LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, to be published twice a year, namely in April and October, is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published by the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. The journal welcomes articles on language and language teaching, including 1. language studies/investigations, 2. language teaching/learning, 3. literature related to language studies or learning, and 4. linguistics related to language learning.
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<![CDATA[Fluency or Accuracy - Two Different Colours in Writing Assessment ]]>
<![CDATA[Listyani, Listyani]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 19, No 2 (2016): October 2016 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v19i2.300
<![CDATA[Fluency and accuracy. These two things have victoriously won many teachers attention at tertiary level. In the case of writing, these two remain debatable, and have always attracted many people, both lecturers and students attention. These language production measures have distracted many lecturers concentration: should they be faithful to fluency of ideas, or grammatical and language accuracy in correcting students essays? This paper tries to present the classical yet never-ending dilemmatic conflicts within the area of writing assessment. This debate still remains interesting to follow. Data were gained from close observation on documents, that is, 21 students essays and interviews with 2 students of Academic Writing in Semester II, 2015-2016. Four writing lecturers were also interviewed for their intellectual and critical opinions on these dilemmatic problems in assessing writing. Discussion results of FGD (Forum Group Discussion) involving all writing lecturers at the English Education Study Program at the Faculty of Language and Literature of Satya Wacana Christian University which were held in June, 2016, were also included as source of data. Hopefully, this paper gives a little more colour in the area of writing assessment, and gives a little enlightenment for other writing lecturers.]]>
<![CDATA[LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM IN INDONESIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT ]]>
<![CDATA[Tanjung, Firima Zona]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 21 (2018): Special Issue (Supplement) June 2018 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v21iSuppl.966
<![CDATA[Indonesian university students are not well-familiar with language learning strategies (LLS) as they are dependent on their lecturers. This condition also gets worse because the students still have low level of proficiency although they have already been learning English for multiple years. There have been many researches on students LLS related to the four language skills and gender but there is a high need of studying the students LLS regarding their age in the Indonesian higher education context. This research aimed at investigating students language learning strategies related to their ages and providing some steps to make teaching program more effective by considering students LLS and their age as well. This research utilized descriptive survey research design. The participants were 122 English Department students at one of public universities in Borneo Island, Indonesia. The instrument was SILL questionnaire. All the collected data were analyzed statistically. The findings show that students mostly used metacognitive (M=3.857), cognitive (M=3.707), and compensation strategies (M=3.563). The students different age led them to select and implement different strategies. Some steps to optimize students learning strategies are through inserting LLS instruction in the curriculum of teaching program, implementing certain models of strategy instruction, and developing lecturers awareness of designing instruction at which one of the methods that can be employed is eclective methods. Considering all findings, it can be concluded that although indirect strategies get higher means of preference from the participants but they do not only focus on using indirect strategies. They combine those with direct strategies. Further, to make students more successful on their learning, the institution including lecturers and the academic community should take part in the effort of teaching learning strategies. This provides future research area that emphasizes on designing LLS instruction regarding students age and level of their education.]]>
<![CDATA[THE REPRESENTATION OF 21st CENTURY SKILLS IN AN INDONESIAN EFL TEXTBOOK ]]>
<![CDATA[Rinekso, Aji Budi]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 24, No 1 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v24i1.2655
<![CDATA[Textbooks play an important role in language teaching practices as the core source of knowledge. Meanwhile, the 21st century demands students having more advanced skills to solve the multifaceted and complex life situation. In fact, there are still limited studies evaluating textbooks based on the inclusion of 21st century skills. Looking at the gap, this study aimed to analyze the representation of 21st century skills in an Indonesian EFL textbook. A content analysis research design was applied in this study. The subject of the study was an EFL textbook used by grade 7 students. The results of the study revealed that there were 12 out of 15 of the 21st century skills presented in the textbook. The most dominant skills were communication and collaboration. The representation of the skills was done through some learning activities/tasks such as goal, input, procedure, teacher/learner role, pictures and notes. However, this textbook did not provide sufficient topics and materials about information, communication and technology (ICT). Therefore, it is suggested for further revision to include topics and materials about ICT.]]>
