Journal of Language Testing and Assessment

The Implementation of Neurological Impress Method (NIM) on the Students' Reading Comprehension at the Eight Grade of SMPN 33 Makassar

Kasma — 2025-12-31

This research was attempted to improve students’ reading comprehension by using Neurological Impress Method (NIM). This study was conducted by using pre-experimental research. The object of the research was VIII.A grade SMPN 33 Makassar consist of 25 students. The research was conducted four meetings and three steps. The first meet, the researcher explained about the Neurological Impress Method (NIM) and how to uses this method, the second the researcher gave pre-test, and then gave treatment, and the last meet gave post-test. The instruments of collecting data were reading test. Based on the reading test score, students’ score kept improving in every test. In the pre-test the mean was 56, and in the port test the mean was 68. It proved that using Neurological Impress Method (NIM) to improve students’ reading comprehension showed significant result by improving around 12.6%. It was found that teaching learning process ran well. Students were active and interested in reading. The result of this research showed that Neurological Impress Method (NIM) can improve students ability in reading comprehension.

The Effectiveness of Using Make a Match Technique in Reading for Comprehension

Yusti Mutia Yusuf — 2025-12-31

This study examined the use of the Make a Match Technique on literal reading comprehension. It was use descriptive text. Researcher was applied Pre- Experimental Research. It aimed at to find out the effectiveness of using Make a Match to improve the students’ reading comprehension at the second grade students’ of SMPN 1 Takalar 2022/2023. The sample of this research was the students of VIII. 1 class of SMPN 1 Takalar. This research was used purposive sampling technique. The researcher obtained the data using pre-test dan post-test. The mean score of the pre-test was 45,88 and post-test was 80,88. That was better increase of the mean score by students’ at the post-test. The test's outcome indicated a 3.273>2.036 significant difference between the t-test and t-table, indicating that the t-table was smaller than the t-test. That was proved by the t-table value 2.036 which was smaller than t-test 3.273. Based on the result of the analysis, it was concluded that using Make a Match technique could improved the students’ reading comprehension at the second grade students of SMPN 1 Takalar.

The Effectiveness of Hybrid Learning in Improving Students' Academic Writing Skill

M Zainuddin Patandingan — 2025-12-31

The study aimed: 1) To measure the extent of the students' achievement in writing academic papers through Hybrid learning, 2) To analyze the extent of the students' progress in writing academic papers through face to face Learning. 3) To know that using hybrid learning is more effective than using face-to-face instruction in improving students' achievement in writing academic writing. This study used quasi-experimental research. It intended to determine whether there was an influence of using hybrid learning to the quality of students' academic papers. There was a significant enhance in learning outcomes of the students who learned academic writing through Hybrid learning instruction compared to the students who took the learning without Hybrid learning instruction. Learning outcomes of Hybrid learning instruction are shown by the results of a group and an experimental posttest and a control group . It shown a significant result of students taught by using Hybrid learning instruction and those taught not using Hybrid learning instruction, that Hybrid learning was useful in teaching academic writing.

An Analysis of the Character Education in Narrative Text of the English Textbook of Senior High School

Rahmawati — 2025-12-31

Character education has an important role in the education system besides the teacher providing material, also instilling character education in the teaching and learning process. The aims of this study was to find out the values of character education in English textbooks for tenth and eleventh grades published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in year 2017. The focus of this research is on the value of character education contained in the contents of English Textbooks based on the suitability of character education from the 2013 curriculum. The research methodology is descriptive with a qualitative approach and uses content analysis techniques. The research instruments were documentation and datasheets to present data. Source of data the researcher analyzed the narrative text in very chapter of English textbooks. The characters found are classified into 18 character values based on the 2013 curriculum and are classified into integrating character values either directly or indirectly. Based on the findings of this research, of the 18-character education values, there are only 7 character educations consisting of 4 narrative texts. The 7 values of character education are religious, honesty, hardworking, curiosity, appreciation, social care and responsibility. The most dominant characters are hardworking and social care. In addition, the direct integration technique is more dominant in this study.

The Effect of the Visualization Method in Increasing the Students’ Vocabulary in Grade 2nd At Smp Negeri 1 Gilireng

Siti Anita — 2025-12-31

This study aims to increase the vocabulary of students at UPT SMP Negeri 1 Gilireng with the visualization method with pictures as teaching materials. The researcher used a pre-experimental study where the data were obtained from students’ vocabulary tests. The population in this study were students of class VIII.A UPT SMP Negeri 1 Gilireng in the 2022/2023 academic year. Based on the result of the study indicated that the use of visualization methods with pictures is very effective in improving the performance of students' vocabulary skills. This can be seen from the differences in student achievement in the pre-test and post-test. The student's score on the pre-test was 34.25 and the post-test was 86.25. This shows that the average value of the Pte-test and post-test increased by 52 points. Data from the instrument also shows that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. The findings from the Scientific Approach are good.