ThesisOpen AccessMetadata saja
2024•
Reading comprehension is one of the basic skills in English language which is quite difficult to be mastered, especially for students. Thus, in teaching reading comprehension, interesting teaching strategies such as the KWL strategy is needed. The aim of this research was to determine the significant effect of implementing the KWL strategy on descriptive reading comprehension of grade 7 junior high school students. The research method used pre-experimental method. The population of this research was students of class VII at SMP Negeri 4 Tarakan with a sample of class VII-10 of 29 students. The research instrument used a reading test in the form of pre-test and post-test. In addition, the results of data analysis obtained were processed using the SPSS version 25.0 program. The results of data analysis revealed that the average pre-test score was 57.44 and the average post-test score was 78.89. The Shapiro Wilk Test result was 0.965, which was greater than 0.05. It means the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (HO) was rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that teaching descriptive text using KWL strategy had proven effective in improving the reading comprehension at seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Tarakan.
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2021•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This study was conducted to identify the types of errors in the students’ descriptive text. This is a descriptive qualitative study conducted in MIA 4 at SMAN 2 Tarakan in the 2020/2021 academic year. The subjects were 28 students. This research was conducted online on Friday 18 September 2020. The technique of data collection was a written test. It focused on classifying errors, based on the Surface Strategy Taxonomy. Based on the analysis, there were 153 errors, among of which are addition (18 errors or 12%), omission(33 or 21%), formation errors (101 or 66%), and placement errors (1 or 1%). The most common error is spelling errors, classified into misformation errors with 67 total error out of153 total errors. In conclusion, the researcher found 153 errors that occurred in a descriptive text made by the tenth grade students of MIA 4 from SMAN 2 Tarakan.
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2021•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This research aimed to analyse the descriptive text writing skills of class XI SMK Negeri 2 Tarakan students. The objective of this research was to describe the problems students face in writing descriptive texts at SMK Negeri 2 Tarakan. This research was used the descriptive qualitative research method. The researcher used students of SMK Negeri 2 Tarakan as research subjects. In carrying out the research, the researcher used purposive sampling. There are two methods in collecting data, namely observation and documentation. The research data was processed and analysed using the theory of Mile and Huberman. The results showed: 1) observation, it can be concluded that there is a need for more explanation and more intense learning exposure, especially in students' writing style. 2) Interview, the result of the interviews to the students showed that almost students have difficulties in learning English. The most students’ difficulty in learning English was the students lack of vocabulary so the students don’t understand the meaning when the students listened what teacher said, when the students spoke, when the students read the text, and when the students wrote their task. 3) documents, showing the ability to write descriptive texts in 11th graders at SMK Negeri 2 Tarakan in terms of content, the organization, vocabulary, language, and mechanism. In addition, the researcher found various forms of writing errors in the descriptive text by 11th-grade students at SMK Negeri 2 Tarakan. The writing errors include error punctuation, typographical problems, capital letters, misplacement of words or incorrect word choice in the sentences, the usage of the incorrect term in the sentence, the problems in spelling words, the mistake of placing conjunctions in the phrases.
