kutowinangun. Humanistic theory and Psychological method, which see learners as a whole person learning, was used in this research. This was a classroom action research study conducted in two cycles in which each consisted of four steps, i.e. planning, action, observation and reflection. The population was year 8 students of SMP Negeri 3 Kutowinangun. There were 40 respondents involved in this study. The data being observed was the students´ behavior and motivation improvement. The data collection instruments were an observation sheet, students´ diary and a questionnaire. The data were collected by means of the observation sheet filled up by two collaborators and the students´ diary about their response toward the teaching and learning process in terms of the teacher´s presentation and their own willingness, like or dislike toward the learning process which was then descriptively analyzed and presented. The results of this study show the following: 1) the action research on motivating students to initiate speaking in English by using a counseling technique was successful. The students in every meeting showed changes on their behaviors. Even though not all of them showed similar changes, they started to show their courage to learn, to speak in English, and to raise questions. The counseling used in this research managed also to improve a better quality of teacher-students relationship. Therefore, students became more comfortable in learning, thus, their motivation in learning improved. (2) Attending, giving motivation through statements and gesture, not directly correct the students accuracy during their presentation and have a talk with the students outside the class in a less formal situation seemed to work well in improving the quality of the teacher – students relationship and able to create a supporting learning atmosphere which motivate the students to learn English. (3) Related to the students´ motivation, students in each meeting showed changes. They started to pay more attention during the class, paid more interest in learning and practicing, showed less latency in doing their task and the most important the students started to be more confident in presenting their work and started to share their difficulties in learning English with the teacher. (4) Related to the students´ language proficiency, students in this class need more intensive meeting to improve. Students still found it hard to use the past tense. However, their presentation was better than before. (5) The improvement of their motivation can also be witnessed through their diary in which most of the students admitted that they enjoyed the class and they were no longer afraid in presenting and in sharing what they have in their mind

LAGU DOLANAN ANAK ALTERNATIVE SONGS IN TEACHING JAVANESE LANGUAGE FOR CHILDREN

Perkembangan musik di Indonesia saat ini mengalami perkembangan yang sangat pesatdibandingkan dengan era tahun 1960 dan 1970an. Anak Indonesia, saat ini berada dalamkepungan lagu – lagu dewasa. Kosongnya keberadaan lagu anak membawa efek bagiperkembangan anak, baik dari segi psikologis maupun dari aspek berbahasa. Anak tak lagi mendapatkan apa yang sesuai dengan dunia mereka. Bahasa yang notabene belumsemestinya diserap oleh anak, acapkali didendangkan. Tidak ada lagi lagu – lagu bersegmen khusus anak, dengan bahasa anak, dan memuat pendidikan bagi anak. Sudah beberapa saat, anak – anak diberi suguhan lagu dewasa, baik lagu berbahasa asing, laguberbahasa Indonesia, atau bahkan yang menjadi fenomena saat ini adalah: lagu berbahasaJawa dengan memuat kata – kata yang cenderung vulgar. Anak – anak di hampir setiapaktifitasnya mendendangkan lagu yang sebenarnya mengandung bahasa yang tidakselayaknya dikonsumsi. Sungguh sesuatu yang ironis memang, di usia yang seharusnyamenyerap kosakata yang akan mengakar di sepanjang hidup anak, mereka merekam memorikata – kata yang sebenarnya kurang mereka pahami. Dahulu, kita mengenal lagu berbahasaJawa yang didendangkan anak – anak, seperti: Padhang Bulan, Jaranan, Dondong OpoSalak, dan masih banyak lagu anak Jawa lainnya, yang mudah ditangkap dan memuat pesanbudi pekerti. Lagu Dondong Opo Salak, berbeda dengan Lagu Dolanan lain, karena mengetengahkan ragam bahasa Jawa yang berbeda, antara ketika dituturkan kepada orangtua dan kepada yang muda. Pilihan kata di lagu ini mengajarkan kepada anak, berbahasa dan etika

English Syllabus Redesigning for Information System Class: Creating Literacy-based Learning Activities of STMIK AMIKOM Purwokerto

