This research is entitled “How Islam in Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA”. The objects of this research are the adjectives that collocate with the word ‘Islam’ taken from newspapers in the United States obtained from COCA. The objectives of this research are to analyze what...

Todays semantic preference and semantic prosody are two notions that many scholars have been carefully studied in the field of corpus linguistics as corpora have become larger in size, and tools for extracting different lexical items for different purposes have been developed. The focus of this study...

This study investigated the effects of mnemonics on remembering Japanese hiragana characters by Japanese language learners with an alphabetic background. Our true-experimental design involved 36 high school students taking classes in Japanese course. In experimental conditions used two class, one class...

Thematic progression plays a crucial role in the notion of cohesiveness and coherence in the text, particularly in opinion text. This study was intended to seek the theme and thematic progression patterns in the context of Indonesian opinion articles. To achieve the objective, Halliday theory was applied...

This study is aimed to scrutinize the accuracy and the consistency of terms found in a Bahasa Indonesia thematic textbook for the fourth graders in elementary school level. To achieve this aim, content analysis is the framework of this study, by employing the analysis model from Busch consisting of five...

Britain decided to leave the European Union based on the results of a referendum on June 23, 2016, which is better known as Brexit (Britain Exit). The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union raises the issue of the English status in the European Union. The issue is to discontinue the...

This research is aimed at describing the result of needs analysis in the development process of contextual-based academic writing learning model which is linked with students’ characteristics. As a research and development, this study uses qualitative and quantitative approaches using a survey method...

Ability to write argumentative text poses several benefits one of which is triggering critical thinking. In its practice, however, students often find it problematic in composing a well-written argumentative text. Based on a preliminary analysis on students’ writing samples, three main setbacks were...

Translating body parts, such as image of women, into target language arises some challenges which, certainly, have different cultural contexts. The challenges lie in the selection of translation techniques from the source language into the target language. This study examines the translation techniques...

Japan and Korea have unceasingly been promoting English language policy to higher education students. The policy does not merely consider English as a means of communication to create interactions among people but also a new capital that can enable people to get an access to rich flow of information...

A constructivist approach has been applied to increase learners’ interaction with the learning environment through social and collaborative activities in a meaningful context. In order to embody the approach, English teachers need to focus more on the writing process as well as understanding the functions...

This study explores an interlingual re-instantiation of attitude as a language appraisal strategy employed by Indonesia’s newspapers in reporting news on attacking incidents. The study aims, firstly, to reveal the types of attitude system employed by Indonesia’s newspapers in reporting news on attacking...

This study was aimed at picturing the tendency of political issue produced by eight Indonesian online newspapers. Computer-assisted critical discourse analysis (CACDA) was applied. Corpus based linguistics analysis was employed to unveil the frequency of words in 16 different articles as the representation...

This qualitative study examines lexical and syntactic features in a commentary of Indonesia U23 against South Korea U23 match. Elan 5.2 software was utilised to identify the features. The data were analysed metaphor using Lakoff and Johnson’s and syntactic features using Ferguson’s. The results show...

This research discussed the language style in stand-up comedy by Raditya Dika and Its implementation in stylistic subject in IV semester of PBSI program study of STKIP MPL. The objective of the research is to describe the using of language style stand up comedy. This research is descriptive qualitative...

The postponed implementation of 2013 curriculum in several regions in Indonesia has made some schools have implemented authentic assessment while other schools have not. This study aimed to investigate English classroom speaking assessment along with the teacher's perceptions of the authentic assessment...

This research is to follow-up the issue spreading in the community concerning with the language shift that threatens the survival of Gorontalo language (BG), especially in the region of Gorontalo City. Language shifting that increasingly threatens the existence of Gorontalo language tends to occur in...

This study is an attempt to give a descriptive review on the development of English in primary schools. Additional data about the practical consequences of this recent policy to schools are also provided. To achieve those purposes, the data were collected from relevant article journals as well as any...

Many studies have shown that there is phenomenon of spelling errors committed by beginner foreign language learners. This study aims to investigate the spelling errors in written production of beginner students in French as a foreign language. The data of this study is the writing sample of description...

This present case study investigated how pre-service English teachers perceive feedback provision from their teacher-supervisor during their three-month teaching practice program. Three pre-service English teachers at a public secondary school served as respondents. They served seventh and eighth secondary...

