More feedback for Class B

RCA

Research questions

1. Is critical thinking effective to be used in reading analytical exposition to the eleventh graders of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo?
2. Is there any significant difference in students’ attitudes who are taught by using critical thinking in reading analytical exposition than who are not?

The two questions ask the same thing.

Instruments

It’s good that you mention the validity & reliability of the test, but which type of validity & reliability are you going to use?

AFP

Scope and Limitation

This research is limited in teaching using Exploration, Explanation and Expression method in [] graders grammar classes. This research also only explains the implementation of the method in teaching perfect tenses.

This is the scope rather than the limitation of the study.

Literature review

Each section consists of only 1 paragraph, so please elaborate.

Research design

It’s quantitative descriptive, but the first research question is definitely qualitative.

Subjects of the study

How are you going to draw the sample, randomly or non- randomly?

Instruments

The main instrument is the writer as a planner, observer, collector, and analyzer of the data. Other instruments are check list, field note, students’ task result table, and questionnaire.

Why do you need a check list and field notes at the same time?

Students’ task result table is not an instrument.

References

It is empty.

IQA

Research questions

How is the students’ grammar(simple past tense) after the implementation of matching games?

What are you going to investigate, the students’ grammar mastery, ability, or others?

Significane of the study

Will the students read your skripsi and get benefits from it?

Definition

1. Game is ...
2. Grammar is ...
3. Simple past tense is ...
4. Matching game is ...

Pay attention to the organization of the concepts you define. Start from the most general concept.

Instruments

Observation checklist, students'  task, questionnaire.

Students’ task is not an instrument.

NES

Research questions

1. Can note on Facebook improve the students’ ability in learning adjective and adverb in error recognition for twelfth graders of culinary class II in SMKN 2 Tuban?
2. How are the students’ responses toward this media to motivate the students in learning adjective and adverb in error recognition for twelfth graders of culinary class II in SMKN 2 Tuban?

The first question is about improvement of their ability but the second one is about their motivation.

Significance of the study

Will the students read your skripsi and get benefits from it?

Instruments

Test, observation, questionnaire, field note, lesson plan.

Observation is the instrument, and field notes are what you make during the observation.

A lesson plan is not a research instrument.

EDA

Significance of the Study

This study will also be beneficial to the students in learning to speak effectively.

Will the students read your skripsi and get benefits from it?

Setting

Please explain more about the school, e.g. the location (downtown or in the outskirt), the facilities, etc.

NF

Research questions

1. How is the use of think pair share to teach reading news item text to the tenth graders of SMAN 1 Sidayu?
2. How is the reading ability of the Tenth Graders in SMAN 1 Sidayu?

When are you going to find out their reading ability, before or after the use of the technique?

Scope & limitation

The researcher limits her study only to the tenth graders of SMAN 1 Sidayu. It also doesn’t include the students’ activeness and understanding the difficult vocabularies in the text.

Do these sentences express the scope or limitation of the study?

Definition of key terms

1. Reading: one of most important skills in English learning.
2. Think pair share technique: one of cooperative learning strategy which allows students to share their ideas with their partners.
3. Cooperative learning: a number of strategies whereby students help one another acquire course content.
4. News item text: a text which contains information 

You need to find a better definition of ‘reading ’ and ‘news item text’.

Pay attention to the order of the terms. Start from the most general concept. This also applies to the literature review:

2.1 Cooperative learning

2.2 The teaching of reading

2.3 Think Pair Share

2.4  News Item Text

Research design

It’s descriptive qualitative, but the second research question is quantitative.

Research instruments:

observation sheet, students' task.

Students’ task is not an instrument.

NF

Sampling

The researcher will use non-probability sampling; purposive sampling, IX-8 of SMPN 2 Sidoarjo consists of 35 students. IX-8 will be chosen as the experimental group due to the low mean in the listening test and the control group will be IX-4 due to the highest mean in the listening test.

