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<![CDATA[The Effect of Activating Schemata in Pre-Reading Activity on Students’ Reading Comprehension at MAN Koto Baru Padang Panjang ]]>
<![CDATA[Fajrilhuda Yuniko]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 1 (2020): Jurnal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i1.44
<![CDATA[Abstract This study was aimed to determine the extent of the effect of activating schemata in pre-reading activities on reading comprehension of the tenth class at MAN Koto Baru Padang Panjang. This research was an experimental study in which there were two groups given different treatments. The experimental group was taught by activating schemata in pre-reading activities while the control group was taught with conventional strategies or without activating schemata in pre-reading activities. Both groups were taught with the same material, teacher, and time allocation. To gather the research data, a reading comprehension test was used as an instrument. The findings of this study indicated that the score of the experimental group was better than the control group. It can be seen from the average score of the two groups; the average score of the experimental group was 67.88, while the average score of the control group was 60.00. The data were also analyzed by using statistical analysis. It was found that students ' scores taught by activating schemata in pre-reading activities and students' scores taught by using conventional strategies or without activating schemata in pre-reading activities had significant differences. The analysis of the t-formula showed that t-count (3.88) was higher than the t-table (2.00) with a significance level of 0.05. It showed that students taught by activating schemata in pre-reading activities had better reading comprehension skills than students taught using conventional strategies or without activating schemata in pre-reading activities in class X at MAN Koto Baru Padang Panjang.]]>
<![CDATA[ADAPTING THE SUPERFAMILY TV QUIZ TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ]]>
<![CDATA[Andri Azhari]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 1 (2020): Jurnal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i1.45
<![CDATA[Abstract This research was aimed to analyze the effect of “The Super family TV Quiz” on students’ reading comprehension skill. The preliminary research shows that there are two main factors which become issues in reading comprehension. It arise from the teacher’s side and from the students’ side. From the student’s side, it is caused by students’ limited vocabulary that make them cannot comprehend the text and cannot be motivated. From the teacher’s side, the problem is caused by the use of conventional technique (Questioning techniques and pictorial context) in pre-reading activity. This research was conducted by using an experimental research design and the population of this research was 68 business students in the second grade of SMK N. 3 Padang. Those students are divided in two classes; experimental group and control group. Both group received different treatment. The experimental group was treated by using the activities which were adapted in the superfamily TV Quiz while the control group was treated by using pictorial context (conventional technique). The score in post-test of the students in experimental group differs significantly from the students in control group after calculating it by using t formula. The value of t calculated (3,32) is higher than the value of t table (2.00). So, it is logic to say that the used of the “Super Family” TV quiz in pre-reading activity has a significant effect on reading comprehension]]>
<![CDATA[INVESTIGATING THE DIFFICULTIES FACED BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION SECTION OF TOEFL AT BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY ]]>
<![CDATA[Indah Etika]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 1 (2020): Jurnal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i1.46
<![CDATA[Abstract TOEFL has been regulated as one of the graduation requirements at Bung Hatta University with a minimum score of 400 for all majors, including the English Department. However, there are students still failed in achieving the targeted score. The preliminary research showed that English Department students at Bung Hatta University had difficulties in TOEFL, especially the Structure and Written Expression section. Thus, this research aimed to investigate the difficulties faced by students viewed from material and personal factors. Descriptive research was applied as the research method where the sixth-semester students of English Department were chosen as the subject of the research. There were three instruments used in collecting the data of this research which were the researcher as the instrument; the test of Structure and Written Expression section of TOEFL aimed at identifying the students' ability in the test and collecting the data about the materials faced difficult; interview guide to investigate the factors causing them difficult in the test. Then, the result showed that the ability of English Department students in Structure and Written Expression section of TOEFL was 41% in level C, "Moderate." It proved that the Structure and Written Expression section of TOEFL was the most difficult section to answer two other sections (Listening and Reading Comprehension) faced by English Department students at Bung Hatta University. Among the eight indicators of materials tested in the Structure section of TOEFL, Inversion became the most difficult one to answer. The percentage of difficulty for this material was 85,19%. Thus, in finding the factors causing them difficult, seven indicators were interviewed to the subject of the research. Then, Material Comprehension was the most dominant factor causing the students difficult in the test.]]>
