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ISSN : 24429384 EISSN : 24603244 DOI : 10.51622

Core Subject : Education,

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

This research researches on The Explora . It is interested to publish qualitative and quantitative researches. It focuses on the impact of a teaching method to the achievement of the learners on a specific subject matter. It is also interested on the linguistic characteristic of the English language of the learners such as linguistics, language in teaching, language education, and literature. The purpose of this journal is to distribute the hottest information from the classroom instruction to the English teaching community at all levels. Article manuscripts are submitted to the editorial board for double blind review before their publication

Arjuna Subject : Umum - Umum

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Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension By Using Questioning Techniques In Narrative Text Yessica Elisabeth Sibarani
The Explora Vol. 7 No. 2 (2021): July 2021
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This study attempts to improve students’ reading comprehension by using questioning technique.This study was conducted by applying classroom action research. The subject of the research wasclass X-4 SMA N.1 Sei Rampah which consisted of 30 students. The research was conducted intwo cycles, cycle I of three meeting and cycle II consisted of three meetings. The instruments forcollecting data were quantitative data namely reading comprehension test and qualitative datanamely, diary notes, observation sheet and questionnaire. Based on reading comprehension testscores, students score kept improving in every test of reading. Based on diary notes, observationsheet and questionnaire sheet it was found that the students were active and enthusiastic in learningreading through questioning techniques. The result of the research showed that questioningtechniques significantly improved students’ achievement in reading comprehension.

Critical Discourse Analysis on Medan Newspapers’ Editorial Tampubolon, Sahlan
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): April 2022
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The aim of this paper is to explore how critical discourse analysis is realized in editorial local newspaper in Medan. The analysis is grounded based on Norman Fairclough’s assumption on critical discourse analysis that discussed three dimensions of analysis, such as micro, macro and meso. The data collected were the editorials of Medan local newspaper between June till December 2012, they are the editorial of Analisa, Andalas, Medan Bisnis, Orbit, Sinar Indonesia Baru (SIB), Waspada that observed three major topic of discussions like topic on politics, state officials, and social phenomena. Findings are in micro analysis includes language use such as the realization of genre, passive voice, collective noun and naming individual, in macro-analysis shows that the editorials position to control, and in meso analysis are the editorial’s role in giving his thought. These findings shows that the Medan local newspaper have just enjoyed for free press in delivering the news

The Role of Students’ Perception and Informatioin Technology in Improving The Production of (Θ) and (Ð) by 1thSemester Students of STIKOM Tunas Bangsa Pematangsiantar Jalaluddin
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): April 2022
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The productions of the English consonants (θ) and (ð) are constant difficulties faced by English learners whose mother tongue is not English. The failure in perfect productions of these consonants very often goes on to the time when the students’ speech sound plays a key part in their career. With the role of students’ perception of correct positions of the articulators against the required points of articulation in producing the dental fricative consonant sounds (θ) and (ð) and information technology,,the students can improve the quality of the productions even to perfect state.

The Rise and Fall of Michael Henchard in the novel “The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy A story of a man of character Sembiring, M.K Baginta
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): April 2022
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There are many determining factors that can be considered as the main cause of success and failure of a certain person in life which is full of challenges. And those who never care for the certain causes of their failure will fall, meanwhile those who want to learn the causes of their failure will rise. It seems so simple if just talk about ‘realize’, but in this context is the person who realizes and determines to change the causes, or at least to suppress them so that they will not be the influential elements for certain failure. “Several critics have pointed to the classical tragic shape of ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’. It is the story of the rise and fall of a man of character, a man flawed in certain destructive ways; his story is confined in space and time: there clear echoes of Greek tragedy and of King Lear

The Effect of Paraphrasing Strategy on the Students’ Ability in Comprehending Narrative Text at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): April 2022
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Reading is one of English skills that should be mastered by students because through reading, readers get important information, ideas or opinions of text they read about. But the fact, the students of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe at the eighth grade in 2015/2016 are not able to get information of narrative text. So, the researcher tries to apply Paraphrasing Strategy to investigate its significant effect on the students’ ability in comprehending narrative text. Paraphrasing Strategy is restating information in reading activity by finding the main ideas of paragraphs and by getting the specific facts of a text in own words. In conducting the research, the research uses quasiexperimental design. The subject of this study is the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe in 2015/2016. The population of the research was consists of 103 students, the sample which consists of 68 students by cluster sampling. The data collected both of groups’ pre test, the data were normality and homogenous. The researcher did the treatment to the experimental group by using Paraphrasing Strategy. Based on the result of the data computation, it shown the mean score was 76.61 stated good. In the control group, the researcher taught the students by using conventional mathod. The result of post test was 61.47 stated adequate. Based on the result of hypothesis testing by using t-test, the researcher got tcount ≥ ttable (6.3347 ≥ 1.943 from the ttable with dk = 2(n-1) = 2(34-1) = 66 and the significance level is 5% (∝= 0.05). Because ttableto dk 66 is not be found in the critic distribution t of value table, so ttable is interpolated to dk 60 is 2.000 with ttable to dk 120 is 1.9880 So, ttable = t1/2∝(dk) = t0.025 x 66 = 1.943. Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. It can be conclude that there was a significant effect of Paraphrasing Strategy on the students’ ability in comprehending narrative text at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Mandrehe in 2015/2016. Base on the analysis, the researcher suggest to the English teacher to use the strategy to teach the students. The strategy is Paraphrasing Strategy, it can solve the students problems, havefeedback,active and create the relation between teacher and student when teaching readingcomprehension especially in narrative text.