Quizizz, a web-based assessment tool, has been innovatively used in formative assessment to activate students self-assessment. The need of timely feedback on students’ performance is key point of self-assessment which most teachers rarely give due to lack of time. This study aims to present a practical...

This study is primarily aimed to study the validity and reliability of teacher-made assessment for English mid-term examination used in evaluating students’ learning experience: to what extent the test quality is in term of content validity, reliability, index of difficulty, index of discrimination,...

Early introduction of English in the schooling system has become prevalent in this globalized world. The notion that English is required for highly competitive societies put the government under pressure to articulate an early primary school English program. It is commonly perceived that there is more...

The use of language as a communication tool in the practice of criminal justice in Indonesia has ruled out the diversity of transcendental values in a person as a complete human being. The process of enforcing criminal law in Indonesia is only based on patterns of reasoning and argumentation using the...

Techniques of Think-Pair-Share is a learning technique of several techniques from Cooperative Learning model that students are expected to work together to get the mutual benefits. The aims of this study are to find out the effect of Think Pair Share (TPS) technique and personality types on English essay...

This paper elaborates the actual processes of translation viewed by Indonesian translators in the making of translation works. Twelve experienced translators having various educational backgrounds, from tourism, English, education, chemistry, pharmacy, law, to philosophy were purposively invited to get...

Among various texts taught in secondary schools, exposition text is considered one of the most challenging texts to be learned by students. Informed by Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this study seeks to investigate what problems encountered by students in writing exposition. To achieve that,...

This study aims at obtaining a deep understanding of multicultural education values in the novel of "Negeri 5 Menara” by A. Fuadi. This study used qualitative with content analysis techniques. This research was analyzed through structural literary approach. The data consisted of words, sentences, expressions...

In Indonesian elementary schools, English subject has been transformed to be an extracurricular subject since the 2013 Curriculum was implemented in order to give more opportunities to our young learners to learn the local languages. In East Java, this is supported by the Governor Regulation Number 19...

Doing reflective practice is a hallmark of teachers’ professionalism in the world. One means to achieve it is through structuring the reflective practice via technology. Unfortunately, it was found rare in of Indonesian classroom practice. The central issue of this study is to uncover benefits and drawbacks...

Communication in social media does not necessarily take place by making use of words. Words in written form, texts in social media communication are often combined with images. This qualitative descriptive study addresses young people’s meant intentions by interacting using emoji in posts and comments...

Language politics spirited by the nuances of language preservation is reflected in Indonesia education milieu. The realization of the language preservation attempt includes the stipulation of Indonesia language as the language of education bring about an obligation to use the language as a tool of communication...

Despite the notion of eco-linguistics; ecology and language, has been extensively discussed until currently, its complexity invites studies to make further specific contribution to strengthening the underpinning theories. This paper aims to sustain the emergence of an ecological perspective in the Applied...

The paper discusses translation techniques of a translated English-Sundanese novel. It focuses on the translation techniques of honorific markers from an English novel entitled ‘King Solomon’s Mines and its Sundanese version: Pependeman Nabi Sulaeman. The research aims to reveal the effect of translation...

This paper reviews the paradigm of Language Planning and Policy (LPP) which has shifted in Great Britain. The sources comes from 30 articles, one book chapter, and one paper presentation. The aim of this paper id to show how LPP has shifted in the Great Britain in the 21st century. LPP has changed into...

This study aims to determine the influence of using Project-Based Learning (PBL) on students’ creativity in making videos about the Noh and understanding of Japanese literature. Noh is a Japanese theatrical art form that has been handed down through generations and been labeled one of the world oldest...

The increase of difficult new words, complex sentences, various context and new information from reading materials make learning and teaching at the intermediate level difficult. The objective of this study is to identify student’s difficulties in comprehending complex sentences and how teachers overcome...

Introduction to Linguistics is one of compulsory subjects that are available in English Department, Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES). To enhance the learners in learning linguistics concepts, it is necessary to implement Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) model by using a technical...

Dissatisfaction, criticism, accusation, and insult are some actions that are related to the use of abusive language. In relation to the concept of face, by using the abusive language, the speaker imposed the hearer’s positive face. This article focuses on Surya Paloh's lawsuit against Rizal Ramli. Rizal...

The existing literature shows that new curriculum reforms always bring about emotional tensions of teachers as curriculum implementers. However, the real challenges are not so much discussed by previous studies which only seek to understand the perspectives and particular features of the assessment....