Experimental & control groups should have equal ability & the means of their scores should not be significantly different. If one has a low mean and the other has a higher mean, you have to draw another sample.

Instrument

Can the results of a questionnaire be analysed using t-test?

LC

Research questions

1. Is there any difference of students’ listening strategy between the students with high and low listening comprehension before the use of cooperative listening to improve tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong?
2. Is there any relationship between the implementation of cooperative listening and listening comprehension improvement of tenth grade students in SMAN 1 Porong?
3. How is students’ respond toward the implementation of cooperative listening to improve tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong?

What’s the purpose of asking question no 1?

How are you going to measure the relationship between the implementation of X and the improvement of Y? To measure the relationship, you must have two sets of scores.

Hypothesis

1. There is difference of students’ listening strategy between the students with high and low listening comprehension before the use of cooperative listening among tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong.
2. There is relationship between the implementation of cooperative listening and listening comprehension improvement of tenth grade students in SMAN 1 Porong.
3. Students show a positive respond toward the implementation of cooperative listening to improve tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Porong.

The plural form of ‘hypothesis’ is ‘hypotheses’.

Only question no 1 & 2 need a hypothesis.

Definition

Cooperative Listening: Kinds of teaching technique.

This definition is too general, please specify what kind of teaching technique it is.

Research design

It’s stated your research is descriptive quantitative, i.e. correlational study. However, you also wrote that:

This study consists of three phases including the pre-test, treatment and post-test.

This is the characteristic of an experimental design.

Instruments

3.4.1.1   Validity

Because the test is objctive. The validity will be measured by using Kuder Richardson 21 formula.

3.4.1.2   Reliability

To measure the reliability, researcher will use split – half formula.

Both KR21 and split-half are used to measure the reliability of the test. To estimate the validity of test, you can use content, criterion-related or construct validity.

Data analysis

The test will be analyzed statistically by computing the Pearson product moment.

This formula is used in correlation. How are you going to analyze the results of the pretest and the posttest?

Feedback for Class B

The following is feedback from me for the presenters in ELT Seminar Class B. I don't write your full name, just the initials.

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BO

Research questions (OK)

1. How is the implementation of storytelling technique in improving speaking ability of narrative text of tenth graders in SMAN 2 Kota Mojokerto? 
2. How is the students response in the implementation of storytelling technique?

 Scope & limitation

The scope of the study is improving speaking skill by using storytelling as a technique at Senior High School. The subject of the study is limited to the tenth grade students of SMA 2 NEGERI KOTA MOJOKERTO.The reason for choosing these students is because the students in tenth grade have to improve their ability in speaking skill in different types of text.

The sentence written in blue hasn’t shown the limitation of the study.

The sentence written in green explains the reason for choosing the students. This should be written in section III under the heading ‘population and sample’ or ‘subjects of the study.’

Definition of key terms

implementation

technique

story telling

speaking

narrative text

senior high school

You should define the terms in the following order: general to specific. Begin by defining the language skill.

Research design

The research design is descriptive qualitative, but you use instruments which are used in quantitative research.

Instruments

Observation checklist is used to describe the phenomena dealing with the impleentation of storytelling in teaching speaking narrative text. The phenomena observed are icluding the points about the teacher’s activity, the student’s activity, teaching learning process, amterial and media.

A checklist is used in quantitative research, not qualitative one.

Speaking task is used to investigate the student’s speaking ability after the implementation of storytelling.

A task is not a research instrument. Why should you measure their speaking ability if you don’t ask it in the research questions?

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MSV

Research questions

1. How is Electronic Storybook applied to the sixth grade of SDN Ketegan III?
2. How the students’ reading comprehension after Electronic Storybook is applied to the sixth grade of SDN Ketegan III?
3. How is the students’ response to the Electronic Storybook when it is applied to the sixth grade of SDN Ketegan III?

