MID TEST -CRITICAL READING

 NAME    :ANGGIT CHANDRA ALAM

CLASS    :4-F

NPM        :1910631060149

 

1.What is the tittle of article you have read?

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH ENGLISH MOVIE IN SCOPE OF SPEAKING FOR GENERAL COMMUNICATION

2.What are important point you find from reading the article?Explain your answer in term of:

A.Abstract       : In reality, most of the students at IKIP Siliwangi face some problems related to speaking skill. To improve the students’ speaking skill, the lecturers need to know what media is the most suitable for the students. This research used Collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR). The objectives of the study are: 1) finding out whether or not English Movie can improve the students’ speaking skill 2) finding out classroom situation when English Movie implemented in speaking class. To collect data, the researcher used instruments of observations, tests and questionnaires. The finding showed that the use of English Movie was effective in improving the speaking abilities of the student in class.

B.Introduction   : Speaking for general communication course is compulsory subject that must be taken by students during second semester. In this course students are expected to be able to speak English well in accordance with the learning themes contained in the syllabus and lesson plans for Speaking for General Communication courses. Darmadi (2015) defines speaking as a productive skill that can be observed directly and empirically. These observations are always colored by the accuracy and effectiveness of the listening maker's ability, which of course interferes with the reliability and validity of oral production tests. Kosdian (2016) in Rifa’at (2018) argues that "of all four simplex skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) speaking seems to be the most important because people who know languages are referred to as 'speakers' of that language, as if speaking includes all other types know the language."

Learning to speak in English not only in class, but also in everywhere. In addition, student habits can help to learn English, especially in speaking. For example, listening to songs, using chat applications, or even watching movies. This habit helps students improve their speaking skills in a fun and comfortable way, especially watching movies. When students watch English films, they can explore and enrich vocabulary, formal or even informal.

C.Theoretical     : Harmer (2007) states that there are three main reasons for making students speak in class. First, speaking activities provide training opportunities - opportunities to practice speaking in real life in a safe class. Second, speaking assignments where students try to use one or all of the languages, they know provide feedback for lecturers and students. Everyone can see how well they are doing: how successful they are, and also what language problems they experience. And finally, the more students have the opportunity to activate the various elements of the language they have stored in their brains, the more their use of these elements will automatically

D.Research Method       : This research used Collaborative Classroom Action Research. The concept in this research is adaptation of Arikunto (2009) which states that action research is one type of investigation that has participatory, collaborative, and spiral reflective characteristics that have the purpose of improving and improving the system, methods, processes, substance, competencies, and situations.

The concept used in classroom action research is a cycle process. Mertler (2012) mentions that action research is a four-step cyclical process, which consists of the following steps: planning for action research, acting on the plan, developing an action plan for the next cycle, and reflecting on the process. Data collection techniques used in this research:

 A. Observation

B. Questionnaire

C. Test

 

ARTICLE REVIEW

 Name     :Anggit Chandra Alam

Class        :4-F

NPM         :1910631060149

                        USING SHORT STORY TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION

Research purposes: 

This research was to know the differences in students score and also to know whether the students interest was improved or not, after did a treatment using short story and handbook.

Subject:

Study at second year student of SMPN 2 kota Bengkulu

Method:

The instrument of these research was questionnaire.The design of this research was a quasi experiment that there are two classes that will be observed , they are class I and J and using two material that must be taught in the class. Class I as experimental are using the material of literary work while the class J using the book as control class.

Research Result and Conclusion:

It was found that short story can improve reading comprehension of the students' Short story made students interested and encourage their willingness of the students to eager to red the text of English.

Advantages:

- The article is very detail

- very interesting to read

JOURNAL LINK

https://e.journal.iainbengkulu.ac.id

ARTICLE REVIEW

Name     :Anggit Chandra Alam

Class    :4-F

NPM        :1910631060149

 TITTLE :Teaching Speaking : Activities to promote speaking in second language

Introduction : 

        Speaking is "the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in a variety of contexts" (Chaney, 1998, p. 13). Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching. Despite its importance, for many years, teaching speaking has been undervalued and English language teachers have continued to teach speaking just as a repetition of drills or memorization of dialogues. However, today's world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve students' communicative skills, because, only in that way, students can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communicative circumstance. In order to teach second language learners how to speak in the best way possible, some speaking activities are provided below, that can be applied to ESL and EFL classroom settings, together with suggestions for teachers who teach oral language.

Conclusion    

        Teaching speaking is a very important part of second language learning. The ability to communicate in a second language clearly and efficiently contributes to the success of the learner in school and success later in every phase of life. Therefore, it is essential that language teachers pay great attention to teaching speaking. Rather than leading students to pure memorization, providing a rich environment where meaningful communication takes place is desired. With this aim, various speaking activities such as those listed above can contribute a great deal to students in developing basic interactive skills necessary for life. These activities make students more active in the learning process and at the same time make their learning more meaningful and fun for them.

Strenght: the content of this article is good and there are many examples of speaking learning strategies that we can use from this article

Weakness : There are no step of any of the learning methods