{"title":"ERRORS MADE BY THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 1 ULU MORO’O IN THEIR WRITING RECOUNT TEXT COMPOSITION IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021","authors":"A. Gulo, Novalina Sembiring, J. J. Pangaribuan","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v5i1.1441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v5i1.1441","url":null,"abstract":"This study is about errors made by the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Ulu Moro’o in writing recount text composition in academic year 2019/2020. The objectives of this study is to find out types of errors made by the tenth grade students in their writing recount text composition and to find out the most dominant errors made by the tenth grade students in writing recount text composition. The instrument of the research is test and documentation. The research methodology is descriptive qualitative. The subject of this study is the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Ulu Moro’o, which is consist of 30 students. The result of this study showed that there are four types of errors that occur; they are error of omission, error of addition, error of misformation and error of misordering. The data was taken from the test: it was written text. The findings showed that errors made by the students were 19,80% omission, 17,82% addition, 53,46% misformation, and 8,91% misordering. The writer observed 101 total errors. From the frequency of each error types, misformation was the error which most frequently produced by the students. The writer concluded that misformation was the dominant kind of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Ulu Moro’o in writing recount text composition.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125464185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE ANALYZING OF AMBIGUITY ON STUDENTS’ WRITING MADE BY STUDENTS IN SMK DHARMA BAKTI MEDAN","authors":"Elya Batu Baren, F. Y. Ginting, K. Tarigan","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1148","url":null,"abstract":"The aims of this study were to figure out the casual factors of ambiguity found in students writing. The subject of this study was the students of Class XI-TKR of SMK Dharma Bakti Medan. The research design was in the form of descriptive qualitative research. The instrument of collecting data was the students’ sheet of English writing text. In conclusion, the most dominant ambiguity in lexical meaning found in writing text by Class XI-TKR of SMK Dharma Bakti Medan was polysemy ambiguity. There were 10 casual factors of why ambiguity found in students’ writing text based on the analysis of the structure of sentence in students’ English writing. The most reasons were: (1) the students did not give the specific details in their writing, usually they preferred the short writing, (2) there were several vocabularies which could be reasonably interpreted more than one way or reasonably interpreted more than one thing, (3) the students felt confused to find appropriate vocabularies to express the meaning. As a result, they sometimes left the sentence undone or hanged without a clear idea, due to the lack of vocabularies. The analysis of ambiguity in lexical meaning that made by students of Class XI-TKR of SMK Dharma Bakti Medan revealed that students should learn semantic as the main subject in English writing to understand multiplicity of meanings.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124794841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yosephin Kristina Barus, Anna Stasya Prima Sari, K. Tarigan
{"title":"THE USE OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' SKILL IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS TO THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA SWASTA SANTA MARIA KABANJAHE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021","authors":"Yosephin Kristina Barus, Anna Stasya Prima Sari, K. Tarigan","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1139","url":null,"abstract":"This research was primarily carried out to prove that Project Based Learning (henceforth, PBL) method is effective to improve the students’ skill in writing descriptive texts and to describe the students’ responses towards the learning teaching processes of writing descriptive texts through the use of PBL method. This is Classroom Action Research (henceforth, CAR) which consisted of two cycles. Each cycle consisted of three meeting, excluded pre-test and post-test. There are seven classes in the eleventh grade of SMA Swasta Santa Maria Kabanjahe. There are 36 students in the XI IPA 4 as the research subjects. The analysis of quantitative data showed the improvement of students’ skill in writing descriptive texts. It was shown by the mean score of the pre-test (49,69), the formative test (74,22) and the post-test (82,33). The percentage of the students’ score increased from pre-test to post-test (65,68%). The responses of students can be seen from the total percentage of questionnaires strongly agree about 46,75% and followed by the highest percentage agree about 50,92%. It is advisable that English teachers apply PBL method as a method in order to improve their students’ writing skill. ","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131314340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angeline Elisabeth Samosir, Viator Lumban Raja, F. Y. Ginting
