Afanin Nabila
Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara

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A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SMILEYS EMOTICON IN WHATSAPP Sholihatul Hamidah Daulay; Rahmadsyah Rangkuti; Afanin Nabila
Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 5 No. 2 (2023): JULY 2023
Publisher : Universitas Pamulang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v5i2.29153

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It is inevitable that all people around the world use WhatsApp nowadays. WhatsApp is the most popular app today in world wide. WhatsApp is the worldwide app that allows us to send message, voice notes, calls and video calls freely. It is available to make our journey in contacting and interacting with other people easy. WhatsApp has many features in its chat room, one of them is emoticon. Many emoticons in WhatsApp that appear to express our feelings and reactions toward something through chat. Those emoticons can also perform pragmatic function despite its function is to represent our feelings, thoughts, reaction or expression. This study was aimed to analyze the pragmatic value behind the smiley emoticons that people always use. This study was also aimed to investigate how people perceive the emoticon whether the way they use it is correct and related to the pragmatic function behind the emoticon. Because people tend to use the emoticon that is not suitable with the meaning behind it. This study is library research. The method used to conduct this study is descriptive qualitative. The result shows that many WhatsApp emoticon users do not perceive the emoticon they used properly based on pragmatic perspectives.
Innovative Techniques for Teaching English in Elementary Schools: Perspectives from Young Learner Educators Muhammad Dalimunte; Sholihatul Hamidah Daulay; Afanin Nabila; Ahmad Husein Nst
Jurnal Langua Vol 8 No 1 (2025): Langua: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Education
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, ISDIK Kie Raha Maluku Utara

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21164330

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English is one of the most important languages needed nowadays. English has been introduced to children since childhood. An English teacher must be able to teach English to the children he teaches. The purpose of this study is to find out what techniques are used by teachers in teaching English to children in Indonesia. The method used by the author in this study is a literature review. This method uses several journals or books and then summarizes the results found in the journal and book collections. The results of this study indicate that the techniques often used by teachers to teach English to children in Indonesia include learning with games and songs.