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Language Circle : Journal of Language and Literature
Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang
ISSN : 18580157     EISSN : 2460853X     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS WITH COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL (TP-CL) IN IMPROVING WRITING SKILLS -, Farikah
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
Publisher : Faculty of Languages ​​and Arts, State University of Semarang

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This article examines the effect of Thematic Progression Patterns with Cooperative Learning Method (TP-CL) on the improvement of the students’ writing skills and the teaching- learning activities of writing courses. This classroom action research was conducted in the English Department of Magelang Tidar University in the academic year of 2011/2012. The subjects were fourth semester students who took the course of Writing III. To analyze the results of writing tests and the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities Brown’ and Bailey’s theory (1984) was used. The results show that the implementation of Thematic Progression Patterns with Cooperative Learning Method (TP-CL) improves the writing skills of the students. In addition, the application of this model can create effective teaching-learning activities. The results suggest that lecturers teaching writing courses should introduce Thematic Progression Patterns to the students in order that they can write paragraphs coherently and organize various themes neatly in order that they can write the paragraph artistically.
THE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN RESEARCH ARTICLE INTRODUCTIONS Rahman, Kasyfur; Sofwan, Ahmad
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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The article reports an investigation on the differences between the schematic structure of English and Indonesian research article introduction. By selecting thirty research articles from each group and analysing them using the CARS model (1990, 2004), this study has unravelled several differences. At the macro level, the English articles respectively have a higher percentage of reviewing items of previous research, indicating gap, and summarising methods. While their Indonesian counterparts tend to have a greater deal with making topic generalisations, presenting positive justifications, and stating the value of the present research. In addition, while the Indonesian articles have more unidentified schematic elements and lack outlining the structure of paper, the English ones demonstrate a higher degree of move reiteration. At the micro level, the English articles are characterised by the use personal deixes as self-mention, and more variation of linguistic clues in claiming centrality. On the other hand, their Indonesian counterparts are depicted by the absence of self-mention, the use of code mixing, and a major tendency in using amplifiers and evaluative adjectives in claiming centrality. These differences might be partially influenced by the writers’ culture, knowledge, editorial policy, social environment, and in certain cases, the technical problems.
THEME EQUIVALENCE AND THEME SHIFT FOUND IN INDONESIAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THESIS ABSTRACTS Damayanti, Yuanita
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This study analyzes types of themes, theme equivalence, theme shifts in the Indonesian-English translation of thesis abstracts. The data consist of 10 thesis abstracts and their translation into English, taken from Postgraduate Program of Semarang State University from the last two years (2010-2011). The result shows that topical theme dominates the entire texts at 80.16% (198 out of 247) in ST and 79.56% (222 out of 279) in TT. Interpersonal theme is not found both in ST and TT. Most topical themes are in participants, followed by circumstance and process. The textual theme in both texts is adjunct conjunctive. Most of the themes (70.2%) are considered as non shift or equivalent. The theme shift occurrs through three processes: (1) by changing the grammatical function within the theme (11.7%), (2) by adding more themes (14.7%) and (3) by deleting themes (3.4%). It is suggested for a translator to have complete mastery over the grammatical structure of both the SL and TL and also being aware of the notions and application of shifts and equivalence.
HUMOR ENGLISH TEACHING MATERIAL FOR IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL WITH HIGH AND LOW LEARNING MOTIVATION Syafiq, Ahmad Nur; Saleh, Mursid
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of humor as English foreign language teaching material to improve students’ speaking skill with of high or low motivation for the students and the effect that the use of humor gives to their teaching. This study was quasi experimental research named two-way (two-by-two) factorial design. The subjects were 80 students of STAIN Kudus, 40 students in the experimental group and 40 students in the control group. Both groups were distributed the pre-test to measure students speaking skill. For treatment, Shades (1996) classification of verbal humor was used. The results revealed that humor as teaching material has significant effect on the students’ speaking skill to those who have high and low learning motivation. The students expressed that humor in the classroom situation affected their learning positively to those who have high or low motivation rather than conventional material.
CROSS CURRICULAR ENGLISH EDUCATION AND ITS POSSIBLE APPLICATION IN INDONESIAN CURRICULAR SYSTEM Sukrisno, Alim
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This article is about cross curricular English education viewed from its possible application in Indonesian curricular system. Cross curricular education can take place in the form of project work, thematic teaching and so on. In the Indonesian curricular system, cross curricular education manifests itself in bilingual education in which the medium of instruction is English. In junior and senior high schools this programs is better known as RSBI or SBI. Investigation in the field indicates that this program has been prematurely applied since some basic requirements of its application have not been met. Therefore, should this program be continued an investigation must be conducted to see which parts of the program should be modified, replaced, or even removed altogether.
