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Women’s Language Features and Narcissistic Self-Presentation: A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Q&A Interactions in Gus Iqdam’s Religious Forum
Full text linkThis study examines women’s language features and micro-narcissistic self-presentation in digitally mediated religious discourse, focusing on question-and-answer (Q&A) interactions in the online “Pengajian Sabilu Taubah” led by Gus Iqdam. Adopting a qualitative descriptive design with a sociopragmatic orientation, the study aims to explore how female participants use language to negotiate emotion, politeness, authority, and self-visibility in a publicly streamed religious forum. The data were drawn from five publicly accessible livestream recordings and were selected through purposive sampling based on the presence of direct interaction with female participants, extended utterances, and adequate audio-visual quality. Three women participants were analyzed as primary data sources, while two additional participants were used for confirmatory analysis. The primary research instrument was detailed discourse transcription, including lexical, prosodic, and paralinguistic features. Data analysis followed a theory-driven qualitative content analysis guided by Lakoff’s framework of women’s language and Pearson’s functional classification, with data validation ensured through triangulation and confirmatory analysis. The findings show that women’s language in the Q&A sessions is characterized by expressive-affective features, mitigation strategies, and response-oriented utterances that function to elicit recognition and maintain politeness toward religious authority. Furthermore, micro-narcissistic self-presentation is realized through subtle and socially acceptable linguistic practices, such as admiration-seeking expressions and self-referential narratives, rather than overt self-promotion. This study contributes to sociopragmatic and gender-based discourse research by highlighting women’s linguistic agency in digital religious interaction and by conceptualizing micro-narcissism as an interactional phenomenon shaped by religious norms and public visibility
Designing A Speaking Test for Special Purposes (SP) in Hiring Experts for a Company
Full text linkDesigning speaking tests for special purposes involves contentious debates regarding specific contexts, company goals, and learner requirements, and hence, requires further research. This article designs a speaking test for the specific purpose of recruiting company professionals. At present, multinational companies around the globe are evolving day by day, and their sister concerns are getting diverse perspectives. The research objective of this article is to design a speaking test. This study requires finding an answer to the research question: how to design a valid and reliable speaking test for recruiting company professionals? This study applied a qualitative data analysis approach to find an answer to the research question, in which research articles, books, periodicals, and magazines were treated as secondary, and the speaking test design was primary data. This study finds that multiple challenges are present in designing a speaking test, keeping in mind the reliability and validity of the tests, like test-time, assessment-criteria, validity, and reliability. The findings of this article will be helpful and have positive impacts for the examinees as well as the employers. Observing the necessities, this study recommends further research for designing a speaking test, keeping real-world relevance in all contexts
Recognition Memory of Vocabulary (RMV) and Reading Comprehension for EFL Learners in A Pesantren-Based Junior Secondary School
Full text linkThis research investigates the correlation between recognition memory of vocabulary (RMV) and reading comprehension among eighth-grade English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners at MTs Favorit Darut Taqwa Dlanggu, Indonesia. Utilizing a mixed-methods research design combining quantitative correlational analysis and qualitative descriptive inquiry, the study engaged 28 participants selected through purposive sampling based on their educational level and prior learning experiences. Data collection was executed through two distinct instruments: a vocabulary recognition memory assessment comprising multiple-choice questions and a reading comprehension evaluation. The findings indicated a statistically significant and exceptionally strong positive correlation between vocabulary recognition memory and reading comprehension (r = 0.976, p < 0.01), thereby illustrating a robust connection between learners’ capacity to recognize previously acquired vocabulary and their performance in comprehension tasks. Nonetheless, the results also imply that vocabulary recognition in isolation does not comprehensively account for reading comprehension, as various reading strategies, including skimming, scanning, and inference-making, were also integral to the students’ comprehension processes. This study underscores the pedagogical significance of amalgamating contextualized vocabulary instruction with explicit training in reading strategies and differentiated instructional methods. The implications of these findings offer valuable pedagogical insights aimed at enhancing English literacy instruction within EFL environments, particularly in Pesantren-based educational institutions
