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AN ANALYSIS OF HUMOR EXPRESSIONS IN ‘THE CHINESE WOMAN’ EPISODE OF “SIENFELD” Wulandari, Eka
VISION Vol 3, No 1 (2014): Journal Vision
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ABSTRACT Seinfeld is one of the most popular situation comedies aired in USA televisions. It becomes quite popular since it shows everyday situations in a humorous way. People can see themselves dealing with the same situations as shown in its episodes. This research is conducted to find out about the forms of humor expression employed by the characters and to describe key factors employed in the episode which causes humor in one of the episode of Seinfeld, entitled The Chinese Woman. It also used the pragmatic approach. The data analysis shows the findings that there are three types of humor expression. They are assertive form, directive form, and expressive form. Meanwhile, the key factors causing humor in The Chinese Woman are the violations of cooperative principle and politeness principle, and the exploitation of irony principle.   Keywords: situation comedy, humor, pragmatic
IMPROVING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION BY USING KNOW, WANT TO KNOW, AND LEARN (KWL) TECHNIQUE Wulandari, Eka
VISION Vol 3, No 2 (2014): Journal Vision
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Abstract   The objective of this research is to identify whether the KWL can improve students  reading comprehension when used in the teaching and learning process of  reading comprehension in the class. The subject of  the research was the Drst  grade of  SMAN 3 Sragen, Central Java, in the academic year of  2011/2012. The research was conducted in two cycles: the Drst cycle consisted of three meetings, and so was the second cycle. To collect the data of students  reading competence, some instruments namely: tests, questionnaire, interview, and class observation were used. To ana- lyze the quantitative data which were taken from the result of stu- dents  score, the researcher applied a descriptive statictics to know their enhancement in reading. The result of the research shows that KWL technique could enhance students reading comprehension in term of raising students achievement in the case of Dnding out: (a) explicit information; (b) reference of pronouns; (c) words meaning; (d) main idea in the paragraph; and (e) implicit information in the text. It means that the KWL can improve the students comprehen- sion in comprehending English texts optimally.     Keywords: KWL teaching technique, students, reading comprehen- sion