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LANGUAGE CHOICE IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT: THE USE OF L1 IN THE HOSPITALITY ENGLISH COURSES
Get PDFThe present study presents the perception of lecturers on the use of the first language in the foreign language classroom, particularly in a tourism vocational institution in a multilingual context. The participants were 2 lecturers teaching Hospitality English: one lecturer was teaching English for Front Office and one lecturer was teaching English for Food and Beverage. The data were collected through administering questionnaire and interview. The obtained data were analyzed qualitatively. The results show that lecturers perceived the use of the first language as positive and part of learning process. They used the first language mainly as a pedagogical device for clarification, for establishing rapport, saving time, and discipline. The findings might have significant implications for EFL language teachers regarding the facilitative effects of L1 use in the foreign language classrooms. The EFL teachers need to consider the EFL classroom context as a multilingual social space in which teachers and students take advantage of dynamic, creative and pedagogically effective use of both the target language and the learners.  Keywords: first language use, lecturers ‘perspective, multilingual contex
THE APPLICATION OF INDIRECT FEEDBACK TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH WRITING
Get PDFWriting is one of the important skills should be mastered by students of English education program. Mastering writing forces students to be able to produce good paragraph. Paragraph is said to be good if it is well organized. Organizing good paragraph is the problem faced by the second semester students of English education of Sultan Agung Islamic University. Based on that problem, the writer decided to apply indirect feedback to the students’ paragraph writing. The writer wants to know the way indirect feedback applied to improve the students’ paragraph writing. The writer used action research to come up to the objective of the research. There was one cycle of the research which consisted of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The writer adopted the steps of analyzing the data as proposed by Burns (1999) which consisted of assembling, coding, comparing, building meaning and interpretation and reporting the outcomes. The result was that the way the writer used underline to the students’ writing could improve the students’ paragraph writing. The students could provide correct final revision of their inappropriate writin
APPRAISAL ANALYSIS IN FREEDOM WRITERS MOVIE
Get PDFThis study attempts to find out conveyed messages in the movie from the realization of the appraisal and narrative structure as well as to describe the use of the Appraisal System to express LaGravenese's (a) Attitudes, (b)Engagement & (c) Graduation towards the main characters in Freedom Writers movie screenplay. Using both quantitative and qualitative descriptive approach for discourse appraisal system analysis, the result of this study reveals several messages of tolerance, earning respect and trust, honor diversity, and striving for success and trust from the realization of Appraisal and Narrative Structure either in the dialogues or monologues of Freedom Writers’ characters. The result from the Appraisal Devices realizing (a) Attitudes reveals that LaGravenese likes to express characters’ negative emotion explicitly than implicitly. He likes to express characters’ negative capability than other kinds of Judgments. He appreciates the characters using more Negative Value which denotes that in his opinion, they see each other negatively. (b)Engagement used in the screenplay describes that he emphasizes more on characters’ denial towards each other’s opinion and existence with the use of more Disclaim Heterogloss in the screenplay. (c)Graduation used in the screenplay describes that the use of more Sharpening Focus indicates he emphasizes on characters’ category boundary more than scaling of intensity.Keywords: Appraisal Devices, Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation
ENHANCING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH GRAMMAR ABILITY WITH ONLINE WEBSITE LINK
Get PDFToday’s activities are now using technology not only on business activities but also education. There are so many facilities on technology especially for improving students’ capability in learning knowledge such as e-learning and distance learning course. Lecturers as the facilitator in transferring knowledge, it is very beneficial to master good technology when they deliver knowledge. As written by Dick et al. (2005) that students are carried together with lecturer or on-line content, and are guided through class actions such as on-line exercises, discussion board and interaction with classmates. This occurred also for English lecturers to do teaching learning process. In this classroom action research which is done at English Education Department of UNISSULA on the third semester, the researcher shows new interesting classroom website on-line activities in learning English grammar. Using useful on-line link sources of students’ classroom for two cycles makes the students’ grammar capabilities improved better. The result of average class scores improved suggestively from 83 on the first cycle then 88 on the second cycle. So, suitable access to students on searching learning materials from internet must be provided well with preparation before action
THE EFFECT OF SELF-EDITING ON WRITING SKILL OF TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 LUBUKLINGGAU
Get PDFSelf-editing has been considered an important part of writing process that helps improving writing ability and yet become a better writer. This is because by having self-editing, the students are able to recognize their own errors in their composition. Therefore, this current study was conducted to investigate the effect of self-editing on writing skill of twelfth grade students of SMAN 1 Lubuklinggau. The subject of this study consisted of 34 students of grade XII IPA 3. It was found that after experiencing the writing instruction with self-editing, the students’ writing skill improved significantly. The students have been very enthusiastic towards the teaching technique. Their score in writing increased from pre-test to the end of cycle II.  The result of pre-test showed that the average was 68. From 34 students in the class, only 7 students got the score  above 79 and 27 students got the score bellow 79. In addition, in cycle I, the students who got the score above Minimum Mastery Criteria were 12 or 35, 29% and those who got below the Minimum Mastery Criteria that were 22 or 69, 71%. The average was 75. Finally, in cycle II, the students who got score above Minimum Mastery Criteria were 30 or 88. 24% and those who got below Minimum Mastery Criteria were 4 or 11. 76%. The average score was 81.32. Hence, it can be concluded that self-editing is indeed effective in improving the writing performance of the students. In addition, they could make further revisions on their own errors. Through self-editing, the students were willing to provide further support to peers and learn from each other in the process of writing.Keywords: Self-editing, Discussion text, Writin