Emotional Dynamics and Regulation Strategies in EFL Writing Classrooms
Full text linkRecent research in second language acquisition has shown that learners’ emotional dynamics such as anxiety, enjoyment, and frustration, and their use of emotion regulation strategies significantly influence engagement and performance in EFL writing classrooms. Thus, the current research aims at investigating EFL students’ emotional dynamics and the emotion regulation strategies they apply when completing their writing tasks. This is a phenomenological study in which six university students were given an open-ended questionnaire. Subsequently, the data were analysed using a thematic analysis technique until the data were formed into themes and a conceptual framework illustrating the types of emotional dynamics they faced and what strategies of emotion regulation they commonly applied during the process of writing. The novel finding revealed after building themes was from the up and down or emotional fluctuation, e.g., anxious to enjoyment, fear to relax, shaped the students to have a mental of resilience as a learner. Finally, the pedagogical implications of the research were explained further
Morphological Behavior of the Prefix 'In-' and Its Assimilated Forms in English Negation
Full text linkThis study aimed to find the underlying form of the prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir- and morphological processes occurring in the complex words containing those prefixes. The researchers focus on the negation, meaning only words with a prefix that changes the initial meaning of the root word into a negative meaning are qualified. Descriptive analysis was employed. Seventy qualified words from the Oxford English Dictionary were chosen to be analysed. The researchers formulated two research questions: (1) What is the underlying form of the prefixes in-, im-, il-, and ir-? and (2) What morphological processes occurred in the complex words containing prefixes in-, im-, il-, and ir-? The findings showed that the prefix in- is the underlying form of those prefixes seen from the lenses of morphology and phonology. Further, affixation is a morphological process that occurs in complex words containing those prefixes. This study contributes to shaping a better understanding of the prefix in- and its assimilated forms for English educators and language learners. Implications are discussed
An Ecological Ideology of the Dyak Chief Poem As Represented from Metaphors, Appraisal, and Salience Patterns: An Ecological Discourse Analysis
Full text linkThe Dyak Chief Poem describes the poet's experience of witnessing the intersection of personal desires, cultural expectations, and the larger moral consequences of one's actions. This poem also presents a description of the nature of the island of Borneo at that time, which was still full of tropical rainforest. In addition to the themes of love, honor, and culture, this poem incorporates an ecological theme as its primary setting. Therefore, this poem is suitable for analysis using ecological discourse analysis to see whether this poem is eco-beneficial, eco-destructive, or eco-ambivalent. This research aims to determine the ecological ideology contained in this poem through metaphor, evaluation, and salience, using an ecological discourse analysis approach, which is a qualitative research method. The research results reveal that the depiction of nature as human illustrates the power of nature towards humans. In addition, upon examining the appraisal patterns, it becomes clear that only a few, such as appreciation and graduation, are directly related to nature. On the other hand, affect and judgment, on the other hand, pertain to the protagonist's own feelings and are not associated with either nature or the environment. The use of concreteness, transitivity patterns, and hyponyms reveal the salience of the poem. The researchers conclude, based on metaphor, appraisal, and salience patterns, that this poem is an eco-beneficial discourse that depicts nature as an integral part of human life, with which humans should coexist harmoniously
Exploring Negative Judgment Language in Indonesian Conversational Language on Facebook: An Appraisal Analysis
Full text linkThis research examines the use of negative judgment expressions within the framework of appraisal theory across four Facebook fan pages: Kata Kita (KK), Media Oposisi (MO), Mak Lambe Turah (LT), and Rakyat Oposisi (RO). The methods employed are discourse analysis and quantitative content analysis. Discourse analysis focusing on appraisal analysis is used to explore the evaluative language used in these social media accounts. Findings indicate a prevalent tendency for implicit judgment, with each clause element serving as a potential marker of negative judgment. In the dimension of Engagement, pronouncement expressions are not limited to reported speech; instead, they are often marked by specific lexical elements, including -lah, mah, -nih, -loh, among others. Furthermore, in terms of graduation, these pages employ pragmatic meaning repetition in addition to lexical and semantic repetition. These results suggest that Indonesian evaluative language possesses distinctive characteristics that diverge from English evaluative language, as outlined in Martin and White`s appraisal theory. Quantitative content analysis is used to examine the comparison of patterns or tendencies in the use of evaluative language across Facebook accounts. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of cultural distinctions in the evaluative language styles found in social media discourse
