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THE ROLE OF POEMS IN DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILL OF LOW ACHIEVING STUDENTS Siti Aisyah; Priyanto Widodo; M. Khusni Mubarak; Endah Harumi
Magister Scientiae No 46 (2019)
Publisher : Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (514.286 KB) | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v2i46.2230

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Critical thinking is always assumed to deal with critical reading and critical writing that also involve scientific materials. Critical thinking is also judged as the thinking skill limited to smart students only, since there are complicated problems involved, namely linguistic, psychological and cognitive problems. For students with such kinds of condition and situation, they need different materials and strategies adjusted to their characteristics to develop their critical thinking skills. This research showed that low achieving students of English as a foreign language (EFL) successfully improved their critical thinking skills after having activities of the poem interpretation and analysis activities in their Reading classes. This research also proved that when they align in pursuit of critical thinking by reading poems completed with the assignments. These lead the students to engage themselves not only in joyful learning activities of reading but also in training their thinking skills. They could perform interpreting and analysing poems with reasonable points of view. By having descriptive qualitative research for several months, there were crucial factors in optimizing the best performance of the low achieving students of EFL in thinking critically, namely well-designed lesson plans, peer-learning activities, and good teacher feedbacks.
Analysis of Code Switching and Code Mixing Used in Joko Widodo’s Statement Iddun Muhammad Hattory; Sulistyaningsih; Kani Sulam Taufiq; Endah Harumi
English Language and Literature in Education Journal Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): ELLINE Journal
Publisher : Nexus Publishing NXP

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Code switching is a part of sociolinguistics which explains about switching the language from one language to others. Code mixing was a part of sociolinguistics which has meaning about mix the words, phrases or clauses. This study was aimed to describe the type of code switching and code mixing. This study was applied descriptive qualitative method. The instruments of this study were the researcher and documentation. The subject of this study was Joko Widodo. The data of this study were all words that contain Code mixing and code switching. Steps of collecting data were: (1) reading the statement president of republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, (2) Observing directly by writing the utterances which is contain code switching and code mixing and (3) marking the switched phrases or sentences and mixed words on the utterances. Steps of data analysis were identifying code switching and code mixing, classifying the types of code switching and code mixing, analyzing the types of code switching and code mixing, and drawing the conclusion. The results of this study showed that there was two types code switching that were inter-sentential code switching and also intra-sentential code switching. There were three types of code mixing that were insertion, alternation, and congruent lexicalization.