bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS FOR STRESS ULCER BLEEDING PROPHYLAXIS IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS: A COST ANALYSIS STUDY
Authors: Sinuraya Rano K , Gondodiputro Sharon , Djuhaeni Henni
Published: June 2017

Objective:Stress ulcer prophylaxis is generallyadministered for the prevention stress-related mucosal disease (SRMD) in critically ill patients. Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) are most commonly prescribed in preventing bleeding from SRMD. Pantoprazole iv and omeprazole iv are the most effective, but clinically effective is not always efficient. Thisstudy aimed to investigate whether the most efficient PPIs for prophylaxis in ICU settings.Methods:An observational study was conducted on June 2014 with comparative design by using medical records in January 2012−November 2014 in a private hospital in Bandung City. Both retrospective and prospective data collection was performed in this study. Paired t-test analysis was used to compare average cost of the drugs with significant level p<0.05.Results:The results showed average cost of pantoprazole iv 458.142 IDR/patient and omeprazole iv 575.573 IDR/patient, there were significant differences of average drug cost between pantoprazole iv and omeprazole iv (p=0.0085).Conclusion:Both pantoprazole iv and omeprazole iv were effective but pantoprazole ivhad been found more efficient.
SATISFACTION LEVEL OF PATIENTS, PHYSICIANS, AND PRIVATE PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTER MANAGERS WITH CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN INDONESIA
Authors: Sinuraya Rano K , Abdulah Rizky , Diantini Ajeng , Suwantika Auliya A
Published: June 2017

Objective:Program PengelolaanPenyakitKronis (PROLANIS) or Chronic Disease Management Program (CDMP) is a healthcare system that was conducted by Healthcare and Social Security Agency in Indonesia to improve patients’ quality of life. The objective of this study was to analyze level satisfaction of patients, physicians, and private Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) with this program, focusing on hypertension care.Methods:This study was conducted in 7 private PHCs in Bandung City, Indonesia. A cross sectional study was performed to measure patient satisfaction with PSQ-18 on 143 PROLANIS patients with hypertension. A total number of 8 physicians and 7 private PHC managers were involved in this study. Level satisfaction of physicians and private PHC managers were observed by using in-depth interviews.Results:The results showed that patient satisfaction was estimated to be 68.52±8.54, which could be interpreted that patient satisfy with PROLANIS. In-depth interviews showed that physicians did not satisfy with PROLANIS due to several factors (e.g., unintegrated prescription systems, lack of medicines, uncompleted laboratory facilities, lack of physicians, unintegrated referral services, and lack of collaboration between primary and secondary healthcare system). On the other hand, private PHC managers were quite satisfied with PROLANIS due to its linearity with other activities in private PHCs.Conclusion:Level satisfaction of patients with PROLANIS is quite good, while physicians might not satisfy with this program. In particular, private PHC managers confirmed that they are satisfied with this program
COMPARISON OF THREE CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENS TO THE DECREASE IN LEUKOCYTES AND THE INCIDENCE RATE OF NEUTROPENIA IN PATIENTS WITH NASOPHARYNGEAL CANCER AT DR. HASAN SADIKIN GENERAL HOSPITAL BANDUNG
Authors: Afifah Nadiya Nurul , Diantini Ajeng , Pratiwi Pratiwi
Published: June 2017

Nasopharyngeal cancer is the ninth most common cancer in indonesia. The death of cancer patients is not only caused by the cancer itself, but also several other factors such as the side effects of chemotherapy. Some side effects that occurred are decrease in leukocytes and incidence of neutropenia. Neutropenia is the highest hematological toxicity caused by chemotherapy treatment which has final manifestation are death from systemic infection. The purpose of this study is to compare three chemotherapy regimens in causing a decrease in leukocytes and the incidence of neutropenia to the patients with nasopharyngeal cancer in RSUP. Dr. Hasan Sadikin Bandung. The three chemotherapy regimens compared in this study are cisplatin, cisplatin / 5-FU, and carboplatin / Paclitaxel. This research is an analytic observational study with retrospective data collection and cross-sectional analytic design. The data were obtained from the medical records of inpatients with nasopharyngeal cancer during January -December 2015, total data 86 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient[s] (>18 y.o, female and male) data had been analyzed in this study. The results showed that there is no significant differences (p> 0.05) in the three regimens in causing the reduction of leukocyte (p=0.327) and the average of Absolute Neutrofil Count (p=0.240). The percentage of neutropenia incidence in cisplatin regimen is 8.3%, in cisplatin / 5-FU is 14.3%, and in carboplatin / paclitaxel is 18.6%.
«El juez de los divorcios» de Cervantes y «El marido pantasma» de Quevedo: estudio comparativo de dos entremeses sobre el matrimonio
Authors: Tobar Quintanar María José
Published: June 2017

