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2022•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The Aimed of this research was to determine whether the use of picture series media has an effect to improve the writing result of eight grade students at SMPN 4 Tarakan. the population of this research where eight grade students of SMPN 4 Tarakan in the academic year 2021/2022. the number of samples in this study were 31 students of class VIII-6. this research used a pre-experimental design one group pretest and posttest design with purposive sampling technique. the results showed that there was a difference between the pretest and posttest. this is proven by the result of the average score of students. the mean score of the students on the pretest was 59.38 and the result on the posttest was 73.51. it can be seen that there is a significant increase in the average score of students in the posttest which is higher than the pretest. therefore, the result of the paired t-test show that the t-test of 7.573 was higher than the t-table of 2.042. based on the result of the test the researcher concluded that the use of picture series proved to be effective in improving the eight graders students learning outcomes in writing narrative text at SMPN 4 Tarakan.
ThesisOpen AccessMetadata saja
2022•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The main purpose of this study was to describe the learning process of reading comprehension through the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy and to investigate the teacher's problems in teaching reading comprehension through the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy to eighth grader students at SMP Negeri 8 Tarakan. This study used the descriptive qualitative method. The research subject was an English teacher of Eight grader at SMP Negeri 8 Tarakan. The researcher gathered the data in the form of documents such as syllabuses and lesson plans, observations in online classes using Zoom, and interviews with teachers. The results of this study indicated that during preparing for learning tools such as a syllabus, lesson plans, textbooks, worksheets, learning media such as PowerPoint, and online platforms such as Zoom. The teacher has no problems when preparing learning materials using the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy because the teacher always adjusts the content of the material being taught based on the students' abilities, therefore students can understand the material more easily Even though some points were missed, such as brainstorming and forming study groups, the learning process was quite optimal. The teacher uses a scoring rubric on each knowledge, skill, and attitude value to evaluate students' lessons. Doing online learning is undoubtedly difficult due to the numerous obstacles encountered, one of which is the network, but the teacher truly understands and understands the abilities of the students and does not force students to participate in learning.
