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Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching)
Published by Universitas Potensi Utama
ISSN : 25280287     EISSN : 27148858     DOI : 10.22303
Core Subject : Education,
Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) is a scientific journal which published by English Education Study Program, University of Potensi Utama Medan. MELT Journal published twice a year in June and December. This journal is the forum for academics and researchers to share the research results in the field of English Language Teaching and Learning and Linguistics.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik
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THE EFFECT OF E-LEARNING ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN UNIVERSITAS POTENSI UTAMA Nurafifah Hasbi Nasution; Enni Maisaroh
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 2 (2019): MELT December 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.2.2019.135-154

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It is believed that internet helps people to do better and faster. It has been used globally in almost every aspects of life. In education, internet is known as the golden key to intelligence, since it offers unlimited resource. It can be learning media in the classroom or while self-learning. Considered as an international language, English is used as main tool of communication on internet. It acts as the language of the instructions and language of the users. It is interesting to analyze its use by students in a developing country like Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is one of the countries with millions internet users. As a result, e-learning becomes an option to deal with teaching learning process, especially for students of English department. By using internet, they can master certain topics and English themselves better. This study is quantitative research using pre-experimental design. It is aimed to analyze the effect of e-learning on achievement of students in Universitas Potensi Utama. The research result of this study was calculated by using Wilcox on test in which p-value is 0.462 and p> 0.05 which means the Null hypothesis is accepted. So it is concluded that there is no significant difference between e-learning and traditional learning. However, students have positive perceptions on e-learning because they argue that it can make them highly motivated to learn more about the subject.
THE EFFECT OF TABOO WORD GAME IN IMPROVING VOCABULARY ABILITY Reni Rosianna Lumbangaol
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 2 (2019): MELT December 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.2.2019.155-169

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This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Taboo Word Game strategy on students vocabulary ability. The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of Taboo Word Game strategy had effect on students’ vocabulary ability. The study used research by doing experimental design. The population of this study was 60 Informatics Engineering students of Potensi Utama University in the fourth semester of 2019-2020 Academic Year. A placement test was given to 60 students. 60 students were taken as the sample of this research. The sample was divided into two groups: the first group is the Taboo Word Game group (30 students) and the second group is conventional group (30 students). The instrument of collecting the data was vocabulary test. The writer used independent sample t test formula to analyse the data. The data were calculate by using independent sample t test by SPSS 20 for windows. The result of the analysis shows that tcount > ttable = 3,941 < 2,66329 is higher at the level of significance 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) 58. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS THROUGH THE LEARNING OF ENGLISH MARITIME Titim Eliawati; Dina Irmayanti Harahap
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 2 (2019): MELT December 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.2.2019.170-190

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The integration of learning in the classroom with character education is the main agenda of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. The development of learning methods in the classroom integrated with character education is a challenge for teachers today. Various researches on the development of character education have been carried out, but no one has specifically analyzed the integration of character education in Maritime English learning. The purpose of this study is to increase a top to bottom comprehension of character improvement as seen from the development of learning methods that have been integrated with character values. The research used is qualitative. The method used in this research was classroom action research (CAR). The conclusion from the results of this study is the improvement of the character of students in the classroom in Maritime English learning can be done by choosing the right learning method. On the other hand, the material in the syllabus and lesson plan (RPP) is very helpful for the teacher in arranging the methods, discussions, strategies and learning media needed while in the classroom. Students gave positive respond to changes in learning and learning methods used by teachers.
THE USE OF CHART GAME IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO THE FIFTH GRADERS OF ONE STATE PRIMARY SCHOOL IN BANYUASIN Risa Anggraini
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 2 (2019): MELT December 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.2.2019.191-202

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This study was intended to find out whether or not there was any significant difference between the students who were taught by using chart game and those who were not. The population of this research was the fifth graders of One State Primary School Banyuasin academic year 2018/2019 with the total number of 58 students. For the sample, the writer took two classes by using purposive sampling based on the same amount of students: V A (29 students) and V B (29 students). The method used in this study was quantitative with quasi experimental method design. Then, the data were collected from vocabulary test. Researcher did 10 meetings along the research, 1 meeting for pre-test, 8 meetings for treatment, and the rest 1 meeting for post test. Post test result showed that mean of experimental group was 79.10 and mean of control group was 68.14. After being calculated by using independent sample t-test, it was found that value of t-obtained 5.564. It was higher than the critical value of t-table 2.003. Meanwhile, the values of significant (2-tailed) was .000. It indicated that the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. In other words, there was significant difference between the fifth graders who were taught by using chart game and those who were not.
INDONESIAN SENTENCES ACQUISITION BY A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD Enni Maisaroh
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 2 (2019): MELT December 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.2.2019.95-113

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It is about the Indonesian acquisition declarative sentences produced by a three-year-old child. The language acquisition study is able to tell us more information about development of language psychologically and intellectually on child. Relationship of surrounding and children affect them in using language. The objective of this study is to investigate the patterns of sentence on Indonesian declarative are acquired by the three-year-old child. The study is a case study, the data were a child’s utterances and the source of the data were taken from a child is three year old.  The way of the researcher to collect sufficient data, the recorder was used for collecting the data. The child’s utterances were recorded every Sunday for three weeks. The outcome of this study found A three-year-old child was not able to acquire the complex grammatical. Of the six pattern proposed, he was just able to acquire three out of them, the running pattern, being pattern and doing/seeing pattern. On the other hand, he wasn’t able to acquire the pattern of  giving/buying (ditransitive verb), the pattern of making/considering (complex-transitive verbs) and same verb, different pattern. But from those three declarative patterns acquired, a child also acquired more the sub-patterns. Meanwhile the process tells that the subjects’ sentence production basically influence by both nature process (that language is basically innate, that children were born with language acquisition device that children acquire grammar of language without adult’s instruction) and nurture process (that children’s task is learning how different words behave in sentence, categorizing together words that behave in similar ways and extracting the pattern that govern this behavior from the input that they hear around them).
ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION OF MANDAILING, PADANG AND JAVA TRIBES Hetty Zaharani
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 2 (2019): MELT December 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.2.2019.114-134

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This study presents the existence of the English pronunciation of the students from Mandailingnese, Padangnese and Javanese. The purpose of this study are to investigate (1) the sound which students pronounce English differently , (2) which regional language that is most influential on the students’ English pronunciation,(3)the reason why the students pronounce English differently. The data are gathered from sounds pronounced by the students in the second semester of IAIN Medan. Then, the Students should fill the questionennaire form related to the subject and they try to pronounce 134 words given by researcher. The students are interviewed based on the subject’s problem. As the first result, researcher found  that students pronounced some words differently as follows: a. [v] → [f], [j], [p],  b. [z] → [s], [dʒ],  c. [f] → [g], [p].  d. [s] → [c], [z]  e. [ʃ] → [z], [s], [t], [c],     f. [n] → [n], [g] ,  g. [ð] → [t], [d], [ɪ], [de], [tɪ], [də], h. [dʒ] → [j], [g], [du],  i. [ph] → [p],  j.[w]→[u],  k. [tʃ] → [c], [k], [tj], [tu]   [ge], [ʒ], [ʒɪ],   l. [th] → [t],  m. [g] → [k],   n. [kh] → [k],  o. [θ] → [t], [d]  , p. [ʒ] → [z], [ʃ], [g], [gen], [s], [ʒɪ]. The second, researcher can declare that the Javanese accent has the most influence on English pronunciation.  The third, lack of daily pronunciation practice make students are unable to pronounce normal sounds or ordinary accent.

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