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Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature, 2019
This study aims to examine English spoken language uttered by Indonesian EFL learners by employin... more This study aims to examine English spoken language uttered by Indonesian EFL learners by employing error and interlanguage analysis. It principally focuses on highlighting the value of error and interlanguage analysis on the development of Indonesian English language teaching classroom. The data were in the form of language transcription taken from a structured sociolinguistics interview with an advanced English learner. The results indicate that errors, either on phonological, grammatical, lexical, or pragmatic competence, are principally caused by L1 or interlingual transfer, despite few occurrences of developmental errors. Regarding the implication of this study for language classroom, it offers several suggestions for improving English language classroom including an introduction of varieties of chunk languages and adjacency pairs used across cultures to students.
This study is aimed to know what is semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SM... more This study is aimed to know what is semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo like in term of content validity, index of difficulty, index of discrimination, and the effectiveness of distractors. The design used in this study is a descriptive research because it describes the quality of semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo. It also used quantitative approach since it used numerical caculation to compute the data. The result of this study reported that semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo has good content validity. It also reported that the index of difficulty of semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo used for X1 and X2 are acceptable, but they are recognized easy test for X3. Beside, the index of discrimination of this test is for X1, satisfactory for X2, and malfuntion for X3.
The Qualitative Report
Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the c... more Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the concept of it is controversial. Students are required to display it in academic writing which is the default of university assessment. However, international students from “non-Western” backgrounds in particular, frequently experience difficulty in demonstrating critical expression in their written texts. The current study, in the light of interviews with four Indonesian master’s students, therefore, aims at investigating their perception of critical thinking, exposing some factors perceived to be influencing the application of critical thinking in academic writing, and exploring their development of critical thinking. The results of the analysis reveal that although they were raised and educated in different cultural and educational context, they have a sufficient understanding of the concept and passionately engage with critical thinking. The findings also show that despite the influenc...
This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjective... more This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjectives: “skinny”, “slim”, and “thin”. It employs the British National Corpus (BNC) as data and Sketch Engine as a data analysis instrument. By using corpus linguistics techniques such as concordance and collocation analysis, it compares the synonymous words’ usage, meaning, and pattern to identify which synonymous words are more appropriate in a certain context. The results suggest that “thin” has neutral nuance expression and “slim” tends to carry a positive connotation, while “skinny” is often used by speakers when they want to be more pejorative or deprecating. Moreover, unlike “skinny” which mainly modifies animate-related nouns, “slim” is more Naskah Diterima Tanggal 31 Juli 2018—Direvisi Akhir Tanggal 16 Mei 2019—Disetujui Tanggal 23 Mei 2019 Doi: 10.26499/rnh.v8i1.894 Skinny, Slim, dan Thin:... 20 | ©2019, Ranah, 8 (1), 19—32 heterogeneous as they also can modify inanimate-related noun...
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2019
This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjective... more This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjectives: skinny, slim, and thin. It employs the British National Corpus (BNC) as data and Sketch Engine as data analysis instrument. By using corpus linguistics techniques such as concordance and collocation analysis, it compares the synonymous words’ usage, meaning, and pattern to identify which synonymous words are more appropriate in a certain context. The results suggest that thin has neutral nuance expression and slim tends to carry positive connotation, while skinny is often used by speakers when they want to be more pejorative or deprecating. Moreover, unlike skinny which mainly modifies animate-related nouns, slim is more heterogeneous as they also can modify inanimate-related nouns and when it collocates with inanimate nouns, it often extends its’ meaning into metaphor expression which means ‘small’. Thin is used in many idiomatic expressions and when combined with common words it can...
The Qualitative Report, 2020
Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the c... more Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the concept of it is controversial. Students are required to display it in academic writing which is the default of university assessment. However, international students from ‘non-Western’ backgrounds in particular, frequently experience difficulty in demonstrating critical expression in their written texts. The current study, in the light of interviews with four Indonesian masters students, therefore, aims at investigating their perception of critical thinking, exposing some factors perceived to be influencing the application of critical thinking in academic writing, and exploring their development of critical thinking. The results of the analysis reveal that although they were raised and educated in different cultural and educational context, they have a sufficient understanding of the concept and passionately engage with critical thinking. The findings also show that despite the influence of culture and educational background on their writing style, the participant have ability to adequately adapt to a new discourse. The challenges they faced include a lack of evaluation and synthesis skills, structuring ideas, and grammatical problems. The study suggests the need for the university and tutors to evaluate their writing instructions to focus more on providing writing practices and review the custom of conventional form of essay to accommodate more a range of divers yet unique expression. Keywords: Critical thinking, academic writing, non-western students, an interview-based qualitative approach, thematic analysis
Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature, 2019
This study aims to examine English spoken language uttered by Indonesian EFL learners by employin... more This study aims to examine English spoken language uttered by Indonesian EFL learners by employing error and interlanguage analysis. It principally focuses on highlighting the value of error and interlanguage analysis on the development of Indonesian English language teaching classroom. The data were in the form of language transcription taken from a structured sociolinguistics interview with an advanced English learner. The results indicate that errors, either on phonological, grammatical, lexical, or pragmatic competence, are principally caused by L1 or interlingual transfer, despite few occurrences of developmental errors. Regarding the implication of this study for language classroom, it offers several suggestions for improving English language classroom including an introduction of varieties of chunk languages and adjacency pairs used across cultures to students.
