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The seall
ISSN : 27217116     EISSN : 27217124     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
jurnal peer-review yang diterbitkan oleh Program Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, STKIP Al Maksum Langkat. Jurnal ini terbit rutin dua kali setahun pada bulan April dan Desember. Jurnal ini akan menerima artikel yang tidak diterbitkan oleh jurnal lain. Ruang lingkup jurnal berfokus pada pendidikan bahasa Inggris, linguistik dan sastra dalam bahasa Inggris.
Articles 57 Documents
Translation Shift of ‘Jakarta Post’ newspaper on Monday, November 17, 2014 page 5, the first column with the title “UNHAS deputy rector named as suspected drug user” Fernando De Napoli Marpaung; Yusrah
The Seall Journal Vol 2 No 1 (2021): April 2021
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Translation shifts is a changing of form when it is translated from the source language into target language. In this study writer focus in translation shift and the most dominant of shift in the process of translating a discourse in “Jakarta Post” newspaper. This study conducts on the descriptive qualitative method. Descriptive design simply describes what data shows. In order to account for this, the writer use a wide variety of translation shift in order to accurately translate any given text. Based on the data analysis which is taken from ‘Jakarta Post’ newspaper on Monday, November 17, 2014 page 5, first column with the title “Unhas deputy rector named as suspected drug user”. The Jakarta Post is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia. The paper is owned by PT Niskala Media Tenggara and based in the nation's capital, Jakarta. The writer use theories of Catford, there are any major types of translation shifts. They are structure shift, unit shift, class shift and intra – system shift. In 20 sentences (including the title) the writer use 13 times to structure shift (44.9%), 9 times to unit shift (31.1%), 1 time to class shift (3.4%) and 6 times to intra – system shift (20.6%). So, Structure shift is the most dominant that be used by writer to translate the data.
INTERACTIONAL META-DISCOURSE IN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS INTRODUCTIONS BY ENGLISH STUDENTS OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU Eki Saputra; Annita Intan Putri
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The aims of this research are at investigating the interactional meta-discourse and the most dominant interactional meta-discourse category in the background of the undergraduate thesis introductions written by English students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. This study involved thirty-three backgrounds of the undergraduate thesis introductions by English students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu in 2019 academic year. This study followed the meta-discourse framework of Hyland (2009) in investigating the interactional meta-discourse in the corpus of the research. The results of this research show that five categories of interactional meta-discourse found in the in the backgrounds of the undergraduate thesis introductions written by English students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu in 2019 academic year, namely 216 or 37.3% hedges, 166 or 28.6% attitude markers, 104 or 18% self-mention, 77 or 13.2% boosters, and 16 or 2.9% engagement markers. In addition, the most dominant of interactional meta-discourse category found in the backgrounds of the undergraduate thesis introductions is hedges. The findings of this research give implications for the students in order to include more frequent and vary of interactional meta-discourse in writing the backgrounds of the undergraduate thesis introductions.
A Case Study of English Teaching Methods at SMK Muhammad Yaasiin Sei Lepan Muhammad Hassan; Fernando de Napoli
The Seall Journal Vol 2 No 2 (2021): December 2021
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Teaching English to young learners in many schools is not somethingnew. Although English has been taught for many years, the fact showsthat the process of teaching English does not always get good result.The English language teaching and learning often face problems. Inthis case, strategies of teaching English are purposed to the way ofteaching English in practicing. In SMK Muhammad Yaasiin SeiLepan, there is a native speaker who guides them in English studyclub and the English teachers have long experiences in teachingEnglish for young learner. It also makes students more interested inEnglish. To make the students enjoy and fun in learning English, theteachers must be able to select the appropriate strategies for teachingEnglish to them and know the characteristics of young learners inorder that it can help them in understanding the lesson andautomatically the goals of teaching and learning English can succeed.The purposes of this research are to investigate the strategies used bythe English teachers in teaching English at SMK Muhammad YaasiinSei Lepan Langkat, to investigate the reasons why the Englishteachers choose those strategies in teaching English at SMKMuhammad Yaasiin Sei, and to investigate the students’ responses ofteaching strategies applied in teaching English at SMK MuhammadYaasiin Sei Lepan. Research method, the reseacher used case studydesign with qualitative approach consisting of some data in the formof word, phrase and sentence. It is used to describe something that isknown to have happened in the process of teaching activity. Thereseacher also interviewed the English teacher and some students toget more information. Before doing the interview, the reseacher madethe interview guide. The reseacher conducted the three tehniques, theyare observation, interview and documentation.
DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF VOCABULARY MASTERY IN SD IT AL KAUTSAR SECANGGANG YUSRAH; NENENG SRI LESTARI; Syafii
The Seall Journal Vol 3 No 1 (2022): April 2022
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This paper investigates the translation shifts on Andrea Hirata’s Laskar Pelangi Into The Rainbow Troops By Angie Kilbane as the consequence of interference of mother language in translating SL into TL. It focuses on the shifts occur in Source Text and Target Text in term of Catford’s category shifts. The Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) is used in analyzing the texts. The texts are separated in clauses and analyzed based on Catford’s category shifts. It is argued that the interference of First Language affect in translating ST into TT. It was found that: a) unit shift, class shift and the very common one- the structural shift occured i translating the text, b) expanding text occurs in which the TT has explained the more detail than the ST, c) It was also found that there are two kinds of interference between ST and TT i.e. Syntactic/Grammatical interference and Lexical/Semantic interference as shifts are the reflection of the translator’s first language interference)
AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY ESSAY: CASE IN FIFTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT STKIP AL MAKSUM Yunita Sari Adelina
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This research tells about an error analysis in autobiography essay particularly focus on simple past tense. The objective of this research is to find the types of errors and the dominant factor of the errors. This research involved the qualitative method. The participant of this research is English Department students, fifth semester at STKIP Al Maksum. There were the errors of the autobiography essay writing: omission 2 or 20%, addition 2 or 20%, misinformation 4 or 40%, and misordering 2 or 20%. The dominant factor that influences the use of the simple past tense in autobiography essay is the interference of the mother tongue or mother tongue and the minor factor is over-generalization.
