Technological sophistication has a great influence on the world of education, both positive and negative.One of the negative aspects of using technology for education is its potential to facilitate students in cheating and plagiarism.On the other hand, it provides an opportunity for academic staff to control cheating and plagiarism, especially in doing online assignments due to Covid-19 pandemi…
Difficulties in Comprehending English Narrative Text of the Ninth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Tanjung Batu ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) the students’ achievement in reading narrative text, (2) the difficulties faced by the ninth grade students of SMPN 1 Tanjung Batu in comprehending English narrative text, (3) the factors causing the difficulties faced by the ninth…
This quantitative study aims to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between mindset and English achievement; correlation between personal-social responsibility and English achievement; and correlation among mindset, personal-social responsibility, and English achievement. The sample of this study was 286 students of Educational Sciences Department of FKIP Sriwijaya Univer…
In teaching and learning process, especially in school, there are some issues faced by students. One of them is that students are lack of motivation in learning English Language. The problems happen while they do not have interests and spirits in learning English subject in school. In relation to this, the writer conducted a research aiming at finding out the correlation between reward and puni…
The existence and the freedom of internet has been integrated among our students that forced them to live in the midst of rapid and rich information environment in daily basis. Thus, students necessarily need to learn how to determine credible information that they found on the internet correctly. However, the limitation of teachers in assessing students’ ability in evaluating online reading …
This study was qualitative study to find out the students’ perception on the support of English songs in their listening activity at SMAN 1 Kayuagung. The participants of the study were 32 students of the XI IPA 4 class in the academic year 2020/2021 by using a total population sampling technique. The ready-made questionnaire used to see the students’ perception on the support of English so…
Translation strategy has an important role to understand the meaning of the source language to change it into the target language in the translation process, while Report text is one of the texts which should be applied for the teaching and learning process. The objective of this study is to find out what strategies are frequently used by the fifth-semester students of the English education stu…
This study aimed to identify the types of politeness strategies used in asking request by 6th Semester Students of English Education Study Program Sriwijaya University. The participants of this study were 10 sixth-semester students of English Education Study Program. The data were collected by Discourse Completion Test (DCT) Questionnaire and Interview. To identify the types of politeness strat…
Needs analysis is an activity undertaken to determine the needs of certain students. This study aimed to (1) describe the target needs of the tenth-grade accounting students of SMKN 1 Palembang in learning English, (2) describe the learning needs of the tenth-grade accounting students of SMKN 1 Palembang in learning English, and (3) propose the English syllabus for the tenth-grade accounting st…
Self-efficacy and interest in learning English are two significant factors influencing motivation to learn English. In relation to this, this study is conducted to find out the correlation among self-efficacy, students’ interest in learning English and the English achievement. There were 104 students of XI graders as a sample taken from a population of class XI in SMA 10 Palembang by using pu…
The research aimed at finding out the attitude toward the use of cloud service, learning motivation and learning achievement. Correlational study was used to find out the correlation among the variables. The participants of this study were 53 fourth semester students of English Education Study Program in Sriwijaya University. The data were collected using a questionnaire and documentation. The …
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The changing of times will always provide changes followed by new demands in every aspect of human life, especially in education, which plays important role in advancing a nation. One of the thinking abilities that needs to be mastered in this 21st century era is higher order thinking skills (HOTS), where students are expected to integrate several skills in facing the new demands. The aims of t…
Social competencies and learning interest are the two of the most important things in teaching and learning process. Social competence is how an individual can accomplish his/her own goals in a social context, forming the basis for an ability of a person to integrate into a social community. Thus, social competence becomes an important foundation for better interpersonal interactions where indi…
The objectives of this study are to find out the students’ perception of the EMI program in learning content knowledge, the support given by the faculty, and the challenges faced by the students in learning content knowledge at the Faculty of Economics in Sriwijaya University. The participants of this study were the 1st (2019/2020 academic year) and 3rd (2018/2019 academic year) semester stud…
This research was aimed to investigate the student's perception of the English Medium Instruction (EMI) program in learning content subject, the support given by the faculty, and the challenges faced by the students in learning content at the Faculty of Computer Science, Sriwijaya University. The study applied a qualitative method approach. The samples of this research were taken from the 3rd-s…
Watching English videos on YouTube is one of the alternatives in order to improve students’ listening comprehension, as one of the language skills taught in Indonesia. The aim of this study is to discover whether or not there is a significant correlation between the habit of watching English videos on YouTube and listening mastery. The participants of the study were 51 students of the 4th sem…
Verbal interaction is spoken interaction that uses words and language features to create meaningful sentences that can be accomplished directly or indirectly. This study aimed to find out the categories of verbal interaction that teacher and students mostly use in English lesson based on Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC). The participants of this study were 26 students in X MIPA O…
ABSTRACT Neuroticism is one of the personality traits which are defined as an individual tendency to be sensitive, frequently depressed, moody, emotional, and suffering from numerous psychoso-matic disorders. Listening skill is a key for effective communication and one of the most important skills to be mastered, Without the ability to listen effectively, such as hearing, selecting, attending, …
Love in learning English is a positive emotion during learning English and leading the student to express a strong and stable emotion of love towards English. It becomes a reason that contributes during learning process and students’ achievement in English. Love in learning is a mental resource that enhances learning which leads to a better performance and achievement in learning. The aims of…
English listening is one of the skills that should be mastered by students in learning a foreign language. Most of the eleventh-grade students at SMA Negeri 6 Palembang still often found some difficulties or problems in listening comprehension achievement. The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not (1) there was any significant difference in listening achievement of experiment…
Teachers including pre-service teachers must be able to fulfill the standards of having teachers’ competencies and more than adequate knowledge to teach the future generations. In relation to this, there are two aspects such as mindfulness and social emotional competence becoming reasons of the pre-service teachers perceiving the achievement academically. The aims of this study are to find ou…
Students often deal with various unconvenient problems when they are in higher education such as a university. The problems that face are the the right learning strategies they applied to get high English speaking proficiency in the academic field. In relation to this, the writer conducted the research study to find out the relationship between language learning strategies and speaking of the s…
Writing is one of the skills in English that is taught to students with various way in order to improve students achievement and using technology product is one of the way to develop activity in teaching and learning process. The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not (1) there was any significant difference in report text writing achievement between before and after the stude…
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