The objective of this research was to find out the significant effect of the scramble method on students’ achievement in learning vocabulary. The experimental design was used as the research design. The population of this research was taken from the eighth-grade students of SMP Al Washliyah 8 Medan. There were 7 parallel classes with a total number of 231 students. Each class consisted of 33 students. The sample was taken by applying cluster random sampling with the lottery technique. Class VIII1 consisting of 33 students was selected as the experimental group and class VIII3 consisting of 33 students was selected as a control group. The total sample was 66 students. The experimental group was taught by applying the scrambling method, while the control group was taught by applying the conventional method. Multiple-choice tests containing vocabularies were used as the instrument for collecting the data. The mean score of the experimental and control groups were then compared and calculated. The value of both groups then was tested using the t-test formula. It was obtained that that tobserved value was higher than ttable value (7.25 1.66) at a level of significance =0.05 with a degree of freedom df=58. Based on the determined hypothesis, it meant that Ha was accepted and Ho was successfully rejected. Thus, it was concluded that there was a significant effect of the scramble method on students’ achievement in learning vocabulary.

This research was aimed at improving students’ ability in writing narrative text through Dictogloss Technique. The design applied in this research was classroom action research that consisted of two cycles. This research was conducted in VIII grade at SMP Muhammadiyah Sukaramai Medan academic year 2018-2019. The instruments applied to collect the data were observation, interview and test. The data were collected in the form of observation sheet, interview guideline, and writing rubric. After the data analysis, based on the quantitative data, the students’ mean score improved. In the pre-test, the students’ mean score was 8.50. In the post-test, the score increased into 15.38. The gain score of the mean scores from the pre-test to the post-test was 6.88. Based on the qualitative data, the students were able to organize their ideas and produce narrative text well. In conclusion, the result of the research showed that the Dictogloss Technique improves students’ ability in writing narrative text.

The objective of this research was to find out the effect of using inquiry learning method on students’ ability in speaking. This research was conducted at SMK Abdi Negara Binjai. The population of this research was the tenth grade students in academic year 2021-2022. There were 2 classes consisting of 55 students. The sample with total number of 20 students were taken by using random sampling with lottery technique. The sample was divided into 2 groups. Experimental group consisted of 10 students was taught using inquiry learning method and control group consisted of 10 students was taught using conventional method. The instrument for collecting the data was a speaking test. Each group was given a pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The result of this research showed that the mean of post-test in experimental group (51.6) was higher than control group  (44.2) and the value of U-observed (25) was smaller than the value of U-table (30). The testing of hypothesis showed that Ho was rejected and Ha was accepted. It meant that there was a significant effect on students’ speaking ability taught by using inquiry learning method.

This article elaborates with teach reading comprehension through Plot Relationships Chart Strategy. Plot Relationships Chart Strategy helps students identify the major parts of a story and improves their comprehension. Comprehension is the main goal in reading process. Reading Comprehension is a process of making sense of written ideas through meaningful interpretation and interaction with language. This strategy provides students with a chart to help them comprehend the relationship among characters, goals, problems, and solutions. The chart has four columns; the first column is for the name of the characters, the second column is for the goals of the characters, the third column is for the problems or challenges that the characters faced, and the last column is for the solution of the problems. At last, this strategy helps students comprehend what they have read

The aims of this study were to find out the types and the dominant type of translation shift on verb phrases used in English-Indonesian translation of Surah Yaseen (Chapter 36). This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data were the verb phrases in English-Indonesian translation of Surah Yaseen. The data were collected and analyzed by comparing, classifying, categorizing, describing, calculating, and displaying by using table. The result of this study found there were three types of translation shift on verb phrases in English-Indonesian translation of Surah Yaseen namely: class shift (51.25%), level shift (43.75%), and structure shift (5%). The most dominant type of translation shift used was the class shift.