scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE STUDENTS’ FACTOR DIFFICULTY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT VIII GRADE OF MTs SABILAL MUHTADIN TEMBILAHAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Nurul Asiah ◽  
Edi Ardian ◽  
Samsul Amri
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
School Students ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Writing is one of the language skills, which is taught to secondary school students. In reality, it is still found that students have difficulties in writing. It is needed to investigate why it happened. Thus, the purpose of this research is to determine the students' factor difficulties in writing a narrative text. Moreover, it was designed as descriptive research which took sixty students of the eighth grade of MTs Sabilal Muhtadin Tembilahan as the samples. In collecting the data, the researchers used questionnaires and interviews. Then the data were analyzed by using descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative analysis. The research findings show that there are two main factors; students' factors and teachers' factors. After analyzing the data, the results revealed that the students' factor gained a percentage of 62.43% which was placed at a strong level. Also, the teachers' factor obtained a percentage of 72.95% which was classified as a strong level. The highest students’ factor indicator was the statement “English is very different from Bahasa Indonesia." It was proven by the score 75.3% which was categorized as a strong level. Then the teachers’ factor found that the highest indicator was the statement “Using up to date method and technique." It was classified as a strong level. In conclusion, the factors of students' difficulties in writing narrative text cause both students' and teachers' factors.

scholarly journals Editors Message and Referees Index

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Huseyin Uzunboylu ◽  
Cigdem Hursen
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Educational Sciences

From the EditorsHuseyin Uzunboylu, Cigdem HursenIt is an honour for us to welcome you as Editors of Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences which has accepted publications indexed in qualified databases since 2006. Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences (CJES) is listed in many scholarly citation indexes; DOAJ, Ulrich's Educational Research Abstracts (ERA), EBSCO, Google Scholar, PsycINFO, Asian Education Index & AWER index. Also our major aim is to increase the quality of the journal day by day. We are ready to publish the new studies of Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences which has 9 full length articles written by authors from, Cyprus, Canada, Nigeria and Turkey.The aim of this issue is to give the researchers an opportunity to share their academic studies. First of all, I would like to thank all who have contributed to this issue. There are different focuses. For example, Hayat Boz and Sibel Esra Karatasexplored the impact of Internet use on QOL of the elderly by examining available researches in this field. By searching on ADM Digital Library, WEB Science, ERIC, PsycINFO and PubMed databases, this study reviewed 25 studies published after 1990 that investigates the relationship between Internet use and QOL of elderly. The synthesis of the research findings indicates that the functional use of computer and Internet improves QOL for older people. The findings also provide a comprehensive perspective on the current state of knowledge and raises questions for further research.On the other hand, Japo Oweikeye Amasuomo, examined the academic performance of students in the compulsory courses in technical education during the transition period of first and second years of three years Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) Technical programme before choosing their disciplines in the third year. The study established that, students in Electrical/Electronics discipline performed better than their counterparts who made Automobile, Building, Metalwork and Woodwork as their discipline, and the academic performance of the five groups of students differed significantly. Also, Hussain Ali Alkharusi examined students' perceptions of classroom assessment tasks as a function of gender, subject area, and grade level. Results showed that students tended to hold positive perceptions of their classroom assessment tasks in terms of congruence with planned learning, authenticity, student consultation, transparency, and diversity.In addition to these, Johnson Enero Upahi, Ganiyat Bukola Issa and Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan carried out a study on students. This study assesses the classroom activities which are the fundamental process required to determine the extent to which intended learning outcomes has been achieved. Emrah Soykan aimed to identification of views of teachers, students and their parents at Near East College in North Cyprus on use of tablets in education. The research is a descriptive case study. As result of the analysis carried out in this research, it has been seen that teachers, students and parents evaluate the problems related with tablet PCs under the following two sub-dimensions; the experienced problems of during tablet supported education and the benefits of tablet pc usage in education.Zeynep Karatas and E. Tremblay Richard examined the level of depressive symptoms of the secondary school students in Turkey and Canada has been aimed in this study. The research group of the study consists of 1050 secondary school students with the average age of 13. Their socio-economic levels are low in both countries, Canada and Turkey. The study revealed that the level of depressive symptoms of Turkish secondary school students has been found higher than the level of depressive symptoms of Canadian secondary school students. While the levels of depressive symptoms of the Canadian female students have been higher than male students, the level of depressive symptoms of Turkish students has not differentiated in terms of their genders. Behiye Akacan and Gurcan Secim examine the responses of university students in social anxiety situations in order to create a psychological counselling program with a structured group based on Cognitive Behavioural and Existential Approaches. These responses involve the behaviour and thoughts of the university students in situations where they experience or anticipate social anxiety. The findings of the study revealed that the thoughts regarding the social anxiety situations of the final year students studying in Guidance and Psychological Counselling and Pre-School Teaching departments are generally negative and their behaviour usually presents as desertion or avoidance.Also, Halil İbrahim Akyuz and Hafize Keser examined the effect of an educational agent, used in online task based learning media, and its form characteristics on problem solving ability perceptions of students. It is determined that applied method has an important effect on problem solving ability perception of students and that the educational agent in the role of teacher is more effective than the role of friend in the development of problem solving ability perception. Finally Muge Tacman and Nazan Comunoglu examined  the way how the primary school class teachers evaluate the candidates, what their  expect from the candidates and the effectivenes of the teaching training program being conducted in Ataturk Teacher Training Academy (AOA)  to fulfill these expectations. Research findings were studied and interpreted in the framework of 4 main topics which are field knowledge, basic professional attitudes, effective communication and teaching abilities.I would like to express my thanks to all authors preferring Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences to make their articles published, all reviewers working seriously in the process of publishing, and also quest editors supporting us in this process.Best regards,Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu, Editor-in-ChiefAssist. Prof. Dr. Cigdem Hursen, Executive Editor 

