22 articles in this issue
Gianinna Elaine Malapote Labicane,Ricky Michael Morales Oliva
The alarming decline in the English language proficiency of Filipinos in recent years calls for further exploration into the challenges encountered by learners across the four macro-skills, particularly in writing, being the macro-skill met with the most ... see more
Jeni Arasyita Tazami,Agus Subiyanto
Verb is one of the major lexical classes in language. There are three types of verbs, one of which is action verb, as found in the verb ‘hit’. The verb "hit" is a verb which has two meanings namely DO and HAPPEN forming the universal syntactic meaning:&nb... see more
Nazila Heidarzadegan,Dulfqar M. Abdulrazzaq
This paper aims to explore the role of Historiographic Metafiction and Magical Realism in the enrichment of the plot of Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, clarifying the concept of Magical Realism, its goals, and the reasons for... see more
Niken Fatma Putri,Filia Filia
Evaluation and critics are two essential aspects in assessing a perfect performance. Public speaking is a platform to convey critics as well as evaluations publicly. Critics and Evaluation is an embodiment of check and balance in a democratic nation. Bara... see more
Ronald Maraden Parlindungan Silalahi,Nugraheni Widianingtyas
Native-speakerism is an ideology in foreign language teaching that believes that Native English Speaking Teachers (NESTs) have better competencies than Nonnative English Speaking Teachers (NNESTs). There are marked differences between NESTs and NNESTs in ... see more
Anita Carolin,Alies Poetri Lintangsari
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students in Indonesia were required to study from home for about the past two years. It affected learning activities that made students less engaged. This research offers the Online Collaborative Gaming Approach model to impr... see more
Aulia Addinillah Arum,B.R. Suryo Baskoro
This study aims to describe the rendition of propositional meaning in machine-translated academic text. A proposition is that part of the meaning of a clause or sentence that is constant, despite changes in such things as the voic... see more
Jamaluddin Nasution,Mulyadi Mulyadi
This study aims to discover what and how the typology of Angkola Language (AL) is in word order as well as to determine its grammatical alliance. The application of qualitative methods was carried out descriptively to this study, it means that the data an... see more
Rabiatul Adawiyah Siregar,Ikhwanuddin Nasution,Pardi Pardi
Local wisdom can be used as a medium for introducing culture to increase tourism. The purpose of this research is to describe about the transfer process of the legend of Parsidangan stone in Huta Siallagan, Samosir Regency in literary tourism perspective.... see more
Alfina Eka Pratiwi,Much Koiri
This study deals with schizophrenia, pseudobulbar affect (PBA) and negative responses of the community experienced by the main character of the Joker 2019 film, Arthur Fleck and the public's response to his illness. schizophrenia is a condition in which a... see more
Rini Ekayati,Imelda Darmayanti Manurung,Selamat Husni Hasibuan
Designing and providing learning materials that suit the needs of learners is one of the important roles of a lecturer. This study is conducted to examine the appropriate English learning design in non-English Education Study Programs at UMSU with an orie... see more
Emma Marsella,Dian Marisha Putri,Muhammad Ali Pawiro
The Si Beru Dayang folklore is one of the cultural heritages in North Sumatra, and it belongs to Karonese society. Such folklore is believed to entertain the Karonese who still retell it to young generation according to its function since it contains loca... see more
Meliana Siboro,Rahmadsyah Rangkuti,M Manugeren
This research aims to analyze the use of diction in the poem After The Abortion by Charlotte Puddifoot. The poem deals with matters of abortion experienced by women. The process of aborting a pregnancy intentionally is a mechanism to make a fetus in the u... see more
Nikka Mae Jimenez Adling
The Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19) outbreak has caused a sudden shift in many educational institutions to various alternative instructional methodologies. This pandemic has altered the traditional and typical strategies for teaching and learning enviro... see more
Rita Vidyasari,Ni Putu Era Marsakawati,Luh Putu Artini
This study aimed to describe teachers’ perception of the use of Google Classroom to assess students’ English skills and how the teachers assessed the students during online learning nowadays by using qualitative research method. The participants were 18 t... see more
Amal Abdelsattar Metwally,Dalal Mahmoud Elgemei
This work represents a novel direction for computational linguistics research on metaphor in the Ever-Glorious Qur’an. The present study proposed a basic/non-basic meaning criterion as a marker for the computational identification of metaphor in the Ever-... see more
Samsudin Hi Adam,Anwar Ismail,Silvani Umar Ali
Literary literacy needs to be cultivated to fight the impact of globalization which has made the local culture eroded and increasingly marginalized and has even begun to show symptoms of being forgotten. Thus, study on local wisdom-based literary literacy... see more
Wilfred Madata
Educators and policymakers have taken notice of the widespread usage of Facebook as an online social network and as an alternative method of teaching and learning. People around the world use Facebook for communication and as an English language teaching ... see more
Nisa Asha Syahputra,Mamik Tri Wedawati
Andrea Cremer and David Levithan’s Invisibility is a contemporary novel with a twist of magical realism. Stephen and Elizabeth, the main characters, had made the story in the novel different colors. The study focused on how magical realism was presented i... see more
Mehrunnisa Ani Mufti
Parents believe that books are the media to enhance children’s knowledge enrichment, language development, and linguistic competencies. However, there are limited studies that envisage the involvement of parents in selecting books for their children. ... see more
Ayu Lityaningrum
Malang Javanese has special characteristics due to many migrants in Malang that can affect the use of the Javanese language. Since many mother tongues of different places are spoken there, Malang Javanese can be expected to show divergences from the Stand... see more