31 articles in this issue
Fadi Maher Al-Khasawneh
Figurative language is a part of Stylistics and there was much research on how figurative language was used in different contexts. The present research aimed at analyzing the figurative language used in Saudi news headlines related to Coronavirus (COVID-1... see more
Zanyar Faiq Saeed
This paper entitled “She, Robot: Male Characters’ Mechanisation of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet” is an attempt to explain how Ophelia is deprived of her subjectivity and objectified into a machine-like being that cannot think, speak, and act independen... see more
Wedhowerti Wedhowerti
Verb Phrase (VP) is one of the most important types of phrase for its function. It provides information about the subject of the sentence. Verb Phrase itself has more than one type. It also has ontological aspect, an aspect by which a certain situation is... see more
Diah Widya Ningrum,Didik Santoso
This study aims to describe the structure of the lecturer-student conversation in the interaction of Pragmatics Class. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The technique of data collection is done by recording and note-taking techniques. The ... see more
Nadia Khumairo Ma'shumah,Aulia Addinillah Arum,Arif Nur Syamsi
This study explores the translation of cultural-specific terms in the literary text as the translation process connects cultural differences between the source and target languages. Using Eco's notion of "translation as negotiation"; Bassnett's "translato... see more
Shofiyyahtuz' Zahro,Emy Sudarwati
Complimenting is a typical speaking act and the method in which it is responded to can vary based on the culture of the speakers as well as the influence of other circumstances. The purpose of this study was to provide a more in-depth knowledge of complim... see more
Mohamad Irham Poluwa,Nafilaturif'ah Nafilaturif'ah
The current study aimed to find out the translation techniques applied by the translator in creating the Indonesian subtitles for the original lyrics of Shelter – a collaboration project of music video by Porter Robinson and Madeon, A1-Pictures and Crunch... see more
Qonitah Nuri Humaira,Emy Sudarwati
This study focuses on the analysis of functional delayed echolalia towards an autistic individual in Life, Animated documentary. The obtained data were derived from Owen Suskind's utterances and words in the aforementioned documentary, which t... see more
Nafilaturif'ah Nafilaturif'ah,Mohamad Irham Poluwa
This study is conducted in order to know the collocations of ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ as well as to explore the lexical meaning of those collocations. Corpus-based approach is employed in this study since the sole source of the data is the corpus data. Q... see more
Fitriyah Fitriyah
The translation of cultural words needs some consideration and recognition of the cultural achievements referred to in the Source Language (SL) text, and respect for all foreign countries and their cultures. Therefore, translating cultural words is quite ... see more
Hidayatul Mahmudah,Harni Kartika Ningsih
The rise of sexual violence against women and children encourages the government to establish Government Regulation (Peraturan Pemerintah) hereafter (PP) number 70 of 2020, which contains the application of the chemical castration penalty for the offender... see more
Muhammad Gani Qodratul Ihsan,Njaju Jenny Malik Tomi Hardjatno
The government has enforced much socialization on health protocols and healthy lifestyle implementation during Covid-19, one of them through social media by presenting comics featuring utterances of characters. Accordingly, this research explains the utte... see more
Ricka Putri Suteja
The interaction process between each party can affect the course of the conversation. This study aims to investigate the characteristics of podcast conversations and the communication style used between two interviewers and one resource person in Catatan ... see more
Roswani Siregar,Syahron Lubis,Risnawaty Risnawaty,Andri Ramadhan
This study aims to investigate the students' preferences on online learning systems in the new normal period of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study used descriptive qualitative research and adopted a survey method to collect the quantitative data from 95 st... see more
Suprayogi Suprayogi,Dian Puspita,Sandi Nuansa,Kamelia Sari
As indigenous belief acknowledgement in Indonesia is still progressive, debatable but limitedly investigated from critical discourse analysis perspective, this research is aimed at revealing the discursive construction of indigenous belief issue in The Ja... see more
Attapol Khamkhien
Research in academic writing has shown that writers have a strong tendency to communicate their ideas interactively with readers. This study examines how professional writers use adjectives as part of interactional metadiscourse when writing research arti... see more
Nor Fitriansyah,Masni Usman,Surono Surono
This study explores the cultural content represented in the English Textbook used by the deaf students at disable senior high school or SMALB (Tuna Rungu). This book was published by Kemendikbud of Indonesia in 2016. This study was categorized as Descript... see more
Fatma Rahayu Nita,Slamet Setiawan,Lies Amin Lestari
This research explored how the memes were created with multimodal elements that could make meaning to create a humorous sense and function as speech acts. With the complexity of meaning-making, nowadays, it had become a trend that people could communicate... see more
Rohani Ganie,Khairunnisa Audi Miranda,Muhammad Yusuf
This study attempts to seek what components of reading are affected by reading Wattpad and how the students' attitudes towards the use of Wattpad for reading. This research used a descriptive qualitative method. This research is also supported by the theo... see more
Azizia Freda Savana,Wistri Meisa
This research discusses expressions of apology in Japanese by Javanese and Sundanese speakers at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. The apology differs between Japanese and Indonesian. Apologizing to the Japanese uses many reasons, the Japanese may dist... see more
Mona Fitri Gurusinga,Meta Rosaulina,Saiful Batubara,Afrilius Simanjuntak
This study aims to determine the effects of the use of the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) Model on the Students' Ability to analyze the content and language of drama reading at SMA Bina Guna Tanah Jawa Balimbing, Kec. Tanah Jawa, Si... see more
Nurhanna Harahap,Muhammad Rusli
This study aims to determine and describe (1) online learning media used in the teaching and learning process in the new normal era, (2) students’ understanding of the use of online learning media, (3) students’ preference of the way of communication, and... see more
Evan Afri,Surya Hendra Putra
This research aims to improve students' vocabulary acquisition through the strategy of deriving suffixes. The populations of this study are students from Politeknik Ganesha Medan in second semester. This research was conducted through Applied Classroom Ac... see more
Zuindra Zuindra,Mhd. Pujiono,Arifuddin Arifuddin
This research was focused on taboo words used in Deli Javananese dialect. It was aimed at describing the classification of taboo words used in Deli Javanese dialect namely sex; death; excretion; bodily functions; religious matters; and politics and to inv... see more
Murah Harfani Batubara
The coming of the internet and the advancement of technology make revolution in Language Pedagogy, especially in the EFL classroom. Teaching the students who were born as the digital natives forces EFL, teachers have to integrate technology in language te... see more
Suci Ramadani Sikumbang,Ahmad Amin Dalimunte
This study aims to identify the target needs of students in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses at a private university in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The participants in this study were 10 students majoring in medicine. This study employed a qualit... see more
Kartika Eva Rahmawati,Agus Subiyanto
The phonological process shows the changing of sounds and the rules that govern the work. These sound changes can occur in vowels, consonants, and even semivowels. This study focuses on the sound changes that occur in semivowels [y] and [w], especially in... see more
Ruth Intan Angraeni Tampubolon,Syahron Lubis
Ghyarlina Triyani,Darmahusni Darmahusni
Collaboration is one of the 21st-century skills needed to survive in this era. The need in society to think and work together on issues of critical concern has increased, shifting the emphasis from individual efforts to group work, from independence to co... see more
Sheila Agustina
Teachers’ use of language was believed to give impact for the success of language learners in one way or another. As some teachers’ speech included managing classroom, giving instructions, and providing feedbacks, it is inevitable that a teacher would use... see more