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Genre Journal: Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS UNIMED
ISSN : 23015160     EISSN : 29861551     DOI : https://doi.org/10.24114/genre.v11i4
Genre Journal : is a journal of art creation and study managed by the English and Literature Program, faculty of Language and Art, State University of Medan. Genre is a quarterly publication primarily intended to publish articles, either research-based or conceptual, on language teaching and learning, language acquisition, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
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DEVELOPING DIGITAL PICTURE SERIES AS A MEDIA FOR TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT FOR GRADE X STUDENTS OF SMK NEGERI 1 PATUMBAK Yayuk Yulianti; Ade Aini Nuran
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

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The aim of this study was to develop teaching media in Writing Narrative Text for Grade XStudents of SMK Negeri 1 Patumbak. This study was conducted by using Research andDevelopment (R&D) design from Borg, Gall and Gall (2003) through six phases; gatheringinformation and data, analyzing the data, media design, validating to experts, revision, andfinal product. The subjects of the study were an English teacher and 30 Grade X Students ofSMK Negeri 1 Patumbak. The data were gathered by administering interview to the Englishteacher and questionnaire distributed to 30 respondents to get the students’ needs. The resultof interview and questionnaire prove that the students need teaching media which canmotivate the students in learning writing narrative text. The product has been validated by theexperts by using validation sheets with the score 87% to linguistics aspects, 83% to processaspects, 80% to product and content aspects and 83% to layout aspects. The final score of thefour aspects is 73% from expert 1 and 93% from expert 2 which are range of 83%. The mediahas been developed in accordance to the students needs.
CODE MIXING IN THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION OF SMKN 7 MEDAN Muhammad Azmi; Sumarsih Sumarsih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
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The objective of this study is to find out the type of code-mixing used by theteacher and students and the factors causing the teacher and students mix thelanguage in classroom interaction. Code-mixing is a bilingualism phenomenonwhich has become very popular in society. It is used to prevent misunderstandingsuch the teacher and students in classroom interaction. This study was conductedby using descriptive qualitative design. The subjects of this study were the teacherand students from tenth grade of hotel accommodation in SMKN 7 Medan. Thedata were collected by recording the teacher and students’ utterances in classroominteraction, the interview result of teacher and questionnaire of students. From theresearch, it was found the type of code-mixing used by the teacher and studentswere word insertion, phrase insertion, and clause insertion. All of data belongs toouter code-mixing and the factors causing teacher did the code-mixing werespeaker partner, bilingual or multilingual, and absence of vocabulary. And for thestudents, according to the percentages of their questionnaire result the data showsthat out of 24 students 45,8% of them chose speaker partner as their reason did thecode mixing, 8,3% chose bilingual or multilingual, and 45,9% chose absence ofvocabulary.
DEVELOPING READING COMPREHENSION WORKBOOK FOR GRADE X HIGH SCHOOL Annisa Damayanti; Rahmad Husein; Isli Iriani Indiah Pane
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
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The objective of this study was to supplement the reading comprehensionquestions by analysing the weakness regarding the levels and types of questions inthe textbook Contextual English for Grade X of Senior High Schools and todevelop a reading comprehension workbook for grade X based on Curriculum2013 and Barrett’s Taxonomy. It was found that this textbook contained too muchliteral question which was at 61.6% and only low number of high level questions(10.86%). From the preliminary finding, this workbook was then developed with210 questions and validated by teacher, lecturer, and also the students’ try out.The result of validation showed that the product was excellent. The average scorefor each aspect by the first validator was 87.36% (good) and then revise until thescore given by the second validator was 91.57% (excellent). The result ofstudents’ try out showed that the value of 0.4 on each exercises on the bookand was considered valid. From these result, it was concluded that by the designand content, the product is appropriate to be used for public.
INTEGRATING LOCAL CULTURE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING TO INCREASE LEARNERS’ MOTIVATION TO SPEAK ENGLISH Weni Ramadiani; Anni Holila Pulungan
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
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This research aim at exploring how local culture integrated in English languageteaching to increase learners’ motivation to speak English. This research wascarried out of eighth grade students’ at SMPN 3 Perbaungan. This research wasconducted by using descriptive qualitative data. The data of this research werecollected by using observation, interview and audio recording. the samples wereselected purposively based on their cultural backgrounds. The result revealed thatby integrating local culture in learning English was easier for the learners. Thelearners had willingness to speak English since most of they were familiar withcultural input.
DISCOURSE MARKERS IN NARRATIVE TEXTS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Saida Azmi Damanik; Siti Aisah Ginting
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
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The objectives of the study were to find out the types and function of discoursemarkers that used in the narrative texts. The study was conducted by applying adescriptive qualitative research. The data of the research were 10 narrative textstaken from an English textbook for grade XI senior high school students entitledEnglish in Use. The data were analyzed by using Fraser Taxonomy (1999). It wasfound 5 types: Contrastive Markers, Elaborative Markers, Inferential Markers,Reason Markers and Sequential. However, There are 3 types of discourse markerswhich were not found in the narrative texts, they are Conclusive, Exemplifier andTopic Relating markers. Furthermore, the data were also analyzed by usingBrinton (1996). It was found 2 functions: Textual Function and InterpersonalFunction. The textual function was the most dominant function found in thenarrative texts.
TEACHERS’ QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM OF GRADE EIGHT IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Anting Mas Tessa Samosir; Anni Holila Pulungan
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

