Garda Arif Wicaksono
Ahmad Dahlan University

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STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN INTERPRETING DEIXIS IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ON PRAGMATICS COURSE OF ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENTS OF UNIVERSITAS AHMAD DAHLAN IN 2017/2018 Garda Arif Wicaksono
Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora Vol 20, No 1: Februari 2019
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23917/humaniora.v20i1.7050

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 This research is aimed to investigate the students’ competences in interpreting deixis in descriptive texts on pragmatics course and to find out the students’ difficulties in interpreting the types of deixis.This research uses quantitative research which is conducted on the students who take pragmatics course in English Letters Department of Universitas Ahmad Dahlan. The data are taken through a test. The instrument of test validity was assessed by the experts. The test is used to measure the students’ competence in interpreting deixis. To measure the reliability, this research uses Alpha formula. The data are analyzed using descriptive statistics.Based on the research finding, it can be concluded that the students’ competence in interpreting deixis in descriptive text is good to excellent. The result can be concluded as follows; (1) person deixis is good (50%); (2) time deixis is excellent (55%); (3) discourse deixis is excellent (45%); (4) social deixis is excellent (55%), and (5) place deixis is good (55%). The most mistakes which are done by students in interpreting deixis occur in discourse deixis. The cause of them can be; (a) having limited vocabularies; (b) less understanding the context of descriptive text; (c) difficult to comprehend the situational information in the descriptive text.
AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN SPEAKING ENGLISH AT LPK ISI PRINGSEWU Garda Arif Wicaksono
Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora Vol 23, No 2: Agustus 2022
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23917/humaniora.v23i2.18093

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The purpose of this research were first,  to investigate the students’ difficulties in speaking English  second, to know the expressions while thier doing conversation. This types of this study is qualitative especially focuses on descriptive analytical method. The research used fifteen students of ISI Pringsewu as subject of this research. The data were collected thorugh some of videos and transcript of conversation. The result of this reserach showed that 25% of the students have good in grammar, 10% of the students speak English in true pronunciation, 18% of the students have good in vocabulary and 69% of the students have good in pronunciation. It can be concluded that the students have good fluency in speak English. However, most of the students’ difficulties in grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. This is because students feel not need grammar while speaking, less of vocabulary or lazy to adding their of vocabulary, less of practice pronunciation or lazy to search how to say each words