The purpose of this study was to explore students' activities and perceptions in carrying out online lectures through the WhatsApp Group application, Google Classroom, and Zoom and finding effective ways to study during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study was expected to identify the readiness of students to follow online lectures and find effective ways to study as well as being the basis for higher education institutions to establish policies for implementing online lectures. The researcher used a qualitative study. The participants were the 33 EFL students of the English Department both male and female who joined the Essential Writing Class. The researcher used convenience sampling which invited subjects to participate. The instruments used in this research were a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Data analysis used was thematic coding. The results show that most students were ready to study online. They only focused on the material. However, they did not pay attention to the way they learned; that was online learning. There are three aspects involved to make the class more effective; they are the lecturer, the students, and the media. These three aspects must work together to create effective online courses. Keywords: perception, readiness, online
The number of women attaining leadership positions in governmental institutions is significantly increasing. The growth of recognizing women in the political sphere prompts the need for this paper to explore how women maintain power and authority on the 'floor' through their language choices. To that extent, this study aims to analyse Lakoff's women's language features used by Kamala Harris in the vice-presidential debate 2020 to reveal how she, as the first American woman-of-colour senator, maintains a powered speech through her linguistics choices. The qualitative research method is utilized, with the discourse analysis approach to explore how language use and its context construe meanings of social reality. Two primary sources are used in data gathering: vice-presidential debate transcription from rev.com and the vice-presidential debate video from NBCNews on YouTube. The result shows five out of ten women's language features used by Kamala Harris in the vice-presidential debates, consisting of 11 (16%) lexical hedges, 8 (11%) empathetic stress, 23 (33%) hypercorrect grammar, 1 (1%) super polite form, and 27 (39%) intensifier as the most dominant feature. However, there are no tag questions, rising intonation on declarative, empty adjectives, precise colour terms, and avoidance use of swear words.
This paper aims to figure out the speakers say that indicate their regional origin, language elements that contribute their dialect, and students' feeling when they join a multilanguage community. To conduct this research, this paper uses two approaches, namely asking questions, and taking notes. The subject of this research is English Literature 2015 major, A class students in English Department, State University of Surabaya. In Indonesia, especially in East Java, most of university students come from various regions. They bring different ways of speaking. The way they choose the words and their accent are two things that are observable. In linguistics study, by knowing the way of someone's speaking, it may reveal the speaker's identity. This paper concludes that to reveal students' identity, the listener must pay attention to their dialect, which consists of grammar, vocabulary, and accent. By focusing on the elements, the listener can reveal students' identity easily.
Native speakers of a given language, including Javanese, may not be aware of their detail language system. This is due to the fact that they are able to use their first language through natural process of language transmission from care givers and members of community. Furthermore, it seems that they are given a talent to produce "strange" expressions automatically, for instances, mloka-mlaku vs. mlaku-mlaku, ngguya-ngguyu vs. ngguyu-ngguyu. This paper is intended to reveal how the reduplication system for "negative" quantifier works in Javanese language when phonology is taken into account. Descriptive qualitative is applied with documentation and interview. The findings suggest that the occurrence of reduplication system for "negative" quantifier is predictable. Firstly, the words are reflected regressively from the source of the word. Secondly, the nucleus of the last syllable must be [a] vowel as the default. Thirdly, the nucleus of the first syllable is kept as it is, except [a] vowel. Whenever [a] is the nucleus of the first syllable, it is changed into [o] vowel. Thus, these predictable phonological mechanisms allow Javanese native speakers produce "negative" quantifiers correctly, yet unconsciously.
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