This study is aimed to know what is semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SM... more This study is aimed to know what is semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo like in term of content validity, index of difficulty, index of discrimination, and the effectiveness of distractors. The design used in this study is a descriptive research because it describes the quality of semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo. It also used quantitative approach since it used numerical caculation to compute the data. The result of this study reported that semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo has good content validity. It also reported that the index of difficulty of semester II english final test for tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Sidoarjo used for X1 and X2 are acceptable, but they are recognized easy test for X3. Beside, the index of discrimination of this test is for X1, satisfactory for X2, and malfuntion for X3.
The Qualitative Report
Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the c... more Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the concept of it is controversial. Students are required to display it in academic writing which is the default of university assessment. However, international students from “non-Western” backgrounds in particular, frequently experience difficulty in demonstrating critical expression in their written texts. The current study, in the light of interviews with four Indonesian master’s students, therefore, aims at investigating their perception of critical thinking, exposing some factors perceived to be influencing the application of critical thinking in academic writing, and exploring their development of critical thinking. The results of the analysis reveal that although they were raised and educated in different cultural and educational context, they have a sufficient understanding of the concept and passionately engage with critical thinking. The findings also show that despite the influenc...
This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjective... more This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjectives: “skinny”, “slim”, and “thin”. It employs the British National Corpus (BNC) as data and Sketch Engine as a data analysis instrument. By using corpus linguistics techniques such as concordance and collocation analysis, it compares the synonymous words’ usage, meaning, and pattern to identify which synonymous words are more appropriate in a certain context. The results suggest that “thin” has neutral nuance expression and “slim” tends to carry a positive connotation, while “skinny” is often used by speakers when they want to be more pejorative or deprecating. Moreover, unlike “skinny” which mainly modifies animate-related nouns, “slim” is more Naskah Diterima Tanggal 31 Juli 2018—Direvisi Akhir Tanggal 16 Mei 2019—Disetujui Tanggal 23 Mei 2019 Doi: 10.26499/rnh.v8i1.894 Skinny, Slim, dan Thin:... 20 | ©2019, Ranah, 8 (1), 19—32 heterogeneous as they also can modify inanimate-related noun...
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2019
This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjective... more This paper is an exploratory corpus-based investigation into a group of near synonymous adjectives: skinny, slim, and thin. It employs the British National Corpus (BNC) as data and Sketch Engine as data analysis instrument. By using corpus linguistics techniques such as concordance and collocation analysis, it compares the synonymous words’ usage, meaning, and pattern to identify which synonymous words are more appropriate in a certain context. The results suggest that thin has neutral nuance expression and slim tends to carry positive connotation, while skinny is often used by speakers when they want to be more pejorative or deprecating. Moreover, unlike skinny which mainly modifies animate-related nouns, slim is more heterogeneous as they also can modify inanimate-related nouns and when it collocates with inanimate nouns, it often extends its’ meaning into metaphor expression which means ‘small’. Thin is used in many idiomatic expressions and when combined with common words it can...
The Qualitative Report, 2020
Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the c... more Critical thinking is generally valued as expected outcomes of university graduates although the concept of it is controversial. Students are required to display it in academic writing which is the default of university assessment. However, international students from ‘non-Western’ backgrounds in particular, frequently experience difficulty in demonstrating critical expression in their written texts. The current study, in the light of interviews with four Indonesian masters students, therefore, aims at investigating their perception of critical thinking, exposing some factors perceived to be influencing the application of critical thinking in academic writing, and exploring their development of critical thinking. The results of the analysis reveal that although they were raised and educated in different cultural and educational context, they have a sufficient understanding of the concept and passionately engage with critical thinking. The findings also show that despite the influence of culture and educational background on their writing style, the participant have ability to adequately adapt to a new discourse. The challenges they faced include a lack of evaluation and synthesis skills, structuring ideas, and grammatical problems. The study suggests the need for the university and tutors to evaluate their writing instructions to focus more on providing writing practices and review the custom of conventional form of essay to accommodate more a range of divers yet unique expression. Keywords: Critical thinking, academic writing, non-western students, an interview-based qualitative approach, thematic analysis