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THE NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR AMPLIFYING EXTRAMURAL ENGLISH LEARNING AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH IN INDONESIA Agus Darwanto; Ririn Sotyarini
Conscientia Vol. 18 No. 1 (2022)
Publisher : Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing LIA Yogyakarta

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ABSTRACT This research was to investigate rates of extramural English (EE) activities among college students of English in an EFL (English as a foreign language) context of Indonesia correlated with several factors such as perceived English competence, genders, and amount of use of different language skills. As many as 161 respondents from 7 English departments across Indonesia took part in this research by responding to a set of questionnaires developed in Google Forms and distributed to the student respondents through WhatsApp groups, emails, and Facebook with the help of their lecturers. The results indicate that first, all respondents did EE activities with various degrees of intensity with a similar pattern of choice activities across levels of students’ perceived English competence. Second, EE receptive skill activities were more frequently practiced than productive ones. When all skills are correlated against perceived competence, the reading showed the highest value of the correlation index (0.612). Reading activities also were the most practiced regardless of the level of competence. This research also found that male students were more active in EE use. Next, most respondents showed more frequency of online EE activities than offline ones. They did not, however, do much face-to-face (FTF) communication when outside the classroom. In this respect, providing more motivation and more frequency for virtual EE practice should be necessary to promote beyond EE use. School’s recognition of students’ EE activities thus beyond classroom learning, has to be enabled. This way, a composite model of formal-informal learning will help the process of the acquisition of English to the maximum. Keywords: out-of-class; extramural English; levels of competence; language skills; navigating skills
AN APPROACH ON THE THEMES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO JULIET Agnes Emmie Kussemiarti; Ririn Sotyarini
Conscientia Vol. 18 No. 2 (2022)
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“Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most prominent plays written by William Shakespeare. The play mostly narrates the binary of love and hate. It narrates the love between two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, as well as hate between two families named Capulet and Montague. This study aims to scrutinize the theme that is ultimately also the major concern in defining a play. This research is a library research that employs the theory of theme and structural analysis. The finding covers the intrinsic aspects of the play such as plot, setting, and characters that reflect the theme of the play. The themes of “Romeo and Juliet” are the love between Romeo and Juliet, the hate between two family, and also death. Romeo and Juliet are secretly getting married however their love becomes a tragedy when they have to overcome their family’s conflict. The plot presents a tragedy that is developed in the exposition, rising action, climax, resolution, and conclusion.
AN ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS IN MADISON BEER’S SELECTED SONG LYRICS Sotyarini, Ririn
Conscientia - Journal on Language, Literature, and Culture Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023): Conscientia Vol 19 No 2 2023
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Metaphors were frequently found in songs and raised curiosity among the listeners to find out the true meaning. The songs released by Madison Beer are interesting to be discussed. Madison Beer is a young American singer, model, and songwriter who is known worldwide. She released her debut single “Melodies” in 2013. In 2018 Beer released her debut EP, “As She Pleases”. Her songs are full of romantic, yet sad stories relate to real life of female teenagers. The writer applied library research and qualitative descriptive research which intentionally reveals the types of metaphors in her two selected songs; “Follow The White Rabbit” from her Album Life Support, and “Reckless”, a single from Silence Between Songs. The objective of this research is conducted by applying George Lakoff and Johnson’s theory about types of metaphors such as structural metaphor, a metaphor which put one concept into another concept, orientation metaphor which deals with a spatial orientation that is derived from physical and cultural experiences, and ontological metaphor related to the experience of physical objects and substances. The first song “Follow The White Rabbit” tells about a story of a relationship. This song was strongly influenced by the movies The Matrix (Film) and Alice in Wonderland (Film). “Reckless” tells a sad story about betrayal in relationship which is sweetly performed by Beer. Furthermore, the writer found 16 data of metaphors, 9 structural metaphor, 5 ontological metaphor, and 2 orientation metaphor.