The second research question implies that your research is quantitative because you want to investigate the students’ comprehension, but in section III you mentioned that the research design is descriptive qualitative.

Objectives

1. To know how Electronic Storybook in teaching reading is implemented.
2. To find out how the students’ reading comprehension after Electronic Storybook is applied to the sixth grade of SDN Ketegan III.
3. To recognize students’ response in the class when Electronic Story book is applied to the sixth grade of SDN Ketegan III.

Don’t use the word ‘know’ or ‘recognize’ in the objective of the study because it’s too superficial. Because it’s a descriptive study, use the word ‘describe’.

Significance of the study

The writer hopes that this study will be benefit for young learners because the main goals of this research is making the children’s reading comprehension increase and comprehend what they read. Finally they will success later.

Who will benefit from reading your skripsi? Will the young learners do?

Scope & limitation

The activity is limited to use Electronic Storybook in teaching learning process.

This sentence doesn’t express the limitation of the study.

Literature review

2.1 Teaching young learner

2.2 Reading

2.3 Multimedia

2.4  Electronic Storybook

2.5 The Implementation of Electronic Storybook to the sixth graders

2.6 Review of previous study

You don’t need to explain the implementation of electronic storybooks to the sixth graders (2.5)  because that’s what you want to find out in this research.

There’s no need to write the review of previous study in a separate subsection.

Subject of the study

This research is conducted in the class of 6th grade students in elementary level. The writer chooses the sixth grade students in order to make a good start and basic preparation for students before they face English in the next level, especially in reading comprehension.

How are you going to draw the sample from the population? Randomly or non-randomly?

Instruments

Field notes, students' task, questionnaire

Students’ task is not a research instrument.

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HER

Research Questions

1. How can guessing games in outdoor be implemented in teaching vocabulary to the seventh grade students?
2. How is the students’ vocabulary after the implementation of guessing game in outdoor?
3. How are the students’ responses toward the use of guessing game in outdoor to teach vocabulary for the seventh grade students?

What do you want to find out by asking the second research question: vocabulary mastery, vocabulary size, or something else? Please clarify.

Significance of the study

The writer hopes that the study can build the students' motivation in learning the language especially in language elements (vocabulary), canreduce the students’ boredom, and also can improve the students’ vocabulary mastery.

Who will benefit from reading your skripsi? Will the students read your skripsi?

Definition

game

vocabulary

guessing game

outdoor

You should define the terms in the following order: general to specific. Begin by defining the language component.

Subjects

The subject of this study was the seventh grade students of SMP TPI Gedangan.

Don't use the past tense when writing a research proposal because you haven’t conducted the research yet. Use the future tense.

Explain how you will draw the sample from the population.

Instruments

Observation checklist, exercise/students's task, questionnaire

Students’ task or exercise is not a research instrument.

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PR

Research Questions

1. How does the implementation of Total Physical Response in learning listening skill? 
2. How are the students’ responses toward the listening material that given by using the Total Physical Response method ?

The first research question contains grammatical error.

Scope & limitation

The scope of the study is the implementation of learning listening skill by using Total Physical Response method at Elementary School. The subject of the study is limited to the third grade students of SD Negeri Mojosari 1.The reason for choosing these students is because the students in third grade have to acquire listening skill in order to practice their ability in English subject.

The sentence written in blue hasn’t shown the limitation of the study.

The sentence written in green explains the reason for choosing the students. This should be written in section III under the heading ‘population and sample’ or ‘subjects of the study.’

Setting

The setting of the study is SD Mojosari 1 Mojokerto. It is located at Jl. Pemuda No. 56 Mojosari. This place was chosen because it was one of the favorite schools in Mojosari. For this study, the researcher chose the third grade students as the subject of the study. The writer chose them with consideration that in fact they need something new or interesting thing when they are learning English, especially listening in which it seems boring activity for many students so that it will help them to be engaged more in the listening process and improve their listening comprehension well.

