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Euphemisms in the form of non-offensive or subtle expressions to replace the one felt to be insul... more Euphemisms in the form of non-offensive or subtle expressions to replace the one felt to be insulting or unpleasant become guidelines in social interaction, essentially, using words with good meanings or intentions. Euphemism can also be interpreted as an expression that is not straightforward, the driving motive behind the development of pejorative, motivated by a natural human attitude, avoiding conflict by not hurting or offending other people. If there were no euphemisms, there might be depression or demeaning of meaning. This research is focused on the functions of euphemism in the short story entitled Guru written by Putu Wijaya with the concept of the functions of euphemism in speech acts. The research is conducted by descriptive qualitative method related to social phenomena, in this case the uses of euphemism either in a literary or social text. The results show that out of the 15 data obtained, there are 12 data referred to the function of euphemism as a means of speech re...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018
In the preparation of furan the raw material used are, Silica Sand, Resin, and Catalyst. Some pro... more In the preparation of furan the raw material used are, Silica Sand, Resin, and Catalyst. Some problem that occurs are high level of water, high level of sour, high level of clay, unsuitable distribution, and low permeability. All those problems above make the power of furan not suitable with the target that has been stated, so that furan can easily be broken, cracked, and do not stand with high temperature and its power becomes weak. The result of this research is that the optimal combination based on the highest TOPSIS score is A1 B2 C3 with the composition of Resin 1.3%, Catalyst 22.5% and new sand 15% + reclaim sand 85%. The coefficient of loss function compression strength is 4.611,11 and 10.375 for the shear strength. The raising quality based on the confirmation experiment is 0.1018 for the compression strength and 0.2339 for the shear strength. The value of S/N in the confirmation experiment for the compression strength is 20.5817 and 23.0480, in which both numbers are in the...
Theory and Practice in Language Studies
This research was aimed at reflecting how Sujiwo Tejo and M. N. Kamba treat nature in Komat Kamit... more This research was aimed at reflecting how Sujiwo Tejo and M. N. Kamba treat nature in Komat Kamit (murmuring), one of the chapters in their work entitled Tuhan Maha Asik. Tejo and Kamba explained clearly how humans have treated the natural environment. This research is considered important and worthwhile as it is an effort to raise human awareness about the importance of protecting and conserving nature. This also shows that a literary work can be a significant medium that also plays an important role in efforts to preserve nature or the environment. This study uses an ecocriticism approach, which is a study of the reflection of the interconnection between humans and nature in literary works. This research also uses descriptive qualitative in which the data obtained from the literary work are analyzed to determine the reciprocal relationship between humans and nature in Komat-Kamit, one of the chapters in Tejo and Kamba's Tuhan Maha Asik. The findings of this study indicate that...
This study is a result of a research on the anxiety of learning English by students of Senior Hig... more This study is a result of a research on the anxiety of learning English by students of Senior High School in Medan, North Sumatra. Anxiety is “one form of emotional problem that could highly affect the academic performance of EFL” (Sadiq, 2017). This study is aimed to know the anxiety level of the students of Senior High School in Medan, North Sumatra in learning English as a foreign language, which, then, there will be further research to respond the findings in this study. The further research might be in the form of solution, improvement, modification, and module invention in relation to teaching English as foreign language. The method used in the study is qualitative descriptive method, in which the finding is presented in the form of description of the simple calculation of the data obtained from the questionnaire. This study takes the students of Senior High School in two schools for its respondents. They are the fresh students in 2017. Questionnaires are shared to collect the...
The research focuses on the influence of parenting style on the protagonist’s behavior in Todd Ph... more The research focuses on the influence of parenting style on the protagonist’s behavior in Todd Phillips’ movie Joker. Arthur as the protagonist in the movie is a man who suffers from mental illness which then transforms him to be a mastermind of criminal because of parenting mistake. The theory adopted in this research is proposed by Baumrind, who classifies parenting style into four broad categories: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and neglectful styles. This research adopts descriptive qualitative method and the data are collected from the movie script. The finding reveals that authoritarian and neglectful parenting styles lead a person to become rebellious, adopting problematic behavior and mastermind of criminal and disregarded by a society. The worst effect of parenting mistakes is that the protagonist transforms himself to be a psychopath.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors of the protagonist’s repe... more This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors of the protagonist’s repentance from Second Act movie written by Justin Zackham And Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas. The internal factors of repentance are self evaluation, self-motivation, self-control, knowledge, regret, hatred towards the sin, and returns to god’s power and will. The external factors of repentance are peer support, social support, intense guidance, and stimulus. It is in accordance to the theory proposed by Fachitiandi. This study uses qualitative descriptive method because the process and the result are accomplished descriptively and the focus goes to the analysis of social phenomena conducted and experienced the main character. Repenteance is not only found in a literary text but also in social reality, therefore this research is important enough for the readers to maintain a good life by avoiding things contrary to social norms. After the analyzing, it is found that internal factors of the Protago...
