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An Analysis of Illocutionary Acts of Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech to Donald Trump in Presidential Election Muhammad Hudri; irwandi Irwandi
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 6, No 1 (2018): June
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (178.567 KB) | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v11i1.741

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Illocutionary Acts is what the speaker wants to achieve by uttering something, and illocutionary acts is an utterance which has a particular conventional force. About this, illocutionary acts in Hillary Clinton’s speech is interesting to be analyzed. The purpose of this research is to analyze the types of illocutionary acts found in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump. The writer used descriptive qualitative research. The main research instrument was the writer herself supported by the data analysis sheet. The data analysis was performed by categorizing the data based on Searle’s categorization of speech acts (2005) which include assertive, directives, commissives, expressive and declarative speech acts. Each category was thoroughly observed to find the answer of the research questions. The final step was presenting the data and making a conclusion in reference to the findings of the research. The research findings show that the types of illocutionary acts found in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump consist of assertives, directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives. Assertions have the highest frequency of occurrence 13 types (36.1%). It is followed by directives, commissives, expressives and declaratives which occur 9 types (25%), 3 types (8.3%), 9 types (25%) and 2 types (5.6%) respectively. The dominant illocutionary acts in Hillary Clinton’s speech are assertives. Assertation showed the highest frequency of assertives. So, the total of data were 36 types of illocutionary acts founds in Hillary Clinton’s concession speech to Donald Trump.
Improving Students’ Reading Skill Through Think-Pair-Share (TPS) Technique Muhammad Hudri; Irwandi Irwandi
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2018): December
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (171.722 KB) | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v12i2.746

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This study aims at investigating how the Think-Pair-Share (TPS) technique can improve the students’ reading skill at the English Language Department, FKIP, Muhammadiyah University of Mataram. The problem found in the fourth-semester students is that they have low ability in comprehending the text. The TPS technique is offered by the researcher to solve the problem. Later on, the design of this research was classroom action research adopted from Kemmis & McTaggart which goes through a cycle that consists of four stages namely planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. At the cycle 1, the students failed to meet the criteria of success because only 14 (fourteen) out of 30 (thirty) or 47% students who got the minimum passing grade 75 (seventy-five) and the average score was 67. It meant that the study must be continued to the next cycle. At last, in the cycle 2 met the criteria of success in which 67% students or 20 (twenty) out of 30 (thirty) students met the minimum passing grade 75 and the average score was 72. Beside gaining improvement in the reading score, the students also seemed enthusiastic in thinking, pairing and sharing their ideas. They stated that this technique could encourage and motivate them in thinking, exploring and sharing their opinion and ideas. This technique is also good to enhance cooperation with other people. Finally, TPS technique also able to increase the students’ confidence to share their ideas in front of many people.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REWRITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT M. Hudri M. Hudri
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 3, No 2 (2015): December
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (298.796 KB) | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v3i2.392

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The objective of this research was to observe the effectiveness of using paraphrasing technique in academic writing course at sixth semester of Muhammadiyah University of Mataram in Academic Year 2014/2015. The method used in this research was quantitative method namely quasi experimental design. The number of population of this research was 43 students. The writer took 43 students as the sample and divided into two classes namely class VI.A-VI.B which consist of 23 students as an experimental class that showed their English ability in paraphrasing technique and the second class B which consist of 20 students as a control class that showed their English in summarizing technique. The writer here employed t-test to obtain the data. The tests were pre-test and post-test. Pre-test was given in the first meeting; the aim was to know the student’s ability in paraphrasing technique. Then, post-test was given after students got treatment for 6 meetings for each class. After collecting and computing the data, the writer found that class A obtained higher score than class B. The mean score of class VI.A (experimental) was 9.95 while for class VI.B (control) was 6.2. The standard of deviation of the class was computed by using t-test. T-test was 5.95; the critical value was higher than t-table. The t-table was 2.021 at the confidence level of 0.05 (95%) and 2.704 at the confidence level of 0.01 (99%). The consultation of t-test to t-table were found that the t-test is 5.95t-table 2.021 (95%) and t-test 5.95  t-table 2.704 (99%). It means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore, the rewriting technique is effective in teaching descriptive text at the sixth semester of Muhammadiyah University of Mataram in academic year 2014/2015.
AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER STRATEGIES IN TEACHING READING AT THE FIRST YEARS STUDENTS OF SMK 2 GERUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 Muhammad Hudri
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 5, No 2 (2017): December
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (190.501 KB) | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v10i2.794

