Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah peningkatan kemampuan menyimak siswa Kelompok B TK Mawar Indah dengan metode Story Telling. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menyimak anak Ke lompok B TK Mawar Indah melalui penggunaan metode bercerita. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tin dakan kelas yang dilakukan secara kolaboratif antara peneliti dan guru kelas. Subjek penelitian ini adalah 20 anak kelompok B TK Mawar Indah, yang terdiri dari 8 anak lakilaki dan 12 anak perempuan. Objek pe nelitian ini adalah kemampuan menyimak. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui tes perbuatan.Da ta penelitian dianalisis secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Target dari hasil penelitian ini yaitu peningkatan ke mam puan menyimak anak dengan kriteria sangat baik miniml mencapai 81%. Pada kondisi awal, kemam pu an menyimak anak diperoleh hasil ratarata sebanyak 42,5%. Setelah dilakuan tindakan pada Siklus I, pe ningkatan kemampuan menyimak diperoleh hasil ratarata sebanyak 76,25%. Penelitian ini dihentikan sam pai Siklus II karena telah memenuhi kriteria indikator keberhasilan dengan hasil ratarata mencapai hingga 97,5%.

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the Think Talk Write learning model on student’s ability in writing descriptive essays of Fourth grade students at SDN 101732. This research was an experimental study using Quasi – experimental one group Pretest Posttest design with quantitative approach. Sample of this study were all the students of Fourth grade SDN 101732 totaling 18 students and sample technique is using Total Sampling technique. The data collection technique was using test and documentation and the research data was analyzed using SPPS 22. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the Pretest result were 67.78 and increased to 88.06 in Posttest. So it can be concluded that Think Talk Write learning model affect the student ability in writing descriptive essays of Fourth grade students at SDN 101732.

Language maintenance is one of the efforts that can be done to keep regional languages from extinction. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of language maintenance of Batak Toba and Karo languages of middle age  teenager  of 15-18 years at Kwala Bekala District, Medan. The method used in collecting data is the ‘cakap semuka technique’ using a questionnaire distributed to informants and continued with interview. This research data assessment method uses quantitative methods and the data is analyzed using sociolinguistic theory. From the results of the study it was found that the maintenance of Batak Toba Language among middle age teenager of 15-18 year old at Kwala Bekala district  XVII was (30 %) and the maintenance of Karo Language of middle age teenager of 15-18 at  Kwala Bekala district XVII was (58 %). It can be concluded that the maintenance of Karo language among middle age teenager of 15-18 years old is higher than the maintenance of Batak Toba language among middle age teenager of 15-18 years at Kwala Bekala Medan.Keywords: Language Maintenance, Language Attitude, sociolinguistics, Batak Toba and Karo Language

The effect of reading purpose on the reading comprehension was studied at Madrasah Alyah Diniyah Riau.The aim was to know and identify the effect of reading purpose on the reading comprehension of 12th-grade students 2021 – 2022 Academic Year at Madrasah Alyah Diniyah Riau . A mixed-method approach and quantitative and qualitative of an ex-post-facto study was applied. The 42 of 12th-grade IPA and IPS students of Madrasah Alyah Diniyah Riau 2021–2022 academic year were taken as sample by using the purposive sampling technique. The instrument of questionnaire and a test of reading comprehension were used to collect the data. Hypothesis testing (t-test) were used to analyse the collected data. From the analysis result it was found  that the t-value = 277,543 > t-table 1,689 with a sig. value of 0,000 <  0.05,it can be interpreted that reading purpose affected the reading comprehension of Grade XII students 2021 – 2022 Academic Year of Madrasah Alyah Diniyah Riau