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Genre-based approach and postmethod pedagogy: Developing an (ESP) english course of business writing in EFL curriculum context
Full text linkLanguage use in classroom teaching contexts can surprisingly increase an instrument of power of language educational enterprise. This phenomenon is indicated in the author’s classroom teaching designed in English for Specific Program (ESP) for non-English students. This paper critically presents an English curriculum in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context when English writing for Business designed in the basis of beliefs underpinning the curriculum and the context analysis (student and the institutional context and learner needs), goals and objectives, syllabus, activities development, and assessment procedure and task.
Business English Writing (BWE) firstly shows an increase of students’ learning interest in which their learning interest meets goals and objectives underpinned with genre-based approach and postmethod pedagogy. The course then develops two activities both to gain a sense of responsibility in a collective manner and to exploit learning potential individually. In the end of teaching, the teacher develops a reflective approach assisting evaluation and initiating change in his classroom.
This study was designed in a qualitative method, which focused on six groups. Each group consisted of two students in ESP classroom of the Department of Management, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University, Malang. The study also used a purposive sampling focusing on reduced variations, simplified analysis, and facilitated group interviewing. The beneficial contribution of the course is that the teacher (author) can potentially act his teaching profession autonomously within the academic and administrative constraints imposed by the institution, curriculum and textbook. The students have benefited from the course in which opportunities widely open for learning strategies identification in relation to strengths and weaknesses. The strategies finally promote academic autonomy and liberatory autonomy
Media Framing: A rhetorical technique of mass media language in Republika, Kompas, and Jawa Pos newspapers
Full text linkA national test of civil servant candidates are followed by millions of people in Indonesia, as the test is prestigious to select test takers who will be officially accepted in Ministry of State for Administrative Reform and Bureaucracy, Indonesia Government. Newspapers texts frame our mental structures that shape the way we see the national test of civil servant candidates reported in 2013. The test information can further clearly be comprehended in finding the actor position of civil servant candidates in the discourse of Republika, Kompas, and Jawa Pos newspapers. This research is to obtain understanding clearly on the position of actors of civil servant candidates in newspaper discourses. Based on the background of the research and its objectives, the problem is formulated into the following question: How were civil servant candidates positioned in the national test of civil servant candidates by newspaper texts: Republika, Kompas, Jawa Pos at 4 November 2013? The research used qualitative content analysis, which was conducted in the interpretative method of text symbolic messages, particularly on newspaper texts. The researcher focuses his analysis on newspaper text interpretation to uncover latent messages from virtual reality to critique and transformation as well as social structures, in which contextual and social relations found varied in the time of the research. The results of the research show that Republika and Kompas used similar discourse strategies reflected in exclusion and inclusion subcategories, even though their framing clauses were varied. Meanwhile, Jawa Pos published the news report found more representative of civil servant candidates’ behaviour than the two newspaper reports. Interestingly, Republika and Kompas persuaded readers by an argumentative-descriptive text type, while Jawa Pos used a descriptive-narrative one. All three newspaper texts uniquely presented factual information of the national test identification and described its characteristics
Bangunan paragraf : strategi dan teknis paraphrase dalam academic writing
Full text linkThis paper outlines the development of supporting sentences, which are strategically created in relation to Turnitin – a text-matching software – and technically constructed in the uses of quotation, paraphrasing principles and reporting verbs. It is, therefore, intended for those who are interested in developing paragraphs in short and practical features connected with academic purposes, such as in the use of lexical density and nominalization as the main parts of scholarly written texts
Interlanguage analysis: how morpheme order studies do not necessarily apply to every situation
Full text linkMuch research on language acquisition, from nativist to interactionist, describes Morpheme Order Studies as a major development in second language acquisition. This paper intended to discuss how spoken data from a Japanese student could be used to indicate the level of acquisition of English morphemes attained via the processability theory but actually determined that an order of acquisition does not necessarily apply. Results showed that the informant varied in success in supplying correct morphemes in obligatory contexts, that her first language did not interfere with her second language acquisition and the accuracy of using morpheme order sequence to determine the level of acquisition breaks down because learner’s developmental sequence is unpredictable
Australian And Indonesian Male Students’ Compliment Responses: A Cross-Culture Male Gender-Based Response Strategy
Full text linkWhen compliments are interpreted as sincere and spontaneous, the community can recognise them positively. Furthermore, when two people have a conversation with each other, they may or may not be involved in a power difference (-P) and distance (-D) between them. This study investigates compliment responses between Australian students as Native Speakers (NS) and Indonesian students as Non-Native Speakers (NNS). The study focuses the Compliment Responses (CRs) on specific cultural groups and cross-cultural comparisons between Indonesian and Australian cultures, based on gender and response strategies. Firstly, Indonesian male students will perceive compliments to be more flirtatious than innocent. Secondly, Australian male students will perceive compliments to be more objectively practical than emotional. Finally, in response to compliments, Australian students will use acceptance token agreements and deflections with more frequency than Indonesian students do. The study was designed in a qualitative method, which focused on a single group of two students. The study also used a purposive sampling focusing on reduced variations, simplified analyses, and facilitated group interviewing. In response to compliments, Indonesian male students tend to accept tokens less than Australians do. The Indonesians tend to seek agreement in the extent degree of equality and solidarity, which is similar to what the Australians do
Academic writing: summarizing, paraphrasing, paragraphing
Full text linkThis book has conceptually been designed in relation to a meaningfully visualized summary writing, writer's sentence paraphrasing, and paragraph synthesis. Practically, summary is built from paraphrased sentences, which are extracted from a writer's stance. The sentences are reconstructed, but meaningfully maintained. Therefore, a sentence reconstruction, in turn, is discussed in the next chapter of paraphrasing, which serves readers to engage themselves into practical tasks, guided by general tips of elaborated paraphrasing exercises. Considering summary and paraphrasing, readers, furthermore, in the ways of paragraphing, will be served in synthesized writings to contextually present claims and their examples. As a result, writers' claims viewed in a basic foundation of information-related academic article can be significantly utilized in a part of literature review, which, in turn, guides you to build paragraphs on your own
Strategi dan Teknis Paraphrase dalam Academic Writing: Reformulasi Isi Tanpa Reduksi
Full text linkThis paper highlights strategies and techniques of paraphrasing sentences in a passage significantly contributing to the enhancement of academic writing, which presents reasons for academic purposes and provides examples followed by concise steps. The paper previews quotation and paraphrasing in short and practical features pertaining to academic purposes, such as in the use of lexical density and nominalization. In respect of avoiding plagiarism, this paper is eventually intended to feed for our thoughts whose become aware of scholarly written communication
Prinsip kutipan dan Parafrasa: Kekokohan Pilar-Pilar Paragraf
Full text linkQuoting and paraphrasing show their academic breakthrough on the advancement of paragraph organisation. This observational research is conducted to answer how a writer can apply principles of quoting and paraphrasing to a paragraph of five sentences, and these principles prevent the students of Writing 1 from inadvertent plagiarism. Qualitatively, the 43-writing students’ work were classified into a coherent paragraf from writing a topic sentence to a concluding one, and then analysed each sentence in the application of quoting and paraphrasing principles as the essential pillars of paragraph building. As a result, most students tend to summarise their most major and minor supporting sentences significantly to support their topic sentence, instead of quoting and paraphrasing their supporting sentences completely and finally using their concluding sentence as a restatement of their topic sentence
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