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2026•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The purpose of the research was to determine the difficulties encountered by students in essay writing and the strategies employed to overcome these challenges. This research employed a qualitative approach with a descriptive method. The subjects consisted of six fourth-semester students majoring in the English Education Department at Universitas Borneo Tarakan. Data were collected through documentation studies and semi-structured interviews. Then, the data were analyzed using the framework by Miles and Huberman (1994). The results of the research showed that the students had experienced difficulties in the psychological, linguistic, and cognitive aspects. These difficulties included low self-confidence, limited vocabulary and grammatical mastery, difficulties in developing ideas, and challenges in organizing thoughts within an essay. To mitigate these difficulties, the students used various strategies such as outlining, brainstorming, reading academic references, utilizing dictionaries, using writing assistant applications and Al technology, as well as conducting peer feedback.
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2021•
ABSTRACT This study aimed at describing profile of the English national examination results of Senior high school students in Bulungan and finding out whether there were differences in the examination results in terms of school status, school accreditation, majors, gender and student achievement. There were 944 of high school students in Bulungan Regency in the academic year 2018/2019. This research used a quantitative method. The results showed that (1) public schools was better than the private schools (2) school accreditations did not have any effect on the results of the English national examination, where it was found that schools with lower accreditation had better results, (3) students majoring in sciences were better than those in social sciences, (4) female students were better than male students (5) the results of the English national examination was in a low category. As the significant value in each variable was less than the significant level of 0.05, the How as rejected. It was indicated that there were differences in the English national exam scores of high school students in Bulungan Regency in terms of school status, school accreditation, majors, gender and students‟ achievement.
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2020•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This research was conducted to 1) describe the profile of English National examination result of Senior High School in Malinau and 2) find out whether there was a significant difference in English National examination result in Malinau by considered school status, school accreditation, major, gender, and student’s achievement in Malinau. This research method was quantitative. The researcher used total sampling as the technique sampling, and the sample in this research was 894 students of Senior High School in Malinau. The data analyzed was the English National examination result. Based on the result of the research showed that the significant value on the school status was 0,00, which is the public schools have a higher score on English National examination result than students in public schools. For school accreditation, the significant value was 0,015, the English National examination result A accreditation was higher than B, C and Unaccredited. The significant value for major was 0,000, from the results in English National examination result students in social science was higher than students in natural science. The significant value for gender was 0,000, from English National examination result on female students got higher score than male students. And for student’s achievement, the significant value was 0,000, and from the mean rank of English National examination senior high school in Malinau were in poor category. Based on the results of the calculation of the results of the English National Examination on each variable the significant value less than 0.05 so H0 rejected and Ha was accepted. It means that there was a significant difference in English National examination result by considered school status, school accreditation, major, gender and student’s achievement.
