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Journal : LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research

Paralinguistic Features in Students’ Speaking Performance Meta Idayanti Girsang; Desri Maria Sumbayak; Muhammad Yusuf
LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research
Publisher : Talenta Publisher

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.32734/lingpoet.v2i2.4452

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Analyzing paralanguage in students’ speaking is important especially in the EFL ( English as a Foreign Language) context. The research aims to find out the students’ productions of the paralinguistic features that is pitch and intonation in their speaking performance. The researcher used qualitative research and the data were taken from the eight videos of the speaking project of the students of the English department, Universitas Sumatera Utara.The interpretation of the data showed that each student uses the same feature in their speakings but produced the feature in a different way. The research revealed by seeing their paralinguistic features productions by using an instrument, PRAAT. The researcher found that some students produced low pitches in their speaking and some are high. There was a significant difference between men and women speakers in producing pitch. The research showed that PRAAT can help to reveal that both the students and the lecturer of speaking need to give more attention to the paralinguistic features and the production to build a good speaking and to be able to produce and follow the norms and rules in language they are learning.
Double Discrimination Towards Black Women in Hidden Figures and Where Hands Touch Anindhita Sabrina; Desri Maria Sumbayak; Ely Hayati Nasution
LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research Vol. 4 No. 3 (2023): LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research
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This research is intended to describe the double discrimination towards black women in society found in Hidden Figures and Where Hands Touch, and to find out the similarities and differences of double discrimination towards black women between the two films. This study used a qualitative descriptive method, which involves gathering, categorizing, and analyzing data. The data were dialogues and scene shots related to double discrimination. Based on the data analysis, there are racial and gender discrimination that is found in internal and external conflicts. After analyzing the data through the analysis of the intrinsic elements, similarities and differences are found between the two films. The two main characters; Katherine and Leyna, were similarly mistreated and harmed by society as black women. Katherine fought against double discrimination, while Leyna could do nothing but surrender. Their races and backgrounds are also different. Katherine was born to black American parents and lived in Virginia, United States. Meanwhile, Leyna was born biracial to black African and white German and lived in Berlin, Germany. In America in 1961, there was still tolerance, even though black women were still distinguished from white women. However, in Germany in 1944, there was no place for black women