Prefixation In Nias Language

Morphology is a branch of linguistics that studies and analyses a word formation. One of the processes of forming a new word is Afixation. Affixation is the precess or result of attaching or adding an affix to a root to form a new word. Affixation can be a prefixation, infixation, suffixation, and confixation. Prefixation is the process of attaching a prefix. Prefix is added that is added to the front of a root or stem. Affix is a grammatical element combined with words and stems that produce derived and inflected forms.This reseacrh is aimed at finding out and describing all prefixes throughly that are found in the Nias Language in detail. It means that this research studies about discussion the process of attaching an affix to the front of the root. The objective of this research is to describes the process of attachih a prefix to the root

INCREASING THE STUDENT’S VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH HOW SPECIAL AM I GAME OF THE TENTH GRADE SMK NEGERI 1 GUNUNGSITOLI IN 2022/2023

Vocabulary is the most important component of the overall communicative competence that enables students to convey information, ideas or notions to others in such written and oral form. Vocabulary mastery is the ability to use the words in conducting the communication and understanding the meaning of the words or phrases in English. The research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR) design. This research was applied into two cycles. Each cycle consisted of planning, action, observation, and reflection. In the second meeting of cycle II, the researcher obtained the improvement of students, who achieved the Minimum Competence Criterion (70). There were 14 (53%) students who got score among 85-100 classified as “Very Good Criteria”, 12 (42%) students got score among 75-84 classified as “Good Criteria”. Based on the result above the researcher concludes that How Special Am I Game could be done in teaching vocabulary and increasing the students’ ability in mastering vocabulary

Improving the Students Ability in Reading Coprehension through Narrative Text by Using Reciprocal Teaching at the Eight Grade of SMP Negeri 5 Gunungsitoli in 2022/2023

Reading comprehension is one of the important skills that must be learned by students. However, students had several problems in learning reading comprehension of narrative texts which caused the MCC not to be achieved by students. These problems are lack of vocabulary, unable to find students' main ideas, and unable to identify the generic structure of narrative text. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to improve students' reading comprehension skills in narrative texts through Reciprocal Teaching. This research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of several procedures, namely planning, action, observation, and reflection. The research instrument used observation sheets, evaluation sheets and field notes. The results of Cycle I showed that most of the students had not been able to reach the MCC. The average grade of students is 50.66. There were 20 students who failed and 10 students who passed the MCC. There were 8 students (26.66%) in fail level, 12 students (40.10%) in less level, 4 students (13.34%) in enough level, 3 students (10%) in Good. and 3 students (10%) in very good category. While in Cycle II, it shows that all students have achieved MCC. The average grade of students is 92.33. There were no students who were put into the less, fail, and enough categories. There were 8 students (26.66%) in  good level, and 22 students (73.33%) in very good level. Based on the results above, it can be seen that Reciprocal Teaching has improve students' reading comprehension skills in narrative texts

Increasing the Student’s Vocabulary Mastery by Using List Group Label Strategy

Vocabulary is an important component in learning English that should be mastered by students before mastering the four skills in English. However, the students had several problems in vocabulary mastery that caused the students were not able to comprehend the written descriptive text so that the students were not able to achieve the MCC. Therefore, the purpose of research was to increase the students’ vocabulary mastery by using List Group Label Strategy. The researcher used the Classroom Action Research method as research design that was held on in two cycles. The results of the research showed that in Cycle I most of students were not able to achieve the MCC, there were 4 students (15%) in “Very Good” level, 11 students (42%) in “Good” level, 9 students (35%) in “Enough” level, 2 students (8%) in “Less” level. The average of students score in Cycle I was 69.61. While the result in Cycle II showed that all of students have passed the MCC, there were 11 students (42%) in “Very Good” level, and 15 students (58%) in “Good” level. The average of students score in Cycle II was 85.57. Based on the results of the research, it proved that List Group Label Strategy increases the students’ vocabulary mastery

TheDescription of Teachers’Strategy to Teach Reading Comprehension at SMP Negeri 1 Lahewa Timur in 2022/2023

