Critical Review of English-Arabic World Journal

EXPLORING SEMANTIC MAPPING STRATEGY IN STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION

Rafida Aini — 2024-09-09

Reading as a receptive skill is important for all students since they can gain information from the text. However, reading is not an easy matter, many students had difficulty in comprehending texts. As a result, teachers and learners must apply effective strategies in teaching and learning English, particularly in reading comprehension. Islamic Junior High School particularly in the eight-grade, had implemented Semantic Mapping strategy and this strategy assisted learners to effectively comprehend the texts. The study used a qualitative research approach and a case study as the research design. The research data collection methods included observation, interviews, and document review. The results Semantic mapping strategy had further enriched their reading comprehension skills. It also enabled them to organize the ideas into meaningful sentence structures. In addition they managed to acquire new words and phrases. They were also admitted that they could complete the reading comprehension questions easily and were able to write correct sentences.

THE CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SELF-CONFIDENCE AND THEIR SPEAKING SKILL IN SELF INTRODUCTION AT MTS DARUL ULUM ASSURUR ACROSS THEIR COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLE

Roisatul Fatayati — 2024-09-09

Self-confidence is an important part of speaking skills, as it can provide enthusiasm. If learners are high in confidence, they will achieve the best performance in speaking skills. Studies regarding the factors that influence students' self-confidence are still very limited. Some previous studies mostly discussed the correlation between self-confidence and speaking. Besides self-confidence, there are other factors that can affect students’ self-confidence, namely cognitive learning style. This research used quantitative research method and by applying correlational design. This research was found that, the product moment score were r_count1 = 0.631 (field Independent), r_count2 = 0.558 (field Dependent) and r_table score were r_table1 = 0.455, r_table2 = 0.349. So, the r_count1 and r_count2 is more than r_table1 and r_table2 (0.631> 0.455 and 0.558 > 0.349). Which indicated that there is a significant correlation between the seventh grade students’ self-confidence and their speaking skill in self introduction at MTs Darul Ulum Assurur across their cognitive learning style. It can be concluded that the field independent coefficient correlation is higher than the field dependent (r_count1 > r_count2 = 0.631 > 0.558) It means that if students' self-confidence is high then the students can speak fluently and it implicate that the teacher should design a teaching and learning process where the students learn independently.

Key Words: Self-Confidence, Speaking, Field Independent, Field Dependent

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH FLASHCARD MEDIA AT THE EIGHT GRADE

Milan Dwi Agustin — 2024-09-09

The problem of this study was the students’ vocabulary

mastery was still low. The research objective of the research to

find out whether flashcards can improve students’ vocabulary

mastery at the eight grade of Mts. Raudlatus Syabab. The

research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research

design was a collaborative classroom action research. The

participants of this research were the students 8C of Mts.

Raudlatus Syabab, which consists of 26 students. The research

was carried out in two cycle, which consisted of planning,

implementing, observing, and reflecting. Data collecting

techniques used in this research were preliminary-test and post-

test, observation sheet and interview. This research used content

validity, which involved the English teacher, the researcher

conducted two tests for the students and determined the criteria

of success. The minimum score determined by the researcher to

reach the criteria of success is 75 was equal to or higher than 65%

of total students in this research. The result of this research

showed that: the students could not pronounce the word

correctly and fluently with different subject matter and treatment

in cycle 2, and the average students score is 73%. It can be

concluded that flashcards media can improve students’

vocabulary mastery.The problem of this study was the students’ vocabulary
mastery was still low. The research objective of the research to
find out whether flashcards can improve students’ vocabulary
mastery at the eight grade of Mts. Raudlatus Syabab. The
research used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research
design was a collaborative classroom action research. The
participants of this research were the students 8C of Mts.
Raudlatus Syabab, which consists of 26 students. The research
was carried out in two cycle, which consisted of planning,
implementing, observing, and reflecting. Data collecting
techniques used in this research were preliminary-test and post-
test, observation sheet and interview. This research used content
validity, which involved the English teacher, the researcher
conducted two tests for the students and determined the criteria
of success. The minimum score determined by the researcher to
reach the criteria of success is 75 was equal to or higher than 65%
of total students in this research. The result of this research
showed that: the students could not pronounce the word
correctly and fluently with different subject matter and treatment
in cycle 2, and the average students score is 73%. It can be
concluded that flashcards media can improve students’
vocabulary mastery.