This research analyses the causes and effects of the protagonist’s worry in Danielle Steel’s nove... more This research analyses the causes and effects of the protagonist’s worry in Danielle Steel’s novel Family Ties, a story of woman, Annie Ferguson, who must become a mother in her bachelorette. She always worries about the future of her sister’s children. This research applied the theory of worry proposed by Graham (2006), who said that worry is “prominent feature of most anxiety-based disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder“. The research is completed by using descriptive qualitative method in which the finding is presented in the form of description. The data of this study is obtained from the novel Family Ties by Danielle Steel. The analysis finds that the dominant causes of the protagonist’s worry come from her nephews’ life which affects her life negatively. The effects of her worry will be a lesson for human life because every human being certainly has worry feeling in th...
This paper is to reveal diathesis in Siladang language. Diathesis is a grammatical category that ... more This paper is to reveal diathesis in Siladang language. Diathesis is a grammatical category that shows the relationship between the participant or subject and the action stated by the verb in the clause. In general, the languages of the world have an active-passive diathesis strategy. This research applies the theory of diathesis proposed by Lyon and adopts descriptive qualitative method in which comparative and inductive treatments are made to the collected data through phenomenological approach. The data (Siladang language) are collected from 2223 informants (native speakers of Siladang language) who live in Sipaga-paga Village and 2006 informants who live in Aek Banir Village. Then, the data are classified based on the language features in universal language empirically. This research shows that Sialdang language has an active-passive diathesis which is one of the important characteristics in an accusative typological language. Apart from having an active-passive diathesis, Silad...
institusi pendidikan rnempunval tujuan tertentu dalam rnemberikan pelajaran reading comprehension... more institusi pendidikan rnempunval tujuan tertentu dalam rnemberikan pelajaran reading comprehension kepada siswa. Tujuannya adalah untuk membuat para siswa mampu mengaktilkan pengetahuan siswa dalam grammar, sintaksis dan semantic dengan baik dalam rnemahami sebuah teks. Namun, kenyataan menunjukkan bahwa apa yang diharapkan oleh institusi belum tercapai. Bahkan realitanyapun rnasih jauh dari apa yang diharapkan. Oleh karena itu, model membaca yang digunakan para pembaca Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing menjadi titik masalah dalam studi ini.Model membaca merupakan suatu proses tertentu yang terjadi dalam pemikiran si pembaca pada saat sedang membaca. Ada tiga jenis model membaca seperti; top-down model, bottom-up model dan interactive model_ Setiap mode] memiliki cirri-ciri tersendiri.Studi ini dilakukan untuk meneliti model membaca yang dipakai oieh para pembaca Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing melalui analisa transkripsi dari basil interview terhadap rnahasiswa Fakultas Sastra...
KnE Social Sciences, Apr 19, 2018
This research analyzed the perception of undergraduate students on learning English. This researc... more This research analyzed the perception of undergraduate students on learning English. This research adopted the theory on perception proposed by Efron (1968) in which he stated that perception is the primary cognitive contact of person with the world around him. It was completed by adopting quantitative method in which the data were collected by sharing questionnaire to undergraduate students as its respondents. The questionnaire was tested by Product Moment Pearson to meet its validity with t-table larger than r-table, and by Alpha Coefficient to meet its reliability with Cronbach's Alpha value larger than 0,6. Furthermore, the data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed by using Likert Scale with four alternative responses. They were Strongly Disagree (0%-24.99%), Disagree (25%-49.99%), Agree (50%-74.99%), and Strongly Agree (75%-100%). The research found that the perception of the respondents towards English learning is 66%.