scholarly journals ANALISIS KESULITAN SISWA SMP DALAM MEMAHAMI KONSEP KUBUS BALOK

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 751
Author(s):  
Maryanih Maryanih ◽  
Euis Eti Rohaeti ◽  
M Afrilianto
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Rectangular Prism ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Geometer's Sketchpad ◽  
School Students ◽  
Guided Discovery ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Geometry Test

The descriptive research aims to diagnose the difficulties of secondary school students in understanding Cube and Rectangular Prism. Geometry test and interview are used as the instrument. The subjects are 3 seventh grade students who respectively represent high, medium and low ability in mathematics. This research finds that the students have difficulties in understanding the properties of a cube and rectangular prism, inventing the surface area, and using the formula to determine the surface area. The difficulty in using the formula to solve related problems is an effect of memorizing ready-made formula without understanding so the students are easy to forget it. The alternative ways to cope with the difficulties are: (a) Using computer application (PowerPoint, Ms. Word with SmartArt Graphic) and other current software like Cabri Geometry, The Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP), Geometry Expert, Logo, Geogebra, and Wingeom; (b) Activating students’ prior knowledge about plane which explains the side of the solid figures; (c) Implementing guided discovery learning with students’ worksheet; and (d) giving variation exercises involving contextual or non-contextual problems.

scholarly journals Interferensi gramatikal bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia pada karangan laporan peserta didik SMP

