Nur Syasya Qistina Mazeree, Norhakimin Ashaari, Nadzirah Munirah Ramli, Nur Arifah Zahiah Zuri
{"title":"A Semiotic Analysis on Confession of a Shopaholic Trailer: Roland Barthes Approach","authors":"Nur Syasya Qistina Mazeree, Norhakimin Ashaari, Nadzirah Munirah Ramli, Nur Arifah Zahiah Zuri","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i2.11640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i2.11640","url":null,"abstract":"Deciphering the signals in a movie trailer is undertaken to comprehend how viewers or learners receive the conveyed meanings. The objective of this study is to (1) analyze the symbols present in the \"Confession of a Shopaholic\" movie trailer and (2) disclose the description of denotation, connotation and myth in the “Confession of a Shopaholic” movie trailer. The primary dataset for this study was the trailer for the film 'Confession of a Shopaholic'. This study employed Roland Barthes' theoretical framework to analyze and establish connections between the signs and the narrative of the trailer. The use of the Barthes approach facilitates the examination of dynamic communication in audio-visual content, and a semiotic analysis was conducted to accomplish the predetermined goals of this study. The research identified a total of six pieces of data included in the trailer and provided detailed explanations of their denotation, connotation, and mythological significance. The study of signals and myths in this research aims to bridge the gap between the established framework and other audio-visual media. Although signals in other domains are important as well, it is highly recommended to do a more comprehensive analysis just on movie trailer outcomes for comparative purposes.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"13 2","pages":"212-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://jurnal.uin-antasari.ac.id/index.php/let/article/download/11640/3668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147898354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Supplementary Materials for Reading Skill by Using Local Wisdom","authors":"Yayu Anggraini H. Katili","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.9020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.9020","url":null,"abstract":"The purposes of this study are to describe the students’ needs and to design the supplementary materials for reading skill by using local wisdom for second grade students of MTs Al Khairaat Gorontalo. By using Research and Development Method, the results of this study show that 1) students need materials which were related to decription of tourism objects, warning about cleanliness and the local story. 2) Students preffer to read text which consisted of 200-300 words. 3) Students want to answer 5 W + 1 H questions and True False questions in reading activities. 4) Students want to match the vocabularies with the pictures in vocabulary building activity. 5) Students want to fill in the blank sentences in Grammar activity. 6) Students want to work in group and the teacher should help them when they had a problem in the classroom. The content of the materials should be developed in interesting and easy way, language used must be appropriate with the students’ language level, build cultural awareness and motivated students to read. Therefore, by integrating local wisdom into supplementary reading materials, the students and the teacher feel easy and motivated in teaching and learning process.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89249505","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":"Onomatopoeia Found in Tintin Comics","authors":"Giyatmi Giyatmi, Sihindun Arumi, Ratih Wijayava","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.9031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.9031","url":null,"abstract":"This research focuses on the use of onomatopoeia in the Tintin comic. This study aims at describing the types of onomatopoeia in Tintin comics. This is descriptive qualitative research. The data of this research are onomatopoeic forms found in Tintin comic. The data sources for this research are 3 Tintin comics, namely Tintin in the Tibet, Tintin and the Alph-Art, and Tintin and Picaros. To collect the data, the writers use documentation (Tintin comic) and content analysis. Data analysis in this study consists of three stages such as data reduction, data display, and conclusion. There are 51 data of onomatopoeia. The writers find there are 3 types of onomatopoeia; phonomime onomatopoeia (29), phenomime onomatopoeia (12), and psychomime onomatopoeia (10).","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83470287","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":"Investigating Strategies for Mitigating and Avoiding Expert Blind Spot Development in Teaching English Attributive Adjectives","authors":"Farisani Thomas Nephawe","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.9343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.9343","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching is a prominent paraphernalia that brings numerous insights for developing learners’ competence in educational concerns. However, teaching English to non-native learners poses challenges as innovative strategies are scant. Sometimes teachers overlook the difficulties experienced by novices when they approach a new English grammatical domain. Psychological expert blind spot sporadically and intuitively develops due to teachers’ ignorance. The paper investigated strategies for mitigating and avoiding expert blind spot in teaching English attributive adjectival phrases at Khwevha High School in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Quantitative and qualitative research approaches were adopted to corroborate the findings. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 35 selected Grade 10 respondents using a simple random sampling technique. Qualitatively, semi-structured interviews were conducted on two purposely sampled schoolteachers from Dzindi Circuit, based on the researcher’s preference for obtaining an in-depth understating of the topic. Initially, learners were incompetent in using adjectives but after employing ‘points of entry’, offering ‘explanations’, presenting ‘structures’ and checking ‘comprehension’ strategies, learners improved considerably. The paper underscores using the identified strategies to mitigate and avoid the advancement of the expert blind spot in teaching English attributive adjectives.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73050790","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}
N. Sarmi, Kheista Sasi Kirana, K. Wijaya, Rommel Utungga Pasopati
{"title":"Authenticity and Its Discontent as Reflected on Heinrich Böll’s The Laugher","authors":"N. Sarmi, Kheista Sasi Kirana, K. Wijaya, Rommel Utungga Pasopati","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.8523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.8523","url":null,"abstract":"People are justified to be original but it could hinder people from their freedom as stated by Jean-Paul Sartre. The Laugher is Heinrich Böll’s short story of someone whose job is to laugh in various platforms. His laughter must be heard as original but his own life is full of pessimistic conditions. Then, how may being authentic be contested through Böll’s The Laugher? Through qualitative method on cultural studies, this paper puts tensions between being authentic by Sartre and reality of Böll’s story. The laugh seems to be authentic, but it is set to trigger other laughter, yet he is not happy though he laughs every time. He is demanded to laugh, but the laugh is bad faith as supported by Sartre. Authenticity in Böll’s story shows its own discontent. In conclusion, the story shows how laughter is done in a timed set. His laugh is not freedom since his own life is full of sad conditions.