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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 SNOWBALL THROWING METHOD ON STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY Nina Haida Hasanah; Ashari P. Swondo
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 5, No 2 (2020): MELT December 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.5.2.2020.175-185

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This study was aimed to find the empirical evidence of the effect of Snowball Throwing Method on students’ vocabulary mastery. The method that was used was a quantitative method. The design of this study was experimental study. This study was conducted in MTS AL-IMAM KLUMPANG. The number of the sample of the study was 40 students of seventh  grade. The instrument of this study was tests. The tests were divided into two, there were pre-test and post-test. The data that were obtained from the tests were analysed by using SPSS 20 program. The result of the study showed that the mean score of post test in control class was 66,5 while the mean score of post-test in experimental was 80 .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 study, the result of sig. 2 tailed was 0.000 and it proved that p <α. It showed that there was a significant effect of Snowball Throwing method on students’ vocabulary mastery
THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON E- LEARNING THROUGH WHATSAPP DURING COVID 19 Nursyah Handayani
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 1 (2019): MELT June 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.1.2019.42-52

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THE EFFECT OF WORD FIND GAME ON VOCABULARY MASTERY BY SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP DARUSSALAM MEDAN Jamilah Susanti; Nova Andriani
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 5, No 2 (2020): MELT December 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.5.2.2020.103-113

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This purpose due to this study was to find the provement of word find game on Vocabulary Mastery . The method that was used quantitative method. The design of this study was experimental study. This study was conducted in SMP Darussalam Medan. The number of the sample of the studywas 60 students of seventhgrade. The instrument of this study was several tests. The tests were divided into two, there were pre-test and post-test. The data that were obtained from the tests were analyzed by using SPSS statisic 25 program. The result of the study showed that the mean score of post test in control class was 79.33 while the mean score of post-test in experimental was 84.00. 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 study, the result of sig. 2 tailed was 0.003 and it proved that p <α. It showed that there was a significant to the word find game of students’ vocabulary mastery.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH SOMATIC, AUDITORY, VISUAL AND INTELLECTUAL (SAVI) TECHNIQUE AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP SWASTA PAB 2 HELVETIA MEDAN Dea Kumala Sari; Dwi Suci Amaniarsih
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 5, No 1 (2020): MELT June 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.5.1.2020.27-39

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This research aimed to find out speaking skill of the second year students’ of SMP PAB 2 Helvetia Medan. The problem statement was: “To what extent can the use of SAVI (Somatic, Auditory, Visual, and Intellectual) Technique Improve the Students’ Speaking of the second Grade of  SMP PAB 2 Helvetia Medan? The objective of the research was to find out Effectiveness of Using SAVI Technique to improve the Students’ Speaking skill. The researcher applied Class Action Reseacrh (CAR) method. The population of the research was  of second Grade SMP PAB 2 Helvetia Medan which consisted of 36 students’. Researcher obtained data qualitative and quantitative data, the result showed the improvement students’ speaking ability through SAVI there were 80,19% who passed the Minimum Mastery Criteria (KKM) >60. This resulted come from data in the first cycle I and cycle II. In the cycle I in pre-test I, there were 7 students who succeeded with percentage of 19% and 13 students who did not succeed with a percentage 36% , and the cycle I, there were 5 students who succeeded with percentage 14% and 5 students did not succeeded with a percentage 14% then in the cycle II, there were 19 students who succeeded with percentage 53% and 4 students did not succeeded with a percentage 11% in post-test II. After treatment, their speaking aspect significantly improved. It can be said that SAVI (Somatic, Auditory, Visual, and Intellectual ) is effective to improve the students’ speaking. 
IMPROVING STUDENTS' SPEAKING ABILITY BY USING THE PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (PBL) AT SMP SWASTA HARVARD MARTUBUNG Pardosi, Masta Sarina; Swondo, Ashari P.
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 6, No 1 (2021): MELT June 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.6.1.2021.81-93

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The objective of this study is to investigate whether the application of Problem Based Learning (PBL) Improves the students’speaking ability at SMP Swasta Harvard Martubung. The study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the eight grade students’ of  SMP Swasta Harvard Martubung which consisted of 44 students. The research was conducted in two cycles. The first cycles consisted of three meetings and the second cycle consisted of three meetings. The instrument for collecting the quantitave data was essay test for reading and the  instrument for collecting  qualitative data was interview, observation sheet, questionnaire, and diary notes. Based on the analysis, students’ speaking ability is improved in every test. In test I, The mean score was 59. In test II in cycle I, the mean score was 75.04, and in the test III in cycle II the mean score was 82.11. Based on the observation sheet, diary notes, and interview sheet, it was found that the teaching learning process ran well, the students more active, enthusiastic in working in group. It was concluded that Problrm Based Learning can improve the students’ speaking ability.
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.
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
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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.
THEME IN INDONESIAN – ENGLISH TRANSLATION TEXT Putri Nasution
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 4, No 1 (2019): MELT June 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.4.1.2019.53-72

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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH TIME TOKEN ARENDS TECHNIQUE Khairun Ihsani Harahap; Nova Andriani
Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) Vol 5, No 2 (2020): MELT December 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22303/melt.5.2.2020.114-128

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This research was aimed at improving at the tenth grade students' speaking skills through Time Token Arends Technique using recount texts at SMA Negeri 3 Medan. This research was classified as a Classroom Action Research (CAR). The implementation is carried out in two cycles, each of which consists of four stages, namely planning, implementing the action, observing, and reflecting. The data were collected from spoken test, observation, and document. The observation during the process of English teaching and learning was conducted by the observer. In this research the researcher took 21 students of one excellent class. Then, the researcher gave pre-test and post-test. The results of the research show that the action on improving students’ speaking skill through Time Token Arends Technique using recount texts is successful. After doing the research, the researcher got the data both from pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2. The research findings showed: The results of average of pretest score was 52,14 meanwhile the minimal mastery criterion (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal/ KKM) is 75. This means, only 14.28% of students pass the KKM. Furthermore, the mean posttest 1 and posttest 2 scores were 71.42 and 82.61. The results showed that the percentage of students who scored above the KKM was 95%. Based upon the finding of the data above the researcher concluded that using time token arends increase students’ speaking skills.

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