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The complexity of a reading process often becomes an obstacle for students with dyslexia, particularly those studying in bilingual schools. To date, few studies discuss the Indonesian-English bilingual dyslexic student’s reading processes when they encounter reading texts in both languages they are acquiring. This study aimed to investigate the tendency of a dyslexic student’s reading comprehension in reading texts in the Indonesian and English language. This was done by comparing the reading comprehension of a second-grade Indonesian dyslexic participant (age=9) and four control participants. Two sets of reading instruments, written in the Indonesian language. The keywords used in each language were taken from participants’ textbooks. There were two types of sentences in the reading instrument; highly contextual sentences and sentences which is in accordance with participants’ background knowledge. After reading each sentence, they were asked to answer comprehension questions about each keyword. The scoring was based on their answer accuracy. The results were analyzed based on the reading comprehension theories proposed by Kintsch and Rawson (2005). The results showed that the two groups used different strategies to comprehend the text but the dyslexic participant's reading performance was lower than the control participants' performance in both languages. The results suggested that the dyslexic participant’s reliance on his background knowledge and lack of ability in retrieving appropriate keywords were the sources of his poor reading performance. Practices to improve skills in retrieving background knowledge and utilizing working memory span are suggested.

The current study examined the structural and functional types of four-word lexical bundles in two different corpora of applied linguistics scientific articles written by L1 English and L1 Indonesian professional writers. The findings show that L2 writers employed a higher number of bundles than L1 writers, but L2 writers underused some of the most typical lexical bundles in L1 English writing. Structurally, unlike previous studies, this study reports the frequent use of prepositional phrase (PP) - based bundles in the articles of L2 writers. However, besides the high frequency of PP-based bundles, L2 authors also used a high number of verbal phrase-based bundles, suggesting that these L2 writers were still acquiring more native-like bundles. In terms of functional types, L2 writers employed fewer quantification bundles than their counterparts. This study has potential implications for teaching English for academic writing. Teachers need to raise their students’ awareness of the most frequently used lexical bundles in a specific academic discipline and pay attention to the discourse conventions of academic writing, helping L2 students transition from clausal to phrasal styles.

English plays a vital role in the tourism field since it supports tourism workers and business owners to provide excellent services. Numerous tourism destinations in Indonesia including the ones in Blitar Regency have become the center of attention for foreign tourists. Located in Blitar, East Java, Kampung Coklat and Karanganyar Coffee Plantation have also been continuously preparing their workers and business owners to provide efficient services for both domestic and foreign visitors. In accordance with providing excellent services to foreign tourists, tourism workers and business owners are expected to have good English mastery. Objectives: This community service aims to provide a support for the tourism workers and business owners under the supervision of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Youth, and Sports and the Department of Tourism Promotion of Blitar Regency in terms of improving their English mastery, especially their communication skills in English. Methods: The activity was carried out in three stages, namely two material sessions, speaking activities, and feedback. Results: This activity gave the participants an opportunity to practice serving a customer in English. Even though it was quite challenging for some of the participants, they felt encouraged to actively participate in the speaking activities and get familiar with expressions used in tourism and hospitality services. Conclusion: The supervision and training sessions in speaking English was very enlightening for the participants to improve their English mastery in tourism services. It needs a continuation to provide greater impact to the targeted participants.

This article examines the sentence patterns in the utterance of the young generation of Surabaya, a city with Javanese ngoko language as a daily communication medium. The Topicality Hierarchy and Language Transitivity theory wereemployed to analyze the pattern of sentences in participant speech because of the absence of Krama usage. The data was a conversation between a man and woman who worked as JawaPos Surabaya employee during lunch. The findings show that male participants tend to emphasize the focus of speech on things that are not human because the focus of speech was more on activities and information. But on the contrary, female participant emphasized more on humans because their speech emphasized the agent or the doer. In addition, more definite sentenceswere found in the speech of female participants than male participants. The study also found that female participant speech was more transitive than male participant speech. The findings also suggests that in comparison to the female participant’s speech, the male participant’s speech shows a stronger influence on the object of the sentence in contrast to the number of agents he used in his speech.Artikel ini mengkaji pola kalimat pada ujaran dua penutur muda Bahasa Jawa di Surabaya, sebuah kota dengan bahasa Jawa ngoko sebagai media komunikasi sehari-hari. Teori Topicality Hierarchy dan Language Transitivity digunakan untuk menganalisis pola kalimat dalam tuturan partisipan karena ketiadaan penggunaan kromo. Data merupakan percakapan seorang laki-laki dan perempuan yang bekerja sebagai karyawan Jawa Pos Surabaya ketika bercakap-cakap saat makan siang. Data diambil menggunakan perekam suara. Temuan yang ada menunjukkan bahwa partisipan laki-laki cenderung menitikberatkan fokus tuturan pada hal yang bukan manusia karena fokus tuturan lebih ditekankan pada kegiatan dan keterangan. Namun sebaliknya, partisipan perempuan lebih menekankan kepada manusia karena tuturannya menekankan pada agent atau pelaku kegiatan. Selain itu, lebih banyak ditemukan kalimat definite dalam tuturan partisipan perempuan daripada partisipan laki-laki. Kajian ini juga menemukan bahwa tuturan partisipan perempuan lebih transitif daripada tuturan partisipan laki-laki. Selain itu, dibandingkan dengan tuturan partisipan perempuan, tuturan partisipan laki-laki menunjukkan pengaruh yang lebih kuat terhadap objek kalimat berlawanan dengan jumlah agent yang digunakannya dalam tuturannya.Artikel ini mengkaji pola kalimat pada ujaran dua penutur muda Bahasa Jawa di Surabaya, sebuah kota dengan bahasa Jawa ngoko sebagai media komunikasi sehari-hari. Teori Topicality Hierarchy dan Language Transitivity digunakan untuk menganalisis pola kalimat dalam tuturan partisipan karena ketiadaan penggunaan kromo. Data merupakan percakapan seorang laki-laki dan perempuan yang bekerja sebagai karyawan Jawa Pos Surabaya ketika bercakap-cakap saat makan siang. Data diambil menggunakan perekam suara. Temuan yang ada menunjukkan bahwa partisipan laki-laki cenderung menitikberatkan fokus tuturan pada hal yang bukan manusia karena fokus tuturan lebih ditekankan pada kegiatan dan keterangan. Namun sebaliknya, partisipan perempuan lebih menekankan kepada manusia karena tuturannya menekankan pada agent atau pelaku kegiatan. Selain itu, lebih banyak ditemukan kalimat definite dalam tuturan partisipan perempuan daripada partisipan laki-laki. Kajian ini juga menemukan bahwa tuturan partisipan perempuan lebih transitif daripada tuturan partisipan laki-laki. Selain itu, dibandingkan dengan tuturan partisipan perempuan, tuturan partisipan laki-laki menunjukkan pengaruh yang lebih kuat terhadap objek kalimat berlawanan dengan jumlah agent yang digunakannya dalam tuturannya.