The Affects of Academic Controversy Method on Students’ Speaking Skills
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): April 2022
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This study aimed at investigating the effect of Structured Academic Controversy (SAC) on students speaking skill. Academic Controversy is a cooperative learning activity that leads students to argue different sides of an issue. Academic controversy is learning to take a position and defend it with reason is an essential skill in democratic society. The method involves a cooperative form of debate in which groups of four, divided into two groups, take turns representing two opposing views on an issue before attempting to reach a consensus on the issue. Students work in pairs to become familiar with one side of an issue, and then debate with another pair who has become familiar with the opposing side. Pairs then switch “sides,” become familiar with the opposing argument, and debate again. Finally, the two pairs come together to discuss the strengths and weakness of each side of the argument, come to a consensus about their collective opinion about the argument, and present that idea to the other quads. Finally, one other cooperative learning principle that can inform the use of Academic Controversy is ‘cooperation as a value’. Academic controversy method canimprove students’ speaking skill, by academic controversy, the students will be taught step by step to argue . The teacher can apply Academic controversy method to overcome the students’ speaking skill.

The Effect Of Using Jakarta Post Headlines And Sub Headlines as Teaching Media Towards The Students Vocabulary Mastery
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 1 (2022): April 2022
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This research is about the effect of using Jakarta post headlines as teaching media towards the students’ vocabulary mastery. The objective of the study is to find out whether Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines affects students’ vocabulary mastery. This study was conducted by applying experimental quantitative research. The subject of the study was the second year students of SMP N.17 Medan. The researcher took VIII-4 which consists of 30 students as experimental group using Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines media and VIII-1 which consists of 30 students as control group used conventional method or without Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines. The population of this research was 60 students which consist of two parallel classes. The researcher took both groups as total sampling to see the effect of using Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines as teaching media towards the students’ vocabulary mastery. The data were taken by giving vocabulary test which consists of word completion and matching. The tests were divided into two tests: pre-test and post-test for both experimental and control group. The mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 53.73 and the post-test is 79.86. The mean score of pre-test in control group is 43.86 and the post test is 58.667. It is concluded that the mean score of experimental group is higher than control group. The result that t-calculated > t-table at the level of significance p = 0.01 (3.095>2.660). The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. It means that Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines can be used as teaching media as alternative to enrich students’ vocabulary mastery at the second year students of Junior High School. key words: Jakarta post headlines and sub headlines, Vocabulary

A Contrastive Analysis between English and Batak Toba Language in Prefixes Sianipar, Herbert Mouren
The Explora Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020): July 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.51622/explora.v6i2.557

Indonesia is one of the big countries in the world consists of many islands which are separated byoceans and islands that has many tribes as well as their languages. One of the tribes in Indonesia isBataknese. Batak are an ethnic group from North Sumatra. Most of Bataknese are living in NorthSumatra. In this contrastive analysis, the writer chooses two languages, first, English as the sourcelanguage and Batak Toba language as the target language. The writer contrast the form, distribution,function and meaning of those two language and focused on the prfixes. There is correspondencebetween English and Batak Toba prefixes in terms of form, that is no prefix in Batak Toba can beattached to cluster; There is partly correspondence between English and Batak Toba prefixes in terms ofdistribution that there is no prefix in English that can be attached to base form of Adverb, either doesBatak Toba; There is correspondence between English and Batak Toba prefixes in terms of function;There is partly correspondence between English and Batak Toba prefixes in terms of meaning of bothlanguage is not similar in whole. Therefore, in generally, the writer concludes that English and BatakToba language are partly correspondence in prefixes.

Generic Teaching Skills in ELT Pangaribuan , Tagor
The Explora Vol. 7 No. 2 (2021): Agustus 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.51622/explora.v7i2.631

This paper is a based on a grounded research problem on the relationship between the world of professional work and education. Within the umbrella of Indonesian Quality Framework (KKNI), the focal research question is: How can we equip English Teacher with accountable Generic Competence in NNs setting Indonesia? This research addresses a tour-of-duty primitive question in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in NNs setting Indonesia in general, and particularly at English Department in various Institute of Education in Indonesia. This research report is within the framework of grounded research on Designing English Learning and TEFL Text Standard following Indonesian Quality Framework perspective (KKNI, hibah kompetisi, 2016), sponsored by Indonesian Directorate of Higher Education.

Psycholinguistic Explanation in Lexical Acquisition of Second Language (L2) Adult Learners Mokhtar, Ahmad Azman
The Explora Vol. 8 No. 2 (2022): August 2022
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.51622/explora.v8i2.640

This paper is organized into several sections. First, a model of L2 lexical development is outlined. It starts with a review on the internal structure of the lexical entries in the mental lexicon. Then a comparison is made between the different conditions under which L2 and L1 are learned. The consequences of suchdifferences for L2 lexical development and representation are thus highlighted. Finally, the three stages of L2 vocabulary acquisition on the basis of what is represented in the lexical entry are applied.

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