<![CDATA[Domains of Political Metaphors in Presidential Speeches ]]>
<![CDATA[Pasaribu, Truly Almendo]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 19, No 2 (2016): October 2016 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v19i2.303
<![CDATA[Speeches are products of human minds reflecting ideas and opinions of the speakers. Crystal (1987) mentions that the way people use language does not only give us information about their geographical, ethnic and social background, but it also reflects the type of context in which they are communicating. As an interesting feature of a language, metaphors in political speeches can be powerful and persuasive. This research aimed at finding the source domains of political metaphors in Joko Widodos speeches, namely: his victory speech and his inaugural speech. These speeches were chosen to be analyzed due to their distinct context and setting. To achieve the goal of the study, the paper explicated Lakoff and Johnsons Contemporary Theory of Conceptual Metaphor (1980, 1992). The findings and discussion argue that the speeches use more positive metaphors of unity rather than metaphors of battle or competition. Furthermore, the texts also conceptualize Indonesian political realm as a journey and navigation, which give the audience a sense of progress. The maritime metaphors in particular are abundant in the two speeches because they reflect one of Widodos visions to strengthen Indonesian maritime.]]>
<![CDATA[CATEGORIZATION OF COMPOUND NOUNS IN KURDISH AND ENGLISH ]]>
<![CDATA[Mustafa, Sumaya Khalid]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 1 (2020): April 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v23i1.2462
<![CDATA[This paper is concerned with the categorization of compound nouns in Kurdish and English. It compares compound nouns of the two languages according to the prototype theory, applying categorization as a cognitive assumption. The paper attempts to achieve the following goals: first, classifying Kurdish compound nouns using morphological and semantic criteria, listing Kurdish compound nouns according to the prototype theory, showing the structure based on which the relationship between the components of a compound noun is represented, comparing the morphological and semantic relations between the components of compound nouns of Kurdish to those of English. The data of the study on the Kurdish language were collected and analyzed based on the fact that the author is a native speaker of Kurdish. The results show that the morphological structure of compound nouns in Kurdish is more complex than the structure of compound nouns in English though they share some structures. Unlike English, the head in Kurdish compound nouns is not always a noun. The categorization of Kurdish compound nouns is different from English ones; it depends on the nature of the languages and the different perspectives of their users. In both languages, there are compound nouns whose meaning needs encyclopedic knowledge of the speakers to interpret them. This point confirms the assumptions of cognitive linguistics namely simplicity, conventionality, and semanticity.]]>
<![CDATA[Feminist Refiguring of La Malinche in Sandra Cisneros Never Marry A Mexican ]]>
<![CDATA[Sutanto, Dian Natalia]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 18, No 1 (2015): April 2015 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v18i1.248
<![CDATA[La Malinche, the mistress of Spanish conquistador Hern Cort, has evolved from a historical figure into Mexican national myth that connotes all the negative aspects of womans sexuality in Mexican and Mexican-American Culture. Sandra Cisneros in her Never Marry A Mexican reinterpretsLa Malinchein a more positive light and points out how women sexuality can be the site for women empowerment.By drawing on insights from feminist theories on motherhood, marriage, and incest taboo, this study identifies the way Cisneros revises the negative image of La Malinche as a dupe, passive and submissive mistress. This study identifies that Cisneros has created a strong protagonist character named Clemencia, who exerts her subjectivity and claims for her sexual agency totransgress patriarchal construction of woman passive sexuality, imposition of maternal identity as asexual mother and taboo on incestuous relationship. Cisneross La Malinche is no longer depicted as the victim duped by the patriarchy, but as the survivor who is able to preserve her sense of herself in the dominating patriarchal world.]]>
<![CDATA[THE USE OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE IN EFL ESSAY WRITING ]]>
<![CDATA[Chandra, Sylvi Octaviani]]>;
<![CDATA[Yuyun, Ignasia]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 21, No 2 (2018): October 2018 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v21i2.1539