Se analiza el distinto tratamiento cómico del matrimonio -sin adulterio- en los entremeses El juez de los divorcios, de Cervantes, y El marido pantasma, de Quevedo. Se da cuenta también de las diferencias en la caracterización de sus figuras, en la exhibición verbal de ingenio conceptista y en los medios escénicos utilizados. La pieza cervantina se revela más compleja, reflexiva y verosímil que la quevediana. La obrita de don Francisco, en cambio, muestra una visión satírica más tópica, una deformación grotesca de los tipos, un despliegue considerable de agudezas verbales y una intensa atmósfera de irrealidad.
Revelaciones sobre la religión civil estadounidense: influjo en su configuración nacional y crisis postglobalizatoria
Authors: Sánchez-Bayón Antonio , Fuente Lafuente Carlos , Campos García de Quevedo Gloria
Published: June 2017

Este estudio revisionista (crítico y comparado), de enfoque interdisciplinario (combinando Política, Derecho, Religión, Sociología y Comunicación), retira velos de confusión y ayuda a (re)evaluar el desarrollo del gran recurso estadounidense propio para transitar a la Modernidad y lograr su configuración idiosincrásica. Dicho recurso es su religión civil, consistente en un sistema genuino de integración anterior al recurso decimonónico de la nación. Se analizan sus principales manifestaciones (símbolos, ritos, creencias e instituciones), además de diagnosticar sobre su estado y pronosticar acerca de su viabilidad tras la globalización.
KINERJA KEUANGAN DAERAH PASCA PERALIHAN BEA PEROLEHAN HAK ATAS TANAH DAN BANGUNAN
Authors: Juli Juli Juli
Published: June 2017

This study examined differences in the local government's financial performance before and after the transition from central tax BPHTB be local taxes? In general, this study aims to determine the contribution BPHTB to the PAD as a source of funding for the survival of each region in order to achieve local autonomy system. The samples used in this study is the district/city that has existed since autonomy BPHTB not be treated as 114 cities/districts. The realization of the study observation period is the period before the transition budget BPHTB (Year 2010) and after the transition BPHTB (Year 2011). The research data were statistically tested with a different test of two paired samples.

The results show that the performance of local government in Java have differences before and after the transition BPHTB from the central government to local governments. This research can provide empirical evidence of the differences in the financial performance of the post-transition region from the center to the regions BPHTB especially Java. The results of this study can also be used as a reference in future studies with similar themes to consider several things. First, the use of samples that are not confined to the local government but the entire Indonesian island of Java. Second, adding the growth rate ie performance measurement. Third, review the compatibility ratio because in addition to operational expenditure and capital expenditure is no longer heading in the budget expenditure is financing and transfer.

 

 

Keywords: Bea Perolehan Hak atas Tanah dan Bangunan, Financial Performance, Autonomous Region.
PENGARUH PENGETAHUAN WAJIB PAJAK, KESADARAN WAJIB PAJAK, SANKSI PAJAK KENDARAAN BERMOTOR, DAN SISTEM SAMSAT DRIVE THRU TERHADAP KEPATUHAN WAJIB PAJAK KENDARAAN BERMOTOR
Authors: Wardani Dewi Kusuma , Rumiyatun Rumiyatun
Published: June 2017

This study aimed to examine the effect of knowledge of the taxpayer, the taxpayer awareness, motor vehicle tax penalties, and the system of samsat drive thru on tax compliance in the motor vehicle in samsat Bantul. The data that is used in this study are primary data from the results of questionnaires. Respondents in this study are the taxpayer automobiles that make tax payments in the system samsat drive-thru. The questionnaire was distributed to 110 respondents and data that can be processed are 100 questionnaires. The sampling method used accidental sampling. The data analysis techniques in this study used multiple linear regression techniques. Results of regression analysis showed that the awareness of taxpayers and system of samsat drive-thru has positive effect on tax compliance motor vehicle while knowledge of taxpayers and tax penalties vehicle had no significant effect on tax compliance vehicle.

 

Keywords:

Knowledge taxpayer, taxpayer awareness, tax penalties motor vehicles, and drive-thru samsat systems, motor vehicle tax compliance.
PENGARUH KESADARAN WAJIB PAJAK, SANKSI PERPAJAKAN, PENGETAHUAN PERPAJAKAN, DAN PELAYANAN FISKUS
Authors: Erawati Teguh , Parera Andrea Meylita Widyasti
Published: June 2017

This study aimed to examine the effect of awareness of taxpayers, tax penalties, tax knowledge, and service tax authorities on tax compliance and building earth. The sampling technique in this study using a convenience sampling (convenience sampling) to 110 taxpayer earth and office buildings in the Department of Revenue, Finance and Asset Management Area (DPPKAD) Yogyakarta that meet the criteria.

            The data used are primary data through questionnaires, which contain a respondent's answers. Analysis of the data in this study using descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. The first hypothesis: awareness taxpayer positive effect on tax compliance on land and buildings, both: tax penalty positive effect on tax compliance on land and buildings, three: knowledge of taxation positive effect on tax compliance on land and buildings, a fourth: the service tax authorities positive effect on tax compliance and building earth. The fourth hypothesis can be proved by the results of the study showed that awareness of taxpayers, tax penalties, tax knowledge, and service fiskus positive effect on tax compliance and building earth.