The effectiveness of Kids Song on Students’ motivation in Listening Comprehension Sara Frimaulia
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The purpose of this study is to find out the effectiveness of Kids’ song on Students’ motivation inListening comprehension at the SDN 055999 Kw.Bingai. The importance of implementing songs inteaching English as a second language (ESL) showing that they can be very effective in developingstudent’s listening. By using kids’ song, students are expected to understand more in listening. Listening ispart of four Basic English language skills. It seems like the other skills such as writing, reading, andspeaking. These basic skills are divided into receptive skill-listening and reading- and productive skill,speaking and writing. Music and songs are crucial parts of growing and learning. There are manyadvantages to using songs in the classroom. By using kids’ song, students are expected to understand morein listening. Song are appreciated for their linguistic, cultural and entertaining features and they areprecious language learning materials. They can be used to teach and develop every aspect of language.Using songs in the learning process especially in the listening lesson it makes the students can improvetheir listening skill as one of their meaningful strategies to overcome their problem in listening skill.English song can make the students become active in the class, they are interesting, and so they can do alistening task well.
STUDENTS’ PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED DURING LISTENING ACTIVITIES IN STKIP AL MAKSUM LANGKAT ROSMEN; Edi Suprayetno; Ratih
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This study investigated students’ problem encountered during listeningactivities in STKIP Al Maksum Langkat. The subjects wereeighty-three students of the first semester of English Department StudyProgram. Basic qualitative studies suggest by Ary adopted in thisstudy. Questionaries and interview administered in order to collect thedata. The data informed that there were difficulties faced by thestudents in the listening activities, they were the speakers’ speed, theaccent of the speaker, unknown words, and difficulties in recognizingmain points. It was expected that enhancing students’ motivation topractice listening with authentic materials and in every learningactivities administering authentic materials deemed necessary in orderto insincere a real situation of native talks and conversation tounderstand the culture and points in their talks. Acquiring amounts ofvocabularies expected enhanced by the students in order to ease thelistening activities.
The Influence of Bilingual of Java Native Towards Indonesian Production in Showing Politeness Neneng Sri Lestari
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Javaness is one of ethnic in Indonesia. Java native is as an Indonesian people also use the Indonesian in daily activity. Indonesian language as a unifier language country is the tool to communicate with another people in this country. Java native also use Indonesian language when they speak with another people that can’t speak java language. The analysis is the influence of java native towards Indonesian production. The result of the analysis shows that the influence of bilingual of java native towards Indonesian production has mixed Java and Indonesian language which its show politeness in speaking. Keywords: Bilingual, java native, politeness.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH KNOW-WANT-LEARN STRATEGY Muhammad Hassan
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Improving The Students’ Reading Comprehension through Know-Want-Learn Strategy atthe first grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Stabat. The objective of this research wasintended to explain the improvement of the students’ interpretative and literal readingcomprehension through Know-Want-Learn Strategy at the first grade students of SMANegeri 1 Stabat especially in class X 3. The strategy of this research was a ClassroomAction Research (CAR) consisted of two cycles, one cycle consisted of four meetings. Itmeans that there were eight meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research wasdone at the first grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Stabat in Langkat regency for Englishsubject. As subject in this research was class X 3 in 2022-2023academic year withstudents’ number as about 32 students. Those consist of 22 women and 10 men. Theinstrument of this research were observation sheet and reading test or evaluation. Thefindings of the research were students achievement in reading comprehension was 54,07in D-test, then Cycle I is 69,07 and it became 73,81 in Cycle II. The students activeness inlearning reading comprehension in the first meeting of Cycle I was 45,39% then itbecame 90,78% in fourth meeting of Cycle II.
Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension by Using Sq3r Method in Vocational High School at SMK AL Maksum Langkat Fernando De Napoli Marpaung; Edi Suprayetno; Supriadi
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SQ3R stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite/Recall and Review. In this study,the writer used an action research. For collecting the data, the writer used testand observation. The data sources are the 10 th grade of SMK AL MaksumLangkat at TKJ department which consists of 32 students and an English Teacheras the observer. Phase I consists of planning, action, observation and reflection.Phase II added by the revision of phase I. Based on the results of the study, inphase I the percentage of students who achieved Minimum AccomplishmentCriteria 75 was 65%. In other words, 21 students had achieved MinimumAccomplishment Criteria, while 11 students had not reached MAC. In phase II, allof students have reached Minimum Accomplishment Criteria. The result showed,in phase II all of the students could comprehend the text and determine the mainidea and reached Minimum Accomplishment Criteria in reading it is 75. Thus, thehypothesis in this research is acceptable. It means, there is a significant improvingin using SQ3R to increase the students’ reading comprehension at the 10 th gradeof SMK AL Maksum Langkat at TKJ department. Therefore, the research wasdiscontinued on the second phase.