Reading is one process of getting information from the writer to the reader. In the reading context the basic purpose is the reader can understand the text. In this research, researchers found some problem there are the students do not understand which is the main idea and the students can’t conclude the content of the text. Related to these problems, the purpose of this research is to describe the teachers’ strategy to teach reading comprehension in classroom. To make it clear the researcher use qualitative research especially descriptive research is to describe a phenomenom and its characteristics. The more importantly the result of this research is the teacher at SMP Negeri 1 Lahewa Timur use Small Group discussion and Listen, Read and Discuss. As recommendation the strategy in teaching reading comprehension is better to used Small group discussion and Listen read and discuss  in other school . Furthermore, the researcher expects the next researchers to conduct the same research to find out more the teachers’ strategy to teach reading comprehension in the future by making this research as the reference in the same fiel

Descriptive Analysis of Students’ Response in English Teaching Learning in Asking and Giving Opinion at Eighth Grade of UPTD SMP Negeri 1 Gunungsitoli in 2022/2023

Bentuk interaksi antara guru dan siswa tergolong interaksi kelompok dengan individu, interaksi ini digambarkan oleh siswa sebagai kelompok dengan individu, artinya seorang guru melakukan kegiatan meminta dan memberi pendapat sehingga memungkinkan interaksi berjalan dengan baik di lingkungan sekolah dan proses kegiatan belajar, yang akan menimbulkan respon dari siswa. Respon adalah umpan balik yang diterima siswa atas pembelajaran yang telah mereka pelajari. Masalah dalam penelitian ini yaitu sulitnya respon siswa dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis deskriptif kualitatif, teknik yang digunakan dalam pengumpulan data adalah observasi dan wawancara dan dari hasil wawancara tersebut peneliti menganalisis data dengan cara reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui respon siswa dan untuk menjelaskan faktor penyebab kesulitan respon siswa dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris dalam meminta dan memberikan pendapat di kelas delapan UPTD SMP Negeri 1 Gunungsitoli. Jumlah subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah 32 siswa dari kelas VIII-D. Berdasarkan hasil, dimana beberapa siswa mengalami kesulitan dalam memahami, menerjemahkan, mengemukakan pendapat atau ide dalam bahasa Inggris. Faktor penyebab respon siswa sulit adalah penggunaan metode yang monoton atau ceramah yang mengakibatkan siswa kurang aktif, kurangnya kosa kata sehingga siswa kesulitan menyusun kalimat dan mengungkapkannya dalam bahasa Inggris, kurang percaya diri. Akhirnya berdasarkan hasil tersebut, peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa respon siswa terhadap pembelajaran bahasa Inggris di UPTD SMP Negeri 1 Gunungsitoli rendah sehingga harus ditingkatkan lagi terutama dalam menanggapi pertanyaan atau memberikan pendapat dari guru dimana siswa harus menjawab dengan menggunakan Bahasa Inggris

Improving the Students’ Ability in Reading Comprehension By Using Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest) Strategy at the Eighth Grade of UPTD SMP Negeri 2 Gunungsitoli Utara in 2022/2023

Membaca adalah hal yang penting dan berfungsi sebagai landasan dasar dalam proses pembelajaran bahasa Inggris. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam membaca pemahaman. Peneliti menggunakan strategi Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest). Subyek penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VIII UPTD SMP Negeri 2 Gunungsitoli Utara yang jumlah siswanya 31 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan peneliti untuk mengumpulkan data yaitu kertas observasi, catatan lapangan dan tes. Dalam penelitian ini peneliti menggunakan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) dan dilaksanakan dalam dua siklus. Hasil Siklus I siswa tidak ada siswa yang termasuk dalam kategori “sangat baik”, ada 5 siswa (16,12%) pada tingkat “baik”, ada 2 siswa (6,45%) di pada tingkat “cukup”, terdapat 14 siswa (45,16%) pada tingkat “kurang” dan terdapat 10 siswa (32,25%) pada tingkat “gagal”. Rata-rata nilai siswa pada Siklus I adalah 52,09. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa siklus I tidak berhasil, maka penelitian ini dilanjutkan ke siklus berikutnya. Hasil Siklus II menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 18 siswa (58,06%) yang tergolong dalam kategori “sangat baik”. Ada 13 siswa (41,94%) pada tingkat “baik”. Tidak ada siswa pada tingkat “cukup”, tingkat “kurang” dan tingkat “gagal”. Nilai rata-rata siswa adalah 86,61. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan strategi Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest) dalam penelitian ini berhasil meningkatkan pemahaman membaca siswa

Improving The Students’ Vocabulary Mastery By Using Fly Swatter Game At The Tenth Grade Of Sma Negeri 1 Gunungsitoli Idanoi In 2022/2023