 

Keywords: Awareness of taxpayers, tax penalties, tax knowledge, Service tax authorities, taxpayers Compliance
Scaffolding in the Teaching of Writing Discussion Texts Based on SFL Genre-based Approach
Authors: Syarifah Eva Fitriani , Gunawan Wawan
Published: June 2017

Writing in a second or foreign language seems to be the most difficult language skill for language learners to acquire (Laksmi, 2006; Lestari, 2008; Negari, 2011). Some scholars proposed the implementation of SFL – genre based approach in teaching writing (Derewianka, 1990; Rothery, 1996). However, SFL genre based approach seems to be product or teaching outcomes oriented (Ahn, 2012; Emilia, 2011). Therefore, the concept of scaffolding in which possible supports the process of students‟ individual development is important to be emerged in the teaching stages of SFL – GBA (Bodrova & Leong, 1998; Mulatsih, 2011). As a result, This study focuses on the issue of scaffoldings in the teaching of writing discussion texts based on SFL – Genre Based Approach. It particularly aims to investigate how scaffolding processes are implemented in the teaching of writing discussion texts based on SFL-GBA and how they improve the students‟ writing performance. The data rely on teaching and learning process in a classroom with six students in a tertiary level as the focus participants. The method used in the data analysis adopted a qualitative design with reference especially to the theory of the scaffolding and SFL-GBA. The results of analysis show that scaffolding processes are implemented in terms of macro and micro scaffoldings and able to improve the students‟ writing performance specifically in terms of social function, schematic structures, and language features of discussion genre. It is recommended that future related research should be conducted in more diverse of educational settings to see how scaffoldings are implemented in a variety of teaching practices.Keywords: scaffolding, discussion texts, SFL, genre-based approach.
Phonological, Morphological and Syntactical Influences of Mother Tongue on Arab Learners
Authors: Mohammad Taj
Published: June 2017

Arab learners' mother tongue influence on target language (English) is a very usual and well-known phenomenon in schools and universities. The present study attempts to find and analyze phonological, morphological and syntactical influences of mother tongue on Arab learners. The study aims to critically analyze students’ writing samples and focus on the problems like capitalization, punctuation, language use and spelling. It critically diagnoses teachers’ perception on the above-mentioned writing problems through a personal interview and offers some recommendations based on the findings through writing samples and interview responses. To achieve these objectives, researcher analyzes forty writing samples of students from first and second midterm examinations at PYP (Preparatory Year Program), Najran University. To the surprise of researcher, writing samples had ridiculous errors. Four writing samples are attached to expose errors of students. Twenty teachers, especially teaching writing at PYP, Najran University, were interviewed in order to investigate the real causes of extremely poor performance of students. Teachers, in the interview, denoted various causes for the present condition of students. They admitted that use of mother in the classroom was one of the major causes of the present condition of students. The study offered some recommendations (based on the findings) like elimination of GT method and implementation of CLT approach in the classroom.Key words: GT method, mother tongue influences, target language
Error Analysis of Writing Verbs in Discussion Text
Authors: Solihat Dadang , Novianti Diah
Published: June 2017

The objective of this study is to find out the error types of writing verbs in students‟ discussion texts and to identify the factors causing verb errors at the fourth semester students of English major in University of Kuningan. The subject of this study is 20 students. The limitation of the problem is to classify the students‟ errors based on Linville„s error types in writing verbs, there are subject-verb agreement errors, verb tense errors, and verb form errors. This research is using qualitative method by collecting data from documents, questionnaires, and interviews. The result showed that the highest error which most students made is subject-verb agreement. Its frequency is 105 errors or 78.95 %. The second common error is verb form with 15 errors or 11.28 %. The third common error is verb-tense with 13 errors or 9.77 %. The factors causing verb errors are interlingual factor and intralingual or developmental factor. It is influenced by the students‟ lack of knowledge and understanding of the use of verbs.Key words: subject-verb agreement error, verb tense error, verb form error, interlingual factor, intralingual or developmental factor
Using Cooperative Learning In Teaching Critical Thinking In Reading
Authors: Devi Anit Pranita , Musthafa Bachrudin , Gustine Gin Gin Gustine
Published: June 2017

