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English Teaching and Linguistics Journal (ETLiJ)
ISSN : -     EISSN : 27160831     DOI : https://doi.org/10.30596/etlj
Core Subject : Education, Social,
English Teaching and Linguistics Journal (ETLiJ) is dedicated to the global advancement of English teaching-learning and linguistics practice (e.g., morphology, semantics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics). The ETLiJ strongly encourages submissions of unpublished articles topics that are highly relevant and contribute significantly to the TEFL and TESL issue.
Articles 113 Documents
The Revitalization of Patung Sigale-Gale Batak Toba Folklore into Teaching Material in English Subject for Junior High School Martha Gracella SGR Ritonga; Bambang Nur Alamsyah Lubis; Widia R Simamora; Rifa Situmorang
English Teaching and Linguistics Journal (ETLiJ) Vol 2, No 1 (2021): ETLIJ - English Teaching and Linguistics Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i1.5776

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This study deals with information of Batak Toba folklore Patung Sigale-Gale into learning materials at Junior High School. The objective of this study is to develop complete story of Patung Sigale-Gale Batak Toba folklore into teaching materials in English Subject for Junior High School. This study used descriptive qualitative approach in analyzing the data. The data of this research are interview and observation in Samosir Island, North Sumatera, source of data were an informant who knew about the history of Patung Sigale-Gale. The result of this study, there were able to write complete story about Patung Sigale-Gale that can be used as teaching materials in the classroom, especially in English Subject.
Lexical and Grammatical Cohesion in The Lion King Movie Script Resty Wahyuni; Oktaviany Oktaviany
English Teaching and Linguistics Journal (ETLiJ) Vol 2, No 1 (2021): ETLIJ - English Teaching and Linguistics Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i1.5827

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The objectives of this research were to identify the types of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices used in The Lion King Movie Script, to describe the grammatical and lexical cohesion devices used in The Lion King Movie Script and to investigate the grammatical and lexical cohesion devices used in The Lion King Movie Script. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to obtain the objectives of the research. The data of this research was grammatical and lexical cohesion while the data source of this research was script of “The Lion King Movie”. The results in this research were found 312 ties of grammatical cohesive devices and 196 lexical cohesive devices used in the script. The realization of cohesive devices used in The Lion King Movie script was semantic concept between lexical and grammatical cohesion devices, this referred to the relationship meaning that exists within or outside the text. The most types of grammatical cohesion used were personal reference and demonstrative reference because they used to refer something which was mentioned elsewhere in the script. Meanwhile, clausal substitution as only type of grammatical cohesion didn’t occur in the whole scene. The most types of lexical used were repetition because they used to rewrite an item in preceding element with the same form to following element. Finally, the findings showed almost all types of lexical and grammatical cohesion contained reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, and collocation contained in The Lion King Movie script.
The Analysis of Circumstantial Adjuncts in Jakarta Post Headlines News Ratna Sari Dewi
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i1.5967

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The purpose of this research is to describe the types of adjuncts and the dominant types of circumstantial adjunct that found in Jakarta Post headlines News  because it expresses the meaning through sentences. This qualitative descriptive research used library research and documentation method. The data in Jakarta Post headline news dated 5th January 2021 from the two articles entitled “Israel is the fastest in the Covid-19 vaccination program, PM Netanyahu estimates the country is pandemic free in February “ and “Japan’s indigenious people, the Ainu, were the earliest settlers of Hokkaido, Japan’s Northern island be the sources of data. There are 202 circumstantial adjuncts found in these headline news. Then, the data selected based on the topic discussion by identifying and making a list from those sentences in the headlines news. After that, data were analyzed by using Halliday’s theory and then classified these adjuncts and calculated the percentage of the adjunct’s occurrences. Through this study, it was discovered that there were eight circumstantial  types of adjuncts used in this headlines news such as location, extent, role, manner, accompaniment, cause, matter and angle but there is no circumstantial adjuncts of contingency in these articles. Besides, it was also found that location adjunct became the most dominant adjuncts with the percentage 42.57 %.
The Revitalization of “Aek Sipitu Dai” Batak Toba Folklore into Teaching Materials in English Subject for Junior High School Desy Linda Sihombing; Bambang Nur Alamsyah Lubis; Analisa Simbolon; Fitri Pebrini Simamora
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i1.5777

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This study aimed to inform the capability the folklore of Aek Sipitu Dai into learning materials at Junior High School. The objective of the studies were to develope Aek Sipitu Dai Batak Toba Folklore into teaching materials in English subject for Junior High School, to transcribe Aek Sipitu Dai Batak Toba Folklore into teaching materials in English subject for Junior High School, to refresh Aek Sipitu Dai Batak Toba Folklore into teaching materials in English subject for Junior High School. This study used descriptive qualitative approach in analyzing the data. The data of this research are interview in observation in Samosir Island. The result of this study, there are a complete story about Aek Sipitu Dai that can be used as teaching materials in English Subject, the complete story are able to be transcribe as a complete story, there was found a Batak Toba Folklore that can be used as teaching material in English Subject 
A Study of Syntactic Functions of More in English Dewi Juni Artha
English Teaching and Linguistics Journal (ETLiJ) Vol 2, No 2 (2021): ETLIJ - English Teaching and Linguistics Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i2.7044

