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Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Published by Universitas Pamulang
ISSN : pISSN:26     EISSN : eISSN:26     DOI : 10.32493
Core Subject : Education,
Lexeme: Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (e-ISSN: 2656-7067; p-ISSN: 2685-7995) is a scientific journal published twice a year in January and July managed by the English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Letter, Universitas Pamulang. Established in November 2018, the legal standing of this journal is based on an issued letter by LIPI with SK no. 0005.26567067/JI.3.1/SK.ISSN/2019.03 – March 29th, 2019 for the online version. Lexeme accepts either empirical or conceptual scientific work that focuses on linguistics and applied linguistics written by English teachers and lecturers within Indonesia or overseas countries. accredited by the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (RistekDikti) of the Republic of Indonesia in SINTA 5.
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST SCORE AND THEIR CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE Desi Wijayanti Ma'rufah
Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol 3, No 1 (2021)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.12500

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English Proficiency Test (EPT) is popularly used in higher education as a requirement of graduation. However, in fact, some students have not passed the minimum score of the test whereas English language proficiency is important in English Department. Since the class mostly use English to deliver the course, the students’ proficiency need to be concerned. Previous research (David, 2014) suggests that English language proficiency can be a predictor of academic achievement. Thus, this study purposed to find out whether there is any significant positive correlation between English Proficiency Test (EPT) score and Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). Pearson product moment correlation was conducted to compute 35 data of EPT score and CGPA. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between EPT score and CGPA of English Department students in a university of Purwokerto. Thus, the students should concern to their language proficiency in order to get successful academic achievement. 
THE PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF METATHESIS WORDS IN A CHILDS’ LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A CASE STUDY OF A 3-YEAR-OLD CHILD Nurul Intan Saputri; Albiansyah Albiansyah; Fahriany Fahriany
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.8565

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AbstractMetathesis is one of the unique phenomena among the children during their language acquisition phase. The aim of this study was to examine the phonological process of phenomena metathesis words that happen in a child’s language acquisition especially children with aged three half years. The participant of this research was a 3.5-year-old child. She is researcher’s daughter. The research method used in this research is qualitative method with a  case study design was employed in this study. The data were collected through observation, documentation, and daily notes or diary. The results of this research showed that the metathesis phenomena happen in that child was related to ten phonemes. It included pure metathesis in the same syllable phonemes, pure metathesis in the different syllable’s phonemes, metathesis followed by phonemes addition, and metathesis followed by phonemes omission. The study revealed some words containing metathesis that produced by the participant. Six pure metathesis words in the same syllable and six pure metathesis words in the different syllables then followed by addition phonemes involves in two words Keywords: Child, Language Acquisition, Metathesis, Phonemes, Phonological
WORDS AND PHRASES OF WHATSAPP IN BAHASA INDONESIA VERSION: TRANSLATION TECHNIQUES AND QUALITY Nahoras Bona Simarmata
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.10587

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This research tries to find out the translation techniques applied to translate words and phrases in WhatsApp application and how the techniques affect the quality of the translation in terms of accuracy and acceptability. As a descriptive-qualitative research, this research applies purposive sampling. The data are all words and phrases found in the research location, which is WhatsApp application, both in its source language (English) and target language (Bahasa Indonesia). There are 164 data found translated using single variant (137), couplet (26), and triplet (1). They are translated using 9 translation techniques: literal (102), borrowing (60), transposition (10), established equivalent (7), modulation (3), calque (3), linguistic compression (1), and linguistic amplification (2), and reduction (2). They were applied 190 times and resulted in 155 accurate, 5 less accurate, and 4 inaccurate; 149 acceptable, 9 less acceptable, and 6 unacceptable. Calque, linguistic compression, established equivalent, generalization techniques result in accurate and acceptable translations. Meanwhile literal, borrowing, modulation, reduction, transposition techniques result in both lower accuracy and acceptability.
THE TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ TALKS IN ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS’ CLASSROOM SITUATION Febi Saputra; Sukma Septian Nasution; Nur Najibah Sukmawati
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.10947

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The objective of study is to identify and describe the types of talks practiced by a teacher and her students in an English class. This is a descriptive qualitative study that observed a classroom instructional practices involving a teacher and 30 students at a private Elementary school in Indonesia. The data were obtained through instructional practices recorded and posted in a Youtube Channel with introducing animals as the topic of the meeting. The obtained data were then analyzed by using Flender’s Interaction Analysis Categories (FIAC) that focuses on types of talks between a teacher and students. The steps like transcribing, coding, and analyzing the findings were interpreted in descriptive form. The finding shows that every type of talks was practiced by the teacher and the students. On the types of the talks, it was revealed that asking question, giving direction, and praises or encourages are the most frequently-used types by the teacher and on the types of students’ talks, giving response, silence or confuse were dominant. These types of talks conclude good interactions between the teacher and students particularly on the types of talks that are they used. Through this study, the writer wish that can useful in giving a contribution in English classroom interaction.
APPLYING BBC LEARNING ENGLISH APPLICATION IN STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY Haris Hamdani; Ferawaty Puspitorini
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.13347

