Papers by Dr. Marwito Wihadi, S.Pd., M.Pd
English Journal Literacy Utama, Mar 28, 2024
English Review: Journal of English Education, Dec 12, 2016
English Review: Journal of English Education, Feb 28, 2023
English Journal Literacy Utama, Sep 30, 2019
Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy
This research aims to analyze and identify intrinsic elements in the form of theme, figurative la... more This research aims to analyze and identify intrinsic elements in the form of theme, figurative language, and diction, then analyze extrinsic elements in the form of social elements in poetry making and analyze racism reflected in Audre Lorde's poems entitled Power (1978), Who Said It Was Simple (1973) and A Woman Speaks (1984). The method use in this research was a qualitative method. Reading the poem in order to comprehend its overall meaning and discover the meaning which was primarily the essence related to the topic was how the data was collected. This research, there were found 16 data from three themes, 42 figurative languages, 38 dictions, and 17 racism data from three Audre Lorde poems. In addition, There were various manifestations of racism in the poem "Power," including skin color, injustice, segregation, and racial prejudice. The poem "Who Said It Was Simple" has elements of racism related to homophobia, gender, and skin color. The poem "A wo...
Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy
The purpose of this study is to identify the politeness strategies used by Taylor Swift and Paul ... more The purpose of this study is to identify the politeness strategies used by Taylor Swift and Paul Rudd in the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon YouTube videos "Taylor Swift Talk Record-Breaking Midnight Album, Music Video Cameos and Easter Eggs" and "Paul Rudd Compares His Men's Health Shoot with Jonathan Majors' (Extended)" when they decide to use particular politeness strategies in communication. The research employed a qualitative descriptive method using an observational data collecting technique is applied to analyze the speakers' manner politeness strategies affect the communication between the speaker and hearer. Data collected from observation were analyzed using discourse analysis interpretation and were classified regarding the Brown and Levinson (1987) theory. This research found that the speakers both of Taylor and Paul prevalence the positive politeness strategy when they communicating in Jimmy Fallon’s show. the positive politeness strategy ...
Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy
The textual meta function is about the verbal world, especially the flow of information in a text... more The textual meta function is about the verbal world, especially the flow of information in a text, and is concerned with clauses as messages. In each meta function an analysis of a clause gives a different kind of structure composed from a different set of elements. The aim of this study was to analyze and identify the functions took from three different online newspapers, Jakarta Post, Jakarta Globe, and Tempo, with the context of educational news on the topic, "Merdeka Belajar Curriculum". This study used a qualitative approach as its methodology. The data was taken from the websites of Jakarta Post, Jakarta Globe, and Tempo. A functional English grammar was employed to analyze the data. Based on the study's findings, it identified three themes present in the Jakarta Post, Jakarta Globe, and Tempo: topical, interpersonal, and textual. Topical theme consisted of 43.5% of the article is unmarked theme and 16.5% marked theme. Interpersonal theme consisted of 3% of the a...
Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR)
This research aims to analyze the types of startup business development methods and their relatio... more This research aims to analyze the types of startup business development methods and their relations to entrepreneurship. The research was conducted using exploratory research, which focuses on various types of startup business methods within the scope of entrepreneurship and describes them qualitatively. According to the analysis findings, several business startup development methods are relevant to today's business developments, including lean startup, lean canvas, design thinking, and agile. One of the four approaches, lean startup, is widely employed in establishing new enterprises. Lean startup is a business model in which the client serves as a trial object for the product being created in order to collect immediate feedback and make modifications depending on the demands of the consumer. In conclusion, entrepreneurship facilitated the presence of startup businesses by prioritizing meeting customer needs in accordance with the methods used to maximize business profits.
English Review: Journal of English Education
The existence of technological media in the learning process has its own roles and challenges in ... more The existence of technological media in the learning process has its own roles and challenges in this era of disruption. The purpose of this study is the extent to which the use of technological media supports learning English in junior high schools and the equivalent. The research method used is the survey method. The research was conducted in 36 public and private junior high schools and Madrasah Tsanawiah in Kuningan Regency by collecting data through a Google form questionnaire. The results obtained turned out that of the 59 teachers who filled out the Google form, as many as 86.4% of English teachers used laptops, handphones with infocus, frequently used applications, Whatsapp 28.8%, Power Point 22%, Youtube 32.2%, and E-learning 16.9%. However, 88.1% stated that teachers had not maximized the use of technological media in learning English. On the other hand, from 200 students grade seven (19%), grade eight (40%) and grade nine (41%), there are 54.5% did not use technology medi...
