2017 · JOURNAL_SUBMISSION ·
<em>Problem of this research is the unfamiliarity of the topics in TOEFL test. Many of the topics are talking about American and Europe. They are about American science, American history, American economic system, American culture and European culture. The topics above are not familiar to the students of State Islamic College because they seldom study about the topic. To answer the TOEFL tes it will be better for us to have background knowledge about the topics of the reading. If we are familiar with the topic, it will help us to be easy in answering and understanding about the text. This research used Research & Development (R&D) approach. The sample of the try out test for developing these questions are the sixth semester English students of STAIN Batusangkar. The data were analyzed by using Kappa model to differenciate the items difficulties, items differenciation, trapping model, validity and reliability. The product of this research then revised for three times. Then, the product is also commented and analyzed by the experts. After analyzing the revision of the product, the result finally getting ready to be used for a test.</em>
2016 · JOURNAL_SUBMISSION ·
<div style="text-align: left; color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><em>This article discusses about the factors which may cause language death or language dissappear. Based on some linguists’ research there are several factors that might cause the death of the language. They are: natural disaster, war and ethnic clearance, epidemic sickness, hegemony of a foreign language, inferior of language sense, migration, political decision, and intercultural marriage problem. In this article the writer would like to anlayze each point of the factors above. The conclusion is a language is like other human life; born, live, develop, lying up and death. This phenomenon is called survival of the fittest; the majority language will hit the minority language along its life.</em></p><strong>Kata kunci: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>faktor, kematian, bahasa,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>dissappear</em></div>
2016 · JOURNAL_SUBMISSION ·
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><em>This article discusses about an approach to create a good test for speaking and listening subject. The facts showed that many of the tests were created based on the teacher’s needs, not yet based on the goal of the test itself. As we know, there are kinds of approach to create a good test to test language ability; speaking, reading, writing and listening. One of them is a sociolinguistics approach. This approach is introduced to make the students aware of the test. To apply this approach, teacher must prepare a well-designed worksheet for the students. The worksheet must be written completely related to the sociolinguistics approach. In this article, the writer will explain the way of how to design a worksheet for the students especially in testing speaking and listening. </em></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Kata Kunci:</strong> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Designing, worksheet, sociolinguistics, approach, testing</em></p><strong style="color: #111111; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></strong>
