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A BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: A SURGE OF LANGUAGE: TEACHING POETRY DAY BY DAY
No full textBARON WORMSER AND DAVID CAPELLA
Portsmouth: Heinemann
2004, 229 pp.
ISBN 0-325-00606-
COHESIVE DEVICE RECOGNITION SKILLBUILDING EXERCISES: A WAY TO HELP STUDENTS IMPROVE THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT
Get PDFThis study was designed to investigate the possibility that
there might be a significant improvement on the students' reading comprehension achievement following the treatment through Cohesive Device Recognition Skill-Building Exercises. It was conducted under the principles of the one group pretest-posttest (repeated-measures) design. 4 J students of Economics Education of FKIP-Unila attending English as a general subject were chosen as the subjects. These students were introduced and trained with the skill and encouraged to firstly recognize the cohesive devices employed in the texts, then classify their types and functions across the sentences and paragraphs, and finally to check their comprehension about the texts on hand. As the design suggests, this
research administered pretest and posttest as the main instruments in collecting the data. The data were analyzed using Repeated Measures-Matched T-test. The result shows that t-observe (6./79) is higher than Hable (2.704) which means that there is a significant improvement on the students' reading comprehension achievement following the treatment. This seems to suggest that this technique worked well and was found effective in this stud)~ Since the study was conducted to an intact class and even though the test allows us to generalize, the design of the study precludes such generalization. Therefore, further study involving randomly selected and randomly assigned subjects would certainly provide more interesting findings
GREAT DISRUPTION IN SOUTHERN SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN JOHN GRISHAM'S THE TESTAMENT
Get PDFAt the dawn of the twentieth century. especially after the
invention of internet the world began to transform itself into
information age which was characterized by the production more of two things people value most in a modern democracy -freedom and equality. Freedom of choice has exploded and hierarchies of all sorts, have come under pressure and begun to crumble. People were trapped in a globalized and homogenous condition. Accompanying the shift there arouses social disorders which is indicated especially by the decline of family values. As that of other industrialized countries, when the United States becomes more advanced it is assumed that all its states experience the same condition. There seems no place for distinctive feature. The southern states which always claim and are claimed to be distinctive from the rest will . therefore. be interesting and worth observing. Taking John Grisham's work. The Testament. which is set in Virginia in the year of J 996s, as the main source, this study is done under the notion that literary works could serve as mental evidence of what happens in society. The result demonstrates that Southern society experience the same condition. The increasing individualism in turn exerts great influence on the family life. The bond becomes more loosen and distrust rises
POT LUCK: CULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARIJUANA EFFECT
Get PDFThis paper is an attempt to open up discussions on
marijuana as a psychoactive substance that engages with food
and the act of eating in very complex and discursive ways. This
study conducts numerous interviews that demonstrate that.
frequently, marijuana is not the countercultural drug it is
commonly supposed to be if analysed in its relations to food habits and the act of consumption. It also brings to light the
surprising ways in which marijuana affects attitudes towards
certain kinds of foods. thereby open up a space for a kind of
psycho geographical tourism within the self
A BOOK REVIEW: THE NEW CRITICISM
No full textIn his book The New Criticism, Indian author Munir explores
the complicated critical perspective of the same name that
developed by American and British writers of the 1920s through the 1960s. Rather than explore the motives or intent of the author of a text or using the text's social or historical context to attempt to explore it, New Criticism Critics focused exclusively on the text itself. Over time, such close reading resulted in its own unique critical process as well as perspective. Authors such as John Crowe Ransom, W.K.Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley gave shape and definition to the major tenants of the perspective. Munir, over the course of eight chapters helps clarify both the ideas and the major works of several New Criticism writers
A BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: P. D. JAMES THE LIGHTHOUSE: A RECONSTITUTION OF ENGLISH CLASSIC MYSTERY INGREDIENTS
No full textTHE LIGHTHOUSE
P.D. JAMES
London: Faber,
2005, 400 pp.
ISBN: 0-307-26291-
NARRATING THE INDIAN NATION A NONINDIAN PERSPECTIVE: A STUDY OF WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'S THE LAST MUGHAL AND RUDYARD KIPLING'S KIM
Get PDFThis paper deals with tile issue of tile rise of nationalism in
Indian context as a result of tile events of 1857. and attempts to study the perspectives of two non-Indian writers interested in Indian nation. namely Rudyard Kipling and William Dalrymple in their novels Kim and The Last Mughal respectively as opposed to tile Indian nationalist perspectives seen and portrayed in later narratives by Indians. The former is a fictional representation of the mutiny of 1857 whereas tile latter is a fictionalized historical account. Published almost a hundred years apart. and coming at different defining moments in India's history. the two novels Kim (/901) and The Last Mughal (2006). both talk of a common set of events. It is one endeavor to see the different dimensions explored by these two writers
WOMEN'S COURAGE AS AN EFFECT OF A STRONG FRIENDSIDP BOND IN THURSDAYS AT EIGHT
No full textHaving girlfriends may bring many advantages for women. They can relate and be comfortable with each other. This makes them talk about anything in a group. Thursdays at Eight talks about friendship bond and the power inside them through pain, rejection, ambition, and lost. This article, which uses Feminism approach, emphasizes in Third-wave Feminism and is intended to analyze thefriendship bond and the courage of the women in the novel. For example is how the characters in the novel get up and fight to reach what they want throughfriendship bond
BOOK REVIEW: OBSlERVlING RACISM '1I'HROUGH WIDTENESS AND ITS ENTITLlEMENTS
Get PDFIf only prejudices, stereotypes, and discrimination were totally
diminished from this world, needless to say that peace is something that we could always breathe in and out easily, effortlessly. If only everyone did not focus on differences, everybody would have always lived in harmony for such a long time ago and in the future to come. Putting aside all differences
and paying more attention the commonality and similarity that tightens the values of humanity is what we need. We often hear and imagine this will come true. Yet, the world is filled with discrimination in almost every aspect in human life
THE INTERNET: BREAKING THE RULE OF TEACHING GRAMMAR
Get PDFIII this paper the writer reports the use of the Internet as
part of strategy in teaching grammar of English. In such a case, students managed to both experience the wealth of computer technology through the Internet abundant facilities for learning language and the success in grasping better ideas of the language rules. Through this activity, students functioned as "active explorer" of the rule of the language and as such were motivated to invest time and energy into their unusually interesting and challenging . structure class. Students were put into groups with which they went exploring the Internet to find out the predetermined topic of exercises
and practiced it together in groups, printed it out and then accounted for it in front of the class. They had to be able to defend their answer in front of the class and to be ready 10 explain their answer. Based on The observation made during the running of the class, the writer found that this teaching method allows students to more experience structure of English. Then, from their comments they admitted that
they learned structure better as they feel they were challenged to experience more than the ordinary book-based class