Generation were born in every era eventually create their own language not least the latest generation commonly called the millennial generation. Specifically, the aim of our work broadens current knowledge of the phenomenon of Semantics Analysis of Slang (SAOS) in Social Media of Millennial Generation. This study investigated: 1) the types of SAOS used by millennial generation in social media; 2) how the meaning of SAOS used by millennial generation in social media; 3) why millennial generation used SAOS in social media.  This study applied descriptive qualitative research in order to reveal the data from the discourse of English Department students at Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara in social media such as Facebook and Instagram and it was obtained from observation, interview and documentation. The data showed that millennial generation used slang language in their communication in social media namely 33 slang languages in Facebook and 31 slang languages in Instagram. These languages consisted of five types of slang; fresh and creative; flippant; imitative; acronym; and clipping. The millennial generation used SAOS in their social media because some reasons such as to address, to initiate relax conversation, to express impression and to show intimacy.     Keywords: Slang, Types of slang, Reasons of slang, millennial generation

Indonesia recognizes that Bahasa as a national language which has function as unity language for its society. In fact, the tendency of society especially millennial generation used slang in daily conversation is higher than used Bahasa itself. This study aims to analyse the phenomenon of slang words used by millennial generation in Instagram. The scope of this study is to investigate types of slang used by millennial generation in Instagram, how the meaning of slang words used by millennial generation in Instagram and why millennial generation used slang words in Instagram. Descriptive qualitative research was applied in this study and obtained the data from the discourse of 30 millennial generations in Instagram. The data was obtained from observation, interview and documentation. The result of the data showed that millennial generation used slang words in their communication in Instagram namely there were 31 slang words found in their caption in Instagram. These words contained five types of slang; fresh and creative; flippant; imitative; acronym; and clipping. The millennial generation used slang in Instagram because some reasons such as to address, to initiate relax conversation, to humiliate, to express impression and to show intimacy.    Keywords: Slang, Types of slang, Reasons of slang, millennial generation

The fundamental characteristics of the lecturers and the students in the English Department should use English. Lack of English competence is widely considered to be the major cause of code switching. The aim of our work to broaden current knowledge of the phenomenon of grammatical and contextual code switching in the English Department proposal seminar at STKIP Budidaya Binjai. This study applied descriptive qualitative research with the data from the utterances of the lecturers and the students during the process of proposal seminar. The data were obtained from observation, interview, and field note. Grammatical code switching in the English Department proposal seminar were tag code switching consisted of 12 utterances, inter-sentential code switching consisted of 15 utterances, intra-sentential code switching consisted of 19 utterances, proper noun and noun phrase consisted of 7 utterances, negative words consisted of 4 utterances, languages similarity consisted of 11 utterances and discourse marker consisted of 16 utterances. Meanwhile, Contextual code switching in the English Department proposal seminar were situational code switching consisted of 84 utterances and metaphorical code switching consisted of 5 utterances. It can be concluded that contextual and grammatical code switching occurs in the English Department proposal seminar process.

Morphological analysis is the main areas in studying vocabulary. Morphological analysis itself is analysis that is breaking a word into its elements (root, prefix and suffix). This study was conducted to analyze the use of derivational and inflectional morphemes in the song lyric "A thousand years" by Christina Perri. This study applied descriptive qualitative research which researchers found out the derivational and inflectional suffixes from the words in "A thousand years" lyric. The results of analyzing data were found in this study are derivational morphemes -ly consist of 2 words and inflectional morphemes -s plural, -s third singular person present tense, -ed past tense, -ing progressive and -er comparative consist of 57 words.

This study discusses Speech of Three Years Old Children in Language Acquisition. The purpose of this study is to find out that three-year-old children in the pronunciation of vowels and consonants of words or sentences are still less precise and unclear, to find out why three- years old children cannot compose perfect sentences in conversation. A qualitative descriptive method was applied to analyze the data. The data of this study were taken from the of three- years old children speech, namely DSZ and SYF. The results obtained indicated that the research subjects were able to produce sentences according to their function as a communicative functions, namely declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, and command sentences. Some were influenced by cognitive factors, social background, and input to improve communication and language development. So that the research subjects can master the language and communicate well