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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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AN ANALYSIS CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN ENGLISH SUBJECT AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Dosma Mutiara Purba; Rafika Dewi Nasution; Lidiman S.M. Sinaga
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 6, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (339.629 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v6i2.8507

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This study focuses on analyzing the process of classroom interaction through Flanders Interaction Analysis Category (FIAC) model. The objective was to decsribe how the teacher and students use the categories of classroom interaction in English class by using Flanders Interaction Analysis Category (FIAC) model. The data was found based on the data transcription . the source of the data was the utterances between English teacher and 10th grade students at SMA N 2 Doloksanggul. The instruments for the data collection was video recording. The data analysis applied descriptive qualitative research. It was found that the total percentage each categories classroom interaction were Accepts Feeling (1.1%), Praise and Encourages (2.4%), Accepts Ideas of Students (1.2%), Asks Questions (18.8%), Lecturing (25%), Giving Directions (17.8%), Critizising or justifying authority (2%), Student Talk Response (15.3%), Student Talk Initation (1.9%), Silence or Confusion (14.5%). The dominant category of Teacher Talk in English classroom interaction at SMA N 2 Doloksanggul was Lecturing (25%). While The dominat category of Students Talk was Students Talk Response (15.3%). Keywords : Teacher Talk, Student Talk, Flanders Interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC) model.
DEVELOPING KAMISHIBAI MEDIA IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA YPI AMIR HAMZAH MEDAN Tria Rizky Nadya Ayu; Rahmad Husein
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 10, No 3 (2021)
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The objective of this study were to develop Kamishibai media in writingdescriptive text for the tenth grade students at SMA YPI Amir Hamzah Medan.The subjects of this research were the tenth grade English teacher, and one classof the tenth grade students in SMA YPI Amir Hamzah Medan. This study wasconducted by using educational Research and Development (R & D) method. Thedata were collected through observation, interview, and questionnaire. Based onthe need analysis from questionnaire and interview, it was known that the studentsneeded a learning media that can make their teaching-learning process easier forthem to understand about the descriptive text and also make the students’experience in learning the descriptive text become interactive, especially in theprocess of writing. As result, the researcher developed Kamishibai for teachingwriting of descriptive text for the tenth grade students at SMA YPI Amir HamzahMedan. The score of validation from the validators was 91,4% and it wascategorized as relevant. It means that the media are valid and appropriate to use aslearning media of writing descriptive text for the tenth grade students at SMA YPIAmir Hamzah Medan.
CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN THE ENGLISH SUBJECT FOR THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 1 SALAK PAKPAK BHARAT Dirgahayu Tumangger; Busmin Gurning; Muhammad Natsir
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 7, No 1 (2018)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (412.018 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v7i1.12420

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This study aimed at finding out the categories of teacher and students talk and the percentage of teacher and students talk during classroom interaction. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitativedesign. The subjects of this study were the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Salak and the English teacher who taught at that class in 2017/2018 academic year. The data were the utterances of both teacher and students during the classroom interaction process which were collected by using observation and recorded by using smartphone and recorded it about three meetings.The data collected were analyzed by using Flanders Analysis formulate. The findings of the study showed  Analysis showed, there are ten categories of students and teachers talk that could be found during the classroom interaction and the percentage of each of category was: 2,05% for accepting feeling, 5.88% for praising and encouraging, 5,29% for accepting students’ ideas, 11,17% for asking question, 11,76% for lecturing, 8,52% for giving direction, 14,41% for criticizing, 32,35% for students talk response,6,17% student talk initiation and2,35% for silence and confusion.so the teacher talk percentage was about 60,3% and 38,52% for student. Keywords: classroom interaction, Flanders interaction analysis category system
INDONESIAN – ENGLISH CODE MIXING USED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS AT MTsN BATU BARA Dwi Anjarsari; Willem Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 11, No 4 (2022)
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This research aimed to investigate the code-mixing used by the English teachers and the reasons for using it in the teaching and learning process at MTsN Batu Bara. This study used the descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research are teachers’ utterances and teachers’ reasons for using code-mixing. They were taken from the three English teachers at MTsN Batu Bara using observation and interview sheets during the teaching and learning process. The result showed three types of code-mixing used by the English teachers in the teaching and learning process. Those are Intra sentential code-mixing, Intra lexical code-mixing, and Involving change of pronunciation. From the teachers’ utterances, Intra sentential code-mixing was dominantly used in the teaching process with an average percentage of 82.5%, which occurs within word boundary. Then Intra lexical code-mixing has 11.6%, and Involving change of pronunciation has 6.4%. After doing the interview, it can be known that the teachers’ reasons for code-mixing used in the teaching and learning process are the situation of the students’ ability in learning English and bilingualism as a teachers’ ability to communicate in two languages.
DISCOURSE MARKERS IN ESSAY WRITING OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Sonya Sibagariang; Siti Aisah Ginting; Berlin Sibarani
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 7, No 3 (2018)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (302.103 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v7i3.12445