This study investigates how cooperative learning facilitates students in learning critical thinking in reading and to find out the benefits and challenges during the implementation of cooperative learning in one vocational school in Cimahi. A case study is utilized by using instruments of classroom observations, questionnaires, semi structured interview and students’ written tests. The findings show that the implementation of cooperative learning facilitates students develop their critical thinking and enhance critical thinking dispositions in reading. Three features which contribute to the development of students’ critical thinking in reading are: the encouragement of student-student interaction; the provision of group purposes; and the provision of stimulus to the students’ development of thought and ideas. The aforementioned features promote benefits which involved higher motivation and involvement, increased opportunity for language use, and developed interpersonal relationship. Nevertheless, these benefits are constrained by the availability of time, students’ English proficiency, and students’ contribution to the groupwork. It is recommended that further researchers conduct the similar study in a longer period to make sure that the key elements of cooperative learning are well-structured.Keywords: cooperative learning, critical thinking
Motivational Strategies in Teaching English as Foreign Language: A Case Study in Junior High School 7 Kuningan
Authors: Nugroho Muhammad Aprianto Budie , Mayda Nining
Published: June 2017

This research aims to analyze motivational strategies in teaching English as foreign language at 7th grade of Junior High School 7 Kuningan and to analyze students‟ attitudes towards motivational strategies that were applied by teachers in teaching EFL. The researchers used qualitative research by using classroom observation, interview, and questionnaires. The result taken from classroom observation and interview show teacher 1 and teacher 3 applied motivational strategies completely based on the phases of motivational strategies. Thus, the students responded these strategies positively. On the other hand, teacher 2 applied motivational strategies incompletely because the teacher missed the first phases. This was responded negatively by students. Therefore, the students were actively involved in teaching and learning process conducted by teacher 1 and teacher 2, but the students were passively involved in teaching and learning process conducted by teacher 2. Furthermore, the result taken from questionnaires shows that students gave positive attitudes towards the teacher 1 (88.25%), teacher 2 (79.02%), and teacher 3 (85.71%). Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the way the teachers applied motivational strategies in teaching EFL determined students‟ attitudes towards motivational strategies applied by teachers in teaching EFL.Keywords: motivational strategies, phases of motivational strategies, students attitudes, teaching EFL
Second Language Acquisition And Linguistic Freedom Through Drama
Authors: Jordan Peter E. R.
Published: June 2017

The important part played by drama in second language acquisition has long been appreciated. An active and inter-active teaching environment facilitates learning in a number of ways, by motivating and sustaining attention, as well as offering a secure environment for experimentation. Drama offers students a pro-active approach to learning, promoting a collective feeling of being in a shared enterprise. This paper discusses how drama can make a significant contribution to second language acquisition. In particular, I focus on the techniques of the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, the first truly professional theatre form to emerge in Europe in the mid-sixteenth century. Its core elements of improvisation and mask are highly effective tools in language learning, empowering students and allowing them to take ownership of the unfamiliar. Improvisation provides a dramatically engaging forum for experimentation that can help to overcome cognitive blocks and prioritise communication as the ultimate imperative. Masks which leave the mouth free for speech can help students overcome the natural inhibitions that often come with attempts to express oneself in an unfamiliar linguistic code.Keywords: language acquisition, drama, improvisation, mask
Interpersonal Meaning in Netanyahu’s Speech
Authors: Firmansah Arif
Published: June 2017

This study investigates how the interpersonal meaning is realized in the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This study aimed to uncover (1) the mood structure which realized in Netanyahu‘s speech of Iran and Palestine and (2) To what extent the difference in field determine the interpersonal metafunction of the speaker. This study is largely qualitative but in order to answer those research questions, this study will be assisted by some descriptive quantification to observe the trend in the interpersonal meaning of the speaker. It applies Hallidayan theory of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) in analyzing the research data. The data were taken from the websites which are readily accessible to the public. Two different transcribed speeches are discovered to extract the data which are needed to investigate the interpersonal meaning. Subject, Finite and Modality are the main tools to realize the interpersonal meaning of Netanyahu in his speech. It can be realized by discovering the use of those parts in his speech in different issue and occasion. It is found that Netanyahu‘s interpersonal meaning is realized through the placement of Subject and the utilization of Finite, Modality and Mood Adjuncts. It is also found that the differences of the field influence the interpersonal meaning of the speaker through the comparison of subject and finite. The findings in this present study are expected to be useful for some purposes in the future.Keywords: Interpersonal meaning, mood, modality.
Cohesive Devices In EFL Students’ Expository Writing
Authors: Adiantika Hanif Nurcholish
Published: June 2017

This study aims to investigate the use of cohesive devices in students’ expository writing. In particular, the study focuses on types of cohesive device used by the students and how cohesive devices contribute to their writing. This study employs qualitative research through a case study design. Public senior high school in Kuningan is chosen as the site for this study. Nine students of twelfth grade are involved in the study as the respondents. Documents of nine students’ expository writings are the data of this study. The data are analyzed by using the concept of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) which covers reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Analyses show that the respondents only use four cohesive devices in their writing i.e. reference, substitution, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. These devices also contribute to the process of keeping track of the participants, avoiding repetition and text redundancy, enhancing logical connection between parts of text, and engaging the readers to the core argument of the text. The study infers that it is still problematic although most of the students apply many cohesive devices in their writing. This is because students have not received sufficient training concerning how to use appropriate cohesive devices. Therefore, they should be guided to utilize appropriate cohesive devices in their writing.Keywords: cohesive devices, cohesion, EFL students, expository writing, case study
UTILIZING PEER AND TEACHER FEEDBACK IN ACADEMIC WRITING CLASS
Authors: Imam Yuliarto Taufiqulloh Yuvita
Published: June 2017

