English and Literature Journal
ELITE: English and Literature Journal (Print ISSN: 2355-0821, Online ISSN: 2580-5215) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to the studies of English linguistics and literature and other literatures with a special emphasis on local culture, wisdom, philosophy and identity. Published twice a year in June and December, the first edition of ELITE was published in 2013. The journal contents are managed by the English and Literature Department, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar, Indonesia. The primary objective of the journal is to provide a productive forum for lecturers, researchers, authors, graduate students, and practitioners to present results of their recent studies in the areas of English linguistics and literature and other literary traditions. The journal is also intended to help disseminate recent developments in theories, concepts, and ideas in the areas concerned to the academic community of language and literature studies in Indonesia in particular and worldwide in general.
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<![CDATA[STORY FILM AS A MEDIA IN LEARNING NARRATIVE WRITING AT THIRD SEMESTER STUDENTS IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION ]]>
<![CDATA[Andi Asry Jumiaty]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[The objectives of this research is to find out wheter or not the use of story films as the media can improve the students’ narrative writing at third semester in English Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. This research used class action research that consisted two cycles with four steps namely: planning, acting, observing and reflection. Cycle 1 observes the students competence in writing narrative using film as media. After finding the results of the cycle 1, the researcher continued cycle 2 to improve the result of the students’ in narrative writing. Populations was the third semester English Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of Makassar academic year 2015/2016, the sample of this research consisted of 30 students. The result shows that the students’ writing achievement in term of content in descriptive text, pre-test was 55 and post-test was 76.68. the improvement of the students’ writing achievement in term of content is 39.41%. the significant increase of the students’ writing achievement in term of content is proved by t-test is higher than t-table, 8.468> 2.331. It means that the Null Hypothesis (HO) is rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (HI) is accepted, where the t-test is greater than t-table. The students’ writing achievement in term of organization in descriptive text, pre-test was (56.18), and post-test was (79). The improvement of the students’ writing achievement in term of organization is 40.61%. The significant increase of the students’ writing achievement in term of organization is proved by t-test is higher than t-table, 9.272> 2.331. It means that the Null Hypothesis (HO) is rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (HI) is accepted, where the t-test is greater than t-table.]]>
<![CDATA[THE STUDENTS' BARRIERS IN ENGLISH LEARNING AT IAIN OF MANADO ]]>
<![CDATA[Andi Mukarramah Nagauleng]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[The identification of barriers in the English teaching and learning is essential in providing solutions for students to learn and achieve the expected learning objectives. This article attempts to explore the barriers faced by students of IAIN Manado in learning English as well as offering solutions for lecturers, researchers, and students themselves to overcoming these obstacles. Humans are social beings who cannot live alone without others in interacting and communicating, with their first language English as a second language. By using the English language in good and right uses will make easier for someone to communicate in the classroom with a friend or lecturer who came from another tribe, and spoke in the forum with the impression of a politer. Speak properly not only emphasizes the truth in terms of grammar, but also pay attention to the communicative aspect. The language communicative is not necessarily always the standard language. Instead, use the standard language does not necessarily mean that the use language in good and true uses. Preferably, use of a variety of language that is compatible with the target and in addition follows the rules of correct language.]]>
<![CDATA[STUDENTS' PERCEPTION TOWARD GOOD LECTURER PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE ]]>
<![CDATA[Ali Wira Rahman]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[As the application of the four competencies for the lecturers in teaching and learning, it becomes a new business for them to fulfill those competencies (pedagogical professional, personality, social). This has an impact on the provision of a new method for students in learning activities so that a teacher would be able to develop a curriculum in accordance with the respective educational unit and the local needs of each student. The first pedagogical competence deals with the ability of a lecturer in managing the classroom and facilitates the students' diversity. Sometimes lecturers apply different pedagogic actions with students' perceptions so that what is they supposed good by lecturers sometimes inversely with students' intake. The aim of this study was to facilitate the perception of the students in regard to the pedagogical action of a good lecturer. The result supposed to be a consideration from the lecturer in applied pedagogical action in the classroom.]]>
<![CDATA[STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP STUDENTS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING IN CLASSROOM ]]>
<![CDATA[Sardian Maharani Asnur]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[Teacher in a classroom sometimes are difficult to get the students' attention in order to comprehend the subject material since the students are coming from many different culture. This study aimed to give some strategies to develop students cultural understanding for remote area students. There are several strategies that proved to be effective to develop students cultural understanding in the classroom, those are use a variety of instructional strategies and learning activities; consider students' cultures and language skills when developing learning objectives ard instructional activities; objectives for affective and personal development; communicate orate expectations; provide rationales; provide frequent reviews of the content learned; facilitate independence in thinking and action; promote student on-task behavior, monitor students' academic progress during lessons and independent work; provide frequent feedback; require mastery. This study is far from comprehensive, as it only investigated the very surface of strategies to develop students cultural understanding in the classroom.]]>
<![CDATA[MORALITY IN ASIAN FOLKTALES (A COMPARATIVE STUDY) ]]>
<![CDATA[Fika Indah Septiani]]>;