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The objectives of the study were to find out the discourse markers naturally that used by students in the essay writing, the most frequent inappropriateness in terms of the use of discourse markers, and to describe the reasons why they used the discourse markers in the way they do. The study was conducted by applying a descriptive qualitative research. The subjects of the research were the students of senior high school at SMA Budisatrya Medan. The data were the students’ writing that were analyzed by using Fraser Taxonomy (1999). It was fond that the students used 7 out 8 types of discourse markers. Furthermore, the data were also analyzed by using Kao & Chen Taxonomy (2011). It was also fond that the students used 3 out 6 types of misuse patterns of discourse markers. There were seven reasons the students used discourse markers: Limitation of knowledge, lack of ability in writing, lack of interest against english, lack of interest against writing, reading resources, teachers’ explanation and internet resources. Keywords: Discourse Markers, Misuse Patterns, Students’ essay writing.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING RECIPROCAL TEACHING METHOD Ruth Adelina Sianturi; Sumarsih Sumarsih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 2, No 1 (2013)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v2i1.724

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This study deals with the improving students’ achievement in reading narrative text by using reciprocal teaching. The research of this study was conducted by using action research. The subject of this study was the tenth grade students SMA Negeri 6 Medan. One class was taken as the subject, namely the students from X-5. There were 49 students, consisting of 22 male and 27 female. This research was done in two cycles; there was three meetings in cycle I and three meetings in cycle II. The instruments for collecting data were reading narrative text (25 items of multiple choice tests) teacher make test as quantitative data and interview sheet, observation sheet and diary notes as qualitative data. In analyzing the data, the mean of the students’ score for the treatment I was 61.79, for the treatment II was 72.24 and treatment III was 81.71. The data showed that the students’ score was rising in every treatment. The conclusion is that the use of reciprocal teaching method can improve students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. It suggested to English teacher to apply reciprocal teaching method in teaching reading comprehension. Key words: reading, narrative text, reciprocal teaching.
THE READING COMPREHENSION OF TEXT WITH DIFFERENT LEXICAL DENSITY AND TOPIC FAMILIARITY OF GRADE TEN STUDENTS OF SMA SW KATOLIK BUDI MURNI 2 MEDAN Laura Esterlita br Sinuhaji; Berlin Sibarani; Tiarnita Maria Sarjani Siregar
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 8, No 4 (2019)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (1038.485 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v8i4.19705

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This study aims with reading comprehension of grade ten students of SMA SW Katolik Budi Murni 2 Medan. The objective of this study is(1) describe the students reading comprehension across text of different lexical density and topic familiarity and (2) to find out the effect of lexical density and topic familiarity in reading comprehension. The research was conducted bydescriptive qualitative with non-parametric statistic research. The research was conducted in SMA SW Katolik Budi Murni 2 Medan at the grade ten classroom. the sample of the research were 10 students. The instruments for collecting data used in this research were six reading text with different lexical density and topic familiarity and of reading comprehension test.The result of the analysis showed that: (1) Familiar text is easier to comprehend for the students than the unfamiliar text when they both have low lexical density, while familiar text with medium and high lexical density is the same difficult for the students to comprehend as the unfamiliar text. (2) Text with low lexical density is easier for the students to comprehend than text with medium and high lexical density when the texts are both familiar. While texts with low and medium lexical density is the same difficult for the students to comprehend as the text with high lexical density when the text are unfamiliar.Keywords:Key words : Lexical Density, Reading Comprehension, Reading Text, Topic Familiarity.
DEVELOPING LEARNING MATERIAL OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT FOR THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AS A SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL Frikson Siburian; Meisuri Meisuri; Sumarsih Sumarsih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 6, No 1 (2017)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (405.324 KB) | DOI: 10.24114/genre.v6i1.8498

