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American Social and Family Relationship Aspects Found In Fitzgerald’s `The Great Gatzby` Novel and Its Application in English Speaking Class Triana, Juita
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 2 (2018): 2nd ELLiC Proceedings: Education 4.0: Trends and Future Perspectives in English Educa
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Language and culture are closely related to each other. Learning a language should be_ also completed learning its culture. In communication, difficulty or misunderstanding usually occurs because of the lack of cultural understanding. In line with this, to be able to speak English and interact culturally especially with the English native speakers, students of English should learn the culture of them. This writing is under a research with the objectives of finding some of the culture components especially on the social and family relationship aspects found in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby novel and its application in Speaking Class of English Department. It is a descriptive qualitative research. In conclusion, in the novel, it is found that in American social relationship, the people create nice relationship in which friendliness, informality, and equality marks are involved. In family relationship, Americans seem keeping their good relationship among family members by paying attention to one another. As the application in teaching speaking class, the findings can be good sources for doing some activities of learning some expressions and practicing role play based on the story of the novel. It can facilitate English students to improve their English speaking, especially in the communication with the English native speakers, in good cultural awareness.
The Consistency of Essay Texts Found in Grade Eleven English E-Book Interlanguage to the English Context of Culture Triana, Juita
English Language and Literature International Conference (ELLiC) Proceedings Vol 1 (2017): 1st ELLiC Proceedings: `Innovation, Trends, and Challenges in English Language Learni
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This study reveals the result of the research aimed at describing the consistency of essay texts found in grade eleven English E-book Interlanguage to the English context of culture. It shows how the generic structures displayed in the texts, and how the linguistic features serve the communicative purposes. This study uses descriptive qualitative research method. The finding shows that mostly the essay texts are compatible with the English context of culture, although some shortcomings are still appear. Expectedly, the result of the research will be a consideration for the progress of English teaching and learning in Indonesia especially encouraging the students to get better understanding on genres.