Studies in English Language and Education
Studies in English Language and Education (SiELE) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The journal presents research and development in the field of teaching and learning of English language, general linguistics and literature. Authors must register to this journal before submitting their work and they must follow the Author Guidelines of the journal. Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines provided will be rejected. Please submit your article through the online submission of this journal. You may address further inquiries to the Editor at sielejournal@usk.ac.id. From 2014-2020, SiELE Journal published twice a year, in March and September. From 2021 onwards, it publishes three times a year in January, May, and September. The journals have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on Plagiarism”. We recommend that authors check their articles with plagiarism prevention tools (ithenticate.com, turnitin.com, etc.) before submission.
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<![CDATA[Contextualizing corrective feedback in scientific writing through online learning platforms ]]>
<![CDATA[Saragih, Erikson]]>;
<![CDATA[Zein, T Thyrhaya]]>;
<![CDATA[Sumbayak, Desri Maria]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.25867
<![CDATA[Providing corrective feedback by teachers is one of the most crucial and central activities to improve the quality of student scientific writing. Although there has been much previous research on corrective feedback, few focused on lecturers' viewpoints, techniques, and assessments to guide students to write scientific papers. The objectives of this study are to describe lecturers' perceptions, practices, and self-evaluation when providing written corrective feedback in the context of scientific writing in the field of English research at multiple Indonesian teacher education institutes. The researchers employed a qualitative descriptive research method with a survey design to meet research objectives. A total of 53 lecturers were selected as respondents using purposive sampling criteria. This study used a survey questionnaire with ten questions of three categories (perception, activity, and evaluations) which were distributed to the research participants. The results of this study revealed that teachers prefer written corrective feedback, use various media and applications, emphasize the content of writing in providing feedback, and feel confident in doing this activity, even though sometimes they do not have enough time and continue to try to improve the quality of feedback provision to their students in writing scientific works. The results of this study can contribute as a reflection to improve teacher performance in the implementation of corrective feedback, especially in an online learning platform.]]>
<![CDATA[The (in)visibility of Torajan language: A study on linguistic landscape in South Sulawesi, Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[Halim, Suwarni Wijaya]]>;
<![CDATA[Sukamto, Katharina Endriati]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.27931
<![CDATA[The Torajan language is the heritage language of the Torajan people, which reflects the local wisdom and identity of the people. Yet, with the popularity of Indonesian and English as the lingua franca, there is a concern for the domain, status, and vitality of the Torajan language within the society. Therefore, this study aims to study the visibility of the language. This study offers a novel approach by looking at the use of the Torajan language in the linguistic landscape in two regencies, Tana Toraja and Toraja Utara, to determine its position in the community. The research utilized a case study design, and the source of data is linguistic landscapes found along Jalan Poros RantepaoMakale which connects the two regencies. The images of linguistic landscapes were collected by viewing the Google Street View facility provided by Google Maps, and the languages in those linguistic landscapes were noted. The findings show that Indonesian and English dominate the linguistic landscape in Tana Toraja and Toraja Utara, and the Torajan language is minimally represented in the public space of these two regencies. The lack of visibility of the language in the public space might be caused by the restricted use of the language for familial talks at home and oral indigenous rituals. However, the Torajan language needs to be used more frequently in public spaces since it could promote a positive attitude of the people, which would in turn solidify the position of the language in the society.]]>
<![CDATA[Clickbait and translation: Proposing a typology of online news headline transcreation strategies ]]>
<![CDATA[Untari, Lilik]]>;
<![CDATA[Purnomo, SF. Luthfie Arguby]]>;
<![CDATA[Purnama, SF. Lukfianka Sanjaya]]>;
<![CDATA[Giyoto, Giyoto]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.29141
<![CDATA[Clickbait has been widely studied within the online news headline context; however, it is still understudied under the umbrella of transcreation. By employing the theory of transcreation by Gaballo (2012) and news headline tabloidization/clickbaiting presentation by Reinemann et al. (2012) on a corpus of online news headlines in a qualitative research design, we argued that news headline is transcreated for a clickbaiting purpose through the use particular linguistic features as the strategies. Those linguistic features are bombasting, referencing, and bamboozling. The first refers to the use of high-sounding or hyperbolic expressions, the second to popular references, and the last to multi-interpretable expressions. Each of the three transcreation strategies has what we call the degree of transferability. Through the degree of transferability, whether or not a translated online news headline might fall into the category of translation, transcreation, or in between could be revealed. The degrees of transferability might also reveal how bombasting, referencing, and bamboozling influence the categorization. The findings of the study could be employed as a guideline for news translation scholars and practitioners in reviewing and assessing the translation of online news headlines regarding the tendency of the tabloidization use in the clickbait context. Future studies could address the issues of the identities of news sites, news sites, and news readers as a parameter in assessing the quality of news headline translation or transcreation.]]>
