Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching is a double blind peer reviewed international journal biannually published by the Faculty of Literature, Islamic University of North Sumatra, Medan, Indonesia. Publication is issued in June and December. Authors are encouraged to submit complete unpublished and original works or research results, which are not under review in any other journals. Manuscripts should follow the style of the journal and are subject to both review and editing. The scopes of the journal include, but not limited to, linguistics, literature and language teaching written in English.
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<![CDATA[ADJECTIVES IN THE EXPRESSION OF EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS RESEARCH ARTICLES ]]>
<![CDATA[Attapol Khamkhien]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.4534
<![CDATA[Research in academic writing has shown that writers have a strong tendency to communicate their ideas interactively with readers. This study examines how professional writers use adjectives as part of interactional metadiscourse when writing research articles. A total of 255 research articles published in distinguished journals in the field of applied linguistics between 2015 and 2020 were systematically compiled and quantitatively and qualitatively analysed. The extent to which epistemic adjectives and typical phraseological patterns are used in research articles was investigated with the help of corpus linguistics methods, as was their epistemic strength indicated by writers. The interpersonal model of metadiscourse was used as the theoretical framework for the study. The findings suggest that the academic writing corpus, in essence, is interactionally oriented, while the use of adjectives as an epistemic modality reflects a methodical approach by article writers when presenting propositions and discussing their knowledge claims. This study provides a deeper understanding of these linguistic features to impact the reader. Pedagogically, the study can be useful for teaching academic writing to postgraduate students and help them and novice writers develop writing competency through epistemic devices, especially in research articles intended for publication.]]>
<![CDATA[AUDIOVISUAL AND SONG TRANSLATION OF INDONESIAN SUBTITLE IN SHELTER MUSIC VIDEO ]]>
<![CDATA[Mohamad Irham Poluwa]]>;
<![CDATA[Nafilaturif'ah Nafilaturif'ah]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.4481
<![CDATA[The current study aimed to find out the translation techniques applied by the translator in creating the Indonesian subtitles for the original lyrics of Shelter – a collaboration project of music video by Porter Robinson and Madeon, A1-Pictures and Crunchyroll uploaded on YouTube in 2016. The data were analyzed based on the audiovisual translation theory, especially the linguistics of subtitling, the translation technical procedures in the compared stylistics, and the choice in song translation. The study also applied qualitative approach which enabled the researchers to emerge data in descriptive way (in the form of words or pictures instead of numbers). Furthermore, the data were also in the forms of an audiovisual content. The study indicated that most of the lyrics were translated based on literal translation that was reflected by the equivalence of the source language and the target language. The audiovisual theory, particularly reduction theory was also applied in creating the subtitles. In addition, the subtitles were created without taking the music into consideration, meaning that the subtitles were devoted as a supplement or no more than another piece of the source text. ]]>
<![CDATA[FACE-SAVING AND FACE-THREATENING NEGOTIATION BY LECTURERS: GENDER AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE DIFFERENCES ]]>
<![CDATA[Sheila Agustina]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.4527
<![CDATA[Teachers’ use of language was believed to give impact for the success of language learners in one way or another. As some teachers’ speech included managing classroom, giving instructions, and providing feedbacks, it is inevitable that a teacher would use the power and make the students uncomfortable. To soften the speech or lessen the impact to the students, a teacher could use some strategies of politeness inside the classroom. Seeing how linguistic politeness manifested by teachers could generally affect the students’ esteem, this study aimed at observing face-threatening and face-saving utterances produced by six lecturers during 6 different lessons in a state university. Combining Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness and Yule’s concept of face, this study would also contrast the language production by lecturers of different gender and different length of teaching experience to find out if they were correlated. Under the qualitative method, the researcher carried out class observation, recorded the interaction, and transcribed all of the lecturers’ utterances. This study revealed that lecturers generally tend to manage more face-saving acts. However, it showed that most face-threatening utterances were generated by male lecturers. It also indicated that lecturers with longer teaching experience produced more face-threatening utterances, and lecturers with shorter teaching experience produced more face-saving utterances. The fact that female lecturers in this study were dominant in negotiating face-saving acts justified women are more polite than men.]]>
