AbstrakBahan ajar merupakan salah satu penunjang keberhasilan belajar siswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan menerapkan bahan ajar sains berbahasa Inggris berbasis metakognitif untuk meningkatkan kemampuan pemecahan masalah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji penerapan bahan ajar sains berbahasa Inggris berbasis metakognitif dalam meningkatkan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa SMP. Metode penelitian menggunakan eksperimen, dengan desain Quasi Experimental teknik nonequivalent control group design. Pengambilan sampel secara purposive sampling. Penelitian ini membandingkan kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kelas eksperimen memiliki nilai rata-rata (84,76) dan kelas kontrol memiliki nilai rata-rata (75,67). Peningkatan kemampuan pemecahan masalah untuk kelas eksperimen ditunjukkan dengan uji gain (0,76) dengan kriteria tinggi sedangkan kelas kontrol ditunjukkan dengan uji gain (0,64) dengan kriteria sedang. Uji respon siswa setelah diterapkan bahan ajar diperoleh presentase (77,25) dengan kriteria sangat setuju. Disimpulkan bahwa bahan ajar berbahasa Inggris berbasis metakognitif dapat digunakan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan pemecahan masalah siswa. Kata Kunci: metakognitif, kemampuan pemecahan masalah, bahan ajar AbstractTeaching material is one of the factors that encourage students' success in learning. This study aims to apply metacognitive based science teaching material written in English to improve problemsolving students' ability. The research examined the implementation of metacognitive-based English teaching material in improving students' problem-solving ability. The research method used was an experiment, with Quasi-Experimental Design using non-equivalent control group design technique. The sampling used was purposive sampling. This study compared to the experimental class and control one. The result showed that the average score of the experimental class was (84.76) and the average score of control class was (75.67). Improved problem-solving capability for the experimental class was shown by the gain test (0.76) with 'high criterion' while the control class is shown by the gain test (0.64) with the 'medium criterion'. Students' response test after learning material obtained a percentage of (77.25) with criteria of 'strongly agree'. In conclusion, metacognitive based English teaching material can be used to improve students problem solving ability.

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The unique of magnet behaviour has been explored by many parties and attracted them to describe its characteristics using analogy. The use of magnetism concepts analogy are varies including those in the field of education. As a part of a research aiming to investigate culture-based elementary school students’ analogical thinking skill, a study on magnetism concepts analogy has been carried out. By using interview, documentary study and literature review methods, several analogies of magnetism concepts were generated with the basis of various sources of students’ cultural background and learning materials. This paper discusses the analogies, particularly those which can be delivered in elementary school science class, and their implication for education of Pesisir (costal) students. Based on the review and discussion, it was concluded that the analogies of magnetism concepts facilitate people with high educational values which can be put into practice in science learning for Pesisir area students.