A process approach is usually employed in the classroom instruction of academic writing, particulary essay writing, in the Indonesian colleges or universities. This study investigates the role of teacher and peer feedback inserted in the steps of writing process on students’ writing achievement. It is an experimental research conducted at the English Education Department of Pancasakti University Tegal Central Java Indonesia, in the seven semester of the  academic year 2015/2016. The participants of this study are 40 students who attended essay writing class. The instrument is essay writing test which was administered before and after treatment to both experimental and control group. By using paired-sample t-test and f-test, it was found that the use of teacher and peer feedback were effective to teach essay writing. Such a technique contributed a significant improvemental to the students writing achievement in the experimental group. The result also showed that the writing achievement of the students in the experimental group was better than that of those in the control group. To conclude,  utilizing teacher and peer feedback is considered to be one of the effective ways for the students in learning essay writing. However, some drawbacks were found that need to be taken into account in the next related researches.Keywords: Teacher feedback, peer feedback, essay writing
BETWEEN REALITY AND IDEALISM: DOES NOVEL READING GENERATE EMPATHY IN ALGERIAN EFL STUDENTS?
Authors: Achiri Samya , Hadjeris Fadhila
Published: June 2017

This study is an exploration of the extent to which reading novels develops Algerian EFL students’ empathetic attitudes towards human issues in the novel they are exposed to on the one hand and towards current local and worldwide issues on the other. To achieve this aim, a survey questionnaire is designed. The respondents are 50 MA students of Anglo-American Studies at the English Department of Oum El Bouaghi University (Algeria). The students have been exposed to Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a part of their syllabus. Accordingly, their reactions to the questions concerning this novel provide the necessary data around which this study hinges. The findings of the research are meant to help teachers and researchers to seek out new possibilities of developing more effective ways of using novel reading in EFL university classes. Additionally, the results serve to raise Algerian EFL students’ awareness about reading novels and their impact on stimulating their imagination, critical thinking and emotional attitudes.Keywords:  EFL teaching/ learning, novel, narrative empathy, empathetic attitudes, critical thinking, Algeria.
SYMBOLIC AND PROPHETIC SYNTAGMAS IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
Authors: Ekundayo Omowumi Bode Steve , Akinbobola Abiola Olubunmi
Published: June 2017

This essay discusses Achebe’s delineation of characters, events and use of language in Anthills of the Savannah (AS) as symbolic and prophetic syntagmas which later manifested in some real life personalities and socio-political phenomena in Africa and Nigeria, the setting of the novel. The primary source of data is Anthills of the Savannah. Secondary source and the internet were also consulted for the theoretical background and literature review. Grammatical structures and literary features were extracted and analyzed to show their associative and symbolic links with real life events which occurred after 1987, the year AS was published. The symbolic and prophetic syntagmas identified and their manifestations are presented with annotations in tables. The essay established that Achebe uses syntagmas of utterances, events, settings and characters to symbolize and foreshadow imminent events in the novel and socio-political occurrences in Nigeria and Africa, a feat which stands him out as a novelist with great prophetic insight and clairvoyance.Keywords: Achebe, AS, syntagma, prophetic, symbolic. character
COMBINING PRODUCT AND PROCESS-BASED APPROACHES TO TEACHING WRITING DISCUSSION TEXTS
Authors: Agustiana Vina
Published: June 2017

This study examines the activities of teaching-learning writing discussion texts when product and process-based approach combination is implemented in EFL writing classroom, the effects of applying the writing approach on EFL students’ writing skill, and the students’ attitude toward the implementation of writing approach in the classroom. It uses a mixed-methods through applying an embedded design by involving 24 second-grade students of a private university in West Java, Indonesia. There were four instruments used, namely field notes, videotapes, students’ tests (pre-test and post-test), and questionnaires. The findings show that the students were actively involved in class when the teacher applied the writing approach in writing classroom. There was also the improvement in the students’ writing skill based on the result taken from the students’ tests since the level of significance (two-tailed) in paired t-test is less than the alpha (0.000<0.05). Qualitatively, the improvements were also found in generic features, textual language, and syntactical language aspects. In addition, the students showed highly positive attitude (4.35 average score) toward the implementation of the approach in the classroom.Keywords: writing, writing skill, discussion texts, product and process-based approach combination
LITERARY TEACHING AND ITS CONSTRAINTS: PARADIGMS AND PROBLEMS
Authors: Mustofa Ali
Published: June 2017

