Globalization brings many consequences for Indonesian urban development and the communities. Industrialization is one of them. Globalization also brings policy transformation affecting the community’s welfare and lifestyle. One of the indicators is that local values have started to fade. The similar condition also occurs in fishermen’s and fish farmers’ settlements in Semarang, which have transformed into industrial settlements in 1980s during the industrialization period. Land conversion occurred in a short time from ponds and rice fields into factories, warehouses, and new lab…

Abstract: Research on the application of the Structured Numbered Heads learning model was done to improve students learning achievement in the topics of the atomic structure and the periodic system of elements in class X MIA SMAN 5 Pekanbaru. This research was experiment based on pretest-posttest design. The sample consisted of two classes, which are X MIA 4 as experiment class and X MIA 3 as control clas that randomly selected after testing normality and homogeneity. Experiment class was a class treated by applying the Structured Numbered Heads learning model. Analyzed of data used t-test. Re…

Abstract: The background of this research was low study result in mathematics. This might be caused on teaching method. The teachers use speaking method and text book only from the source. The type of Cooperative learning method „think Pair Share” can increase the study result of mathematics on SDN 80 Pekanbaru students of fourth graders. The subject of this research was 36 persons of C fourth graders students of SDN 80 Pekanbaru 2014/2015 . This research has been used by Class Proceed Research that be done by 2 cycles, each cycle has been done in twice of meetings within once fina…

Abstract: This research is aimed to find out whether there is a significant effect of using pictures in teaching writing descriptive text of the second year students of SMPN 1 Siak Hulu in the Academic Year 2016/2017 in writing descriptive text. This is a pre-experimental research conducted by using a pre-test – treatment – post-test design. This research used one group pretest-posttest design. The instrument used in this research was tests (pretest and posttest). The population of this research was 296 of the Second Year Students of SMPN 1 Siak Hulu and the sample of this resear…

ABSTRACT The research is motivated by the lack of student skills in writing narrative with the average value of the initial data for 63.39. Formulation of the problem in this study is whether contextual learning model can improve the writing skills of narrative fourth grade students at SDN 160 Pekanbaru? This study aims to improve the skills of writing narrative fourth grade students at SDN 160 Pekanbaru through the application of contextual learning model. This research is a class act. Of this study was obtained from the students' narrative writing skills daily tests in the first cycle I m…

Abstract: The background of this research based on the observation in ‘DarmaPutra” play group age 3 -4 years old consist of 12 children only 4 children shownindependent behavior and join learning activity. Without their parents. The children goto toiled without help, they put their bag in the right place, they eat by themselves, theycan put the toys in to rack toy, and they able choose play activity by themselves. Inreality, these are 8 children show the behavior as below : there are children play in thegroup with their parents. Children cannot cremation by themselves, children can…

Abstract: This study aims to develop a student worksheet based on problem based learning on reduction and oxidation reaction subject in the Chemistry Education Study Program. The result of this research and development is student worksheet product which can be used by students in the process of learning. The method used in this research consists of 4 development stages namely define, design, develop, and disseminate or adapted into 4-P Method, which is pendefinisian, perancangan, pengembangan, dan penyebaran. The development model is modified by the researchers only until the development stage…

Abstract : The purpose of this research is to improve the learning process and to improve mathematics achievement by applying the cooperative learning technique of jingling studs. The research is classroom action research (PTK) that consist of two cycles and at the end of every cycle carried out mathematics achievement test . The subject of this research is students of class VIII5 SMP Negeri 8 Pekanbaru in the second semester academic years 2015/2016, there are 36 students in the class, consist of 17 boys and 19 girls. Data collecting through observation and written test. The observation was d…

AbstractThe research was classroom action research. This research aims to improve learning process and outcomes students by implementing cooperative learning type Two Stay Two Stray. The subject of the research is students of class VIIIG of SMPN18 Pekanbaru in the first semester academic years 2012/2013. There are 40 students in the class, consisting 17 girls and 23 boys. The research are two cycles. Each cycle has four stages, the stages are planning, action, observation and reflection. The results showed the activity of teachers and students have done well after doing the action. An increase…

