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RESEMBLANCE OF INDIRECTNESS IN POLITENESS OF EFL LEARNERS’ REQUEST REALIZATIONS
No full textAbstract: Politeness principles are universally utilized by the speakers of any language when realizing various speech acts. However, the speakers of particular languages relatively apply politeness due to the cultural norms embedded. The present study attempts to delineate how the Indonesian learners of English (ILE) apply the politeness principles in request realizations. Specifically it devotes to the types of politeness strategies applied and resemblance of the indirectness in politeness strategies in requesting acts. The FTAs and indirectness are the theoretical bases used to trace the typologies of both politeness and request strategies. The data werere collected by means of certain elicitation techniques, i.e. DCTs and Role-plays. The analyses werere done through three stages; determining request strategies, politeness strategies, and resemblance of indirectness in politeness. The results show that the indirectness generally is parallel to politeness. Besides, some pragmatic transfers are found in terms of applying native-culture norms in realizing target speech acts
COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY EFL LEARNERS
No full textCommunication strategies have something to do with ends and means. This current study attempts to answer the questions “What types of communication strategies were used by the speakers in speaking activities?” and “What were the functions of the communication strategies produced by the speakers in their interactions in performing the same tasks?” The investigation was conducted to the subjects taking Speaking Class at the English Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang. The findings show that there were eleven types of communication strategies used by EFL learners in their interactions stimulated by the reading passages and pictures specifically utilized for data collection. Communication strategies were used by the speakers not only because of compensating for insufficient means, but also the need of communication
THE INFLUENCE OF SUMMARIZING TECHNIQUE AND READING MOTIVATION TOWARD READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 18 PALEMBANG
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to determine whether there is a significant difference in reading comprehension between students who are taught a summarizing technique and those who are not. Additionally, the study sought to determine whether there is a significant difference in reading comprehension between students who are taught a summarizing technique and those who have low reading motivation. The students in the seventh grade at Junior High School 18 Palembang were divided into two groups. In this investigation, factorial design was used. The study's population consisted of all 238 seventh-grade students enrolled in Junior High School 18 Palembang during the academic year 2023–2024. Saturation sampling was used to take samples from 68 students: 34 students from the VII.7 class were in the experimental group, while 34 students from the VII.6 class were in the control group. The researcher used a questionnaire to gather data in order to evaluate students' reading motivation. She also used traditional and summarizing techniques to teach students reading comprehension skills. The data were then analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics. The study's findings demonstrated a substantial difference in reading comprehension between students who were taught a summarizing strategy and those who were not, with regard to seventh-grade students at Junior High School 18 Palembang. The students with high reading motivation were taught the technique
PRAGMATIC TRANSFER IN REQUEST REALIZATIONS
No full textThis study investigates the pragmatic transfer in English request realizations made by EFL learners, i.e. the proficient learners. The subjects were students of an English Study Program who obtained TOEFL-like scores of at least 450. The data were collected by means of DCT-questionnaires and Role-plays. The results show that the subjects realize requests in the form of external modifications more frequently. Most of them embed their requests with supportive moves dominantly. They enfold the acts with the moves before, after or in both positions. Of the three positions, they mostly insert the moves initial position, i.e., through inductive patterns. This is due to pragmatic transfer
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
English and Indonesian Idioms of Animals
Get PDFThis research was aimed at finding out the similarities, and dissimilarities, as well as possible learning problems faced by the students learning English and Indonesian idioms of animals, and also as the recommendations to TEFL. This research was regarded as descriptive research desig.n To collect the data, the researchers used documentation technique. To analyze the data, the researchers used a descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were two similarities and two dissimilarities between English and Indonesian idioms of animals. The two similarities were in word choices and meanings, while the two dissimilarities were were also in word choices and meanings. The possible learning problems faced by the students learning English and Indonesian were that they were perplexed with the meanings inside the idioms which has implied gloss. The recommendations of this research was as a fundamental teaching guidance in helping English teachers design a better teaching idioms of animals
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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