JoELE : Journal of English Lingua Educantum

Analysis of Mood and Modality in Emma Watson’s Speech at the “HeForShe” Campaign

2024-01-27T15:27:48+07:00

This study analyzes the text of the speech Emma Watson gave during the launch of the ”HeForShe” campaign in New York, the United States. Based on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics approach and discourse analysis, this study. The researcher mainly analyzes Emma Watson's speech, which focused on several mood and modality types. From the mood structure analysis of interpersonal meaning, there are 72 subjects and 71 finites. While for residue elements, there are 66 predicators, 65 complements and 39 adjuncts consisting of 34 conjunctive adjuncts, 8 circumstantial adjuncts, and 2 mood adjuncts. The researcher discovered there are 90 declarative moods and 5 interrogative moods. Declarative is the mood type that dominates in the speech. The result of modality is about 44 modals in total. The modality types consist of 10 modals of low degree, 28 modals of medium/middle degree, and 6 modals of high degree. Watson tends to use a declarative mood that aims to provide information about something to the audience, about gender equality and how men should also be involved in the campaign. The researcher found that the dominant type of modality is middle degree modality. This means that the speaker delivers her speech with moderate politeness.

The Investigating the Representation of Multiple Intelligences (MI) Theory in The Activities of ESL Young Learner’s Textbook

2024-01-28T17:27:50+07:00

The present study aimed at examining how Multiple Intelligences (MI) Theory is incorporated in a specific series of English as a Second Language (ESL) young learner’s textbooks. One textbook and workbook level 3 of Super Minds series were analyzed using a MI checklist from developed by Botelho (2003); Estaji & Nafisi (2014); and Kirgoz (2010) based on the review of the related literature and frameworks of the theory of Gardner (1983). As many as 596 activities were analyzed from the textbook and the workbook. The result showed that the analyzed textbook and workbook primarily addressed verbal/linguistic intelligence (40.60%), also included a fair number of activities related to bodily/kinesthetic (12.42%), interpersonal (11.41%), visual/spatial (11.07%) and logical/mathematical (10.74%) intelligence. Musical (6.71%), intrapersonal (4.36%), and naturalistic (2.68) intelligences were the least dominant types in the textbook and existential intelligence did not particularly exist in the examined activities. It is recommended for the textbook developers that a variety of intelligence types in materials for young learners could be distributed evenly.

The Advantages Of A Flipped Classroom For Students' Speaking SKills: Systematic Review

2024-02-14T15:58:22+07:00

The aim of this study is to provide a systematic review of the advantages of a flipped classroom for students' speaking skills. before carrying out this systematic review for the methodology, the researcher searched the publication data on Google Scholar for 2018-2023 regarding flipped classroom and speaking. it was found 97 data, which were anlyzed through the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) to 28 data. Based on the findings, the advantages of a flipped classroom for students' speaking skills are engagement, confidence, motivation, improvement, and self-paced learning. The frequency of these studies is 9 engagements, 11 confidences, 10 motivations, 26 improvements, and 7 self-pased learnings. It indicates that the majority of research discuss about the mprovement in students' speaking skilss in flipped classrooms. On the other hand, the flipped clasroom contributed positively to the students' speaking skills. Furthermore, some suggestions will help to educators and future scholars.

Analysis of Students’ Perception of Teacher Humor in EFL Classroom

2024-02-20T23:14:39+07:00

This study focuses on students' perceptions of the teacher humor given in English classroom. The purpose this research is to find out how, the type of humor given, as well as to analyze students' perceptions of the humor given by the teacher in English classroom. This research was conducted using thematic analysis tools. Students are given several questions in which the questions depend on variations in student answers. Informants of this study amounted to 4 people. Based on the statements submitted by the informants, it is known that their English teacher uses question and answer as a means of providing humor in the class. Some of them also said that the teacher can be someone who provokes the anxiety of his students, in which the students’ anxiety can become a separate humor in the class. According to them too, there are positive and negative benefits by providing humor in the classroom. One of the positive benefits is that they can easily remember the learning material that is being studied together, while one of the negative benefits is that there are some students who do not respect their teacher in class.

Misogyny in the Novel “Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam” by Dian Purnomo

2024-02-27T13:03:49+07:00

In the feminist perspective, women and men have equality in all fields. Misogyny is an inappropriate attitude in the feminist discourse. The current study was carried out to discover the misogynistic practices experienced by the female characters in the novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam By Dian Purnomo (2020). This study employed a qualitative method. The collected data employed by words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and expressions contained in the novel where the data were organized and sorted into patterns, categories, and descriptive units. The obtained data were analyzed based on several dimensions such as domestic and social, both verbally and non-verbally. The results of the study imply that misogyny practices are detrimental to women as individuals.