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Analisis Kualitas Naskah Ujian Akhir Semester Mata Kuliah Bahasa Inggris II Politeknik Negeri Lampung Tahun 2006
Full text linkIt is believed that without the evaluation it would be almost impossible to teach. As students need to know their abilities, teachers use some kind of evaluations. Evaluation of teaching learning process can be administrated in the form of tests. In other words teaching must be followed by testing. The information gained can be useful for both students and teacher. Hence there are two points interrelated. Firstly, the test is concerned with the teaching that has taken place. It is that the test administered should give the students feeling that the teacher’s evaluation matches what they have taught and sense of accomplishment. Secondly, the teaching is concerned with the test. The teacher can diagnose his effort in his teaching whether or not his teaching has been effective. Madsen (1987) pointed out that the criteria of a good test comprise: (1) validity, (2) reliability, (3) difficulty level, and (4) discrimination power. This research was to know and describe quality of semester II English test for the students of The State Polytechnic of Lampung (Polinela) in the year 2006. The study showed that the Semester II English Test administered for the students did not meet the expected level of validity, reliability, level of difficulty nor discrimination power of a good test. Key words: evaluation, validity, reliability, difficulty level, discrimination power
High School Teachers’ Expository Writing: A Case Study in Bandar Lampung
Full text linkPenelitian ini menelaah kemampuan guru sekolah menengah atas di Bandar Lampung dalam menulis wacana eksposisi. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain studi kasus deskriptif kualitatif dengan data berupa wacana-wacana eksposisi Analitikal dan Hortatori yang ditulis oleh para guru yang dianalisis dengan pendekatan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) dan dikemudian divalidasi melalui interview. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebagian dari para guru telah mampu menulis menggunakan strategi yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan wacana. Para guru telah memahami struktur generik wacana guna mencapai tujuan dan fungsi wacana eksposisi. Analisis gramatika pada wacana menunjukkan bahwa para guru telah mampu menyampaikan makna ideasional, tekstual dan interpersonal melalui wacana tertulis. Hal tersebut ditunjukan dalam bentuk penggunaan fitur pengembangan tema (thematic progression) berupa pola tema zigzag, reiterasi tema dan pengembangan tema bertingkat (multy-layer Theme development), fungsi konjungsi, variasi bentuk kata kerja (process type), bentukan fungsi sirkumstansial, bentukan nominalisasi, penggunaan mudalisasi dan modulasi dalam  wacana serta penggunaan referensi pronomina (pronoun referent) dalam wacana. Namun penelitian ini juga menunjukkan bahwa tidak semua guru mampu mengembangkan argumentasi dalam wacana tulis dengan baik yang ditunjukkan dengan kurangnya penggunaan fakta dan bukti yang obyektif dalam wacana, ketidakpastian pendapat, tidak adanya penggunaan fitur dialogis antar wacana (intertextuality), penerapan bentukan kalimat perintah (imperative) dan pernyataan realis serta sejumlah kesalahan (errors) dalam tataran tata bahasa (syntax). Hal ini disebabkan beberapa hal seperti kurangnya pemahaman guru dalam pengembangan wacana berbasis genre (Genre Based Approach/(GBA)) dan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) yang telah menjadi bagian dari kurikulum pendidikan bahasa Inggeris di Indonesia, juga kemampuan professional berbahasa guru (professional competence), dan kurangnya motivasi dan komitmen dalam menulis.   Kata kunci: Systemic Functional Lingistics (SFL), kemampuan menulis wacana eksposis
PATTERNS OF RESPONSES TO COMPLIMENTS ON PHYSICAL APPEARANCE IN SUNDANESE WOMEN
Full text linkAbstract: Complimenting as a speech event has been one of the major areas on which linguists have focused their attention and drawn insights into the phenomenon of linguistic politeness in the last two decades (Zanrong 2004). Some previous research – among others are by Davis (2008); Heidari (2009); Matsuoka (2009) – revealed that gender give rise variations of strategies on compliment responses (CR). This paper examines Sundanese women responses to compliments on appearance addressed by the same and different gender. The research applied Naturalized Role Play method in collecting the data by observing the way of 68 women giving response to the compliment addressed on their physical appearance. The respondents were native Sundanese women living around Bandung. The study found that most women respond differently to compliments addressed to them by women and by men. This study also reveals that most of them considered the compliments – particularly when addressed by men – as a way of either maintaining social hospitalities or joking, and thus, the speech acts of compliments appear more to be a way of consolidating solidarity among them. Keywords: politeness, compliments, patterns of respons
A SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING :A Case Study in Bandar Lampung
Full text linkThis thesis is to report on teachers’ ability in composing expository texts. The texts were composed by six high school teachers in Bandar Lampung, Lampung, Indonesia. This study is a descriptive qualitative case study investigating three Analytical and three Hortatory Expository texts. Those texts were analyzed using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to deal with the textual, experiential and interpersonal metafunctions which were exposed within the texts’ Theme, Transitivity and Mood systems. The results of texts analyses then were confirmed and validated through interviews conducted with the teachers.
