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Semiotic Analysis on TV Series Industry: Case Study of Criminal Minds Poster
Full text linkThis research aims to identify and explain the signifiers, signified, denotations, connotations meanings, and myths embedded in the signs of the TV series Criminal Minds poster. In this research, the authors used the descriptive qualitative method to identify, analyze, and explain the signs in the Criminal Minds TV series poster. The authors also employ Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes\u27 semiotic approach in the research. The primary data of this research is taken from both the verbal and nonverbal signs in Criminal Minds TV Series posters. This research shows that there are nine nonverbal and two verbal signs. Furthermore, after analyzing all of the signs (both verbal and nonverbal) in Saussure and Barthes\u27 semiotic approach, this study found that all of the signs carry specific messages. Its purpose is to give the audience teasers or clues about the story, which tells about the journey of all main characters of Criminal Minds. Moreover, the myth commonly found across the signs in this TV series poster is to attract more potential viewers to watch the series
Micro-Teaching and Collaborative Learning: A Synergy for Developing Student-Teacher Performance and Collaborative Skills
Full text linkMicro-teaching, one of the valuable advancements in teacher training, has become a tool for student-teachers to achieve professional teaching skills and foster deeper teaching knowledge. Collaborative skills, considered one of the 21st-century skills, have been identified as an indicator of a successful life. Therefore, Collaborative learning as a teaching approach where students work together on tasks or projects can help develop collaborative skills. Equally important, this research investigates how collaborative learning impacts student-teacher performance and collaborative skills development in micro-teaching classrooms, identifying factors contributing to successful teaching practice. This study employs qualitative research using a case study design by collecting data through questionnaires, documentation, and peer observation. The researchers analyzed 70 student-teachers from the micro-teaching class at Universitas Tidar who had already completed the teaching practice. Descriptive qualitative techniques are used to analyze the data to gain a deeper understanding of the results through data condensation, display, and conclusions. As a result, researchers expect to find that collaborative learning significantly enhances student teaching practice performance in the micro-teaching classroom. Furthermore, students could enhance communication, teamwork, management, problem-solving skills, and active participation during the collaborative learning process
The Investigation of How Anxiety Never Stops Me from Learning English: An Autoethnography Research
Full text linkAs one of the most crucial affective variables, anxiety is a highly significant predictor of EFL, which may hinder the learning process. This paper presents an autoethnography qualitative investigation of the journey of learning English, which has been dominated by anxiety. The researcher’s learning experiences since secondary school were discovered. This paper aimed to explore central research questions of the cause of anxiety and the strategy to cope with anxiety in learning English. In this autoethnography, personal memories served as the primary instrument for data collection, supplemented by visual data such as pictures, a drawing, diary snippet, and screenshots. Finding crucial moments and doing in-depth analysis become considerably important in using autoethnography. Furthermore, this paper employed a narrative approach to describe personal experiences and used thematic analysis to categorize data based on key themes in findings. The study findings indicated that lack of teacher encouragement, unpleasant classroom atmosphere, lack of vocabulary mastery, and fear of negative evaluation became the causes of anxiety. In addition, several ways to cope with anxiety done through keeping a positive mindset, improving self-motivation to learn more, and involving in the English community. Implications and suggestions for potential further study are also addressed
Consumer Fraud Mode by Tricking Prices through Hyperbolic and Persuasive Advertising Promotion Language
Full text linkIn trading activities, sometimes certain people take advantage of the situation to take as much profit as possible from consumers. What these parties do is sometimes done in deceptive ways. However, strangely, consumers are actually tempted by their products, and do not even mind their deception. This has the potential to become a legal problem because of the attempt to deceive consumers with ironic slogans and promotional language. Therefore, the purpose of this research is that the author wants to know how sales cases that occur in minimarkets and online shops have the potential to become legal problems. In addition, the author wants to know what kind of promotional language minimarkets and online shops use to manipulate the selling price so that it looks cheaper to consumers so that it has the potential to become fraud. The data collection used in this research uses observation and documentation methods. After that, the data that has been collected will be analyzed using a qualitative approach. The results show that the use of advertising promotional language can increase sales value. On the other hand, the language has the potential to become a legal case because there are elements of price fraud against consumers in accordance with Article 378 of the Criminal Code
Representation of Racial Disparity in Angie Thomas\u27s The Hate U Give
No full textRacism has become the biggest social issue in the world because of its constant unjust treatment that affects people from minority races, ethnicities, and religions. Related to this issue, The Hate U Give conveys the social condition where racial disparity towards black people is profoundly represented in the narrative. This study focuses on identifying the ideational metafunction elements, including transitivity and ergativity patterns found in the narrative. It reveals how the racial disparity is performed by the use of the meta function. Mixed method research was employed to collect and analyze the data to yield more insightful information that complements both methodologies’ findings. The theory of Systemic Functional Grammar was used to identify and classify the ideational metafunction elements from the collected narrative, and the Discourse Analysis approach was applied as a theoretical approach to support the observation. The result concluded that in the analysis of transitivity patterns, material and relational processes dominate the narrative by approximately 25% to 33% of the entire collected narrative. The findings show that racial disparity in analyzing black people that was performed by law enforcement in the collected narrative is manifested in three forms: police brutality, racial profiling, and sentencing policy
