29 research outputs found
REFUSAL STRATEGIES BY JAVANESE TEACHERS
Get PDFRefusal is one of many speech acts investigated in pragmatics. We usually do it in our life to reject other person’s request. People from different culture usually employ different refusal strategies since every culture has various way in protecting their positive face and reducing the threat that occur because of refusal ((Brown & S. Levinson, 1987). This study has two objectives: 1) to find out kind of strategies are used by Javanese teacher in performing refusal; 2) to describe how Javanese teacher use refusal strategies regarding the status of the addressee. This study was a qualitative study. The data were collected using discourse completion task (DCT) to elicit compliment responses from 16 teachers in Airlangga Junior High School Balikpapan. The discourse completion task (DCT) encompasses a variety of situations that required the participants to refuse the requests directly at them. Moreover, the data were analyzed with the help of Bebe, et all. (1990) in (Boonkongsaen, 2013) indicators. We can inferred that most participants used difference of refusal strategies. However, most participants tended to use the indirect strategies. Finally, this study also showed that the participants were more likely to be polite in their way of refusing requests
ATTITUDES AND MAINTENANCE EFFORTS OF INDONESIAN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS TOWARD ACQUIRED, LEARNED, AND USED LANGUAGES
Get PDFThis study investigates the language attitudes and maintenance efforts of Indonesian mechanical engineering students toward three types of languages: the national language (Indonesian), the global language (English), and local/heritage languages. It explores how students evaluate and sustain their multilingual repertoire within the context of higher education. Employing an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, data were collected through questionnaires (n = 43) and semi-structured interviews with students from a private university in Balikpapan. The findings reveal that students hold generally positive attitudes toward all three language types, although with different levels of emotional, instrumental, and functional engagement. Indonesian is the most emotionally and functionally dominant language, actively used in academic and social contexts. These patterns reflect a hierarchical model of language maintenance shaped by pragmatic utility, social capital, and symbolic value. This study contributes to understanding multilingual practices in technical disciplines and calls for responsive educational strategies to support communicative English learning, academic Indonesian usage, and community-based local language revitalization
The Receptionists’ Standard Operating Procedure when the Guests are Checking-In and Checking-Out in Amarelo Hotel Solo
Get PDFThis final project is written based on the job training done at Front Office
Department of Amarelo Hotel Solo for three months in February 2013 – May
2013.
The objective of this report is to describe The Standard of Receptionist at Amarelo
Hotel Solo and the activities of giving service to check-in and check-out guest in
Amarelo Hotel Solo. The Standard Operating Procedures for guest checking-in are
greeting, asking the guests to fill the registration form, reconfirming the guests
order, borrowing the guests ID card to copy, asking the guests for the payment
method, giving the room keycard and mentioning the room number, inputting the
guests identity into the computer system. While the Standard Operating
Procedures for guest checking-out are preparing the bill before 12 a.m., calling
and giving information about late check-out policy after 12 a.m., greeting the
guests at the front office counter, asking the guests to fill the guest comment card,
bid farewell. The activities during in the job training done by the writer included
handling guests checking-in and checking-out, answering the phone, and showing
the rooms
W.S. Rendra’s Point of View on Gender Inequality in his Poem entitled “Kenapa Kau Taruh” (Why Do You Place)
No full textPoem is not only a tool for entertaining, but also a vehicle to translate what is in one person's head into another person's head, much like other forms of communication. This study is an exploration of how a poem can describe gender inequality between men and women in its textual surface of discourse or descriptive stage, interpretative stage, and its explanative stage in terms of critical discourse analysis. It observes whether the Poem entitled “Kenapa Kau Taruh” (Why Do You Place) by W.S Rendra as the object of the study, has certain metaphorical discourse, appraisal attitude, ideological commonsense, and furthermore it aims to know the power relation between the participants involved in this poem. I initially analyze this poem based on Jr. Martin’s theory of analyzing the discourse, and then to move deeper into the power that exists in the both situation and cultural contexts which created the discourse with the help of Norman Fairclough’s theory. Finally, poem entitled “Kenapa Kau Taruh” (Why Do You Place) was constructed to be an inspiring poem which carried women’s struggle philosophical thought against violence to women as a result of gender inequality between men and women
The Effectiveness of Dictogloss Technique to Improve Students’ Skill in Writing Narrative Text
No full textThis experimental research aims to investigate the Effectiveness of Dictogloss
Technique to Improve Students’ Skill in Writing Narrative Text, and to investigate
whether there is any significant difference of the experimental and control groups. The
subjects of the study were the tenth year of SMA N 2 Wonosobo in the Academic Year
of 2010/2011. There were two groups that were given different treatments. The
experimental group was taught by using dictogloss technique, and the second group was
taught without dictogloss technique, but using sequential pictures as media. The result
of this research showed that the average scores of pre-test from the two groups were
nearly the same. The mean of the pre-test for the experimental group was 59.35 and
59.75 for the control group. After the experimental and control groups were given
different treatments, the score of the two groups increased, in which mean of the
experimental group was 76.39 and for the control group was 70.50. The improvement of
the experimental group was 17.04 and 10.75 for the control group. The result of
applying t-test based on the difference of two means reveals that obtained value (3.975)
is higher than t-table value for = 5% (2.00). It means that there is a significant
difference between the students who were taught by using dictogloss technique and
