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AN ANALYSIS OF ERROR IN PRONOUNCING DENTAL FRICATIVE SOUNDS BY THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
No full textThis research was aimed to obtain the most problematic dental fricative sounds to pronounce and to determine the factor caused by the students to produce error in pronouncing dental fricative sounds. The researchers applied descriptive qualitative design by purposive sampling technique to choose the participants. There were 15 participants taken from the first-year students of English Education Study Program 2020/2021. The instruments of data collection were documents and interview. The document is in the form of video speaking from the participant, used to analyze students pronunciation and the interview used to decide the factor of students error. The result of the research showed that the frequency of students error were 15 percent in /θ/ sound and 85 percent in /ð/ sound. Most of the students substituted sound /θ/ with /t/ and sound /ð/ with /d/. They made the error because they have interference from their mother tongue. Thus, the most problematic dental fricative sound is /ð/ sound and the error caused by the students is interlingual error
ERROR ANALYSIS OF CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB USED BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS
No full textThis research was aimed at finding out the errors on conjunctive adverb found in descriptive text written by the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sindue. The researcher analyzed the data by applying simple descriptive analysi. The research sample was 22 students. The instruments of data collection were a writing test. The students were assigned to write descriptive text by using conjunctive adverbs. The result of data analysis showed that there were two errors made by students, i.e. misplace of conjunctive adverbs and inappropriate conjunctive adverbs. There were 7 or 38.88% errors in misplace of conjunctive adverbs, 3 or 16.66% errors inappropriate conjunctive adverbs, and 18 or 94.73% used conjunctive adverbs correctly. The occurrence of these errors may be caused by misunderstanding of the teacher’s explanation in the target language and may be also caused by the inability of using rules into context eventhough they have been taught items in the target language repeatedly. The causes of these errors included in the category of intra-lingual errors i.e. the false concept hypothesis and incomplete application of the rules
DESCRIBING TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY
No full textThis is a qualitative research. Its aims are to find out teachers’ strategies in teaching English vocabulary and to identify the obstacles faced by teacher in implementing the strategies. The research method applied by researcher is qualitative. The data were taken from interview with English teachers at SMA Negeri 1 Ampana and analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The result of the research revealed some strategies applied by teacher to teach English vocabulary includes: 1) Comprehending Vocabulary through Reading and Translating Text; 2) Memorizing Vocabulary; 3) Dictionary Use. The teacher uses those strategy in increasing students’ vocabulary mastery. Based on the interview, the teacher faced some problems in teaching vocabulary. The problem derived from students, such as lack of motivation, the students sometimes feel lazy, bored and some of students become crowded in learning. They also quickly amd easily forget the vocabulary that has been learnt before because they do not practice it at home
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CROSSWORD PUZZLE GAME TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY
No full textThe objective of this research is to find out whether Crossword Puzzle Game is effective to increase vocabulary of the eighth-grade students at SMPN 1 Ampibabo or not. This research applied a quasi-experimental research design, involves two groups, they were experimental and control groups. The sample was selected by cluster random sampling technique, and it was 20 students of class VIII A as the experimental class and 20 students of class VIII B as the control class. The instrument used for collecting data was a test. The test included pre-test and post-test, with the mean score 51.00 for experimental class, and 57.80 for control class on pre-test. While on post-test, 72.60 for experimental class, and 64.00 for control class. The data results from the test were analyzed statistically by applying the t-test formula. The results of the analysis showed that the value of t-counted (3.1) is higher than t-table (2.025). It means that the research hypothesis was accepted. In other words, applying Crossword Puzzle Game is effective to increase vocabulary of the eighth-grade students at SMPN 1 Ampibabo. The implication of this finding to the teaching of vocabulary is that the selection of the right learning method can affect the achievement of students and teachers are expected to foster learning motivation in students in various ways according to the ability of the teacher and attractive to students
A STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ENGLISH SONGS IN TEACHING VOCABULARY MASTERY