Proceedings of the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multidisciplinary and Its Applications, WMA-3 2019, 11-14 December 2019, Medan, Indonesia, 2020
This research is to see the effect of short course to the students' ability in translating Englis... more This research is to see the effect of short course to the students' ability in translating English verbal sentences. The short course is fulfilled in three meetings for each group. However, the short course utilizes new module and modified approaches in the application. The data analysis is obtained by giving a test to the samples. The samples are divided in two groups; students in social class and students in physical class of which the students are not more than 30 persons for each class. The data analysis is completed by using Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test due to the non-parametric data. The result shows that the alpha value of the groups through the Asymp. Siq (2-tailed) are less than 0.05 alpha. The alpha value of group A is .001, and the alpha value of group B is .000. They mean that there is significant effect of the short course to the students' ability in translating English verbal sentences which is proved by the increase of the students' score in the post-test or after the short course.
This article reveals the negative effects of the…
This article is an analysis of social function of literature in Mark Twain's novel "The ... more This article is an analysis of social function of literature in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer. " The analysis goes to find and to prove that the novel contains the three social functions of literature. The social functions itself cover elements to entertain, to educate and to renew. The elements that entertain are those that are able to reduce or drop away the readers' sadness, stress and bad mood. The elements that educate are those which imply moral messages and some good deeds in life. The elements that renew are those which can be traced by readers to add their knowledge or to improve something in their life.
This article is concerned with an analysis of the methods of foreign language teaching covering t... more This article is concerned with an analysis of the methods of foreign language teaching covering traditional as well as modern methods. They are analyzed to find some appropriate methods of foreign language teaching for children. The findings are considerably judged in accordance with the characteristics of each method in their application. It is concluded that Total Physical Response by Asher is the most appropriate (adequate) method in teaching foreign language for children. The other methods will be best in use if they are combined in such a way as needed in any different situations of learning.
This research is a literature research discussing self-development through selfobservation for te... more This research is a literature research discussing self-development through selfobservation for teacher of English as foreign language. Karaaslan (2003: 3033) said that self-development is very important if we want to be professional teachers. Richards (2007: 12) said that observation is done by visiting a class to observe different aspects of teaching. This research is aimed to find a new paradigm for teachers of English as foreign language. Hopefully, the finding of this research will give significant contribution to those whose profession is English teacher. There is a new paradigm found by this research. It is cycling process of self-development through self observation.
Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menemukan pengaruh penggunaan Bahasa Alay terhadap penggunaan Peng... more Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menemukan pengaruh penggunaan Bahasa Alay terhadap penggunaan Penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia yang baik dan benar. Peneliti terpicu oleh semakin maraknya pemakaian Bahasa Alay di kalangan remaja khususnya mahasiswa. Terdapat sejumlah penelitian yang serupa namun dengan responden yang berbeda yang akhirnya menemukan bahwa penggunaan Bahasa Alay memang berdampak negatif terhadap Bahasa Indonesia. Adapun yang menjadi responden dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara semester dua. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan memberikan kuesioner kepada responden yang kemudian di analisa dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif. Temuan dari penelitian menunjukkan ternyata penggunaan Bahasa Alay berdampak negatif terhadap penggunaan Bahasa menurut mahasiswa semester dua, Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Islam Sumatra Utara, Medan.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
According with the development of information technology and the expand of the internet in the co... more According with the development of information technology and the expand of the internet in the community, the need for computers is very important to support the increasingly high utilization of information technology. Processing data and information requires speed and accuracy of data, to achieve it, it is requires an information technology that can support work so the work becomes more effective and efficient. PT. PLN (Persero) Krueng Geukueh District is a company that runs in the area of electricity and provides services to the community in the provision of services related to electricity, which has a large number of customers. The process of managing customer data at PT. PLN (Persero) Krueng Geukueh District has used a customer data system, but still has a disadvantage of requiring more time in searching customer data, to solving this problem, the author designed the development of the system using the string matching algorithm method, which is one of the most important parts in various processes related to data and text types, one of which is the search for words in customer data. The performance of the string matching algorithm is to match a letters per letter with the keywords given by the staff. The results of this study indicate that by using this method, searching for customer data can be easier. With the development of this system, it is expected that staff or admin in the company can do the work more effectively and efficiently.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
This study is an analysis of the aims of the protagonist’s struggle in Khaled Hosseini’s novel A ... more This study is an analysis of the aims of the protagonist’s struggle in Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. The novel tells about a wife, the protagonist of the novel, who should live hard with a husband with bad temper. However, the protagonist by the name of Mariam keeps being a good wife for her husband. Furthermore, her husband has another wife. Unfortunately, the husband with his bad temper almost kills her. The protagonist should struggle to protect her husband’s another wife as well. The analysis is conducted by descriptive qualitative method, in which the data are analyzed descriptively. Some theories, concepts and notions of struggle are applied in this study to support the analysis and finding. One of the theories adopted in this study is proposed Flexner and Fitzpatrict (1996: 9) who said that the concepts of struggle is permeated from the history, the labor movement, and the place of working woman. It implies that the struggle of woman is rooted from the his...
