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Dysfunctional american dream reflected in arthur miller’s death of a salesman Mujahidah, Ivana Nabilah Qoriroh; Wardani, Agista Nidya
JEES (Journal of English Educators Society) Vol 6 No 2 (2021): October
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo

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The research aims to find the dysfunctional American Dreams; the causes of dysfunctional American Dreams and the effects of dysfunctional American Dreams experienced by the main character, Willy Lowman, as a representation of American society.This paper is examined by applying descriptive qualitative research paradigm which is naturally interpretative. Thus, the key instrument is the researcher herself who has the authority in managing and analyzing the data, and certainly producing meaning in the process of discussion and interpretations. Moreover, to facilitate her in collecting and identifying the data, she used supporting instrument in the form of table. This study, theoretically, applied the mimetic theory as the research approach.The researcher found that Arthur Miller uses the character of Willy Loman to represent the failure of the American Dream. Willy’s quest for the American Dream leads to his failure because throughout his life he pursues the illusion of the American Dream and not the reality of it. The unachievable part of Willy’s view of the American Dream is perfection. He has subordinated by the capitalism in which Willy belongs to the proletariat where his dream is a utopia. HIGHLIGHTS: The character of Willy Lowman represented the failure of American Dream because throughout his life he pursues the illusion of American Dream. Some misperceptions of American Dream have made Willy living in utopia and committing a suicide. The study represented that not all Americans or immigrants have the same perception of the American Dreams and not all of them can reach the dreams
UTILIZATION OF APPLICATION PROGRAM IN SUPPORTING ASSESSMENT OF ENGLISH PERFORMANCE Adityo, Adityo; Wardani, Agista Nidya
Schemata: Jurnal Pascasarjana UIN Mataram Vol. 8 No. 1 (2019): Schemata Jurnal Pascasarjana IAIN Mataram
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Mataram, Indonesia

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English has been taught in early years of school and become one of the main course in the school based on the need of global society while not every school is able to offer the course due to the lack of qualified teachers. The evaluation needed in the learning process face a difficulty in which due to the lack of qualified teachers, is only capable of doing test and not evaluation. Based on the phenomena, this research is conducted to find a new method of evaluating English course by using language tools software that can be used by non-English teacher in accurate and valid evaluation and projected to modernised evaluation process in English course and able to support distance learning. The research employs quantitative analysis in a series of four data collections and analyses involving four participants over the time of 3 months. This research is further supported by language analysis from language expert as a secondary instrument to validate the result of the analysis from the main instrument, P_LEX language tools. The result of the research shows that language tools is valid as a supporting device for evaluating language performance as the result of the language analysis is in parallel to the analysis of language expert.