Teaching language is an attractive activity both for the teacher and for the acceptor. They can interact together in this act. Teaching English is a challenge for the teachers to make the students interest in English because as we know English is not the first language for some countries in this world including Indonesia. There are various ways and ideas to teach English so that it can be fun and interest to be taught and to be learnt. But those ways and ideas also should be an up date method and also use a modern technology to be implemented. Along with the development of modern technology, the teachers should involve with it and make it as a part of English teaching tools. Two of the famous and sophisticated tools are computer and the internet. These things have a close relation to be urgent equipment for people. In this article, the writer wants to purpose the use of online games as a way to teach English for junior high school. Te article aims to give another teaching alternative in attracting the junior high school students to learn English in funny and enjoyable way. Through online games they do not only can play the various games but also indirectly they do the exercises of English skills.
This study was conducted to find out the answer of question about what the English lexical collocation found in English Newspaper, The Jakarta Post. This study was designed as a descriptive qualitative research and data of the study was described in form of qualitative description. The data was taken from the headlines of the Jakarta post newspaper which published on April 4 th -9 th 2016. The sources of the data in this study were sentences and utterances that contain collocation. Human instrument was the only instrument used in collecting and analyzing the data gathered. The result of this study showed that (1) there were fourty four English lexical collocations found in the Jakarta post newspaper and (2) the meanings of English lexical collocation were fourty three had denotative meaning and one had connotative meaning.Keywords: english lexical collocation, words meaning, the Jakarta post 2019. Linguistics, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal 2 (2):100-115 102 LITERATURE REVIEW The Concept of CollocationCollocation is a combination of word that is commonly used together. According to McCarthy and O'Dell (2008:6), a collocation is a pair or group of words that are often used together. These combinations sound natural to native speakers, but students of English have to make a special effort to learn them because they are often difficult to guess. These combinations just sound right to native speakers of English who use them all the time. On other hand, other combinations may be unnatural and just sound wrong. For example, the adjective fast collocates with cars, but not with a glance.In addition, Benson et.al, (1986:252) explains that In English, as in other languages, there are many fixed, identifiable, non-idiomatic phrases and constructions, such group of words are called recurrent combination or collocation. Collocations are fixed phrases stored in the mind. Lewis (cited in Alfahadi et.al, 2014:390) says that collocation is words which are statistically much more likely to appear together than random chance suggests.Collocations are the association of two or more lexemes (roots) recognized in and defined by their occurrence in a specific range of grammatical construction, and it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish collocation from free combination, one possible criterion being that free combination are structured on the basis of grammar (Vebinc in Kurniawan, 2009:10). Nonnative speakers cannot combine words freely because words usually have their natural combination, if they combine the words freely, their collocation usage will be wrong. If nonnative speakers can use collocation accurately, their writing and speaking will be natural and accurate. This means that the ability in using collocation is an important thing for the nonnative speakers.Collocation is not an unusual linguistic phenomenon like idiom and phrase. According to McCarthy and O'Dell (2010: 6), idioms are group of words in a fixed order that have a meaning that cannot be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individually words. F...
This study aims to explain the views of lecturers and students of STKIP-PGRI Lubuklinggau on disruptive behavior in online English learning during the Covid 19 pandemic and describe the level of seriousness in providing the best solution to these problems. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research using grounded theory with an inductive approach. Data was collected through interviews as primary data, observation and document analysis. The subjects of this study were seven lecturers and 14 students (disruptive behavior) English Education STKIP-PGRI Lubuklinggau. The results showed seven general categories of disruptive behavior: breaking time, dishonesty, disrespect, lack of concentration, skipping lessons and assignments, doing things privately, and giving slow responses. The lecturers offered several solutions for these problems by considering the level of seriousness, such as applying positive discipline, formulating and designing rules strategies and teaching media, giving punishment and expecting to end online learning. In conclusion, by knowing students' disruptive behavior, lecturers and other parties will be more concerned about taking some appropriate actions to minimize and avoid some behaviors in improving online English learning. Keywords: Disruptive Behavior, Discipline Problems, Online Learning, Teaching in a Pandemic Period
The research aims at describing politeness used by Americans in Bad Neighbors movie to express apology. This is a qualitative descriptive research which identified, observed, transcribed the data as well as described them in the sentences. The findings present the strategy of apologizing and the use of address terms overviewed from politeness strategies such as positive politeness, negative politeness and off record. The use of address terms in expressing apology covered terms of addressing in negative politeness includes the use of title plus last name (TLN) (such as Mr. Haywood and Maam) and positive politeness includes different nick names (NN) (such as Mac, Baby, Scoonie, Guys, etc). The variation of apologizing includes direct apology (sorry and I am sorry). In the application of direct apology I am sorry, no address term was used in the expression and it indicates positive politeness. In a direct expression of apology sorry, there was a term of address used preceded the expression and sometimes it also occurred afterward. Based on the description, it can be inferred that most of expression of direct apology expressed in positive politeness because the first speaker wanted to show a more intimate relationship to the second speaker. The position of the terms also affects the purpose and the quality of sincerity of the speakers. This strategy considered to be an effective way to express apology to show that the speaker who committed a responsibility of apologizing regretted the mistakes. Keyword: politeness, apologizing, term of address
The aim of this research was to find out validity, practicality, and effectiveness of a developed book entitled Developing Local Based Content Supplementary Reading Material for Senior High School in Lubuklinggau. In conducting the research, Research and Development written by Branch (2009) consisting of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation (ADDIE) was used as steps in developing the product meanwhile Formative Evaluation written by Tessmer (1993) was used to evaluate the data. To determine the validity of the book, three experts were included to review the product namely content expert, instructional design expert, and layout quality expert. To determine the practicality and effectiveness of the product, three students were involved in one-to-one trial, sixt students were involved in small group trial, and ten students were involved in a field test. The practicality and effectiveness values were obtained from tenth grade students in Senior High School number 1 Lubuklinggau in academic year 2021-2022 which were taken as subjects of the research. To collect the data, questionnaire, interviews, and a test were used. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively for the interview and quantitatively by using average score for the questionnaire and the test. After all data had been analyzed, it could be concluded that the product as a book was categorized highly valid with average score 3.76, categorized very highly practical with average score 4.67 at one-to-one trial and 4.32 at small group trial, and categorized very highly effective with average score 90.
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