This study aimed to explain the process of developing teaching materials based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL). As the basis of development, this study used 7 types of texts that should be learned in class VII SMP items, namely descriptive texts, fantasy texts, procedural texts, report texts,...

This paper discusses the role of literature in the development of culture, country, world and humanity of the people. The great literary work is not only beautiful artfully in terms of language and its shape, it can even give insights into thinking, science, values and soul, which can instill and develop...

This research article contained a discussion about efforts to maintain and develop an intangible cultural heritage of Minangkabau people in the speech, that is speak using figure of language. The figure of language used by Minangkabau people is spoken in the form of a traditional phrase (proverbs). This...

The concept of nationalism has frequently been used to classify and analyze a range of cultural expressions, including literature. For the newer nations of the world, it has been discussed in the context of the post-colonial experience as one of the themes commonly discernable in the modern literature...

Power is the potentiality possessed by a person to influence the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others. In fact, power is used in all speech events, including in class discourse. Through speech acts and speech patterns, teachers (T) and students (S) use the power in learning activities. Generally,...

Literature develops specifically on village land, city, country and language itself. Literature is also derived from our experience, feelings, situations and needs. Although the language and art of literary works have shown much in common with each other, there are also many differences between them....

It is generally accepted that there is a close relationship between language and culture and also between culture and the values and perceptions that influence individual actions and behavior. For this reason, study of the relationship between language and well-being has important implications for our...

This study aims to determine the problems faced by teachers in the learning of writing languages on aspects of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor in primary school. This research uses qualitative approach. Data were obtained based on the results of the questionnaire answered by the teacher. Data were...

This paper aimed to describe the need for teaching materials of fictional prose aspects of instructional material structure at FKIP Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. This description was part of the results of the development research aimed at producing the teaching materials model of Fictional Prose-based...

The intelligent character education is a system of values cultivation for the students which encompasses the components of knowledge, awareness, willingness, actions to implement these values and as a way of adjusting the behaviors of the students, in order to become good citizens of the future. These...

he aims of the study were (1) to describe the strategies of critically speaking criticism of Minangkabau speakers in West Sumatra based on their educational level and (2) to describe the level of use of Brown and Levinson-based strategies in a speech criticizing the Minangkabau speakers in West Sumatra...

English has become one of essential skills that must be acquired in this digital era. English learning process is not only conducted by young learner, but it is also conducted by adult learners. The development of technology especially Information Communication Technology (ICT) has lead significant improvement...

In conveying their ideas in writing, students often found some difficulties in composing sentences. The sentences composed, are not clear in terms of the structures, so that the ideas conveyed could not be understood well. Based on this situation, the main purpose of this study was to describe sentence...

This study aims to describefable text writing skills of students taught by the learning model contextual teaching and leraning and conventional learning model is a model of direct instruction, describes the skill of writing texts fable students taught through learning model contextual teaching and leraning...

Lessons learned and evaluation Literary Appreciation tend to be neglected: less procedural, less precise, and less effective. Measuring appraisal tools of literary appreciation are mostly only up to the level of knowledge (cognitive), not to measure the psychomotor and affective aspects. Therefore, the...

This research is caused by the low ability of students in writing. Students' writing is difficult to read. Writing the alphabet and numbers seems still not good and neat, this will hurt the students themselves.When examining the results of the exercise, the teacher has difficulty reading the writing...

Bahasa Indonesia teachers should be able to create an atmosphere of learning that can motivate participants who are in the middle of adolescence (12-14 years). Teachers can use an interesting media to help learners in uttering ideas. This study done to (1) analyze the developing an instructional model...

PowerPoint is one of the presentation software programs used effectively to present material in the classroom and encourage learner learning. In this study, PowerPoint is used as media to support learners’ peer-Assessment in the classroom. This case study highlights learners’ perception about the effectiveness...

This study was a verbal analysis based on gender, with differences in sample language between male and female students in junior high school muhammadiyah 3 Medan, academic years 2017/2018. Based on the data, the results are as follows: (1) Use of voice and intonation From the data, summed up as follows....

The research aimed to develop the prototype of Indonesian reading test for the foreign students. The research method applied the research and development (R&D). This research is part of the research in third stage that is product development. The product development is based on the graduates competency...