<![CDATA[Challenges in reading English academic texts for non-English major students of an Indonesian university ]]>
<![CDATA[Dardjito, Hanandyo]]>;
<![CDATA[Rolls, Nicola]]>;
<![CDATA[Setiawan, Ari]]>;
<![CDATA[Sumekto, Didik Rinan]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.29067
<![CDATA[This study examines the barriers to reading academic texts among university students for whom English is a foreign language. While many previous studies have focused on instructional design for building academic reading skills, this study focuses on the fundamental issues that need consideration before setting up the instructional design for English academic reading. Taking an interpretive phenomenological viewpoint, this study applied a qualitative method through an online survey and interviews. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, online data collection was the most accessible means of approaching the students. Ninety-five students from various non-English study programs (courses) at a private university voluntarily responded to the open-ended online questionnaire, providing survey data. Five students provided further data through individual interviews on their academic reading challenges. A thematic analysis of the survey data revealed four themes and eight subthemes representing the students challenges, which were explored further in the interviews. These challenges and the relationships among them are discussed. The results suggest that most students depended on single-word meanings as their prime strategy for achieving comprehension. However, this strategy also represented the most notable challenge in their effective reading of English academic texts. They failed to comprehend the text effectively because their translation did not make sense. Furthermore, the nature of the reading strategies of the student cohort had an impact on their baseline reading proficiency.]]>
<![CDATA[Pronunciation of English velar nasal (angma) by undergraduate students in Pakistani universities ]]>
<![CDATA[Mahmood, Afia]]>;
<![CDATA[Irfan, Humaira]]>;
<![CDATA[Fares, Nurah Saleh]]>;
<![CDATA[Yasmeen, Shafqat]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.31073
<![CDATA[Pakistani English (PakE) is an emerging variety of English that is in the process of developing its own norms and standards. Besides, distinguishing lexical and syntactic structures, it also has unique phonological features (Baumgardner, 1993; Hassan, 2004; Rahman 1991). Many Pakistani linguists have discussed unique consonantal and vocalic features of Pakistani English (PakE). However, there has not been any significant research conducted on the pronunciation of English velar nasal or angma // by Pakistani English speakers. This study analyses the pronunciation of English velar nasal by Pakistani English speakers. The sample was selected from 20 undergraduate students of the Department of English studying in the first semester of a large-scale public sector university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. A number of 20 English lexical items were selected and were divided into three categories according to the distribution of angma in the English language. The items were presented to the participants in diagnostic sentences. PRAAT, the speech and phonetics analysis software, was used to analyse the data. The findings revealed that Pakistani English speakers pronounce angma inaccurately in the medial position and insert velar plosive // in the poly-morphemic words. However, in the final position, angma is pronounced correctly by most Pakistani English speakers. The findings highlight that Pakistani English speakers are not concerned about the morpheme boundary and pronounce angma without // coalescence. Thus, it is found that Pakistani English speakers have distinguished pronunciation. The study recommends more research on Pakistani English pronunciation as well.]]>
<![CDATA[Exploring the experiential meanings of the COVID-19 survivors expressions ]]>
<![CDATA[Zulprianto, Zulprianto]]>;
<![CDATA[Fanany, Rebecca]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.29502
<![CDATA[Language transforms experience into meaning. Grammar, which can be metaphorically construed as its powerhouse, enables such a transformation. One of the linguistic approaches utilised to understand the linkage between the semiotic and material world is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL argues that the experiential meaning of a clause can be investigated through its transitivity structures in terms of Process, Participant, and Circumstance. This study carries out a transitivity analysis of expressions shared by COVID-19 survivors from different parts of the world in an attempt to learn how they construe their experience of illness. The data were obtained from online newspapers published in different countries and conveniently developed into a corpus from which COVID-19 survivors expressions were extracted. All texts under examination were reported in English regardless of their original language. This study examines the survivors direct expressions through their transitivity structures using the SFL framework. The results show that these individuals frequently used relational and abstract material Processes in describing their illness, meaning that they tended to express their physical or psychological experiences metaphorically as beings and actions. This suggests that they abstractly construe their experiences with this viral disease. Constructing experiences abstractly is likely driven by the need to distance themselves from experience as a way of coping with an event perceived as potentially life-threatening.]]>
<![CDATA[The manifestation of interlanguage pragmatics in direct and indirect request strategies used by international students ]]>
<![CDATA[Oktavia, Diana]]>;
<![CDATA[Batyi, Szilvia]]>;
<![CDATA[Mukminin, Amirul]]>;
<![CDATA[Santos, Myla L.]]>;
<![CDATA[Astrero, Emily T.]]>;
<![CDATA[Torress, Joel Mayo]]>;
<![CDATA[Marzulina, Lenny]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.27548
