This research was conducted in order to improve students’ speaking skill through story telling technique to the eleventh grade students of SMA Swasta Katolik Budi Murni 2 Medan. In conducting this research, the writer used Classroom Action Research (CAR). This reaearch showed that teaching speaking skill through story telling technique to the eleventh grade students of SMA Swasta Katolik Budi Murni 2 Medan could improve their speaking skill. The result of the this research showed that the students’ responses after being taught by using story telling technique are very good. The result of the test showed the students’ mean score in pretest is 57,37 with 20% of the students got score ≥ 70, in formative test mean score is 70,85 with 60% of t he students got score ≥ 70  and in posttest mean score is 80,05 with 88,57% of the students got score ≥ 70. The research findings showed tha the application of story telling technique could improve the students speaking skill. It is advisable that English teachers apply story telling technique as a technique in order to improve their students’ speaking skill.Â

Grammar is the rules in a language for changing the form of words and joining them into sentences to create meaning. This research is focused on error analysis  on the using BE in Simple Present and Simple Past Tenses. The purpose of this study is to find out the grammatical errors in using BE in students’ composition. In this study the writer took the the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Nainggolan in the Academic Year of 2017/2018 consisting 25 students as the sample. The data are analyzed with descriptive qualitative method. The data were identified based on kinds of errors. The kinds of errors are omission and misordering. The results of the data analysis show that there are 155 errors made by the students in their compositions. The writer concluded that omission errors 68 or 61,80% in Simple Present Tense and  49 or 51% in Simple Past Tense, misordering errors 16 or 14,60% in Simple Present Tense and 22 or 23% in Simple Past Tense. But out of category there are 28 or 23,60 redundant sentences in Simple Present Tense and 25 or 26% redundant sentences in Simple Past Tense. The writer also concluded that there are two causes of errors, namely Translation and Carelesssness. Based on the result of the research, it is suggested that the students should learn and memorize grammatical rules an teachers should give clearer explanation on grammatical rules in English.

This research is aimed to improve students’ vocabulary mastery through the application of crossword puzzle game. The subject of this research of the eighth grade students of SMP Swasta Dharma Bakti Medan. This research was conducted by applying Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was performed in two cycles (cycle I and cycle II) and each cycle consisted of three meetings. This instrument of collecting data are quantitative (vocabulary test) data and qualitative data (diary notes, observation sheet and photograph evidences).the result of vocabulary test as the quantitative data show that mean of students’ score increased continuously from pre-test 36,71, post-test in cycle I 64.10, to post-test cycle II 78,48. The diary notes, observation sheet and photograph evidences as qualitative data showed that the teaching and learning process ran well. It was found that crossword puzzle game could improve students’ vocabulary mastery. It is suggested that teachers of English should apply crossword puzzle game as one of the game in teaching vocabulary mastery.

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.