http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1225 2026-04-25T16:09:22Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1240 PROMOTING STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH DEBATE TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING SPEAKING Kusmayati, Fitri This article reports on the debate technique implementation to promote students’ critical thinking at eleventh grade students of a Senior High School in Ciamis. This study was conducted to figure out debate technique implementationto promote’ students’ critical thinking in teaching speaking by the teacher, and the students perception on the application of debate technique in teaching speaking. This study used case design and the respondent were thirty two students from class of IPA 3 and one of English teacher who thought speaking by using debate technique. The data were obtained from three instrument, including classroom observation, the teacher’s interview, and the students questionnaire. The findings revealed that the teacher implement debate technique in teaching speaking through sixth steps. Furthermore, debate can be a tool for teaching learning speaking to promote students’ critical thinking, because in the debate process , level of thinking from Bloom Taxonomy applied to measure students critical thinking skills to receive knowledge by means of the ideas’ exposure consisting six categories: comprehension, application, knowledge, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. In this case, the students perceive positively on debate technique in learning speaking because it was a new, innovative, and interesting techniques. Besides, debate technique promotes students’ critical thinking, team work skill and group decision making. Finally, the writer provides suggestions that debate technique implementationcan be analyzed in listening, reading, and writing. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1239 THE USE OF RUNNING DICTATION FOR TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT ( A Case Study at the Ninth Grade of a Junior High School in Al-Mukarrim ) Farida, Ida This paper aimed to explore the use of running dictation to teaching writing narrative text. This study was aimed at to investigate how the teacher implemented running dictation and the writer wants to find out the students’ perception toward the use of running dictation to teach writing narrative text. The theories of this study has taken from Nation (2009, p. 62, 2014) investigated how running dictation can be implemented in teaching narrative text. This study was employed qualitative case study as the methodology and design of the study. Meanwhile, the research participant in this study was an English teacher and seven students based on their learning achievement. Meanwhile, the instruments used in this study consisted of three instruments including non-participant observation, semi-structured interview, and also questionnaire. First, based on research question number one, the writer found that the teacher use three main steps in implementing running dicatation. First, dividing the students into several groups. Second, giving the instructions to the students to determine, the writer and the runners for completing the ways of implrmrnting running dictation. Third, encouraging the students to conduct running dictation as well as possible. Moreover, the use of running dictation effects not only on students’ motivation in learning English but also impact on students’ language skill such as the skill in reading, listening, speaking and especially in writing process. The majority of the students in answering the questionnaire item showed that the use of running dictation directly impact on their four basic skills because the students indirectly read, listen, speak, and write the story given by the teacher. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1238 STUDENTS’ ENGAGEMENT IN “SNOWBALL THROWING TECHNIQUE” IN SPEAKING CLASS (A Case Study at the Eleventh Grade in of One Vocational High Schools in Ciamis) Nurlatifah, Ismi Engagement takes important part in language learning because it will be able to increase students’ positive attitudes and behaviors as well as increase students’ success and learning ownership. Embracing students in speaking is a language teachers’ challenge. Today, some students have less engagement in speaking classes because of lack of vocabulary, so that they feel embarrassed in speaking class. This study intends to observe the students engagement in doing Snowball Throwing Technique as a means in speaking class. There are two research questions addresed: (1) How is the student engaged in snowball throwing technique in speaking class? And (2) How are the students perception on the Snowball Throwing Technique implementation in speaking class?. The researcher used a case study in this research. There were thirty-five students as the participants at grade eleven of one Vocational High School in Ciamis. The researcher distributed a classroom observation and close-ended questionaire. In analysing the classroom observation, the researcher transcribe and interpret the data. Then, the researcher used the precentage computation from close-ended questionaire which was showed into the table completed with the description and conclusion of each item. The data interpretation was based on responses from the close-ended questionaire. The study result showed that Snowball Throwing Technique can improve students’ engagement in speaking class and give a new learning environment, enable students to collaborate. In addition, the results also show that the students show their engagement dimension. They are the engagement of emotion, behavior, cognitive, reflection, social, and goal-clarity with different level. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1237 STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE EFFECT OF HABIT OF LISTENING TO ENGLISH SONG ON THEIR LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT Solihah, Mar'atus This paper report on student’s perception about the effect of the habit of listening English song toward their listening comprehension achievement. The students’ perception in the present study was reviewed from student’s habit in listening to English song outside teaching learning process. This study used qualitative design in which a survey study was captured in gaining the data. The data were obtained through two data collection technique, it was questionnaire and interview. This study took place at one of vocational school in Tasikmalaya. The participants of this study were 231students. The result of the present study indicated that the habit of listening to English song in the research site determined showed positive effect. It can be seen from the student’s response that most of them agreed that listening habit to English song has a good effect to improve their listening comprehension. English song showed positive effect toward the students’ progress and interest in learning listening. The finding showed, the students agreed that English song is a good source for learning listening. This could be seen in the respond of the students. The students found that every aspect in the song can assist them to have better listening comprehension achievement. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z