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 It invites original, previously unpublished, research and survey articles, plus research-in-progress reports and short research notes, on both practical and theoretical aspects of Linguistics,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[The Use of Picture-Kwl Technique in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension: A Cooperative Learning Approach ]]>
<![CDATA[Mutakhirani Mustafa]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5765
<![CDATA[The objective of this research was to find out whether the use of Picture-KWL technique in improving students’ reading comprehension: a cooperative learning approach could improve the reading comprehension and the interest of the students in reading. The design of this research is quasi experimental which the experimental group would be employed treatment Picture-KWL in cooperative learning approach while the control group would be employed treatment using conventional techniques by the researcher. The findings indicated that the experimental class scored higher on the reading comprehension in post-test than their peers did in the control class. The researcher concluded that the technique was successful in improving the reading comprehension performance and recommended that the technique should be integrated into the English Syllabus specially in teaching reading comprehension. Moreover, based on the students’ respond on questionnaire, it shows that the students’ interest was categorized as interested. And also observation showed that the students’ progress were excellent in the classroom during learning progress.]]>
<![CDATA[Students’ Perceptions toward Speaking Achievement and Critical Thinking on the Use of British Parliamentary Debating System ]]>
<![CDATA[Yunda Lestari]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5187
<![CDATA[The aims of this study are to find out (1) what are the students’ perceptions toward speaking achievement on the use of British Parliamentary Debating System; (2) what are the students’ perceptions toward critical thinking on the use of British Parliamentary Debating System. The study conducted as an experimental method. Non-equivalent control group design was applied in this study. The population of this study was all semester students of English Study Program of Baturaja University in the academic year 2017/2018 with the total number of population is 118. Cluster random sampling was used in taking the sample. The total numbers of students as samples are 51 students. Students who belong to the experimental group had been taught by using British Parliamentary Debate. The questionnaire was used as the instrument in identifying the students’ perceptions of BP Debate toward speaking achievement and critical thinking. The questionnaire was distributed after the posttest in the experimental group. The result showed that most of the students thought that British Parliamentary Debating System stimulated critical thinking actively, easier students in giving argument constructively, helped students in giving the relevant argument and to find the way in making or providing good arguments. BP Debate also stimulated creative thinking and most of them thought that British Parliamentary Debating System stimulated critical thinking actively, easier students in giving argument constructively, helped students in giving the relevant argument and to find the way in making or providing good arguments. BP Debate also stimulated creative thinking. ]]>
<![CDATA[The Syllabus Design of ESP for The Students of Health Analyst ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurhidayat Nurhidayat]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5764
<![CDATA[The research was purpose at finding out the need analysis of English for the Health Analyst students, and also designing the syllabus based on the students need. The research was conducted at Academy Health analyst Muhammadiyah Makassar. This research is descriptive research. Data were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. Information on the needs of students is obtained through the provision of questionnaires and interviews to students, alumni, lecturers and stake holder. The findings based on the data analysis indicate that the students state that they need English for communicative competence, the priority in speaking and reading skill in order able to communication and read materials related their field and the student’s purpose in learning English to support to getting a job in the health service institution. By the students need in this study shows that the students give positive response in the health analyst related topic, grammar items and interesting task, method to be consider in apply suggested syllabus design.]]>
<![CDATA[Addressing ‘requests’ in Ambon: Appropriate Way to Ask a Request in Ambonese Community ]]>
<![CDATA[Ahmad Rifani Talaohu]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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<![CDATA[The notion of speech act as words or utterances used to say and do things in communication has been an interesting subject in linguistics field, especially in the cross-cultural communication. Among many speech act labels, request is the one that is commonly found in Indonesia, and even certain communities particularly in the eastern part (Ambonese) have their own way of delivering a request. This paper provides some data relating to request speech act and discusses how a request can affect the face of both speaker and hearer. Simply put in Ambon, the act of requesting something from someone cannot be carelessly carried out since several aspects such as cultural norms, social status, and even age differences must be taken into account. Moreover, politeness also holds crucial part in performing a request, as in a broader sense, when a speaker appears to have an impolite manner towards his/her interlocutor, it might potentially threaten the face of the hearer. And the result of losing a face will lead to a rejection of the request itself. Therefore, it is important to have an insight regarding how to perform a request appropriately in order to save someone’s face.]]>
<![CDATA[Teaching Writing with Authentic Video in EFL Classroom ]]>
<![CDATA[Sianna Sianna]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5395
<![CDATA[This study focuses its investigation on the effectiveness of authentic video in improving the students’ writing skill. The participants were 42 (22 for the experimental group and 20 for the control group) second semester students majoring in English Education Department at Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare. A quasi-experimental method with two pretest-posttest group design was applied to gain the data. In the process of using the video, there were some types of video used such as documentary, educational video, tutorial video, news, and entertainment video. Those were assumed as videos that show the authentic English language culture in the EFL classroom. The results of the study show that the descriptive statistics of the groups reveals that the mean score in the posttest of the experimental group (81.45) is greater than the control group (74.67), the standard deviation in the experimental group (7.715) were more identic than in control group (10.721). In addition, the result of the independent sample test where the significance level (p=.026) is smaller than the standard alpha level (p=.05). The result shows a statistically significant difference between the students’ writing score of the control and experimental groups. In other words, the students in the experimental group were better than those in the control group. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of authentic video was effective in improving the students’ writing skill. ]]>
<![CDATA[Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism; Defining the students’ need in Standardized Language Proficiency Tests ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurhadi Hamka]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5766
