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THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF INVOLVING SPEAKING AND WRITING TEST IN NATIONAL EXAMINATION FOR SMA GRADUATION Edi Suprayetno
The Seall Journal Vol 1 No 1 (2020): April 2020
Publisher : LPPM STKIP AL MAKSUM

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This article is to analyze and observe how far is the contribution of writing and speaking test in National Examination and their implementation in the evaluation process during the process of learning. Based on the analysis it was found that the English subject tested in national examinations is dominantly measure the cognitive competence of the students because the content of the test question is only consist of listening and reading skill.There are six types of speaking: speaking confidently, informal conversation, interviews, in the work place, beauty pageants, general speaking skills, pantomime script, teacher, extemporaneous speaking.In mastering writing skill, students have to own much knowledge of grammar,knowing well about punctuation and sentence structure as well as rich vocabulary, correct spelling and formatting.In other words it could be said that it is very important to involve the speaking and writing test during the learning process to train students to be able to pass the English National Examination. By mastering speaking and writing skill SMA graduation will be able follow some sort of TOEFL or IELTS test to continue their studies abroad, or get a job at the company, it takes skill to speak and write in the interview test.
Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension by Using Sq3r Method in Vocational High School at SMK AL Maksum Langkat Fernando De Napoli Marpaung; Edi Suprayetno; Supriadi
The Seall Journal Vol 3 No 1 (2022): April 2022
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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.
The Maintenance of Bahasa Banjar in Langkat Neneng sri lestari neneng; Edi Suprayetno
The Seall Journal Vol 4 No 1 (2023): April 2023
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This study deals with the maintenance of bahasa Banjar in Langkat. It employs qualitative research design. This study aims to describe the maintenance of bahasa Banjar in Langkat. The subjects were twenty Banjarnese speakers in Langkat. The instruments used for this study were observation, questionnaire, and interview (in-depth interview). The observation was applied to get the data about the Banjarnese speakers in maintaining their language such what the language that they used in daily communication. Questionnaire was applied to collect the data about the factors which support bahasa Banjar maintenance in Langkat and interview was applied to get data about the reason of Banjarnese to maintain their language and to get in depht result of the research. The data was analyzed by using Miles and Huberman’s data analysis. bahasa Banjar is maintained in Langkat. They keep using their language (bahasa Banjar) in Langkat because they realize the condition of bahasa Banjar nowdays, whereas there were some of them shift from bahasa Banjar maintenance. They are living in an area dominated by Banjarnese, visiting homeland regularly, intra marriage, use of the language in family domain, use of the language in neighborhood domain, use of the language in workplace domain, use the language in education domain, ethno linguistic vitality, use of the languge in religion domain, practice of adat istiadat (traditional) ceremony and solidarity of Banjarnese to use their language together. bahasa Banjar keep maintain and exist in Langkat. Keywords: Maintenance, Bahasa Banjar
STUDENTS’ PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED DURING LISTENING ACTIVITIES IN STKIP AL MAKSUM LANGKAT ROSMEN; Edi Suprayetno; Ratih
The Seall Journal Vol 3 No 1 (2022): April 2022
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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.