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan masalah serta kebutuhan mahasiswa Sistem Informasi STMIK Amikom Purwokerto dalam mempelajari Bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini juga memiliki tujuan untuk membuat ulang silabus Bahasa Inggris untuk mereka serta mengetahui keakuratan silabus berdasarkan saran dari para ahli. Penelitian ini mengacu pada penelitian kualitatif atau khususnya penelitian studi kasus. Ada enam langkah penelitian. Langkah pertama adalah dengan metode studi pustakayaitu mengumpulkan, mengobservasi, menganalisa kurikulum Bahasa Inggris di STMIK Amikom Purwokerto. Hasilnya penulis menemukan kurikulum Bahasa Inggris di STMIK Amikom Purwokerto adalah kurikulum yang bertujuan pada pemahaman pengetahuan dan keahlian yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan hidup mahasiswa sehari-hari.Langkah yang kedua adalah dengan metode yang sama studi pustaka yaitu mengumpulkan, mengobservasi, menganalisa silabus Bahasa Inggris di STMIK Amikom Purwokerto. Ada dua bagian yang dianalisis yaitu analisis format dan analisis isi. Langkah yang ketiga adalah melakukan analisis kebutuhan mahasiswa dalam belajar Bahasa Inggris. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuesioner yaitu untuk mengumpulkan informasi tentang kesulitan serta kebutuhan mahasiswa dalam mempelajari Bahasa Inggris. Langkah yang keempat adalah membuat ulang silabus. Ada beberapa hal yang harus diperbaiki yaitu; (a) merumuskan ulang kompetensi dasar yang ingin dicapai, (b) merumuskan ulang standar kompetensi yang ingin dicapai, (c) menyusun topik dan material berdasarkan tingkat kesulitan, (d) merumuskan aktifitas belajar, (e) menciptakan indikator, alat evaluasi dan alokasi waktu. Langkah yang kelima adalah mengadakan validasi isi berdasarkan penilaian para ahli

The Improvement Of Ability To Write Poetry Through Mind Mapping Method Of The V B Grade Students Of SDN Dukuhan Kerten No. 58 Surakarta In The Academic Year 2009/2010

The purpose of this classroom action research is to improve the ability in writing poetry through mind mapping method of the V B grade students of SDN Dukuhan Kerten No. 58 Surakarta in the academic year 2009/2010. The variable that becomes the changing goal in this study is the ability in writing poetry, while its action variable is mind mapping method. The subject of this classroom action research are students of V grade of the class B SDN Dukuhan Kerten No. 58, in the academic year of 2009/2010 which consist of 34 students and the teacher of the V B grade students SDN Dukuhan Kerten No. 5 Surakarta. While the object is the students ability in writing poetry. The model of this research is classroom action research which using cycles model. This research consist of three cycles. Every cycle has four steps, i.e planning, action, observation, and reflection. The technique that used in collecting the data were observation, interview, test, and documentation. The validity of the data that used was content validity, triangulation data and triangulation method. The data analisis technique applied is interactive analysis model with the qualitative descriptive technique, involving, three components, they are data reduction, data presentation, and verification. Based on the research result, it can be concluded that there is an ability improvement to write poetry after implementing the classroom action research with mind mapping method. In the first cycle, there is an ability improvement in writing poetry with scenery theme in the amount of 65,5 as the average mark and the students percentage who reach the KKM is 61,7% (21 students). In the second cycle there is also an ability improvement to write poetry with disaster theme in the number 70,1 on the average mark, and the students percentage reaching the KKM is 73,5% (25 students). In the last one there is an ability improvement to write poetry with school theme by the average 74,5 and the reacing KKM percentage is 85,2% (29 students). Therefore it can be recommended that the use of mind mapping method can improve the ability in writing poetry for the V B grade students of SDN Dukuhan Kerten No. 58 Surakarta in the academic year 2009/2010

BOOK REVIEW OFFLIPPED BY WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN

Literary work exists because of someone who expresses thoughts and brilliant ideas that are easy to understand and got someone interested. Literary work is dealing with human life. Literature and humans are close relationship, because of its association with aspects of human of life which gave people to use their imagination like a story. Mursal Esten (1978:4) says “Literature or literature is disclosure of the facts as its artistic and imaginative manifestation of human life (and society) through language as medium and has positive effect of human life”. Flipped is a novel that tells love written by Wendelin Van Draanen. Flipped is one of the great works of Wendelin. She has a positive comment about this novel. Flipped is published in New York 2001 and has been repeatedly printed. Flipped had been filmed and it became favorite film for various groups of people, because the story is interesting and is also added in the comedy scene

The Impacts of Tax Examinations, Tax Sanctions and Tax Hostage (Gijzeling) on Taxpayers\u27 Formal Compliance

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are impacts of tax audits (X1), tax sanctions (X2), and tax holdings (X3), on formal compliance of taxpayers (Y). The population in this study is the taxpayers registered with KPP Cibitung who live in RW 030 Tambun South. The samples consist of 100 taxpayers using an explanatory sampling method. This type of research is quantitative. The data analysis uses multiple linear regression analysis with SPSS version 25.0 program. Based on data analysis, the results of this study indicate that partially tax audits (X1), tax sanctions (X2), and tax hostage (gijzeling) (X3) have a significant positive effect on taxpayers\u27 formal compliance (Y). Meanwhile simultaneously tax audits (X1), tax sanctions (X2) and tax hostage (gijzeling) (X3) have significant positive effects on taxpayers\u27 formal compliance of (Y), with an Adjusted R Square value of 0.444 or 44.4%