THE AFFECTION OF INTERVIEWER SUPPORT ON ONE’S PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE IN AN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEW Pratama, Hendi
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This study examines the relationship of the support provided by the interviewers on the test-taker perception and performance. There are two levels of support investigated: High Supporting Behavior (HSB) and Low Supporting Behavior (LSB). Ten participants sat in two interviews with two different interviewers applying LSB and HSB condition each. All participants completed a perception questionnaire at the end of the interviews. Twenty interview scripts were computed to determine the participants’ actual performance in three categories: (1) fluency, (2) lexical resources and (3) grammar complexity. The results of the study reveals that there are effects on performance but not perception.
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS IN TEACHING CONTENT SUBJECTS Mufidah, Salimatin; Rukmini, Dwi; Faridi, Abdurrahman
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This study focuses on the use of academic language functions and the problems of their use in the process of teaching content subjects by using English as a means of instruction. Direct observation and recording were done to gather the data. Based on the overall data analysis and interpretation, the teachers have used academic language functions in English, but not all teachers use full-English in the teaching learning process. They applied academic language functions for the purpose of acquiring knowledge and skills. Furthermore, some teachers do not have adequate mastery of English because they just took a short English course. So, most content teachers sometimes find difficulties related to vocabulary/diction, grammar, pronunciation,  intonation and they often switched codes from English to Indonesian and vice versa. They have problems to express their idea in English due to their lack of vocabularies used and pronunciation. Therefore, it is suggested that content teachers himprove their competence especially in the classroom interaction using English.
REALIZATION OF APOLOGY STRATEGIES BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF PEKALONGAN UNIVERSITY Qorina, Dwi
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This study is meant to find out the apology strategies, to investigate the development strategies from the lowest to the highest semester students, and to explain how the pragmatic transfer interferes the apology strategis used by English Department students of Pekalongan University. This study used a qualitative descriptive design and written discourse completion tasks were employed to obtain the data. As a subject study, ten students were taken from each semester, so there were forty students overall. In analyzing the data, the students’ apologies were analyzed by using Holmes classification. The findings reveal that an explicit expression of apology, in particular, the strategy of expressing regret, is the most frequent apology strategy. Alerter and explanation are also used extensively. There is development of the use of apology strategies from the lowest to the highest semester students. With pragmatic transfer, pragma-linguistic transfer is dominated by linguistic features changing from Indonesian language to English, whereas the socio-pragmatic transfer is more dominated by a socio-culture changing from Indonesian to English, making it unacceptable in English language context.
CROSS CURRICULAR ENGLISH EDUCATION AND ITS POSSIBLE APPLICATION IN INDONESIAN CURRICULAR SYSTEM Sukrisno, Alim
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
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This article is about cross curricular English education viewed from its possible application in Indonesian curricular system. Cross curricular education can take place in the form of project work, thematic teaching and so on. In the Indonesian curricular system, cross curricular education manifests itself in bilingual education in which the medium of instruction is English. In junior and senior high schools this programs is better known as RSBI or SBI. Investigation in the field indicates that this program has been prematurely applied since some basic requirements of its application have not been met. Therefore, should this program be continued an investigation must be conducted to see which parts of the program should be modified, replaced, or even removed altogether.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS WITH COOPERATIVE LEARNING MODEL (TP-CL) IN IMPROVING WRITING SKILLS -, Farikah
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 7, No 1 (2012): October 2012
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/lc.v7i1.2428

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This article examines the effect of Thematic Progression Patterns with Cooperative Learning Method (TP-CL) on the improvement of the students’ writing skills and the teaching- learning activities of writing courses. This classroom action research was conducted in the English Department of Magelang Tidar University in the academic year of 2011/2012. The subjects were fourth semester students who took the course of Writing III. To analyze the results of writing tests and the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities Brown’ and Bailey’s theory (1984) was used. The results show that the implementation of Thematic Progression Patterns with Cooperative Learning Method (TP-CL) improves the writing skills of the students. In addition, the application of this model can create effective teaching-learning activities. The results suggest that lecturers teaching writing courses should introduce Thematic Progression Patterns to the students in order that they can write paragraphs coherently and organize various themes neatly in order that they can write the paragraph artistically.

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