Learning English Motivation by Students of SMK UISU Medan

This research is aimed to determine the type of motivation and factors that influence the motivation of the students of SMK UISU Medan. The sample of this study is all students of SMK UISU Medan. The total respondents in the sample are 52 students from first grade, second grade, and third grade of the school. This researach uses mixed method so that the data will be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively using Likert scale. The instruments used in this reseaarch are questionnaire and interview. Therefore, the data are collected by sharing questionnaire and conducting. The research finds that the motivation most possessed by the respondents is instrumental motivation, furthermore, teacher's factor is the main factor that influences studentmotivation in learning English.     Keywords: Types of Motivation, Factor of Motivation, Student

Distinctive Attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli's Novel Siti Nurbaya

This research deals with the distinctive attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli's novel Siti Nurbaya. Datuk Maringgih is described as a person who is old, strong, rebellious and has a lot of money and always has a strategy in everything. The attitude shown by this person is also related to society. The research is conducted means of descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative research is a research method that focuses on understanding social phenomena that occur in society. Descriptive qualitative is usually designed to examine morality and other problems in society. The researcher uses attitude theory where attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence on the individual's response to all objects and situations with which it is related. The source of data is from the novel. The data in this research is the entire texts in the book. The technique used to analyze data is heuristic and hermeneutic. The research result shows that Datuk Maringgih had three distinctive attitudes: Defending land from the invaders, helping others and consistence.     Keywords: Consistency, land defense, attitude

Medieval Religious Officials in Geoffrey Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales

Chaucer is a great humanist who gently unmasks the roguery, foolishness and corruption of the medieval religious officials in Geofrey Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales withour Malice, spite or animosity. His attitude is that of benevolence and tolerance, even his satire is in the form of tender shafts of irony, which neither hurt nor destroy. He gives us a direct transcription of reality and a true picture of the medieval social condition as it actually lived in the age in most familiar aspects in his masterpiece work, The Canterbury Tales. He uses humour, irony, exaggeration and ridicule to satirize the medieval religious officials' follies and foibles. The research focuses on the seven medieval religious officials by the name eof the Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Clerk of Oxford, the Parson, the Summoner, and the Pardoner. This research aims at revealing the follies, the absurdities, the monetary greed, the hypocrisy, and, on the whole, the irreligious natures of these men of religion. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative proposed by Creswell (2014). The research result shows that the religious characters of his times are portrayed in a most unfavourable light. The ecclesiastical characters that are favourably portrayed, and for whom Chaucer admires are the Clerk and the Parson. Chaucer has nothing to satirize for them but praise, while the other characters belonging to the church are ridiculed and satirized. They are not only most worldly-minded but also dishonest, immoral, and corrupt.     Keywords: Middle Age, medieval society, ecclesiastical characters, medieval religious officials, irony, satire