Pengaruh Mekanisme Corporate Governance Terhadap Kinerja Keuangan Badan Usaha-Badan Usaha Yang Terdaftar Di Bei Periode 2005-2007

Nowdays, most researches in corporate governance field are conducted by researchers based on rising of many firms to become public corporation. According to this situation, they have to separate their functions on ownership and control of the firm. As result, it will arise agency conflict between owners and managers. The corporation enable solve the problem by apply the corporate governance mechanism optimally. This research is a replication research is conducted by Sanda et al (2005). It's explained the specific study about the impact of corporate governance mechanism include managerial ownership, board size, outside directors, ownership concentration, and debt toward financial performance that measured by ROA, ROE, PER, and TOBINS'Q. The samples of this research are all corporations which listed at Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) by all sectors that delivered financial statement on time by regulation. The period of time in this research determined on 2005-2007. The model is extended by quadratic of managerial ownership, quadratic of board size, quadratic of ownership concentration, CEO foreign and firm size as control variables, and sectoral dummy. The result of this research explained that corporate governance mechanism simultaneously influence to ROA and ROE significantly. On partially, ROA is influenced by CEO foreign, debt, and firm size significantly. And ROE is inluenced by CEO foreign, firm size, and sector of basic industry significantly

MODEL NON DIRECTIVE LEARNING PADA PEMBELAJARAN SENI TARI BERBASIS KURIKULUM 2013 UNTUK MEMBENTUK SISWA BERKARAKTER : Studi Eksperimen Melalui Kritik Tari Pada Siswa Kelas XI SMA PGRI 1 Subang

Pentingnya pembelajaran yang mengarah pada pembentukan karakter peneliti merasa penerapan pembelajaran seni tari yang dilakukan di SMA PGRI 1 Subang kurang optimal. Hal tersebut terlihat dengan lemahnya karakter yang dimiliki siswa terutama dalam karakter yang berkaitan dengan disiplin, percaya diri dan tanggung jawab. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui karakter siswa pada pembelajaran seni tari berbasis kurikulum 2013 sebelum menggunakan model non directive learning, mengetahui karakter siswa pada saat diterapkan model non directive learning dan mengetahui perubahan karakter siswa pada setelah diterapkannya model non directive learning. Metode peneltian yang digunakan yaitu pre-experimental design dengan one-group pretest-posttest yang dilakukan di kelas X IPS 1 SMA PGRI 1 Subang dengan bahan ajar kritik tari. Hasil analisis menyatakan nilai rata-rata pretest siswa yaitu 68,5, membuktikan lemahnya karakter siswa sebelum diterapkannya model non directive learning. Nilai rata-rata proses pembelajaran menggunakan model non directive learning yaitu 70,5, membuktikan adanya peningkatan dalam proses pembelajaran menggunakan model non directive learning. Hasil analisis nilai rata-rata posttest siswa yaitu 78.3 membuktikan adanya peningkatan karakter siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan thitung > ttabel yaitu 13,6 > 1,699. Berdasarkan bukti pengolahan data dari nilai pretest, proses, dan posttest membuktikan bahwa nilai dari siswa meningkat secara signifikan. Simpulan dari hasil penelitian ini bahwa model non-directive learning menjadi salah satu model alternatif untuk membentuk siswa berkarakter.; Importance of learning leading to the formation of character researchers feel the application of learning the art of dance performed in SMA PGRI 1 Subang less than optimal. This is evident by the lack of character of the students especially in character with regard to discipline, confidence and responsibility. This study aims to determine the character of the students in learning the art of dance-based curriculum in 2013 before using non-directive model of learning, knowing the character of the students when applied to a model of non directive learning and knowing the character changes in the students after the implementation of a model of non directive learning. The method used is pre-experimental design with one-group pretest-posttest done in class X IPS 1 SMA PGRI 1 Subang with teaching materials of dance criticism. The results of the analysis declared value of the average pretest students is 68.5, proving weak character of the student prior to the implementation of a model of non directive learning. The average value of the learning process using non-directive model of learning is 70.5, proving an increase in the learning process using a model of non directive learning. The results of the analysis of the average value is 78.3 posttest students prove their increase students' character. The results showed thitung> ttable is 13.6> 1.699. Based on the evidence of the value pretest data processing, process, and posttest prove that the value of students increased significantly. Conclusions from this research that the model of non-directive learning to be one of the alternative models for shaping students' character