The paper will explore the nature of the literary teaching and its constraints. In language teaching, literary teaching has been promoted influential and approved effective to encourage the students’ character building in terms of some issues: historical, philosophical, cultural, social, and psychological contexts. Historically, literary teaching will provide students and learners of the ancients’ way of life and learn from the best in the past for their life experience. Some constraints may arise in language teaching due to the cultural and the philosophical boundaries. The constraints may be put into some categories; philosophical, cultural, social, and psychological. To generalize the idea, literary teaching needs efforts to boost the students’ skills to creatively launch themselves to a higher level of thinking order to achieve the goals of literary teaching and the demand of curriculum.Keywords: literary teaching, humanity issues, constraints, critical thinking, competency
THE EMPOWERMENT OF CHILDREN IN EDITH NESBIT’S THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Authors: Anshori Adam
Published: June 2017

This research is aimed at describing the empowerment of children in Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children. The problems formulated in the research will be answered in the descriptions consisting of thoughts, actions, and feelings of the main characters in the novel and presenting other characters’ comments dedicated to the main characters. The main source of the research data was Edith Nesbit’s The Railway Children. It is considered as a children’s literature. The focus of the research was events in the novel which showing the empowerment of the main characters. The data consist of thoughts, actions, and feelings of the main characters and presenting other characters’ admirable comments dedicated to the main characters. The data were analyzed inductively by using qualitative content analysis. The instrument of the research was the researcher himself. To get trustworthiness of the data, the researcher used four criteria, namely: credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The findings of the research showed that the novel contains of children’s empowerment, which can be divided into three categories. They are Thought Empowerment, Action Empowerment and Feeling Empowerment. As empowerment of children is considered as an important aspect in children’s story and it has great influence to enrich children’s intelligence and emotion in their growing period, The Railway Children can be categorized as a good novel.  Keywords: children’s literature, children’s empowerment
REQUESTIVE STRATEGIES PERFORMED BY PAPUAN STUDENTS IN SUNDANESE CULTURAL CONTEXT
Authors: Sopiah Iis , Fadhly Fahrus Zaman
Published: June 2017

This study investigated requestive strategies performed by Papuan students and the effect of interlocutor’s cultural background on the way of Papuan students in making request. There were 16 Papuan students studying in senior high school and vocational high school in Kuningan participated in this study. The data were collected by using Discourse Completion Test (DCT) and interview. The theory of requestive strategies proposed by Blum-Kulka, House and Kasper (1989) and the theory of request modification proposed by Blum-Kulka & Olshtain (1984) were used to analyze the data. The finding revealed that Papuan students used different strategy in making request to different interlocutor. Strategies mostly used by them while making request to Papuan was mood derivable. While making request to Sundanese, they tended to use query preparatory strategy. This finding also revealed that Papuan students tended to use more request modification when making request to Sundanese people. Those modifications involved (1) internal modifications, such as the use of interrogative, negation embedded if clause and negation, and (b) external modifications, such as the use of additional statements prior or after the head acts.Keywords: Requestive strategies, request modification, Papuan students, Sundanese.
A CASE STUDY OF PROSODIC PHRASAL GROUPING AND INTONATIONAL PROMINENCE IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Authors: Susanto Susanto
Published: June 2017

In language acquisition, children use prosody in their comprehension and production of utterances. In line with that, as a case study in this research, I analyze two particular aspects of prosody in a child’s language acquisition, i.e. prosodic phrasal grouping and intonational prominence. In the first aspect, I investigate whether the child uses prosodic phrases to group words together into interpretable units. In the second aspect, I analyze whether the child uses intonational prominence to focus marking prosody. The result indicates that both aspects are used by the child.Keywords: language acquisition, prosody, intonation, phonetic cues.
WRITING ABOUT WHAT WE SEE: EKPHRASIS TODAY
Authors: Arnold Josie
Published: June 2017

Visual media presents us with an opportunity to enter into the written scholarly discussions about an understanding of the paradox that what is seen and what is written are different representation. In this paper I investigate the importance of audience today; I discuss how global communications via new media challenges traditional views of the concept of an audience. I look at how communication is now from one to many, from many to many and from one to one, and how this challenges the term ‘audience’ with ‘users’.  This paper enters into the scholarly debate about how interactivity in new media places singular interpretive actions by individuals at its center rather than as the more traditionally peripheral audience. In doing so it suggests that existing audience theory can and should be extended in regard to new media audiences, players or users. This paper also discusses how audience theory remains apposite when it adapts and changes.Keywords: visual media, audience, new media, audience theory
A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF “THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER”
Authors: Khan Shaukat , Jehanzeb Sumaira , Ulah Irfan , Irfan Muhammad
Published: June 2017