TARQIYYATU MAHĀRATI AL KALĀMI BI ṮIQQATI AL NAFSI Fḷ BARNĀMIJI AL H̱AṬĀBATI AL `ARABIYYATI Fḷ AL MADRASATI AL ṮANĀWIYYATI AL ISLĀMIYYATI WALISONGO GENDING PROBOLINGGO

Muh. Nidom Hamami Abicandra — 2024-01-26

الخطابة هي التعبير الشفوي من خلال إلقاء الأفكار بصورة الكلام في الأماكن العامة أو الإلقاء لتقديم الأراء، وتطلب الثقة بالنفس، مع أنها تجعل النفس القدرة والفخر بما يفعله بشكل إيجابي في تحسين مهارة الكلام. المدرسة الثانوية الإسلامية واليسونغو كندينغ إحدى المدارس التي قامت بتنفيذ برنامج الخطابة كل شهر. هذا البرنامج لترقية مهارة الكلام لدى الطلاب بثقة النفس. تهتم الباحثة بمعرفة المزيد عن برنامج الخطابة، وبالتلي تريد الباحثة هنا جعل الجيل القادم أكثر شجاعة وثقة. يهدف هذا البحث إلى ما يلي: وصف ترقية مهارة الكلام بثقة النفس في برنامج الخطابة العربية في المدرسة الثانوية الإسلامية واليسونغو كندينغ برابالنجا ووصف مدى ترقية مهارة الكلام بثقة النفس في برنامج الخطابة العربية في المدرسة الثانوية الإسلامية واليسونغو كندنيغ برابالنجا. استخدم هذا البحث المدخل الكيفي بالطريقة الوصفية. وأما طريقة جمع البيانات فهي الملاحظة، والمقابلة الشخصية، والتوثيق، وتم تحليل البيانات من خلال تخفيض البيانات، وعرض البيانات، الاستنتاج. أما نتائج هذا البحث فهي أن ترقية مهارة الكلام بثقة النفس في برنامج الخطابة العربية في المدرسة الثانوية الإسلامية واليسونغو كندينغ برابالنجا هو يتضمن تنفيذ تحسينها على ثلاثة أنشطة مهمة، وهي الأنشطة الأولى، الأنشطة الأساسية، الأنشطة الختامية. ومدى ترقية مهارة الكلام بثقة النفس في برنامج الخطابة العربية في المدرسة الثانوية الإسلامية واليسونغو كندينغ برابالنجا هو تم تنفيذها 24 عاما تقريبا بما أن الطلاب يقدرون على ترقية مهارتهم في الكلام بعد أن تكون لديهم الثقة بالنفس في برنامج الخطابة.

A THE EFFECT OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING ON THE 7TH GRADE STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL AT MTS MISYKAYATUL ULUM SITUBONDO

siti nurul quratul aini — 2024-09-09

Speaking is the ability to share ideas, feelings, and so on to have an interaction with others. Mastering English is needed by the students. However, students had low speaking proficiency and they were afraid to make mistakes. Therefore, Quasi Experimental is a method that used to improve the students speaking ability.
The question of this research is How the effect of using digital storytelling on students speaking Skills?. However, the objective of this research is to measure whether or not there is any significant effect of digital storytelling (DST) in improving speaking Skills.
The method of the research was Quantitative Research especially a Quasi-Experimental Non-equivalent Control Group Design. The research was conducted with two groups, namely experimental group (15 students) and control group (17 students). There are three stages in this research, namely; Pre-test, treatment, and Post-test. However, after the treatment, the researcher gave Post-test for both groups. Pre-test and Post-test were collected then analyzed the independent one way ANOVA by using SPSS V20.
The result showed that the mean of pre-test in experimental class was 55 and the mean of post-test in experimental class was 83 (83 >55). While, the mean of pre-test in control class was 45 and the mean of post-test in control class was 57 (45 >57). So, the mean of post-test in experimental group was higher than control group. Moreover, This can also be seen from the results of the hypothesis test, the One Way ANOVA test, which obtained a sig score of 0.023. In accordance with decision making in the One Way ANOVA test, namely if p < 0.005 then Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. So, the result that can be concluded is that Ha was accepted, so the research concluded that with the treatment given to these students there was an increase in the students' speaking skills.

USING U-DICTIONARY USING U-DICTIONARY FOR EFFECTIVE SPEAKING CLASS

Maulidatul Hasanah — 2024-09-09

Speaking achievement is results or abilities obtained from training activities that can be properly demonstrated by using good language. One of the learning media that can support teaching speaking achievement is the U-Dictionary application. The use of U-Dictionary can be used as an effective learning medium, everyone can translate difficult words into the language they want, can be accessed quickly and briefly. The research was Quantitative Research with a Quasi-Experimental Non-equivalent Control Group Design. The population in this research was seventh grade students at MTs Darul Ulum Assurur, which consists of 51 students. The researcher chose a sample of class VIIB (23 students) as the Experimental class and class VIIA (28students) as the Control class. The data collected for this research was from scores of pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed using the formula of Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) with IBM SPSS 27 version. Based on the sample result and hypothesis testing, the score calculated showed the Sig. 0.001 < 0.05, which was interpreted that Ha was accepted while Ho was rejected. The partial eta squared showed 0.222, which means that the mean score obtained by students in the experimental class was 22,2% higher than the control class. It was concluded that there was significant effect of using U-Dictionary application on speaking achievement of MTs Darul Ulum Assurur. There for using U-Dictionary application is effective for English teachers in the speaking class, especially to help students understand vocabulary.

Key Words: U-Dictionary, Speaking Achievement