<![CDATA[Writing skill is considered a difficult skill for some of the students because of limited vocabulary as well as grammatical weakness. Since the students face this problem, they often take a shortcut if they have a writing assignment, which is using Google Translate (GT). Many studies have focused on this translator to find out the error from GTs output and rarely discuss the way students utilize GT in their language learning. Therefore, this study aims to investigate further the practice of GT in EFL essay writing as wells as its role in language learning. The study was conducted in Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana, involving eight respondents from Ukrida Department of English. Two methods were used, such as mediated-observation and interview. A writing task was given to each respondent and her/his writing process was recorded using screen-recording application. The data collected from the writing task was analyzed by classifying it into appropriate writing aspect while the interview data were transcribed. The result showed that students used GT in three different aspects: vocabulary, grammar, and spelling. Vocabulary became the highest used, with word-level became the first one, followed by phrase as a second highest, and sentence as the third. Spelling became the fourth highest used, while grammar was the least used among students. It is also found out that GT is perceived as a dictionary as students used GT mostly in vocabulary.]]>
<![CDATA[EMPOWERING CARES EFFECTIVENESS FROM HIGH SCHOOL MATH TO COLLEGE ENGLISH ]]>
<![CDATA[Walker, Deron]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 2 (2020): October 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v23i2.2511
<![CDATA[Building upon the prior success of a rookie high school math teacher, a veteran English professor also successfully implemented empowering care at a private university in that same urban setting in Southern California. The aforementioned empowering care that contributed to better student learning as measured by district wide tests at the high school level now demonstrated pedagogical success as assessed by student evaluations in the university setting. The purpose of this paper, chronicled from a practitioners point of view, examines how teacher beliefs that all students are capable of learning, operationalized concretely in terms of empowering care, enabled students to achieve impressive academic performances on the aforementioned measures in their respective settings over two consecutive school years (D. Walker S. Walker, 2019).***In this paper, Sunnyside High School, Inland Empire University (IEU) and Desert Valley, California will serve as pseudonyms to maintain the anonymity of the high school, university, district and city. Ms. Jasmine Espinoza and Dr. J. D. Hyde will represent the pseudonyms for the teacher-participants who taught the classes examined in this study.]]>
<![CDATA[New Literacies: Some Implications for Language Teachers ]]>
<![CDATA[Harendita, Monica Ella]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 17, No 1 (2014): April 2014 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v17i1.259
<![CDATA[The ever-changing development of digital technology has become a scapegoat that exacerbates literacy. In scrutinising this issue, this article counters the simplistic view on literacy. Instead, it views literacy as socially, culturally and historically constructed. Therefore, the traditional definition of literacy, which is the ability to read and write, may not fit the digital age. This article discusses how digital technologies have reshaped the nature of literacy. After discussing literacy, and the Internet in general and Web 2.0 in particular, this paper presents some implications for language teachers in dealing with the altered literacy practices. First, critical literacy should be embedded in classroom practices so as to make students critically evaluate the free-flowing information on the Internet. Second, language teachers should nurture participatory culture of the students by encouraging collaboration among them.]]>
<![CDATA[IMPROVING EFL LEARNERS SPEAKING PROFICIENCY THROUGH INSTAGRAM VLOG ]]>
<![CDATA[Wulandari, Mega]]>
<![CDATA[ LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 22, No 1 (2019): April 2019 ]]>
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DOI: 10.24071/llt.v22i1.1796
<![CDATA[This research investigated whether Instagram Vlog contributed to the improvement of EFLs speaking ability. It also examined learners perceptions on the integration of Instagram Vlog in a speaking class. There were 28 participants involved in this research. To determine the impact of the Instagram Vlog on EFL learners speaking ability, pre- and post-tests were administered to measure the improvement. The results indicated that the implementation of Instagram Vlog into a basic-level speaking class improved the learners speaking proficiency in terms of pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, syntax, and general use of the target language. The analysis of the questionnaire demonstrated that the utilization of Instagram vlog contributed to EFL learners speaking skill on enhancing fluency, acquiring vocabulary items, and boosting confidence and motivation.]]>
