Proceedings of the International Seminar of Languages, Arts and Literature Education (ISLALE 2025)

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Peer-Review Statements

Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan, Barli Kifli, Ricky Drimarcha Barus, Zulkifli Zulkifli
All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the 7th International Seminar of Language, Art and Literature Education (7th ISLALE 2025) on September 24, 2025 in Emerald Garden Hotel in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia. These articles have been peer-reviewed by the members of the...
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The Effectiveness of Indonesian Language Teaching Materials with Ecological Content Assisted by Augmented Reality

Wisman Hadi, Ika Febriana, Lili Tansliova, Abdurahman Adisaputera
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of Indonesian language teaching materials with ecological content assisted by augmented reality as an effort to increase students’ environmental awareness. This study is motivated by the lack of Indonesian language teaching materials that integrate environmental...
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Integrating AI And NLP Techniques to Enhance Student-Lecturer Interaction in Micro Teaching Sessions

Siti Aisah Ginting, Rita Hartati, Meisuri Meisuri
Microteaching relies on interactions between lecturers and students. However, many lecturers struggle to communicate clearly and confidently. This study examines how a combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques can improve student teaching performance....
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Students’ Use of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies in English Language Learning: The Impact of AI Translation Tools

Masitowarni Siregar, Zulkifli Zulkifli, Wisman Hadi, Surya Masniari Hutagalung, Siti Soraya Lin Abdullah Kamal, Omar Ali Ahmad Al Smadi
The study aims to analyze the impact of AI translation tools on Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) strategies in English Language Learning. It is necessary to integrate AI technologies in education, particularly understanding how AI translation tools affect students’ planning, monitoring, and evaluating their...
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Differentiated Learning Implementation to Improve Students’ Writing Skills

Fahri Haswani, Mohd. Nazri Bin Latiff Azmi
Learning to write often faces challenges due to the diversity of students’ abilities, interests, and learning styles in the classroom. To answer these problems, differentiated learning is a relevant and effective approach. The purpose of this study is to explain how differentiated learning is used in...
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Digital Scrapbook as a Multimodal Tool for Teaching and Learning Writing Argumentative Text in Indonesian EFL Classrooms

Mahmud Layan Hutasuhut, Sisila Fitriany Damanik, Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan, Widya Andayani, Winda Setiasari
The potential of digital storytelling and multimodality is of significance in the teaching and learning of writing narrative and descriptive texts. Few studies, however, have investigated this potential to write argumentative text that necessitates logical reasoning, critical thinking, and evidence integration...
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The Implementation of Integrity Zone in TOEFL Preparation Training: The Case of Indonesia

Rika Rika, Ariatna Ariatna, Fahri Haswani, Juli Rachmadani
A language laboratory is a specialized facility designed to support interactive and effective language learning by utilizing advanced technology. It plays a crucial role in enhancing the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing of students, particularly in the English Language...
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Deconstructing the Concept of Beauty in Shampoo Advertising: Visual Representations of Pantene Advertisement with Keanu

Widya Andayani, Sisila F. Damanik, Mahmud L. Hutasuhut
This paper discusses the beauty concept that is deconstructed through Pantene shampoo advertisements. Mainly, this research aims to reveal how Keanu as a new model in a shampoo advertisement meets the beauty standards in a beauty advertisement. In order to achieve the research objective, the researchers...
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Integrating Humor into English Language Testing: Enhancing Students’ Memory and Learning Retention

Sisila Fitriany Damanik, Aslam Khan, I Dewa Putu Wijana, Nazlah Syahaf Nasution, Barli Kifli
Both performance and long-term learning may be loaded by the rigidity and anxiety that characterize traditional English language exams. Although humor’s benefits in classroom instruction—such as stress reduction, motivation, and retention—are well known, its function in assessment is still less understood....
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Integration of Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT in the Development of DELF A2 Grammar Teaching Materials

Andi Wete Polili, Isda Pramuniati, Abdul Ghofur, Icha Priliskha Yunisty, William Anderson Hutapea
This research was designed based on an analysis of the integration of ChatGPT in the development of DELF A2 French grammar materials. The background of this research is the need for French language learning that is more interactive, modern, effective, and adaptive in accordance with the DELF A2 standard....
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Needs Analysis for the Development of Fachsprache Course Materials