{"title":"GRAMMATICAL ERRORS MADE BY THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMK GRAFIKA BINA MEDIA MEDAN IN WRITING ADVERTISEMENT TEXT","authors":"Angeline Elisabeth Samosir, Viator Lumban Raja, F. Y. Ginting","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1141","url":null,"abstract":"This research is an attempt to find out the types of errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Grafika Bina Media Medan based on linguistic category, morphology and syntax and the dominant errors in each category. The population of this research is the tenth grade students amounting 56 students of three classes. As many as 30 students are taken as a sample which is randomly taken 10 students from each class. The research employed the descriptive qualitative research analysis. Based on the result of the analysis, there are 117 errors found in the students’ writing advertisement text. In the morphological area, there are errors in article, possessive case, third person singular and comparative so there are 35,90% errors. Meanwhile, in syntax area the writer found noun phrase, verb phrase, noun and verb construction, word order and some transformation, there are 64,10%. in conclusion, the dominant errors made by the tenth grade students of SMK Grafika Bina Media Medan is syntax errors namedly noun phrase.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126643618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florentina Sembiring, Viator Lumban Raja, J. J. Pangaribuan
{"title":"TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH PEER TUTORING TECHNIQUE TO THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA SANTA MARIA KABANJAHE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021","authors":"Florentina Sembiring, Viator Lumban Raja, J. J. Pangaribuan","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1147","url":null,"abstract":"The aims of this study are to prove whether Peer Tutoring Technique can improve students’ reading comprehension and to know the students’ responses after being taught by using Peer Tutoring technique. This research is Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted by Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Peer Tutoring technique to the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Santa Maria Kabanjahe Class X IPA II in the Academic Year of 2020/2021. The quantitative data analysis showed that the students’ mean score increased continuously from 46,42 in pre-test, 68,33 in formative test, and 80,38 in post-test. The percentage of the students’ score increased from pre-test to post-test was 69,69%. The qualitative data analysis showed that the students’ responses after being taught by using Peer Tutoring t echnique are very good. It can be seen from observation sheets and field notes; they felt more confident, enthusiastic and motivated to learn reading comprehension on narrative texts after Peer Tutoring technique was applied. The responses of students it can be seen from the total percentage of questionnaires strongly agree about 46,66% and followed by the highest percentage of agree about 46,06%. The Peer Tutoring technique was beneficial and effective for teaching reading comprehension. It is suggested that English teachers use Peer Tutoring technique as an alternative technique in teaching reading to the students in Senior High School in order to improve their students’ reading comprehension.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126474750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Siska Ria Pandiangan, Anna Stasya Prima Sari Sinaga, F. Y. Ginting
{"title":"APPLYING MURDER TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP SANTO THOMAS 1 MEDAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021","authors":"Siska Ria Pandiangan, Anna Stasya Prima Sari Sinaga, F. Y. Ginting","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1146","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to find whetever Murder technique works effectively on improving students’ reading comprehension and to describe the students’ responses towards the application of Murder technique in the learning teaching processes of reading comprehension. The subject of the study in the seventh grade students of SMP Santo Thomas 1 Medan in the Academic Year of 2020/2021 consisting 32 students of class VII-A. This study was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (henceforth CAR). The result of the test showed that the students’ mean score in pre-test is 55,00 with 16% of students got ≥ 70, in formative test is 68,13 with 38% of students got score ≥ 70, and 83,13 in post test with 100% of students got score ≥ 70. The qualitative data analysis showed that the students’ responses after being taught by using Murder Technique are very good. The percentage students who strongly agree is 26 (81%), agree is 27 (84%), there is no students choose strongly disagree and disagree. It is suggested that the English teachers use Murder Technique as an alternative technique in teaching reading to the students in Junior High School in order to improve their students’ reading comprehension.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121404518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE FRESHMEN’S ABILITY ON USING THE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020","authors":"Viator Lumban Raja","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1144","url":null,"abstract":"Grammar is the rules of how words are arranged into sentences. Without the knowledge of grammar one cannot produce sentences grammatically. If one makes a sentence which is not grammatically arranged, then that sentence cannot be said grammatical though perhaps it is still meaningful. Therefore, a sentence should be grammatically correct and meaningfully acceptable. This study deals with the ability of the freshmen of the English Study Program on using English grammar in academic year 2019/2020. They are first given the pretest, and after studying for one semester they are given the posttest in order to see if there is significant difference from the pretest to posttest. It is expected that the learning-teaching process for one semester will give significant impact on the learning achievement. Based on the result of analysis of the test both in the pretest and posttest, it is found out that there found no difference between the result of the pretest and that of posttest. It is indicated by the mean score of the pretest 9.04 and that of posttest only 9.00. Therefore, it can be concluded that their ability on using English grammar is far below the average as the percentage of correct answer only 30.10% both in the pretest and posttest.  Of the 17 topics covering the 30 test items both in the pretest and posttest, only 5 (five) items are correctly answered by more than 10 students within the percentage of 44% - 68%. On the whole,. Their ability on using English grammar is far below average.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133604330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aswani Jelita Sianturi, Novalina Sembiring, F. Y. Ginting
