Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature
This study aims at investigating how different cultures are depicted in textbooks. The textbooks ... more This study aims at investigating how different cultures are depicted in textbooks. The textbooks were selected by examining their reference to Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circle countries, including cultural themes which represent these countries. This study’s data corpus consisted of two EFL Primary textbooks, Hang Out 4 and Hang Out 5. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis as the research design, this study adopted two frameworks to analyze the data: Kachru’s (1986) Concentric Circles to categorize the cultural contexts and Pfister and Borzelli’s (1977) categorization to identify the cultural aspects represented. The findings revealed that the cultural representation in the textbooks reflected significant diversity. Particularly within the inner circle, the United States was the nation whose culture was best represented. While in outer and expanding circles, East Asian countries were dominant and included all five categories. However, Indonesia as the source culture has little ref...
The study was aimed to describe the improvement of the students’ pronunciation through drilling t... more The study was aimed to describe the improvement of the students’ pronunciation through drilling technique. The subject of this study was the 7th grade students of Junior High School which were consisted of 24 students. The method of this research was classroom active research (CAR) that consisted of 2 cycles. The instruments used were oral test, observation and interview. In analyzing the data, this study used both quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitatively, the data was obtained from the students’ score of test. The result of the test of pre-test showed that the mean of students’ score was 44,54 which only 20,8% or 5 from 24 students who passed the minimum passing grade (MPG). In the cycle I there were 9 or 37,5% who improved and the mean score was 58,79. Meanwhile In the cycle II, the students’ mean score was 78,125 which indicate that 18 students or 75% passed the MPG. Qualitatively, the data was taken from observation and interview. In observation, the researcher found th...
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature
This study aims at investigating how different cultures are depicted in textbooks. The textbooks ... more This study aims at investigating how different cultures are depicted in textbooks. The textbooks were selected by examining their reference to Inner, Outer, and Expanding Circle countries, including cultural themes which represent these countries. This study’s data corpus consisted of two EFL Primary textbooks, Hang Out 4 and Hang Out 5. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis as the research design, this study adopted two frameworks to analyze the data: Kachru’s (1986) Concentric Circles to categorize the cultural contexts and Pfister and Borzelli’s (1977) categorization to identify the cultural aspects represented. The findings revealed that the cultural representation in the textbooks reflected significant diversity. Particularly within the inner circle, the United States was the nation whose culture was best represented. While in outer and expanding circles, East Asian countries were dominant and included all five categories. However, Indonesia as the source culture has little ref...
The study was aimed to describe the improvement of the students’ pronunciation through drilling t... more The study was aimed to describe the improvement of the students’ pronunciation through drilling technique. The subject of this study was the 7th grade students of Junior High School which were consisted of 24 students. The method of this research was classroom active research (CAR) that consisted of 2 cycles. The instruments used were oral test, observation and interview. In analyzing the data, this study used both quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitatively, the data was obtained from the students’ score of test. The result of the test of pre-test showed that the mean of students’ score was 44,54 which only 20,8% or 5 from 24 students who passed the minimum passing grade (MPG). In the cycle I there were 9 or 37,5% who improved and the mean score was 58,79. Meanwhile In the cycle II, the students’ mean score was 78,125 which indicate that 18 students or 75% passed the MPG. Qualitatively, the data was taken from observation and interview. In observation, the researcher found th...
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