Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132
STUDENTSAo MASTERY IN USING CONTEXT CLUE IN READING TECHNICAL
MATERIAL AT FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF STIBA PERSADA BUNDA
PEKANBARU
Maspufah Akademi Bahasa Asing Persada Bunda Pekanbaru Email: maspufah81@yahoo.
ABSTRAK
Teknikal material adalah bacaan yang disusun khusus untuk bidang keahlian.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penguasaan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan petunjuk teks dalam membaca teknikal material.
Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif.
Subjek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa semester empat tahun ajaran 2016/2017 sebanyak 20 orang dari STIBA Persada Bunda Pekanbaru.
Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data adalah test tertulis berbentuk test objektif.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa : .
Penguasaan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan petunjuk sinonim dalam tektikal material dikategorikan bagus.
Dalam memahami petunjuk persamaan kata, mahasiswa kesulitan dalam mengambil petunjuk untuk menentukan arti kata sulit.
Penguasaan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan petunjuk lawan kata dalam teks teknikal material dikategorikan cukup.
Kesulitan mereka disebabkan keterbatasan kosakata, sedangkan teknikal material memiliki tingkat kesulitan kosa kata yang tinggi karena disusun untuk penutur asli.
Penguasaan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan petunjuk teks defenisi dalam teknikal material tergolong bagus .
Mereka mengartikan kata sulit dengan akurat karena petunjuknya tercantum secara jelas dan mereka menggunakan pengalaman dan pengetahuan umum tentang isi teks dengan baik.
Walaupun hasil yang diperoleh telah dikategorikan bagus, akan tetapi kemampuan mahasiswa masih terus perlu ditingkatkan karena kosa kata mereka masih rendah.
ABSTRACT
Technical materials refer to the material which is designed specifically to prepare a specialized career.
This research is a descriptive research.
The research conducted with an attempt to find out the studentsAo mastery in using context clue in reading technical material.
The subject of the research was twenty students of fourth semester STIBA Persada Bunda Pekanbaru in academic year 2016/2017.
The instrument used to collect the data was in the form of objective test.
It was found that: .
the studentsAo mastery in using synonym clue was in good category.
They had problem in mastering synonym clue as they made mistake in taking the clue.
The studentsAo mastery in using antonym clue was in fair category.
The problem occurred due to their vocabulary whereas the vocabulary used in technical material is high as it designed for native speaker.
The studentsAo mastery in using definition clue was in good category.
The students were able to do the test because the clues were stated Besides, they also had sufficient experience and background knowledge to deduce Thus, it can be concluded that the studentsAo mastery in using context clue in reading technical marerial is needed to be improved because they still had limited vocabulary.
Keywords : Context Clue.
Technical material Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132
INTRODUCTION
Technical materials refer to outline syllabus.
It emphasizes on the the material which is designed specifically to prepare a specialized material easily.
One of the technique It consists of scientific text that can be mentioned is the use of context clue.
According to Brown The .
, context refers to the characteristics of scientific text is writing a word or group of words- also different from the other text.
One Further.
Heilmann et all .
define Halliday context as the phrase, sentence, or says that scientific text is coded in pharagraph in which a word is writing mode in different linguistic located and its part of speech in that Everyone who wants to Based on the previous study such skills is required to defenition, it can be inferred that understand the material which is context clues are hints found within a designed for native speakers.
sentence, paragraph, passages that Mastering technical material is very crucial today, especially for English The students are demanded to achieve standardized English test, one of reader can use to understand the meaning of new or familiar words.
Students are guided to be aware of seems unfamiliar for them.
Context clues are commonly them is TOEFL.
Technical material usually appears in both of reading There are several techniques in finding the clue surround the text.
understanding it, hopefully will help can be defenition or restatement, them to handle the test well.
synonym, antonym, and example Realizing the importance of mastering technical material.
College Foreign language of Persada Bunda Pekanbaru includes it in their course (Kimmelman et al, 1984:.
definition clue is most frequently used when a word is introduced for the first time.
Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132 In order to make the students especially in scientific text, the are able to understand context clue, a vocabulary is different from general lecturer is intended to teach its types English.
They are chosen for specific and usages in the text.
It is hoped purposes which are also called that they will recognize it and able to technical vocabulary.
For example find the clue around the text.
The the word AusawAy will be translated as lecturer is also expected to teach a hand tool for cutting wood or other them the importance of technical It will be wrongly to be vocabulary to understand the text due translated as the past verb of AuseeAy.
to the vocabulary would be very different from general English.
teaching context clue, lecturer should guide the students to recall their memory on the related field.
So, they can sense the context easily.
Second, they were confuse with the fact density or condensed Since materials consist of fact density, technical writing seems crowded with information and difficult to Based on the preliminary Students who were lack of study which had been conducted on background knowledge with the March, 2017 by giving technical related field will have problem to material test, it was found that most sense the context.
They cannot imagine the object because the writer academic year 2016/2017 got the mostly presents fewer description lowest score, their average score was about it.
For example.
Nutmeg is a Based on the interview, it was spice derived by grating the kernel of found that they faced difficulties in the fruit produced by nutmeg tree.
understanding technical material due This tree belongs to the nutmag to some problems.
First.
Mysris Mysrisca, species M.
Fragrance.
Based on the previous reason, words or phrases used in technical it is necessary to conduct a study to find out the studentsAo mastery in Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132 This study was descriptive technical material, a word or phrase It was intended to find out can be a clue to unfamiliar technical Those words or phases context clue in reading technical can be determined as a clue if the Best .
5: .
says that readers are able to recognize it.
descriptive research describes the However, situation or thing that exists at the students of STIBA Persada Bunda same time of the study.