Instilling Religious Moderation Values in the EFL Classrooms in Islamic Universities: Teachers’ Perspective
Full text linkThis qualitative phenomenological study employed the Critical Discourse Analysis methodology developed by Fairclough. English lecturers at three Indonesian universities-Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda, Universitas Islam Negeri Antasari Banjarmasin, and Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel-are the main sources of data for this study. Data-documentation sources, such as literature reviews from research sources, including proceedings, journal articles, theses, and dissertations, provided secondary data for this study on discourse development. Fairclough created critical discourse analysis, which was utilized to analyze the research data. According to this discourse analysis, the English-speaking classes fully incorporate the aspects of moderate Islamic viewpoints that the Indonesian government advocates, such as national unity, tolerance, non-violence, and cultural groundedness. These characteristics of moderate religion are intentionally emphasized by lecturers through their ideological content and participative forms. In other words, by incorporating essential components into their texts and structures, the classes linguistically replicate state-mandated religious moderation. This indicates that English language instruction and the development of values that are required more generally in Indonesian higher education are in systematic agreement
Functional Categories of Lexical Bundles in Indonesian EFL Textbooks: A Corpus-Based Study
Full text linkLexical bundles, which are recurring sequences of multiple words, play a crucial role in both written and spoken discourse. Understanding the presence and patterns of these bundles in educational materials is essential for effective language instruction and material development.This research aims to identify the most commonly utilized functional classifications of 3-word lexical bundles in junior high school EFL textbooks. This study employed a descriptive quantitative research methodology with a corpus-based analysis approach. The study's main methodological framework is a corpus-based approach, which combines quantitative and qualitative components to offer a thorough examination of the data. The data of this research comprises a collection of Indonesian junior high school EFL textbooks officially approved by the Ministry of Education. Specifically, the study examined textbooks used in grades 7-9, published in 2022. AntConc 4.3.1 was used to analyze the corpus, and N-Gram Tool was used to generate the 3-word lexical bundles in this study. The study shows that the most commonly utilized functional classifications of 3-word lexical bundles in junior high school EFL textbooks is the referential expressions category; there are 914 bundles (44.76%). Furthermore, the implication of this research is that these bundles should be used by educators, especially those implementing the independent curriculum, to create instructional materials that enhance students' syntactic and pragmatic skills
Critical Discourse Analysis of Linguistics and Visual Elements of GIV Soap Advertisements
Full text linkAdvertising significantly influences consumer perceptions and purchasing behavior through the strategic use of linguistic and visual elements. Despite extensive research on advertising discourse, there remains a gap in understanding how language and imagery are specifically utilized in beauty and skincare product advertisements, particularly on social media. While existing studies have explored general advertising strategies, limited research has examined the interplay between linguistic choices, visual representation, and color psychology in shaping consumer responses within the Nigerian context. This study aims to fill this gap by critically analyzing the linguistic and visual elements in Giv Soap advertisements. The research examines the choice of words, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives, to determine their role in portraying product attributes, effectiveness, and the desired impact on users. It also identifies various phrase structures, such as noun phrases, verb phrases, and adjectival phrases, and their contribution to conveying persuasive messages. Additionally, the study explores the use of colors-blue, white, green, and pink-in these advertisements and their psychological effects on audiences. Findings reveal that Giv Soap advertisements strategically combine language and imagery to appeal to consumers, particularly women, by creating strong mental images and emotional connections with the product. The study highlights how these advertisements subtly influence consumer preferences and purchasing decisions. This research contributes to the broader discourse on advertising by providing insights into how linguistic and visual elements work together to construct persuasive messages. It offers valuable implications for advertisers, marketers, and linguists, particularly within the beauty industry