No full textA song is a type of teaching media that can be used to teach any subject. It can also be used to teach vocabulary because song lyrics contain a variety of vocabularies. The goals of this study are to describe the steps of the implementation of English Song in teaching vocabulary mastery and to describe how successful the implementation of English Song in teaching vocabulary mastery was. The study applied qualitative design that implemented Library Research Method. The data were collected from scientific writing on the implementation of English songs in teaching vocabulary between 2011 and 2021. The scientific writing were found from the library and internet. The data were analyzed using content analysis based on Dale (1992). The results reveal that there are five scientific writings from Widhiastuti (2012), Febria (2015), Gushendra (2017), Bahri (2018), and Sari (2019). The results of the data analyzed show that the implementation of English Song in five different studies by five different experts used different steps in implementing the procedure. One of them was followed the procedure suggested by Dale (1992) which is play the song with no preparation and no hand-outs. Three of them give the materials before the listening selection, and other researcher play the video or singing the song by the teacher. Based on second research question, the vocabulary mastery of students’ improve after the implementation of English Song in the classroom. The researcher conclude that the implementation of English Song in teaching vocabulary mastery has a positive effect because the students’ vocabulary has improved as a result of the research
THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION
No full textThis study aims to know whether or not the use of authentic materials can improve reading comprehension of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Palu. This research used a quasi-experimental research design. The research population was the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Palu which consisted of 311 students. The sample was selected by using a purposive sampling technique. The number of the sample was 27 students of class VIII E as the experimental group and 26 students of class VIII K as the control group. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test about reading. The students were assigned some tasks consisting of 10 multiple-choices and 5 essay questions. The result of this research showed the mean deviation score of the experimental group was 14.66 and 5.08 for control group. Therefore, the t-counted value (4.74) is higher than the t-table value (1.66). It is proved that the hypothesis is accepted in which there is development of the students after getting the treatment. It means that the use of Authentic Materials can improve students Reading comprehension. The implication of this finding is that the teachers need to use authentic material as the media in teaching reading
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FACED BY THE EIGTH GRADE STUDENTS
No full textThis research aims in analysis the difficulties in writing descriptive text faced by the students at the eight-grade of SMP Negeri 7 Sigi. The researchers applied descriptive quantitative design by haphazard sampling technique to choose the sample. There were 30 samples taken from 30% of the total population. The instruments of data collection wastest. The data were collected by giving the test of writing descriptive text.The findings of the research shows that there are most of the students have difficulty in each aspects such as grammar 93% of students, vocabulary 90% of students, mechanic 90% of students, content 87% students, and organizing 83% of students
THE EFFECT OF USING SELF-QUESTIONING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION
No full textThe objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using self-questioning strategy on students reading comprehension in the grade eight students at MTs DDI Soni. This research used quasi-experimental design. Research subject were selected using cluster random sampling. The sample of this research was 40 students of the grade eight at MTs DDI Soni. This research used two classes. VIII R.A as experimental class and VIII N.A as control class. The experimental class and control class were given pre-test and post-test, but only the experimental class has given treatment. The mean score of experimental class in pre-test is 34 and post-test is 51,4. While the mean score of control class in pre-test is 37 and post-test is 42,2. Based on the result of the pre-test and post-test, the tcounted of this study is (3,38). In conclusion, the use of self-questioning strategy can improve the reading comprehension at the grade eight studens at MTs DDI Soni
PERCEPTIONS OF EFL LEARNERS ON THE APPLICATION OF READING ALOUD TECHNIQUE IN LEARNING PRONUNCIATION
No full textThe objective of this research was to find out whether or not the use of Sequence Pictures Technique can improve the ninth grade students’ skill in writing procedure text. The researcher applied a quasi-experimental research design. The population of this research was the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Palu which consisted of 119 students. The sample of this research was 30 students of class IX Ahmad Yani as the experimental class. Meanwhile, 29 students of class IX Cut Nyak Dien categorized as the control class. The sample was selected by using cluster random sampling technique. The technique of data collection was test. The test included pre-test and post-test, with the mean score of 56.11 for experimental class, and 71.67 for control class on pre-test. While on post-test, the results were 73.33 for experimental class and 77.22 for control class. By applying 0.05 level of significance and 28 degree of freedom (df), as can be seen that the value of t-counted was (3.58) and t-table was (1.701). The t-counted value was higher than t-table value, which meant that the research hypothesis was accepted. This study suggests that the use of Sequence Pictures technique can improve students’ writing skill in procedure text