LingTera ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Hanif Triyanto ◽  
Endang Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
School Students ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk  mendeskripsikan (1) bentuk-bentuk interferensi morfologi bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia, (2) bentuk-bentuk interferensi sintaksis bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia, dan (3) faktor penyebab terjadinya interferensi morfologi dan sintaksis bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia pada hasil karangan menulis laporan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Subjek penelitian adalah hasil karangan pada pembelajaran menulis laporan berbahasa Indonesia Objek yang diteliti adalah bentuk-bentuk interferensi morfologi dan sintaksis bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia beserta faktor-faktor penyebabnya. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik baca dan catat serta pengisian angket. Data dianalisis menggunakan metode padan intralingual dengan teknik Hubung Banding Membedakan. Keabsahan data diperoleh melalui ketekunan pengamatan dan pemeriksaan sejawat. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan bentuk-bentuk interferensi morfologi bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia meliputi proses morfologis dan morfofonemis. Interferensi proses morfologis meliputi afiksasi dan reduplikasi. Interferensi proses morfofonemis berupa peluluhan fonem pada awal kata berprefiks {N-}.Interferensi sintaksis meliputi pola konstruksi frasa, penggunaan preposisi, konjungsi, dan partikel. Faktor penyebab terjadinya interferensi morfo-logi dan sintaksis bahasa Jawa dalam bahasa Indonesia adalah faktor linguistik meliputi penguasaan B1, rendahnya penguasaan B2 dan faktor kedwibahasaan. Faktor nonlinguistik meliputi kebiasaan, lingkungan, sikap bahasa, motivasi, guru, dan evaluasi pembelajaran.Kata Kunci: interferensi, morfologi, sintaksis, dan faktor penyebab The grammatical interference of Javanese language in Indonesian essay of junior secondary school students’ AbstractThis research was aimed to describe (1) Javanese morphological interference forms in Indone-sian language, (2) Javanese syntactic interference forms in Indonesian language, and (3) the factors cousing Javanese morphological and syntactic interference in Indonesian essay. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The subject of this research were the essay as learning outcomes. The objects of this research were Javanese morphological and syntactic interference forms in Indonesian language and the factors that cause the morphological and syntactic interference. The data were collected by reading and writing techniques and questionnaires. The data were analyzed using the unified intralingual method with Connecting Appeal Differentiating techniques. The validity of the data obtained from a continous observation and peer review. The results of this research find the mor-phological and syntactical interference. The morphological interference includes morphologies and morphophonemic processes. The morphologies interference process includes affixation and reduplica-tion. The morphophonemic interference process was the result of phoneme at the beginning of the word with prefix {N-}. The syntactical interference includes the pattern of phrase constructions, the use of prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. The causes of Javanese morphological and syntactic interference in Indonesian language are linguistic factors including the mastery of L1, low mastery of L2, and bilingualism factors. Nonlinguistic factors include habits, environments, language attitudes, motivations, teachers, and learning evaluations.Keywords: interference, morphological, syntactic, and causes factors

scholarly journals Dynamism of Instructional Aids on Teaching Physical Education Among Secondary School in Kogi State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Ajadi Memunat Tunrayo ◽  
Falaye Elijah Kayode ◽  
Adebayo Babatunde Samson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
School Students ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Cognitive Benefits ◽  
Instructional Aids ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study examined Dynamism of instructional aids on teaching of Physical Education among secondary school in Kogi State, Nigeria. Descriptive research design of survey type was used. The population for this study consist all Secondary School students within the study area. Purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select 394 respondents. Researcher–structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three lectures in the department of Human Kinetics Education, University of Ilorin and tested for reliability. A correlation coefficient of 0.85 was obtained. The administration of the instrument was done by the researchers. The data collected were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and percentage count. The results revealed that, there was a significant relationship between behavioural benefits and cognitive benefits of instructional aids on teaching of Physical Education among Secondary Schools. The study concluded that uses of instructional aids are significant to quality teaching of physical education in schools. The study recommends that effective uses of instructional aids plays a significant role in teaching and learning of Physical Education in schools which also enhance the behavioural and cognitive benefits of the students.

scholarly journals PROFILE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH HIGH MATHEMATICS ABILITY IN SOLVING SHAPE AND SPACE PROBLEM

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulia Putra ◽  
Rita Novita
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
International Student ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Space Problem ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Mathematics Ability ◽  
Class Viii

This study aimed to describe the profile of secondary school students with high mathematics ability in solving shape and space problem in PISA (Program for International Student Assessment). It is a descriptive research with a qualitative approach, in which the subjects in this study were students of class VIII SMP N 1 Banda Aceh. The results show that in solving the problem PISA on  shape and space, high mathematics ability students were able to identify the problem by making the information known from PISA issues related to the shape and space content.Keyword: Profile, Problem Solving, Task of PISA DOI: dx.doi.org/10.22342/jme.61.20

scholarly journals Assessment for Secondary School Students’ Experiences in Using Tablet in Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Mohammed Elmetwali Mohammed Amer
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
School Students ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Egyptian Government

The Egyptian government integrated tablets in Egyptian secondary schools. Thus, the researcher aimed to explore the effectiveness of using tablet in Egyptian secondary schools from the students’ perspective. He aimed to explore that in order to assess students’ experiences in this regard. He selected a random sample consisting from 745 female and male secondary school students in Egypt. Those students were selected from three schools. Questionnaire forms were distributed to those students by hand. All the distributed forms were retrieved. However, 9 forms were excluded due to missing data. Thus, 736 questionnaire forms are valid for analysis. It was found that tablet serves as an effective learning method in Egyptian secondary schools. It was found that using tablet in classroom improves students’ creative thinking skills and makes teachers more creative. It was found that using tablet in classroom enriches students’ vocabulary, improves their language skills and increases their academic achievement in classroom. It was found that such use can meet the learning needs of various types of learners. The researcher recommends conducting studies about the challenges facing teachers in using tablets in classroom.