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The objective of this study was to develop learning material on descriptive text based on the students’ needs as a supplementary material. This research was conducted as research and development (R & D) design. The data were taken from the books, internet and environment. The instruments used in this research were questionnaire and interview. The product of this study was a set of learning material that can be used as a supplementary material. The developed learning material consisted of two units, namely: Describing peoples which was consisted of two texts namely describing public figure (Jokowi Dodo) and describing an Idol (Agnes Monica) and Describing places consisted of three texts namely; Azizi mosque, Tangkahan and Bukit Lawang. Each of the text consisted of two kinds of exercise and in the last page of the product were provided the answer keys. Keywords: Reading Learning Material, Supplementary Material, Descriptive text.
STUDENTS’ SELF-REGULATED LEARNING IN LEARNING WRITING Ade Namira; Anggraini Thesisia Saragih
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 9, No 2 (2020)
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The aims of this study were to describe how the students implement their self-regulated learning in learning writing and to explain the reason why they do it as the way they do. A descriptive qualitative design was used in this study. The data and source of data were students’ activities of self-regulated learning in learning writing of Grade XII Culinary SMK Telkom 2 Medan. The data were collected by using questionnaire and interview. The data were analyzed by using descriptive qualitative. The results showed that (1) Most of the students did self-regulated learning activities with the level of frequency of use sometimes namely goal-setting (93%), environmental structuring (40%), self-evaluation (70.5%), task-strategies (40%), help-seeking (83.3%), and time management (50%). (2) The reasons why the students did self-regulated learning in learning writing as they do were: 1) Goal-setting (personal factor), 2) Environmental structuring (environmental factor), 3) Self-evaluation (behavior factor), 4) Task-strategies (personal factor), 5) Help-seeking (personal factor), and 6) Time management (personal factor).
ANALYSIS OF READING MATERIALS IN TEXTBOOK FOR GRADE XI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Nisha Tita Mutiarni; Rahmad Husein; Tiarnita MS Siregar
GENRE JOURNAL : Journal of Applied Linguistics of FBS Unimed Vol 6, No 4 (2017)
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This study aims to find out the GI and LD level, the text which has the highest GI and LD and what make the text has the highest GI and LD of Advanced Learning English 2 textbook. This study was conducted by using qualitative research. The data of study were the 18 texts inside of the Advanced Learning English 2 textbook for grade XI Senior High School. The data were analyzed by using Eggins (2004) theory. The result of this study: 1) GI level of text was high based on Eggins theory that the texts had more complex clauses than simple clause. Text 1 was 0.52. Text 2 was 1.24. Text 3 was 0.84. Text 4 was 0.92.  Text 5 was 1.95. Text 6 is 1.46. Text 7 was 1.03. Text 8 was 0.90. Text 9 was 1.62.  Text 10 was 1.85.  Text 11 was 1.64.  Text 12 was 2.25. Text 13 was 2.60 Text 14 was 1.40. Text 15 was 1.80. Text 16 was 4.00. Text 17 was 1.42.  Text 18 was 1.73. The LD level of text was low based on Eggins theory that the texts had more content carrying lexical item than non-content carrying lexical items . Text 1 was 0.56. Text 2 was 0.52. Text 3 was 0.52. Text 4 was 0.54. Text 5 was 0.55. Text 6 was 0.40.  Text 7 was 0.42. Text 8 was 0.36. Text 9 was 0.44.  Text 10 was 0.46. Text 11 was 0.44. Text 12 was 0.39. Text 13 was 0.38. Text 14 was 0.38. Text 15 was 0.42. Text 16 was 0.38. Text 17 was 0.46. Text 18 was 0.42. 2) The text had the highest GI was 4.00 within title Removing Lead from Petrol in hortatory exposition text and the text had the highest of LD was 0.56 within title Panda in report text. 3)The length of the sentence didn’t influence the grammatical intricacy of the text but the more clause complexes and content carrying lexical items could make the reader difficult to process the text. Key words: qualitative research, lexical density, grammatical intricacy