<![CDATA[VOCABULARY ENHANCEMENT THROUGH MEMRISE AND GOOGLE CLASSROOM ]]>
<![CDATA[Stephanie Feli Taebenu]]>;
<![CDATA[Caroline V. Katemba]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 1: June 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i1.3813
<![CDATA[Google Classroom is one of the most used learning platforms during this Covid-19 pandemic at school, especially in Indonesia. Besides that, another application is used to make the English classes attractive and interesting. Memrise application is used in this study as an addition to google classroom. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to see if there is a significant difference in vocabulary enhancement between females and males using Google Classroom and Memrise. This study employed a quantitative research method and a comparative design with pre-test and post-test. The sample size for this study was 40 students. The students were divided into two groups, with those two groups there were 20 female and 20 male students. The result of this study showed that both groups of students could enhance their vocabulary ability but, the female group result showed a significantly higher enhancement compared to the male group. Another result showed there was a significant difference in vocabulary enhancement between students who were taught using Memrise through Google Classroom in the female and male groups. In summary, the findings indicated that Memrise was effective in helping students to enhance and enrich their vocabulary. ]]>
<![CDATA[RACIAL INEEUQALITY AND SEXIST OPPRESSION IN TONI MORRISON'S BELOVED ]]>
<![CDATA[Amina Rashid]]>;
<![CDATA[Md. Masud Rana]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 1: June 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i1.3727
<![CDATA[AbstractThis study examines the construction of racialized society and gendered identities in fictional text of Morrison's Beloved. The research aim is to analyze and explore how these identities are constructed in Beloved by using a feminist approach. We find that the imposed ideal of femininity is absorbed and patriarchy is assumed. Female’s black characteristics are repressed both intra-communally and inter-communally. In the former, black female characters are not ‘fitted’ to white femininity as they strive for identity crisis even among the blacks. In the latter, they are whim of male dominance-subject of incest, rape and seduction. Though, women are doubly repressed, it is not the racial discrimination that threatens and jeopardizes black women identity rather a sheer domination of patriarchal power from within and without exaggerating debasing women life among the whites. Therefore, this paper reflects on the manifestation of femininity and patriarchy in a radicalized society and how these two interact in women life in Morison's Beloved. ]]>
<![CDATA[INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN EFL CLASSROOM FOR INDONESIAN ADOLESECENT LEARNERS ]]>
<![CDATA[Murah Harfani Batubara]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.4508
<![CDATA[The coming of the internet and the advancement of technology make revolution in Language Pedagogy, especially in the EFL classroom. Teaching the students who were born as the digital natives forces EFL, teachers have to integrate technology in language teaching. This article was written based on a recent EFL teacher’s practice. This study employed a case study method with 30 students of grade 9 of Junior High School in the west part of Indonesia as the participants. The aim of this study was to elaborate the way how the teacher made the students more familiar with the computer and the internet access in EFL Classroom. A Messenger Group as the main communication platform, supported by other web-based platforms including school’s Facebook (FB) group and online materials were integrated into learning activities. The findings showed that students found using technology in the classroom was easy due to the teacher’s instruction. They also reported that the technology integration in their EFL classroom encouraged their creativity and helped to accommodate their diverse interest. As a result, the students feel more comfortable and confident using technology for educational purposes and, become more creative and innovative in doing their project. Beside the clear instructions from the teacher, the availability of the computer laboratory, internet access, and students’ smartphones really help the success of this course.]]>
<![CDATA[A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A VINTAGE AMERICAN AIRLINES ADVERTISEMENT ]]>
<![CDATA[Nathan John Dover]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 1: June 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i1.3235