Media in learning is very important to support learning success and maximize learning outcomes. In the multimedia era, the media used tend to be technology-based. But it is possible that conventional media such as books, novels, pictorial stories etc. can still be used and are indispensable. Literary...

This study was conducted to overcome the limitations of teaching materials on learning exposition text of students of class X. This study aimed to describe the process of developing learning module of expository text based on problem based learning (PBL) that valid (in terms of content, presentation,...

Appropriate texts for children may contribute to support their self-development in many aspects. Text selection should consider cultural values, for children do not grow up in an empty culture environment. Children’s literature are mostly the creation of men of letters. Thus, do teachers or lecturers...

This research aims to describe the effect of the use of cooperative learning approach type think pair share and students’ interest in reading towards students’ skill in writing observation report text in grade ten of senior high school. This research deploys a quantitative research using experiment method...

This research aimed to reveal: how the process of developing online learning model based on blended learning on valid class action research courses (PTK) is valid, how the practice of online learning model based on blended learning in the course of PTK ?, How the effectiveness of the development of online...

Informal English teaching for people in creative economy is still lacking or even never done before in Jayapura, Papua. Therefore, this study aimed to conduct teaching English for women painters and sellers of bark painting in Asei Island, East Sentani, Jayapura Regency. This research was a qualitative...

The issue about the process of educating qualified teenagers is not easy because education nowadays demands dynamic wisdom and effort to find formulas to deal with the problems in this globalization stream. Therefore, teachers need to nurture and maintain good relationships with students and interpersonal...

The culture of literacy in elementary schools needs to be continuously developed, one through fairy texts. Culture of literacy means developing the logical thinking ability of students in understanding and interpreting something obtained, either orally or in writing, and able to use it in life. The text...

Interview is a key in generating large amounts of information. This mainly depends on the quality of the interviewer's questions. Therefore, the element of WH-question in the form of interrogative elements is no stranger in learning the skills of the interviewer. However, the element can be developed...

This study was aimed to (1) explain the type of teacher's directive speech acts, (2) the context of the situation in the teacher's directive speech acts, and (3) the principle of politeness in teachers' directive speech acts on teaching and learning process at SMA Negeri 5 Merangin Jambi Province. Data...

This article described the structure and tasks of editing in the campus press, exactly at Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD) in period 1998s named Karung Goni. This press was formed by a student group led by Soleh (as the main character) in the movie “Mau Jadi apa?” written by Soleh Solihun. The purpose...

Based on the needs analysis, it is important to develop the learning module of writing the text of the argument. The modules are based on Problem Based Learning (PBL). The type of research was R & D (research & development). The development model used is 4-D (define, design, develop, and dessiminate)....

Mentoring is one of an effective learning method in character building. Therefore, some improvements are much needed. One of them is improving mentor and mentees’ understanding of the effectiveness of mentoring activity. The purpose of this research is to describe mentors and mentees’ understanding about...

This study aims to describe the development of teaching materials to read text-based report on the observation of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) that are practical and effective. The development of these materials following the model of Plomp. Products produced in the form of teaching materials...

This research was carried due to the lack of students’ critical thinking at English department on speaking. Answering questions were approximately found more popular than asking questions. Socratic questioning is a method of learning with the conversation or debate confronted with a series of questions....

This study was conducted to address the limitations Indonesian teaching materials on learning to write text debate class X SMA Padang. The purpose of this study were (1) to explain the process of developing learning modules write text-based discussion of problem based learning (PBL) are valid, practical,...

This research is motivated by students having difficulty in writing narrative and low value obtained by students in writing narration. For that, need a new breakthrough in learning to write narrative that is by using media of animated movie learning. The purpose of this research is to get information...

This study was conducted because of the low level of students reading skill. The national examination score Indonesian Languange in high school and reading strategies were assumed as the factors affecting students reading skill. The aim of this study was to describe and to analyze the contribution of...

This study was an experimental research which aimed at identifying the effect of implementation of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) and reading habits of exposition text writing skills. This research is using quantitative method with a 2x2 factorial experimental design. The study population was...

This research focused on the ability of writing argumentative text correlate to writing motivation and grammatical competence. This research used survey method through correlational study. It was conducted on the students of grade X in SMA Negeri 3 Serang in academic year 2016/2017 using simple random...

This research aimed to describe the validity and effectiveness of reading description text learning materials which are developed based on the principles of CTL for grade VII students. This research used the model of Plomp from prelimenary phase, development, up to asssesment phase. Validation of learning...

