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EDULITE: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture
ISSN : 24775304     EISSN : 25284479     DOI : 10.30659/e
Core Subject : Education,
EduLite Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture is a blind peer review international journal which publishes manuscripts within the fields of teaching English as a first, second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, English language and literary studies, literature, and cultures in general (more on focus & scope). It is published by Language and Communication Science Faculty (former Language Faculty), Universitas Islam Sultan Agung twice a year in February and August.
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DEVELOPING WRITING MATERIALS FOR DEAF STUDENTS Hamdan Anwari
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 2, No 2 (2017): August 2017
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (182.494 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.2.2.415-430

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This research is aimed at finding out the suitable writing material for deaf students. This research belongs to research and development. The participants of this research were the eleventh graders of SLB Muhammadiyah Dekso Kalibawang of semester 1 in academic year 2013/2014 which consisted of two students. The instruments used in collecting data were questionnaires. The questionnaires were used in the need analysis, material evaluation and students’ response. The data were analyzed descriptively by using percentage. Based on the need analysis, it was found out that students’ need is suitable with material for writing. In developing  syllabus, existing syllabus must be added with some exercises. In developing material is in the form of hand out. The hand out is writing material for the deaf students. The developed material is for the first semester academic year of 2013/2014. It consists of  three  units, five topics and nineteen activities. In the material evaluation from two experts, the developed materials facilitate the deaf students to write. Based on the student’s response, the developed material is appropriate with their English level competence.
First love simplicity: A systemic-functional perspective study of Karina Del Campo’s Do You Remember Our Love? Sugeng Purwanto; Idha Nurhamidah
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 3, No 2 (2018): August 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (186.383 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.3.2.161-172

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The current study aims at exploring the intended meaning and structure of a poem entitled ‘Do You Remember Our Love?’ written by a poet, © Karina Del Campo (2009) in both interpretational and systemic functional perspectives. In the former, the poem was examined interpretatively in order to find out the possible stance of the poet; meanwhile the later was an analytical representation of systemic functional grammar in the framework of construing the three domains of meanings: ideational, interpersonal and textual in order to arrive at the field, the tenor and the mode of the discourse.  It turns out that the poem is  a reflection of a woman’s feeling (the poet’s) toward her ex-boyfriend—finely described in a repeated style of the major clause, supported and elaborated in several minor clauses. The poet tries very hard to ignite her ex-boyfriend’s love memories with her and to possibly invite him to reunite even though it seems to be a mission impossible. The poem has both social and psychological impacts on the poet herself and the readers in a wider scope.
Pedagogical problems encountered by teachers of English to Computer Science students in the Indonesian context Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih; Suwarsih Madya; Joko Nurkamto
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 5, No 1 (2020): February 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (183.269 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.5.1.1-13

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Many factors are required in order to increase the skills of English of higher education students, specifically computer science students. Of the factors, teachers play a very important role since they are the agents of change in the classrooms; not to neglect that the students are also the agents of their own changes. Using Brown’s 12 pedagogical characteristics of a good language teacher as its theory, this is a report of the first step of design-based research, practical problems encountered by teachers of English to computer science students conducted at two private universities in Indonesia. Among the 12 characteristics, knowledge of approaches to language teaching seems to be the biggest challenge that came upon the teachers. The findings of this step will subsequently be used as the bases to go further to the second cycle of design-based research, which is the development of solutions informed by existing design principles and technological innovations.
Students’ English business communication self-efficacy and their career aspirations Hartono Hartono; Huyi Intan Sari
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 5, No 2 (2020): August 2020
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (180.086 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.5.2.214-224

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Self-efficacy, which is defined as people’s judgment on their ability to carry out tasks and exercise control over events, is believed to be determinant in the success of learning and career aspiration.  The study was conducted to measure students’ self-efficacy in making English business communication, their career aspiration, and the relationship between them. Sixty one students served as the respondents for the study.  Data were collected by using Likert-typed questionnaires after students attended an ESP designed to improve their English business communication skills. It found that students had high self-efficacy in making English business communication and high career aspiration. Between these variables lies a significant positive correlation in moderate level (0.611). 
THE USE OF INFORMATION GAP TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL Ranti Harvi Rahimi
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 1, No 1 (2016): February 2016
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (149.311 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.1.1.57-67