If a specimen of literary art is seen as a fine tapestry of words made by the skilled seamstress—the poet, then the lexis and structure of a language are the raw materials—the fabric and the thread—by weaving which into specific patterns the finished product is achieved. The choice of materials and their arrangement into unique patterns always bear an image of their creator, or the artist; thus, a close view of them reveals the artist’s identity and brings out the meaningful message that underlies the ornate running threads. Mostly, the students of literary studies cannot appreciate the beauty of the literary classics on their own. Consequently, they simply mimic the ideas, and sometimes even the words, of famous professional critics when asked to give their own critical judgment on the aesthetic merit or the thematic quality of a literary work in the shape of a home assignment, classroom presentation or an annual assessment test. Now, the researcher has got the inspiration for carrying out this study from an idea expounded in Widdowson (1975) that this mimicry can be replaced by genuine individual opinion if the students, or even those people who have non-academic concerns with literature, are brought to a standpoint from where they can have a closer view of the raw materials, the language resources, which are involved in the making of a literary product. And, if the product in its finished form cannot elicit a desired response from them then making them sensitive to the process of its making can be quite effective in this regard. Through the present study, an attempt has been made to show an easy access to the outlandish world of verse by means of the linguistic route which is laid with the familiar flagstones of grammar and vocabulary. Meaning thereby that in this study the elusiveness of poetry will be dealt with the precision of a social scientist, the linguist. The approach which serves as the basis of this study is not an invention of the researcher; rather, it is a well-known twentieth century approach known as stylistics (Jeffries & McIntyre, 2010, p. 30). Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous ballad, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, being a widely read poem and bearing various stylistics features, offered itself as an ideal object for this study. The poet’s aesthetic message is explored by analyzing the finest details of his linguistic expression. And, careful considerations have been made throughout the study to prevent the overlooking of any instance of deviant linguistic units or recurring patterns for interpretation because such elements contribute largely to the meaning of any literary product. The study is descriptive in its nature therefore qualitative data has been integrated with and substantiated by the quantitative one.  Keywords: stylistics, literature, lexical, semantic and graphological deviations
NIGERIANS UTILISATION OF CODE-MIXING AS COMMUNICATIVE DEVICES
Authors: Daniel Iyabode Omolara Akewo
Published: June 2017

The importance of communication as a central idea in language usage cannot be over-emphasised. This seems to inform how many Nigerian speakers make extensive use of the mixture of indigenous languages and the English language in one and the same breath. It seems to reveal a kind of perception of reality in two ways at the same time. They seem to go through the process of thinking in diverse ways at the same time. This study thus seeks to find out the extent to which the average Nigerian user of the English language makes  intelligible contribution to discourses. How much sense is made to and by interlocutors in the course of their discussions? To what extent is reality to them influenced by their knowledge of the English language? The extent of the indigenisation process is also of interest to the study. The expectation is that such contact should be to the advantage of one or the other of the languages in contact. Real time linguistic data were collected and analysed, using linguistic levels as base to access the extent to which Nigerian indigenous languages have been able to influence the English language. The finding shows that codemixing is an important part of the Nigerian communication process and has enabled the vernacularisation of the English language to a very large extent. This has produced a new spatial identity that reveals the Nigerian’s domination of the colonial English language.Keywords: Code-mixing, Communication, Language usage, English vernacularisation, Nigerian indigenous languages, Spatial identity
THE NOTIONS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND RESEARCH INSTRUCTORS ON THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ON THE RESEARCH WRITING PROCESS OF THEIR COLLEGE STUDENTS
Authors: Velasco Yvonne P. , Dolor Mary Ann V.
Published: June 2017

This is a descriptive study investigating teachers’ view on the impact of digital technologies on the research writing of their students. Using Mishra and Koehler’s (2006) TPCK model as framework, a probe was made on how technology and content are related and how pedagogical strategies in research relates to the use of technology in the classroom. The results reveal that teachers generally viewed the impact of digital technologies as positive but also showed misgivings on some aspects of technology use. The results have significant impact on the ICT policy currently being implemented in most state-run schools in the Philippines.Keywords: digital technologies, teacher perceptions, college research, ICT policy
INTERCULTURAL APPROACH AND CHARACTER EDUCATION- BASED DEVELOPING ENGLISH TEXTBOOK
Authors: Rokhayati Titi
Published: June 2017

This research was conducted with the purpose to develop the materials of textbook based on intercultural approach and character education as a guideline in learning English for senior high school class X in Purworejo regency, and to determine the validity of the development of textbooks. The method used in this research is R and D. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that English book published by the government in 2014 requires improvement in terms of 1) the current topic which are very important because the topics are most needed by the students as information directly from the book contained current trends, 2) Insight of diversity means that the knowledge, experience, and discourse reflected in the texts contained insight of diversity including the target language, and 3) Relationship with social emotional material students need to be improved. The material contained in this book will be developed based on the intercultural approach, meaning that based on the findings and goals to be achieved in this study, the findings of the field study is appropriate.Keywords: Textbooks, English, intercultural approach, character education
SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF THETA ROLES OF VERBS IN THE MAH MERI LANGUAGE
Authors: Maisarah Maisarah , Kadhim Kais Amir , Veesar Zahid Ali
Published: June 2017