those who were taught without using dictogloss technique. Based on the result above,
dictogloss could be one of effective techniques to improve students’ skill in writing
narrative text
Pragmatic competence of Indonesian EFL learners
No full textPragmatic competence is the skill to communicate in foreign language intended meaning. The objective of the study is to describe pragmatic competence of Indonesian EFL learners. This study was using descriptive qualitative approach. The participants were EFL learners, especially students in the first semester which take English course in Balikpapan University majoring mathematics and Health and Safety Environment. Furthermore, pragmatic test in the form of multiple choice DCT was used to assess learners’ pragmatic competence. It was applying and/or adapting some of the items devised by Rover (2005: 122-129 and Hudson, Detmer and Brown (1995: 107-130) in Viljamaa (2012). Based on the analysis of the test, most learners have quite low pragmatic competence in implicature and speech act part. Although cultural background is usually a quite problem for us, it can be handled by a good cooperation and good awareness of pragmatic aspects between the speaker and the hearer. Therefore, we should increase our pragmatic competence in everyday life with many kinds of English activities because English is still a foreign language in Indonesia.</jats:p
Indirect Persuasion using Metaphor as a Semantics Tool to analyze English and Indonesian Cigarette Advertisements
No full textMetaphors in advertisements are powerful and compelling tools – they are not only enrich them but also extending the meaning of textual or visual message, creating many kinds of interpretation (Czerpa, 2006:3). We all know that smoking addiction nowadays is one impact of it. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of this study is to investigate how metaphors have construed and communicated in some cigarette advertisements. I combine the pictorial and words from cigarette advertisements as samples in analyzing metaphors. Then, I display the pictures and try to describe, analyze, and interpret the metaphors using three simple necessary stages for realizing the metaphor message as follows: recognition, reconstruction, and interpretation, provided by Johnson and Malgady (1980). The result of this study is six advertisements implement metaphors. The advertisements create an image that a smoker is a cool guy; smoking is a great habit; smoking is a perfect spirit; smoking is not prohibited in Ramadan or fasting month and cigarette is a precious thing. This study is only confined to printing advertisements and pictorial advertisements in which metaphors play a very important role, but there exist some other forms of advertisements, such as radio advertisements, TV advertisements, internet advertisements, etc. where metaphors are still an inseparable part. How do metaphors work in these advertisements deserves an insightful study in much broader fields of study
Leveraging students prewriting: Translanguaging in Indonesian higher education context
Get PDFAdvertisement sells fantasy more than it sells products. Through its slogan, an EFL students in Indonesia often encounter difficulties developing ideas because of their limited English proficiency, which can hinder their writing development. This study examined how translanguaging enhanced idea generation among EFL students in Indonesian higher education during the prewriting stage by utilizing their diverse linguistic repertoires to improve communication. Through classroom ethnography and the Multimodal Conversation Analysis framework, the research explored how students employed their linguistic and multimodal resources to develop ideas, facilitate communication and collaboration, and support creative expression and problem-solving. Data were collected through video recordings of student interactions and written artifacts produced during the prewriting session. The findings revealed that EFL students effectively coordinated verbal and nonverbal modes to co-construct meaning, creatively convey concepts, and enrich idea expression during prewriting activities. The study also uncovered that translanguaging occurred when students creatively co-construct information, reflect their identities, produce meaning flexibly, impact each other's language usage, and communicate multimodally. This study highlighted the importance of recognizing and valuing students' linguistic and cultural backgrounds and their multimodal competencies in developing inclusive and equitable learning environments that foster academic writing success. By embracing students' holistic communicative repertoires, translanguaging and multimodal practices can create a conducive atmosphere for engaging and memorable multilingual learning experiences
Navigating the linguistic gap: Exploring translanguaging through the eyes of Indonesian mechanical engineering students
No full textThis paper examines the gap between theoretical support for translanguaging in multilingual education and limited understanding of student perspectives, particularly in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) contexts in Indonesia. Indonesian engineering students’ perceptions of translanguaging practices in ESP courses was investigated, hypothesizing that students would view translanguaging positively while recognizing contextual appropriateness concerns. Data was collected from 61 Indonesian engineering students through an online questionnaire and analyzed to understand perceptions of translanguaging in academic contexts. Results indicated most students supported translanguaging as an intuitive strategy that increases confidence, motivation, and comprehension of technical concepts, with high mean scores affirming its value for inclusivity and overcoming language barriers in complex engineering subjects. Students reported translanguaging enhanced engagement through facilitating group work, peer support, and discussions, though some participants associated it with English deficiency. Findings suggest strategic implementation of translanguaging can address language barriers and enhance engineering education while preparing students for global professional environments. However, instructors should be mindful of some students' concerns about appropriate contexts for translanguaging use, particularly regarding casual situations and classroom expectations
THE AWARENESS AND REALIZATION OF GRICE’S COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES IN THE CONVERSATIONS AMONG NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS
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