<![CDATA[This study focused on how interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) is manifested in a multicultural environment. Learners ability to make requests has received considerable attention in ILP research because requests are intrinsic face-threatening acts. The question this study aimed to address was to what extent a culture has an impact on the direct and indirect level of request strategies. The data were collected from thirty participants (fifteen males and fifteen females) representing five nationalities (Russian, Indonesian, Pakistani, Jordanian, and Hungarian) and studying at the University of Pannonia. The Discourse Completion Test (DCT) developed by Hendriks (2002) was used as an instrument, containing different situations to which the participants had to respond. The linguistic and cultural background of the participants was identified using an online tool, namely the Language History Questionnaire. The participants responses were then recorded and transcribed. The direct and indirect levels of the requests were analyzed by categorizing the head act and the internal (syntactic and lexical) and external modifiers. The data showed that the participants generally used more indirect strategies in making requests (86.2% indirect, 13.8% direct), especially those from Indonesia. Participants from Pakistan were the most direct in making requests. Moreover, they used more external modifiers than other participants to compensate for their directness.]]>
<![CDATA[The validity and reliability of writing attitude scale for EFL learners in the Indonesian context ]]>
<![CDATA[Setyowati, Lestari]]>;
<![CDATA[Karmina, Sari]]>;
<![CDATA[Sukmawan, Sony]]>;
<![CDATA[Shafie, Latisha Asmaak]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.28462
<![CDATA[Having a positive attitude in writing is very important since the positive attitude will make the students approach writing in a good way and will enable them to finish the writing task well. Thus, an appropriate instrument to measure the writing attitude is needed. Yet, scarce research is dedicated to investigating the validity and reliability of the writing attitude scale. This research is intended to investigate the validity and reliability of the writing attitude scale adapted from Podsen (1997) which was originally developed from the Daly-Miller Writing Apprehension Test (Daly Miler, 1975b). The design of this study was an observational, non-experimental study with a cross-sectional design, in which the researchers focused on analyzing Podsens (1997) Writing Attitude Scale (WAS). The population of the study was 96 students who took the Essay Writing course in the English Department, at a public university in East Java. The data were in the form of numbers on an ordinal scale. The researchers used the Content Validity Ratio (CVR) to analyze the validity and Cronbach alpha to check the inter-item correlation coefficient in SPSS 25. The result of the study shows that the CVR analysis was 1, and all items in the questionnaire were valid (p=.000.000) as shown in the Pearson product-moment analysis. Secondly, the internal consistency of Podsens (1997) Writing Attitude Scale was high (r.877). This implies that the instrument is applicable because it possesses validity and is highly reliable in measuring students writing attitudes.]]>
<![CDATA[Abraham Maslows hierarchical needs in No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ]]>
<![CDATA[Mustafa, Goran Omar]]>;
<![CDATA[Ahmad, Hedayat Muhammad]]>;
<![CDATA[Ghafor, Omar Fouad]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.28402
<![CDATA[The paper attempted to analyze the character of Boochani in his memoir No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, in the light of Abraham Maslows Theory of Hierarchical Needs. Boochani wrote his novel while he was still locked in the Manus Island detention center. It narrates the story of a man who followed his dream to reach his dreamland. The study was carried out using a descriptive qualitative research methodology through textual analysis design. Since the study was text-based, a meticulous reading process of the text was done. We used the text as the primary source for data collection. Therefore, a portion of the sentences, paragraphs, and phrases related to the studys objective were taken as examples and excerpts and analyzed using Abraham Maslows hierarchy of needs. The results revealed that Boochani, like all humans, was driven by physiological and psychological needs, ranging from the most fundamental to the most extreme. His journey aimed to get self-actualization but never could get it and hardly fulfilled other basic needs completely. Boochanis voyage is depicted as a series of rising and falling waves. He occasionally satisfies some needs, but he never succeeds in meeting the need for self-actualization and self-esteem. And hardly does he fulfill the other three levels of the hierarchy of needs. His entire story serves as a metaphor for everyone who strives for self-actualization yet encounters obstacles.]]>
<![CDATA[Variations in the use of personal pronoun agreement in Acehnese: A sociolinguistic approach ]]>
<![CDATA[Armia, Armia]]>;
<![CDATA[Iskandar, Denni]]>;
<![CDATA[Zuriana, Cut]]>;
<![CDATA[Nurrahmah, Nurrahmah]]>
<![CDATA[ Studies in English Language and Education Vol 10, No 3 (2023) ]]>
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DOI: 10.24815/siele.v10i3.31046
<![CDATA[This study aims to identify variations in the use of personal pronoun agreements in the Acehnese language based on a sociolinguistic approach, by focusing on the North Aceh dialect. A descriptive-qualitative method was used and data were collected through interviews. These interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the sociolinguistic approach by structure and semantics. The results of the study showed that the personal pronouns of the Acehnese language are influenced by social factors such as age, social status, and familiarity. In the context of the age factor, there are variations in the use of personal pronoun agreements related to communication patterns between the younger and older generations. In social interactions with differences in social status, the use of personal pronoun agreements that reflect respect and recognition of social status is more dominant. Meanwhile, in familiarity, the use of more formal or informal personal pronouns depends on the degree of familiarity between the speakers. Overall, variations in the use of agreement personal pronouns in the Acehnese language are influenced by sociolinguistic factors that reflect social dynamics, cultural norms, and relationships between individuals. Understanding these variations can provide better insight into social interactions, social hierarchies, and familiarity norms in Acehnese society.]]>