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This article is the result of a study which is concerned with syntactic functions of “more” in English. Traditionally, more refers to a unique word which functions in the comparative degree of an adjective or an adverb. Beside, the word more also functions as a modifier and a general determiner. This article consists of a brief account of the word more with its subdivisions. The main analysis focused on syntactic functions of more in English. Some syntactic data show that the word more may function as general determiner, comparative quantifier, modifier of a noun group, modifier of an adjective, modifier of an adverb, modifier of a pre-modifying adverb, and in an comparative structure
CODE-MIXING IN SPEAKING OF TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMAN 1 METRO ACCADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020 Fitri Palupi Kusumawati; Sekar Seta Riva Putri
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i2.7447

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Code-mixing is the use of two different languages in a sentence without changing the topic. The objectives of this research are to find out the types of code-mixing utilized in students speaking and to know the factors of code-mixing mostly occurred in students speaking. Due to covid-19, the researcher collects the data by using Triangulation namely Participant Observation, In-depth Interview and Documentation through Zoom and WhatsApp Application. Furthermore, analytical research is applied to analyze code-mixing in students speaking of tenth grade students at State Senior High School 1 Metro accademic year 2019/2020. Thus, the result shows that there are 23 out of 33 students use code-mixing in their speaking. It is found 45 code-mixing devided into three types including 21 Insertion which characterized by  inserting one or more Indonesian vocabularies into an English sentence or utterence, 19 Alternation which characterized by the existence of clause or sentence alternation between Indonesian and English, and 5 Congruent Lexicalization which characterized by the existence of dialect  from Indonesian inserted in tenth grade students English Speaking. Meanwhile, it is found that there are 4 factors of code-mixing namely interlocutor or the person whom they are talking to, culture or habit, confidence and lack of vocabulary.
Teaching Analogies Strategy on Students’ Achievement in Vocabulary Linda Astuti Rangkuti
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i2.6983

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The objective of this research was to investigate if analogies strategy significantly affected students’ achievement in vocabulary. The research was conducted by using experimental research design that involved two groups, namely experimental group and control group. The population was all the students of grade VIII of SMP Al–Washliyah 9 Medan with total number of the population was 90 students. There were three classes, namely VIII A, VIII B, and VIII C. each class consisted of 30 students. The sample was carried out in class VIII A and VIII B by proposive sampling technique. Thus the sample was 60 students. The experimental group was taught by applying analogies strategy whereas the control group was taught conventionally. The instrument for collecting the data was a multiple choice test. The obtained data were analyzed by using t-test formula. Data analysis resulted that  value was higher than  value (8.5 > 2.660) at level of significance p = 0.05 with degree of freedom (df = 58). It means ha was accepted and ho was successfully rejected. Thus, the analogies strategy significantly affects students’ achievement in vocabulary.
Semiotic Codes in Edgar Allan Poe's Selected Horror Short Stories Agung Kirana Sembiring
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i2.5250

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This research is entitled “Semiotic Codes in Edgar Allan Poe’s Selected Horror Short Stories”, a research about semiotic codes by Roland Barthes. This research represents the results of Barthes’ Five Codes in three Edgar Allan Poe’s horror short stories. The main theory used in supporting this research is a theory of semiotic codes as proposed by Roland Barthes (1974). To support this research, the researcher applies a descriptive qualitative method since the data of this research are in forms of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The results of this research indicate that there are Barthes’ five codes found in the horror short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, such as: Hermeneutic Code, Proairetic Code, Semantic Code, Symbolic Code, and Cultural Code, in the horror short stories titled, “Berenice”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Mask of Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe.
Clustering Technique in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text Wiki Tedi Rahmawati
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i2.6984

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This research aimed to find out the significant effect of clustering technique on the eighth grade students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The research was conducted at a private school in Tanjung Morawa, Medan. It was conducted by applying experimental research design and the sample consisted of 60 students which were divided into two groups. They were experimental group which were taught by applying the clustering technique and control group which were taught without any specific technique. Each group consisted of 30 students.  The instrument used to collect the data was writing test of descriptive text. The data obtained were analyzed using t-test. The test found out that the scores of the students in the experimental group were significantly higher than the scores of the students in the control group (t-observed value 2.11 > t-table value 2.004). It was concluded that clustering technique had a significant effect on students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.
A Sociological Approach: the portrait of society in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor Of Casterbridge Masri Masri
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30596/etlij.v2i2.6974

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This writing analyzed ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy, a great novelist of Victorian age through a sociological approach. The Sociological Approaches has two purposes that a literary work can be regarded as the portrayal of aspect of life and regards literature in its milieu. Literary works bring us back to the reality of human situation such as conflicts, feeling, and relationships between individuals and the society in which they live, present characters who are at odds with the society. In analysing the study, the approach was combined with the Mimetic theory. The sociology of literature is applied in this research for it brings the understanding of  literature in relation to the society. It explains that literary works could be as an imitation which reflects the reality. Although literary works are imaginatively consumed, but the imaginative framework cannot be understood outside the empirical framework and literary work is not merely an individual symptom but a social phenomenon. The objective of this study is to find out and describe that the novel portrays the condition of society, the life, the people and the changes happened through the element of sociology of literature. This writing discussed the relation of literature and sociology from the characters, the setting and events in the novel, how it portrayed the poverty and hard life, conditioning of the poor and the rich, and the change of the social system.

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