THE INFLUENCE OF USING CHORAL READING TECHNIQUE TO THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING MASTERY AT SMA NEGERI 1KASIMBAR

This paper focuses on the using of choral reading technique to the eleventh grade students’ reading mastery at SMA Negeri 1 Kasimbar. The writer applied quasi experimental research design and need pre-test and post-test to both experimental and control class. The pre-test was to know the level of students’ reading mastery ability before giving treatment while the post-test was used to know the result after giving treatment. There was a significant difference score of the post-test of the experimental class (1.495) and the control class (1.235). The level of significance was set up 0,05 with 40 degree of freedom ( (df) = Nx + Ny = 21 + 21 + 40). The result of data analysis indicates that tcounted (3,729) which was higher than ttable, it means that the hypothesis of the research was accepted. Thus, there was significant influence of using choral reading technique to the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Kasimbar.

THE INFLUENCE OF USING CHORAL READING TECHNIQUE TO THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING MASTERY AT SMA NEGERI 1KASIMBAR

This paper focuses on the using of choral reading technique to the eleventh grade students’ reading mastery at SMA Negeri 1 Kasimbar. The writer applied quasi experimental research design and need pre-test and post-test to both experimental and control class. The pre-test was to know the level of students’ reading mastery ability before giving treatment while the post-test was used to know the result after giving treatment. There was a significant difference score of the post-test of the experimental class (1.495) and the control class (1.235). The level of significance was set up 0,05 with 40 degree of freedom ( (df) = Nx + Ny = 21 + 21 + 40). The result of data analysis indicates that tcounted (3,729) which was higher than ttable, it means that the hypothesis of the research was accepted. Thus, there was significant influence of using choral reading technique to the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Kasimbar.

DIRECT EMPIRICAL TEACHING INDONESIAN FOR FOREIGNERS: TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND HINDRANCES

This study aims to know teaching techniques applied by English teachers who taught Indonesian for foreigners (BIPA) as several hindrances were encountered such as material decision, terms of Indonesian grammar, characters of foreigners, reading mastery, lack of vocabulary and its use, and so on. The descriptive qualitative was employed by the researcher. The sample was 15 teachers who practiced teaching Indonesian for 15 foreigners in Bengkulu. The methods for collecting the data were using observation checklist and interview guidelines. The collected data were analysed qualitatively by using content analysis. The results showed that teachers employed several teaching techniques. The second, the problems encountered by teachers were lack of experience, low language knowledge, inappropriate method or technique, and age, while the students’ problems were less practice or exposure, mispronunciation, lack of vocabulary, grammatical understanding, and age. This research suggests that the teachers should teach Indonesian in more effective and efficient techniques.Keywords: Teaching Indonesian; Beginner; Teaching techniques; Hindrances

The Use of Pictures as Media to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

Reading is an important skill for developing second language competence. The success of a learning a second language is by taking the power of reading. In the classroom, we will face many techniques applied to the students under the expectation that they are able to or easy to understand the lesson. For a teacher, it is necessary to find new teaching media to overcome the problems and not to forget to motivate the students. In this paper, the writer wants to know the effect of picture as a media to improve students’ reading comprehension. The purpose of this research is to find out whether the use of pictures can improve students’ reading comprehension or not. To make the students easily understand about the reading material, teacher needs to have a teaching media. Then, the writer chooses visual media that is picture to increase students’ reading mastery. Pictures are considered as the best media in teaching reading because using picture as a teaching media are able to give the students a clear illustration regarding the correlated topics in texts, tell the students what is going on, and what are the persons in the text are talking about. Nowadays, the pictures and the technologies are becoming more and more advanced. In this decade, we can already materialize a more advanced picture that added by motion and sounds by using simple applications provided in home personal computer. Moreover, the students now are quite used and interested to apply any high tech media. Based on the result of discussion, it can be concluded that pictures are theoretically can be a good media to help the students enhancing their reading comprehension. Therefore in this view, it is justifiable to hypothetically conclude that using pictures for strengthening students’ visual sense can help them to understand a text.