The rationale of this research was the use of teaching materials that were less attractive and appropriate with the writing process (pre-writing, during the writing, and post-writing). Hence, this study aimed at describing the process of developing teaching materials for writing narrative and producing...

This research aimed to describe the character values contained in Riau folklore that was instrumental in the formation of character in TK Pembina Negeri Rokan Hulu in Riau province. Riau is very important folklore delivered / told one of them to introduce and preserve local culture to the younger generation....

The study aimed to describe the develop of CTL-based reading materials for junior high school students. The product of this research was a reading material of procedure text-based on CTL summarized in a booklet (textbooks) which are valid and practical. The Instructional design used R and D development...

Public speaking in English is a needed skill for leaders and staffs in any offices and companies in Indonesia. In this globalization era, skill to communicate effectively and efficiently in English during a meeting or a teleconference with foreigners is needed, such as for company product promotion,...

This article is aimed to describe integrated thematic context on contextual learning based on English learning process in the Fifth Year of As Shofa Islamic Elementary School. The increasing in the learning quality and the learning result of the students can be interpreted and manipulated by applying...

This study aimed to gain a deep understanding towards the values of education in Tere Liye’s novel, Hujan. The source of research data was a novel by Tere Liye, Hujan. The data of the research were educational values contained in the novel. Descriptive qualitative used as the method of the research....

This research aimed to improve text-based short story writing skills in folklore through the use of audio-visual media visual in SMA Negeri 1 Batang Anai. The action research was chosen because of how the cycle the increase in text-based short story writing skills in folklore through the use of audio...

This research aims to know how the English teachers’ management for the teaching strategies in learning process of genre-based writing instruction in 2013 curriculum on Senior High School students of Pesisir Selatan. This research is limited to know how the English teachers manage the first stage building...

The introduction of proposition in this study are summarized as follows. First, the locution that used by the journalist in presenting a news is still less effective. Second, the lack of professional capability in journalists to speak. Third, the use of Indonesian Language especially concerned in spelling,...

The utterance which contained swear sometimes was not realized its existence because of its spontaneous characteristic. This communication event could lead to the misappropriation of meaning because the meaning of a swearing word sometimes was applied to the reference which was probably not in accordance...

Literature to become fused (inherent) with the Malay society in Riau. One of the aspects is seen from the process of fusing between genre and the economic system of Tapak Lapan. This study was conducted by the qualitative method with descriptive approach. Determination of the informants is done purposively....

This study aimed to describe the first language acquisition of 3 years old children who experience language disorders in the category of language disorders experienced and factors causing language disorders. The object of this study was a 3-year-old boy named Arjuna El Sharif Uwaish. The method used...

Government officials as public officials must use the Indonesian language in accordance with the principle of politeness and principles of cooperation. The purpose of this study was to express the performance of politeness using the Indonesian language orally by government officials of West Sumatra....

-The role of language in the era of social change allows discourse to contain a variety of hidden agendas. So does the speech of government officials who did not escape the public spotlight. This research is aimed to explain the representation of education and positioning of the government in the speech...

This article discussed about the local wisdom that was found in the Kuantan Singingi community based of Riau-Malay especially Kuantan Singingi dialect. The purpose of this research is to analyze the form and field of meaning of local wisdom based on Malay language in Kuantan Singingi Regency. The method...

The accuracy of word choice and term is an important factor that determines the effectiveness of a sentence. Mistakes of words in a sentence often occur because speakers or authors do not understand the difference in shade of meaning in synonymous words. Many linguists are studying Indonesian synonyms,...

This study aims to (1) clarify tasting synonymous adjective pairs in Indonesian; (2) determine the kind of synonymy couple tasting in Indonesian adjective; and (3) determining the adjective pairs tasting nuances of meaning in Indonesian. This study is a qualitative study using descriptive methods. This...

This article was written to describe the performance of Indonesian language from executive officials in social media, Facebook. The issues discussed focused on two things, namely (1) the structure of the sentence, and (2) the choice of vocabulary. Data source was the written text of executive officials...

The purpose of this study was to describe the shape of cohesion lexical and grammatical markers appropriate and inappropriate in a scientific paper. The research is a qualitative study using descriptive analysis method. The data source of this research is the thesis students of Indonesian Language and...

