Introduction. New digital technology in education and its constantly evolving paradigm have completely transformed the model of learning and the learning methods. E-learning has become an important tool for teaching and learning environments. Moreover, virtual learning has become a required alternative teaching method in educational system change during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for learners in elementary schools.Aim. This research aimed to explore the necessities, lack, and want of learning English, which is done virtually at home.Methodology and research methods. This research employs descriptive methods using questionnaires and interviews as instruments to get responses from teachers and students about their learning needs. In the course of the needs analysis process, the importance and priority of teachers’ and students’ needs are discussed. The participants of this study were second-grade elementary school students, and the sample was 40 students and 2 English teachers for 10 months.Results. The research results demonstrate a gap between the needs of learners and current conditions; therefore, the whole language approach, the multimedia, and technology-based English teaching materials will become an inevitable need and even become a solution in the world of education.Scientific novelty. Further research is needed to study educational system change during the COVID-19 pandemic or after, especially in designing teaching materials in various disciplines and at different educational stages. Future studies could be generalised by these research findings to other populations in different learning contexts, and the findings presented in thisarticle should be further explored. In particular, technology-based and multimedia-based teaching materials must be explored more deeply. Furthermore, further research should focus on utilising a different model for needs analysis in language education to verify the need for effective English learning in changing the education system during the pandemic and after.Practical significance. It is thought that this study will contribute to the stakeholders in terms to provide empirical evidence of what necessities, lack, and want should be considered when a teacher will design and develop teaching materials during the COVID-19 period or afte.
This study examines how the relationship between gender language and ideology is constructed in media texts, and aims to interrogate a small number of articles taken from the most widely read online editions of national newspapers in Indonesia regarding online media reporting on the harassment of women in the "Ikan Asin" case. The focuses of this research are 1) how the women are displayed in the text. 2) How media displays texts, discursive practices that include the production and consumption of texts, and social practices. 3) What are the differences between the Mills and Fairlough critical discourse analysis models? The results of the study are that women are displayed positively even though the case they experience is negative. Text production is closely related to the ideology of journalists and the media as well as the audiences who consume the text. Both Mills and Fairclough's critical discourse analysis models have similarities and differences in analyzing texts. Key Words: Critical Discourse Analysis, Mills, Fairclough, Ikan Asin.
This book discusses comprehensively about characterization in folklore with a functional systemic linguistic perspective, starting from the basic theory to the practice of applying transitivity and characterization in folklore. The writing of this book is driven by the desire to know and find the types of characterizations in literary works using a functional systemic linguistic approach, the text will be juxtaposed with revealing the transitivity system in characterization techniques that builds the text in introducing the main character. So far, research to determine characterization in literary works using intrinsic and extrinsic elements is common, but in this book a simple functional systemic linguistic approach is used that is easily understood by ordinary people and various parties for practical purposes.
This study examines how the women in this case Minister Susi are presented in the news text about the sinking of ships in Indonesian waters. Research was conducted on the 5 most popular online news sites in Indonesia. The analysis used is the critical discourse analysis of Sara's perspective, by analyzing 3 elements, namely the position of the subject-object, the position of the reader, and the position of the media. The results of this study indicate that, the position of the subject is the writer of the news and the object is Susi, because women in online news texts define their position and they can also present themselves and reinforced the author by displaying the ideas of the object. The position of the reader is the insertion of cultural codes, the reader will approve the ideas of the author on the orientation of values so that readers will place himself in the main character in the text. Media position on online news sites that provide positive images, namely detik.com, kompas.com and okezone.com. While those who reported neutrally were tribunnews.com and republika.co.id.
This research aimed to identify and describe the common types of grammatical errors and the sources of errors made by the students in thesis abstracts. The research design in this research was descriptive qualitative, the respondent was a student of Borneo University Tarakan who graduated in 2016 and had officially compiled their thesis to the library of Borneo University Tarakan. There were 247 thesis abstracts to be used as a sample. The result showed that 1079 total errors were found in the thesis abstract made by students. The researcher took ten samples of the source of errors, and those samples were the common errors taken from 4 categories based on the Taxonomy of Errors. There were developmental errors, interlingual errors, ambiguous errors, and other errors.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze an error analysis investigation into the pronunciation errors specifically with the close-positioned vowels of /uː/ and near close-positioned vowels /Ʊ/ that are made by an advanced learner of student university speaker of English. The study of learner's error (Error Analysis) is a technique for identifying, describing and systematically explaining the errors made by a learner, using any of the principles and procedures provided by linguistics. The paper tries to interpret students’ errors in pronunciation and suggests possible explanations, such as the impact of the students’ mother tongue, or of English as the language of instruction on their Indonesian. The results revealed the whole data collection exercise the learner’s pronunciations of /u:/ were inaccurate 15,4% of the time, but conversely her pronunciations of /Ʊ/ were entirely accurate.
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