Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching)
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.
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<![CDATA[The Effect of Role Playing Technique on Students Speaking Ability ]]>
<![CDATA[Ashari P Swondo]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 1, No 1 (2016): MELT Juni 2016 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.1.1.2016.1-16
<![CDATA[This study attempted to investigate the effect of role playing technique on student’s speaking ability. The purpose of the study is to find out whether or not there is a significant effect of the technique. The population of this study was 72 students of Potensi Utama University which located at Jl.K.L.Yos Sudarso, Km. 6,5 No. 3A Tanjung Mulia Medan. From this population, two groups were chosen randomly as sample by using lottery system, namely: The control group and experimental group. The total number of sample was 30 students. The instrument used for collecting data was oral test. The scoring system based on a rating system in which a short description on the student’s performance in a scale. In order to see whether or not there is a significant effect between the two techniques, the result of the tests were analyzed tatistically by using the t–test. From the calculation, it is obtained that t–observed is higher than t–critical value. It means that the hypothesis is accepted. In other words, it can be concluded that the role-playing technique significantly influenced the students’ speaking ability in English.]]>
<![CDATA[THE PROFESSIONALISM OF DOCTOR THROUGH THE LANGUAGE POLITENESS: PRAGMATICS STUDIES ]]>
<![CDATA[Aprili Yanti]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 3, No 2 (2018): MELT December 2018 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.3.2.2018.95-113
<![CDATA[The ability to speak is one of the language skills that a person needs, especially students as prospective scientists. This ability is not a capability inherited from generation to generation even though basically humans can talk scientifically. However, formal speaking skills require intensive training and direction or guidance (see Arsjad and Mukti, 1988: 1). Patients are encouraged to choose a doctor general or family doctor who can give a sense of trust, feel comfortable tell his health problems and undergo an examination, then answer all questions asked by patients and explain it in layman, too give enough time for it all.By having patient-doctor relationships good, patients can get degrees optimal health, health services efficient, & prevent mistakes in unnecessary treatment.Some of the factors underlying language politeness are namely social distance between speakers and speakers, has differences in terms of age and sociocultural / professional background, religion etc.]]>
<![CDATA[THE MAINTENANCE OF MINANG LANGUAGE BY MINANG’S FAMILY IN KOTAMATSUM II MEDAN ]]>
<![CDATA[Yenita Uswar]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 2, No 1 (2017): MELT June 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.2.1.2017.59-73
<![CDATA[The objectives of this qualitative research were (1) to identify the factors that affect the maintenance of Minang language (ML) in Kotamatsum II Medan, (2) to discover the parents’ efforts in maintaining ML in Kotamatsum II Medan and (3) to find out the reason why the speakers have to maintain ML. The population is the Minang’s people in Kotamatsum II Medan. The sample was 10 families including 10 parents and their children. The research sees to investigate the language maintenance both parents and children by Minang’s families in Kotamatsum II Medan. After distributing questionnaire and did some interviews it is found that Minang’s families in Kotamatsum II Medan especially for the third generation (children) had the danger level in ML when they communicated to each other. Meanwhile, the data analysis also showed that both fathers and mothers communicated to each other with ML but when they communicated to their children sometimes they mixed between Indonesia and Minang Language. This condition occurred because of the influence of the environment]]>
<![CDATA[THE IMPACT OF APPLYING ENGLISH SONG IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION ]]>
<![CDATA[Murniaty Murniaty]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 2, No 2 (2017): MELT December 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.2.2.2017.126-143
<![CDATA[The study investigated about the sluggishness of students in English language lesson that caused them have low score. Due to that reason, it had researched teaching and learning process of listening comprehension. The students of one public junior high school, class VII were trained to listen songs as an experiment for several times in one semester, such as : folk songs, pop songs, etc. The research findings by applying Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed that Z > 1,96, that is Z > 5,147; which means there is significant difference after giving the treatment, or the score raised up about 5 – 10%. This indicates that students more understand the substance of the song also other English language materials, and more attractive and courage to learn English language.]]>
<![CDATA[THE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT IN SIBOLGA HISTORY BROCHURE BY USING SISTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC ]]>
<![CDATA[Nova Andriani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 1, No 2 (2016): MELT Desember 2016 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.1.2.2016.144-154
<![CDATA[This Study deals with textual functions in the text of Sibolga History. The objectives of the study were to: (1) describe the types of themes in the text of Sibolga History brochure and (2) identify the social contexts in the text of Sibolga History brochure. This research applied qualitative descriptive design to describe the data analysis. The qualitative analysis was applied in order to find out theoretically related to the research questions. The source of data was the text of Sibolga History brochure which consists of 22 paragraphs. The source was taken through documents that were written in the text of Sibolga History. The data was analyzed by Miles and Huberman model. The theme focused on Topical theme and there are 103 clauses of theme. The text was analyzed with the reference to the theories of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL). The finding showed that the proportions are: (1) Marked Simple Theme is 53 %, (2) Marked Multiple Theme is 5%, (3) Unmarked Simple Theme is 41 % and the last (4) Unmarked Multiple Theme wascan not found. It was concluded that the Marked Simple Theme are used in large number and Marked MultipleTheme are used in smaller number. The social context in this text can be seen through the field, tenor and mode of the text of Sibolga History brochure.]]>
