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ISSN : 23015225 EISSN : 29859441 DOI : -

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Transform Journal is an open-access electronic journal that supports research in the field of Linguistics, Literature, and English Language Teaching. The aim of the journal is to publish academic research on applied linguistics relevant to actual issues and to be a publication platform for original research from academics, researchers, and practitioners. Transform journal is issued four times annually, in March, June, September and December. The focus and scope of this journal include areas of analysis: Linguistics Literature English Language Teaching

Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Bahasa dan Linguistik

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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT THROUGH QUANTUM LEARNING Meni Sihite; Johan Sinulingga
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 2, No 2 (2013)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

AbstractThis study deals with the improvement of the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text through quantum learning. This study was conducted by using action research at second year of SMP N 1 Kabanjahe. The sample of this study was just one class namely: VIII-2. The number of this class was 36 students. The research was conducted in two cycles. Cycle 1 consisted of three meetings and cycle 2 consisted of two meetings. There were two kinds of data collected during the study, qualitative and quantitative data. The instrument for collecting the quantitative data was writing test while the quantitative data were gathered through interview, diary notes and observation sheet. Based on the writing test result, the students score kept improving in every test. In pre test, the mean score was 52, 61. In the test of cycle I, the mean score was 63 and the mean score in test of cycle II was 80. The conclusion is that quantum learning can improve the students’ descriptive writing achievement.Key words: Students’ Achievement, Writing, Descriptive text, Quantum Learning

POLITENESS STRATEGY IN REQUEST USED IN MANDAILING WEDDING CEREMONY Hilman Sujaah Siregar; Citra Anggia Putri
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 9, No 1 (2020)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/tj.v9i1.29542

This study aimed at analyzing the kind politeness strategy in request which represented in Mangalehen Hata Sipaingot of Mandailing Wedding Ceremony. The descriptive qualitative method used to gain the findings of the data itself. From that findings, 11 requests from 6 speakers has been analyzed. And from those, 21 requests filtered throught transcribing the event. Of all 21 requests, it was found that there were 2 politeness strategies used, they were Bald-On record 6 (28,6%), and Positive Politeness 15 (71,4%). Later on, the positive politeness was the dominant type of politeness since the wedding was a sacred ceremony, the using of positive politeness would be found in many ways. The instrument of this study was recording the event and transcribing them into list. And from that list, the categorization would be easy to exctract the data. Thus the writer found that positive politeness that used also similar to another local tribe wedding ceremony

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH THINK PAIR SHARE STRATEGY Umami - Handayani
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 3, No 3 (2014): Transform
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ABSTRACT This research is designed to improve the students’ reading comprehension in English through Think Pair Share strategy. the objective of the research is to develop Think Pair Share to improve the students’ reading comprehension. The research was conducted by using classroom action research. The finding showed that Think Pair Share strategy was successful in improving students’ reading comprehension. The improvement couls be seen from the increase of students’ reading scores. Besides, the finding also showed that Think Pair Share strategy was effective in enhancing the students’ participation, especially in term of sharing ideas, asking and answering questions. Keyword: Think Pair Share strategy, improve, reading comprehension

INTERPERSONAL MEANING ON TEACHER TALK: A FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR APPROACH Santi Jaya Hutabarat; Willem Saragih; Masitowarni Siregar
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 8, No 1 (2019)
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This study was aimed to find out the interpersonal meaning realization on teacher talk and to describe the underlying reason of its realization. The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative. The data were the talks of English teacher at SMA SwastaTeladan Medan. The data were analyzed based on interpersonal meaning analysis of Systemic Functional Grammar which introduced by M.A.K Halliday. The findings of this study showed that 226 of 248 clauses were identified as mood, 98 of 248 clauses expressed modality and 22 of 248 of clauses were identified as minor clause.Further, the distribution of mood types showed that there were three types of mood realized on teacher talk. They were declarative mood (58 %), interrogative mood (17 %), and imperative mood (16 %). Moreover, the distribution of modality showed that 27 of 98 clauses (27 %) were used modal adverb which expressed median value of probability, 16 % of clauses were identified as high obligation (have to, must), then followed by 13 % of clauses were identified as median obligation through the use modal finite of should and need to.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION BY USING KNOW-WANT-LEARN (KWL) CHART TECHNIQUE Novita Husna Nasution
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 1, No 1 (2012)
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This study focuses on the process of improving students’ achievement in reading comprehension by using KWL Chart Technique. The objective was to discover the significant improvement of students’ achievement in reading comprehension when the students were taught by using KWL Chart Technique. The subjects of the study were the second grade students of SMP Negeri 29 Medan. There were thirty four students. They were taught by using KWL Chart Technique. The instruments for the data collection were reading assessment, questionnaire sheet, and observation sheet. The techniques of the data analysis applied were quantitative and qualitative. In analyzing the data, the students were three reading tests namely orientation test, test I, and test II. The mean of students’ core for the orientation test was 38.59, test I was 59.32, and test II was 77.76. The total percentage of students who passed the passing grade significantly improved, in the orientation test it was 3.12%, in test I it was 23.53%, and in test II it was 88.24%. It was found that the application of KWL Chart Technique significantly improved the students’ achievement in reading comprehension. Key Words: Know-Want-Learn (KWL), reading comprehension

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING RECOUNT ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH PEER REVIEW TECHNIQUE Nina Surya Rahman Nasution; Masitowarni Siregar
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 2, No 1 (2013)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/tj.v2i1.905