THE REALIZATION OF POLITENESS IN “A DOLL’S HOUSE” SCRIPT
Get PDFPoliteness is considered to be important in the communication. When thepeople are communicating to one another, they are expected to keep thesocial relationship and do not violate another face or called as facethreatening acts (FTAs). This research investigated the realization ofpoliteness in a drama script entitled “A Doll’s House†by Henrik Ibsen. Itaims to classify the drama conversation parts into some categorizations ofpoliteness and to analyze why they differ in the context. In its nature, theresearch applied qualitative concepts. Two conversation parts in the firstact of the script were chosen to be the objects of the research. Thesequalitative data were then analyzed and categorized using Goffman’scategorizations of Face Threatening Act (FTA): FTA off record and FTA onrecord (with sub-classes: FTA on-baldly, FTA on record-with negativepoliteness, and FTA on record-with positive politeness). From the analyses,it was concluded that there were some parts belonging to FTA off recordand some belonging to the FTA on record with positive politeness. The firstdata analysis explained much about FTA off record. On the contrary, FTAon record with positive politeness was portrayed in the second analysis. Itshows that people tend to save their inter-interlocutors’ face by usingindirect request, off record, as far as they understand what the speakerswant to. The on record will work if only the first one does not work.Keywords: Politeness, FTA off-record, FTA-on recor
THE FEATURES OF INTERRUPTING, COLLABORATING, AND BACKCHANNELLING USED BY BROADCASTER AND CALLER IN TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
Get PDFConversational analysis is a part of conversational structure that manages people's communication. It deals with pragmatics. Some of the conversational structures consist of features in interrupting, collaborating, and backchannelling (Celce-Murcia, 1995: 14). This research was intended to analyze how the three features were applied in the English conversation by broadcasters and callers in English Corner Program. This research was qualitative. The data consisted of eight conversations. The data were collected through the following steps: recording, transcribing, selecting, and reporting. Then, they were analyzed with conversational approach drawn on Celce Murcia (1995). It was revealed that the broadcasters and callers in the eight conversations used the features of interrupting, collaborating, and backchanneling. They did not fully perform common English expressions and gambits. However, they tended to perform the simpler and easier ones. This implied that the participants have not known the appropriate expressions. Based on the result of this research, it was concluded that the conversations in this study were less structured and patterned. It was suggested for the readers who learn about conversational structure, that they should pay attention not only to the linguistic components, but also the pragmatics in which the English conversation takes place, including participant, context, and topic of a conversation
ROLE-PLAY AND SHOW-AND-TELL IN GRADE 5 STUDENTS' SPEAKING LEARNING
Get PDFThis research aimed to investigate (1) the effectiveness of role-play and show-and-tell, and (2) which one was more effective between role-play and show-and-tell in grade 5 students’ speaking learning. It was an experimental study by randomized pretest-posttest control group design. The data were collected by a non-test of an observation. The instrument of the research was observation sheets completed by speaking rubric onLikert scale. The data were analyzed by using one-way ANOVA followed by the Scheffe test. The results of the research showed that: (1) role-play and show-and-tell were effective in grade 5 students’ speaking learning indicated by p < 0.05 and; (2) role-play was more effective than show-andtell indicated by p < 0.05
ERRORS IN USING ENGLISH AS CLASSROOM LANGUAGE COMMITTED BY THE ICT TEACHER OF SMP NEGERI 2 SEMARANG
Get PDFThis article aims to discuss the problems faced by the ICT teacher of SMP Negeri 2 Semarang in using English as classroom language. The International Standard School project is a new education policy in Indonesia that was enacted with a main goal to prepare the students for global competition. This policy is both an effort to internationalize schools in Indonesia and a part of the national education decentralization reform. The title International Standard School, SBI in Bahasa, is given as an accreditation status to schools that have completed the required standards. This accredited status requires the school to carry out teaching and learning process all in English. This applies to all subjects including ICT. This article is based on the observation on the teaching and learning process in ICT class at SMP Negeri 2 Semarang as one of famous International Standard Schools in Semarang. The observation has resulted in general problems which is elaborated in the teaching documents four aspects of language mastery; fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary
GOD IN ALICE WALKER'S THE COLOR PURPLE; A PARADOX OF THE DIVINE
Get PDFOver time, as secularization took root in Black churches during the CivilRights era, the prevalent framework in understanding African Americanspirituality discourse has shifted from theology to sociology. This paper tries to discern this major shift from the black literature perspective. It aims to discuss the main charachers' paradoxical state of mind in understanding God in the novel The Color Purple. The 1982 Pulitzer Prize for fiction winner is organized around an intimate conversation between two female characters, Celie and Shug Avery, whose understanding of God were challanged by complexity of sexism and racism in the black family. A sociological approach is adopted to understand the characters' dynamic concept of God. Discussion in this paper suggested that Alice Walker's naturalist theology is embodied in Celie and Shug Avery’s conceptualizationof God in the novel.Keywords: Black Theology, The Color Purple, God in Black Literature