KnE Social Sciences
This research deals with the distinctive attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli’s novel Siti ... more This research deals with the distinctive attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli’s novel Siti Nurbaya. Datuk Maringgih is described as a person who is old, strong, rebellious and has a lot of money and always has a strategy in everything. The attitude shown by this person is also related to society. The research is conducted means of descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative research is a research method that focuses on understanding social phenomena that occur in society. Descriptive qualitative is usually designed to examine morality and other problems in society. The researcher uses attitude theory where attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence on the individual’s response to all objects and situations with which it is related. The source of data is from the novel. The data in this research is the entire texts in the book. The technique used to analyze data is heuristic and hermeneutic. The re...
KnE Social Sciences
This research is aimed to determine the type of motivation and factors that influence the motivat... more This research is aimed to determine the type of motivation and factors that influence the motivation of the students of SMK UISU Medan. The sample of this study is all students of SMK UISU Medan. The total respondents in the sample are 52 students from first grade, second grade, and third grade of the school. This researach uses mixed method so that the data will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively using Likert scale. The instruments used in this reseaarch are questionnaire and interview. Therefore, the data are collected by sharing questionnaire and conducting. The research finds that the motivation most possessed by the respondents is instrumental motivation, furthermore, teacher’s factor is the main factor that influences student motivation in learning English.
Euphemisms in the form of non-offensive or subtle expressions to replace the one felt to be insul... more Euphemisms in the form of non-offensive or subtle expressions to replace the one felt to be insulting or unpleasant become guidelines in social interaction, essentially, using words with good meanings or intentions. Euphemism can also be interpreted as an expression that is not straightforward, the driving motive behind the development of pejorative, motivated by a natural human attitude, avoiding conflict by not hurting or offending other people. If there were no euphemisms, there might be depression or demeaning of meaning. This research is focused on the functions of euphemism in the short story entitled Guru written by Putu Wijaya with the concept of the functions of euphemism in speech acts. The research is conducted by descriptive qualitative method related to social phenomena, in this case the uses of euphemism either in a literary or social text. The results show that out of the 15 data obtained, there are 12 data referred to the function of euphemism as a means of speech re...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018
In the preparation of furan the raw material used are, Silica Sand, Resin, and Catalyst. Some pro... more In the preparation of furan the raw material used are, Silica Sand, Resin, and Catalyst. Some problem that occurs are high level of water, high level of sour, high level of clay, unsuitable distribution, and low permeability. All those problems above make the power of furan not suitable with the target that has been stated, so that furan can easily be broken, cracked, and do not stand with high temperature and its power becomes weak. The result of this research is that the optimal combination based on the highest TOPSIS score is A1 B2 C3 with the composition of Resin 1.3%, Catalyst 22.5% and new sand 15% + reclaim sand 85%. The coefficient of loss function compression strength is 4.611,11 and 10.375 for the shear strength. The raising quality based on the confirmation experiment is 0.1018 for the compression strength and 0.2339 for the shear strength. The value of S/N in the confirmation experiment for the compression strength is 20.5817 and 23.0480, in which both numbers are in the...
