This research aimed at investigating foreign language writing anxiety experienced by Indonesian EFL learners studying at Universitas Negeri Padang. The numbers of participants involved in this survey were 132 students comprising of sophomores, junior, and senior students. This research employed three research instruments: Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) to collect data on students’ levels of writing anxiety; Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) to gauge information about sources of students’ writing anxiety; typologies of tactics to cope with writing anxiety. The result of this research reveals that the level of students’ writing anxiety is moderate. In addition, no significant relationship between students’ writing anxiety level and their academic level is revealed suggesting moderately anxious students outnumbering those with high and low writing anxiety at any academic level. In addition, the sources of students’ writing anxiety are problems with topic choice, linguistic difficulties, and lack of writing practice. The coping strategies used by students to overcome writing anxiety are preparation, positive thinking, relaxation, peer-seeking, and resignation (most-frequent to least frequent respectively).

This research describes about how men and women used euphemism in ‘Indonesia Lawyers Club’ TV One show which limited to the types and functions of euphemism used by men and women.  The source of data was obtained from transcript of the 4 videos aired on December 2017, Januari 208 and February 2018. From the analysis, there were 72 utterances contain euphemistic expression, 33 utterances delivered by men and 39 remarks spoken by women.  In this show researcher found 9 types of euphemism, namely: metaphor, hyperbole, circumlocution, initialism, jargon, figurative expression, understatement, colloquial, and hypernym. From the types mention above, men mostly used euphemism in the type of understatement while women mostly prefer to use jargon. Furthermore, researcher found 5 function of euphemism in this show; euphemism as doublespeak, as a shield to avoid taboo and offense, as uplifting tool, to show solidarity or define certain group, and to entertain.

This study aimed to investigate senior high school students’ attitude towards advantages of learning literature in English. The participants of this research were 22 eleventh grade students in SMAN 2 Padang who took English as Specialization class. This study was descriptive qualitative research used in investigating senior high school students’ attitude towards literature in English. The instrumentations of this research were questionnaire and interview. The following are advantages of learning literature in English, encouraging language sources, improving language skill, expanding students’ awareness through environment and willingness to learn English language. The findings of the research showed that students’ attitude towards advantages of learning literature in English is positive.

Tujuan dari kegiatan ini adalah menyelesaikan permasalahan yang dihadapi oleh guru bahasa Inggris SMA dalam mengajarkan teks sastra berbahasa Inggris. Solusi yang ditawarkan oleh Tim Pelaksana adalah pelatihan mengenai model pembelajaran sastra terintegrasi (Integrated Approaches to Teaching Literature). Metode yang digunakan adalah metode workshop yang berlangsung selama kurun waktu empat bulan (Agustus-November, 2019) di SMAN 1 IV Angkek. Peserta dari kegiatan ini adalah empat orang guru bahasa Inggris yang mengajar di SMAN 1 IV Angkek dan SMAN 1 Canduang, Kabupaten Agam, Sumatera Barat. Selain itu terdapat sepuluh orang siswa yang dilibatkan dalam kegiatan ini untuk keperluan demonstrasi materi yang diberikan dalam pelatihan ini. Berdasarkan hasil evaluasi, kegiatan ini terlaksana dengan baik. Kemudian, peserta juga memetik manfaat dari kegiatan ini dalam hal membantu mereka memahami materi sastra berbahasa Inggris serta pembelajarannya. Peserta juga menyukai materi yang diberikan. Dalam hal ini, peserta guru paling menyukai materi tentang puisi berbahasa Inggris. Sementara itu, peserta siswa paling menyukai materi lagu berbahasa Inggris. Kemudian, capaian yang dapat dilaporkan adalah peserta sudah memiliki pemahaman yang baik mengenai sastra berbahasa Inggris dan pembelajarannya.