Based on the concept of language time, all languages in the world are divided into two categories; tense and tenseless language. As a tense language, English is grammatical since verbs change to other forms. However, Indonesian (as a tenseless one) has an ungrammatical linguistic tool, such as using...

The purpose of this paper is to explore how students’ interaction with texts evolved upon an introduction to Critical Literacy (CL). Two questions posed were (1) how the students respond to texts within CL framework and (2) how they shifted their reading conception. This exploratory case study involved...

This study aimed to analyze the translations of conversational implicatures in The Hobbit movies subtitle. In addition, this study tried to describe the pragmatic shifts between the source text (movies script) and the target text (movie subtitle). Furthermore, this study tried to identify the translations...

Recent trends in the implementation of using computer in language learning in many Indonesian high schools have led to the development of Computer-Assisted Language Testing (CALT). The aim of this paper is to elaborate the result of analytical review of relevant and recent literatures about the potentials...

Due to the growing demand of french in hospitality industry, analyzing the appropriate materials for diploma hospitality students must be done. This study is an attempt to analyze subjective and objective language learning needs for diploma hospitality students. This study is a qualitative descriptive...

This paper presents a study of linguistic politeness in Palembang Malay language in Indonesia. It is a language spoken in South Sumatera, Indonesia, henceforth referred to as Palembangnese. The overall goal of this paper is to contribute to the wider literature on the use of directives. However, in particular,...

Arabic hollow verb has two kind stems of perfective. Those faced three main factors, (1) root and morphological template, (2) phonological aspect, and (3) imperfective form. The previous study had multilevel analysis using concatenative strategy, to account for conjugation of Arabic hollow verb. The...

Acknowledging learners’ growing engagement with emergence technologies and multimodal practices in and outside of school, teachers are required to reconceptualize their pedagogical frameworks to assist learners in the learning and knowledge constructions using digital multimodal devices. In the field...

The study attempts to describe how opposition politicians construct their transmission of meaning by utilizing cyber-based communication features, particularly in a social media platform. A corpus of 30 Twitter postings (tweets) is qualitatively analyzed within a cyber-pragmatic framework. In analyzing...

There is a consensus that the status and the unique values of indigenous languages make them imperative to be learnt, taught, utilized and protected from their state of endangerment. Moreover, indigenous language in Australia and New Zealand is a crucial issue that may influence language planning and...

Oedipus Rex as has been analyzed from many points of view such as psychoanalysis, literature or even theology. In this research, the Oedipus Rex will be analyzed from the eye of stylistic pragmatics which is implicature. The objective of this research is to reveal the real meaning lying inside the language...

Any translation practices aim at producing a target text (TT) which is equivalent in meaning to the source text (ST) and corresponding to the style and lexicogrammar applicable in the target language (TL). One of the ways to arrive at such purpose is through shift. From the SFL point of view, shifts...

Quality is the ultimate goal of any translation practices. However, a quality translation is always debatable for different methods of assessment, widely known as translation quality assessment (TQA). The issue of relativity and subjectivity is apparent in many TQA models. This study aims at developing...

The study aims to analyze the sluicing structure form process in Sundanese. The analysis was conducted towards data in Sundanese. The language data used were written language and intuition language data. The intuition language data were contributed to substantiate written language data. Necessarily,...

Dealing with technical vocabulary is one of the essentials of English Language Teaching (ELT), yet it is still a major concern for learners and teachers who are bound to specific purposes of learning English. This paper reports on and compares two approaches to determining words to be included in a...

The advanced development of computing technology covers various religious texts, such as Quran. Through computing technology, the Quran is formatted digitally in the forms of images and texts. The Quranic format in the form of digital texts, furthermore, is transformed into a Quranic corpus used widely...

In implementing Performance-Based Assessment (PBA), teachers should have sufficient knowledge and skills to avoid potential bias of scoring which can lead to less objective and unreliable results of assessment. Yet, how teachers conduct and administer this method of assessment might be conditional in...

Errors are frequently made by learners as they study a foreign language. Due to the error occurrences, it is necessary for teachers to assist their students in fixing their errors which might be done by giving corrective feedback. Thus, the objectives of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of...

This study attempts to discover the problems that the students encounter during writing recount text by employing qualitative case study design. The data were obtained from the writing sample of a grade XI student from one of a public high school in Kadipaten, West Java. Applying the framework of Systemic...

Increasingly globalized world which has enabled technology to be integrated in 21st century learning provides a main support for their use in education. This paper examines university students’ perceptions on the use of ILearn; a web-based learning and assessment for indirect writing assessment in an...