<![CDATA[DEFINING AND CATEGORIZING ASIAN LITERATURE BASED ON THREE ASIAN NOVELS ]]>
<![CDATA[Stephanie Lodwiyk Mendrofa]]>;
<![CDATA[Melania Priska Mendrofa]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 2 (2020): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i2.62
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT While talking about Asian literature, some confusing points need to be discussed. There are some styles of Asian writing found in the literature market; Asian literature that arrives with the English-translation model, one that has been already written in English by the Asian authors, and one written by a Western author. Asian literature covers works of writing produced by Asians in a variety of countries in Asia. The development of this literature is supported by the use of the English language in form of translation, and the emergence of English authors who write about Asian culture. For the growth of Asian Literature’s styles, this paper attempts to analyze three different styles of Asian novels; English-language novel, English-translation novel, and Western-author novel to define and classify it. The investigation of the theme; Asian resistance toward colonialism and Asian critique toward Western culture will be conducted under the scope ofOrientalism. The discussion of the nature of language and culture in Asian writing will justify the definition and classification of Asian literature as well. Subsequently, this paper detects Asian Literature as a work that must be written by Asian authors, thus it can strongly declare the real root ofAsian culture, tradition, value, belief, and feeling. It should be classified as works by native Asian authors and English-translation works as well.]]>
<![CDATA[MECHANISTIC DEHUMANIZATION IN ALDOUS HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD ]]>
<![CDATA[Ivana Ivana]]>;
<![CDATA[Dian Eka Sari]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 2 (2020): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i2.64
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT Knowledge advancement in the field of technology is often considered an advantage. Humans are living alongside the disadvantages. Dependency ontechnological inventions has brought humans to a threshold where technology goes beyond humanity. This occurrence thus possibly leads todehumanization. Two problems are proposed in this research: forms of mechanistic dehumanization and bad impacts of mechanistic dehumanization. The forms of mechanistic dehumanization focus on acts of human degradation while the bad impacts of mechanistic dehumanization focus on the human that represents machine and robot. Michel Foucault’s sociological theory is applied to reveal the problems proposed in this research. Two of Foucault’s concepts are considered appropriate to be utilized: Power and Knowledge and the Regime of Truth. Both concepts emphasize the practice of power imposed on the powerless and theacceptance by the powerless. The finding discloses that one who poses power and knowledge can produce laws that are imposed toward thepowerless and shape them as the powerful wish to obtain the benefit. The powerless ought to be submissive, obedient even accept the truth of lawsunconsciously. People in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World show their unconscious acceptance of the Controller’s laws therefore they are treated and degraded as low as commodities to be made use of by the Controller. They become cold and rigid thus they show no distinction between humans and machines.]]>
<![CDATA[ASSISTED SUICIDE IN JOJO MOYES’ ME BEFORE YOU ]]>
<![CDATA[Ria Lestari]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 2 (2020): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i2.65
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT This research aims to analyze Assisted Suicide that is portrayed in a novel entitled Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. It tells about the male main character, Traynor, who chooses to end his life through assisted suicide because he is paralyzed as a result of a motorcycle accident. There are two questions to discuss in this research; the causes of assisted suicide and the causes of objectification. This research uses existentialism theory by JeanPaul Sartre.There are some concepts of theory i.e Freedom, The look, and The body that help this research to describe the causes of assisted suicide and the causes of objectification. The research method used by the writer was the qualitative research method. The result of this research showed that the cause of assisted suicide is the excessive freedom to choose to be free from physical pain and emotional pain. Then, the cause of objectification is the existence of the Other, such as The Look and The body that affect Traynor’s existence when people around him try to change his mind not to commit suicide.]]>
