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Peace Values Represented in English Textbook for Tenth-Grade Students: A Critical Discourse Analysis Santihastuti, Asih; Nur Azizah, Aulia Rahmatika; Ariyanto, Sugeng
EFL Education Journal Vol. 11 No. 1 (2024): Vol. 11. No. 1 MARCH 2024
Publisher : English Education Study Program

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.19184/eej.v11i1.48203

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Peace value is a key to instill learners with good characters. Peace education can readily be integrated into values education as a part of subject through textbook since textbook is mostly used material and every aspect of the textbook has the potential to promote the values. Aiming to explore explicit and implicit messages about peace values in English Textbook for Tenth-Grade Senior High School Students, this study reviews the images of the textbook by revealing the embedded peace values. Critical discourse analysis was conducted to characterize, understand and explain the nature of the textbook’s discourse. The list of peace indicators from Balasooriya (2001) was used to identify kinds of peace values represented in the textbook. The result shows that the contents of peace values, for particularly peace with nature, was seriously under represented while the most represented one is social peace. Consequently, the imbalanced representation of peace values may lead to failure of raising the optimal implementation of the three categories of peace values
Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Strategies on Apologizing Expression of “The Princess Diaries” (2001) The Movie: A Discourse Analysis Pratiwi, E.S; Santihastuti, Asih; Sukmaantara, I Putu
Jurnal Edukasi Vol. 5 No. 1: Maret 2018 : Jurnal Edukasi
Publisher : Universitas Jember, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.19184/jukasi.v5i1.8013

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This research was intended to analyze the politeness strategy employed by the characters in expressing apology based on Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies in the movie The Princess Diaries (2001). Designed as a descriptive-qualitative research, the data was analyzed by using the descriptive method where politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) was applied to see the types of politeness strategies. The data was taken from an American Comedy, Family and Romance movie entitled The Princess Diaries (2001). The result of the analysis showed that there were 15 utterances that can be classified as apologizing expression which were analyzed by using Brown and Levinson (1987) Politeness Strategies. Those 15 utterances were divided into 11 utterances using positive politeness and 4 utterances using negative politeness. Based on Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies, positive politeness happened in a group of friend and a group of family that have close relationship with the Speaker while negative politeness used to avoid offence of the Hearer by showing respect. Thus, it is concluded that positive politeness was the most politeness strategies applied by all the characters in the movie to express apology, and all the characters who applied positive politeness strategy are female. Keywords: Politeness Strategies, Apologizing Expression, Discourse Analysis.
The Effect of Using Comic Strips on The Eighth Grade Students' Narative Writing Achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Jember Martages, Ika Fitriani; Suharjito, Bambang; Santihastuti, Asih
Jurnal Edukasi Vol. 4 No. 2: Juli 2017 : Jurnal Edukasi
Publisher : Universitas Jember, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.19184/jukasi.v4i2.5201

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The aim of this research was to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using Comic Strips on the eighth grade students’ narrative writing achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Jember. The research design used was quasi-experimental research with post-test only design. The respondent of the research was chosen by using cluster random sampling. Two of the seven classes were selected as the experimental group and the control group. Through a lottery, class VIII-F was chosen as the experimental group and class VIII-E was chosen as the control group. The data was selected by writing test. Then, the data collected were analyzed by using independent sample t-test. Based on the result of the posttest scores, the mean score writing post-test in experimental group was 76.8000 while the mean score of control group was 70.5156. Moreover, based on the output of Independent sample t-test, the value of sig column of Lavene’s test was 0.020 and this value was lower than 0.05. It indicated that the result of t-test analysis was significant. It meant that the result of this research proved that the use of Comic Strips significantly affected the eighth grade students’ narrative writing achievement at SMP Negeri 5 Jember. It can be seen, especially, from the content and language use. Keywords : Writing, Writing Achievement, Comic Strips, Media
The Lexical Density of Erlangga’s “English On Sky” Analysis Ramadhan, Gagang; Santihastuti, Asih; Wahjuningsih, Eka
Jurnal Edukasi Vol. 4 No. 3: Nopember 2017 : Jurnal Edukasi
Publisher : Universitas Jember, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.19184/jukasi.v4i3.6299

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The aims of this research were to know whether the reading texts found in “English On Sky” textbook for 8th Grade of Junior High School were appropriate and meet the content of the curriculum or not by analyzing the lexical density of its texts and identifying the type of reading text which should be given based on the KTSP curriculum. The research design used was descriptive qualitative research. The instrument of this research was document which was get from collecting the reading texts found in the textbook. The data in this study was analyzed quantitatively in the form of description and used descriptive statistics for describing the features of data. The result of this result was there was no reading text in the textbook that was categorized as high lexical density. The readi ng texts were categorized as low and moderate lexical density as there were 12 reading texts were categorized as low lexical density and 12 reading texts were categorized as moderate lexical density. 12 reading text that categorized as low lexical density had 40% - 50% lexical density percentage. On the contrary 12 reading texts that categorized as moderate lexical density had 50% - 60% lexical density percentage. The highest percentage of the lexical density reading text found in the textbook was 57.72% entitled “Camping”. Meanwhile, the lowest percentage of the lexical density reading text was 41.61% entitled “None of your business!”. Based on the analysis, the genre found in this textbook were descriptive, recount, and narrative. In conclusion, this textbook were easy enough to understand for student and met the content of school-based curriculum. Keywords: Descriptive Qualitative Research, Discourse Analysis, Lexical Density, Reading Text
STUDENTS PERCEPTION ON READING COMPREHENSION PROBLEMS IN NARRATIVE TEXT Sari, Gita Rosita; Santihastuti, Asih; Wahjuningsih, Eka
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 2 (2020): October 2020
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/llt.v23i2.2211

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This survey study aimed to know the students perception on reading comprehension problems of narrative text. The sample participants were randomly selected from the tenth grade students of SMAN 2 Jember in academic year of 2019/2020. Questionnaire adopted from Xiubo Zhang (2006) was used to collect the students perception and it was translated into Indonesian. The result showed that the students still experienced some problems in reading narrative text. Based on the result of the questionnaire, the most problematic aspect that hinder the students reading comprehension was Motivation (65.6%), followed by Strategies (63.7%), Background Knowledge (63.3%), Reading Process (60%) and Language Knowledge (55.4%). The result implied that the teacher should focus on fostering students motivation by giving intensive course and reading assignment based on the students interests. In order to see further into the problem faced by the students, future reseacher could use direct assesment by using diagnostic test or other measurement.