Several studies on synonyms have been done, but there are still unanswered questions. Previous research has only examined the same element of meaning between synonymous words, but not so much in the aspect of nuance of meaning. This article was written to explain the nuances of the synonym meaning of...

This study aimed to analyze the using of inclusion perspective of Van Leeuwen's strategy in criminal news with narcotics theme in daily Online Newspaper Haluan Padang edition of February 2018th. There were 3 steps to collect the data (1) to read and understand discourse with narcotics theme in daily...

Phrase is a lingual unit of clause constructor formed from two or more words occupying a function within a clause. One of the categories functioning in a phrase is an adverb. Adverbs, as closed categories in Indonesian, are rarely studied, especially in the text of translation such as the translation...

The Jakarta Election 2017 was a phenomenal political event from many perspectives including in aspect of language use as political tool. Therefore, this study aimed to reveal violations of the principle of politeness in the speech of politicians and their implicatures on the political discourse of Jakarta...

Sentani is one of hundred tribes in Papua that is rich with folklore. One of them is traditional proverb that used to be passed down from one generation to another generation. Proverb brought invaluable virtues that were used by the old Sentani people to teach about social life, wisdom, norms, ethics,...

This study was aim to determine the accuracy and inaccuracy of the use of Indonesian spelling and standard vocabulary in facebook posting Elviana one of the national political figures. The data in this research were written words, words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, both Indonesian, regional, and...

The purpose of this study was to provide a description of forms of persuasive speech in propaganda sponsorship of prospective customers of Q.Net Infinite Pekanbaru. This research was a qualitative descriptive study which is the object of this research is a form of persuasive speech in sponsor propaganda...

A number of articles about synonyms have been written, but have not given a thorough explanation. The article on synonyms by previous researchers only addresses the same element of meaning in synonymous words, but lacks the kind of synonyms. The writing of this article is done to explain the type of...

The study of ideology in a media text has been presented by a number of researchers, but research on the ideology of society as individual representatives is insufficient. Therefore, this research attempted to explain how the realization of ideology, especially Islamism, in the public comment on the...

The purpose of this study is (1) to explain the use of grammatical cohesion on the aspects of reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction in the students' thesis; (2) explain the quality of thesis writing. The object of this research is thesis student of Faculty of Language and Arts Universitas...

This study describes the observation of lecturers from the style of personality, including the title of professor. The faculty of speech, well done to the students and to fellow lecturers were done, both in the formal and informal conditions. This study uses observation by tapping recording technique,...

This study discusses the use of Indonesian spelling in the headlines in kompas.com newspaper. The method used in this research is a descriptive method. Based on the findings and discussion, it can be concluded that found three inaccurate use of Indonesian spelling in kompas.com newspaper, as follows....

This research to reconstructed the rhetorical structure of unaccredited Indonesian Journal Entries (AJP) to become the accredited Indonesian Journal Entries. The research method was developed method with three-phase activities. The data were in the form of written utterance of AJP. The data collection...

There are many values related to character education found in folklore. Minangkabau is one of the places in Indonesia that retain a lot of folklore. In 2016, the researchers managed to collect and archived fifty pieces of children’s stories that come from all regions of West Sumatra. The children’s stories...

This research was based on several radical behaviour found in society. These radical actions need more serious attention by all community. This research aimed at describing kinds of preventive radicalism through multicultural of Minangkabau colored-novels. This research was qualitative through analysis...

This study aimed to describe the construction of the role of women in the novels of Indonesia in the 1920s. The data in study were figure of speeches, speeches of the narrator, description of the behavior of character. Issue in this study is about the construction role of women contained in the novels...

This paper is aimed to explain the expression of multicultural values in children’s story in Indonesia. The method used in this research is the content analysis method used to interpret the literary works. This research data was taken from the literary works that are intended for children, which is written...

This research aimed to describe and analyze narcisstic women’s profile in trilogy Si Parasit Lajang by Ayu Utami. This qualitative research deployed a descriptive method. The data of this research were sentences that contained of narcisstic women’s profile. A real form of self-actualization of someone...

This research article contains a discussion about the egends folkltale category of Minangkabau people’s in West Sumatra. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The legends folktale of Minangkabau people's in West Sumatra was obtained from the narrative of informants. Categorical data is formulated...

