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Magister Scientiae
ISSN : 0852078X     EISSN : 26227959     DOI : https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs
Core Subject : Education,
Magister Scientiae journal is published twice annually in March and October. This journal contains articles based on research report and critical analysis in teaching and learning. We only accept manuscripts which have not been published in other media, including personal blogs. The contributing manuscripts should be written in English formatted accordingly with the manuscript direction. Contributors would like to give permission for the editors to edit the manuscript without changing its substance.
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PRAGMATIC FEATURES IN THE SPEAKING SECTIONS OF BAHASA INGGRIS UNTUK SMA/MA KELAS XI SEMESTER 1 Dewi Rosaria Indah
Magister Scientiae No. 37 (2015)
Publisher : Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i37.731

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One of the 21st century challenges is effective oral communication. While at the same time, some senior high school students are considered to be inept to speak English fluently. Their shortcomings in speaking belong to area of pragmatics. This study was intended to evaluate an English course book for senior high school entitled Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA Kelas XI Semester 1 that is widely used by most senior high schools in Surabaya. Based on those rationales, this study investigated Bahasa Inggris untuk SMA/MA Kelas XI Semester 1 to find out what language function is taught and how the language function is delivered as reflected by the four pragmatic features in the speaking sections in the course book under study. The result of the study found first that there were all 8 language functions that were under transactional and interpersonal functions as demanded by the Curriculum 2006 but they were not presented in sequence as what the Curriculum 2006 demanded. Second, that all the four pragmatic features: context, the cooperative principles, and speech acts and politeness were found in the speaking sections and yet two characteristics in Speech Acts were not found. 5 items in Speech Acts and Politeness were not found as well. The arrangement of the four pragmatic features were provided moderately and mostly implied while they should be provided explicitly. Key Words: pragmatic features, language function, speaking sections, context, the cooperative principles, speech acts, politeness, senior high school English course book.
ANALISA KESALAHAN BUKU “PERCAKAPAN BAHASA MANDARIN SEHARI-HARI” Sudono Noto Pradono
Magister Scientiae No. 37 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i37.732

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Tujuan dari karya tulis ini adalah untuk menganalisa buku yang telah diterbitkan di pasaran. Penulis menganalisa sebuah buku yang berjudul “Percakapan Bahasa Mandarin Sehari-hari.” Penulis mendapatkan beberapa kesalahan pada buku tersebut. Kesalahan-kesalahan tersebut dapat diklasifikasikan menjadi 3 macam, yaitu 1. fonetik, 2. karakter Mandarin, dan 3. tata bahasa. Kesalahan-kesalahan tersebut dianalisa berdasarkan teori-teori yang ada. Penulis berharap tidak ada kesalahan lagi terhadap buku yang diterbitkan untuk pembelajaran bahasa Mandarin, sehingga pembelajar bahasa Mandarin dapat belajar bahasa Mandarin dengan baik dan benar. Kata kunci: kesalahan, koreksi, fonetik, karakter Mandarin, tata bahasa.
THE COHESIVE DEVICES USED IN THE CAUSE EFFECT ESSAY WRITTEN BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF STKIP ST. PAULUS RUTENG Stanislaus Guna; Agustinus Ngadiman
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.786

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The purpose of this research study is to analyze the types of cohesive devices, the frequency of each cohesive device used and to identify cohesive errors that the students committed in their cause - effect essay. There were 29 students’ essays analyzed.. The study revealed that there were four types of cohesive devices used by the students in their essay: Reference, Substitution, Conjunction and Lexical cohesion. In accordance with the frequency of cohesive device, reference had the highest frequency which is 45,38%, followed by Lexical Cohesion 39,33%, Conjunction 14,90%, and Substitution 0,37%. The types of reference: personal, demonstrative and comparative rerference; types of substitution is nominal substitution; types of conjunction: additive, adversative, causal and temporal conjunction, and lexical cohesion: reiteration (repetition, synonym, general word and antonym) and collocation (adjectives + nouns, noun + noun, and verb + preposition) . Dealing with the errors in cohesive devices, the most frequency of errors was reference with the percentage 55,85%, conjunction 16,48%, lexical cohesion 2,76%. The research study revealed that most of the students committed errors in accordance with the source of interlanguage errors and intralingual errors. Most of the students committed errors on pronoun shift refers to grammatical errors, misuse of plural and singular form of demonstrative pronoun, overuse of cohesive devices, run-on sentence, misuse of cohesive devices and overgeneralization in their cause effect essay. The results of this study can contribute some pedagogical implications for writing teachers and students. It is necessary for English teacher to teach cohesion and cohesive devices explicitly and provide them with ample examples in English classes.
GRICE’S CONVERSATIONAL COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLES IN COMPETITIVE DEBATES Teguh Adimarta
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.787