ABSTRACT Writing, regarded as a thinking process enables language learners to explore and transform their ideas into words in accurate and appropriate ways. Although it has been taught from the Elementary school level up to the higher level of education, English teachers and students encounter various challenges. For students, they still get difficulties in writing a text even after being taught. For teachers, correcting students’ writing increases their workload. Therefore, how to reduce the load of teaching writing and to decrease students’ difficulties in writing have become important problem to solve. Through applying a technique in teaching writing, this research aimed to explore whether the application of peer review technique can improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. The method applied in this research was a classroom action research. The subject of the research was X-4 class SMA Negeri 21 Medan. The instruments of collecting the data were writing tasks as quantitative data while observation sheet, questionnaire sheet, diary notes and interview as qualitative data. The finding showed that Peer Review Technique gives contribution to improve students’ achievement in writing recount text. Keywords: Achievement, Writing, Recount Text, Peer Review Technique

Humorous Discourse on Indonesian Students’ Protest Slogans Vivi Dwi Tasya; Amrin Saragih
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 10, No 4 (2021): Transform (Dec, 2021)
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The objectives of this study were to find out what, how, and why humor were realized on Indonesian students’ protest slogans. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative. The data was taken from all the words, phrases, clauses, sentences written in Indonesian students’ protest slogans. The result shows that there are two types of humor found in Indonesian students’ protest slogans, namely collective identities with total number 7 slogans (35%), the effect of participation with total number 6 slogans (30%), frames with total number 5 slogans (25%) and tactics with total number 2 slogans (10%). Collective identities showed that K-Popers, gamers, introverts are not only as community but also as a new power to strengthen a sense of ‘we’ in social movement. Humor also has the effect of participation on enhancing engagement and preventing burnout by including their personal life experience intentionally and explicitly. Indonesian students’ protest slogans showed frames by using some symbols and some analogies to the popularity (music, drama, song title) to attact public interest and the protesters brought or wear some attribute in the movement to establish a repertoire and interpreted as an action to get their message across. There were two dualistic reason of using humor in the societal level. Collective identities as the emphasis on differentiation reflects a strong identification to make it possible to exclude the others, while the effect of participation, frames and tactics act as control or resistance which mean a form of attack and challenge the power and become a new way for communicating among the protesters and to establish a new relationship with the power.

IMPROVING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT IN READING BY APPLYING WORD WALL Devi Monita; Lince Sihombing
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 2, No 4 (2013)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

AbstractThis study focused on Improving Junior High School Students’ Vocabulary Achievementin reading by Applying Word Wall. This study was conducted by using classroom actionresearch. The subject of this study was grade eight students of SMP Swasta KesumaIndah Padangsidimpuan. There were 38 students taken as the subject. This research wasdone in two cycles, each cycle consisted of three meetings. The instrument for collectingdata were the students’ performance score as the quantitative data and diary notes,observation sheet, and interview sheet as the qualitative data. Based on the data, it wasfound that the mean of students’ score increased from performance 1 until performance 3.The mean of students’ score in performance 1 was 65.16. The mean of students’ score inperformance 2 was 73.39. The mean of students’ score in performance 3 was 78.11. It canbe concluded that the application of word wall had successfully improved the students’vocabulary achievement in reading.Key Words: Vocabulary, Reading, Performance, Data, Classroom ActionResearch

Hyperboles Used by A Beauty Influencer in The Beauty Product Reviews Videos on YouTube Ulfa Julianti Pulungan; Sisila Fitriany Damanik
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 11, No 3 (2022): Transform (Sept, 2022)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

This study attempts to analyze hyperboles used by a beauty influencer in the beauty product review videos on YouTube. One of the most famous beauty influencer named Suhay Salim in her beauty product reviews videos on her YouTube channel often applying hyperbolic utterances. By following Claridge (2011) and Cano Mora (2006) theory of hyperbole, the study aims to find out the form of hyperbole that used by Suhay Salim in her beauty product reviews videos, and also how the hyperbolic utterance conveyed and why they used in the ways they are. In order to achieve the aims, the data is in the form of utterances that was selected from two of Suhay Salim’s most popular videos which contain skincare products review on her YouTube channel. The study adopts descriptive qualitative research method in order to give detailed explanation in describing the phenomenon. The results show that Suhay Salim uses six forms of hyperbole such as single word, phrasal, clausal, numerical, comparison and repetition hyperbole. And they are conveyed through variations of words, phrases and clauses. There are found some hyperbolic markers which can be grouped into two hyperbole form. There are found more than one hyperbolic marker in one example. And there are also found some examples have the same hyperbolic utterance. Moreover, the use of the hyperbole makes the utterances during reviewing the products way more attractive, convincing and persuasive which can attracts the viewer’s attention and influence them to buy the same product as the reviewer.

TRANSITIVITY SYSTEM IN READING PASSAGE OF ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Fathur Rizqi Arifiani; Meisuri - -
TRANSFORM : Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning Vol 3, No 4 (2014)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

ABSTRACT This study is concerned with transitivity system used in reading passage for junior high school. The objectives of this research were to find out the process type of transitivity system, the most dominant process type and to describe the implication of the most dominant process type used in Reading Passage of English Textbook for Junior High School. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. There were six types of process in 182 clauses. The result of data analysis showed that the numbers in types of process were: material (45,1%), mental (16,5%), relational (26,9%), behavioral (2,7%), verbal (7,7%), and existential (1,1%). The most dominant process type used is Material process. That means that many reading passages in English textbook for junior high school contain action, or happened physicaly. So the process used in reading passages indicated action, doing things or what is done. Keywords: types of process, reading passage

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