Local wisdom can be used as a medium for introducing culture to increase tourism. The purpose of this research is to describe about the transfer process of the legend of Parsidangan stone in Huta Siallagan, Samosir Regency in literary tourism perspective. The structure of the story then describes the local wisdom of the Parsidangan stone legend. Tourists' perceptions of the legend is very important to develop the potential of the locality, especially in tourism development. This qualitative research uses a descriptive inferential technique with a literary tourism perspective. Data were collected by observation and interview methods. The results show that there is a transfer of the Parsidangan stone legend from oral (spoken) to written (script) and animated films, which describe the structure of the story such as the theme of the Parsidangan stone folklore, namely the rocking chair as a meeting place and trial of King Siallagan. It is said that the Batak tribe has a tradition of keeping everything that will be done together, such as traditional parties, village parties, weddings, and funerals. The main character in this legend is King Siallagan. The background in this research is parsidangan stone, execution stone, fields, lakes. The plot in this legend is a mixed plot. The forms of local wisdom in the Parsidangan stone legend are hard work, justice, courtesy, commitment, discipline, and preservation.

This research aims at describing the utilization of hand puppets made from used socks adn Let’s Read Application as a storytelling medium in improving the speaking skills of the students at Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) Al Washliyah Univeristy (Univa), Medan. This study also aims to 1) produce the benefits of hand puppets from used socks and the Let's Read application as learning media, 2) test the feasibility of the learning media, and 3) test the effectiveness of the media. This study uses the Research and Development (RD) ADDIE model. The results show that the feasibility test result conducted by the material validator got an average of 87.5% and media experts got an average of 96.67% with very decent criteria. The limited-scale effectiveness tests of hand puppets made from used socks as a learning medium for the students of FKIP Univa Medan in the 2020-2021 academic year result in an average pre-test score of 41 and an average post-test score of 78. The Hand puppets and Let's Read application are effective to be used in the speaking skills course with t-count of 3,791 and t-table of 2,021. The N-gain calculation data is 0.43. It means that hand puppets made from used socks and the Let's Read application are feasible and effective to be used as learning media for storytelling in the speaking skills course. Students make recordings of storytelling using the hand puppets to display on YouTube. The media can be developed as one of the Indonesian language learning media so that students' understanding and Indonesian language skills increase.

<p>This study aims to describe (1) expressive speech acts in Bu Tejo Tilik's memes on twitter; (2) expressive speech acts in Bu Tejo Tilik's meme on twitter as teaching materials for junior high school students. The method used is descriptive-qualitative pragmatic approach to link language with the use of language such as words, phrases, or sentences and the elements that are outside them. The aim is to describe the data in a pragmatic way from the reader's point of view. The data in the form of Bu Tejo Tilik's memes on twitter were analyzed using pragmatic studies. The results showed that (1) expressive speech acts in Bu Tejo Tilik's memes on twitter, namely happy / congratulatory speeches, gratitude, criticizing, complaining, blaming, insinuating. (2) Expressive speech acts in Bu Tejo Tilik's memes on twitter have benefits as teaching materials for students because they can increase reading interest, motivate students to think critically and be used as reading material for creatively written material, such as poster material, slogans, and texts. Anecdote.</p>

Penanaman nilai karakter yang menghasilkan nilai moral dapat diterapkan  dari pembelajaran bahasa indonesia salah satunya  adalah mengenai kemampuan siswa menganalisis nilai-nilai cerpen. Cerpen yang dianalisisi cerpen yang berjudul “Rabiah” karya Hasan Al Banna melalui model group investigation. Model pembelajaran group investigation ini sangat efektif dan efisien dilakukan dalam pembelajaran menganalisis cerpen jika dibandingkan dengan strategi konvensional. Penulis telah melakukan penelitian pada siswa kelas X SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Medan. Hasilnya terlihat bahwa model group investigation  dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menganalisis nilai-nilai cerpen “Rabiah” karya Hasal Al-Banna.

This research is aimed at describing protagonist’s struggle in protecting her dignity in economic and educational aspects in the novel Dwilogi Padang Bulan written by Andre Hirata. The novel told about sosial issues related with gender injustice which created a struggle for equality performed by the protagonist, Enong. This research was conducted by applying feminist theory pioneered by Virginia Woolf (1929) since fenimism prioritizes about struggling value of women. This was a library research. Methods used in collecting the data were heuristics and hermeneutics by Palmer. The results showed that protagonist’s struggle in protecting her dignity and herself safe from death, and also being able to show her true identity. The struggle in economic aspect showed that the protagonist was able to fulfil the needs of her family as tin miner. The protagonist afforded to complete the study of her young sisters and to marry her sister to good man. In education aspect, the protagonist’s struggle was that she became the fifth runner up of English course competition.