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Improving Students’ Speaking Ability by Using Movie Media in Grade 9 Junior High School 4 Pematangsiantar Saragih, Natanael; Saragih, Amrin
EXCELLENCE: Journal of English and English Education Vol 4 No 2 (2024): EXCELLENCE
Publisher : English Education Study Program FKIP Universitas Alwashliyah Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47662/ejeee.v4i2.939

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Students are expected to speak and communicate in English in daily life, both in the written and spoken form. Many teachers are not really aware of the problems in teaching speaking. The purpose of this research was to determine using short animation movie as media to improve students’ speaking ability. Data was collected by giving pre-test and post-test. The population of this research was 309 people and the research sample was students of class IX SMPN 4 Pematangsiantar year 2023/2024. The researcher took 1 sample was of class IX-10 SMPN 4 Pematangsiantar which consisted of 30 students. The sample was taken using purposive sampling technique. The result showed that the students ability to speaking English using Short Animation movie as media on the pre-test and post-test differend significantly. The post-test has a higher score that the pre-test. That is F counted =1031,2> F table = 3,98. The researcher got that data analysis hypothesis test above the significance value =0.00 (p<0.05). So,that hypothesis (H0) is rejected and hypothesis (H1) automatically accepted. This indicated that students gave very positive responses or agreed that using short animation movie could motivate and interest the students in speak English much better. Therefore, movie is considered as an effective media in learning English. It was also expected that the teacher using short animation movie students to speak and the teachers should be creative or give instruction in using teaching media to make learning more effective
Gender Differences in Impoliteness Strategies on TikTok Comments: A Pragmatic Study Saragih, Natanael; Amaniarsih , Dwi Suci; Asrul , Nurmahyuni; Murni, Sri Minda
EXCELLENCE: Journal of English and English Education Vol 5 No 2 (2025): EXCELLENCE (In Press)
Publisher : English Education Study Program FKIP Universitas Alwashliyah Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47662/ejeee.v5i2.1350

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This study investigates gender differences in the use of impoliteness strategies in TikTok comment sections from a pragmatic perspective. Drawing on Culpeper’s (1996, 2011) impoliteness framework, this research aims to identify the types of impoliteness strategies employed by male and female TikTok users and to examine how these strategies are realized in online interaction. The data consist of 218 impolite comments collected from selected viral TikTok videos. A qualitative descriptive approach was employed to analyze the pragmatic functions of impoliteness strategies, supported by quantitative analysis to examine frequency patterns across genders. The findings reveal that both male and female users actively engage in impolite discourse; however, they differ in their preferred strategies. Male commenters tend to employ more direct and explicit strategies, particularly bald on record and negative impoliteness, while female commenters predominantly use indirect strategies such as sarcasm or mock politeness and positive impoliteness. These differences suggest that impoliteness on TikTok functions as a strategic communicative resource shaped by gender, platform affordances, and interactional goals. The study concludes that impoliteness in digital discourse is a socially meaningful phenomenon that reflects the intersection of language, power, identity, and gender in contemporary online communication.