This research begins with the presence of Sundanese literary works, especially short story which tells about female characters. This study aims to describe the world picture of women according to their nature which acts as a mother and as a wife on short story Panggung Wayang by Aam Amilia. The source...

Delivering a presentation is more than just giving information; it also aims to entertain, inspire, motivate and even to activate the listeners. To obtain the expected results, a presenter must attract his audience’s attention sufficiently and communicate his thoughts and feelings adequately by also...

In many countries, including Indonesia, TOEFL test is used as entry as well as exit requirement for university education. TOEFL is chosen because it is the most well-known criterion reference test for foreign language learners. This paper aims to find out university students’ perception regarding the...

There have been many Indonesian sign language interpreters who go hand in hand with Deaf communities in promoting inclusive environment by mainstreaming the exposure of sign language in various social media, particularly YouTube, using a song as the most influential media to endorse the promotion of...

This study analyzed the meaning and functions of apology expressions in Japanese and Sundanese in non-apology context, their use based on socio-situational factors, and their degree of politeness. The data were collected from various sources such as comics, magazines, internet and other printed literature...

Vocabulary is a central part of a language and a success of learning vocabulary when students understand what teachers are teaching and they can give feedback on teaching materials. The implementation of polysemy and homonymy into teaching and learning practice is one way to improve vocabulary. This...

This study is based upon Binglish (bahasa Indonesia-English) interaction setting and the speech act analysis used by EFL learners in Kampung Inggris Kediri, Indonesia whose aims are to see how leaners use kinds of speech acts, strategies to use speech acts, and reasons to select the speech acts. A pragmatic...

In teaching English EFL classroom, pre-service teachers find it difficult to use the knowledge gained in their teacher education program and the practices they had been taught in that program and the practices of classroom teaching. Therefore, pre-service teacher often encounters barriers, especially...

Assessment is the process of collecting and processing information to measure the achievement of learning outcomes of students. As an educator, a teacher is often faced with making important decisions about students’ assessment. A teacher must be objective in giving an assessment for the students’ work....

Motivation is the most influence factor in doing the activities especially in reading activity. Motivation consists of two categories such as intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. One of the tools for motivating students is Moodle when learning English in reading activity. This study aim...

The ability to master official language is often associated with the level of someone’s nationality, thus people started to use official language and leave their heritage languages. This article is aimed at describing the government’s efforts to preserve heritage languages, through the language policy,...

Twenty first-century education paradigm suggests foreign language teacher becomes creative in presenting and delivering lesson to the students. Many studies indicated that multimodality is one strategy that can be used to teach reading. This study aimed to find out teachers’ perception towards the use...

The advancement of technology provides education with many solutions to enhance learning activities. Edubox as a technology application is believed could give a solution for teachers in creating language assessments. This research was aimed to investigate how Edubox was implemented and how teachers and...

Nowadays, social media become a necessity for people to interact, collaborate, and share resources with other people in any part of the world. And it can be denied that the users are almost from students. One of popular social media is Instagram which enables its users to take, share, and comment the...

Nowadays English is used to communicate not only to the native speakers but also to the non-Native English users. Instead of acquiring native-like pronunciation, ability to pronounce English with received- pronunciation and at least being understood by other users, called as intelligibility, become a...

The article was dealing with the descriptions of students’ achievement in learning the productive skills of English. It aimed to describe the students’ learning achievement for both speaking and writing skills and their problems in their learning career. The research participants consisted of 30 students....

Learner’s readiness towards LA is prominent to be researched on, because readiness of a learner has a profound influence on their learning behavior, without it the deployment of strategies may be less effective. The purpose of the study is to analyze learner’s readiness in LA by assessing their past...

Technology recently has been inseparable from language teaching. Bringing a proper technology into a classroom can give different and beneficial effect for the students, especially in listening class. Having a listening class without any use of technology may cause a boredom for the students, considering...

This study was undertaken in a primary school in Lembang which prescribes Indonesian as the medium of instruction for Indonesian subject. However, it has been observed that the policy has not been fully adhered to. Code-switching and code-mixing of Indonesian and Sundanese occur extensively in the teacher’s...

This study aims to describe and examine more deeply the importance of character education values to be internalized in the learning process of students, especially in learning English. This study uses the literature study method. Law No. 20 of 2003 concerning the National Education System in Article...

