Socialization of Linguistic Landscape in Improving Students’ Soft Skills at Universitas Harapan Medan

Abstract

This community service conducted at Universitas Harapan Medan in the Faculty of Language and Communication.The purpose of this activity is to give a socialization of linguistic landscape in improving studnets’ soft skills. The method used is qualitative method. The service learning approach used to in the community service activity. The result of this activity are the emergence of self-awareness from students that the use of linguistic landscapes provides new knowledge and insights for students, the students' understanding of the linguistic landscape around campus that could improve soft skills, students understood how to create interesting linguistic landscapes, the students were able to make a linguistic landscape with their own creations. From the community service activity, it could be drawn that linguistic landscape at campus in the form of the sign of notice or warning could improve the soft skills of the students. The linguistic landscape shape the character and attitude for the activity of the students at campus.