{"title":"ERROR ANALYSIS ON PRONOUN MADE BY THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA KATOLIK CINTA KASIH TEBING TINGGI IN ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021","authors":"Aswani Jelita Sianturi, Novalina Sembiring, F. Y. Ginting","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1138","url":null,"abstract":"The Research was aimed to analyze the error on pronoun made by the eleventh grade students of SMA Katolik Cinta Kasih Tebing Tinggi in Academic Year of 2020/2021. The subject of this research consists of 30 students in XI-MIPA-1. The objectives of the study were (1) To find out the types of error made by students in using pronoun. (2) To find out what causes the students made such error in using pronoun. This research used qualitative approach with descriptive research. The errors were collected, identified, and classified based on the Surface Structure Taxonomy by Dulay. It was specified by four types of errors namely omission, addition, misordering, and misformation.The result showed (1) The most common errors made by the students were misformation (52,0%) or 88 errors. The second was error in addition with the frequency (35,5%) or 60 errors. The third error was omission (11,2%) or 19 errors. The lowest frequency of error was misordering (1,1%) or 2 errors. (2) The students made such errors in using pronouns because of their less motivation of learning, lack of knowledge about grammar and English language, and minimal use of media by the teacher during teaching learning process. The teacher should create an interesting teaching, so it that can increase the students’ interest in learning English.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121061780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN CONSTRUCTING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE MADE BY THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF LAW FACULTY","authors":"Meikardo Samuel Prayuda","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i3.1145","url":null,"abstract":"This research was aimed to find out the subject-verb agreement error made by the second semester students of Law Faculty UNIKA Santo Thomas. From the findings, 27% of the instruments answered by the students were identified error. There were 4 kinds of error made by the students in constructing subject-verb agreement. They were omission error, addition error, misformation error, and misordering error. In omission error, there were 26 errors occurred. In addition error, there were 5 errors occurred. In misformation error, there were 54 errors occurred. In misordering error, there was 1 error occurred. Among all of the errors that had been identified, misformation error was the most dominan error faced by the students. Based on the analysis, the possible cause of error was because of the students did not understand well about the construction of the simple present tense mastery. Although only 27% instrument was identified error, it was considered that the students’ lack of knowledge in structure could give serious impact to their writing. It was suggested that the students need to enrich their knowledge at least in the mastery of the simple present tense, specially in the construction of subject-verb agreement. In other hand, the faculty need to make extra class for the English subject to give the students more chance to enhance their English knowledge. This would support the vision of UNIKA Santo Thomas in achieving International Level University.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128738761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yatafati Lahagu, J. J. Pangaribuan, Meikardo Samuel Prayuda
{"title":"IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON NARRATIVE TEXTS THROUGH EXPERIENCE TEXT RELATIONSHIP (ETR) METHOD AT SMA SWASTA PALAPA MEDAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021","authors":"Yatafati Lahagu, J. J. Pangaribuan, Meikardo Samuel Prayuda","doi":"10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54367/kairos.v4i2.1137","url":null,"abstract":"This research was conducted in order to improve students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Texts through ETR method and to know the students’ responses towards the learning reading comprehension through ETR method at SMA Swasta Palapa Medan. In conducting this research, the writer used Classroom Action Research (CAR). This research showed that teaching reading comprehension through ETR method at SMA Swasta Palapa Medan could improve their reading comprehension. The result of the test showed that the students’ mean score in pre-test is 51.59 with 4 students (13,79%) of the students got score ≥70, in formative test the mean score is 68.69 with 15 students (51,72%) of the students got score ≥70, and in post-test the mean score is 77.66 with 21 students (72,41%) of the students got score ≥70. The writer concluded that ETR method could improve the eleventh grade students’ reading comprehension on narrative texts of SMA Swasta Palapa Medan. On the other hand, the students’ responses towards the method of the teaching sound good because above 80% of the students are interested, motivated and understand the lesson with the ETR method.","PeriodicalId":184113,"journal":{"name":"Kairos English Language Teaching Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123145397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}