In learning English, the first thing that must be learned is vocabulary. This means that learning vocabulary is very important, especially for students in high school. Based on the researcher observations at the tenth grade, the technique used in learning is monotonous which makes students tend to get bored so that student participation in class is lacking. The vocabulary problem must be solved, because it can make it difficult for students to continue to the next level or class. Also students may have low motivation in learning English because they feel English is difficult. The objectives of the researcher is to improve students vocabulary mastery by using Fly Swatter Game. Based on the identification of the problems above, the researcher wants to overcome the problems of the students in English vocabulary mastery. In this research, the researcher use Classroom Action Research  as a research design that was held in two cycles. The subject of the research was the students of X-IPS 1 which consist of 23 students. In this research, the instrument are evaluation sheet and observation sheet. From the result of each cycle, it shown that; in Cycle I, there was not students’ value which could be classified in “good level”, there were 3 students’ value (13,04%) in “good level”, there were 3 students’(13,04%) in “enough level”, there were 7 students’ value (30,43%)in “less level”, there was 10 students’ value  (43,47%) in “fail level”. The average of the students’ value was 46,3. It showed that Cycle I was not successful, so this research has continued to the next cycle after revising the plan based on the weaknesses in cycle I. The result of Cycle II research showed that there was not students’ (0%) values classified in the “enough“, “less” and “fail level.” There were 8 students’ values (34,77%) in the “good level”, and 15 students’ values (65,21%) in the “very good level”. The average value of the students’ was 86,5. Based on the result above the researcher concludes that Fly Swatter Game could be done in teaching vocabulary and could improve the students’ ability in mastering vocabulary

Improving the Student's Speaking Skill by Using Tik Tok App at the Tenth Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Gido in 2022/2023

Speaking is one of the important skills that must be learnt by the students. However, the students had several problems in learning speaking which caused the Minimum Competence Criterion (MCC) were not able to achieve by the students. They were lack of vocabulary, the lack of students in think in short time when want to say, and the students were not able to identify the generic structure of song lyric. Therefore, the aim of research was to improve the students’ speaking skill in use Tik Tok App at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Gido in 2022/2023. The subject of the research was the tenth grade consisted of 19 students. The research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR) and it was applied in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of several procedures they were planning, action, observation, and reflection. The researcher used observation sheet, field notes, and test as the instruments of research. The result of Cycle I showed that most of the students were not able to achieve the MCC where no student There were 10 students (52,63%) who got mark classified in “Good” level. There were 9 students (47,36%) who got mark classified in “Adequate” level. And there were 0 students (0%) who got mark classified in “Less” level. The average of students’ writing skill in Cycle I was 52,63. While in Cycle II, it showed that all of students have been achieved the MCC where 13 students in “Excellent” level (72.22%), 5 students in “Good” level (27.78%), and there was no student in “Fair” level and “Poor” level. The average of students’ speaking skill in Cycle II was 84,21% Based on the result above, it proved that Tik Tok App increased the students’ speaking skill at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Gido in 2022/2023

Improving the Students’ Speaking Skill through Talking Stick Strategy at the Tenth Grade of SMK Negeri 2 Gunungsitoli in 2022/2023

There were some problems that students faced when speaking, such as: difficult in conveying their ideas, lack of vocabulary, incorrect pronunciation, and the strategy that used by the teacher that monotonous and boring. The purpose of this research was to improve the students' speaking skills through Talking Stick Strategy at the tenth grade of SMK Negeri 2 Gunungsitoli in 2022/2023. The researcher conducted this research by using Classroom Action Research (CAR). Instrument of the research were observation sheets, field notes and oral test. In Cycle I, the average percentage of the researcher's completed activities was 79% (good), and the percentage of the students' completed activities was 72.5% (adequate). In this cycle, the students could not achieve the Minimum Competence Criterion (MCC) of 70, students' average score was 51 (less). All the students scored ≤ 70, with the highest score was 63 and the lowest score was 38. Furthermore, in Cycle II, the average percentage of the researcher's completed activities was 95% (very good), and the students' completed activities was 91% (very good). In this cycle, the students had achieved the Minimum Competence Criterion (MCC) of 70, the students' average score was 79 (good). None of the students scored ≤ 70, with the highest score was 81 and the lowest score was 75. Based on the results of this research, the researcher concluded that Talking Stick Strategy could improve the students' speaking skill in the tenth grade of SMK Negeri 2 Gunungsitoli in 2022/2023