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THE EFFECT OF GROUP INVESTIGATION METHOD ON STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT Renol Aprico Siregar; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 4, No 1 (2015)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v4i1.3958

The objective of the study was to find out the effect of Group Investigation method on students’ writing achievement on narrative text. The study was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this study was eight classes of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang. The samples were taken by using clustering technique and two of the eight classes which was consisted of 60 students used as the samples, one class as experimental group and the other class as control group. In the treatment, the experimental group was taught by using Group Investigation method, the control group was taught without using Group Investigation method. Writing narrative text test was used as the instrument for collecting the data. Therefore, after analyzing the data, it was found that the value of was 3.02 with the degree of freedom (df) = 58 at that level of significance (α=0.05) = 2.00. It means that was considerably higher than (3.02 > 2.00). The result of this study shows Group Investigation method has a significant effect on students’ achievement in writing report text. Key words : Group Investigation, Narrative text, Writing achievement

DEVELOPING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS IN PROCEDURE TEXT FOR ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AT SMK NEGERI 3 MEDAN THESSALONICA A.R TAMBUNAN; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 9, No 3 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

The objective of this study is to develop the suitable and appropriate procedure text materials for reading skill, for Chemical Analysis program students. It was found that procedure text materials provided in the students’ textbook were not suitable and appropriate to the needs and interests of Chemical Analysis program students. This study is categorized into research and development (R&D). This study was conducted at SMK Negeri 3 Medan. The subject of this study was the eleventh grade students of Chemical Analysis program. The steps of this research were gathering information and data, analyzing data, developing materials, validating new materials by expert, revising materials and the final products. The result of the data were in the form of quantitative data obtained using questionnaire and qualitative in the open-ended questions. The developed reading material consisted of a unit. The texts were developed into three new suitable procedure text materials and about daily activity. Regarding understanding the generic structure of each text, comprehending text, completing sentences, filling in the blanks, answering question, arranging random sentences, choosing a title, matching the headings, vocabulary information, and true or false were appropriate. The developed reading materials were validated based on the suggestions of the teacher and the lecturer that selected as the experts. The average score of validation were 4, 45. It showed that the developed procedure materials were very good, suitable, appropriate and relevant with the students’ needs and interests.

CONTENT VALIDITY OF ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST ITEMS OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 4 POLLUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018 Patricia Adelina Lumban Gaol; Willem Saragih; Anggraini Thesisia Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 8, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

This study aimed to describe the content validity of English summative test items of the eighth grade students at SMPN 4 Pollung in connection with the learning indicators, to investigate the reason of describing content validity and to write the test items with good content validity.In this study, the researcher used descriptive qualitative design. The data in this study were the test items of summative test that obtained by coming and asking the test from the English teacher at the school. This study described the conformity and inconformity of the English summative test items in the even semester of the eighth grade students at SMPN 4 Pollung with the learning indicators. Then the researcher interpreted the conformity level of the English summative test to the learning indicators in term of content validity by using Arikunto’s criteria.The findings of this study showed that the test items is 35% conform to the learning indicators and it falls into the level 21 – 40% which is called poor. It means that the content validity of the English summative test items of the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Pollung is poor. Keywords: content validity, summative test.

DEVELOPING READING MATERIALS OF PROCEDURE TEXTS FOR SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF BEAUTY PROGRAM AT SMK NEGERI 8 MEDAN Cory Flora Oktavia Butarbutar; Willem Saragih; Muhammad Natsir
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 7, No 3 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

The objective of this study is to develop suitable procedure text materials for reading skill, for Beauty program students. It was found that procedure text materials provided in the students’ textbook were not suitable to the needs and interests of Beauty program students. This research was conducted based on educational research and development (R&D) through six steps, namely: gathering data, analyzing data, developing procedure text materials, validating procedure text materials, revising procedure text materials and final product. There are some instruments that were applied in this research namely questionnaire and interview .The subject of this study was XI Grade of Beauty program. Based on the needs analysis conducted there were 4 procedure texts related to Beauty program developed. The researcher developed the text by selecting and adapting relevant procedure texts related to Beauty program from internet and book as the sources. Then, the selected texts were adapted based on the principles of materials development in order to present well organized suitable procedure text materials. These developed procedure text materials had been validated by two experts and the average score gotten is 4.07. It is categorized “Good” since the mean is within the interval 3.40 < ≤ 4.19. It means that the developed procedure text materials for reading skill are suitable for the eleventh grade students of Beauty program. Key words: research and development (R&D), procedure text, Beauty program