Surya Masniari Hutagalung, Khairil Ansari, Tanti Kurnia Sari, Fitri Ervina Tarigan
In addition to stressing general language proficiency, learning German in higher education—particularly in the University of Negeri Medan’s German language education study program—requires mastery of the language for particular objectives. Thus, the introduction of a Fachsprache course is crucial. Learning...
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Print to Voice: Developing an AI-Generated Audiobook for Literatur im Deutschunterricht’s Class

Indah Aini, Balazs Huszka, Tanti Kurnia Sari, Ahmad Sahat Perdamean, Nurhanifah Lubis, Ryan Dallion
Literature courses in German as a foreign language often struggle with low reading motivation, limited listening input, and misalignment between textual complexity and learners’ proficiency. This study reports the design, development, and classroom piloting of an AI-generated audiobook based on an original...
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Developing Subject Matters, Teaching Material, and Learning Resources for the Sociology of Art Course Based on the OBE Curriculum and the Transformational Paradigm of Higher Education

Zulkifli Zulkifli, Wahyu Tri Atmojo, Gamal Kartono, Mesra Mesra
The development of subject matter, teaching materials, and learning resources is an essential part of curriculum design and development, and it is comprehensively integrated into learning instruments. Each component possesses specific characteristics. Therefore, this study provides a comprehensive discussion...
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Development of Aesthetic Teaching Materials Based on North Sumatra Culture to Improve Artistic Insight in Fine Arts Students’ Project Assignments

Daulat Saragi, Yakobus Ndona, Osbert Sinaga
This research aims to produce teaching materials in the form of a book titled “North Sumatran Cultural Aesthetics,” which will be tested for its feasibility, practicality, and effectiveness in enhancing students’ artistic insights through project-based learning. The research method is Research and Development...
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The Investigation of Arabic Phonology Subject Difficulties Among University Students and AI-Based Solutions: A Preliminary Study

Rafiqa Ulfah Rangkuti, Nur Azlina Mohammed Mokmin, Rahlina Muskar
Arabic phonology (Ashwat) is an essential course for students in the Arabic literature department, because it is a compulsory subject. Undergraduate students majoring in Arabic literature can gain a fundamental understanding of the sounds production of the language from this course. Students majoring...
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From Post to Paragraphs: How Social Networking Sites Shape Writing Attitudes among Indonesian University Students

Nadia Nurul Huda, Azza J. Ahmad Tajuddin, Farah Hussan Sahib
This study examines the impact of social networking sites (SNS), particularly Facebook, on students’ attitudes towards writing in Indonesian higher education. The research utilized a quantitative methodology, gathering data via questionnaires and structured writing assignments, subsequently processed...
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Digitizing Dissent in Fiction: Intan Paramaditha’s Gendered Narratives and Planetary Health

Dewi Candraningrum, Titis Setyabudi, Fitriya Dessi Wulandari, Yeny Prastiwi, Mistoura Daouda, Muhammad Rehan Sabir
This paper examines the role of digital tools in enhancing feminist and ecological awareness through literature pedagogy in Indonesia. Against the backdrop of ongoing gender-based and environmental crises, we explore how digital learning practices intersect with critical literary studies. Focusing on...
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Verb Formations with Prefix Pa-in Toba Batak: A Study of Generative Morphology

Esron Ambarita, Elita Modesta Br. Sembiring, Faido Marudut Pardamean Simanjuntak
Through verb forms, this study explores the understudied patterns of the prefix pa- [pa-] in Toba Batak, an endangered Austronesian language, thereby filling a significant gap in morphological research. While prefixes have been extensively examined in languages such as English and German, little is known...
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Propelling Students into Active Participation in EFL Grammar Classroom Using Google Docs and Google Forms

Qanitah Masykuroh
In teaching English as a foreign language, the majority of Indonesian institutions rely on traditional approaches towards grammar in which grammatical rules are taught to students directly from the textbook, and in return, students are required to complete a number of activities to showcase their understanding...
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Subjective Agency and Cultural Renewal: Chairil Anwar and the Making of Modern Indonesian Thought

Harkiman Racheman, Eva Vanicek
Chairil Anwar (hereafter, CA) has long been regarded as a leading figure of modern literary and cultural expression in Indonesia, whose poetic innovations also resonated in social and political arenas. This study, which adopts a biographical-critical approach, poses three questions: What intellectual...
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Development of a Written Literacy Test Instrument Based on Fable Stories Students of MTs Private Al Azhar Bagan Bilah Phase D

