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Teaching reading using ReadTheory website as an online platform Fitrotunnisa Alhaniah; Dian Shafwati
U-JET Vol 10, No 4 (2021): U-JET
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The objectives of this research were to know whether or not there is a significant improvement on reading achievement after teaching using ReadTheory and which  reading aspect is improved the most. The design of this study was one group pretest-post test design. The study employed reading test for pretest and post test. The result of study found that the two tailed significance value (p) is 0.000. ReadTheory is significant to improve reading achievement and supporting details are the aspect improved the most. This is proven as the result of post test mean reached 62,59 from 53,40. The improvement was shown in all aspects of reading, especially aspect of supporting details. The gain percentage of supporting details was 13.6%. Thus, the teachers can try to employ ReadTheory in order to enhance reading practice especially in aspects of supporting details.Key Words: ReadTheory, improvement, reading test, reading aspect.doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23960/UJET.v10.i4.202107
The implementation of Mind-mapping technique to improve student’s descriptive text writing ability Naomy Dwi Saraswati; Mahpul Mahpul; Dian Shafwati
U-JET Vol 10, No 2 (2021): Vol 10, No 2 (2021): U-JET
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The objectives of this research were to find out if there was any significant difference on students' writing ability in a descriptive text before and after the implementation of mind-mapping technique and to investigate the students’ perception toward the use of mind-mapping technique in teaching writing ability. The population of this research was the first year students of SMA Surya Dharma 2 Bandarlampung. The sample of this research was X Science 1 which consisted of 33 students. The data were taken from the tests and they were analyzed by using paired sample t-test. The result of the research showed that there was a significant difference on students’ writing ability since t-valuet-table (20.967 2.0345). The mean score of post-test (68.98) and the pre-test score (62.73). It gained 6.25. In addition, the second result showed that the mean of the questionnaire was 78.78. It means the students’ perception toward the implementation of the strategy was positive. Most of the students agreed that the strategy was applied in teaching reading process. Briefly, it could be concluded that mind-mapping technique enabled to improve the students’ achievements in writing ability and showed positive impact to students toward the use of the technique in teaching process.Keywords: Writing ability, Descriptive text, Mind-mapping techniquedoi: https://dx.doi.org/10.23960/UJET.v10.i2.202111
An analysis of students' grammatical errors in translating sentences from Indonesian into English based on surface strategy taxonomy towards Standard Gandhi English Course students Dwi Dahlia; Deddy Supriadi; Dian Shafwati
U-JET Vol 9, No 4 (2020): U-JET
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This research aims to find out the type of grammatical errors frequently made by the students and to discover students’ problems in translating sentences from Indonesian into English. Moreover, this study used a descriptive qualitative study. In collecting the data, the researcher used students’ translations, open-ended questions, and interviews. The data were analyzed based on surface strategy taxonomy. They were classified into omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The result of this study showed that misformation was the highest error that occurred in students’ translations. It was proven by the total number of errors made by 31 students are 445 items. Moreover, from 445 errors, the proportions of errors in their translations are omission error with 190 items (42.7%), addition error with 30 items (6.7%), misformation error with 197 items (44.3%), and misordering error with 28 items (6.3%). In addition, students’ problems in translating sentences are dominantly on grammar and vocabulary. In this case, by knowing the students’ grammatical errors and students’ problems,  the English teacher may use the information of students’ grammatical errors and their problems as guidance to evaluate the weaknesses or progress of the students’ ability in learning English, especially in their translations. Then, the students should practice English more in spoken or written form.
The use of Wattpad media to increase students’ reading narrative text comprehension at SMK Miftahul Huda Cilegon Cindy Yunita; Muhammad Sukirlan; Dian Shafwati
U-JET Vol 11, No 4 (2022): U-JET
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This research aims to find out i) the significant difference in students’ reading comprehension of narrative text after being taught by using Wattpad media ii) the students’ response in relation to the use of Wattpad. The subjects of the research were 21 students of SMK Miftahul Huda in the first-grade level as a sample by employing quantitative research with reading tests and questionnaires for the data collection. After analyzing the data, the results showed that the pre-test mean score reached 54.45 and the post-test mean score reached 73.27 with the gain is 18.82. In which, the data were analyzed both statistically through a Paired Samples T-test and also descriptively through a descriptive analysis. Based on the statistical analysis, it indicates that the increase is significant because the t-value is 8.883 and the t-table score is 2.069, t-value is higher than t-table. In summary, the result of study found that Wattpad is significant to improve reading particularly in identifying reference. Furthermore, the students showed positive response after doing the treatments. The improvement was shown in all aspects of reading, especially aspect of identifying reference. From the results, it can be concluded that reading through Wattpad can improve reading narrative text comprehension among the students in the first grade of Vocational High School.Keywords: reading, Wattpad media, narrative text
The effect of using YouTube tutorial videos in English vocabulary learning at junior high school Janti Normauli Silaen; Feni Munifatullah; Dian Shafwati
U-JET Vol 12, No 1 (2023): U-JET
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The objectives of the research are to find the significant difference on students’ vocabulary understanding after using YouTube Tutorial videos and students response toward the use of YouTube Tutorial videos. The population of this research was the third grade of students of SMP Negeri 4 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2022/2023. The sample was class IXA which consisted of 30 students. The method of this research was quantitative with the research design One Group Pre-test and Post-test Design. The researcher used vocabulary test consisted 30 questions pre-test post-test to measure the significant difference and the questionnaire to find students response in the process of data collection. The researcher used SPSS and MS.Excel to analyze the data after those data has been collected. The result showed that there is a significant difference on students vocabulary understanding. The increase from the mean score was 13,6 where Post-test is 75,3 while the pre-test 61,7. The questionnaire distributed to students draw positive response where students who answered positive 25 students and negative 5 students, and the total of students response reached 64,26. The significant difference score demonstrates that using Youtube Tutorial video in the classroom has affect students ability to comprehend the vocabulary better. The result from the questionnaire percentage showed that students felt happy and enjoy the learning process using YouTube Tutorial video.