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<![CDATA[Using Modelling-Based Speaking Module for Informal Interaction Class to Support Self-Regulated Learning ]]>
<![CDATA[Nurjanah, Ratih Laily]]>;
<![CDATA[Saptanto, Deswandito Dwi]]>;
<![CDATA[Dewi, Maya Kurnia]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.28656
<![CDATA[Teaching speaking is considered challenging during this outbreak era where lecturers and students cannot have a face-to-face meeting while in fact, students still need to get examples from lecturers related to pronunciation and intonation especially. A module of speaking for informal interaction is developed to support the process of teaching and learning speaking skills. This module comes with an audio-CD of daily expressions records spoken by a native speaker to give examples of standard pronunciation and intonation. This study aims to explain the steps used in the learning process using the module. It uses narrative design to describe the steps. The findings of the study implied that lecturers need to explain what the module is and how to use it followed by some steps; introducing lesson plan, playing audio-CD, imitating the records, practicing independently, working in pairs, reporting works, receiving feedback. By giving the model or examples in audio, students can repeat it as much as they need and whenever they need it. This study's implication is giving standardized materials using authentic materials to teach speaking skills with a self-regulated learning strategy. ]]>
<![CDATA[Persuasion Action Strategies in Da'wah Discourse on Social Media in the Global Communication Era ]]>
<![CDATA[Kusmanto, Hari]]>;
<![CDATA[Prayitno, Harun Joko]]>;
<![CDATA[Sofiana, Isnaeni]]>;
<![CDATA[Jamaluddin, Norliza]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.26285
<![CDATA[Creative and suggest speech partners. This study aimed to identify the persuasion action strategies in da'wah discourse on social media of Instagram. The approach of this study was descriptive qualitative. The data of this study was persuasion utterances in da'wah discourse on social media. The data collection employed documentation, transcription, and listening method and was followed by note-taking techniques. The data analysis of this study used the distributional method and markup reading technique. The results of this study showed that there are eleven persuasion strategies used by Ustadz Hanan Attaki in da'wah through social media of Instagram. The eleven strategies include (1) the use of Al-Qur'an, (2) directly persuasion (3) indirectly persuasion, (4) persuasion using repetition, (5) the use of stories, (6) the use of the figure of speech, (7) the use of hope, (8) ) the use of analogy, (9) the use of Al-Hadith, (10) the use of expressiveness, and (11) the use of cause and effect. In the era of global communication, the realization of da'wah on social media can utilize persuasive language to influence speech partners so that the purpose of da'wah can be successful]]>
<![CDATA[The Influence of the Mastery of Function Words on Students’ Reading Ability ]]>
<![CDATA[Irmawati, Monica Ratna]]>;
<![CDATA[Farida, Alief Noor]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 1 (2020): October 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i1.25929
<![CDATA[This study is an ex-post facto research which aims to find out the influence of the mastery of function words on reading ability of the seventh grade students of secondary school and to find out how the reading ability between students with adequate function words’ mastery and students with inadequate function words’ mastery is. The samples used in this research were two groups of students who have adequate and inadequate function words’ mastery. Each group consists of 30 students that is chosen by using stratified random sampling. In analysing the data, researcher used Independent Sample t-Test. The result shows that the mastery of function words significantly influences students’ reading ability. It is found that there is significant difference of students’ reading ability between students with adequate mastery in function words with those having inadequate mastery in function words. It is found that students with adequate function words’ mastery have better and higher ability in reading than students having inadequate function words’ mastery.]]>
<![CDATA[Cohesion and Coherence of Students Recount Texts in Indonesia ]]>
<![CDATA[Priyatmojo, Arif Suryo]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.29003