<![CDATA[Nahdhiyah Nahdhiyah]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[This article aims at finding the types of moral and uncovering life messages of five folktales from Asia for children. The folktales are King Vikramaditya (India), Visu the woodsman and Old priest (Japan), Makatho (Myarmar), The Golden Cucumber (Indonesia), and A lazy boy (Korea). Content analysis technique is used in analyzing data which coding sheet as instrument is used in coding process. Finding types and messages of the folktales based on Neiman's theory. This article finds there are thirty-one data of moral aspects which classify into four types of moral: religious morality, individual morality, natural morality and social morality. Each folktale in each country has different story and different moral message. The recommendation of this research is due to parent and teacher for being more selective in choosing folktale for children or student.]]>
<![CDATA[EARTH AND MARS CULTURE INANDREw STANTON'S MOVIE "JOHN CARTER OF MARS" (SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH) ]]>
<![CDATA[Arina Iskandar]]>;
<![CDATA[Serliah Nur]]>;
<![CDATA[Nasrum Nasrum]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[This thesis studied about culture based on the script of the movie John Carter of Mars which was released in 2012. This research aimed to describe and analyze the kinds and comparison on Earth and Mars culture in the movie. This research focused on sociological approach and culture based on Edward B. Tylor and Hofstede's theories toward kinds of culture elements. This research used descriptive qualitative method and used note taking as the instrument. The findings showed that there were twenty-two kinds of data reffered to culture elements which were divided into seven categories; knowledge religion, art, morals, laws, customs, and language. Thus, there were twenty-two which were divided into ten data on Earth and twelve data on Mars. Therefore, the researcher concluded that seven culture elements were the shaper element toward the societies activity on Earth and Mars based on John Carter of Mars movie that became the distinguishing appropriate with their respective ways.]]>
<![CDATA[INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS' SELF-EFFICACY AND THEIR SUCCESSFUL TEACHING PERFORMANCE ]]>
<![CDATA[Rizka Indahyanti]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[The purpose of this research aimed to investigate the influence of Teachers' Self-efficacy on their teaching performance in the classroom setting. The role of teachers' years of teaching experience in their self-efficacy was also investigated. The method applied waa a qualitative descriptive research with interview as the instrument. The participants of this research were two Indonesian EFL teachers. The years of teaching experience were 2 years for novice teacher and 21 years for experienced teacher. The result of this research showed that experienced teacher has higher sense of self-efficacy than novice teacher. It also showed that years of teaching experience influence to teachers' self-efficacy.]]>
<![CDATA[THE REPRESENTATION OF FEMINISM IN ADRIENNE RICH'S SELECTED POEMS ]]>
<![CDATA[Andi Febriana Tamrin]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[This study is aimed to reveal the feminism idea in Rich's selected poems, a woman author in the mid of 20th century and in Second World War. The feminist theory is the main theory used in analysing the data. Biographical and social approach is used in conducting this study. Those approaches are very helpful in helping to understand the ideas of feminism in Rich's selected poems. Descriptive qualitative and bibliographical are the methods that applied in this study. The result shows that the women in Rich poems did try their best to fight for their rights to oppose the culture and patriarchal society in their time. This can be seen from the analysing of the ideas of the behaviour of women in the poems.]]>
<![CDATA[ARCHETYPE ANALYSIS OF PERSEUS' JOURNEY IN CLASH OF THE TITANS 2010 FILM BY LOUIS LETTERIER ]]>
<![CDATA[Ika Fitriani]]>;
<![CDATA[Syahruni Junaid]]>;
<![CDATA[Masykur Rauf]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 3 No 2 (2016): December ]]>
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<![CDATA[This thesis studied about archetype analysis of Perseus’ journey in Clash of the Titans 2010 film. The aim of this research was to describe archetype patterns being reflected of Perseus’ journey in Clash of the Titans 2010 film by Louis Letterier. This research applied qualitative method where the data were analyzed through Campbell’s theory about archetype. The researcher chose note taking as the instrument of the research. The researcher found that there were six archetype characters, eight symbols of archetype symbols, and three phases of situation archetype. Therefore, this research can be concluded that Clash of the Titans 2010 film showed six archetype characters where Perseus himself as hero, eight archetype symbols, and three phases of archetype situation are separation, initiation, and return. The implication of this research is to give more information, description and comprehending about archetype. Moreover, it can be a reference for the student of Adab and Humanities faculty who attracted to observe the similar research.]]>
<![CDATA[ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION BASED ON THE PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION APPLICATION (STUDY OF TOPHONETICS.APP) ]]>
<![CDATA[Faidah Yusuf]]>
<![CDATA[ Elite : English and Literature Journal Vol 6 No 1 (2019): June ]]>
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DOI: 10.24252/elite.v6i1a5
<![CDATA[This article is about English pronunciation based on the phonetics transcription Application (Study of tophonetics app). The aim of the article is focused to know English pronunciation based on the phonetics transcription by using tophonetics Application. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method. The samples of this research are ten students, to look for the phonetics transcription by using tophonetics tools and to read the text of phonetics transcription. The writer used the interview as an instrument on this research was to collect the data. The result of this research that the pronunciation of phonetics transcription in English used tophonetics.app the students could be doing easy and understanding to use the app and could improve pronouncing the words better.Keywords: transcription, tophonetics, pronunciation, application, understanding ABSTRAK Penelitian ini untuk mengetahui bagaimana pelafalan bahasa Inggris berdasarkan transkripsi fonetik dengan menggunakan Aplikasi tophonetics. Peneliti menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Sampel penelitian ini adalah sepuluh siswa, untuk mencari transkripsi fonetik dengan menggunakan alat tophonetics dan membaca teks transkripsi fonetik. Penulis menggunakan wawancara sebagai instrumen dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk mengumpulkan data. Temuan dari penelitian ini adalah para mahasiswa mencari transkripsi fonetik dengan menggunakan aplikasi tophonetics ini. Hasil penelitian ini bahwa pelafalan transkripsi fonetik dalam bahasa Inggris menggunakan tophonetics. App, para mahasiswa yang membuatnya lebih mudah daripada membuka kamus, mereka dapat melakukan dengan mudah dan memahami untuk menggunakan aplikasi dan dapat meningkatkan pengucapan kata-kata yang lebih baik. Kata kunci: transkripsi, tophonetics, pengucapan, aplikasi, pemahaman ]]>
