ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
ELS-JISH is, a journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities: Linguistics, Literature, Language Teaching, Translation, and Culture, a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal published quartely by the Faculty of Cultural Sciences Hasanuddin University Publication, focusing on theories, methods, and materials in Linguistics, Literature, Language Teaching, Translation, and Culture (study and research). It provides a high profile, leading edge forum for academics, professionals, educators, consultants, practitioners and postgraduate students in the field of English Language Studies (ELS) to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on the disciplines. JISH was started in 2017 and first published in 2018. It invites original, previously unpublished, research and survey articles, plus research-in-progress reports and short research notes, on both practical and theoretical aspects of Linguistics, Literature, Language Teaching, Translation, and Culture.
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<![CDATA[Students’ Perception on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Tools in English Language Teaching ]]>
<![CDATA[Anisa Husni Alkaromah]]>;
<![CDATA[Endang Fauziati]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdul Asib]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): MARCH ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i1.9522
<![CDATA[The pedagogies of English teaching are rapidly changing due to the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT). According to curriculum 2013, ICT is an essential component that should be integrated into each subject including English. It can be expected that it is essential for the teacher to use ICT in the teaching and learning process in order to help students to achieve a high quality of English subjects. To know the ICT role in the classroom so that this study was conducted to investigate senior high school students’ perceptions toward ICT usage in the EFL classroom. There are two students from the public school participated in Surakarta. This research design was a qualitative method with a case study approach to determine students’ perceptions and their experience in using ICT. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. The result indicated that the students perceived ICT usage and perceived access to ICT. Although the students use ICT and access it in the classroom, the domination of the level is at substitution and augmentation. These two levels are called enhancement. The findings reveal the usage of ICT in the EFL classroom. The students are reflected only to be able to use a basic function in a limited mobile application with only little change and improvement.]]>
<![CDATA[Native English Teacher’s Politeness Realizations in EFL Classroom Interaction ]]>
<![CDATA[Wisma Wijayanti]]>;
<![CDATA[Agus Wijayanto]]>;
<![CDATA[Sri Marmanto]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): MARCH ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i1.9524
<![CDATA[The realizations of politeness need to be implemented in the process of teaching and learning in the class, especially in English language classroom context. Applying appropriate politeness strategy in talking to the students is very important to create effective teaching and learning process. This study examines politeness strategies used by the native English teacher. It aims to identify the use of politeness strategies realized by the native English teacher in classroom interaction. This research was qualitative research method. The participant of the research was one native English teacher who taught EFL students in a university in Indonesia. The data were obtained through the class observation. Those data then were analyzed by using politeness theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The result revealed that all politeness strategies suggested by Brown and Levinson (1987) were applied by the teacher in delivering his speech to the students, such as bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Negative politeness became the most dominant politeness strategy performed by the native English teacher while the least one was off record. These four strategies were mostly employed by the teacher in order to remind the students, give them commands (task-oriented), praise the students, request the students to do something, make the class more interesting, and motivate the students.]]>
<![CDATA[The Student-Created Poster: A WebQuest Active Learning Strategy in Online Environments ]]>
<![CDATA[Hilda Rakerda]]>;
<![CDATA[Nur Arifah Drajati]]>;
<![CDATA[Ngadiso Ngadiso]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): MARCH ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i1.9523
