Nurmala Dewi
Program Bahasa Inggris Universitas BIna Sarana Informatika (UBSI)

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The Analysis of Human-Animal Bond as a Catalyst for Personal Transformation in a Street Cat Named Bob Novel Tati Mardewi; Nurmala Dewi; Furi Indriyani
INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Vol. 13 No. 2 (2026): INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Sorong

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36232/interactionjournal.v13i2.6038

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The research analyzes the effect of the human-animal transformation bond in the novel, A Street Cat Named Bob, written by James Bowen. This observes the effect of the human-animal bond to help psychological stabilization, reconstruction, and social reintegration. The Bowen’s story is placed in the form of contemporary recovery narratives. Research was conducted with qualitative thematic analysis approach based on attachment theory and recent human-animal bond research. The research comes from repeated close reading of the novel. The data were organized using a theory based on the concepts of caregiving system and moral awareness, emotional co-regulation, social interdependence and animals as social catalysts, and personal transformation and relational identity. There are results finding that are got from this research: (1) The cat is a bond figure that gives safety and emotional continuity; (2) caregiving and responsibility activate moral awareness encourages a behavior change; (3) the relationship between Bowen and the cat reduce anxiety and relapsing; (4) The bond changed the protagonist's internal working model, making him see himself positively; (5) the cat is a changeable social agent facilitate interaction and work opportunity (6) depending on each aspects grow an ethical relational identity and transforms the individual. This finding shows that a relational framework is crucial to seeing the social dimensions of an individual’s psychological transformation.
An English-Based Organizational Acronym Strategy to Enhance Meeting Management in Student Organizations: A Case Study Ali Mohammed Saleh Al-Hamzi; Nurmala Dewi; Tati Mardewi; Furi Indriyani; Octa Pratama Putra
Wanastra: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Vol. 18 No. 2 (2026): September (Inpress)
Publisher : LPPM Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31294/wanastra.v18i2.12589

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While mnemonic devices are widely used in educational contexts for enhancing cognitive retention, their socio-cognitive utility and structural paradoxes within organizational governance remain under-researched. This study investigates how English-based acronym strategies influence meeting management and executive behaviors among student organization leaders. Grounded in a qualitative research design, this study examines the experiential accounts of eight student leaders serving on students’s affair of the university. Data collection was conducted through in-depth semi-structured interviews, which were subsequently analyzed using an iterative thematic approach combined with conceptual lenses from applied linguistics and cognitive scaffolding. The findings reveal a compelling dualistic phenomenon. On one hand, English-based acronyms (e.g., L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P., M.A.N.A.G.E.M.E.N.T., M.A.S.T.E.R.) operate as effective cognitive scaffolds and regulatory anchors that minimize the cognitive load, stabilize conversational trajectories, and arrest discursive drift during complex deliberations. On the other hand, a critical alternative interpretation uncovers a distinct structural paradox: the efficacy of these frameworks is inversely proportional to their structural density. Extensive, high-density acronyms risk inducing operational rigidity and cognitive dependency, inadvertently transforming fluid democratic dialogues into procedural checklists or sites of discursive policing. Furthermore, shorter formulas to maximize real-time agility but face the risk of superficial ritualization, where participants perform compliance linguistically while deep-seated behavioral habits remain unaltered. This study concludes that acronym-based organizational strategies exist in a permanent tension between artificial linguistic order and organic communicative spontaneity. It implies that student executives must deploy these devices as flexible conceptual anchors rather than rigid procedural mandates to safeguard institutional resilience.