<![CDATA[RACIAL PROFILING IN ANGIE THOMAS’ THE HATE U GIVE ]]>
<![CDATA[Wella Clarisa]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 2 (2020): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i2.66
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT It still becomes the issue that racial profiling is still done by the White police to Black young people in the United States. For that condition, Black people struggle to put racial profiling to an end. The struggle is reflected in one of Angie Thomas’ work, The Hate U Give, which shows the incident of racial profiling experienced by the main Black characters, Starr and her best friend, Khalil. In discussing the issue, the writer used the theory of Orientalism from Edward W. Said. The concepts used to answer research questions are Occident, Orient, and Power. The qualitative descriptive method was applied to analyze the incident of racial profiling by finding relevant quotations that contain evidence and racism. The writer found Prejudice, Stereotype, and Racial Discrimination as the causes of racialprofiling in many cases. Black people do racial socialization and the Black Lives Matter Movement to oppose racial profiling.]]>
<![CDATA[MYTH OF EUROPEAN VAMPIRES IN JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST’S LET THE RIGHT ONE IN ]]>
<![CDATA[Sylvia Yulita Kamal]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 5 No 2 (2020): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v5i2.67
<![CDATA[ABSTRACT This research aims to analyze the Myth of European Vampires in John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let The Right One In. There are two kinds of European Vampire myth analyzed in this research. First is the myth of European Vampire characteristics which are reflected by Eli. Second is the myth of human- vampire transformation which is reflected by Virginia. Two problems appear to discuss in this research; the myth of the kinds of vampire characteristics and the myth of human-vampire transformation. The Vampire myth theories from Jay Stevenson Ph. D. and Sebastian Condado de Haza were utilized in this research.There are two concepts used in this research. They are the European Vampire characteristics concept and Human-Vampire transformation concept. A qualitative descriptive method was applied to analyze Eli’s character as a vampire and Virginia’s character as a human-vampire by finding relevant quotations. The result of this research proves the myth about European vampire characteristics by Eli and the myth of human-vampire transformation issues by Virginia. There are two criteria of European vampire characteristics categories indicating Eli as a vampire; general characteristics and physical characteristics.Meanwhile, three steps of the human-vampire transformation myth can explain the suffering of human-vampire that are perceived by Virginia, which are vampire bite, depression, and suicide.]]>
<![CDATA[AN ANALYSIS OF MAGIC SPELLS IN HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ]]>
<![CDATA[Siti Ayu Mardiah Nduru]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 6 No 1 (2021): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v6i1.96
<![CDATA[Abstract This research aims to analyze the magic spells uttered by the characters in Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince movie and identify the meaning and functionsof the magic spells in the movie. To come to the analysis, the writer applied literal meaning and non-literal meaning based on Griffiths’s theory. Meanwhile, thefunction of magic spells analyzes based on Searle's theory. This research employed qualitative research and descriptive method. The data were collected by the nonparticipant method and taking notes, selecting dialogues containing magic spells while watching the video. The result finally found the functions of each spell and its meaning, whether it has literal or non-literal meaning.]]>
<![CDATA[AMERICAN’S FAMILYHOOD IN ARTHUR MILLER’S THE DEATH OF A SALESMAN ]]>
<![CDATA[Harry Kurniawan]]>
<![CDATA[ LINGUA LITERA : journal of english linguistics and literature Vol 6 No 1 (2021): Journal Lingua Litera ]]>
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DOI: 10.55345/stba1.v6i1.97
<![CDATA[Abstract Arthur Miller was known as an American Playwright who often consider put the theme of a man who has problems or struggles for his internal desire or the society or even his family in his work. This research shows Willy’s struggle as a father to his family’s prosperity. The writer used the sociological approach and Power theory from Michael Foucault to conduct the analysis. Foucault’s theories primarily talked about the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. The writer concluded that in life Willy has a motto to tell his sons which is money is everything and in reality, that motto is not eligible because education is above everything especially in the working world. Willy is obsessed with power. After Willy chooses to do suicide to sacrifice for his family, it finally reveals that Willy is just a normal father who wants his sons to be successful people with his lead as a parent.]]>
