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diahsafithriarmin@uinsu.ac.id
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Sumatera utara
INDONESIA
VISION
ISSN : 20864213     EISSN : 27457982     DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.30829/vis.v17i2
Core Subject : Education, Social,
VISION is focused on research on English language education, English literature, and English Linguistics, within sub categories: English Language Teaching and Learning, English Language Curriculum Practice dan Development, Implementation of Technologies in English, Language Teaching and Learning, English Language Testing and Evaluation, Teaching English for Young Learners, English Teachers` Training, Teacher Education and Professional Development, Language Acquisition, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, English for, Specific Purposes, English Linguistics, English Literacy, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Neurolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Translation in English
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DIGITAL TOOLS AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL Fitriani Fitriani
VISION Vol 16, No 2 (2020)
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Teaching speaking to EFL learners is tremendouslychallenging. Having learned English for years at school andacquired sufficient vocabulary and grammatical features,students remain struggling to speak English effortlessly. Forthat matter, employing digital tools in teaching speaking canbe regarded as a prospective solution since some of which areparticularly designed for English language learning. Thesetools equip teachers with unlimited and up-to-date resourcesas well as facilitate students to be a lot more involved in thelearning activities and are expected to better perform theirspeaking ability. Accordingly, researcher utilized some digitaltools to teach students speaking skill to figure out the impacton their learning growth. This research employed quantitativeapproach to portray in detail the statistic descriptive ofstudents’ scores which reflects students’ speaking proficiencyprogress and their perspective and attitude regarding theelectronic devices use. From this data, further, it could beconsidered the benefits, disadvantages and follow up steps toescalate the potential application of such tools in teachingspeaking.
THE CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS OF TRANSLATING PUNS AND JOKES FROM ENGLISH TO INDONESIAN Farida Repelitawati Br. Kembaren
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Translating puns and jokes is often perceived as the mostchallenging task in translation field. The difficulties oftranslating puns emerge because the sense of humor in thepuns and jokes can be disappeared after being translated intothe target language. This study aims to see the challenges thatEnglish Education Department’s students have as well as thesolutions they can implement in translating puns from Englishto Indonesian. This study applies qualitative method withcontent analysis technique. The data were generated from thetranslation products of puns translated by English EducationDepartment students. The data were then analyzed by usingreader-response technique to find out the readers’ responsetoward the puns and jokes that have been translated intoIndonesian. After analyzing the data, the results indicate thatmost students experienced difficulties to translate the punsfrom English to Indonesia. The biggest challenge that thestudents encountered is not only in translating the culturalhumor, but also in translating the linguistic humor and theuniversal humor. Students who implement free translationmethod and domesticating ideology were able to produce abetter target language oriented translation to let the readersunderstand the humor behind the puns and the jokes they read.These findings suggest that the solution to the challenge oftranslating puns is that students should use free translation anddomesticating ideology in translating cultural text, such aspuns and jokes.
IMPOLITENESS COMMENTING ON INSTAGRAM ”KEKEYI” Emeliya Sukma Dara Damanik; Rora Rizki Wandini
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This study aims to find the impoliteness strategies in thecommenting of Instagram. The source of the data is takenfrom Instagram account “Kekeyi” a beauty vlogger who viralbecause of her uniqueness “using water balloon as sponge”and her controversy in social media. These situation make herget Bullying from her followers. The harassment and impolitelanguage cannot be avoided in the commenting of Kekeyi’sInstagram. By identifying and analyzing of all the data, thewriter found that there are three strategies of impolitenesslanguage used by the followers. They are bald on record,positive impoliteness and negative impoliteness. Based on thedata, the writer also found that positive impoliteness as thedominant strategy used by her followers. The use of the threestrategies seems as the way of her follower to show theirdisappointment toward what Kekeyi did in her posting andcaption were not what they expected. Studying of languageimpoliteness is very important to avoid verbal bullying insocial media.
ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING PERFORMANCE AT UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH SUMATERA UTARA Yayuk Hayulina Manurung
VISION Vol 16, No 2 (2020)
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The lack of students’ English-speaking performance seems tobe common problems found in the department of Englisheducation at the University of Muhammadiyah SumateraUtara. Those problems involve the lack of fluency andproficiency in English speaking skills. This study aimed toanalyze the students’ English-speaking performance and thechallenges faced by them. This research applied a descriptivequalitative design. The data such as the documents,observation, and interviews were applied. In analyzing thedata concerning the components of data analysis in theinteractive model, it was proposed by Miles and Huberman(2016). The data were taken questionnaire from 125 EFL ofsecond-year students were collected, then the researcher alsoconducted the individual interviews with lecturers and classobservation. The result showed that the most challengingfactor faced by the students' speaking performance was relatedto the students themselves. Speaking errors were frequentlymade. The errors dominantly covered into 3 categories namelymisused forms (44.8 %), incorrect omission (33.6%), andmisplaced and confusing words (21.2 %). Concerning theexternal factors, the updated teaching strategies should beapplied in terms of reducing the use of the mother tongue bycombining various speaking performances, collaborating withother lecturers to organize more English programs, and sharethe speaking teaching experience.
THE EFFECT OF WORD FIND PUZZLE ON THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY Syaukani Syaukani; Intan Zulfira Pane
VISION Vol 16, No 2 (2020)
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The research was intended to know the effectiveness of Word FindPuzzle in the students’ vocabulary mastery which was observed andanalyzed from students of tenth grade at SMA Baitul Aziz BandarKlippa. The method used was quatitative research by using theexperimental research design. The population of this study wastenth grade students of SMA Baitul Aziz Bandar Klippa. In takingthe sample of this research, the researchers took some students ineach classes as the sample used and divided into 2 classes,experimental and control. There were 34 students in theexperimental and 26 students in control. The researchers taught byusing the Word Find Puzzle in the experimental class and taught byusing lecturing method in control class.The researchers used pretest,treatment, and post-test. In control class the score increase59,23 between pre-test and post-test, but in experimental class thescore increase about 68,85. By calculated by used SPSS V24, Theresearcherss concluded that there was a significant effect of theapplication of the Word Find Puzzle learning approach on learningoutcomes, it can be seen from the results of the analysis that this isindicated by the results of hypothesis testing which indicate that theSig. (2 - tailed) <0.05 (0.000 <0.05) and the value of t_ (count)> ttable (6.365> 1.992). Then in post test the researchers found thatthe value of Sig. (2tailed) is 0,923. It is bigger than 0,05(0,923>0,05) Sig. in T-Test (2tailed) is 0,002. It was less than 0,05(0,002>0,05), so there was a significant different between theexperiment class and control class. In other words, the students’achievement in vocabulary mastery is more effective by using WordFind Puzzle than lecturing method.
THE EFFECT OF WORD WEBBING TECHNIQUE ON THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY Achmad Ramadhan; Siti Lutfiah Rabiyatul Adawiyah
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The objective of this study is to find out whether the students’ vocabulary mastery thaught by word webbing technique is better than without word webbing technique. The method of this research was quantitative with the experimental research design. The population of this study was the 48 students  at seventh grade of SMP Swasta Galih Agung with two groups, experimental class consists of 21 students and control class consists of 27 students. The researchers taught the experimental class by using word webbing technique and control class taught without using word webbing technique. To collect the data the researchers used vocabulary test in multiple choice as the instrument. The post-test was given by the researchers aftergiving the treatment. The data were calculated by using t-test formula with the degree freedom (df) = 46 at the level of significance 0.05. it was found that tcount value was 10,491 and t table was 2,000. After analyzing the data, it was found that t count is higher than t table. It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. It can be concluded that the students’ vocabulary mastery taught by word webbing technique is better than without word webbing technique.

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