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Pragmatic Failure in EFL Learners’ Emails and AI Grammar Tools Feedback Nur Ifadloh; Ameen Saliman Abdullahi; Rani Aryanti Rukmana
DUTIES: Education and Humanities International Journal Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): DUTIES: Education and Humanities International Journal
Publisher : CV. Akademi Merdeka

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.70152/duties.v1i2.221

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This study investigates the pragmatic failures found in EFL learners’ academic email communication and evaluates the extent to which AI grammar tools can detect and address such failures. Drawing on theories of interlanguage pragmatics and politeness, the research identifies recurring issues in the realization of requests, apologies, and formal politeness—where learners often produce grammatically correct yet pragmatically inappropriate messages. These failures commonly stem from first-language pragmatic transfer and a lack of explicit instruction in target language norms. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, the study analyzed a corpus of 640 elicited emails from 80 EFL university students and assessed feedback from Grammarly, Quillbot, and ChatGPT using comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis. While the tools effectively corrected surface-level errors, they fell short in addressing context-sensitive pragmatic nuances such as indirectness, tone, and formality. The findings underscore the distinction between linguistic and pragmatic competence, highlight the limitations of current AI tools in fostering pragmatic awareness, and emphasize the need for explicit, context-rich instruction. This study contributes to a more integrated understanding of how human expertise and AI technologies can collaboratively support pragmatic development in digital language learning environments.
Penerapan Media Tanggaris (Ular Tangga Hubungan antar Garis) dengan TaRL untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Siswa SD Rani Aryanti Rukmana; Fatimah Azzahroh; Nabila Hasri Ainun
FONDATIA Vol 10 No 1 (2026): MARET
Publisher : Pendidikan Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiyah STIT Palapa Nusantara

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36088/fondatia.v10i1.6053

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Teacher-centered learning is often less optimal because it does not sufficiently account for differences in students’ developmental stages and levels of understanding and tends to maintain theoretical, traditional methods. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the Tanggaris media (Ular Tangga Hubungan Antar Garis) combined with the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in improving students’ understanding of the concept of relationships among lines in Mathematics. The study employed a quantitative pre-experimental one-group pretest–posttest design involving 23 third-grade students at a public school in Bogor City. The research instrument was a 10-item multiple-choice test administered before and after the intervention, while data analysis was conducted using the Shapiro–Wilk normality test, N-Gain calculation, and a paired-samples t-test. The normality test results indicated that the data were normally distributed, with pretest significance of 0.321 > 0.05 and posttest significance of 0.069 > 0.05. The mean student score increased from 57.8 on the pretest to 81.7 on the posttest, with an N-Gain value of 0.5330, indicating moderate effectiveness. The paired-samples t-test showed a significance value (2-tailed) of 0.000 < 0.05; thus, the alternative hypothesis was accepted, indicating that the use of Tanggaris media with the TaRL approach had a significant effect on students’ learning outcomes. Accordingly, the implementation of TaRL-based Tanggaris media was effective in improving students’ understanding of relationships among lines and making the learning process more adaptive and meaningful.