Dewi Nopita’s research while affiliated with Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji and other places

Given the emphasis on case or team-based projects as the crucial performance indicators in syllabus, lecturers from Raja Ali Haji Maritime University have designed a syllabus that promote digital media content creation as the project output to support society 5.0 and environmental awareness in the context of language learning. This study explores the perspectives of second-semester English students who participated in creating digital media-based content that included maritime context as their group-project in vocabulary building course. This study applied an exploratory descriptive-qualitative design. Data were collected from questionnaires, focus-group interviews and observation. The data were collected, thematically categorized, and interpreted. Findings revealed that two types of digital media were created in the course: a Canva-based E-Book and a website-based learning reference. Most students perceived the implementation of creating digital media-based content positively. However, challenges such as vocabulary limitations, skill gaps, communication issues, and self-adjustment were encountered during the project. Additionally, metacognitive strategies such as planning, information management strategies, monitoring, debugging strategies and evaluation are utilized by the students throughout the project.

This research aimed to know what are English Language Teaching Strategies in Developmentally Appropriate Practice. developmentally appropriate practice was a learning activity that recognized that each student had different needs and abilities. In developmentally appropriate practice, students were provided with various choices in terms of learning materials, teaching methods, and assessment. The qualitative research was a research design for this research. The study was conducted in SMPN 1. The subject of the research was an English teacher of SMPN 1 Tanjungpinang. The researcher used a purposive sampling technique to select the subject. The researcher only chose an English teacher for the subject of the study because in the school, there was only one teacher implementing developmentally appropriate practice. The research used observation, interview, and documentation as instruments to collect data. English Language Teaching Strategies in Developmentally Appropriate Learning used by teachers were Video-assisted learning (VAL), Picture Stories, Context Clues, and Group-Work strategies.

It is crucial to understand that the concept that the best content should be accessible to communicative demands in everyday life is strongly emphasized in task-based language instruction (TBLT). In order to provide cohesive, engaging, current, and interesting teaching materials, or at the very least to prepare students for the primary textbook—a multimodal supplement that can include rich content from websites, games, social media, and other sources— research on teaching development is therefore necessary. The goal of this study is to put into practice a task-based, locally-based, multimodal supplemental textbook that is compatible.

The syllabus should be frequently renewed by the course coordinator to keep the quality of their teaching in the field. The focus of this current article was on the needs analysis for the reconstructing a syllabus for ELT Methodology course. The syllabus for the course should be renewed since the ministry of education, culture, research and technology of Indonesia demanded that the syllabus utilized for the universities in Indonesia should be based on case method or team-based project. This study involved the lecturer teaching the course in English Language Education Study Program of Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji (UMRAH), the head of the English Language Education Study Program of UMRAH, and a class of ELT students taking the ELT Methodology course in UMRAH. The data were collected from interview, questionnaire and documentation. Using the data from the aforementioned three sources in this current research, the syllabus developers can begin to identify the most important aspects to be included in the syllabus.

The goal of this study was to create an electronic module that would provide an engaging learning tool for eighth-grade students which primarily focused on recount text. This study was carried out in SMPN 2 Tanjungpinang during the second semester of the academic year 2022/2023, specifically in class 8.1, which had 35 students. Additionally, the research and development approach used in this study was a 4D model that included three stages: define, design, and develop. In order to obtain the data, the researcher utilized questionnaires, including the validation questionnaire for experts and the practicality questionnaire for students. The data analysis revealed that the students’ practicality score was 85%, which was classified as “Very Practical,” and the material and media validation score was 98%, which was classified as “Very Valid.” These findings support the hypothesis that the product developed for this study was valid, practical, and eligible to be used in the learning process.

This research aimed to design interactive workbook via Liveworksheets for reading skill at tenth grade. The subject of this research was a class of 10th grade students in a Senior High School in Tanjungpinang, which consisted of 16 students. This research was research and development with the ADDE model based on Richey and Klein (2014). This research focused on designing interactive workbook for the tenth grade second semester English materials. It consisted of announcement text, recount text, and narrative text. There were four phases in this research which are analysis phase, design phase, development phase, and evaluation phase. The result from the validation stage showed that there was minor revision in the media aspect. After the revision had been approved by the validator, the interactive workbook was decent to be used in the classroom. From the practical result, it can be seen that the interactive workbook got good responses from the students. The interactive workbook also met the students’ characteristics which were classified as generation Z.

The purpose of this research was to find whether or not there is a relationship between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The researcher focused on the relationship between students' vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension in this study. The researcher employed a quantitative method in their investigation. The sample in this study was 30 students at seventh grade in SMPN 4 Senayang. 20 items for vocabulary mastery and 10 items for reading comprehension in a multiple-choice test were used to collect data for this study. The Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was employed to analyze the data. The correlation coefficient variable of mastery of vocabulary and reading comprehension was 0.473 based on the data obtained by the authors. The correlation coefficient was 0.473, which is placed between 0.400.0.600 was seen in the table. The correlation is moderate correlation. As a result, Ho is rejected, while Ha is accepted. The authors found a relationship between students' vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension of this study.

The purpose of this research is to find out whether or not the roundtable technique is effective for writing descriptive text in eighth grade at SMP Negeri 3 Tanjungpinang. The reserach used quantitative method with method using quasi-experimental design. The study sample was divided into two groups: experimental and control. In this study, the authors was applied online learning considering the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. The pre-test was given at the beginning of the study in each class, and then followed by given the treatment of the roundtable technique in composing descriptive text in the experimental class and small group discussion in the control class. After that, a post-test was given at the end of the study. Furthermore, the data was analyzed by using SPSS 21. The findings of the independent t-test revealed that the significant value generated Sig. (2-tailed) = 0.000 smaller than 0.05. As a result, it supports the hypothesis that using roundtable technique is effective toward writing descriptive text at the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 3 Tanjungpinang. Keywords: Writing, Descriptive Text, Roundtable

This study aimed to know how is teachers’ perspective in online English teaching at SMPN 10 Tanjungpinang. The subject in this research is the English teacher consists of 3 teachers. This study based on Sri Hariyati theory (2020). A research desgin in this research is descriptive qualitative with analysis technique. The setting of place in this research is at SMPN 10 Tanjungpinang. The instrumens in collecting the data are interviews and questionnaire. Based on the instrument, the researcher assesses teachers’ persepctive by fifteen statements. The results shows that the teachers’ has positive perspective in online English teaching at SMPN 10 Tanjungpinang.

This study aimed to describe how the implementation of flipped classroom by using LMS (Learning Management System) at SMA NEGERI 6 Tanjungpinang. The research design in this study was descriptive qualitative research. The participants of this study were the English teacher and students of XI MIPA class in the English subject at SMA NEGERI 6 Tanjungpinang in the academic year of 2020/2021. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaires in this study was developed by Song (2010) there were 5 indicators, namely students’ interest, ease of access, perceived usefulness, perceived instruction delivery, and students’ satisfaction. Then, the interviews in this study was developed by Almrashdeh (2011) there were 3 indicators, namely planning of specific learning process, implementation of specific learning process, and assessment of specific learning process. The results of data analysis revealed that the implementation of flipped classrooms by using LMS (Learning Management System) at SMA NEGERI 6 Tanjungpinang was quite good.