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The final project was about the use of information gap technique to improve speaking skill. The objective of this study was to find out whether Information Gap technique was effective to improve students’ speaking skill or not. A quasi experimental research design was used in this study. The population of this study was the eleventh graders of MAN 2 Semarang in the academic year 2014/2015 with the number of population around 210 students. Non-equivalent groups’ pretest-posttest design was used in this study. Two classes were taken as the samples with around 60 students. The data were collected by using several activities. They were pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The result of this study shows that the pretest average of experimental class was 45.81 while the pretest average of control class was 42.12. After giving treatment for four meetings the posttest average of experimental class was 70.76 and while the posttest average control class was 49.48. The result of the analysis showed that there was a significant difference. It was supported by t-test result, the significant difference in the result of posttest between control and experimental class was 0.00 < 0.05. It means that the use of Information Gap technique in teaching speaking was better than the conventional method. It could be concluded that H1 was accepted that the use of Information Gap Technique was effective to improve students’ speaking skill
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING NARRATIVE THROUGH WRITING GAMES FOR ACCELERATION CLASS Kheryadi Kheryadi
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 2, No 2 (2017): August 2017
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This study addresses how writing games improve acceleration students’ writing narrative achievement, also observe how students’ behavior during playing the games and also the teacher on conducting the games along the research. This study has been conducted in acceleration students. It uses classroom action research, the data analyzed from qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data are about teacher’s interview and students’ questionnaire, while the quantitative data is about their scores on writing narrative. To solve the problem, the teacher has implemented Writing Games as a technique. Writing Games contain of games which tend to writing ability and in this case, the teacher chose two kinds of writing games; they are “Silly Story” and “What’s Next?”. “Silly Story” focuses on students’ ability on writing sentences and “What’s Next?” focuses on students’ ability on making paragraph. This research consists of two cycles and each of it has planning, action, observation and reflection. These findings implicate that acceleration students were interested with writing games and involved in it well. However, during the research, especially in the first cycle, there was still one group was less active in “Silly Story” because they could not discuss each other and the group was quiet big. 
Indonesian authors’ stances in citing English research article introductions literature in sciences Suci Miasari; Safnil Arsyad; Arono Arono
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 3, No 2 (2018): August 2018
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (220.078 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.3.2.173-187

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Authorial stance is an important aspect in academic texts in academic texts such as research articles (RAs); that is to show the attitude of authors toward the information cited in a reference in order to establish an argument. The objective of this research was to investigate the authorial stances in English RA introductions written by Indonesia authors in the field of sciences (i.e. Biology, Physic and Chemistry). This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. Thirty English research article introductions were included in the corpus in this study. The results show that two authorial stances: neutral and positive stances are found in the texts but no critical stance is used in the corpus of this research. Also, four types of authorial stance (i.e., hedges, booster, attitudinal markers, and self- mention) are used in the RA introductions and the devices in each type of authorial stance are nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and modals. Self-mentions found in this research are subjective pronoun, common noun and possessive adjectives. It can be concluded that Indonesian authors in the field of sciences already use similar types of authorial stances in their English RA introductions to those of international authors writing in English.
The relationship between self-efficacy and the duration of students’ final project writing completion Nafisa Syahida Rahmadini; Hartono Hartono; Rohmaniyah Rohmaniyah
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 4, No 1 (2019): February 2019
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (409.371 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.4.1.87-100

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This study is aimed at finding out the relationship between self-efficacy and the duration of students' final project writing–commonly reffered as skripsi-completion. It was a correlational study involving 33 students of English Education and English Literature departments of the College of Languages and Communication Science of Sultan Agung Islamic University (UNISSULA) Semarang who were taken purposively as samples for the study. Data were collected by questionnaire of self-efficacy and a respondent-fill-form to collect  data on the duration the final project completion. The result of the analysis showed that students’ self-efficacy and the duration of their final project writing completion was correlated positively at 0.994. This implies that students with high self-efficacy would likely complete the final project earlier than those with lower self-efficacy.
The types and functions of code switching in a thesis defense examination Usman Kasim; Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf; Sri Rahayu Jumiati Ningsih
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 4, No 2 (2019): August 2019
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This study investigated the acts of code switching by lecturers and student in thesis defence examination at a university in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The study involved five participants (four lectures and one student) of the English Language Department. Data from recordings were used to analyse the types and functions of code switching that occurred during the defence. The types of code switching were analysed based on Poplack, and the functions of code switching were analysed based on the theories by Gumperz, Hoffman and Holmes. The result showed that there were three types of code switching found in 109 examples during the interactions between the lecturers and the student, they were: intra-sentential switching (77.06%), inter-sentential switching (15.59%), and tag switching (7.33%). In term of the functions of code switching, 10 functions were identified from 68 switches, they were: addressee specification at 22.05%, followed by interjections (16.17%), loanwords (16.17%), message qualifications (11.76%), transfer of the subconscious markers (8.82%), proper names (8.82%), quotations (5.88%), message reiteration (4.41%), personalization versus objectification (2.94%) and specific features of Islamic terms (2.94%) as the least. It can be concluded that in this case, code switching allowed the participants achieve a wide range of important and interesting ends in their discourse during the thesis defence examination.
Some negative contents portrayed in English song lyrics Liliek Soepriatmadji; Katharina Rustipa
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 5, No 1 (2020): February 2020
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Some song lyrics may have been banned or rescheduled for their radio and television broadcasts. Those song lyrics were claimed to propagandize negative contents. Recently West Java Broadcasting Commission has regulated the broadcast of 17 western songs for the prejudice of negative contents. Based on semantic analysis of those song lyrics, the authors finally found out that they qualitatively describe lust, profanity, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. through periphrasis, simile, litotes, meiosis, and other speech figures. Clauses were selected to deliver the figures of speech of the lyrics sung by mostly male singers and the male-female duets in pop and r and b music genres.

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