Need Analysis in Developing Writing Instruction for Educational Short Story Writing based on Local Narratives
Full text linkWriting instruction is one of the educational tools which is very important in writing courses, including creative writing. It can help students understand how to write a specific genre of text, as well as guide students in the writing process. This research aims to investigate the need for developing writing instruction for writing educational short stories based on local narratives. The need analysis includes target needs and learning needs. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative, using a questionnaire and interview as the instrument. The result of this research showed that literary aspects such as theme, plot, character, setting, point of view, and educational value needed to be strengthened. Those materials should be the priority to be implemented in writing exercises about local stories. It can be concluded that this study underlines the important role of writing instruction, especially in developing creative writing proficiency, emphasizing the need to strengthen the literary aspects of short stories
Revealing the Ideology of Documentary Film Dirty Vote: Critical Discourse Analysis with Transitivity Perspective
Full text linkThe Dirty Vote documentary movie attempted to depict the ambiance of Indonesia’s general election. Movies inherently reflect the viewpoints and ideology of particular groups; therefore, it led us to research the film further by using Critical Discourse Analysis. Film as one of the discourses has its linguistics characteristic which brings the ideological orientations. This research aims to reveal the ideology of Dirty Vote from transitivity perspective. Transitivity is the ideational function that can show what happens in a text as it is related to a series of context in which participants, processes, and circumstance must be used in a discourse. In addition, this research uses Fairclough›s Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal ideological assumptions in discourse. The data is taken from the utterance of one of the constitutional law experts, namely Zainal Arifin Mochtar (ZAM). Fairclough›s CDA model: description, interpretation and explanation are used to analyze the data. This study found that the processes in opening of the film are relational attributive process, material process and behavioral process. Meanwhile, the processes perceived in the content of the movie are material, relational attributive, relational identifying, behavioral, verbal, mental, and existential process. The transitivity analysis in the film produces representation of general election reflected in the ZAM’s speech and create the ideology of the film
O’Speak Version 1.0: A New Tool to Measure Segmental Pronunciation Features
Full text linkThe rapid enhancement of technology has made it possible to integrate technology and L2 pronunciation assessment. While the investigation of L2 pronunciation was considered vital in English Language Teaching, assessing pronunciation is granted the least attention. This study attempts to discuss the roles and impacts of O’Speak version 1.0 as an automated pronunciation tool and compare it with human ratings while assessing L2 segmental pronunciation features uttered by Indonesian learners of English. This study aims to pilot an android-based pronunciation test, namely, O’Speak, which was developed using Feuerstein’s Mediated Learning Experience principles. Performed under a quasi-experimental research design, this study ran an independent two-sample t-test involving 50 participants. The study showed that there was no statistically significant difference between O’Speak and human ratings in the segmental pronunciation assessment. This indicates that a new tool functions equally with the ability that human rating has. During the study, this study identified some caveats shown by the human rating that leads to its ability to be equal to O’Speak, and these include teaching experience, hallo effect, and rating experience
Language Variations of Adolescents on Tiktok Social Media
Full text linkThe use of language on social media which tends to adjust its pronunciation has given rise to a phenomenon called ecrononciation. This phenomenon has been happening in Indonesia for a long time, especially among teenagers. This causes the emergence of new language variations that displace old language variations over time. Therefore, this research aims to describe the differences in language variations of teenagers on social media, the function of language variations used by teenagers on social media, and the background that causes language variations of teenagers on social media. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive method. Data collection was carried out through listening and note-taking techniques sourced from videos uploaded by one of the TikTok social media user accounts. The data used in this research are oral statements accompanied by written transcripts uploaded by the account. The data that has been collected is identified and analyzed using the matching method based on the theory of language variation in sociolinguistic studies. Based on the results and discussion in this research, it was found that there are forms of adolescent language variation in the form of new forms, the emotive function of adolescent language variations on social media, and the background of adolescent language variations from time to time is influenced by speech situations and age factors.
Using Scrabble as a Gamification to Enhance Students’ Motivation and Vocabulary Acquisition: Teachers’ Perspective
Full text linkTechnology has aided in the development of learning media with a variety of media creations as media for students to be more engaged in learning to use a laptop or smartphone with Android capability by installing the application in question. In this study, the use of games or gamification applications in learning English, specifically digital scrabble games, is discussed. This study attempts to investigate the use of scrabble to support students\u27 motivation and vocabulary acquisition based on teachers\u27 perspectives. The subjects for this research were 12 (twelve) English teachers of North Sumatera. In conducting this research, the researcher used the case study methodology. The data were collected through an open questionnaire requiring a lengthy response from the respondent and a closed questionnaire with an alternative answer decided by the questionnaire\u27s creator, namely yes or no. The results showed that, in accordance with the teachers\u27 perceptions, utilizing scrabble can motivate students to study because they become interested, feel challenged while using it, and want to keep playing. Due to the students\u27 ability to learn and assimilate new words through scrabble, their vocabulary acquisition also enhanced.