<![CDATA[Posters are one of the school project artifacts that students could create to engage themselves in their knowledge building at school. Combine with WebQuest as the active learning instruction platform in an online learning, creating posters increase students’ engagement, build interest in topic learned, inspire higher-level independent thinking, and motivate student on their personal learning experiences. The aim of this study was to investigate student-created poster as an active learning approach in an online environment using WebQuest to inform instructional practices of student-created poster. This study used a case study method to explore the phenomenon occurred during the elective English course in the first grade of senior high school at Indonesia. Data analyzed in this study included 21 high school students, students’ posters and the classroom observation done in 5 weeks. The finding of this qualitative study revealed that student-created poster utilizing WebQuest as the instructional learning method was an active learning activity that improve students perception of self-efficacy in comprehend the reading text and write the information in poster and evidence of student engagement of behavioral, affective and cognitive domains. Themes derived from the perception of the participants included: perceived self-efficacy, the novelty or usefulness of creating a poster, and the technical and content knowledge. Student-created poster as an active approach using WebQuest can be included in the context of High School English learning to enhance the English skills of students and foster integrative skills of the 21st century. Practical implications for teachers when designing poster assignments created by students using WebQuest include (a) following a model for the development of posters; (b) providing extra time for content acquisition and revisions; and (c) incorporating group evaluation.]]>
<![CDATA[Context of Situation in Students’ Textbook: A Pragmatic Study ]]>
<![CDATA[Aulia Wahyu Santosa]]>;
<![CDATA[Endang Fauziati]]>;
<![CDATA[Slamet Supriyadi]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): MARCH ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i1.9521
<![CDATA[This research study is a pragmatic analysis which focuses on context of situation in English Textbook. The objective of the study is to describe the four components of context of situation in the dialogues contains in the textbook. This research applies descriptive qualitative type. By applying this method, the researcher uses the dialogues in one unit of textbook as the data source, while the data of the research are the elaboration of each component of the dialogues. The result of the research show that although there are some components of context of situation that is stated implicitly or even unclear, the ideas of the dialogue are still can be understood.]]>
<![CDATA[Reflective Teacher Journal to Develop Teacher’s Professionalism ]]>
<![CDATA[Anjar Nur Cholifah]]>;
<![CDATA[Abdul Asib]]>;
<![CDATA[Suparno Suparno]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): MARCH ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i1.9517
<![CDATA[To be good a teacher, a teacher must incessantly improve her/his teaching practice and skill/knowledge to produce and keep the academic quality. Mechanically, a teacher requires to concern a particular method/ technique or strategy and use a certain tool/type to fulfill the benchamark of excellence in teaching. Hence, reflection is substantial as one of the indispensable approaches that can be practiced to direct teacher’s performance becomes more experienced. In teaching, the term reflection refers to the opportunity of teachers to think back critically after the teaching-learning process. Previous studies that have been conducted to observe the efficiency of teacher journal in the education field. Conversely, only a few kinds research explored teacher’s perceptions toward the utilization of the teacher’s journal. Likewise, this research was located in Indonesia and engage an in-service EFL teacher of Junior High School to accomplish the gap. It intended at determining the parts reflected from the teacher journal. Moreover, to investigate the research problems, the researcher used an in-depth interview to explore the teacher’s experience in utilizing teacher diary. Consequently, this study employed a qualitative method since it was considered as the appropriate design to accomplish the research. The researcher concluded that the teacher has a positive perceptions related to the teacher’s diary/teacher’s journal. It gives precious involvement for English teachers to be more experienced and professional to help students in mastering English skills and help the teacher to do reflection in order to make a better teaching practice for the next English teaching.]]>
<![CDATA[Factors Causing Language Anxiety of EFL Students in Classroom Presentation ]]>
<![CDATA[Azwar Fadlan]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.9718
<![CDATA[AbstractThe purpose of this study is to identify : (1) Types of foreign language anxiety experienced by the students (2) factors causing language anxiety of EFL students. This research applied qualitative descriptive research method. It was carried out at Graduate Program of Makassar State University. The subject of this study were six students majoring in English who conducted a presentation seminar. They are all selected by using purposive sampling. The researcher observed and interviewed all G-class students conducting presentation seminar from February to April to identify type and factor of anxiety experienced by the students in a presentation seminar. The researcher made observations using video recording devices and field notes. Based on the result, there were three types of anxiety experienced by the students when doing presentation using English, namely anxiety related to positive (facilitative anxiety), anxiety related to negative or destructive (debilitative anxiety) and anxiety which was not related to any of them. The researcher called it as non-effecting anxiety. As for some factors causing the students feel anxious in their speaking ability, generally they divided into two main factors, namely internal and external factors, but in the case of this study, the researcher found only internal factors.]]>
