Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022)

Students’ Linguistic Knowledge in Comprehending Defamation Text

Nana Raihana Askurny (Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, Indonesia)
Syihabuddin Syihabuddin (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 May 2022

Abstract

This study is aimed to find out how students’ linguistic knowledge to comprehend defamation text. Defamation is defined as misuse of language to humiliate other person. The researcher took 75 students of sixth semester, of English Education study program, of Unversitas Raja Ali Haji, Tanjungpinag, as the research participant. This research employed qualitative design with aaplying calculation to assert the result. The data was collected by a set of questions which consists of 13 multiple choice questions. The validiy test had been conducted before the data gathering. The linguistic knowledge in this study were limited with semantic and pragmatic. The result shows that semantic and pragmatic knowledge of the students were not adequate, which means that, the students need to develop their knowledge of linguistic by improving their text comprehension.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

25409190

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ethical Lingua is an online academic journal published by Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo. The journal publish scholarly articles on the scope of Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment; Language Curriculum and Material Development; Linguistics and Applied Linguistics; Cultural Issues in ...