Improving Damai Junior

Highschool 2020-2021
Student’s Reading Skills By
Copying To Native Speakers

• Ceeley Richela
• Calvin Valencia
• Nathania D. S.
• Nicholas Diaz
 Background
● Because of in Damai Junior Highschool we get an English
subject that is taught by a native speaker, we are interested to
do a research about how effective it is to learn with native
speaker, how to learn English with native speakers in the most
effective way, and especially to learn how to read a text by
copying to the native speaker. Therefore, we are interested to
create this paper entitled “Improving Damai Junior Highschool
2020 – 2021 Student’s Reading Skills By Copying To Native
Speakers”.
Identification of Problems & Purpose
Identification of Problems
1. Damai Junior Highschool
students sometimes found
it difficult to read advanced
English text.
2. When we jump into the
word that we don’t know, we
read it incorrectly.
Purpose
1. To know is it effective to learn
by copying to native speaker.
2. To find out how much
improvement in the students of
Damai Junior Highschool’s
pronunciation and reading
skills by copying or imitating
how the native speaker talk or
read can affect.
Literature
Review
● English has become an international language and almost every country in the
world uses English when communicating.
● English in Indonesia is generally taught as a foreign language, the term 'foreign
language' in the field of language teaching is different from the term of 'second
language‘.
● A foreign language is a language that is not used to communicate in a
particular country where it is taught, meanwhile, the second language is a
language that is not the main language but is one of the languages commonly
used in a country.
● Improving is an effort to be better than the previous one in terms of degrees,
levels, quality, quantity, skills and abilities.
● According to the Cambridge Dictionary, read as a noun is the skill or activity of
getting information from books, or an occasion when something written,
especially a work of literature, is spoken to an audience.
● According to the Cambridge Dictionary, imitate as a verb is to behave in a
similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behavior,
etc. of someone or something.
● According to the Oxford Dictionary, pronunciation is the way in which a
language or a particular word or sound is pronounced.
● According to the Oxford Dictionary, native speaker is a person who speaks a
language as their first language and has not learned it as a foreign language.
● English is one of the most important languages of the world and Spoken by
more than 380 million people in the United Kingdom, the United States , and
the former British Empire.
 Results
Questionnaire & Listening
test
1. How long have you been learning English?
Option >10 years >7 years 2-7 years Just started to
learn
People 10 9 6 5

2. How often do you speak English?

Option Sometimes Never Often Always

People 22 6 2 -

3. How often do you read English text?

Option Sometimes Often Always Never
People 15 11 2 2
4. How fluent do you think your English skills right now?

Option Fluent Advanced Pre-advanced Basic

People - 3 7 20

5. Where do you use English the most?

Option Social media School Home Course

People 15 11 2 2

6. How do you think you can learn English best?

Option Watching Taking an Learn with Go
movies/youtube English friends abroad
( listening to native course
speakers )
People 24 4 2 -
7. What made you want to learn English?
Option To be able talking Because I To study In order to get
with foreign want to abroad good grades
people
People 14 13 2 1

8. Do you think listening to native speaker will improve your English?

Option Not really Yes Perhaps No
People 12 10 6 2

9. How often do you think you read English words wrong?

Option Sometimes Often Always Never
People 16 12 2 -
10. What makes it difficult for you to read texts in English?
Option The Not having enough The grammar The vocabulary
pronounciation confidence
People 13 8 5 4

11. When you are asked to speak English in front of many people, will you do it?
Option Not sure Maybe Absolutely No
People 18 8 4 -

12. When you are reading and you come across words that you don't know how to read, what do you
do?
Option Ask / search it Continue Stop and wait for Skip the
reading someone to help you word
People 25 2 1 2
13. To whom do you often speak English?
Option Friends Teachers Foreigners Parents
People 14 7 7 2

14. When you are proficient in English, do you want to teach someone who doesn't speak English?
Option Maybe Of course Not sure No
People 15 9 3 3

15. How important do you think English skills are?

Option Important Very important Not that Not important
important
People 14 13 2 1
16. How interesting do you think English are?
Option interesting Not too Very Not
interesting interesting interesting
People 18 6 5 1

17. How do you pronounce "violin"?

Option Va-yuh-lin Vee-o-lin Va-ee-lin Voo-ee-lin
People 9 10 9 2

18. How do you pronounce "pronunciation"?

Option Pro-naun-cia- Pro-nun-cia- Pro-nan- Pro-noun-cia-
shun shun shion hun
People 13 6 6 5
19. How do you pronounce "wifi"?
Option Wai-fai Wi-fi Wai-fi Wa-fai
People 19 5 5 1

20. How do you pronounce "jewelry“?

Option Jew-ell-ree Jewl-ree Ji-well-ree Ji-will-ree
People 13 11 4 2
 Listening Test Result

On their first trial, 5 out of the 10 participants misspelled the word ‘increasingly’.
After they listened to the native speaker, 2 out of the 5 participants who
misspelled the word ‘increasingly’ has succeeded pronounce it correctly.
Conclusion
 2. We can improve our
1. It is effective to pronunciation and reading
learn by copying to skills about 40% by copying
native speaker or imitating how the native
speaker talk or read
Suggestion
For students :
● Speak more English
● Listen to more English native speakers
● Watch more English movie
● Surround yourself with people who speaks English

For teachers :
● Teach using English
● Make the students to speak using English when it is English class

For school :
● Use English as a main language at school or at least in English class
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