Theory and Practice in Language Studies
This research was aimed at reflecting how Sujiwo Tejo and M. N. Kamba treat nature in Komat Kamit... more This research was aimed at reflecting how Sujiwo Tejo and M. N. Kamba treat nature in Komat Kamit (murmuring), one of the chapters in their work entitled Tuhan Maha Asik. Tejo and Kamba explained clearly how humans have treated the natural environment. This research is considered important and worthwhile as it is an effort to raise human awareness about the importance of protecting and conserving nature. This also shows that a literary work can be a significant medium that also plays an important role in efforts to preserve nature or the environment. This study uses an ecocriticism approach, which is a study of the reflection of the interconnection between humans and nature in literary works. This research also uses descriptive qualitative in which the data obtained from the literary work are analyzed to determine the reciprocal relationship between humans and nature in Komat-Kamit, one of the chapters in Tejo and Kamba's Tuhan Maha Asik. The findings of this study indicate that...
This study is a result of a research on the anxiety of learning English by students of Senior Hig... more This study is a result of a research on the anxiety of learning English by students of Senior High School in Medan, North Sumatra. Anxiety is “one form of emotional problem that could highly affect the academic performance of EFL” (Sadiq, 2017). This study is aimed to know the anxiety level of the students of Senior High School in Medan, North Sumatra in learning English as a foreign language, which, then, there will be further research to respond the findings in this study. The further research might be in the form of solution, improvement, modification, and module invention in relation to teaching English as foreign language. The method used in the study is qualitative descriptive method, in which the finding is presented in the form of description of the simple calculation of the data obtained from the questionnaire. This study takes the students of Senior High School in two schools for its respondents. They are the fresh students in 2017. Questionnaires are shared to collect the...
The research focuses on the influence of parenting style on the protagonist’s behavior in Todd Ph... more The research focuses on the influence of parenting style on the protagonist’s behavior in Todd Phillips’ movie Joker. Arthur as the protagonist in the movie is a man who suffers from mental illness which then transforms him to be a mastermind of criminal because of parenting mistake. The theory adopted in this research is proposed by Baumrind, who classifies parenting style into four broad categories: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and neglectful styles. This research adopts descriptive qualitative method and the data are collected from the movie script. The finding reveals that authoritarian and neglectful parenting styles lead a person to become rebellious, adopting problematic behavior and mastermind of criminal and disregarded by a society. The worst effect of parenting mistakes is that the protagonist transforms himself to be a psychopath.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors of the protagonist’s repe... more This research is conducted to analyze the internal and external factors of the protagonist’s repentance from Second Act movie written by Justin Zackham And Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas. The internal factors of repentance are self evaluation, self-motivation, self-control, knowledge, regret, hatred towards the sin, and returns to god’s power and will. The external factors of repentance are peer support, social support, intense guidance, and stimulus. It is in accordance to the theory proposed by Fachitiandi. This study uses qualitative descriptive method because the process and the result are accomplished descriptively and the focus goes to the analysis of social phenomena conducted and experienced the main character. Repenteance is not only found in a literary text but also in social reality, therefore this research is important enough for the readers to maintain a good life by avoiding things contrary to social norms. After the analyzing, it is found that internal factors of the Protago...
This research analyses the causes and effects of the protagonist’s worry in Danielle Steel’s nove... more This research analyses the causes and effects of the protagonist’s worry in Danielle Steel’s novel Family Ties, a story of woman, Annie Ferguson, who must become a mother in her bachelorette. She always worries about the future of her sister’s children. This research applied the theory of worry proposed by Graham (2006), who said that worry is “prominent feature of most anxiety-based disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder“. The research is completed by using descriptive qualitative method in which the finding is presented in the form of description. The data of this study is obtained from the novel Family Ties by Danielle Steel. The analysis finds that the dominant causes of the protagonist’s worry come from her nephews’ life which affects her life negatively. The effects of her worry will be a lesson for human life because every human being certainly has worry feeling in th...
This paper is to reveal diathesis in Siladang language. Diathesis is a grammatical category that ... more This paper is to reveal diathesis in Siladang language. Diathesis is a grammatical category that shows the relationship between the participant or subject and the action stated by the verb in the clause. In general, the languages of the world have an active-passive diathesis strategy. This research applies the theory of diathesis proposed by Lyon and adopts descriptive qualitative method in which comparative and inductive treatments are made to the collected data through phenomenological approach. The data (Siladang language) are collected from 2223 informants (native speakers of Siladang language) who live in Sipaga-paga Village and 2006 informants who live in Aek Banir Village. Then, the data are classified based on the language features in universal language empirically. This research shows that Sialdang language has an active-passive diathesis which is one of the important characteristics in an accusative typological language. Apart from having an active-passive diathesis, Silad...
