This study aimed to investigate the implication of Donald Trump Presidential speeches as the teaching material of Metadiscourse Markers (MM) in writing class. It employed a qualitative study of English students after the pandemic situation. The research population consisted of 30 second-year students (male and female) from one selected class of Contextual Written Language Skills (CWLS) in the English Education Department of State University of Medan, Indonesia. The CWLS students’ writing ability was assessed using a questionnaire and Donald Trump Presidential speech transcripts taken from millercenter.org. The study referred to Hyland’s metadiscourse taxonomy (2005) and Lee’s contextual factors in writing (2016). The findings revealed that there was a distinct improvement in CWLS students’ writing ability between males and females on MM. This study also found that methodological variables such as teaching material and instructional design were some of the influencing factors in the learning process of MM using Donald Trump Presidential speeches.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan hasil pembelajaran mahasiswa semester dua (2) program studi pendidikan bahasa Inggris di Universitas Negeri Medan (UNIMED) pada mata kuliah Contextual Written Language Skills (CWLS), khususnya materi persuasive text dengan menerapkan pemagaran adverbia pada pidato Presiden Amerika Serikat sebagai ancangan materi pembelajaran. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori pemagaran Hyland (1996a, 1996b, 1998a, 1998b). Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan eksploratif dengan menggunakan kuesioner, wawancara semi struktur dan penugasan sebagai instrumennya. Sumber data penelitian yaitu duapuluh dua (22) pidato Presiden Bill Clinton dari tahun 1993-2001 dari situs berita daring millercentre.org. Hasil temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) pemagaran adverbia pada pidato Presiden Bill Clinton bertujuan untuk meyakinkan publik terkait kebijakan pemerintah, (2) pembelajaran CWLS dengan pemagaran adverbia dapat meningkatkan keterampilan menulis teks persuasif mahasiswa semester 2 pendidikan bahasa Inggris di UNIMED.Kata kunci: pemagaran adverbia, teks persuasif, hasil pembelajaran menulis siswa
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