Penerapan Strategi Penemuan Terbimbinguntuk Meningkatan Kemampuan Kognitif Anak Usia 5-6 Tahundi Tk Amal Ikhlas Rumbai Pekanbaru

This research is motivated by low cognitive abilities of children in TK Amal Ikhlas Pekanbaru. It is known from: (1) low ability children in cognitive learning; (2) the child can not reveal what has been tried through trial activities; and (3) lack of memory of children in cognitive learning. It required an application of concrete to be able to find the right way with respect to the child's cognitive ability, namely the application of guided discovery strategy. The formulation can study the researchers formulated as follows: Does the use of guided discovery strategy can improve the cognitive abilities of children aged 5-6 years in TK Amal Ikhlas Pekanbaru ?. This study aims to determine whether the use of guided discovery strategy can improve the cognitive abilities of children aged 5-6 years in TK Amal Ikhlas Pekanbaru. The method used in this research is classroom action research (classroom action research) with a number of research subjects as many as 20 children, consisting of 12 boys and 8 girls. Data collection techniques of data collection in this study is the observation and documentation. Data analysis techniques used in this study is the percentage technique. Results of action research a cognitive ability of children increased from the initial data is known that cognitive ability 31.3. In the first cycle of the first meeting of 39.3. In the first cycle of the second meeting of 48.5. In the second cycle the first meeting of 56.3. And the second cycle II meeting of 67.8. Based on these results we concluded that the results of this study with the application of guided discovery strategy can improve the cognitive abilities of children aged 5-6 years in TK Amal Ikhlas Pekanbaru. The percentage increase cognitive abilities of children aged 5-6 years at the age of 5-6 years with the implementation strategy guided discovery at TK Amal Ikhlas Pekanbaru can be seen from prasiklus or before the implementation of the strategy of guided discovery to the second cycle

A Study on the Ability of the Second Year Students of English Study Program Fkip Universitas Riau in Listening to Conversations

This study aims at finding the ability of the second year students of English Study Program FKIP Univeritas Riau in listening to conversations. The writer used Cluster Random Sampling technique to choose the sample. There are three classes for population of this research consists of 90 students there are class A, B and C, class B was chosen as the sample consisted of 30 students. The instrument of this research was in the form of multiple choices test which consisted of tryout and sample. The test was listening test. The test had four scripts and each script had five questions based on listening question comprehension components, so there were 20 questions for the script. The writer used SPSS 16.0 Program to analyze the data. Based on the results, there are two students in the excellent level (6,7%), and eleven of the students (36, 7%) were at good level, 33,3% were at mediocre level, and 23, 3% was at poor level. So, from the result of the calculation, the majority of student's ability in listening comprehension on conversation was at good level. The data also indicated that the highest score obtained by students was 85 while the lowest score was 30, and for each classification of question, the mean score of the students' ability for finding main idea was 65,33 finding detail was 42,00, identifying inference was 66,00 and identifying restatement was 52,00. It means that identifying detail was the students' lowest score and finding main idea was the students' highest score of the second year students especially students from class B of English study program FKIP-UR in listening comprehension on conversations

The Effectiveness of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) Towards the Reading Comprehension of the First Grade Students of Sman 14 Pekanbaru

This pre-experimental research aimed to find out the significant effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) towards the reading comprehension of the first grade students of SMAN 14 Pekanbaru. This study was one group pre-test and post-test design. The population of this study was grade X students of SMAN 14 Pekanbaru which consisted of 7 classes with the total of 259 students. The sample of this study was X.4 class with 37 students. The instrument of the research was a reading test with multiple choice type. The test consisted of six texts where each text contained eight questions with five options (A,B,C,D and E). The writer conducted a try out before the treatment was held. The level difficulty formula by Heaton was used in this study to obtain the reliability and validity of the test. Furthermore, the t-test formula was used in order to analyze the data. The T-Test displayed that the results determined by the probability of sig. > 0.05, probability=0.000, that showed a strong correlation between Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) and students' reading comprehension. t-obs result also showed that the students' mean score of the post-test (67.04) was higher than the pre-test ( 54.59). Besides, the results of the analysis showed that the t-test was higher than the t-table (12.45>2.028) at the level sig. of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) n-1=36. It means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and null hypothesis was rejected. Based on the data calculation, the results showed the significant effects of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) towards the reading comprehension of the first grade students

A Study on the Ability of the Fourth Semester Students of English Study Program Fkip Ur in Writing a Paragraph

This descriptive research was conducted to find out the ability of the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP UR in writing a paragrafh. The sample was 60 of the fourth semester students of English study program FKIP UR which was decided by using Simple Random Sampling technique. The data were collected by giving a written test to the students. The students are expected to write a paragraph by choosing one of the given topics. The students\u27 score were graded by three raters and were analyzed by using Harris\u27 scoring system which concerned with five aspects of writing; content, form, grammar, style, and mechanics. The findings showed that there were 53 students (88%) in good level and 7 students (12%) in average level, and no student in excellent, poor and very poor level. It was also found that the students\u27 ability in organization aspect was the highest among the other aspects, with the average score of 69,26, while grammar aspect was the lowest one, with the average score of 63,52. Based on the result obtained, it can be inferred that the fourth semester students of English Study Program FKIP UR were able to write a paragraph and their level of ability was in good level with the average score of 67,48.This study recommended to the students to keep improving their ability and to the further study in the writing skill can focus more on how to improve students\u27 grammar in writing

The Effect of Storytelling Strategy on the Ability of First Year Students of Sman 1 Pekanbaru in Reading Comprehension

This research aimed at finding out whether there is a significant effect of Storytelling strategy on the ability of first year students of SMAN 1 Pekanbaru in reading comprehension. The research design is a pre-experimental research with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample was X MIA-2 chosen by using cluster random sampling technique. The result showed that the mean score of post-test (76.00) was higher than mean score of pre-test (70.03). The value of t-test (15.48) was higher than t-table (2.04) at 5% of the significance level and t-table (2.75) at 1% of the significance level. Therefore, Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. It could be concluded that there was a significant effect of Storytelling strategy on the ability of first year students of SMAN 1 Pekanbaru in reading comprehension

The Effect of Mind Mapping Technique on the Second Year Students' Ability in Writing Descriptive Paragraphs at Smk YPPI Tualang

This pre-experimental research aimed to find out whether there is significant effect of Mind Mapping technique on the second year students' ability in writing descriptive paragraphs at SMK YPPI Tualang. The writer used cluster sampling technique to determine the sample. The samples in this study were 30 students. Writing test is used to get the data on pre-test and post-test. In analyzing the data, the writer used t-test formula. The analysis of the data showed that there was significant effect of using Mind Mapping technique on students' ability in writing descriptive paragraphs. The mean score of the students' pre-test was 50.34. The mean score of the students' post-test was 72.12. Moreover, from the statistical analysis, it was found out the t-obs (9.85) was higher that t-table at the level of significance 0.005 (1.699). Based on this finding, it is concluded that Mind Mapping technique can be used by the teacher as an alternative technique in teaching writing