<![CDATA[This study aimed at analyzing the cohesion and coherence of recount texts and their implication to teaching writing. The data was fifteen recount texts which were non-randomly chosen from the first-grade students of high school in Central Java, Indonesia. This was qualitative research employing cohesion theory by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and thematic progression proposed by Butt et al. (1995). The result of this research showed that most of the cohesive devices employed by the students were personal reference with 58.11%; demonstrative reference and definite article with 7.18%; comparative reference with 0.93%), lexical (repetition 22.21%; synonym 0.66%; superordinate 0.13%), conjunction (temporal conjunction 7.45%; adversative conjunction: 1.33%; additive conjunction 1.06%; causal conjunction 0.66%), and ellipsis with 2%. The presuppositions of the presupposed items and presupposing items were achieved anaphorically and cataphorically; most of them were anaphoric. The distances of the presuppositions were in the forms of immediate ties, mediated ties, and non-mediated ties. Furthermore, immediate ties occurred extensively. Based on the analysis, most of the texts were cohesive due to the achievement of presupposing and presupposed items in every sentence of the texts. Then, coherence of the students recount texts was achieved by employing three kinds of patterns: reiteration/ constant, zig-zag, and multiple thematic progression patterns. Most of the texts were developed by using a reiteration/ constant pattern. Based on the analysis, most texts were not coherent because of the unrelated clauses. As the result, they broke the signposted progression of the texts. The finding was expected to possibly contribute to the process of teaching writing by encouraging the students to create a good text in a cohesive and coherent way.]]>
<![CDATA[Students’ Problems in Pronouncing Non-Existing English Diphthongs in Indonesian Language ]]>
<![CDATA[Anwar, Yasinta]]>;
<![CDATA[Kalisa, Pasca]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 1 (2020): October 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i1.26261
<![CDATA[One of the difficulties in learning the English language faced by Indonesian students is how to pronounce English sounds correctly. For several Indonesian students, producing English diphthong sounds could be difficult especially English diphthong sounds which do not exist in Indonesian ([ɪə], [ʊə], [eɪ], [eə] and [oʊ]). This study investigated the Indonesian students’ problems English diphthong pronunciation. The objective of this study was to describe how well the English diphthong sounds are pronounced by the students and to find out the kind of errors that were mostly found in the pronunciation of students. The participants of this study were 35 students of the eleventh grade of SMK N 2 Salatiga. The instruments were the production test containing English diphthong sounds and interviews as additional data. In determining the achievement, the level of criterion by Tinambunan’s criterion was used. Based on the data analysis, the total average of the incorrect numbers of English diphthong sounds in pronunciation made by students was 69% which was categorized as fair. In addition to it, the kinds of errors mostly found in the students’ pronunciation English diphthong sounds were omission errors. According to the result of the interview, the causes of the errors were unfamiliarity of knowing English diphthong sounds, so the sounds of English appeared to pronounce with the closest Indonesian sounds.]]>
<![CDATA[Viewing Female Depiction in Frozen 2 ]]>
<![CDATA[Putri, Tia Aprilianti]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.26416
<![CDATA[Disney is one of the biggest animation companies in the world. They have released many animations since then until now. One of the most popular animations is the princess series. Until 20202, Disney has released fourteen princesses from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Frozen 2. Gender role depictions of the female character(s) were examined with a focus on their behavioral characteristics in the films. The English subtitle of Frozen 2 was used to find out the attitudinal expressions about the female characters. In order to make the research easier and more accurate, a concordance tool named Antconc was used to collect the data and create a corpus. Results found that the most recent princess series entitled Frozen 2 showed the female characters depicted as a precious person who was willing to sacrifice herself for others, kind, heroic, fearless, and full-of-spirit. However, Disney also depicted the female characters as liar and trouble maker. In this case, Disney keeps showing that females cannot be seen using the traditional gender’s perspective anymore. A Female is not only feminine, but she also can be masculine as a man.]]>
<![CDATA[Implementing Group Investigation to Learn Reading for Senior High School Students ]]>
<![CDATA[Maleng, Ana Valentine]]>;
<![CDATA[Hartati, Elysa]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.26453
<![CDATA[Students’ boredom when it comes to reading long texts gives an impact on their comprehension of the text’s main idea due to the use of traditional teaching and learning techniques. Therefore, this study aims to describe how Group Investigation (GI) is implemented in teaching reading, as well as to find out the students’ responses toward GI in learning reading. This research focuses on finding out the evidence of how far the method affects students reading ability. The mixed-method between qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to conduct this research. The data obtained were from observation, questionnaire, interview, and documentation. The GI was conducted with group discussion and peer review. The result showed that 84.21% of students gave positive respond toward GI implementation. Based on the interview, students felt they were more motivated, engaged, and enjoyed during the reading skill lesson. Thus, GI is a good alternative to learn reading and help students’ reading comprehension as well as the class environment to be more active and joyful.]]>