Selecting and presenting materials in a listening classroom especially in coping with the difficulties in catching the meaning and the information and the limitation of the materials produced by the native speakers become the problems in teaching listening in EFL context. The way how the materials presented...

This study aimed to identify cultural words found in English Translation Booklet “Jogja The Real Java” and describe translation techniques used by the translator in translating the booklet. The method applied was descriptive qualitative research by collecting and analyzing both the Indonesian and English...

An adept writer must be able to convey message, idea or even criticism to get involved in real life problem solving. A writer commonly has been through some steps (drafting, revising, editing) to finally publish their final work to the public. It also counts to secondary students in Indonesia who are...

Metacognitive reading strategies are essential strategies needed by readers in comprehending texts. This study aimed at investigating the correlation between metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension among the first year EFL students at a public university in West Java. Data were collected...

Teaching reading ESP texts must be linked to student-specific specializations which include special programs designed to develop communicative use of English in the fields of science, work or technology. The fact, most students find it difficult to read and understand the meaning of ESP texts because...

Many studies of backchannels have focused mainly on verbalized backchannels, such as `soudesuka`, `hontou`, `really`, `yeah` etc. But, in this research, we analyzed backchannel verbally and non-verbally in Japanese and Indonesian language in the interview setting. The interview interactions are quite...

Popularly known as a core of cooperative learning, group work is frequently applied in classroom. However, some researches revealed that collaborative atmosphere was hardly found in the groupwork. The available researches mainly discussed the students’ perspective through questionnaires and only a few...

There are three kinds of clauses that are discussed in this study; they are nominal, relative, and adverbial clauses, and then each of these clauses has its own divisions. The article was oriented to the results about the university students’ competences in these concerns. The study aimed to describe...

This paper aims to offer an alternative to teach an argumentative letter text grounded on systemic functional linguistics by synergizing the grammatical materials demanded to be learnt in a private school in Bandung with a GBA teaching using Reading to Learn cycle. Using a qualitative case study method,...

Former mayor of Bandung Ridwan Kamil always mention the phrase "happiness index" when he inaugurated the park, and other programs in the city Bandung.　Since 2013 Bandung already has approximately 24 public open spaces (parks). In the Beginning 2017 Teras Cihampelas has been inaugurated as the newest...

The advanced ICT yields new paradigm in English teaching and learning practice. Instructional practice has shifted into technological oriented since technology offers abundant tools to optimize learning outcomes. Furthermore, Curriculum 2013 has proposed ICT implementation for all subjects at schools...

This paper proposed an alternative way to teach argumentative text based on systemic functional linguistics. The design employed is case study which allows an investigation to retain the holistic and meaningful characteristics of real-life events. In this case, it is conducted to untangle students’ problem...

This study focused on Character Education Based on Oral Literature and Its Utilization as an Alternative of Literary Material in School. This Oral literature is in touch with oral literature of Muna Society. Muna is one of the ethnics in Southeast Sulawesi, which is rich of local culture and respects...

Studies on the investigation of indirect written corrective feedback given by English teacher to students’ writing as part of their formative assessment seem not have been fully investigated. Thus, this study aimed to find out how the teacher gave indirect feedback to the student’s writing and the reasons...

Learner autonomy places important role in language learning because it promotes independent role to increase the learning progress as well as learning achievement; thus, the purpose of this study was to analyse teachers’ and learners’ perception of learner autonomy in their classroom practice, especially...

In some cases of speaking learning process, there are still many inappropriate tasks given by the teachers. The objective of this study is to analyze the communicativeness in students’ speaking task. The participant of this study was an English teacher in one Senior high school in Lampung. A qualitative...

Indonesian children are mostly taught to speak Bahasa Indonesia as their first language (L1) since they were born. However, there is a common tendency nowadays where most of Indonesian parents start to teach their newborn with the thought that the best time to teach their children a second language (L2)...

Innovation includes two sides, namely process and result. As a process, innovation is the creation of new forms or meanings due to the changes in the original form or meaning, whether it refers to the original word itself or the emergence of new words. The purpose of this research is to observe lexical...

Conversations are famous yet essential in people communication. There are a lot of things can be explored from the conversations since people brings cultures in communication. People also show theirs and others’ identity in the conversations they have. Therefore, investigating conversation to capture...

One of many changes that modern pesantrens makes within their curriculum in order to adjust it to the globalization era is to take English as a part of their curriculum. Most modern pesantrens develop their own English curriculum and place their own purposes. Even though English seems to be a new thing...