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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN BRUNO MARS LYRICS Muziatun Muziatun; Fahria Malabar; Elvian Hanny Mitali
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 8, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v8i1.5589

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 Figurative language is a language style that is used in the story and has an effect to influence the readers or listeners (Buta et al., 2018; Harun, Yusuf, Karnafi, 2020). Figurative language is also used by people to communicate (Colston, 2015; Colston Gibbs, 2021; Colston O'Brien, 2000). In communication, people communicate with each other using various ways, such as by using songs (Van Thao, 2021; Ward, Price, Davis, Crowther, 2018). It is because in the song’s lyrics there are many figurative languages (Bram Avillanova, 2019; Yaito Termjai, 2021). Then from the songs, people could convey their feeling and their conditions. The purpose of this research is to analyze the type of figurative language using the theory from Leech cited in H.D Trisna (2016). There are seven types of figurative language are irony, hyperbola, metaphor, metonymy, litotes, smile, and personification. The method used in this study is qualitative, because this study focused in analyzing the written material in context, included song’s lyrics. The object of this research was Bruno Mars’ song lyrics. However, the research only chooses three songs to analyze, they were Grenade, Long distance, and Talking to the moon. The research conducted some the analysis through some steps: Identifying, classifying, and analyzing. The result of the study indicate there are three figurative language used by Bruno Mars song lyrics. They are hyperbola, simile, and personification.Keywords: figurative language, irony, hyperbola, metaphor, litotes, simile, and personification.
Five language style analysis of the host in the tonight show talk show: A sociolinguistics analysis Muziatun Muziatun; Syarifuddin Achmad; Puspita Wulandari Samidu
English Review: Journal of English Education Vol 9, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/erjee.v9i1.3784

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This thesis presents the language style used by Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show talk show. The objective of this study is to investigate the types of language style used by Jimmy Fallon in his talk show based on Joos’s (1967) theory. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were taken from the talk show video and the video transcript. The main theory which was used in this research was taken from Five O’clock book by Martin Joss (1976) and the book of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes (1992). The result of this research showed that the researcher has found 29 conversations that contain types of the language style based on Joos’s (1967) theory. As the result, it finds consultative style with 11 data and casual style with 18 data, which casual style becomes dominantly used.
GRAMMATICAL ERRORS PERFORMED BY TOURIST GUIDES IN GORONTALO CITY Muziatun Muziatun; Ansar Tario Jusuf
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v6i1.2640

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The goal of this research is to investigate grammatical errors in speaking performed by tour guides in Gorontalo city. As demanding English is a compulsory language for those who work in the tourism sector when they deal with foreign tourists. This study aims to uncover grammatical errors produced by Gorontalo tour guides. Afterwards, this research uses sequential mixed method that proposed by Creswell, which aims to investigate and discover the types of grammatical errors followed by modus data. Moreover, the data analysis of this study uses a guideline that proposed by Politzer and Ramirez who explained the types of grammatical errors in detail. This study reveals that the ability of 12 tour guides produce speaking in a grammatically low manner. It indicates that the number of grammatical errors is dominated by the verb phrase, noun phrase and transformation. Followed by third person present singular, simple past tense, and past participle. Overall, this research is expected to contribute to tour guides in Gorontalo city, especially what needs to be emphasized by tour guides in speaking grammatically.Keywords: grammatical errors; tourist guide; Gorontalo
MORPHOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE ON STUDENT’S WRITING Muziatun Muziatun; Indri Wirahmi Bay; Sitti Maryam
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 6, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v6i2.3425

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The aim of this research is to find out the types of morphological interference on students' English writing. Through qualitative research method applying a design of the case study, twenty of university students were chosen. Data were collected from written tests and classified based on the Politzer and Ramires (1973) on theory of Linguistic Category. The results revealed that, whilst it is inevitable that the English morphology features governed by the distinctive rules and systems have been the potential target for interference taking place, Bahasa Indonesia, which stands as the official language, becomes the source of transfer. From six types of morphological interference based on Polizter and Ramirez’ (1973), in this study the writer only found three of them. These types encompass of the morphological properties from the use of article, plural marker and simple past tense. Furthermore, there are 40 morphological mistakes in total, in which four mistakes represent the intralingual transfer and 36 data describe the interference. In terms of the mistakes made as a result mostly from the interference transfer. This study makes a significant contribution to the teaching and learning process of linguistic interference.Keywords: linguistic interference; morphology; students’ writing.
AN ANALYSIS OF BORROWING WORD IN DESTINASIAN INDONESIA MAGAZINE Muziatun Muziatun; Jefriyanto Saud; Nurul Ain Halada
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 7, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v7i1.3990

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Borrowing word is a word from another language which is adopted by another language as stated by Nelson Francis (1965). In instances, people in Indonesia tends to borrow other language in order to describe a thing or situation. Nowadays, the borrowing language can be famous and familiar to others through the use media mass. This fact can influence other in order to use the foreign language than the native language. Due to the fact, this research aims to analyze the borrowing language on media mass especially in Tourism Magazine. The DestinAsian Magazine become the appropriate source of data in order to identified what types of borrowing word that usually occurred in media mass. Moreover, the Bloomfield theory (1935) become the main theory which to identified the types of borrowing through the sociolinguistics and phonetic perspective. This research uses qualitative method to analyze the data. As the result, there are 425 words which identified as borrowing word from English language in DestinAsian Indonesian Magazine. However, after checked the identified loan word in Kamus Istilah Pariwisata there are only 25 words that can be analyze as the data which is 6 words categorized as cultural borrowing, 13 words categorized as intimate borrowing, and 6 words categorized as dialect borrowing. Toward the result it can be conclude that the high tendency of using borrowing word from foreign language than the use Indonesian Language.Keywords: Borrowing words; types of borrowing word
LOANWORDS IN BARACK OBAMA'S INAUGURAL SPEECH Muziatun Muziatun; Muzdalifah Mahmud; Fatia Hanapi
English Review: Journal of English Education Vol 10, No 1 (2021)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/erjee.v10i1.5383

