Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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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<![CDATA[Students’ Mastery of Adjective Clause: A Case Study towards the Second Semester Students of English Department ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i1.6994
<![CDATA[This is a case study that aims at analyzing the students’ ability in answering grammar questions about adjective clauses. The method used to analyze the data is qualitative descriptive method. The result of the study showed how well students’ ability of the second semester student of English Literature department at Universitas Pamulang in dealing with grammar questions about adjective clauses. There were 26 random students from two different classes in the same semester who were included in this study. The study shows that the average of students score resulted them to be classifed to have Fair (got 60 to 69 score) category of adjective clause mastery by reaching 46% of the total percentage.]]>
<![CDATA[Learning from Mistakes: Students’ Perception towards Teacher's Attitude in Writing Correction ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i1.6995
<![CDATA[Most of writing teachers agree that writing skill is the most difficult subject for foreign language learners. The difficulties come from complexity of planning, idea organization, revision, and the use of lexical and grammatical. Correcting or giving feedback to students’ writing is also difficult for teachers, since it takes time and energy. Thus, this study tried to explore students’ perception towards teachers’ attitude in writing correction by distributing questionnaire to 20 students and 4 writing teachers, observing the teaching activities, and documenting students’ work. The study showed the result that teachers and students responses revealed various discrepancies between teachers and students’ perception for error and mistake correction. Then, most of students indicated that they do not understand the teachers’ feedback towards their writing composition. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers incorporate classroom discussions on error correction, feedback, and writing in order to help their students understand how feedback is intended to affect their writing and why it is given in particular way.]]>
<![CDATA[Assertive Speech Acts in Mata Najwa Program of Episode Gare-Gare Corona ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i1.6996
<![CDATA[The main objective of this study is to find out the types and functions of assertive speech acts that appear in Mata Najwa program in episode Gara-Gara Corona. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method by analyzing and explaining the data obtained. The data in this study were speech segments in the Mata Najwa episode Gara-Gara Corona which indicate assertive speech acts. The data source in this study is the video of the program entitled "gara-gara Corona" taken from Youtube, which was published by Narration Newsroom on March 13, 2020. The steps taken in data collection techniques were, firstly downloading video from Youtube, the second listens to the utterances, and the third transcribes the utterances into written language. Then the speech data obtained was selected based on research questions related to the types and functions of assertive speech acts. At the stage of presenting the results of the analysis, it was presented using an informal presentation method, namely presentation using ordinary words. The results showed that the assertive speech act types that appeared in the event were 23 pairs of utterances, consisting of 11 pairs of assertive speech acts telling, 6 pairs of assertive speech acts stated, 3 pairs of assertive speech acts suggest, and 3 pairs of utterances assertive speech acts boast.]]>
<![CDATA[Comparative Analysis of Filipino and Indonesian Monophthongs ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i2.8103
<![CDATA[Filipino and Indonesian belong to the Austronesian language family and this explains why they exhibit many linguistic similarities and numerous cognates. This study aims to further compare the two languages and establish their connection through phonology. The researchers use the cognates to compare the Filipino and Indonesian monophthong vowels. Qualitative method is utilized. The result shows that Filipino and Indonesian have a very similar vowel system with the exception of Indonesian having /É™/ phoneme. It was also found out that most of the changes in monophthongs between the two languages appear in medial position. Moreover, most changes are from the mid back rounded vowel /o/ in Filipino to high back rounded vowel /u/ in Indonesian. Lastly, the changes in the unrounded vowels in Filipino usually appear in the initial and medial position whereas in the rounded vowels in Filipino, changes only appear in either the medial or final position.]]>
<![CDATA[Online English Shadow Education: EFL Learners’ Perspective ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i2.8104
<![CDATA[A number of shadow education (private supplementary tutoring) of English have emerged in Indonesia regarding the fulfillment of students’ variety of needs in learning English that is not fully accommodated in mainstream schooling. Apparently, the services provided in shadow education have been transferred in online setting due to the rapid advancement of technology. This research aims at observing the EFL learners’ perspective on online English shadow education. With descriptive qualitative design, the subjects were involving 28 EFL learners experiencing English shadow education in KII online English course. The data were collected from the questionnaire developed in closed- and open-ended format. This research reports the result of a survey research on EFL learners’ perspective on online English shadow education that EFL learners’ participation were not only led by the same reasons of the conventional one but the practicality also contributes on it and challenges faced by the learners were revealed as well. Technical issues such as bad internet connection and limited interaction between the tutor and the learner were the major case in online English shadow education. Moreover, EFL learners also admitted that they suffer from self-regulation learning strategy and it relates to teaching pedagogy as well. These results have implications for EFL practitioners aiming at better understanding current EFL learners.]]>
