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EVALUATION OF CONTEXTUAL CLUES: EFL PROFICIENCY IN READING COMPREHENSION Stevani, Margaret; Prayuda, Meikardo Samuel; Sari, Dyan Wulan; Marianus, Sumarlin Mangandar; Tarigan, Karisma Erikson
English Review: Journal of English Education Vol. 10 No. 3 (2022)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/erjee.v10i3.7076

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The present research evaluated EFL perspectives about contextual clues in reading comprehension at different proficiency levels. The data analysis using qualitative descriptions with frequencies and percentages was employed for 38 intermediate-level students and 25 advanced-level students in the university level through teaching contextual clues in reading comprehension with an experimental design. The results proved that students' proficiency in reading ability could be demonstrated by their use of idiomatic expressions, indirect language, direct language, series of words, comparison, synonym, tone, situation, mood, reference, restatement, preposition, cause-effect, modification, and example. Advanced students with a high level of vocabulary, grammar, and decoding skills were better able to utilize many contextual clues than intermediate students. Thus, reading ability was strongly correlated with the ability to infer word meaning from contextual clues.
Indexicality of Minyak Karo in North Sumatra: An Anthropolinguistic Perspective Tarigan, Karisma Erikson; Lubis, Tasnim
Tradition and Modernity of Humanity Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): January
Publisher : TALENTA Publisher

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32734/tmh.v2i1.8509

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This study aimed to describe the indexicality Minyak Karo in North Sumatera. It focused on describing the ingredients used for making the Minyak Karo, the ritual process of making Minyak Karo, the purpose of the ritual carried out in making Minyak Karo, and performance in the ritual of making Minyak Karo in Padang bulan and Pancur batu regency, North Sumatra. Qualitative method and Anthropolistic perspective were applied in this study. The data collection techniques used was observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. The result of the study showed that there were 107 genera and 57 families in making Minyak Karo to treat different diseases, such as kaffir lime/kaffir lime leaves, ship-board leaves, jambar api, bulung patchouli, gagaten tiger, basil, panglai, shallots, garlic, pepper, nutmeg, turmeric, areca nut, tawan gegeh, root areca nut, bamboo root, riman root, pengkih root, and alang-alang. The purpose of the ritual of making Minyak Karo based on anthropolingustic study was to be able to cure diseases that were believed to come from supernatural spirits or diseases sent by people through supernatural means and asked for protection from the spirits of the ancestors.
Language and Symbols in Indonesian Political Hate Speech: A Critical Discourse Analysis Tarigan, Karisma Erikson
Journal of linguistics, culture and communication Vol 3 No 2 (2025): Journal of Linguistics, Culture, and Communication
Publisher : CV. Rustam

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61320/jolcc.v3i2.321-343

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Political hate speech in Indonesian social media has grown stronger, and its force is typically produced through multimodal resources rather than words alone in everyday online political conversations. Prior studies mainly investigate verbal aggression, emojis, and lexical borrowing separately; therefore, the way these resources interact in political hate remains unclear. This study bridges that gap by studying how English lexical borrowing and emojis combine to build Indonesian political hate speech and reproduce ideology. Applying a qualitative design, thirty publicly viewable hate-speech comments were purposively sampled from X/Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok (ten per site). The dataset was examined with Teun A. van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis, relating textual structures (macrostructure, superstructure, microstructure) to social cognition and social context. Borrowed items were tagged as loanwords, loan blends, or semantic loans, and emojis were coded by pragmatic function (e.g., sarcasm, mocking, disgust). Findings demonstrate that multimodal hate speech is dominant: comments containing borrowing and emojis are most frequent, while borrowing-only remarks exceed emoji-only ones. Direct English loanwords serve as high-impact evaluative instruments, while emojis systematically increase posture, notably through sarcasm/mockery and disgust-based dehumanization of offenders. At the cognitive level, these tools continuously enact dehumanization as the strongest ideology, alongside anti-democratic and anti-elite/systemic-betrayal ideologies that legitimate contempt and divisiveness in online politics. Thus, Indonesian political hate speech acts as a coordinated verbal–symbolic approach. Although based on a small qualitative dataset typical of CDA, the analysis avoids overinterpreting emojis or borrowed forms by identifying ideological meaning only when these elements recur consistently across hostile contexts, ensuring that stylistic choices are distinguished from multimodal cues that genuinely contribute to political hate. Prevention, detection, and digital-literacy efforts must treat emojis and borrowed terminology as key bearers of political violence, not peripheral indications, and future studies should investigate these tendencies in bigger corpora, across regions, and during election cycles.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in EFL Education: Exploring Students' Experiences in Narrative Texts Karisma erikson tarigan; Bonar Gurning
JETAL: Journal of English Teaching & Applied Linguistic Vol 7 No 1 (2025): September
Publisher : English Education Department at FKIP Nommensen University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36655/jetal.v7i1.1831

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This study examines the experiences and interpretations of cross-cultural perspectives through narrative writing by English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, inspired by Indonesian folktales. This research, grounded in Byram’s Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) framework and Narrative Inquiry theory, examines students' ability to maintain their cultural identity in English and the challenges they encounter in cultural-linguistic expression. A qualitative descriptive design was employed, with a narrative writing prompt as the research instrument, utilising data from 50 student-authored English narratives, collected through a classroom-based writing task conducted under supervision. These were analysed through rubric-based coding corresponding to ICC dimensions (cultural accuracy, use of local terminology, translation techniques, and intercultural misunderstandings) and narrative inquiry criteria (voice, structure, and reflection). The rubric-based analysis procedure allowed for categorisation of intercultural and narrative elements using descriptive statistics. Research indicates that the majority of students exhibited cultural awareness and adaptive linguistic strategies: 86% maintained cultural accuracy, 90% retained local terminology, and 78% employed adaptive translation methods. Furthermore, 86% had a logical structure, reflective significance, and an individual voice. Nonetheless, 22% showed dependence on literal translation, while 14% revealed intercultural misinterpretation or narrative disjunction. These findings confirm that culturally rooted narrative writing improves linguistic development and intercultural understanding. The research provides empirical support for the incorporation of local culture texts into English as a Foreign Language training and advocates for instructional scaffolding in metaphor, pragmatics, and narrative discourse.