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The purpose of this research is to examine the types of loanwords used in Obama's inaugural speech. The loanword theory of Haugen (loanword, loan blend, and loan shift) and Yule's theory of word creation were adopted in this research. It used a qualitative approach to describe the before-after borrow pattern, the types of loanwords, and the process of word formation. The data indicates that sixteen words are part of loan blend; nine words are part of loan shift; and one word is a loanword. While based on word formation, it is revealed that the borrowing word formation process includes twenty-six words and the derivation word formation process involves sixteen words.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WRITE-AROUND PLUS STRATEGY TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL Muziatun Muziatun; Thalia Miranda Virginia; Ansar Tario Jusuf
English Review: Journal of English Education Vol 8, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/erjee.v8i2.3001

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Writing ability is one of English skills that need to be mastered by students. It is because students must express their idea well in order those readers can easily understand what students write. Moreover, many students’ problems are found in writing such as generating idea, lack of vocabulary, grammatical mistakes and so on. Regarding the occurrence of problem in mostly students’ writing, the researchers want to improve students’ writing skill in descriptive text by implementing write-around plus strategy. The purpose of conducting this research is to investigate whether the implementation of write-around plus strategy can improve students’ writing skill or not. This study is conducted by a pre-experimental study with measurement as the technique of collecting the data and written test as the tool of collecting the data. The research participants were 25 students as the eighth grade students in junior high school SMP Negeri 1 Gorontalo in academic year 2018/2019. The result of this study shows that there were improvements in all writing aspects such as fluency, grammar, vocabulary, content and spelling. The improvements of students’ writing can be shown by data analysis, namely the average result of the research for pre-test got 9.04 score and it currently has been increased in post-test about 13.4 score.
WORD FORMATION PROCESS OF GEN Z SLANG IN CALLAHAN'S GENERATION Z DICTIONARY Kartin Lihawa; Muziatun Mukaji; Sri Rahayu Malingkas; Hasanuddin Fatsah
Lingua Vol 17 No 1 (2021): Lingua : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan | Universitas Islam As-Syafi'iyah

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.34005/lingua.v17i1.1321

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Slang, either the form or the meaning is flexible and temporary, which canchange anytime depending on the user. This phenomenon also occurs in the trendy slang used by Gen Z. Therefore, this study aims to find out the types of word formation process in Gen Z slang. It focuses only on Gen Z slang that is in Callahan's Generation Z Dictionary. Further, this study is corpus-based, using qualitative analysis in investigating the types of word formation process in Gen Z slang. To analyze the corpus, there are two steps used that are classifying and interpreting. The finding reveals that there are eight types of word formation process, which influence in forming the Gen Z slang. Those types are fanciful formation, compounding, blending, clipping, conversion, suffixation, multiple process, and reduplicatives. Among those types, compounding is the most used. There are ten slang terms come through this types of process and this study presents all types of compounding. Those types are compound noun with one slang term, compound adjective with five slang terms, and compound verb with four slang terms. In conclusion, Gen Z slang is formed through eight types of the word formation process and compounding is the most used.
An Analysis of Hedging Devices on Students’ Presentation of Seminar on Language Based on The Gender Muziatun Muziatun; Fahria Malabar; Nur Windi Sangketa
Ideas: Jurnal Pendidikan, Sosial dan Budaya Vol 7 No 4 (2021): Ideas: Jurnal Pendidikan, Sosial, dan Budaya (November)
Publisher : Ideas Publishing

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32884/ideas.v7i4.520

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This study focus on the hedging devices types proposed by Namasaraev in relation with the participants’ confidence which consisted of female and male participant toward Seminar on Language presentation. The study expects to reveal the propensity of hedging in female and male speeches. This study applied qualitative descriptive method to describe the data in which using documentation by recording the participants’ speech. The result, it proved that both participants contributed fifth types of hedging devices. In female participant, those types are modal auxiliary verb, lexical verb, approximation, ‘if’ clause, and filler. As same as female participant, the male produced same types unless the type of ‘if’ clause and produced the adverb type. The findings displayed the female participants were frequently produced the filler type in which indicated the lack of confidence. Meanwhile, the male participants preferred to use modal auxiliary verb in which delivering the assertiveness and certainty. This study expected can be guidance for the readers who want to know more about hedging, also this can be source for further researcher who interested in the same fields.
ANALYZING STUDENTS' PASSIVE VOICE DIFFICULTIES Muziatun Muziatun; Fahria Malabar; Lisnawati Mustapa
Indonesian EFL Journal Vol 8, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : University of Kuningan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v8i2.6439

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The purpose of this study is to find out how difficult it is for students of using passive voice. There were twenty students in class B of the English Department's 2017 academy class at University Negeri Gorontalo, but only sixteen of them were chosen for this study, which employed a descriptive quantitative technique. A survey and an interview were used to get the data. As part of the test, students had to change the forms of numerous active sentences into passive ones. The data was examined using Sudijono’s (2006) formula and Parrot's (2000) theory of passive voice difficulties. This study found that students in the English Department's Class of 2017 at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo continue to struggle with the use of the passive voice. Auxiliary verb "be" utilization was found to be the most problematic by students admitted, with a percentage of 67.18 percent, followed by difficulties in changing the main verb into the past participle (48.43 percent) and changing the object and subject (43.75 percent). The usage of the auxiliary verb "be" is the most difficult part of passive voice for students, compared to the other two.Keywords: students’ difficulties; grammar; and passive voice.