<![CDATA[THE ANALISYS OF READING NARRATIVE TEXT BY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT POTENSI UTAMA UNIVERSITY MEDAN ]]>
<![CDATA[Yenita Uswar]]>;
<![CDATA[Nova Andriani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 3, No 1 (2018): MELT June 2018 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.3.1.2018.41-54
<![CDATA[Narrative text is one of the most frequent lessons in Education world especially English language education in Indonesia. Therefore, at least we should be able to understand narrative text very well therefore later when we read the stories in English, we are directly able to digest the story. And can apply it in teaching either at school or at the University. This main research is to determine how far English Language Education Students of Potensi Utama University understand the Genre in English especially about Narrative Text. This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) that will be carried out to determine the extent of students' ability to analyze Narrative Text. To achieve the desired goal, this CAR will be implemented in 3 cycles. Each cycle consists of 3 lecture meetings, namely the provision of material and text practice examples. At the end of the cycle a test was held to find out the ability and progress of students in analyzing Narrative text. Feedback is given from the test results to overcome the problems that arise in the previous cycle. The research subjects were the 4th semester students of the English Language Education Department of Potensi Utama University Medan, totaling 34 students. The objectives of the study are: a) to help overcome student problems in understanding reading text especially narrative text and improve the ability of students reading comprehension and b) to provide a basis learning models for reading English Language skills at university]]>
<![CDATA[DESIGNING THE SYLLABUS OF ENGLISH FOR TOURISM SUBJECT BASED ON THE INDONESIAN QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK ]]>
<![CDATA[Ashari P Swondo]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 1, No 2 (2016): MELT Desember 2016 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.1.2.2016.103-112
<![CDATA[The increasing development of the tourism industry in Indonesia, especially in North Sumatera has an impact on the growing need for qualified human resources in the field of tourism. Someone who works in the field of tourism businesses is required to have competence in English to be able to communicate with guests both orally and literally in accordance with the level of qualifications. Therefore, the syllabus used in the teaching and learning of English in the field of tourism must be designed for the achievement of competence which is based on the Indonesian Qualification Framework Standard. The purposes of this paper are to present a theoretical discussion on the teaching and learning of English in the field of Tourism and the second is to provide a proposed syllabus which can be used as a reference in the implementation of the training, curriculum development and the preparation of modules in producing and developing the human resources that are competent and professional in the field of tourism.]]>
<![CDATA[STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN USING MODALS ]]>
<![CDATA[Enni Maisaroh]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 3, No 2 (2018): MELT December 2018 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.3.2.2018.114-126
<![CDATA[This study deals with the students’ errors in using modals of Can, May and Must. There were 25 students chosen as the sample who were asked to write compositions containing the modals. There were errors found in the writings which were categorized into 10 types according to the use of the modals. Type 1 (modal + simple infinitive to) is the dominant errors while Type 5 ( modal + pronoun) is the fewest. In all, there were 52 errors made in 192 modals used. Therefore, the percentage of the errors is 27%. This implies that the students could use the modals quite well. The second most difficult in the compositions is Must (34.92%) while according to their responses in the questionnaire the most difficult modal verb is May (48%) the causes of the errors were that the students lacked the knowledge of the uses; They seldom, practiced the use of the modals in compositions , and applied translation approach to use the modals in their writings. It is suggested that they be taught the pattern modal + simple infinitive to because this is the most common error.]]>
<![CDATA[IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH VIDEO MAKING ]]>
<![CDATA[Winda Syafitri]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 2, No 1 (2017): MELT June 2017 ]]>
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DOI: 10.22303/melt.2.1.2017.48-58
<![CDATA[English class is one of main sources of students to learn English as a second language in Indonesia. There might be a problem in English language teaching. This study aims at solving the low achievement of students’ speaking ability in University of Potensi Utama through video making activity. It applied Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the research design. The subject of this research was SI (System Information)-B day class who was sitting in the first semester which consisted of 24 students. The research was conducted in two cycles. The instrument for collecting the data were speaking test, observation sheet, and questionnaire sheet. Based on the analysis, students’ speaking achievement is improved in every test which are pre-test (61.7), post-test in cycle I (68.80) and post-test in cycle II (80.1). Based on the observation sheet and questionnaires, it was found that the teaching learning process ran well and the students were more active, motivated and enthusiastic. It was concluded that making video activity can improve the students’ speaking achievement.]]>
