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CORRELATION BETWEEN PROBLEM FACED IN GRAMMAR AND WRITING ABILITY OF EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Nurma Dhona Handayani; Muhammad Johan
JEE (Journal of English Education) Vol. 4 No. 2 (2018): JEE (Journal of English Education)
Publisher : English Study Program University of Pasir Pengaraian

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Writing is the most difficult and complicated language skill which is learnt by almost the students in every level of education. Moreover, writing English is an inseparable part of students throughout their academic life. They commit different kinds of errors and mistakes in learning English as a foreign language which are due to poor knowledge with grammar, thus itoften appears to be a difficult task for them to write. These problems are very obvious in writing composition or any other essay. Some mistakes are normally made by students when they do not understand well about the English grammar. Commonly, many of the students make grammar mistakes in their English language learning especially in productive skill such as writing. Problems in foreign language learning especially in English areunavoidable. They are difficult enough to be avoided. Therefore, this research analyzed students’ problems in grammar that could be seen from their writing to see the correlation of grammar toward writing ability. It was important to do because the analysis could give some advantages for both students and lecturers as language teaching achievement. As the result, most of EFL University students had problem in grammar. They made error inusing kind of tenses. The problem could be seen from their writing which used wrong verb in the sentences. And, it made their writing incorrect. Moreover, it proved that there was a significance correlation between problem faced in grammar and writing ability of EFL university students.
The Study of Code Mixing on Melaney Ricardo’s Video Youtube Channel Sociolinguistics Approach Julita Br Siahaan; Muhammad Johan
Humanitatis : Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7 No 1 (2020): December 2020
Publisher : LPPM Universitas Bumigora Mataram

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This research investigated about code-mixing that found in YouTube. This article used a You Tube, because many people nowadays used YouTube to express their creativity. The aims of this study were to find out the types of code-mixing and the code-mixing category dominantly used by Melaney’s utterance in her videos. The researcher used Hoffman theory to reveal this study. The research applied qualitative descriptive method to analyze the types. of code-mixing and the category dominantly used by Melaney’s utterance. The method of collecting data was observation. The data were taken from video that are published in YouTube. The result of this research there are (20) intra-sentential mixing, (8) intra-lexical mixing, (2) involving a change of pronunciation. They all have different levels of code-mixing used in Melaney’s utterance. The conclusion is You Tube as a social media that allows users to share photos and videos, entertainment, tutorials, introduce or promoting a product, and access world’s information by using this application. Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Code-mixing