Wirda Jannatul Jannah’s scientific contributions

This research aimed to know how students’ skill in writing descriptive essay and what types of cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence used on descriptive essay. It was quantitative research. Total sample was 36 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used a writing test. Writing components were used to analyze data; Content, Organization, Vocabulary, Language Use, Mechanic and then analyze the result of the types cohesion. The findings showed that the students' skill in writing descriptive essays was in the fair level with the score 69,31 with content 21.01 score had the fair to poor level, organization with 14.52 score had the good to average level, vocabulary with 14 score had good to average level, language use with 16.74 score had fair to poor level and in mechanics with 3.34 score had fair to poor level and the types of cohesion used were 60,50% used reference on their descriptive essay and followed by 31,55 % conjunction, 5,51 % substitution, 1,35 % reiteration, 0,96 % collocation, and 0.09 % ellipsis. Then, in the ways to achieve coherence also used 61,42 % repeating key nouns, 31,69% used consistent pronoun, 4,42% used transition signals to link ideas and 2,45% in arranging ideas in logical order. It meant that students were quite capable of writing descriptive essay and they had used all of the types of cohesion and the ways to achieve coherence but they still need to be improved.

This study was a descriptive qualitative study. Students' Learning Styles in Speaking Skill was the subject of this study. The goal of this study was to find out how students' learning styles affected their speaking skills. In this study, the sample consisted of one English teacher and 23 second-year students from SMPN 3 Rambah Hilir. Questionnaires (15 statements) and interviews (3 questions) were utilized by the researcher to collect data. The data was examined using the Guttman scale to determine which learning styles students preferred. According to the findings of the study, there were 22% visual learners, 69 percent auditory learners, and 9% kinesthetic learners. The major learning type was determined to be auditory. The researcher learns from the interview's results that the students use two different learning styles: visual and auditory. Keywords: Learning Style, Speaking skill

The purpose of this research was to find out students' difficulties in speaking English skill. This research use descriptive qualitative research design. While the writer described and students' difficulties in speaking skill. The population of his research was taken rom the fourth semester students' English department University of PasirPengaraian. This class consisted 0f 26 students. Based on the data of analysis, it can be concluded that the fourth semester students' English department University o f PasirPengaraian in students' difficulties speaking most was they lack necessary of vocabulary and at least was students tend to use "Native" language when they are speaking English.

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is or no significant effect of using Question-Answer Relationship Strategy on students’ Reading Comprehension at first semester students of English Study Program University of Pasir Pengaraian. This research was experimental research with a control group design. It involved 42 students in the first semester of the English Study Program University of Pasir Pengaraian. The data were collected using multiple-choice tests and two classes as the sample in this research. One class served as an experimental class and the other one as a control class. Both classes will give a pre-test and a post-test.The data was calculated by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) formula. The data were analyzed by Independent T-test with t-values was 6.156 with sig. p-value is 0.000 compare with t-table 5% (0.05) = 2.021. The finding showed that t-value6.156 ≥ t-table 5% (0.05) = 2.021. It meant the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It could be concluded that there was a significant effect of using Question Answer Relationship strategy. QARs could improve students reading comprehension and it could be applied in teaching reading comprehension at first semester students of English Study Program University of Pasir Pengaraian

In writing and publication of scientific articles, lecturers need to be present to train teachers. This is in line with the task of lecturers in implementing the Tridharma of higher education and the main performance indicators; lecturers work outside the campus. Therefore, all lecturers of the English department of Universitas Pasir Pengaraian contributed to help English teachers in Rokan Hulu in writing and publishing scientific articles. The objectives of the service activities are:(1)to increase teachers’ understanding and competence in writing scientific articles;(2)to provide assistance to teachers in writing scientific articles;(3)to increase teachers' understanding of how to publish scientific articles. The number of participants for the first activity were 25 English teachers SMP and 80 English teachers for the second activity. The results of the activities were that the teacher can write articles starting from writing article identities, abstracts, introductions, citations and references, methods, presentation of results and discussions, understanding of using the Mandeley application. Although it had not been proven that articles had been published, the teachers already known and understood the procedures for publication on journals and proceedings. Abstrak Dalam penulisan dan publikasi artikel ilmiah, dosen perlu hadir untuk melatih guru. Hal ini sejalan dengan tugas dosen dalam pelaksanaaan tridarma perguruan tinggi dan indicator kinerja utama; dosen berkegiatan diluar kampus. Maka, semua dosen prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas pasir pengaraian berkontribusi membantu guru Bahasa inggris di Rokan Hulu dalam penulisan dan publiksai artikel ilmiah. Tujuan kegiatan pengabdian adalah:(1) meningkatkan pemahaman dan kompetensi guru dalam penulisan artikel ilmiah;(2) melakukan pendampingan kepada guru dalam menulis artikel ilmiah;(3) meningkatkan pemahaman guru tentang cara publikasi artikel ilmiah. Jumlah Peserta kegiatan pertama yaitu 25 guru Bahasa inggris SMP dan peserta kegiatan kedua 80 guru Bahasa inggris SMA. Hasil kegiatan yaitu guru sudah bisa menulis artikel dimulai dari penulisan identitas artikel, abstrak, pendahuluan, pengutipan dan referensi, metode, penyajian hasil dan diskusi, paham menggunakan aplikasi mandeley. Meskipun belum terbukti sudah publikasi artikel, para guru sudah mengetahui dan memahami tata cara publikasi pada jurnal maupun prosiding.