Langua: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Education

The Use of MURDER Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

2024-04-01T00:25:25+00:00

The aim of this research was to find out how the use of MURDER strategy can improve students' reading comprehension at SMP Islam 2 Kota Ternate. The researcher used Classroom Action Research (CAR) to conduct this research. There were 22 students as a subject. There were two cycles, each cycle consisted of two meetings. Based on the description of the research results and discussion, it was concluded that implementing the MURDER strategy can improve students' reading comprehension. In the first cycle, only two students achieve a passing grade, meaning 90.9% of students studying at the SMP Islam 2 Kota Ternate failed the passing exam. In the second cycle, however, only 13.63% of students failed to get a passing grade. This means that in the second cycle, 19 students met the success criteria and only 3 students did not yet meet the success criteria. This means that the reading comprehension of students at SMP Islam 2 Kota Ternate has improved significantly compared to the reading literacy teaching and learning process before the implementation of the MURDER. strategy.

The Moral Value and Characteristics of the Main Character in Skyscraper by Rawson Marshall

2024-04-01T00:25:29+00:00

This research aims to show the moral values and characteristics of the main character in Rawson Marshall Thurber's Skyscraper movie. The study employed the descriptive qualitative methodology. The data analysis method utilized a new criticism analysis, which includes analyzing the structure of theme, the structure of feel/feelings, the structure of tone and atmosphere, and the structure of mandate. The research object under study covers the entire duration of the movie. The researchers concluded that:1) The packaging of moral values in Skyscraper movie by Rawson Marshall Thurber has three moral values that help build the character of the main character. 2) The main character in this movie is portrayed as persistent, honest, and courageous. 3) The observations indicate that the main character's characteristics are influenced by moral values, highlighting the significance of moral principles in overcoming challenges and emphasizing that a positive mindset leads to optimism, perseverance, and a good attitude.

Implementing Frontloading Strategy in an Attempt to Trigger the Improvement of Students' Vocabulary Mastery

2024-04-01T00:25:27+00:00

In this study, the authors used the frontloading strategy to improve students' vocabulary. The main objectives of this study were to describe the implementation of the frontloading strategy in vocabulary instruction and to determine the extent to which students' vocabulary skills improved after instruction through the use of the front-loading strategy. This study is a classroom action research conducted in two cycles. Data was collected through observation, testing and interviews. Data from observations, tests and interviews from each cycle were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The implementation of the frontloading strategy for vocabulary teaching in Class XI 3 of St. John Paul II Catholic Senior High School was carried out in two cycles. The participants in this study were 30 students. The result of this study shows that using frontloading strategy can improve students' vocabulary skills. This is evidenced by the students' test scores, which increased in each cycle, namely Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. In the first cycle, the student's average score was 50%, in the second cycle the average score was 83.33%. It can be concluded that the frontloading strategy can improve students' ability to master vocabulary and also improve teaching.

An analysis of students’ difficulties in learning vocabulary at secondary school in Muhamadiyah Waipare Maumere

2024-04-01T00:25:31+00:00

This study aimed to identify the challenges and variables that eighth-grade students encounter when learning vocabulary. A quantitative research design was used in this study. The researchers employed close-ended questionnaires as the data collection tool in conjunction with an indirect communication technique to obtain the data. The eighth-grade pupils were the focus of this study. All of the data underwent descriptive analysis. The results demonstrated that students had a variety of challenges when it came to learning vocabulary. Grammar is the main factor, but students also have trouble learning vocabulary because of pronunciation and meaning. Additionally, there are external and internal factors that affect how well students learn vocabulary. The internal components included development, IQ, experience, drive, and memory. The usage of learning media, school facilities, family, and a variety of teaching methods were the external factors. The solutions to these problems are to read a lot of English vocabulary, practice learning vocabulary through exercises, and cultivate enthusiasm and motivation for learning vocabulary.

Defense mechanism in Charles Williams’ Dead Calm

2024-04-01T00:25:33+00:00

This study analyzes defense mechanism undergone by Hughie Warriner in Dead Calm. Warriner conducts defense mechanism because he wants to reduce his anxiety after accidental incident of sinking a yacht and the killing of his friend. His action of doing defense mechanism is psychologically explainable that is also undergone by people in real life which then becomes the reason the researchers get interested in analyzing defense mechanism. Besides, this kind of mechanisms are close in human life that man is born with anxiety through which he conducts defense mechanisms unconsciously. Using three types of anxiety by Sigmund Freud, the study shows that Warriner conducts defense mechanisms: denial, displacement, and sublimation. By denial, he denies sinking the yacht and killing his friend, by displacement, he blames other object by shouting at it, and by sublimation, he puts the investigators under the yacht. Thus, the three types of defense mechanism are worthy of research since people can reduce their anxiety properly. By this study then, the researchers hope so much that it contributes to the development of the literary study especially in the study of psychology of literature.

Politeness strategies employed by an English teacher in “Program Kelas Full Day Sains dan Bahasa” at MTs Mathalibul Huda

2024-04-22T00:22:42+00:00

This study focused on the politeness strategy used by an English teacher in the “Kelas Full Day Sains dan Bahasa Program” at MTs Mathalibul Huda. It aims to analyze the types of politeness strategy and the dominant strategy in classroom interaction. The method of this study was a qualitative descriptive approach. Brown and Levinson's (1978) theory was chosen to analyze the types of politeness strategies. The data collection techniques were observing, recording, transcribing, checking the transcription and selecting the speaker's utterances. Analysis involved identifying utterances based on the politeness strategies used, analyzing frequency, interpreting data, and concluding. There were four types of politeness strategies: blunt politeness, positive politeness, negative politeness, and confidential politeness. The result of four meetings revealed that 42 out of 103 daters had a politeness strategy of 41% classified as “overt politeness,” 39 out of 103 daters had a positive politeness rate of 38%, and 16 out of 103 daters had a negative politeness strategy of 15% and 6 of 103 data were categorized as off-record of 6%. Therefore, the predominant type of politeness strategy used by English teachers in teaching and learning is direct openness. This indicates that the teacher valued concise directness.

Pronunciation challenges: seventh-grade consonant errors in SMP PGRI Walantaka

2024-04-01T00:25:39+00:00

The study investigated the pronunciation errors made by seventh-grade students at SMP PGRI Walantaka Serang specifically on fricatives and affricates sounds. The research used qualitative methodology with case study as the research design, and the sample of this research was class VII with a total of 25 students as the participants. The data collecting technique used in this research was observation, interview, and documentation. The errors found were misformation errors with the presentation of 77,77% of total errors that students made, followed by addition with 11,11%, omission errors with 7,40%, and the lowest error was misordering error with 3,70%. The source of errors was because of the involvement of students’ native language and accents, challenges in adopting English pronunciation, insufficient facility, lack of teachers, and students’ learning styles, and teacher’s inaccuracy in communicating the subject. The researcher concludes that students struggle with pronunciation, specifically fricatives and affricates.