Rudiansyah Siregar, Wisman Hadi, Khairil Ansari
This study aims to (1) Describe the process of written literacy test instruments based on fable texts for students of MTs Swasta Al-Azhar Bagan Bilah; (2) Analyze the feasibility of written literacy test instruments based on fable texts for students of MTs Swasta Al-Azhar Bagan Bilah; (3) Analyze the...
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Language Features on the Critical Thinking Skills of Male and Female Students in Argumentative Writing

Puspita Sari, Anni Holila Pulungan, Rahmad Husein
The study focused on describing how language features were used on the critical thinking skills of both male and female students when they wrote argumentative writing and explaining why language features were used on the critical thinking skills of male and female students in argumentative writing. Systemic...
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Interpersonal Function of Viewer’s Comments in Ari Aster’s Horror Movies

Ruiz J. B. Pandapotan Manurung, Winda Setiasari, Widya Andayani
This study examines how fans of Ari Aster’s films Hereditary [2018] and Midsommar [2019] use language to connect and build community through online discussions. We analyzed 100 English comments from RogerEbert.com [2019–2024] using Systemic Functional Linguistics to understand how sentence structures...
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Students’ Perception of Using TikTok Platform to Enhance Student’s Idiomatic Expression

Anita Grace Pratiwi Sitompul, Sri Minda Murni, Anna Riana Suryanti Tambunan
The study focused to described how students’ perception of 8th graders students of Andreas Junior High School of using TikTok Platform to enhance student’s idiomatic expression. Students have to give their perception on the use of TikTok for learning English idiomatic expression. The study employed descriptive...
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Teachers’ Motivations for Using Translanguaging: A Case Study in an Indonesian Vocational Classroom

Nur Hafni Fatimah, Masitowarni Siregar, Mahmud Layan Hutasuhut
Translanguaging as a pedagogical approach continues to be explored as a research topic in education, particularly in the context of multilingual classrooms. In this article, the main reasons for teachers’ use of translanguaging in vocational classrooms at an Indonesian vocational high school are examined....
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Pros and Cons Perspective on Traditional Food Review from Indonesian Food Vlogger: A Multimodal Analysis

Dewi Wulandari Pasaribu, Anni Holila Pulungan, Widya Andayani
This study explores how pros and cons perspectives are constructed in traditional food reviews by Indonesian food vloggers through multimodal elements. The objectives of this research are to identify and evaluate the verbal and visual elements used to express pros and cons, and to analyze how these perspectives...
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Cultural Untranslatability in Indonesian Translation of Khaled Hosseini’s Novel a Thousand Splendid Suns

Ayu Saleha Simamora
In A Thousand Splendid Suns and the resulting instances of cultural untranslatability. It aims to analyze the categories of these culturally bound terms, the strategies used to translate them, and the reasons behind the selection of those strategies. Employing a qualitative descriptive approach, the...
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Students’ Critical Thinking in EFL Classroom Discussion

Feronika Lakamau, Rahmad Husein, Mahmud Layan Hutasuhut
Critical thinking is the ability to think logically, rationally, and deeply when evaluating information or situations before making a decision. This study aims to investigate the levels of critical thinking demonstrated by EFL students in classroom discussion based on the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson...
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Perceptions of Tourism Department Vocational Students on Quizizz in English Language Learning

Sumarsih Sumarsih, Asrita Sari, Alvin Zonatan Sagala, David Young
Nowadays, it is an expectation for vocational students to be able to compete in the workplace after graduating from school. English proficiency is one of the crucial skills that must be improved. However, the tourism students have not maximized their potential in mastering English skills. Due to their...
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The Development of Production Ecrite Elementaire Teaching Materials Using Jagel

Junita Friska, Zulherman Zulherman, Wahyuni Sa’dah, Ria Fuji Destiara, Lilis Novianti, Fitri Ervina Tarigan, Dini Sianturi
This research aimed to develop teaching materials by using jagel media in the Production Écrite Élémentaire course. This course was studied by second semester students of the French language education. The activity used the ADDIE [2]. This research used 5 development stages as follows: Analysis, Design,...
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The Integration Model of Moral Education in the College English Course in the Era of Large Language Models

Mengke Fan, Nico Irawan
The fast advancement of large language models (LMs) creates significant educational and philosophical issues for college English teaching methods. This research examines methods for integrating moral education into the college English course through the embodied language perspective in LLM-based teaching...