<![CDATA[Representations of Christmastide in Latin American Christmas Folk Songs: A Transitivity Analysis ]]>
<![CDATA[Moncada Linares, Sthephanny]]>;
<![CDATA[Zhi-Ying, Xin]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 1 (2020): October 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i1.25903
<![CDATA[Considered as the universal language, music has been historically a means of communication and personal expression about the inner and outer world of its creator, it is present in almost every social activity of human beings as in the habitual religious celebration of Christmas across the largely Catholic countries. Therefore, the present paper will provide a descriptive text analysis of ten traditional Latin American Christmas folk songs on the base of the transitivity system informed by the Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. To reach this goal, both a quantitative and qualitative research method approach was applied. Findings indicated that among the six analyzed transitivity process types, the material processes (32%) dominate the construal of the musical pieces, followed by the mental (23%), behavioral (18%), and relational realizations (13%) whereas the verbal and existential processes are relatively low all together representing an overall frequency of 14%. This reveals the singers’ attempt to represent the Christmas season as a nostalgic time leap, an immediate enjoyment, and a rewarding exchange. ]]>
<![CDATA[Analysis on the Structure and Purposes of Travel Blog Posts ]]>
<![CDATA[Juliaty, Hanna]]>;
<![CDATA[Dita, Agustina]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.28792
<![CDATA[Travel blogs have become a huge online platform used as a benchmark for Internet users to plan holiday itineraries, consider choices, and finalize travel-related purchase decisions. As popular travel blogs are often visited by online readers globally, there might be a shift in the purposes for writing travel blogs nowadays compared to traditional blog posts. Previous studies discussed the characteristics of blogs as a communicative platform; however, discussion on language features and blog structures used to achieve certain purposes of travel blogs is still scarce. This study, hence, aimed to evaluate the text structure and language function employed in popular travel blogs to determine their overall purposes. Eighteen posts were selected from six popular travel blogs and analyzed qualitatively by using Pascual’s (2018) blog structure moves and Jakobson’s (1960) language function framework. The findings showed that the travel blog posts consisted of four moves: situational, descriptive, closure, and invitational moves and that most of the moves mainly employed referential and emotive functions. Hence, the main purposes were to provide information on travel destinations and to express the bloggers’ feelings towards their travel experiences. The findings implied that the purposes of popular travel blog posts nowadays are related to the role of blogs as a source of information and the role of travel bloggers as social influencers in the online community.]]>
<![CDATA[The Relationship between the Students English Speaking Skills and Their Closeness to English ]]>
<![CDATA[Husna, Hawa Asma Ul]]>
<![CDATA[ Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol 15, No 2 (2021): April 2021 ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/lc.v15i2.28581
<![CDATA[Speaking English skills is a frightening thing for some English for Foreign Language Learners (EFL), including students at one of the universities in Jakarta. Even though they live and stay in Jakarta and its surroundings, which is the capital city of Indonesia with high job competition, there are still many students who have a low level of English speaking skills. This study aims to determine the relationship between English speaking skills and their closeness to English as seen from the 5 levels of students' proficiency in speaking English. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this study were 2 classes with a total of 60 students at a university in Jakarta in the 2019-2020 school year. Researchers used tests, questionnaires, interviews, and literature studies as data collection techniques. While the data analysis technique used by researchers is using data triangulation. The results of this study indicate that the closer they are to English in their daily lives, both by frequently reading English articles, frequently watching English films, often listening to English music, the better the students' level of English speaking skills.]]>