This paper seek to highlight economic activities in a matrilineal culture. Matrilineal cultural system has given enormous privileges forMinangkabau women. They have the right to manage the communal property. As the result, the practice of this culture promotes economic independence amongs Minangkabau people. There are three typical characteristics enclosed to this ethnic. First, Minangkabau people are keen practitioners of merantau (going overseas/leaving native places) tradition. Second, Islam is this ethnic official religion and the third, this ethnic practices matrilineal cultural system. This paper observes the activities ofMinangkabau women who travel from one to other traditional markets as merchants which begins to gain popularity as a profession for Minangkabau women in the outset of Asian 1997 monetary crisis. Sikaladi was chosen as the research location of this study. Sikaladi is a jorong (a sub village) within the nagari of Pariangan The result show that, traveling as merchants can be promulgate as a semi-merantau activity. Those women leave their village on the basis and return in the same day. Currently, it has been noted that there are 69 woman traveling merchants in this jorong which means 40%of the overall women population of the jorong are traveling merchants. This situation suggests that these women involvement in economic activities has saved the course of their family from the disastrous storm of the 1997 monetary crisis. Further, it reduces the degree of poverty in this region. Most importantly, it also reduces the number of unemployment among women of productive age in Sikaladi.

The aims of this research is to describe the types and function of interjections used in Webtoon Digital Comic, the differences of used between primary that has 4 subdivided and secondary interjection. The type of this research was a descriptive qualitative research. The data were taken from five genre of Webtoon Digital Comic, they were drama, fantasy, romance, sci-fi and comedy. The data were collected by download 1 title in each 5 genres and then used highlighter to identifying the types and function of interjection. The researcher used table instrument to categories the types and function of interjection used. It is found there are primary and secondary interjection, but the most commonly used is primary interjection that has appeared with 333 (65.81%), while for secondary interjection it just appeared in 173 (34,18%). The results showed that in primary interjection the most frequently found was Expressive function with 167 times, followed by Phatic that has frequency 95 times, and the lowest frequency was comes from Conative that appeared 71 times. Furthermore, in Secondary Interjection result showed there was no significance difference in the use of noun, adjectives, verb and adverb functions.

This study aims to find out the types of impoliteness strategies that used by male and female haters of Habib Rizieq and Felix Siauw found in instagram comments. Moreover, researcher also finds the differencess of impoliteness strategies that used by male and female haters. This study is descriptive research. The data is taken from the comments contained about Habib Rizieq and Felix Siauw in instagram. They are @Maklameturah, @FelixSiauw, @Habib Rizieq, @Rakyatbersuara11, and @Detikcom. The researcher login to instagrams accounts, then searching instagram accounts meantioned before. The result shows that the male and female haters only use four of five impoliteness strategies. The strategies are bald on record, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, and sarcasm or mock politeness. From total 100 comments by male haters there were found 253 impoliteness strategies and it sub strategies. However, from total 100 comments by female haters there were found 231 impoliteness strategies and it sub strategies. The higher impoliteness strategies that used by male and female haters is sarcasm or mock politeness. Researcher finds the differences between male and female haters but it is not significance. The differences between male and female haters were 10%.  Key words: impoliteness strategies, comments, instagram.

This study reports the results of a survey on the reading habits of English Department Students at Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia, and their attitude towards literature in English. Reading Habit questionnaire developed by Pandian (1997) and an adaptation of Students' Attitude and Perception towards literature in English questionnaire developed by Tina Abdullah (2007) were employed. Both instruments were translated to Indonesian before being distributed to the respondents. The total number of respondents involved in this study was 125 comprising of 79 third year students and 46 fourth year students. These students were chosen as respondents because they had taken more than two compulsory literature subjects. First year students and second year students were not included because the former had not taken any compulsory literature subjects, while the latter had not completed their first compulsory literature subjects yet. A demography survey was also conducted to see their perception on their English proficiency and motivation to choose English as their major. Results showed that (i) the majority of the students believed that their English falls under the category of good and very good; (ii) students enrolled to English Department to learn English and/or to learn more about the English language; (iii) they have poor reading habits; (iv) they enjoy other technology related activities more compared to reading; (v) they believed that literature subjects are instrumental in improving their English; (vi) half of the respondents have negative attitude towards poetry in English; (vii) attitude towards longer literature work like novel and drama varied. Finally, pedagogical implications related to the instructional model to teach literature in English is discussed.