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THE EFFECT OF LEXICAL INFERENCING STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION Juliana Juliana
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 1, No 2 (2016): MELT Desember 2016
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (433.224 KB) | DOI: 10.22303/melt.1.2.2016.126-143

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This study was conducted to investigate the effect of lexical inferencing strategies on students’ reading comprehension. This study was aimed was to find out whether the use of lexical inferencing strategies had effect on students’ reading comprehension. The population of this study was 90 Informatics Engineering students of Potensi Utama University in the fifth semester of 2014-2015 academic year. A placement test was given to 90 students to select 60 similar English proficiency level students. The instruments used for collecting data were written test and spoken test. These tests were conducted to identify students’ reading comprehension performance toward lexical inferencing strategies. These data were analysed by applying an experimental research design involving pre-test and post-test which were administered for control and experimental groups. The control group was taught by using conventional method, while the experimental group was treated by using lexical inferencing strategies. The results of the test showed that the use of the lexical inferencing strategies had significantly affected to students’ reading comprehension performance. Hence, it was concluded that lexical inferencing strategies was recommended to improve the students’ reading comprehension performance.
THE MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF ADVERTISING TAGLINE "TOLAK ANGIN SIDOMUNCUL” THROUGH SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS APPROACH Juliana Juliana; Santi Arafah
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 3, No 2 (2018): MELT December 2018
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

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Tagline is one way to attract the customer attention to remember the products with the catch-up phrase. An ad tagline can create a new image of its brand and also provide a persuasive effect that affects the audience behavior. The effectiveness of an advertisement is very important to analyze. This research uses qualitative methods to analyze the use of multimodal linguistics in looking at the effectiveness of Tolak Angin Sidomuncul ad. Mutlitodal elements are analyzed in Tolak Angin Sidomuncul ad applying systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in analyzing the multimodal elements such as linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spastial elements. The results of this research showed that the use of multimodal elements in Tolak Angin Sidomuncul Ads are interconnected each other to convey the meaning and message which aims to attract the attention of audience to buy Tolak Angin Sidomuncul products.
AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF USING SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITTEN BY THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP BINA SATRIA MEDAN Nurlaili Nurlaili; Juliana Juliana
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 6, No 1 (2021): MELT June 2021
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.5.2.2020.186-202

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This research is aimed to find out types of error analysis of using simple present tense in descriptive text written by the eighth grade students of SMP Bina Satria Medan. This research used the qualitative research design. The sample of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP Bina Satria Medan which consisted of 20 students. The result of the data analysis showed that there were the types of errors made by the students on writing descriptive text based on surface strategy taxonomy which are classified into omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The types of errors made by the students on writing descriptive text were 25% in errors of omission, 22,4% in errors of Addition, 49,2% in errors of Misformation, 3,4 % in errors of Ordering. From this data, it can be said that the misformation error was the highest number of errors made by the students in 49,2%.There were some causes of errors made by students in misformation. Firstly, the students felt confused with tense formula, they still could not distinguish regular and irregular verbs, which are present tense and past tense. Secondly, the students made mistakes in arranging word or confused to select the word sequence in sentence which important to formation writing that meanwhile to arrange the word and group of words in English and Indonesia are different. Thirdly, The students made errors because they didn’t know grammar rule, they were lazy to learn about tense, they couldn’t interpret sentences or paragraph directly and many other reasons. Therefore, it can be stated that source of the errors made by students influenced by interlingual and intralingual transfer(Corder, 2000). Interlingual transfer is errors that are influenced by the interference of users’ mother tongue. The users still apply Indonesian pattern into English when they translate the sentences. Then Intralingual transfer occurs when students get difficulty learn the second language. Three causes of errors in intralingual transfer, namely; errors caused by over-generalization, errors caused by ignorance of rule restriction, and errors caused by incomplete application of rules.
DOMESTICATION AND FOREIGNIZATION OF JAVANESE TERMS IN THE YEARS OF THE VOICELESS NOVEL Juliana Juliana
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 1 (2019): MELT June 2019
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.1.2019.12-23

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This research analyses domestication and foreignization strategies in translating the Javanese cultural words in Years of the Voiceless novel. The objective of this research was to obtain the most frequent strategies used in altering Javanese cultural words that influence the ideology used in the translation of the Years of the Voiceles novel. This research was a qualitative descriptive method. The data collection was by reading source and target texts with note taking techniques. The method of data analysis used content analysis with a comparison strategy of translated text in the novel and source text. The theory used to analyze the translation ideology was Venuti (2008) while the theory used to analyze Javanese cultural words was Newmark's theory of cultural categories. The result of the research showed that there was an influence of domestication ideology in the translation of the novel the years of the voiceless at the Javanese cultural words. The domestication was the dominant strategy used in translating Javanese cultural words in the Years of Voiceless novel. Therefore, It indicates the translator tend to maintain Javanese cultural words in ST into English culture words in TT.
THE EFFECT OF USING VOICE OVER TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY Juliana Juliana; Armia Dewi Pohan
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 7, No 2 (2022): MELT December 2022
Publisher : Universitas Potensi Utama

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This research was aimed to find the empirical evid of the effect of Using Voice Over Technique on students’ speaking ability. The method of this research was a quantitative method. The design of this study was experimental research. This study was conducted in SMK Sinar Husni Medan. The sample of this research was 60 students of twelfth grade. The instrument of this research was tests. The tests were divided into two, they were pre-test and post-test. The data were obtained from the tests and analyzed by using SPSS 25 program. The result of the research showed that the mean score of post test in control class was 64,67 while the mean score of post-test in experimental was 82,2. Based on the criteria of hypothesis test that if sig. 2 tailed (p) was lower than alpha (α) 0.05, then Ho (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. In this research, the result of sig. 2 tailed was 0,000 and it proved that p <α. The result of Questionnaire showed 90% students said that Voice Over Technique can improve student's speaking ability.  Therefore, it proved that The Use of Voice Over Technique can improve student's speaking ability.