<![CDATA[The Function of Proverbs as Educational Media: Anthropological Linguistics on Wolio Proverbs ]]>
<![CDATA[Firman Alamsyah Mansyur]]>;
<![CDATA[Laode Achmad Suherman]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.10505
<![CDATA[This study aims to explain the function of proverbs as an educational media in the socio-cultural life of Wolio people in Southeast Sulawesi. The method used in this study was a descriptive qualitative in anthropological linguistics perspective. Data collected through observation and in-depth interviews. Data analysis departs from language analysis and then cultural analysis. This study concludes that Wolio proverb as an educational medium has five important functions in the social life of Wolio people, namely as a means to: (1) teach linguistic knowledge, (2) train the performance of Wolio young people in speaking, (3) instill values wisdom for young people, (4) controlling young people's behavior to conform to agreed norms, and (5) educating Wolio youths to own and uphold their life principles. From these findings, this study confirms that proverbs are a good educational medium because they contain linguistic knowledge and positive cultural values so that they must be kept and preserved by their supporting communities. The role of the government is very important to support the preservation of this proverb. ]]>
<![CDATA[Transitivity System in Hotel Slogans: Systemic Functional Linguistics Study ]]>
<![CDATA[Salwa Fadila Firdaus]]>;
<![CDATA[Sutiono Mahdi]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.10127
<![CDATA[ AbstractThree metafunctions of meaning in Systemic Functional Linguistics are interpersonal meaning, textual meaning, and ideational meaning. In ideational meaning, it is realized through the transitivity system (Halliday, 2004). As for this study, it focuses on the analysis of processes type classification and what type of process that dominant in Bandung hotel slogans based on Halliday’s theory about transitivity. To present the findings, a qualitative descriptive study is applied as the research design. The documentation method is used to collect 36 Bandung hotel slogans. It appears that the relational process is the most dominant in the hotel slogan clauses in order to represent their brand to affect the customer’s mind. ]]>
<![CDATA[The analysis of Denotative and Connotative Meaning in Ariana Grande’s Song Lyrics: A Semantic Study ]]>
<![CDATA[Desy Riana Pratiwi]]>;
<![CDATA[Lia Maulia Indrayani]]>;
<![CDATA[Ypsi Soeria Soemantri]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.9994
<![CDATA[The meaning in language is indeed diverse in types, one branch of linguistics that studies about meaning is semantic science. Semantic referred to as the study of meaning, this research aims to analyze denotative meanings and connotative meanings contained in song lyrics, an expression of one's feelings or ideas usually expressed through song lyrics. The song chosen for this research data is Ariana Grande's song entitled "God is a woman". This analysis used a qualitative descriptive method which is a method that aims to analyze everyday phenomena and analyze the use of words including finding meaning contained in song lyrics. To answer this analytical question, used the main theory from Geoffrey Leech about semantics. The results of this analysis are more connotative meanings compared to denotative meanings in Ariana Grande song lyrics, this study found three connotative meanings and two denotative meanings. The number of connotative meanings and denotative meanings is not too much different, but connotative meanings are more numerous because this song contains many meanings that are not actually.]]>
<![CDATA[Masculinity Values in The Glass Menagerie ]]>
<![CDATA[nensia nensia nensia]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2020): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v3i2.9616
<![CDATA[Masculinity is the labeling for men related to sex, identity, responsibility, culture, tradition, and others aspect. Masculinity is also the term of separating position for men from female. The aim of the research was to describe the masculinity values of the men characters in the drama whose name is Tom that he is depressed by his mother. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method with structuralism approach. Data sources were primary and supporting data. The primary data were taken from Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, and supporting data were taken from the books, journals, articles, and internet sources. The research indicated masculinity values in this drama had shown man’s role as a son, man as an independent man, and man as a friend.]]>