It means that Pekanbaru seemed not recognize the this research does not tend to find a Therefore, they faced big new theory but only to verify and problem in understanding technical The implementing quantitative approach, it attempts to find out the studentsAo context clue stated in their reading mastery in using context clue in course syllabus.
While, technical reading technical material.
METHODOLOGY
material was chosen for this research due to its condensed information which words had been selected into specific purpose.
So, the vocabulary English form.
Based research were formulated: Auhow is studentsAo context clue in reading technical material?Ay This research was conducted at STIBA Persada Bunda Pekanbaru.
Jalan Diponegoro Pekanbaru.
The research was 20 students of fourth
semester in academic year 2016/ explanation, the purposes of the studentsAo
STIBA
Persada Bunda Pekanbaru.
The data were collected by using objective test.
The data were determining the standard of mastery based on their minimum achievement criteria that was 80, counting the Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132 mean score, then compared with the can guess the class of word.
standard of level mastery in order to determine the level of studentsAo organized , they can guess the part of mastery in using context clue in speech of certain word.
Then, most reading technical material.
of the students were easily recognize FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION how the words are a word as a verb from the inflectional Aeed that is attached in several words The StudentsAo Mastery in Using which should be guessed.
Synonym Context Clue inflectional Aeed attached in the root The studentsAo mastery in using synonym clue was good.
The average score was 70.
Thus, their score were insufficient with their minimum achievement that was 80.
Their level of mastery can be seen in The word do not change the part of It is only the marker of time technical material were written in passive voice (Halliday, 1985:.
However, difficulty to infer the exact meaning the following table.
of the certain words as they confuse Number
Perce 80 Ae 100
Excellent
60 Ae 79
Good
40 Ae 59
Fair
0 - 39
Poor Score Category to find the clue.
This condition leads them to deduce inaccurate meaning.
Even they have no idea about the meaning of some words, they were For example:.
The detectives were deluded by all false evidence.
They were completely deceived and they arrested the wrong person.
Deluded means ________________ Type part of speech ________ Word or phrase which give you clue to the meaning of word __________ able to identify the certain word to be Most of the students had the correct a noun, a verb, an adjective, and so guessing about the meaning of the By examining how the words are word AudeludedAy.
organized in a sentence pattern, they the word AudeludedAy as an adjective They recognized Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132 by seeing the verb be in the past Even they had employed AuwereAy.
They pay attention to the types of syntactic clue, yet they were phrase Auarrested the wrong peopleAy fail to infer the meaning.
Some as the synonym clue for them to find students were also fail to find out the clue, especially the clue stated the meaning of the word AudeludedAo is mislead The students who were able to identify the meaning of the 2 The StudentsAo Mastery in Using clue surround the text, sometimes did Antonym Context clue not guarantee they would have the The studentsAo mastery in using synonym clue was low.
Their average score was 63.
In other word, correct answer.
They had incorrect meaning because they were wrong to take the clues to infer the meaning.
For example:
their score were insufficient with their minimum achievement.
Their level of mastery can be seen in the following table.
Rather than demolished the tenement
building, the construction workers started to build a housing project
using the tenementAos frame and wood
Number
Percentage 80 Ae
Excellent
60 Ae 79
Good
40 Ae 59
Fair
Demolished means_______________ Type part of speech ________ Word or phrase which give you clue
to the meaning of word
____________
Students found difficulties to find the 0 - 39 Poor meaning of the word AudemolishedAy Score Category even most of them were able to Antonym clues might be the AudemolishedAy.
most difficult.
Most of them were recognized as a verb from the able to identify the function words inflectional suffix Au-edAy which is and sentence pattern, but they found attached to the base demolish.
But difficulty to turn to semantic clue.
Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai ISSN 25024132 they failed to infer which word or phrase to be the antonym clue.
3 The StudentsAo Mastery in Using Sometimes other kinds of setting are used in the theatre.
The backdrop or drop, usually theatrical canvas that scretches across the stage, is wighted at the bottom and painted to represent either outdoor and indoor With drops, top curtains called teaser and side curtains called tormentors mask the backstages areas and fly space, the asrea behind the top of the arch above the floor of the Defenition clue.
The studentsAo mastery in using defenition clue was good.
Their average score was 63, but their score were insufficient with the minimum achievement.
Their level of mastery can be seen in the following table.
For Backdrop
means__________________ Type of part
Category speech_______________ Word or phrase which give you clue
to the meaning of word
Excellent____________ Score
Number
Percentage 80 Ae 100
60 Ae 79
Good
40 Ae 59
Fair
0 - 39
Teaser means__________ Type of part
speech_______________ Poor
CONCLUSIONS
The defenition clue was the easiest one.
Since the clue was stated clearly in the text, the students Based on the data presented in the previous chapter, some conclusions are as follows:
adopted this defenition as the clue The studentsAo mastery in using and give the correct meaning.
Some synonym context clue in reading technical material was good.
Most defenition and take other phrases.
of them achieved the minimum These students were also able to infer achievement criteria which had quite close to the meaning.
Another been determined, 75.
They had students did not use the defenition, problems in mastering synonym Journal of English Language and Education University of Pahlawan Tuanku Tambusai clue as they made mistake in taking the clue.
The studentsAo mastery in using antonym clue was in fair category.
Most The problems occurred due to Brown.
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The studentsAoAo mastery in using definition clue is good.
The students were able to do the test Kimmelman et al.
Reading and Study Skill: A Rhetorical Approach.
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McMillan because the clues were stated clearly, and they had sufficient knowledge to deduce meaning.
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