This research aimed at investigating whether there is a significant effect of Picture Word Inductive Model on students’ competence in writing narrative text. The design of this research was Pre-Experimental design one group pre test and post test. The population of this research was all first grade of class IPA of Senior High School 4 Wangi-Wangi. The sample of this research was class IPA 1 which consists of 20 students. The instrument of this research was writing test in narrative genre and the criteria of students’ writing were assessed from five aspects of writing, namely content, organization, language use, vocabulary and mechanics. The data were obtained by using two essay writing tests. They were pre-test and post-test. The pre-test was given before treatment and the post-test was given after treatments in order to know the students’ competence before and after treatment of Picture Word Inductive Model. The data were analyzed by using SPSS in form of Paired Sample T-test. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant effect of Picture Word Inductive Model on students’ competence in writing narrative text. It proved by the result of hypothesis testing using paired sample t-test. The mean score of pre-test was 59.77 and mean score of post-test was 76.67. Moreover, as a result the probability score of .000 (p score) was less than the level of significance (p ≤ 0.50. Therefore, it can be said that using Picture Word Inductive Model gives significant effect to increase students’ competence in writing narrative text at class IPA 1 of Senior High School 4 Wangi-Wangi.
This research focuses on the correlation between students’ motivation and their speaking achievement. The research conducts in Halu Oleo University, English Department at academic year 2017/2018 that have pass Speaking III to see their motivation and speaking achievement. There are 36 students taken as sample. The data of the research collect through close-ended questionnaire adapted from Gardner (1985) who had developed the Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) to get the data of students’ motivation index (integrative motivation and instrumental motivation), especially in speaking III. To analyze the data, the researcher uses descriptive statistic to find out the students’ speaking achievement and their motivations based on the five categories of; very good, good, moderate, low and failed. The researcher uses the SPSS 16 program as the statistical program to analyze the data. The finding of the research shows that students’ speaking achievement was mostly categorized as a moderate category and students are moderate motivated in speaking English. The result of inferential statistical analysis show that the result of the Pearson correlation is valued as much as rxy= 0,479 (moderate correlation) with positive significant 0.03(rxy<0.05). Based on the data, the researcher found that there is a significant correlation between students’ motivation and their speaking achievement at English Department of Halu Oleo University. Motivation is an important factor that influenced students’ achievement. Motivation is directly proportional to the score of students. The higher the students’ motivation to speak, the higher their speaking score achieved. Keywords: Speaking, speaking achievement, motivation (integrative and instrumental)
Vocabulary becomes the main problem that encountered by the students in SMP Negeri 14 Kendari. Less motivation and interest are factors that affect students in learning vocabulary. The research question of this study was “Is there any significant effect of semantic feature analysis on students’ vocabulary achievement at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari?” The objective of this study was to find out whether semantic feature analysis has an effect on students’ vocabulary achievement at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari. The population of this study was all students at second grade of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari who registered on second semester in academic year 2017/2018 with the total number of students’ were 205 students. The samples of this study were all students at class VIII.2 with total number of students are 30 and it taken by using simple random sampling. The instrument of this study was vocabulary test which consisted of 25 items (5 items matching with the synonym, 10 items matching with the meaning, 5 items complete the sentences and 5 items fill in the blank test). They were administered into two groups as the pre test and post test. The researcher used Paired Sample T-test in SPSS 16 to analyze the result of the research whether there is a significant effect of semantic feature analysis on students’ vocabulary achievement after analyzed the normality of the data in experiment class. Based on the analysis result of pre-test and post-test through SPSS in form of test, it found that the probability (Sig. 1-tailed) was 0.000 (ρ < 0.05) and the calculation of tcount (10.070) was higher than ttable (1.699) in the level of significance 0.05, df = 29. It indicated that null hypothesis (H0) was totally rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H1) was completely accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is enough evidence to claim that semantic feature analysis strategy has significant effect on students’ vocabulary achievement at the second grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Kendari.Keyword: Vocabulary, Semantic Feature Analysis
Lyrics in song are intended to send a message to the audience or music lovers. Composers use figurative language as the media to convey their message. One of the figurative languages that is mostly used in song’s lyrics is Metaphor. This study was intended to investigate the types of metaphor used in One Direction Album. The objective of this study to identify the types of metaphor found in the song lyrics and to analyze metaphor meaning in One Direction song. This study adopted a descriptive qualitative research design. Three songs by One Direction had been chosen as the data of this study; Story of My Life, Steal My Girl and Drag Me Down. The data were analyzed its metaphor by using Lakoff and Johnson theory, while in investigating the meaning, Chaer’s theory of contextual meaning was used. The result of the study showed that based on the three types of metaphor, structural metaphor becomes the most frequently used in the song lyrics, meanwhile 2 of 3 songs used all of the three types of metaphor; Orientation, Structural and Ontological Metaphor. In answering the second research question about the meaning of each metaphor, each lyric has been analyzed through content analysis to know the true meaning of what the song writer want to express in his/her lyrics and each lyric has different contextual meaning which is elaborated further in this study. Keywords: Metaphor, Meaning, One Direction’s Album
Literature is a written work that have intellectual and imaginative ideas with a neat and organized structure. Novel as a kind of literary works is a piece of writing in form of prose which has complex attribute such as complicated plots, various settings, and a great variety of characters.One of the best fantasy works is Beyonders series, written by Brandon Mull.Beyonders: A World Without Heroes is the first of Beyonders trilogy series. The story of Beyonders: A World Without Heroes novel is about a thirteen years old boy named Jason Walker who trying to find a way to go back to his world. From Beyonders: A World Without Heroes novel, things that stand out are the story of a struggle to survive and find the way to go back home.Therefore, one of the particular elements to build the story in the novel is motivation of the major character.Motivation helps to achieve something that can make a better circumstance, we will not be able to achieve anything if we do not have any desire to achieve it.This study aimed to analyze Jason Walker’s motivation to survive in Brandon Mull’s novel series Beyonders: A World Without Heroes. This study used Personal Construct Theory (PCT) which classified emotions to analyze Walker’s motivation to survive as to which emotions caused Walker to be motivated to survive. This study found that Walker’s motivation in real world is his interest towards animals was what motivated Walker to study in zoology major. Trapped in unreal world made Walker motivated to survive to find a way home and as setting and conflict influenced, Walker’s motivation has grown to save Lyrian from Maldor. By using Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory (PCT), this study found that anxiety on why Walker was stranded in unreal world, guilt of involving Lyrian’s people and did not want to make his family and friends worried about him, threat from Maldor
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