Improving the speaking skill of the students requires creativity in strategies. Therefore, this research aims to describe the kind of strategies as well as the obstacles. This research used observation sheet and interview guide as the instruments. The subjects of this research were two English teachers who teach the junior high school students at SMP Inshafuddin Banda Aceh. The data were collected by observing and interviewing the teachers. Then, the procedure of data analysis for this research involved data condensation, data display and drawing the conclusion. The result of the first research question of this research described that there are five strategies used by the teachers in teaching speaking skills, namely role play, drilling, games, picture describing, and storytelling. Meanwhile, the result of the second research question described the obstacles faced by the teachers related in applying the strategies. It is suggested for the teachers to be creative in applying several strategies to improve students’ speaking skill. In conclusion, in order to be succeed in applying the strategies, the teachers need to find the solution in overcoming the obstacles while applying the strategies.

Changes in meaning or semantic changes are the area of diachronic linguistics. The Acehnese language is a derivative of the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) language that has had changes in the meaning of its lexicon that have become the object of this interesting study. It is aimed at explaining examples of changes in meaning in the Acehnese etynom based on four basic types of changes of meaning categorized according to Crowley and Bowern (2010). The data was taken from the English Finder list of Reconstruction in Austronesian Languages reconstructed (Wurm & Wilson, 1975). The selected data from the results of this study was then confirmed by six native speakers’ expert in the actual use of the Acehnese language. The results showed that some original meanings from PAN have become broader, some narrower, some have bifurcated and some have shifted in meaning.

For English teaching practice, productive talks that spur students’ comprehension, creativity, and problem-solving ability are vital. This research aimed at finding out the spoken discourse based on six phases of microstructure in English classrooms. The data were obtained recordings and observations of two English teachers, chosen through purposive sampling, from Islamic senior high schools in Aceh. The data were concerned with the lexical density or the ratio of content to grammatical or function words within a clause. They were analyzed through thematic analysis which consists of five steps: data familiarization, code generation, theme search, themes revision, and theme definition. It was found that the total lexical density obtained by the first teacher in Class A was 63.66% and in class, B was 66.52%, while the second teacher in Class A was 71. 74% and in Class B was 68.12%. The second teacher 2 in Class A had a higher lexical density than the first teacher even though both of them are considered to produce a high lexical density of around 60-70%. The formality of spoken discourse of the two teachers shows that the first teacher produced 172.5 while the second teacher produced 184. It means that the second teacher's spoken discourse was more formal than the first teacher’s discourse. To analyze the utterances of teachers and to find the density of language used in the classrooms during the teaching and learning process is important because they implicitly inform whether the language used is understandable for the students or not.

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Purpose of the study: The present study is concerned with words belonging to the realm of food and the naming process of the traditional culinary of Aceh Besar. This work presents the types of culinary naming of words naming and their meaning because different language communities can have different conceptualizations of word meaning. Methodology: This qualitative research uses ethnographic analysis. The data collection method uses in-depth interview and observation methods following the twelve steps of Spradley’s research called “Gradually Forward Research Flow”. Main Findings: The findings indicate that the naming of Aceh Besar culinary is a form of convention agreed upon as a form of common sense and the culture of community members in communicating. The types of the naming of the Acehnese culinary process namely are based on the following: (1) fictitious personality, (2) main material/ingredients, (3) color appearance, (4) cooking process, (5) similarity of appearance, (6) seasoning, (7) taste, (8) cookware, and (9) sound imitation. Applications of this study: the result of the study can be used by students and universities, especially the linguist in culinary linguistics area. However, it can be the prior study of Acehnese culinary in linguistics research. Novelty/Originality of this study: This research focused on the word and meaning of the culinary lexicon of Aceh Besar. Word and meaning are some of the fields of culinary linguistics which is the study of food in the perspectives of language. This study focused on the word and meaning which is one of the fields of culinary linguistics.