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The goal of this study was to describe teachers’ questions in Englishclassroom and the students’ responses toward the questions. In a classroom context,typically teachers ask a lot of questions. The research indicated that whether or not ina content classroom or in language classroom teachers asked many questions. Thestandard pattern in the classroom was one in which the teacher asked questions, oneor more students responded to the question and then the teacher evaluated theresponses. Thus in term of a classroom context, a questioning session happenednaturally as a process of learning. A descriptive qualitative design was used in thisstudy. The data of this research was collected from classroom observation of twoEnglish teachers (RP & SG) and two classes (VIII-3 & VIII-5) of SMP N 5 Percut SeiTuan. This research dealt with teachers’ questions of grade eight in junior high schoolEnglish classroom. This study conducted to answer questions what types of questionsdo the teacher tend to use in the daily practices of teaching in the English learningand how do the students responded to the questions. The finding indicated that in thequestions types, display questions were highly uttered by the teacher rather thanreferential questions. As the purposes of learning English in a junior high schoolcontext is to engage student to communicate in spoken, all the questioning functionsare related to eliciting information, checking students’ understanding the lesson beingtaught and encouraging them to participate more in the classroom. Therefore, thequestions posed by the teacher were highly distributed. The study is beneficial forboth teacher and student in English language classroom. Questioning and answeringsession happen to force students to speak English even though it is only telling whatthey know about the lesson. It also beneficial for teachers who facilitates students’language ability through asking effective question in an effective way.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON THEIR ENGAGEMENT IN SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION Vega Alviani; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 1 (2022)
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The aims of this study were to describe how the students perceive theirengagement in small group discussions and to explain the factors that influencethe students engagement in small group discussions. A descriptive qualitativedesign was used in this study. The source of data was 25 students of Grade VIIISMP Al-Wasliyah 8 Medan. The data were analyzed by using descriptivequalitative. The results showed that (1) The students perceive their engagement insmall group discussion positively. Most of the students agreed that being engagedin small group discussion was useful for them as EFL students and agreed thatthey have followed all activities in small group discussion and given their besteffort. The students agreed that they could participate well in small groupdiscussion, and felt motivated to engage themselves. The students felt that theywere confident enough to deliver their opinions in group discussion. Besides, allof the students satisfied with their engagement in small group discussion. (2) Thefactors that influence the students in engaging in small group discussion were thestudents’ relationship with teachers, relationship with peers and classmates,students’ self-efficacy, students’ self-regulated learning, and students’ interest inlearning.

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