This research was generally aimed to explain about the role and the position of Bundo Kanduang in local color novels Minangkabau written in the New Era. Specifically, it focused on creating a systematic, factual, and accurate picture or painting of the facts, traits and relationships among the phenomena...

This article aimed to describe reunderstanding and reconstructing the form of folk belief statements in Minangkabau society. This research was a content analysis researh using descriptive qualitative method. The research was done in 4 places in city of Padang namely: Padang Barat, Padang Timur, Padang...

This research was motivated by the assumption that kaba in the oral literary performance of Dendang Pauah can be used to reconstruct the cultural values ​​or view of the Minangkabau life. Knowledge of the cultural values of a collective is very important, because with that knowledge we will be able to...

The availability of water resources is central to human life. Water resources utilized by humans must be maintained its availability until the future in order to be enjoyed by the next generation. Efforts to maintain the availability of water resources is done by care, maintain, and use it wisely. Such...

The patriarchal culture system that has rooted in Indonesia makes the women marginalized in every aspect of life. Women in Indonesia have long resisted the patriarchal culture. The resistance of women is reflected in literature. The purpose of this study was to describe the forms of women’s resistance...

A person's ability to control emotions and regulate the state of the soul is included in the form of emotional intelligence. The purpose of this study was to describe the emotional intelligence that exists in the child's main character in the novel Di Tanah Lada. This research used a descriptive qualitative...

This study aimed to describe the skills of writing the text of the students 'short story review which was taught by cooperative learning model of TPS type and conventional learning model, describing the skill of writing the text of the students' short story which was learned through cooperative type...

The background of the research described and discussed the empowerment of the aesthetics of sounds and words of mantra in the treatment of Malay Riau society which is collected in The Book of Mantra. The formulation of this research is how is the aesthetic utilization of mantra of medical treatment of...

This study aimed to; (1) describe and analyze the phenomena of LGBT in Modern Indonesian’s Novel, (2) analyze whether the emergence of LGBT phenomena in Indonesian’s novels have its correlations with the existence of LGBT in real situation, (3) investigate the relation of the LGBT phenomena in novels...

The value of religiosity in the poems of Hamid Jabbar is an authentic religiosity; particularly based on the point of view about human relationship with God. This study aimed to explain the authentic religiosity, the poet’s view of human’s relationship with God in a poem by Hamid Jabbar entitled Tiba...

The aim of this study was to describe the political tragedy which becomes the background of the novel Cerita Cinta Enrico by Ayu Utami. This research used interpretative qualitative method and applied New Historicism approach. The data were in the form of words, phrases, sentences, and story units contained...

-This study aimed to describe the form of the struggle of women in Indonesian contemporary novels. To describe the form of the struggle of women in Indonesian contemporary novels, the theory of liberal feminism was being used. This study used a qualitative method of content analysis techniques. Data...

Total Quality Management (TQM) is an organizational culture that emphasizes on efforts to create quality and continuously improve quality through every activity of the organization. This research specifically aimed at: (1) knowing the leadership and staff's understanding of the TQM concept in Universitas...

Children reading room in West Java Regional Library and Archives Agency (BAPUSIPDA: Badan Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Daerah Jawa Barat) is an agency library service that provides children books collection. The collection frequently used by children in the agency children reading room is a collection...

Library as a medium of fulfillment of information needs should be able to provide optimal service to its users. One effort that can be done is to provide the most complete and latest collection so that the users’ needs for information is satisfied. However, in the process of information-gathering, users...

The research was based on the fact that students with disabilities who enroll in primary school inclusion also have a need for an update. This study focused information search process conducted by students with special needs that refer to the information search process theory advanced by Khultau, namely:...

Universitas Negeri Padang becomes a barometer in the development of information and communication technology (ICT) for the realization of the present generation. Universitas Negeri Padang has declared as a Cyber ​​campus whose goal is to educate students to be technologically literate. Therefore it is...

The purpose of this activity is to realize a superior and competitive rotation management program. Partners in this activity are Muhammadiyah Schools in Sukaramai and PCM Tegal Sari II PCM. The existence of Muhammadiyah schools is equipped by school libraries as a means of supporting the success of student...

Children reading room in West Java Regional Library and Archives Agency (BAPUSIPDA: Badan Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Daerah Jawa Barat) is an agency library service that provides children books collection. The collection frequently used by children in the agency children reading room is a collection...