institusi pendidikan rnempunval tujuan tertentu dalam rnemberikan pelajaran reading comprehension... more institusi pendidikan rnempunval tujuan tertentu dalam rnemberikan pelajaran reading comprehension kepada siswa. Tujuannya adalah untuk membuat para siswa mampu mengaktilkan pengetahuan siswa dalam grammar, sintaksis dan semantic dengan baik dalam rnemahami sebuah teks. Namun, kenyataan menunjukkan bahwa apa yang diharapkan oleh institusi belum tercapai. Bahkan realitanyapun rnasih jauh dari apa yang diharapkan. Oleh karena itu, model membaca yang digunakan para pembaca Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing menjadi titik masalah dalam studi ini.Model membaca merupakan suatu proses tertentu yang terjadi dalam pemikiran si pembaca pada saat sedang membaca. Ada tiga jenis model membaca seperti; top-down model, bottom-up model dan interactive model_ Setiap mode] memiliki cirri-ciri tersendiri.Studi ini dilakukan untuk meneliti model membaca yang dipakai oieh para pembaca Bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing melalui analisa transkripsi dari basil interview terhadap rnahasiswa Fakultas Sastra...
KnE Social Sciences, Apr 19, 2018
This research analyzed the perception of undergraduate students on learning English. This researc... more This research analyzed the perception of undergraduate students on learning English. This research adopted the theory on perception proposed by Efron (1968) in which he stated that perception is the primary cognitive contact of person with the world around him. It was completed by adopting quantitative method in which the data were collected by sharing questionnaire to undergraduate students as its respondents. The questionnaire was tested by Product Moment Pearson to meet its validity with t-table larger than r-table, and by Alpha Coefficient to meet its reliability with Cronbach's Alpha value larger than 0,6. Furthermore, the data obtained from the questionnaire were analyzed by using Likert Scale with four alternative responses. They were Strongly Disagree (0%-24.99%), Disagree (25%-49.99%), Agree (50%-74.99%), and Strongly Agree (75%-100%). The research found that the perception of the respondents towards English learning is 66%.
Proceedings of the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Multidisciplinary and Its Applications, WMA-3 2019, 11-14 December 2019, Medan, Indonesia, 2020
This research is to see the effect of short course to the students' ability in translating Englis... more This research is to see the effect of short course to the students' ability in translating English verbal sentences. The short course is fulfilled in three meetings for each group. However, the short course utilizes new module and modified approaches in the application. The data analysis is obtained by giving a test to the samples. The samples are divided in two groups; students in social class and students in physical class of which the students are not more than 30 persons for each class. The data analysis is completed by using Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test due to the non-parametric data. The result shows that the alpha value of the groups through the Asymp. Siq (2-tailed) are less than 0.05 alpha. The alpha value of group A is .001, and the alpha value of group B is .000. They mean that there is significant effect of the short course to the students' ability in translating English verbal sentences which is proved by the increase of the students' score in the post-test or after the short course.
This article reveals the negative effects of the…
This article is an analysis of social function of literature in Mark Twain's novel "The ... more This article is an analysis of social function of literature in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer. " The analysis goes to find and to prove that the novel contains the three social functions of literature. The social functions itself cover elements to entertain, to educate and to renew. The elements that entertain are those that are able to reduce or drop away the readers' sadness, stress and bad mood. The elements that educate are those which imply moral messages and some good deeds in life. The elements that renew are those which can be traced by readers to add their knowledge or to improve something in their life.
This article is concerned with an analysis of the methods of foreign language teaching covering t... more This article is concerned with an analysis of the methods of foreign language teaching covering traditional as well as modern methods. They are analyzed to find some appropriate methods of foreign language teaching for children. The findings are considerably judged in accordance with the characteristics of each method in their application. It is concluded that Total Physical Response by Asher is the most appropriate (adequate) method in teaching foreign language for children. The other methods will be best in use if they are combined in such a way as needed in any different situations of learning.
This research is a literature research discussing self-development through selfobservation for te... more This research is a literature research discussing self-development through selfobservation for teacher of English as foreign language. Karaaslan (2003: 3033) said that self-development is very important if we want to be professional teachers. Richards (2007: 12) said that observation is done by visiting a class to observe different aspects of teaching. This research is aimed to find a new paradigm for teachers of English as foreign language. Hopefully, the finding of this research will give significant contribution to those whose profession is English teacher. There is a new paradigm found by this research. It is cycling process of self-development through self observation.
Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menemukan pengaruh penggunaan Bahasa Alay terhadap penggunaan Peng... more Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menemukan pengaruh penggunaan Bahasa Alay terhadap penggunaan Penggunaan Bahasa Indonesia yang baik dan benar. Peneliti terpicu oleh semakin maraknya pemakaian Bahasa Alay di kalangan remaja khususnya mahasiswa. Terdapat sejumlah penelitian yang serupa namun dengan responden yang berbeda yang akhirnya menemukan bahwa penggunaan Bahasa Alay memang berdampak negatif terhadap Bahasa Indonesia. Adapun yang menjadi responden dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara semester dua. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dengan memberikan kuesioner kepada responden yang kemudian di analisa dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif. Temuan dari penelitian menunjukkan ternyata penggunaan Bahasa Alay berdampak negatif terhadap penggunaan Bahasa menurut mahasiswa semester dua, Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Islam Sumatra Utara, Medan.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
According with the development of information technology and the expand of the internet in the co... more According with the development of information technology and the expand of the internet in the community, the need for computers is very important to support the increasingly high utilization of information technology. Processing data and information requires speed and accuracy of data, to achieve it, it is requires an information technology that can support work so the work becomes more effective and efficient. PT. PLN (Persero) Krueng Geukueh District is a company that runs in the area of electricity and provides services to the community in the provision of services related to electricity, which has a large number of customers. The process of managing customer data at PT. PLN (Persero) Krueng Geukueh District has used a customer data system, but still has a disadvantage of requiring more time in searching customer data, to solving this problem, the author designed the development of the system using the string matching algorithm method, which is one of the most important parts in various processes related to data and text types, one of which is the search for words in customer data. The performance of the string matching algorithm is to match a letters per letter with the keywords given by the staff. The results of this study indicate that by using this method, searching for customer data can be easier. With the development of this system, it is expected that staff or admin in the company can do the work more effectively and efficiently.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
This study is an analysis of the aims of the protagonist’s struggle in Khaled Hosseini’s novel A ... more This study is an analysis of the aims of the protagonist’s struggle in Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. The novel tells about a wife, the protagonist of the novel, who should live hard with a husband with bad temper. However, the protagonist by the name of Mariam keeps being a good wife for her husband. Furthermore, her husband has another wife. Unfortunately, the husband with his bad temper almost kills her. The protagonist should struggle to protect her husband’s another wife as well. The analysis is conducted by descriptive qualitative method, in which the data are analyzed descriptively. Some theories, concepts and notions of struggle are applied in this study to support the analysis and finding. One of the theories adopted in this study is proposed Flexner and Fitzpatrict (1996: 9) who said that the concepts of struggle is permeated from the history, the labor movement, and the place of working woman. It implies that the struggle of woman is rooted from the his...
KnE Social Sciences
This research deals with the distinctive attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli’s novel Siti ... more This research deals with the distinctive attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli’s novel Siti Nurbaya. Datuk Maringgih is described as a person who is old, strong, rebellious and has a lot of money and always has a strategy in everything. The attitude shown by this person is also related to society. The research is conducted means of descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative research is a research method that focuses on understanding social phenomena that occur in society. Descriptive qualitative is usually designed to examine morality and other problems in society. The researcher uses attitude theory where attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence on the individual’s response to all objects and situations with which it is related. The source of data is from the novel. The data in this research is the entire texts in the book. The technique used to analyze data is heuristic and hermeneutic. The re...
KnE Social Sciences
This research is aimed to determine the type of motivation and factors that influence the motivat... more This research is aimed to determine the type of motivation and factors that influence the motivation of the students of SMK UISU Medan. The sample of this study is all students of SMK UISU Medan. The total respondents in the sample are 52 students from first grade, second grade, and third grade of the school. This researach uses mixed method so that the data will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively using Likert scale. The instruments used in this reseaarch are questionnaire and interview. Therefore, the data are collected by sharing questionnaire and conducting. The research finds that the motivation most possessed by the respondents is instrumental motivation, furthermore, teacher’s factor is the main factor that influences student motivation in learning English.