{"title":"SPEECH ACTS IN BARACK OBAMA SPEECH’S IN ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN","authors":"Atiya Mahmud Hana","doi":"10.31943/WEJ.V2I2.336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31943/WEJ.V2I2.336","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to observe and describe the use of speech acts by Barack Obama when he announced the death of Osama bin Laden. The writer focuses on illocutionary acts used by Barack Obama. The primary data source is the transcript of Barack Obama’s speech at White House on May 1st, 2011 after the death of Osama bin Laden. The types of illocutionary acts are observed by the writer according to Searle’s Taxonomy of Illocutionary Act. They are representatives, directives, commissives, expressives, and declarations. The result of the study shows that representatives are frequetnly used by Obama in his speech. Representatives are used in 54 utterances (74%); Commissives are used in 11 utterances (15%); Expressives are used in 7 utterances (11%). Barack Obama used none both directive speech acts and declaration speech acts. Representatives are frequently used in Barack Obama speech because the purpose of the speech is to announce the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The evidence is that most utterances in the transcipt use statements, descriptions, and reports.","PeriodicalId":248828,"journal":{"name":"Wiralodra English Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128902777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TEACHING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT THROUGH CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE","authors":"Samsul Amri","doi":"10.31943/WEJ.V2I2.358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31943/WEJ.V2I2.358","url":null,"abstract":"Having writing problems was faced by students. This research purposed to describe the teaching process how Clustering Technique improves the students' writing skill of hortatory exposition text, and what influenced factors of their writing improvement. This is a Classroom Action Research. The participants of the research were the students of grade XI AB-3 of MA Darul Hikmah Pekanbaru. The data were collected in each cycle from observation checklists, field notes, interviews, and writing tests. Then the researcher found that Clustering Technique enables to improve better the students' writing skill of hortatory exposition text through the process of socializing, reviewing, controlling, monitoring, assisting, motivating, and practicing. Consequently, the students could improve their writing skill which involved the mean score improvement of writing indicators; grammar, vocabulary, mechanics, fluency, and organization. It could be seen from the improvement of the base score mean score (56.32), post-test I (64.23), and posttest II (73.85). Furthermore, the factors that influenced the improvement of their writing skill involved creative thinking, students' motivation, amount of writing practices, students' prior knowledge, and the teacher's role. To sum up, the implementation of Clustering Technique in teaching writing of hortatory exposition text could provide positive results on their writing skill.","PeriodicalId":248828,"journal":{"name":"Wiralodra English Journal","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122601415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE STUDY OF TEACHER TALK AND STUDENT TALK IN SPEAKING CLASS","authors":"Ida Yulianawati","doi":"10.31943/wej.v2i2.361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31943/wej.v2i2.361","url":null,"abstract":"The paper concerns with investigating classroom interaction especially the classroom language used by teacher and students in teaching learning process in one Junior High School in Indramayu. Teacher’s talk signals the classroom language that is used by the teacher in the classroom throughout the class periods. Meanwhile, students’ talk signal classroom language that is used by the students. The study employs qualitative interaction analysis method involving fifty nine students and two teachers in two different classrooms. The data are gathered through non-participant observation and video recording. Classroom observations were conducted to gain the data concerning classroom interaction in teaching learning process. The data collecting was separated into twelve categories and analyzed using Flint (Foreign Language Interaction analysis) system adopted from Moscowitz that is widely used to investigate classroom interaction. The findings of this study showed that there are various verbal interactions used in classroom interaction. The data showed that the use of classroom language motivate students to speak and encourage the students to share their idea. But the data also showed that there are many obstacles in using classroom language. So it needs more effort from teachers and students to make classroom language familiar in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":248828,"journal":{"name":"Wiralodra English Journal","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115490065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING COOPERATIVE SCRIPT METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON RECOUNT TEXT OF 8th GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N KEWAPANTE, MAUMERE IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/ 2018","authors":"W. Janggo, Yuliana Wisnawati Nona Nungsi","doi":"10.31943/WEJ.V2I2.363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31943/WEJ.V2I2.363","url":null,"abstract":"This research is entitled “The Effectiveness of Using Cooperative Script Method to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension on Recount Text of 8th Grade Students of SMP N Kewapante, Maumere in Academic Year 2017/ 2018”. The objective of this research is to investigate and to find out whether the use of cooperative script method effective to improve students’ reading comprehension on recount text. The method of this research is experimental research especially quasi experimental research. In analyzing the data, the researcher combined both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. In qualitative data analysis, the researcher used interview technique in order to get information about students’ perceptions in reading, while in quantitative data analysis, the researcher used SPSS version 16. The result of the research showed that the implementation of Cooperative Script Method in experimental class was more effective to help the students in reading comprehension on recount text compared to the use of the conventional method in control class of the eighth grade students of SMP N Kewapante, Maumere. It is also found that cooperative script method positively contributed to improve students’ reading comprehension. Therefore ,the researcher suggests the teachers to use cooperative script method in order to improve students reading comprehension Additionally, cooperative script method can also motivate students to be more active, relax and enthusiastic to comprehend reading texts.","PeriodicalId":248828,"journal":{"name":"Wiralodra English Journal","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129551253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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