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Improving Second Semester Students’ Speaking Ability Through Storytelling Learning Modelat English Study Program of Timor University (A Classroom Action Research Method) Yohanes Paulus Florianus Erfiani
Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching Vol 1, No 2 (2017): METATHESIS
Publisher : English Education Study Program, Faculty of Education and Teachers Training, Tidar Univer

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31002/metathesis.v1i2.472

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The aim of this research is to increase the students’ speaking ability through storytelling model in Universitas Timor, Timor Tengah Utara Regency (TTU), East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The main purpose of this research is to know the improvement of many aspects in speaking ability such as grammatical aspect, vocabulary aspect and pronunciation aspect. This research used class action research. The subject of the research is the second semester of English education in A class in the academic year of 2016/2017. There were 30 students for the research subject. Based on the data analysis, there is a significance improvement in each cycle. The average of students’ speaking ability in Cycle I is 67%. That average is taken from vocabulary aspects 68%, pronunciation aspect 67% and grammatical aspect 66%. Then, in cycle II the average of student’s mark is increasing into 81% that consist of vocabulary aspect 83%, pronunciation aspect 795 and grammatical aspect 81%. Therefore, this research indicates that storytelling model can improve the speaking ability of second semester students in Uiversitas Timor.Kata Kunci: Storytelling model, improving speaking ability
Consonant Clusters in Manggaraian Name Differentiate Gender: Perspective of Cultural Linguistics Yohanes Paulus Florianus Erfiani; Kletus Erom
e-Journal of Linguistics Vol. 19 No. 2 (2025): July
Publisher : The Doctoral Studies Program of Linguistics of Udayana University

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This article discusses Consonant Clusters (CC) in Manggaraian Name (MN). CC constitutes two or more different consonants is one syllable. In Theory of Cultural Linguistics, CC belongs to verbal symbols. They are based in cultural imagery of Manggaraian Language Speakers (MLS). The data were obtained from observation on MN consisting of Male Manggaraian Names (MMN) and Female Manggaraian Name (FMN).CC is homorganly formed from nasal-sonorants-continuants /m/, /n/, and /ng/ and stop consonant/b/, /p/, /d/, /t/, /g/, /k/, and affricate consonant /c/ and /j/forming eight CC: /mb/, /mp/, /nc/, /nd/, /nj/, /nt/, /ngg/, and /ngk/. They occur more in MMN than they do in FMN. They combine with different vowel frequency. They include /ngg/, /mb/, /nd/, /mp/, /ngk/, /nt/, /nc/, and/nj/ in MMN, but /nd/, /mb/, /ngg/, /nt/, /mp/, /ngk/, /nc/, and /nj/ in FMN respectively. CC differences in MN reflect cultural imagery difference of MLS on gender. MN has cultural consonant clusters