scholarly journals Prepositions used with adjectives in English essays written by Czech secondary school students

EduLingua ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Věra Sládková
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
National School ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Remedial Work

This article focuses on the frequency and accuracy of dependent prepositions which complement the adjectives in CZEMATELC 2017, a corpus consisting of 390 essays from the written part of the national school-leaving exam leading to certification of secondary education in the Czech Republic. The research findings reveal that the learners used adjectives from A1 to B2 level, according to the CEFR. A limited number of A1 adjective lemmas was considerably overused, but showed the lowest proportion of dependent prepositional complementation. As learners tended not to complement the adjectives at A2 – B2 proficiency levels either, adjective-preposition collocations frequently co-occurring in native speaker corpora were identified for further remedial work. In addition, corpus-based discovery-learning was proposed as a solution because it encourages awareness and gradually leads to learner autonomy.

scholarly journals Morphological Verb Valency Driven Errors of Secondary School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Burcu Öztürk ◽  
Seher Çiçek
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Mean ◽  
To Come

The aim of the current study is to determine the distribution of verb valency-driven errors of secondary school students. To this end, this study is framed as a survey research. The sample of the study consists of 200 secondary school students in three schools with different socio- economic levels. The content and teaching of morphological verb valency and the problems encountered were elaborated in the light of Turkish teachers’ views. The data of the study were compiled through document analysis. Frequency analysis was employed to determine the occurrence of morphological verb valency driven errors. Besides, content analysis was used to analyse teachers’ views. The research findings revealed that secondary school students made verb valency driven errors at 393 times while using 145 different verbs. The mean value of verb valency driven errors per student was 1.96. Furthermore, the verbs with the most common verb valency driven errors were respectively as follows: çık- (to leave), al- (to take), bul- (to find), söyle- (to tell), yaşa- (to live), git- (to go), gör- (to see), ver- (to give), çöz- (to solve) and gel- (to come). Teachers, however, stated that students had difficulty in analysing and writing morphemes in morphological verb valency, and they, in particular, made verb valency driven errors in long sentences in writing and speaking skills. Moreover, activities towards knowledge and comprehension in terms of words and sentences are inadequate in respect to such cognitive processes such as synthesis and evaluation of texts. Therefore, it is recommended that teaching of morphological valency should be integrated with language skills in order to minimize morphological verb valency driven errors that have an impact upon literacy skills of students in their mother tongue.

scholarly journals The Relation between the Awareness Level of Writing Strategies and Writing Self-Efficacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sezgin Demir
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
School Students ◽  
Education Status ◽  
Awareness Level

Although language is a communicational system which is based on two fundamental language skills; internal and external, it is one of the external/productive language skills together with speaking that requires a certain civilization level for a society. Writing is a tool that transfers every kind of message, dialogue, emotion, desire to stones, tablets, papyrus and finally on paper through symbols that are the result of reaching a certain level of civilization. While writing strategies enable a type of cognitive monitoring mechanism to operate; writing self-efficacy meets the need of belief regarding managing, achieving before deeds regarding performance. The purpose of this research is to determine the relation between the awareness level of writing strategies and writing self-efficacy of the secondary school students. The population of the research consists of secondary school students and the sample consists of 671 students from 5, 6, 7 and 8th grade students of four secondary schools, which were chosen from every educational region in the city of Aksaray in Turkey through simple random sampling method. Within the analysis of the data independent group t test was used in terms of gender variable; and variance analysis was used in terms of grade, parental education status, and duration for reading books, watching television, and the use of internet. In order to determine the relation between the two variables Pearson correlation coefficient and for the determination of the predicting level between these two variables, simple linear regression analysis were used. As a result of the study it was seen that both the writing strategies awareness level and the self-efficacy of the female students were higher; as the grade increases, as the parental education status decreases, as the duration for daily book reading decreases and the time for watching television increases the writing strategies awareness levels of the students and their writing self-efficacies decrease. However the time for internet use did not reflect in a negative way. In addition in the research it was determined that writing strategies awareness level is a significant predictor of writing self-efficacy.

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