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Improving Students’ Language Use in Writing Recount Text Through Clustering Technique at Eight Grade of SMP Swasta Cinta Rakyat 2 Pematangsiantar Tungkup, Miranda K Lumban; Siahaan, Ummi; Hutabarat, Esra Delima; Sihombing, Marino; Silitonga, Sarah; Pardede, Dwi Angeli; Sianturi, Bella S; Manik, Vercelly H T; Simanjuntak, Kesmi V; Sirait, Trivena Gracia; Harahap, Raysha Zahra; Rumapea, Trinita Ivana; Siregar, Fadlan H; Napitupulu, Selviana
IKRAITH-EKONOMIKA Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): IKRAITH-EKONOMIKA Vol 8 No 2 Juli 2025
Publisher : Universitas Persada Indonesia YAI

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan penggunaan bahasa siswa,khususnya penggunaan simple past tense dalam menulis teks recount melalui teknikclustering pada siswa kelas VIII SMP Swasta Cinta Rakyat 2 Pematangsiantar. Penelitianini merupakan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) yang dilaksanakan dalam dua siklus danmelibatkan 24 siswa. Setiap siklus terdiri dari empat tahapan, yaitu: perencanaan,pelaksanaan, observasi, dan refleksi. Pada tahap perencanaan, strategi pembelajaran danmateri dirancang. Pada tahap pelaksanaan, teknik clustering diterapkan untuk membantusiswa mengorganisasi dan mengungkapkan ide. Tahap observasi dilakukan untukmemantau partisipasi, keterlibatan siswa, dan hasil tes. Tahap refleksi digunakan untukmengevaluasi efektivitas pembelajaran. Pada siklus I, hanya 29,16% siswa yang mencapaikriteria ketuntasan dengan nilai rata-rata 51,62. Setelah perbaikan pada siklus II, sebanyak91,66% siswa berhasil dengan rata-rata nilai 82,75. Hasil menunjukkan peningkatan sebesar 60,30%, membuktikan bahwa teknik clustering efektif dalam meningkatkanpenggunaan bahasa siswa dalam menulis teks recount.
Abbreviation As Articulation: A Qualitative Linguistic Exploration Of Communicative Functions In Discord Chats Silitonga, Sarah; Selviana Napitupulu
Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan dan Sosial Vol. 4 No. 4 (2026): Januari
Publisher : CV Putra Publisher

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This paper investigates communicative purposes of the use of abbreviations in Discord chats based on the Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA) framework. Over three months, 500 chat messages in five Discord servers of gaming, educational and hobby communities were gathered. The study found four types of abbreviations, including initialisms (42%), phonological reductions (28%), Gen Z slang (22%), and alphanumeric replacements (8%). Results show that abbreviations have four main communicative purposes, namely, structural efficiency, tone modulation pragmatically, interactional continuity, and social identity construction. Abbreviations are multi-purpose resources that can only have sense in a context of negotiation, and at the same time they carry semantic, pragmatic, and social indexicalities. Such immense popularity of Gen Z forms like fr, ngl and no cap suggests that abbreviations have become sociolinguistic signifiers of belonging to a culture and generational identity. This paper has made a contribution to digital linguistics by enlightening on the influence of abbreviations in establishment of connotation and social bond within virtual communities.