The result of this study shows that the teachers could demonstrate appropriate strategies to compose the texts although some problems of writing were evident in the texts. The grammatical analyses indicate that the writers had successfully attempted to use some of the main conventions of written argumentative discourse. In this case, to construe textual metafunction, the teachers could employ the demands of the generic form of arguing genre, the linguistic devices as well as the thematic progression. Furthermore, referring to experiential metafunction, the teachers could demonstrate their ability to use various linguistic resources such as appropriate conjunction system and appropriate Process types, Circumstantials and Nominalisations. Finally, interpersonally, the writers could enrich the text with the use of appropriate Modality to create objective arguments and communicate with the readers.
However, the study reveals that not all of the teachers’ texts can be considered successful or mature texts in that they seem to have problems with Argument development characterized with lack of fact and objective evidence, inconsistency of argument, and absence of intertextuality. Besides, the inappropriate use of imperative mood, realis/universal statements and some syntax errors are also found. It is found that the teachers’ problems were mainly to do with their time management to carry out the task which resulted in their inability to give maximum efforts to work with the texts. In addition their background knowledge and language competence as well as their commitment to carry out the task also appeared to be problems in producing the texts. Thus, the teachers are suggested to commit to more practices and to have effective teacher trainings to maintain and improve the teachers’ professional competence particularly to concern the issue of SFL and GBA within the curriculum
Developing Project based English language learning program through travel vlog production of Agritourism destinations promotion
Full text linkThe process of learning English for students in vocational education programs requires innovation to accommodate learning conditions in order that students can apply communicative skills according to the needs of the real world of work. The application of Project Based Learning is considered relevant to be developed in vocational education to develop targeted core competencies, and other competencies relevant to the needs of the world of work such as the ability to cooperate, creativity, problem solving, etc. This research aimed at observing students learning patterns developed through the application of this method. This study used descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The research results indicate that the application of PBL shows the effect of PBL on student learning patterns such as the ability to manage groups and work in groups. In the process of individual learning, PBL is considered to support individual learning in the aspect of motivation, reduce learning tension, improve learning performance and understanding. This study also found several learning activities that can support student learning processes such as group learning activities in class, group assignments outside class and independent learning
Reflecting Students’ Parents Expectations into Primary English Teaching Curriculum and Instruction
Full text linkPengembangan kurikulum membutuhkan analisis situasional guna memperhitungkan faktor-faktor eksternal yang dapat menentukan dalam pengembangan, evaluasi dan penerapan kurikulum tersebut. Salah satu faktor ekternal yang penting dalam pengembangan kurikulum adalah faktor orangtua siswa yang merupakan bagian dari faktor sosial pengembangan kurikulum. Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mengetahui harapan-harapan orang tua dari siswa-siswi yang belajar pada tingkat dasar (SD) guna pengembangan dan pengaplikasian kurikulum bahasa Inggris pada tingkat tersebut. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada dua lembaga kursus penyelenggara pendidikan bahasa inggris pra-sekolah di Bandar Lampung. Data dalam penelitian ini diperoleh melalui interview dan kuesioner dengan melibatkan 23 orangtua siswa sebagai responden. Hasil penelitian ini mengindikasikan bahwa orangtua merupakan faktor yang mampu memberi kontribusi penting bagi pengembangan kurikulum tersebut. Responden memberikan sejumlah harapan-harapan yang perlu diakomodasi terkait muatan, pengaplikasian dan pengevaluasian hingga penerapan kurikulum bahasa inggris pra sekolah. Kata kunci: faktor orang tua, pengajaran bahasa inggris tingkat dasar, pengembangan kurikulumÂ
Community Based Tourism Model Development in a Cultural Conservation, Agro Tourism Management, and Creative Economics in Sailing Tourism Village, Tanggamus Regency
No full textThe principle of sustainable tourism development is derived from variousattractions management concepts, which is applied among others in ecotourism and tourismvillages. The tourism village is developed by exploring the potential that exists in thevillage, both natural potential, customs of the surrounding community, cultural uniqueness,and patterns of life that occur in daily life. The tourism village directly involves theparticipation of the local community as a party that is in direct contact withtourists, so that itbecomes a special concern to determine the management model by making the community asubject, not just an object. One of the tourism villages that has been active in LampungProvince is in Tanggamus Regency, namely Sailing tourism village as a weaving industrycenter of Lampung. The village offers the attractiveness ofthe process of making Lampungtapis woven cloth to the sales process. In addition, thereare also agro-tourism locations withfruit gardens as objects and waterfalls, as well as springs managed by the community. Theexistence of the Sailing tourism village, which is positioned in the middle of communitysettlements and even formed with collaboration between communities, becomes a specialdemand that the management of this area should be designed with the participation of thecommunity as tourism actors, one of which is through the concept of developing communitybased tourism (CBT) in 3 participations, namely ideas, material, and real action. Thecommunity based tourism model designed from the findings in the Sailing tourism villagehas 4 stages, namely identifying potential that can be developed into attractiveness, raisingawareness to the public as subjects and tourist objects, developing a managementorganization with the formation of organizational structures and governance documents, andimplementing tourism programs and businesses
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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