Masykur Rauf
Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar

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STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN ANALYZING AMBIGUOUS PERSONAL REFERENCE IN WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB: THE TRIAL NOVEL Masykur Rauf; Reski Amanda
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 6 No 2 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24252/Eternal.V62.2020.A12

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This research discussed students’ ability in analysing ambiguous reference in written text. The objectives of this research were to find out students’ ability, and the way of the seventh-semester students of English and Literature Department (2016) in analysing the given extracts. The Researchers used quantitative and qualitative methods for collecting and analysing data. The data source was the seventh-semester students of English and Literature Department (2016). The Researchers used paper test (close-ended and open-ended question) as the instrument to get the data. As the procedure of collecting data, the Researchers gave the students the test and the instruction to answer the test. The Researchers then collected the paper after the students answered the tests. The Researchers used Halliday and Hasan’s reference theory which focusing on personal reference. Based on the findings and discussion, the Researchers found that 1 student possessed excellent ability, 2 students got good ability, 5 students belonged to fair ability, and 2 students obtained poor ability. As the conclusion, the seventh-semester student of English and Literature Department (2016) had fair ability (67.09) in analysing ambiguous personal references. It was proved by their mean score through the paper test (multiple choice). And the Researchers also concluded that analysed the given extracts by 3 ways. Those were by the context, good sense, and guessing. It was proved by their answers got through open-ended questionnaire.
THE USE OF FTA’S STRATEGIES BY LECTURERS IN LISTENING SUBJECT Masykur Rauf
ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning and Research Journal) Vol 8 No 02 (2022)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24252/Eternal.V82.2022.A8

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This article aimed at finding out the kinds of FTA strategies (positive and negative politeness) used by lecturers in lecturing listening comprehension and the effects of polite expressions used by lecturers on students. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research and applied a purposive sampling technique in collecting valid data. The subject of this research was one lecturer in the English and Literature Department of the Adab and Humanities Faculty. The researcher applied classroom observation by recording the lecturer’s activities and analyzed them through Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness strategies (FTA). The researcher found some polite expressions of strategies that the lecturer used which are divided into two types. First, Positive Politeness (PP) such as noticing and attend the hearer, greetings, exaggerating, intensifying the interest of the hearer, using in-group identity makers, seeking agreement, presupposing/raising/asserting common ground, including both speaker and hearer in the activity, giving or asking reasons, assume or assert reciprocity and giving gifts to the hearer (goods, sympathy); and Negative Politeness (NP) such as Being conventionally indirect, Questions, Minimize the imposition, Giving deference, Nominalize. The effects on students are: being motivated in their study, student attitude (affective), respect for the lecturer, self-confidence, being active and attending the learning process, and honesty.