Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
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READING WRITING BY WOMEN
Get PDFDifferences in gender may produce differences in style of writing. It is my intension here to show that the style used by female in contrast to male writers results in a number of significant differences. Some of them are caused by the writers cultural background. Being a teacher, I would like to share with others how the gender and feminist theories can be applied to analyze writings by women
SCROOGE'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Get PDFThis paper deals with Scrooge's characterization in Dickens' A Christmas Carol who is a rich, cold-hearted, miserly, misanthropy, and an anti Christmas old man. He experiences a gradual character development that comes from his awareness of his bad character and from the ghosts and other characters after seeing the visions of his past, present and future shown by the ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Yet on Christmas Day, he becomes an altered old man, by being a kind, warm, generous old man to everyone, especially to the poor and a person who honors Christmas and has Christmas spirit in his heart. This study uses the formalistic approach to analyze Scrooge's character development, by focusing on A Christmas Carol's text.
In studying about Scrooge's characterization, Charles Dickens' message, namely charity is also proven. With charity, Dickens shows that people can especially help the poor and make them happy
A BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE: THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
No full textDORIS LESSING Great Britain: Flamingo HarperCollins Publisher Ltd., 2002, 576pp ISBN: 0-586-08923-
CHALLENGE AND CHANGE IN SCHOLASTIC JOURNALISM AS RELATED TO THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Get PDFChanging notions of literacy impact and complicate ways in which English language arts educators adapt curriculum in meaningful ways for students. In this paper, I position scholastic journalism as authentic, 21st
It is a wintery Saturday morning and a small group of student writers and editors wait outside Publications Room 70 eager for me to unlock the school door. The group is ready to work. They
century ELA coursework. I provide an historical overview of scholastic journalism. I emphasize impacts of media law, emergent technologies, and redesigned school literacy goals to the ways in which scholastic journalism negotiates acceptance within ELA curriculum
LONELY LENNIE IN JOHN STEINBECK'S OF MICE AND MEN
Get PDFLoneliness is an emotional state when an individual finds
him herself lack of qualitative interaction with other people. It does not only occur by the absence of other people around. but it also occurs with the presence of the others. The case study of Lennie Small provides A descriptive illustration of loneliness as the discussion reveals that Lennie suffers from psychological and cognitive loneliness. The feeling of loneliness itself is caused by being unable to fit in and being abused and rejected by others. The study also reveals how Lennie attempts to cope with loneliness through the desire for someone and by crying
THE STRUCTURE OF MYTH FOUND IN PRAMOEDYA'S THE KING, THE WITCH AND THE PRIEST
No full textBeing a part of a certain culture makes a literary work is not immune from its influence. This applies also to literary works which deliver stories from the past, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's The King, The Witch and The Priest for example. To confirm the influence, this article would like to see the structure of myth in this story with the help of Greimas' Actantial Model. Under the approach of structuralism, finding the six actants of some important actions selected from the plot analysis is conducted to discover the pattern. The pattern then is used to understand the structure of mythfound in the story. This study results on the existence of the structure of myth whereby the good one always wins at the end of the story, no matter how powerful the evil is
THE EFFECT OF LEARNING APPROACH AND READING INTEREST TOWARD STUDENTS NARRATIVE WRITING ACHIEVEMENT
Get PDFThe aim of this research is to know the different kinds of instructional approaches (process skill and goals oriented) found in the process of learning narrative writing. The use of different instructional approaches gave different results on students achievement in narrative writing. Students who have different reading interests also showed different achievement in narrative writing. These two variables have a relationship in implementing instructional approach and reading interest. It showed that the testing result of interaction between the variables of process skill and goals oriented instructional approaches to narrative writing achievement is possible. It can be concluded that the use of different instructional approach (process skill and goals oriented) give different final results. The same result is also done to students who have different reading interests as they will give different narrative writing achievements
MAKING THE BEST USE OF A TEXTBOOK IN INDONESIAN TERTIARY EFL READING CLASSROOMS
Get PDFNowadays, EFL reading textbooks have adjusted their level of linguistic difficulties to their prospective users and provide texts about a variety of topics, detailed explanation of reading skills and practices, not to mention the smart lay-out and good quality of paper, all aiming at facilitating both students and teachers to successfully learn and teach reading, respectively. However, having qualified reading textbooks, teachers cannot take for granted that their students will directly appreciate reading and the textbook selected for the course because in some places extensive reading may not be part of the people's routine, and may not be considered to be very important by the authority. This article provides several useful techniques to take a full advantage of textbooks in A. M. Da Silva, Making the Best Use ofa Textbook 21 EFL reading classrooms in the aforementioned context
A SELF-STUDY: IMPROVING PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF PRONUNCIATION TEACHING
Get PDFThis self-study was initiated when the writer closely worked with a Chinese student, improving the student's pronunciation peiformance, for several weeks. The tutorial program was intended mainly to help the student improve his pronunciation. At the same time, the writer benefited the program to conduct a self study improving her pronunciation teaching practice and her understanding of that practice. A participatory observation, several interviews and a reflective writing were taken as sources to collect the data. During the program. the writer noticed some aspects of her content knowledge were transformed and evolved. The improvement of the writer's pedagOgical content knowledge (PCK), as a result of the tutorial practice, were discussed in terms of five components suggested by Magnusson et all (1999): orientations of teaching, knowledge of curriculum, knowledge of student understanding, knowledge of assessment, and knowledge of instructional strategies. This study provides a useful inquiry for exploring how one's own practice can be used to improve teacher education courses and teacher education programs