Bahasa dalam penggunaannya tidak bisa lepas dari makna yang mengikuti. Makna yang ditimbulkan dapat mengandung nilai rasa positif  (eufemisme) dan negatif  (disfemisme) bergantung dengan tujuan penggunaannya. Penelitian ini diarahkan untuk mengungkap bagaimanakah pola, bentuk, dan makna dan pada Catatan najwa “Darah Muda Daerah”. Hal ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap konstruksi dan maksud dari wacana yang cenderung dipahami secara multitafsir oleh masyarakat. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa lebih banyak makna eufemisme daripada disfemisme. Penggunaan pilihan kata yang bermakna eufemisme seolah memperhalus apa yang hendak disampaikan oleh redaksi Catatan Najwa.

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The values of nationalism can be integrated into instructional materials as a way to achieve competence standards set by the government. This study aimed to produce nationalism-oriented interactive materials for news item learning in junior high school. This study employed a research and development design that consisted of seven stages, including data analysis, product design, prototype development, expert validation, product revision, small-group tryout, and final model revision. The result of the analysis showed that the interactive materials could meet the teacher’s and students’ needs in learning news item and the development of the product was in line with the principle of instructional material development. The interactive instructional materials were packaged in a compact disk (CD) containing an application called Macromedia Flash. The values of nationalism integrated in the instructional materials include the pride in the national language which is Indonesian Language, the love for the country, the spirit of preserving national songs, heroism, discipline, and hard work. These values were embedded in the form of visual, audio, or audiovisual media that can be displayed in the classroom and thus used to study listening.

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui reaksi masyarakat terhadap informasi pandemi Covid yang disampaikan oleh media massa. Penyampaian berbagai berita atau hal yang sejenisnya secara berkali-kali membuat masyarakat mudah faham, dan memiliki dampak ketidakpercayaan jika tidak sesuai dengan faktanya. Penelitian ini mencoba untuk mengungkap dan menemukan bahwa media massa secara simultan dapat meningkatkan kepercayaan tentang covid-19 atau sebaliknya. Penelitian ini berbeda dengan yang lainnya, dikarenakan bahwa media yang secara simultan malah membuat ketidakpercayaan secara penuh terhadap pemberitaan yang disampaikan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kuantitatif secara pusposive sampling terhadap para mahasiswa yang sekarang lagi belajar secara daring dan selalu dekat dengan berita di media sosial. Responden dalam penelitian ini adalah 300 mahasiswa yang terdiri dari tujuh kampus di Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan, Indonesia. Berdasarkan hasil temuan, penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa informasi yang disampaikan berulang kali tentang Covid akhirnya membuat masyarakat kurang peduli terhadap Covid. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan munculnya fakta terbalik dari berita dari berbagai media massa.Kata kunci: Persepsi, media, fakta, simultan, masyarakat AbstractThis study aims to determine the public's reaction to the Covid pandemic information conveyed by the mass media. Repeatedly conveying various news or similar things makes it easy for the public to understand, and has an impact of distrust if it is not by the facts. This study tries to uncover and find that mass media can simultaneously increase beliefs about Covid-19 or vice versa. This study is different from the others because the media simultaneously make complete distrust of the news delivered. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative by purposive sampling of students who are currently studying online and are always close to the news on social media. Respondents in this study were 300 students from seven campuses in South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Based on the findings, this study concluded that the information that was repeatedly conveyed about Covid ultimately made the public less concerned about Covid. This is evidenced by the emergence of upside-down facts from the news from various mass media.Keywords: Perception, media, facts, simultaneous, society

The purpose of this study was to describe the form of spelling errors in the descriptive text of class VII A students of SMP Negeri 05 Bengkulu City. This study uses a qualitative research type with a descriptive approach. Based on the discussion of research data on the analysis kesalaha n spelling of Indonesian in the essay on pembelaja ran B ahasa Indonesian students of class VII A Junior High School 05 Bengkulu city, the writer can give the conclusion that in general the students of class VII A SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu have not mastered the use of letters, word writing, the use of punctuation in writing essays. Classically, students have not been able to understand the general use of Indonesian spelling (PUEBI)in writing an essay. Because students still have difficulty in understanding the use of Indonesian spelling. The results of the study concluded that letter errors, writing errors, punctuation errors, from the data that the authors found there were errors in the use of capital letters and italics, words with affixes, errors in writing abbreviations and acronyms, periods, commas, colons, hyphens. , dash. As for errors in the use of letters of the alphabet, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, combinations of consonants and bold letters, basic words, repeated forms, word combinations, word decapitation, particles, numbers and numbers, pronouns, articles, slashes, question marks, exclamation marks, ellipsis marks, quotation marks, single quotation marks, brackets, square marks, and abbreviations were not found errors from the research data.