<![CDATA[The debate between prescriptivists and descriptivist continuous to date, which interestingly affects the way the standardized language proficiency tests (should) work. The notion of correctness in such high stakes test raters attracts more attention in relation to fairness of using specific criterion in the assessment. The present paper discusses the belief of prescriptivism and contrasts it with the view of descriptivist – especially to what actually occurs in the Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language. Therefore, the paper clarifies whether prescriptionist features are prominent in the learner approximations and need to be taught explicitly, and clarifies whether the learner errors encompass other elements and describing the target language to the learners is more important. There are four prescriptivist pronouncements discussed – splitting infinitive, stranding preposition, the use of will and shall, and the use of who and whom. The study found that there are two pronouncements that break the rule. Therefore, English practitioners – teachers, should ‘open’ themselves to both views and able explain explicitly to the students both historical overview and its standing position of the views to date. As for assessor, a tendency of using the exact, predictable, and stable rule are indeed significantly important. They, however, also need to realize the inevitable evolution of language and in that regard descriptivist should not receive any false judgement especially in the high stakes test.]]>
<![CDATA[Sexual Refusal by Indonesian Female University Students ]]>
<![CDATA[Marwah Juwita Yusuf]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 1 No. 4 (2018): DECEMBER ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v1i4.5185
<![CDATA[This research aims to find out the most frequent strategies used by Indonesian female university students in expressing their refusal to sexual intercourse and the refusal strategies that they used to refuse the sexual intercourse. This research was carried out in 14 cities in Indonesia with 638 respondents (307 female respondents and 331 male respondents). The data were collected by using Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and interview to identify the sexual refusal strategies by female university students. The data were analyzed by using reconstructed conversation and Speech Act theory by Searle (1976) and Politeness of Brown & Levinson (1989) as a supporting theory. This research finds seven frequent strategies used by Indonesian female university students to refuse the sexual intercourse. The first is pregnancy risk reason (37,07%), next is legality reason (21,59%), postponement (15,48%) is at the third place, direct refusal non-performative (14,05 %) as the forth and is followed by religiouos reason (7,94%) at the fifth, direct refusal performative (2,24%) is the sixth and the last strategy is topic switch (1,63%). The data also show that most of Indonesian female university students refuse the sexual intercourse by giving pregnancy risk reason such as fear of being pregnant. From the reconstructed conversation, the data analysis show that most of them use Indirect Speech Act to maintain the relationship, the politeness and the positive face want of their boyfriend. ]]>
<![CDATA[Character Building with Literature: Linguistic Creativity of Helen Keller in Writing Autobiography (The Story of My Life) ]]>
<![CDATA[Juliastuti Juliastuti]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 2 No. 2 (2019): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v2i2.6881
<![CDATA[The rapid development of online-social media has now provided greater convenience for transactions and interaction. It also greatly affects the mindset and behavior of user communication. Any information that is both positive and negative can easily be accessed by the public. And in admit or not, slowly began to change the pattern of life and thought patterns of people, especially bad language or hate speech with all the images that characterize them. The study of literature encourages empathy, tolerance for diversity, imagination and emotional intelligence which is the understanding of feelings, both of one’s own and the others and literature as a medium in increasing the higher order thinking skill. The research is qualitative and descriptive in nature. The feminist paradigm of thought, a key framework among the poststructuralist paradigms and cognitive language are used as the conceptual framework for the execution of the research to reveal the creativity of Helen Keller. The method is qualitative descriptive. Helen Keller who after her illness, her infancy and early childhood were a succession of days of frustration become wild, unruly child" who kicked, scratched and screamed but literary works shaped her language and character into polite, creative, and empathy woman.]]>
<![CDATA[Demotivational Factors of Non-English Major Students in Learning English ]]>
<![CDATA[Widya Rizky Pratiwi]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 2 No. 2 (2019): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v2i2.6306
<![CDATA[The low score obtained by the students is one of the factors, which scale down non-English major students ‘motivation in learning English, and vise versa. This case results the students seem to be indifferent to this important lesson. Demotivation is discussed due to its negative orientation and it has direct educational implications. Thus, it seems necessary to investigate and explore demotivational factors in learning English of non-English major students in order to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. The subject of this qualitative case study was learners of information system and computer department in STMIK Bina Adinata, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. A total of 51 students responded to the questionnaire which analyzing 30 items of six demotivational constructs use Guttman scale format and 6 students of the third semester in academic year 2018/ 2019 who got the lowest scores in the last semester represented in-depth interviews to dig deeper their perception about demotivational factors they perceived during learning English at college. The results show that lecturers' inappropriate teaching method, inadequate facilities, grammatically teaching material, lack of students' self-confidence, low score, little chance to practice and lack of students' awareness were the most demotivating factors for non-English major students. This information then can be used as a basic goal setting, method, strategy, and relevant learning materials with the needs of graduates. However, the lecturer is the most important key who can restore students' motivation in English language learning.]]>
<![CDATA[Code Switching in Pulutan Lor As The Reflection of Bilingualism ]]>
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<![CDATA[Maulida Swastuti]]>;
<![CDATA[Sari Famularsih]]>
<![CDATA[ ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 2 No. 2 (2019): JUNE ]]>
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DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v2i2.6781
<![CDATA[In the multilingual region or community, certain social components influence language use. Moreover, in code-switching case, people sometimes switch code within a domain or social situation including the arrival of a new person and when there is some obvious change in the situation. Pulutan Lor as one of the little region in Salatiga, Central Java has got the arrival of many students since the built of new campus although they are not nameable as the permanent resident. This study aims to observe (i) How these newcomers in Pulutan Lor can give impact to society’s choice in using language (ii) What is the language used in the code-switching by the people in Pulutan. The methodology used is qualitative. The findings show (i) English is dominantly used in the code-switching, secondly is Javanese, and the last is Bahasa Indonesia (ii) The newcomers in Pulutan give impact at how society uses language even in casual conversation which is reflecting bilingualism.]]>