Setting means the place where the research will be conducted. Don’t mention the subjects of the study in ‘Setting’. The sentences written in blue should be written under the heading ‘Subjects of the Study.’

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DKY

Research questions

1. Does monolingual dictionary decrease grammatical errors in writing an essay of eleventh graders SMK N 11 Surabaya?
2. Does bilingual dictionary decrease grammatical errors in writing an essay of eleventh graders SMK N 11 Surabaya? 
3. Is there any difference in using monolingual and bilingual dictionary to decrease grammatical errors in writing an essay of eleventh graders SMK N 11 Surabaya?

How are you going to find out whether the use of a dictionary can decrease the number of grammatical errors? There should be 2 groups: one writes an essay by using a dictionary, while another writes an essay without using a dictionary. To answer the first research question, you need 2 groups. To answer the second one, you need two more groups.

Objectives

1. To describe monolingual dictionary can decrease grammatical errors in writing an essay of eleventh graders SMK N 11 Surabaya.
2. To describe bilingual dictionary can decrease grammatical errors in writing an essay of eleventh graders SMK N 11 Surabaya.
3. To describe the difference in using monolingual and bilingual dictionary to decrease grammatical errors in writing an essay of eleventh graders SMK N 11 Surabaya.

The objective of experimental research is not to describe something, but to find out something.

Scope & limitation

The study is limited in using monolingual and bilingual in writing an essay to eleventh graders of SMK N 11 Surabaya.

This sentence hasn’t shown the limitation of the study.

Definition

Please define ‘grammatical errors’.

Sampling

What kind of sampling are you going to use? How are you going to draw the sample?

Instruments

Is a questionnaire needed to get info about the use of dictionary? Isn't it the treatment?

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NW

Literature review

Please review ‘Stop the train’ game.

Instruments

The instruments need to be elaborated.

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ASA

Significance of the study

Who will benefit from reading your skripsi? Will the students read your skripsi?

Literature review

Avoid quoting from websites, e.g. http ://www.nea.org/tools/18345.htm.

Research subjects

How are you going to draw the sample?

Instruments

Are you going to use observation or a test? How come there's a table about test items?

Data analysis

How are you going to analyse the results of interview?

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CBR

Research questions

1. Is the roleplay can motivate to the 11th graders in Speaking lessons in SMK NEGRI 9, Surabaya ?
2. How are the students responses to this media to motivate the eleventh graders students speaking ability in SMK NEGRI 9, Surabaya ?

The first research question is a yes-no question, so it should be a quantitative study. However, in section III you mention that it’s descriptive qualitative study.

In addition, you need to think about how you’re going to measure the students’ motivation.

Objective

This researcher was aimed to increase 11th grade students motivation in English speaking lessons at SMKN. 9, Surabaya by using communicative activities.

The word ‘increase’ isn’t mentioned in the research question but it’ written in the objective.

Hypothesis

To improve students motivation in English speaking learning, two important things should be done.  Firstly, teacher  should  apply  motivational  techniques to  motivate students in speaking learning. Secondly, it is necessary to improve textbook to attract more students in learning speaking.

A hypothesis is the tentative answer to the research question. This doesn’t seem to answer the research question.

Scoop / limitations

First, as could be seen from the title of the study, this paper placed strong emphasis on the 11th grade  students’  motivation  at  Vietnam  –  Poland  high  school  and  the  techniques  to  improve  students’ motivation in speaking class.

It’s called ‘scope’, not ‘scoop’. Why would you investigate a Vietnam-Poland high school? Where can you find such a school in Indonesia?

Definition

Role play : Assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction ( Medical Dictionary ; American Heritage ).

You shouldn’t quote a definition from a dictionary because a dictionary is a popular text rather than a scientific one.

Motivation: The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action towards a desired goal, the reason for that action.

This definition is too general. You should choose a more specific definition which is closely related to language learning.