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This study is aimed to find out teachers strategies in teaching reading at SMK 2 Gerung West Lombok. It was conducted to get detailed information about the strategies used by teachers in teaching reading comprehension. This study employed a qualitative research design which is included as a case study using two data collection techniques; observation and interview. The object of this study was the teacher for the first year. Interviews were used to support the data gathered from classroom observation. All of the data were analyzed by using three major phases of analyses: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and verification. This study revealed that the teachers used three strategies in teaching reading at SMK 2 Gerung West Lombok, the first is Memorizing strategy where the students must memorize five vocabularies every meeting. Secondly is Question Answer Relationship. This strategy used by the teacher to know the students understand or not. The third strategy is Game this strategy used by the teacher to motivate students in teaching reading process.
An Analysis of Grammatical Error By Facebook Users: A Study at Students of English Department at Muhammadiyah University of Mataram in Academic Year 2015-2016 Muhammad Hudri
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 5, No 1 (2017): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (221.129 KB) | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v9i1.740

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This study entitled An Analysis of Grammatical Errors Based on Facebook User at the Group of English Department Program at Muhammadiyah University of Mataram in the academic year 2015-2016. This research focused on the purpose of investigated kinds of grammatical error made by facebook user. The method used a descriptive qualitative method where the instrument employed to collect the data. The total number involved in the group of English Department UMM were 136 members who are consisted of 10 lectures and 126 students. As a result of this study, the researcher found out four kinds of errors were classified into Omission error, Addition error, Misformation error, and Misordering error. The highest rank of their error was Omission and Misformation error (16,4%), the second rank was Addition error (10,8%), the lowest rank was Misordering error (2,8%). These errors were mostly caused the members did not realize the errors of the language they have made.
Using of “I Love You 3000” Song in Pandemic Era in Teaching English at Mining Department of Engineering Faculty Hidayati Hidayati; Muhammad Hudri; Isnaini Isnaini; Rima Rahmaniah; humaira Humaira
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 9, No 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v9i1.4915

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Vocabulary is one of the English components or sub-skill that must be taught to the students. The vocabulary has the role to develop the four language skills, they are listening, reading, writing and speaking. Many vocabularies that the students have, is the easier for them to develop it, especially in the pandemic era because of COVID-19, the teacher have to use a media like an English song to enrich the students at Mining Department of Engineering Faculty vocabularies. In order that, the purpose of this study was to investigate the use of song as a media whether it is effective or not in teaching vocabulary. The total population of this study involved 92 students but the sample of by using the purposive technique sampling got 20 students in A class as a control and 20 students at B for experimental class. The instrument of this study used multiple choice tests which consist of 20 items. The data was collected by using pre-test and post-test, then followed by analyzing the data based on Arikunto’s theory using descriptive design. As well as the manual computation the result also showed that the score of the t-test was 4.741. The researcher compare that t-table at the degrees of freedom (df) (Nx + Ny)-2 . df = 20 + 20 – 2 = 38. The degree of freedom of 38 is at the competence interval of 0.05 (95%) is 2.024 and 0.01 (99%) is 2.711. the comparison is done between t-test formulated with t-table in which results is 4.741 it is to found that the t-table of “t” indicated: t-test 4.741 > t-table. It means that the mean score of the experimental class was higher than control class. So, the researcher concluded that the use of song “I Love You 3000” is effective in teaching learning English at Mining Department in academic year 2018/2019 and it means that the use of song as an alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.
ESL Students’ Learning Strategies for the Improvement of their Language Skills Irwandi Irwandi; Muhammad Hudri; Dina Apriana
Linguistics and ELT Journal Vol 10, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Muhammadiyah University of Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.31764/leltj.v10i1.10986

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Effective language strategies contribute to learners’ success in learning English. In relation to this, this study aims at investigating ESL students’ strategies in learning a language. Those strategies are metacognitive strategies, deep cognitive strategies, and surface cognitive strategies. 50 English department students participated in a survey that required them to reflect on their own learning strategies for the four language skills by answering 80 questions. The result of the study suggests that the metacognitive strategies are the most highly used to improve their language skills compared to the deep cognitive and surface cognitive strategies that are moderately used. The data also showed those strategies are widely used in written texts insteadof spoken texts.