<![CDATA[Understanding Vocabulary for Essay Writing Test at Eleventh Grade Students of SMK Sirajul Falah Bogor ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i2.8113
<![CDATA[The purpose of this study was to describe students' understanding of vocabulary in completing essay writing tests in class XI Sirajul Falah Bogor. In the 2019/2020 academic year. Respondents in this study were students at a vocational school in Bogor. The research method used a qualitative descriptive method, the population in this study were students of class XI Sirajul Falah Middle School in Bogor, equipped with 336 students. The sampling technique in this study used probability sampling techniques. The subjects selected in this study were 22 subjects who were taken randomly in class XI Sirajul Falah. The data aids used were written tests in the form of essays, interviews and questionnaires. To measure the results of students' writing skills using essay writing tests given to students, there are 3 choices of topics written in descriptive essays and choosing one of the topics. The data were obtained through a test of vocational students' essay writing skills. The aspects that assess the assessment written by students are consistency (1). Content Accuracy with Title, (2) Vocabulary Mastery, (3) Sentence Mastery, (4) Unity, and (5) Spelling Usage and Writing. From the results of data analysis, of the 22 respondents whose lowest score was 24 or 3.11%, only 1 student and the highest score was 44 or 5.71% as many as 2 students and the number of students or at most was 4.93%, for 6 students who achieved 38. Thus it can be denied that the students were able to do the vocabulary test quite well, because most of them achieved scores above the average and none of the students scored below the average.]]>
<![CDATA[THE PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF METATHESIS WORDS IN A CHILDS’ LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A CASE STUDY OF A 3-YEAR-OLD CHILD ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v3i1.8565
<![CDATA[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]]>
<![CDATA[Building Learning Communities in Terms of Improving English Vocabulary through Korean Drama with English Subtitle ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i2.9307
<![CDATA[The research explored the issues of the English teaching method as a foreign language. The purpose of the study is to improve students’ vocabulary of English. It focused on teaching technique in English vocabulary by using Korean Drama with English sub-title. In particular, it focused on students' feelings and behavior in line with a student’s test result of whether or not the implementation of Korean Drama with English subtitles in English teaching is beneficial for students’ improvement of English vocabulary. The literature review highlighted the connection between teaching methods and building learning community. Since the meaning of building learning communities is broad, the research focused on the motivation in watching Korean drama, it was linked to build learning community in terms of improving English vocabulary. The method employed during the research phase of this project has been done to generate data through questionnaires, interviews, and tests. Since the aim of the research is to see the possibility of Korean Drama in improving students' vocabulary in English, it was important to produce qualitative elicited partly through the use of test results and open questions in questionnaires and interviews. This study employed 70 respondents from the first semester students of the English Department in Universitas Pamulang as samples of the population. From the data analyses, it was found that there are some aspects that should be improved in the project itself such as feedback, support in continuing professional development of lectures and monitoring and also evaluation. From the findings, the research suggests that developing teaching should be in line with a system for fostering teachers to follow up and assist their abilities to sustain professional development independently, might assist in improving student’s competency.]]>
<![CDATA[Using Graphic Organizer to Improve the Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i2.9308
<![CDATA[This study investigated the use of a graphic organizer reading strategy in improving the students’ reading comprehension achievement. It was aimed to find out to what extend the improvement of the students reading comprehension after being treated using the graphic organizer strategy. This research also wanted to check the differences in the result between the class which used the graphic organizer and the class which did not apply a specific reading strategy. This study was conducted at the grade 11 students of SMK Sasmita Jaya Tangerang Selatan. This research administered cluster random sampling in taking samples and decided two classes as the same samples. One class was treated using a graphic organizer and the other class was not treated using any specific kind of strategy or conventional strategy. The method of this research was quantitative research under quasi-experimental research. A quasi-experimental design was used to know the result after specific treatment was applied. After collecting the data, then it was analyzed using SPSS. Based on the result of the data analysis, it was found that applying the Graphic Organizer reading strategy in reading lessons could improve students’ reading comprehension achievement.]]>
<![CDATA[Increasing Speaking Ability Using Visual Media ]]>
<![CDATA[ Lexeme : Journal of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020) ]]>
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DOI: 10.32493/ljlal.v2i2.9309
<![CDATA[The present study was conducted in order to describe the implementation of visual media in teaching speaking. The researcher used Classroom Action Research design and applied it in teaching of speaking at ten grade of Madrasah Aliyah Kepahiang. The finding of this research indicated that the visual media was successful in increasing students’ speaking ability. In cycle I the score was 68.50 and in cycle II 76.33. Besides, the students have the positive response toward the implementation of visual media. Rapid development of science and technology today has demanded all parties to adjust and follow these developments. Nowadays, the use of media in language learning is very important. It will make the teaching and learning process be more attractive and effective. In learning, media is an aid which is able to help teacher in their teaching activity.]]>