GENDER LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS USED BY STUDENTS IN SCHOOL Chrystin Wulandary Sipahutar; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 10, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

This study deals with the gender language characteristics used by students in school. The objectives of this study were to reveal the gender language characteristics used by students and to describe why students interact using the gender language characteristics in school. The research design in this study was a descriptive qualitative. The data was collected by observing language utterances between male and female students from one class of grade eight and interview. The findings of this study show that sometimes male students used female language characteristics, and female students also used male language characteristics in school. And the male students used 6 kinds of female language characteristics, and the female students used 9 kinds of male language characteristics. The most dominant female language characteristic used by female students is taq questions, while the most dominant male language characteristic used by male students is minimal responses. And, there are four reasons that affect the use of language characteristics used by female and male students in school, namely equal status, formal situation, positive affect, and contact. So, the researcher can conclude that the female students are more dominant in using female and male language characteristics in school. In addition, of the four reasons that affect students' use of language characteristics, frequent contact is the dominant reason affecting students' use of language characteristics when they communicate

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON THEIR ENGAGEMENT IN SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION Vega Alviani; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

The aims of this study were to describe how the students perceive theirengagement in small group discussions and to explain the factors that influencethe students engagement in small group discussions. A descriptive qualitativedesign was used in this study. The source of data was 25 students of Grade VIIISMP Al-Wasliyah 8 Medan. The data were analyzed by using descriptivequalitative. The results showed that (1) The students perceive their engagement insmall group discussion positively. Most of the students agreed that being engagedin small group discussion was useful for them as EFL students and agreed thatthey have followed all activities in small group discussion and given their besteffort. The students agreed that they could participate well in small groupdiscussion, and felt motivated to engage themselves. The students felt that theywere confident enough to deliver their opinions in group discussion. Besides, allof the students satisfied with their engagement in small group discussion. (2) Thefactors that influence the students in engaging in small group discussion were thestudents’ relationship with teachers, relationship with peers and classmates,students’ self-efficacy, students’ self-regulated learning, and students’ interest inlearning.

DEVELOPING READING MATERIALS OF PROCEDURE TEXTS FOR SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF BEAUTY PROGRAM AT SMK NEGERI 8 MEDAN Cory Flora Oktavia Butarbutar; Willem Saragih; Muhammad Natsir
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 7, No 3 (2018)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

The objective of this study is to develop suitable procedure text materials for reading skill, for Beauty program students. It was found that procedure text materials provided in the students’ textbook were not suitable to the needs and interests of Beauty program students. This research was conducted based on educational research and development (R&D) through six steps, namely: gathering data, analyzing data, developing procedure text materials, validating procedure text materials, revising procedure text materials and final product. There are some instruments that were applied in this research namely questionnaire and interview .The subject of this study was XI Grade of Beauty program. Based on the needs analysis conducted there were 4 procedure texts related to Beauty program developed. The researcher developed the text by selecting and adapting relevant procedure texts related to Beauty program from internet and book as the sources. Then, the selected texts were adapted based on the principles of materials development in order to present well organized suitable procedure text materials. These developed procedure text materials had been validated by two experts and the average score gotten is 4.07. It is categorized “Good” since the mean is within the interval 3.40 < ≤ 4.19. It means that the developed procedure text materials for reading skill are suitable for the eleventh grade students of Beauty program. Key words: research and development (R&D), procedure text, Beauty program

GENDER BIAS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR THE TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS Ester Kristina Sibarani; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 12, No 2 (2023): Genre Journal
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/gj.v12i2.48603

This study aims to describe how gender bias is represented in the English textbook for the twelfth-grade students. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this study was English textbook entitled “Bahasa Inggris” used in twelfth grade students. The study used content analysis technique. The data were collected from texts and pictures. In total, there were 100 pictures and 269 texts that consisted of gender to be analyzed through six categories of gender bias which are proposed by Porreca in 1984. The findings of the study showed that female and male omission, female was leading by 51% to 49%. Female and male firstness, male was leading by 87% to 13%. Female and male occupational role, male was leading by 59% to 41%. Female and male noun, female was leading by 74% to 26%. The textbook has one kind of masculine generic structure. Female and male adjective, female was leading by 63% to 37%. The findings revealed that gender bias still exists in the textbook. The textbook does not portray a gender- balanced portrayal of male and female. Females are still portrayed as doing more housework like baking, decorating the room, and caring for children. However, based on the number of occupations, males are portrayed as dominant in doing social occupations.

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