IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL THROUGH TEXT-BASED INSTRUCTION

This research is aimed at finding out whether or not the implementation of text-basedinstruction can improve students’ writing skill at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Parigi.This research employed quasi experimental design which involved two groups of students asexperimental and control groups. The samples were selected by purposive samplingtechnique. The samples were the students of X MIPA F as the experimental group and XMIPA E as the control one. The instrument of this research was a test which was given to thesample as pretest and posttest in the form of written test. The result of data analysis showsthat the mean score of posttest in experimental group (72.22) was higher than the mean scoreof posttest in control group (50,00). By applying 50 degree of freedom (df) and 0.05 level ofsignificance, it indicates that the tcounted (4.79) is higher than the ttable (2.01). Furthermore, itclarifies that the hypothesis of this research is accepted. In conclusion, the findings of thisresearch reveal that students’ writing skill can be effectively and significantly improved byusing text-based instruction.Keywords: writing, improving, text-based instructio

Translation Errors in Subtitle of the Movie Joker 2019 on Netflix

There have been various genres of movies completed with their subtitles. The role of subtitle is crucial, besides gaining engagement with the audience, subtitle also conveys the meaning and the message of the movie. However, there have been found errors in the subtitle itself. This study aims to discover the types of translation errors in the English-Indonesian language pair of the Joker (2019) movie shown on Netflix. The English-Indonesian subtitles were used as the data for the study. The method of the study is qualitative descriptive and The American Translators Association (ATA) framework errors category was applied in analyzing the error types. The results showed that there were six types of errors; (1) omission errors; (2) misunderstanding errors; (3) faithfulness errors; (4) literalness errors; (5) ambiguity errors and (6) other errors that do not include in the category. The most frequent error is omission, misunderstanding, and faithfulness errors. All the errors found influenced the information and message delivered to the viewers