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Technology has a crucial role in helping students improve their English skills. One of the devices that help them improve their English skills particularly vocabulary is Smartphone with some applications. One of the applications is BBC Learning English. The aim of this study is to explore the use of BBC Learning English application in students’ vocabulary mastery. This is a qualitative study with case study particularly the phenomenological study. The participants of this study were 26 students of Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya University majoring Accounting in the 4th Semester. The data were collected through questionnaire. The results of the study were that students got 10 new vocabularies for each meeting. 23 students could memorize English vocabularies easily. 21 Students had their spirit increased. 17 students agreed about the number of benefits that they got.16 students agreed that the contents in the application varied.21 studentsliked BBC Learning English application.8 students disagreed and 8 students strongly disagreed about no advantages of the application. 12 students agreed, 7 students disagreed about memorizing vocabularies without using the application.10 students disagreed about being nervous using the application.22 students liked the topics in the application. 21 students agreed that videos in the application helped students memorize vocabularies. 21 studentshad mobile phone-based Android.21 students agreed that the application was very flexible to use.20 students agreed that the application was friendly to use.22 students got fun experience using the application. 21 students were proud of using the application. 21 students agreed that the contents are interesting. 21 students would recommend the application. 20 students could use the application easily. 13 students agreed that mastering vocabularies is important. 17 students had the target to master English vocabularies.
THE CURIOSITY EFFECT ON STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION Good Sumbayak Sitopu Lingga
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.15658

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The purpose of this study was to find out whether curriculum has a significant effect on students' reading comprehension or not. This study uses a quantitative ex post facto method. The research instrument used consisted of tests and questionnaires which were distributed to the sample. The population in this study were students of class X from SMA NEGERI 1 BANGUN PURBA (200 students) and the sample of this study was 60 students. The researcher took the sample using proportional stratified sampling technique, in which the sample was divided into three groups proportionally: high, medium, and low curiosity. The results of this study indicate that curriculum has a significant effect on reading comprehension of students in class X. It is shown from the average score of students with high curriculum (83.5) which has a higher score than the average score of students with low curiosity (60). It is also shown from the results of statistical calculations that the value of tp (7.150) > tt (2.086) at the significance level (α = 0.05). From these calculations, the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected.
MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTICAL ERRORS ANALYSIS ON STUDENTS WRITING SKILL AT PAMULANG UNIVERSITY, SOUTH TANGERANG, BANTEN Kholil Azis
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.15711

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The aim of this research is to find out the Morphological and Syntactical errors made by the students in their written texts, the number of errors, and the types of errors that most often appear. The method which is used in this research is descriptive method. Descriptive research method refers to the method used to describe the data and the characteristics used to describe the population. The purpose of using the descriptive method is to obtain systematic, factual and accurate data that can provide an actual picture of the data that is the research material. Descriptive research methods should not be used in making causal relationships where one variable affects other variables. The source of the data was taken from the writings of 10 first semester students of the Faculty of Letters, Pamulang University, South Tangerang, Banten. In collecting data, the students were asked to write an essay in English. Students are given the freedom of topics to be written. In conclusion, from the 69 errors identified, there were 13 errors in the Morphological category and there were 56 errors in the Syntactical category from the total data found. From these results, it can be concluded that students make greater mistakes in the Syntactical category.
IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION BY USING DISCUSSION WITH AUDIO-VISUAL MEDIA (VIDEO) Christina Angelina; Amirudin Amirudin; Laksmy Ady Kusumoriny
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.15657

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This research focuses on the use of audio-visual media (video) to improve the students' listening skill for the seventh-grade students of SMP PGRI Curug in the academic year of 2019/2020. Aim of this study is to find out whether the use of audio-visual media (video) can improve the students‟ listening skill and how far the improvement in students listening skill by using audio-visual media (video). The method of this research is action research. The technique of data analysis is qualitative research. Each cycle comprises planning, acting, observation, and reflecting. The researcher stated that there is an improvement of students‟ listening skill using audio-visual media (video). It can be seen from the number of students who pass the passing grade (KKM) in cycle I and cycle II. The passing grade is 70. The result of a listening test in a pre- cycle without using video got an average score of 64,80 or 33 % of students to get a good score or the passing grade (KKM). In the cycle, I, the result of the listening test using video, got an average score of 71,07. or 66 % of students get a good score or the passing grade (KKM). The students were easier to listen to. Although they still found it difficult to focus while watching a video. The result of the listening test got better in cycle II. The students were more understanding in doing their activity using video. In this cycle, they got an average score of 76,93 or 100 % of students to get a good score or the passing grade (KKM).

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