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Hedging Strategies in Research Articles: A Comparative Analysis of Indonesian Male and Female English Students Ade Windiana Argina; Nur Ijabah
Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (258.147 KB) | DOI: 10.30650/ajte.v4i1.3215

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Hedge is claimed as linguistic of full commitment or precision commonly used in academic writing to give the appropriate uncertainty, proper strength of claimed data, politeness, and precise presentation in providing and presenting literary works i.e. research articles. This study aimed at revealing the tendency and preferences of Indonesian English Students in applying hedging strategies, and frequencies of hedges use, and if there were any differences between males and females in using hedges in research articles. Data corpus was composed of 40 articles written in English by male and female postgraduate students majoring English Education. The output was categorized which was referred to a combined framework proposed by Holmes (1988), Hyland (1998), Hyland and Milton (1997), Vartala (2001), and Crompton (1997) covering 9 types of hedges. The statistical result showed that although Indonesian Male English Students (IEMSs) employed Hedges in their research articles more frequently than Indonesian Female English Students (IEFSs) did, MANOVA proved that there was no significant effect of gender on the use of hedges in research articles written by Indonesian English Students. Nevertheless, ANOVA result confirmed significant main effects of gender on the use of some types of hedge (Adverb of Frequency, Quantifiers, Epistemic Lexical Verbs and Adjective& Adverb Informal).
Understanding Advertiser’s Intention: The Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in Advertisement Nur Ijabah; Ade Windiana Argina
Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education Vol 4 No 2 (2022): Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan Timur

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An advertisement is media that is used by a producer or company to reach their goal of selling the product as much as possible. Through language used in an advertisement, the advertiser tries to manipulate the audience’s minds to buy a particular product or service. One of the strategies to reach their goal is by employing presupposition in the advertisement. The presupposition is claimed to be able to give persuade potential consumers as well as to make the advertisement economic, as the information is concisely presented. This study aimed to investigate kinds of presupposition triggers employed in cosmetic advertisement namely SK-II. This study chose five videos of SK-II advertisement as the data. Then the videos were transcribed and selected the potential presupposition. Through analyzing presupposition triggers with the framework proposed by Levinson, it is hoped that this study will uncover the message employed in the advertisement, and help the reader understand the intention behind the language used in advertising so that they would be a wise consumer in deciding what products should be bought. Keywords: Presupposition triggers, advertisement, persuasive function
The Analysis of Transitivity System in Tourism Destination Brochure Based on Systemic Functional Linguistic Ragiel Yusuf Anando Jasuma; Nur Ijabah
Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30650/ajte.v5i2.3589

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The effectiveness of using language in a brochure is not something that easy to interpret. Information and understanding must be clear and concrete. A good and correct brochure from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective is objectivity that can be understood in terms of appropriate content. The application of SFL in daily activities may simplify the meaning of text sentences so that people could decipher the meaning carefully and minimize misunderstanding the meaning of the related texts. The research was intended to: (1) identify and analyze a transitivity system in the tourism destination brochure of Dinas Kebudayaan, Kepemudaan Olahraga dan Pariwisata Kabupaten Sumenep (2) find out the dominance of the process type in the ideational metafunction in the language used in the brochure. This research was supported by the theory of Halliday and Matthiessen (2004). This study used a qualitative description to develop a research index in terms of analyzing, describing, and agglomerating the existing brochure at the Gili Labak tourism destination, Sumenep, Madura. The results found that transitivity systems have a role to make meanings in a clause and the relational process was the dominant type of process involved in the brochures. This research is expected to be a reference for further research by discussing Systemic Functional Linguistics thus it becomes the data that has solutions for the application of language that parses through processes in ideational metafunction.
Need Analysis of English Tourism: The Evidence from The Employees of Tourism Industry Nur Ijabah; Qadrina Lailyn Amrullah
Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Acitya: Journal of Teaching and Education
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30650/ajte.v5i2.3590

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The tourism sector now is seen as a promising sector to increase the nation's foreign exchange revenues. Therefore, a strategic effort such as providing special English language training for tourism employees in order to attract more tourists is needed. However, to produce a research program that can have a major impact on the participants, a needs analysis related to the desired outcomes has to be employed. This study aimed at finding and describing the needs of tourism employees for English language skills. Identification of difficulties during the interaction process in the field is also the focus of research so that it can be used as input in designing training programs. This research is quantitative research with survey research methods. A questionnaire with open and close-ended questions was given to 22 tourism employees at and around Gili Labak Island. The data were analyzed with mathematical computation to obtain the frequency, percentage, and mean scores. The results showed that the most important skills to be mastered by the tourism employee was listening skill (m= 4,5), followed by speaking (m=4,4), writing (m=4,1), and reading (m=3,9) respectively. In terms of problems faced by the tourism employee, they revealed that speaking skill was the most skill that experienced frequent errors during the interaction, then followed by listening, reading, and writing.