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This study examined the similarity and difference between Grice’s conversational principles and debate competition principles in the grand final of an East Java highshool debate competition. Most highschool debaters including the researcher perceived that there would be differences. Using the result of open-response questionnaires distributed to the adjudicator and 6 participants of the grand final of the competition, the researcher then inteviewed and discussed the debate transcript and the result of open-response questionnaires with some triangulators from the perspective of Grice’s conversational principles and competitive debate principles. The study reported that the maxims that are mostly interpreted differently in this debate are the violation of maxim of quantity and the observation of maxim of quality. This research finding also proved that the maxims that are mostly interpreted similarly in this debate are the violation of maxim of quality and the observation of maxim of quantity.
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY SIZE AND THE READING COMPREHENSION OF THE ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STUDENTS Cinthia Astan; Siti Mina Tamah
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.788

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The study explored the correlation between vocabulary size and the three levels of reading comprehension namely literal, inferential, and critical reading comprehension. The main intention was to discover what the correlation was between vocabulary size and literal reading comprehension, inferential reading comprehension, and critical reading comprehension in terms of direction and magnitude. The subjects were 30 students of the English Department at a university in Surabaya. A Vocabulary Size Test and a Reading Comprehension Test were administered to measure the subjects' vocabulary size and reading comprehension performance. The findings revealed that vocabulary size was positively, strongly, and significantly correlated to literal reading comprehension, inferential reading comprehension and critical reading comprehension.
KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA TEKS BAHASA INGGRIS Veronika Unun Pratiwi; Purwani Indri Astuti; Sari Handayani
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.789

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The aim of this research is; (1) to know the ability of the students’ reading skills, and also to give and increase the students’ understanding in the reading text. ; 2) to know the difference of the students’ reading ability by repeating the reading text after their lecturer reads; 3) to know how far is the students non English to understand the English text by giving attention to the vocabulary of the texts to get the clear understanding. This research used descriptive qualitative researchthis research has done to get the clear information between one and the other, so the information from the source did not miss and change. Based on the data that has been collected through observation, interview, and documentation. Based on the research that has been done, it can be concluded that: (1) it has an improvement in students’ understanding the reading text; (2) there was also an interference from the team in teaching learning activies; 3) the non English students got a lot of vocabularies after doing this research.
THE EFFECT OF USING THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN GAME ON GRADE 5 STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY Martin Maradani Lasut
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.790

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In English classes, teachers believe that vocabulary plays an important role in building students’ English skills. Unfortunately, they do not give much attention to how to teach vocabulary in an attractive and fun way by using games. Teachers seem to use the old fashioned way of teaching, by giving a word list and asking students to memorize it. This research explored the usage of game, The Pirates of Caribbean Game, in teaching vocabulary to students. Did students taught by using game get better score than those who were taught by word list? In answering this question, the researcher used quasi experimental research, pre-test and post-test given to the control and experimental groups. After giving the treatment for five times, the research finally showed there was no significant difference in using the word list and The Pirates of Caribbean game.
THE USE OF MULTIMODALITY IN “AXE” TV COMMERCIALS TO COMMUNICATE MASCULINITY Novita Magdalena Srikandiati; V. Luluk Prijambodo
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.791

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Advertisements in the digital era creatively make use of writing, speech, images, and music to promote goods and services. This multimodality is used to persuade customers. Likewise, TV commercials have adopted multimodality for “a creatively communicative interaction” to support the goods and services advertised. Some studies on multimodality on media have been conducted but those on advertisements are still scarcely done, especially in Indonesia. Importantly, advertisements as sample of short functional texts belongs to curriculum aspects of the English subject for the students of the ninth grade in Indonesia (the Ministry of Education and Culture, 68, 2013). The TV commercials of “Axe” perfume product attracted the writer to conduct a research on multimodality. The English version of “Axe” TV commercials was chosen as the case under study. The analysis done indicated that “Axe” TV commercials contained a set of chronologically effective organization of multimodality which represented a set of creative sequence of the use of language, images and music to signify a persuasive, advertisement discourse attribute.
SELF-REPORTED READING STRATEGIES B. Budiyono
Magister Scientiae No. 38 (2015)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i38.792

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It is important for EFL readers to realize that they use certain strategies when they find difficulties in reading comprehension. These strategies have to be explored and selected for training for better comprehension. This exploration administered the MARSI reading questionnaire to identify university students’ reading strategies and their frequency of use. The global and support strategies turned to be the strategies of the medium level of use whereas the problem-solving strategies were at the high level of use. An interesting finding is that there was enough familiarity with the global and support strategies. The high-level of frequency of the problem-solving strategies indicate that there were a lot of difficulties in reading comprehension and the problem-solving strategies are worth training. To be more convincing, these findings would have to be supported by think-aloud protocols in real reading.
INTEGRATING CHARACTER EDUCATION IN TEACHING SPEAKING FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION STUDENTS Chyntia Heru Woro Prastiwi
Magister Scientiae No. 39 (2016)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v0i39.1362

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Globalization along with the advancement of information and communication technology has brought tremendous effects on students’ character. Education field as a place of community has to contribute in developing students’ character traits. Integrating character education in curriculum is the key for qualified education. This research aimed to describe the way to integrate character education in teaching speaking for Business Administration students. The data was obtained from teaching and learning process upon Business Administration students of higher education in the first semester of academic year 2015/2016 in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. The research results are expected to be a reference for further educators who are interested in integrating character education into curriculum.

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