<![CDATA[Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a rapidly increasing area of study used by Applied Linguists to examine discourse, that is spoken or written communication, found in areas such as education, media and politics. CDA studies focus on the relationship between society and discourse and how the use of language reinforces already established societal roles. This paper focused on a vintage American Airlines advertisement of 1968 which is a classic example of utilitarian advertising that purported a false reality of air travel in the late 20th century. Using the three-dimensional CDA framework designed by Fairclough (1989) the results showed a manipulation of gender roles by the advertisers intended to appeal to the male dominated passengers of the airline. Primarily, the alignment of air hostess with that of a mother. The maternalisation of this profession reflected the advertisers’ views of the time and in a wider societal perspective, power inequalities between men and women.]]>
<![CDATA[HEALTH PROTOCOLS AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE SUGGESTIONS DURING COVID-19 IN INDONESIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH’S KOMIK SEHAT: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH ]]>
<![CDATA[Muhammad Gani Qodratul Ihsan]]>;
<![CDATA[Njaju Jenny Malik Tomi Hardjatno]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.4514
<![CDATA[The government has enforced much socialization on health protocols and healthy lifestyle implementation during Covid-19, one of them through social media by presenting comics featuring utterances of characters. Accordingly, this research explains the utterances of comic characters that represent suggestions for implementing health protocols and healthy lifestyles during Covid-19. The objective of this study is to explain the strategy of delivering comic character messages that suggest health protocols and healthy lifestyles implementation. The data used in this paper are 38 Comics strips uploaded by the Indonesian Ministry of Health in their Instagram account entitled Komik Sehat. The results showed that of the 212 illocutionary speech acts, only 40.57% of utterances conveyed messages implementation of health protocols suggestions, and 6.6% of utterances conveyed messages implementation of healthy lifestyle suggestions. Therefore, the strategy of delivering messages on recommended health protocols and healthy lifestyles through stories in Healthy Comics is not effectively carried out by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia.]]>
<![CDATA[THE ONTOLOGICAL FEATURES OF VERB PHRASES IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S VISIONS OF MARS ]]>
<![CDATA[Wedhowerti Wedhowerti]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 2: December 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i2.3732
<![CDATA[Verb Phrase (VP) is one of the most important types of phrase for its function. It provides information about the subject of the sentence. Verb Phrase itself has more than one type. It also has ontological aspect, an aspect by which a certain situation is represented. This aspect is made up by features. This study aims at finding out and analyzing the types of VP and their ontological features in National Geographic’s Visions of Mars. By analyzing and understanding the types of VP and their ontological features, readers understand the discourse more. They gain more perspective syntactically. This study employs syntactic approach and is qualitative in nature. The results yield three different types of VP, i.e. action, process, and state where action VP places the highest position. There are four ontological features found in Visions of Mars, i.e. dynamic, agentive, non-evolving, and evolving. The findings imply how Visions of Mars is structured. The deeds are mostly conducted or done by an agent and show prompt situations.]]>
<![CDATA[RESOURCES OF ATTITUDES IN STUDENTS’ TOURISM BLOGS ]]>
<![CDATA[Ni Putu Era Marsakawati]]>;
<![CDATA[Rima Andriani Sari]]>;
<![CDATA[Putu Dewi Merlyna Yuda Pramesti]]>;
<![CDATA[Komang Windi Wahana Putra]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 5, No 1: June 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30743/ll.v5i1.3744
<![CDATA[Studies concerning the use of attitude resources in students’ writing have been conducted by researchers. However, limited attention has been given to investigate how resources of attitude are used in a hybrid genre, such as blog. This paper aims at reporting how attitude resources are realized in students’ tourism blogs. 10 tourism blogs written by the seventh-semester students of English Education Department, taking English for Tourism course were purposively selected as the source of data. These data were chosen because their topics were about tourist attractions in Bali. The data were analyzed by following appraisal language analysis theory. The results show that appreciation and affect resources were used by the students in their blogs. However, the resources used by the students were basic and repetitive words. This study suggests English instructors provide explicit teaching of attitudinal words that the students can use when they are writing tourism blogs.]]>