The Mah Meri language, one of the severely endangered languages of Malaysia, is facing the threat of extinction. In order to save valuable information of this language, this paper focuses on one of its aspects, the Theta Roles in relation to the verbs. Using Radford’s (1997 & 2009) theory of Theta Roles, this study analyzes and explores the verb phrase of Mah Meri. The main objective of this study is to establish the Theta Roles in relation to verbs in the Mah Meri language. In order to fully understand the verb structures, the morphological entities of affixes such as prefixes and suffixes are studied. Moreover, the word order of the sentential constructions are also analyzed according to active and passive forms. These are done in tandem with analyzing the pronouns in relation to the placement of verbs in a Mah Meri sentential construction. It is found that Theta Roles are present in the data except for the Theta Role Recipient. However, this is not due to the lack of the Theta Role of Recipient in the Mah Meri language; rather it is due to the limitation of the scope in this study as data is analyzed based on the interviews only. On the other hand, the Theta Role of Agent is clearly evident in the Mah Meri language.Keywords: Mah Meri Language, Argument Structure, Theta Roles, Thematic Relations
PRESUPPOSITION ANALYSIS IN SOME SELECTED CONSUMER ADVERTISEMENT SLOGANS OF THE JAKARTA POST
Authors: Ananda Sinta , Wihadi Marwito , Suryana Yayan
Published: June 2017

This research investigates the presupposition in the slogans of consumer advertisement of the Jakarta Post newspaper on March 2016 edition. This research aimed at finding the types of presupposition and describing the functions of presupposition in advertisement found in consumer advertisement slogans of the Jakarta post newspaper. Yule’s theory and descriptive qualitative research method applied in this research. 20 slogans of consumer advertisement of the Jakarta Post newspaper on  March 2016 edition selected to this research. The result of this research showed that the writer found 20 presuppositions. 11 existential presupposition or 55%, 4 factive presupposition or 20%, 3 lexical presupposition or 15%, and 2 non-factual presupposition or 10%. Regarding the function of presupposition in advertisement, the writer found 17 slogans advertisement contains implicit competition, and 11 slogans advertisement  contains making the advertisement short and memorable. In conclusion, not all type of presupposition and function of presupposition in advertisement are found, it is influenced by various types and functions in advertisement causing different assumption and presupposition. The writer hopes that further researchers who are interested in observing presupposition to explore more about presupposition in other types of advertisement.Keywords: presupposition, consumer, advertisement, slogan
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH STAND-UP COMEDY
Authors: Putri Maharani Widya , Oktoma Erwin , Nursyamsu Roni
Published: June 2017

This descriptive qualitative research was about the analysis of figurative language in English stand-up comedy. The purposes of this study were to identify the types of figurative language and to describe the functions of figurative language found in the selected video of stand-up comedy show. The data source was taken from one of selected videos of Russell Peters stand-up comedy show. Russell Peters’s speech contained about figurative language in the video is observed. The data were collected through content analysis technique by collecting the verbal language used by Russell Peters. The first research questions was analyzed by McArthur (1992) theory and supported by Crystal (1994) theory to find out the types of figurative language found in English stand-up comedy. To answer the second research questions about the functions of figurative language found in English stand-up comedy was analyzed by Chunqi (2014) theory and suppoted by Kokemuller (2001) theory and Turner (2016) theory. After analyzing data, it was found that Irony was the most dominant figurative language used by Russell Peters in “Russell Peters Comedy Now! Uncensored” with 29.94%. It was happened because the kind of topics used by Russell Peters in that show were about ethnics (canadian, white people, black people, brown people and asian), society case (beating child) and culture (accent and life style of various ethnics in the world, habitual of various ethnics in the world). Irony and Hyperbole were needed dominantly in the performance, to entertain the audiences in the stand-up comedy show. The function of eleven types of figurative language which were used by Russell were concluded. The functions were to amuse people in comedic situations, to expand meaning, to explain abstract emotions, to make sentence interesting represented and give creative additions. Keywords: Figurative Language, Stand-Up Comedy, English Stand-Up Comedy
От звуков горлового пения к звукам шаманских практик: Структурная организация шаманских ритуалов в Туве
Authors: Stelmaszyk Malgorzata
Published: June 2017

В данной статье описываются особенности шаманской практики в Республика Тыва (Российская Федерация). В качестве особенностей шаманского ремесла здесь отмечается отсутствие трансовых состояний, в которые могут впадать шаманы и в качестве неотъемлемых элементов шаманского репертуара анализируется значение звука и музыки. Утверждается, что организационная структура акустической системы горлового пения, богатого обертонами, расширяет возможности шаманских ритуалов, представляя более широкие рамки шаблонов мышления и поведения. То есть звуки являются не только неотъемлемой чертой коммуникации шаманов при переговорах с духами, но выступают «аналитической линзой» для более широкого понимания шаманских практик и взаимодействий в рамках социокосмоса в Туве.