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77626195","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":"Challenges on Teaching and Learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) for Indonesian Undergraduate Students","authors":"Yuni Awalaturrohmah Solihah, Viar Dwi Kartika, Fiki Setiawan","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.9090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.9090","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the challenges both teachers and students in implementation of teaching and learning ESP. It focuses on mastering English in students’ needs relating to the specific fields. This used a qualitative study obtaining data from questionnaires and interviews. The findings showed that the students’ vocabulary mastery was an obstacle during learning ESP. It made the students felt difficult to comprehend the materials. Moreover, the teachers are supposed to prepare the ESP materials from textbooks and articles relating to the specific fields although there were lack of sources. However, learning ESP applied the students-centered activities and built an interaction between teachers and students during discussing and practicing the ESP materials. It encouraged the students to be active for their speaking skill improvement. It also assisted the students to enhance new vocabularies relating to the specific fields. Therefore, to achieve students’ comprehension in ESP, the teachers should develop ESP materials and method of teaching in order to deliver optimally the ESP contents.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"04 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88214122","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":"Speech Act Use in Jokowi Political Communication during The Press Conference of The State Visit in Moskow","authors":"G. Daar, Fransiskus Jemadi","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.9041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.9041","url":null,"abstract":"Concern about global conditions due to war, famine, and disease prompted President Jokowidodo to make a state visit to Russia and Ukraine, the two largest exporters of fertilizer and wheat in the world. This study aims to analyze the speech act of Jokowidodo's press statement during a state visit to Moscow on June 30, 2022. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data was obtained by observing the video of Jokowi's press statement during a state visit to Moscow. The transcribed data were then grouped according to the order in which the press conference was delivered. The data were analyzed using Austin's speech act theory (1962) and Searle's (1979). Research shows that there are three types of speech acts in Jokowi's press statement, expressive speech acts, assertive speech acts (affirming and informing), and directive speech acts (influence, invite and convince). Although not explicitly stated, the speech act of Jokowi's press statement has a noble purpose and goal: to encourage countries that are in conflict to resolve conflicts by peaceful resolution.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84364180","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":"Reducing Moral Value in Online Learning System; Literature Review","authors":"R. Supatmi, Malyn Malazarte","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.9772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.9772","url":null,"abstract":"Concepts of self, community, and \"what is right and wrong\" are continually evolving in our education, but online learning system changed all the concept. This makes it particularly difficult for young people to develop a sense of who they are and to pinpoint their most important values but now the students felt freer when online meeting applications included restrictions. Because of this, they behaved improperly and rudely in front of professors and in online classrooms. The flexibility of online learning changed that since in traditional face-to-face classroom settings, students are under more ethical strain and consequently hesitate before engaging in inappropriate behaviours. What are the behavioural implications of online learning on students? is the issue. Authors seek to ascertain the link between online education and students' conduct, particularly morality and ethics. So, in an effort to lessen the impact and even prevent unforeseen events in the future, consider a potential remedy. Data were collected by the authors using a literature review and a survey, and were then analysed using descriptive and qualitative research. many data collected and described detailed by the researcher. The result is Students' moral values reduced in the process of online learning","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88092921","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":"Teachers’ Teaching Reflection: English Teachers’ Challenges in Rural Areas of Indonesia","authors":"Rahmi Fadilah, Honesty Yonanda Ayudhia, Vischa Mansyera Pratama, Violintikha Harmawan","doi":"10.18592/let.v13i1.8923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v13i1.8923","url":null,"abstract":"Issues about education in the urban areas and rural areas are crucial in the Indonesian context. The reason is the differentiation of the quality of the Indonesia education across the country because of those areas. During their practice, English teachers in that area face many limitations that hinder the process of teaching and learning. This case study aimed to explore two English teachers’ challenges in teaching in rural areas of Indonesia and how they overcome those challenges to maximize their role as a teacher through their teaching reflection on interview and document analysis. This is significant for giving the teachers’ views on facing the challenges in every condition of teaching English and for giving a picture to the government about the real condition of teaching English in the rural areas. The result showed that English teachers tried to deal with their own teaching condition and institution, their students, and socio-cultural conditions around them. As the solution, teachers overcome those problems by strengthening their roles as a teacher and understanding social pedagogy. However, there is still a need for English teachers to get more training related to their job in teaching English in rural areas.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77917365","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}
Ihdal Bayu Pamungkas, Raida Asfihana, Afifah Linda Sari
{"title":"Maximizing English Speech on YouTube Videos to Enrich Students’ Vocabulary","authors":"Ihdal Bayu Pamungkas, Raida Asfihana, Afifah Linda Sari","doi":"10.18592/let.v12i2.7485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18592/let.v12i2.7485","url":null,"abstract":"Learning vocabulary is essential in language learning since it will help students to master a language as well as communicate with others effectively using various words. This classroom action research, which followed Kemmis and McTaggart’s model, aimed to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing English Speech on YouTube Videos to enrich students’ English vocabulary. The participants of this study were the seventh graders of the Language Class in SMP Muhammadiyah Banjarbaru. The results revealed that maximizing English Speech on YouTube Videos can effectively boost students’ vocabulary building since the scores of the pre-test, post-test 1, and post-test 2 showed different and significant improvements. Moreover, the classroom environments and the students’ enthusiasm improved as well. The classroom became conducive and interactive, and the students were excited and enthusiastic and genuinely paid attention to the videos and the teacher’s explanations.","PeriodicalId":34692,"journal":{"name":"LET Linguistics Literature and English Teaching Journal","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75901483","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}