This research aims to find out the correlation between English phoneme identification skills and word processing. It applies the quantitative approach with correlation design. The participants are 100 of 3rd- semester students in English Language Education Program. The correlational result reveals that it has correlation with .382 degrees in phoneme identification skill toward blending skill with the significance level .000, and .359 degrees in phoneme identification skill toward segmentation skill with the significance level .000. Then, the correlation result of English phoneme identification skill toward word processing is .462 degree with its significance .000. By the result, awareness to identify phoneme by initial, medial, and final sound correlates to the blending and segmenting skills which influence the comprehension of word. The more the students are able to identify phoneme based on its sound, the more the students will be able to blend and segment phoneme. Lastly, the ability to identify English phonemes is proven to be a skill that supports EFL learners on their productive and receptive skills. Then being able to identify its phonemes will assist on recognizing and processing English words appropriately so that English language teaching can be associated with the use of phoneme-based instruction on its teaching process. Highlights : Ability to identify English phonemes is proven to be a skill that supports EFL learners on their English productive and receptive skills. English phoneme identification skill contributes to blending and segmentation skill since phonemic awareness provides both decoding and encoding skill.
Indonesian EFL learners face challenges in comprehending English phonemes as it becomes one of the significant predictors of English literacy. Hence, the English Phonetics subject is considered one of the most difficult ones, making the teaching and learning process less effective. Addressing Indonesian EFL learners’ attitudes toward English phonetics teaching is significant to improve phonetics teaching, yet, research on this has not received much attention. This present study was conducted to explore EFL learners’ attitudes toward English phonetic learning. A quantitative approach with survey design was employed involving 112 Indonesian EFL students. The researchers identified students’ attitudes using an adapted questionnaire from Lintunen and Mäkilähde (2015). Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 was utilized to analyze the data. The results indicate that Indonesian EFL students perform positive attitudes toward English phonetic learning, although they confess that phonetics is challenging. It implies that phonetics learning is potential and promising to support their English fluency; hence, lecturers need to make phonetics Learning more enjoyable, easier and participating in drawing the students' full engagement by considering their preferences and attitude toward phonetics learning.
This research sets out to explore the Interlanguage pragmatic motivation in EFL to their pragmatic production. This research is focus on the construct and impact of Interlanguage pragmatic motivation in EFL to their pragmatic production. The participants of the study were the university students chosen randomly from among intermediate EFL learners. There are three instruments in this study; there will be different types of analyses. Both general and speech-act-specific motivation questionnaires will be analysed by using factor analysis on a five-point Likert scale (1-5). Skewness and kurtosis will be calculated to investigate whether the questionnaires and the WDCT items fell within the normal range. Regression analysis will be done to measure how well general pragmatic motivation and Speech-act-specific motivation could predict pragmatic production. Several conclusions can be drawn from the resent study. First, language learners possess a specific type of motivation for the acquisition of interlanguage pragmatics, called pragmatic motivation, which refers to two interrelated types of motivation: general pragmatic motivation and speech-act-specific motivation. Second, EFL learners are strongly motivated to acquire and develop English pragmatic features, i.e. their pragmatic motivation is high; however, they do not have the necessary pragmatic knowledge. Third, predicting EFL learners’ pragmatic production based on their speech-act-specific motivation is somehow possible since both pragmatic production and speech-act-specific motivation focus on learners’ illocutionary competence, i.e. language functions and speech acts.
This study investigated the levels of CT of undergraduate students. Methods: Employing the mix-method design and two instruments (1)Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and (2) interview, the study involved 352 students who are in the first year of their study. Findings: Related to CTS, it showed that most of the students can determine the answer correctly in terms of (1) Deduction 63.07%; (2) Arguments 62.16%; (3) Interpreting information 59,92%; (4) Assumptions 50,19%; and (5) Inferences 37.15%. In sum, only 54.40% of students in their first year indicate low CT ability. It is in line with the results of the interview which postulates that 57% of the students do not really understand what and how to improve their CTS and they need some help to improve it. Conclusion:The University should provide learning and activities which can increase their CTS, especially the inferencing dimension.Abstrak: Tingkat Berpikir Kritis Mahasiswa S1 di Universitas Brawijaya. Tujuan: Penelitian ini menyelidiki tingkat berpikir kritis mahasiswa S1. Metode: Menggunakan desain penelitian campuran dan dua instrument (1) Penilaian Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking dan (2) wawancara, penelitian ini melibatkan 352 mahasiwa yang sedang berada di tahun pertama studi mereka. Temuan: Terkait keterampilan berpikir kritis, penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar mahasiswa dapat menentukan jawaban dengan benar dalam (1) Pengambilan kesimpulan 63.07%; (2) Argumentasi 62.16%; (3) Menginterpretasi informasi 59.92%; (4) Asumsi 50.19%; dan (5) Inferensi, 37.15%. Secara keseluruhan, hanya 54,40% mahasiswa tahun pertama yang menunjukkan kemampuan berpikir kritis rendah. Sejalan dengan hasil wawancara yang menyatakan bahwa 57% mahasiswa tidak begitu memahami apa dan bagaimana cara meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis dan mereka membutuhkan bantuan untuk meningkatkannya. Kesimpulan: Universitas seharusnya menyediakan pembelajaran dan aktifitas-aktifitas yang dapat membantu meningkatkan CTS mahasiswa, terutama dimensi inferensi.
Implicature in a broad sense requires what a speaker means is determined by the speaker's intentions in a given context. Many people use implicature in a certain fields for example in politics. In addition, politicians also use implicature in any situation to win his or her idea. Therefore they try to imply a bad association into a good one in many types and meanings of implicature.
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