Abstract : This descriptive research was aimed to find out the ability of the second year students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Pekanbaru in comprehending descriptive texts. The research data were collected on March 2017. The subjects of this research were class VIII 2 consisted of 30 students. The data were collected by administering a test to the students in the form of multiple choice test. The framework of the test covered with six kinds of descriptive text and each text has five question items. The test contained 30 items. Based on the data analysis, it was found out that the highest score obtai…

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to know the correlation between interpersonal intelligence and self-confidence on children 5-6 years old at Al-Fajar Kindergarten Tampan Pekanbaru district. The population of this research is 40 students 5-6 years old at Al-Fajar Kindergarten Tampan Pekanbaru district. Because the number of the population is small, so all of them became the sample of the population. The method used in this research was quantitative correlation to know the correlation between interpersonal intelligence and self-confidence. The technique of collecting the data is observa…

Towards information technology era, every organization is urged to be able to produce information related to its environment in order to survive and to compete. Information gathering process stage will cause to new concept as a basic for organization in its event planning. The purpose of the article is to acknowledge information function related to consumer behavior as organization communication with the public, analyse, produce, and use it for the interest of organization’s working planning. Every data and information in the article come from literature study by processing information from …

The goal of this research was to find out the types of code-switching, and the reason of the participants performs code-switching in the conversation. Research used a qualitative approach. The result shows that three types of code-switching occurs in the conversation among bilingual in the junior high school reunion, they are intra-sentential mixing, intra-lexical code mixing, involving a change of pronunciation. The functions of codeswitching usage are as the marker of changing topic, to show their closeness as an old friend, and to show the close relationship among others. The close rel…

Virtual world is now a mainstay many people promote themselves, goods, or their organizations. What is displayed in the virtual world associated with the role of a design is an interesting site and invites visitors to read and understand the message that the site owners want to convey. The design that attract not only in terms of its contents are complete but also in terms of appearance. This article describes a good selection of colors for a site, the application of typography for ease in reading the contents of site visitors, and a layout processing in accordance with the principles of desig…

The good relations would have a direct impact on the impression created in the students’ perception. The existence of a positive image of the lecturers would certainly go hand in hand with the creation of a positive image for the majors and the university eventually. This article used case study with qualitative method. The interview was the main tool of data collection. Researchers chosea few students who are still studying during the research but have been studying for few years (3 years or 6 semesters) as the resources/interviewee. It finds that indirectly style and interpersonal communic…

This article describes so many disasters caused by the decrease of environment quality, or even pollution and environmental destruction, are due to society's bad behaviors. The decrease of environment quality, as consequences, may cause lower people's lives quality phisically and mentally as well. To overcome the problem, it is proposed a psychology intervension, called "green" psychology.  

Saman is a literature written by Ayu Utami. Showing a representation of a female counterpart ideology that differs from what has already been made in heterosexual and patriarchal society. The community considers sex is taboo to talk openly. In this novel it is represented openly. Women are no longer in a weak position, and have choices. In this paper, research methodology used is qualitative method. 

This article aims to show that the spiritual aspect must be noted in the leadership because every leader is always marked with oath of office in carrying out her/his position. So, how leaders are accountable, it is not only on the horizontal level but also at the vertical level. Research was done with phenomenological and literature studies about the practice of leadership faced with a number of theories about leadership and then to be synthesized the more authentic leadership than just imaging or false branding leadership. This article was based on the assumption that leadership (including in…

Clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs. In a common household, food is provided through the kitchen. However, a kitchen does not only serve that purpose it is also needed as a place for recreation and communication of the family. Because cooking is a daily routine and takes quite an amount of time, it is considered as a tedious and heavy job. And so, if someone does not cook/work properly in terms of the movements or follow the ergonomic requirements, it would easily make her/him down and make her/him less efficient. To overcome these problems, it is required to improve the environm…

This research was intended to see the prospect of whether the significance of cosplay subculture had given certain influence towards these colorful communities. The target population was Bina Nusantara University students who were either in Japanese Department or those who were interested in Japanese culture. By utilizing the online questionnaire, this research used qualitative random sampling approach and expected to be used as a reference in designing the future curriculum since it was quite applicable and relevant to the condition in Indonesia. Based on the findings, cosplaying has been pro…