Borneo Educational Journal (Borju)
English Journal Literacy Utama
Mastering vocabulary in English is such an essential facet that learners would be able to own pro... more Mastering vocabulary in English is such an essential facet that learners would be able to own productive and receptive skill needed to get their messages across and decipher the conveyed ones towards them. This Class Action Research (CAR) aims at pinpointing the intervention of Crossword Puzzle as a medium of teaching-learning vocabulary on Personal Recount Text. Collaborating with the classroom teacher, its use in one class of eight graded students in a public junior high school in West Java is conducted together with the instruments of observation and tests. It is found out that Crossword Puzzle radiates the teaching-learning process positively on account of students’ enthusiasm and responses as well as profoundly inclines the mean of Pre-test, 40.61 to the one of Post-test, 80.60 aside from the majority of the students’ achievement to the success indicator score on vocabulary mastery in one Cycle. Despite its benefits to other parties, it is advisable that further research is to ...
Proceedings of the 2nd Universitas Kuningan International Conference on System, Engineering, and Technology, UNISET 2021, 2 December 2021, Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia
Advertorials as a writing genre composed in mass media persuade readers to use the products adver... more Advertorials as a writing genre composed in mass media persuade readers to use the products advertised. Stances as essential interpersonal aspects enact the writers’ evaluation of the subjects in a discourse. This paradigmatic discourse analysis qualitative research focused on the text describing what attitudinal values were prevalent and how the writers manipulated them. An advertorial promoting beauty product was analyzed to depict the interpersonal meta functions employed. It was pinpointed that Affects, Judgments and Appreciation, sub-categories of Attitudes in Appraisal System, were completely present in which Judgment domains were overtly exploited. Subsequently, Capacity and Tenacity were preponderantly of prevalence in particular. Therefore, these were apt to the writer’s evaluation of judgment values over the products towards prospective buyers, namely Indonesian female Muslims. It is imperative that addition and comparison of other forms of discourse to explore Attitud...
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
Working on writing argumentative essay instructions has been practices in a non-formal language l... more Working on writing argumentative essay instructions has been practices in a non-formal language learning settings. Yet, its students pursued claims are not fully explored as an evaluativion of how student-writers interact as conveying arguments with the readers. Investigating the linguistic resources on which they develop and evaluate these, two selected English Language essays were looked into regarding to exploitation of macrostructures in them. Subsequently, they were captured within the framework of appraisal theory as to emerge various trends relative to the employment of engagement resource types, combined with the other resources in confirming claims: graduation and attitudinal ones. It was pinpointed that the essays were low-graded notifying substantial numbers of monoglossic resources with low-considered attitudinal items. They failed to recognise other voices and alternative positions. Their construction of evaluative meanings provided feedbacks, enhancing classroom teache...
Proceedings of the 1st Universitas Kuningan International Conference on Social Science, Environment and Technology, UNiSET 2020, 12 December 2020, Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia, 2021
Indonesian EFL Journal, 2017
This paper investigated the effect of teacher�s written feedbacks in recount writing competence a... more This paper investigated the effect of teacher�s written feedbacks in recount writing competence and the students� attitudes towards written feedbacks. Giving written feedbacks helps students to decrease their errors and gives guidance in writing as a beginner writer. This study employed a quantitaive and qualitative research design. The experimental group given written feedbacks. For measuring the effect of written feedbacks, a pretest and posttest was administered to both group. Meanwhile, for getting their attitudes toward teacher�s written feedbacks was administered questionnaire and open-ended interview. Based on the data, teacher�s written feedbacks gave positive effects on their improvement in recount writing competence. The result of questionnaire and interview showed that students got real guidance and special attention individually in their writing process as a beginner writer.Keywords: written feedbacks, recount writing competence, attitudes.
This research draws on a sociolinguistics study of slang word commonly encountered in social medi... more This research draws on a sociolinguistics study of slang word commonly encountered in social media aimed to conduct to identify the types and analyze the function of slang. The data are elicited from natural conversation among the members of Potatoes Crew WhatsApp Group. This research uses a case study qualitative method for in-depth analysis so as to understand the activity and the process of their using slang words. The result of this research identifies seventy slang words or phrases. The classification of categories of slang types are fresh and creative (41,4%), flippant (0%), imitative (20%), acronym (18,6%), clipping (20%). Regarding the slang functions, the variety of coverage are to address (8,6%), to reveal anger (7,15%), to show intimacy (7,15%), to form intimate atmosphere (0%), to humiliate (20%) and to initiate relax conversation (57,1%). Fresh and creative slang type is the most preponderantly used by the members while the function of slang word mostly found is to init...
This study was focused on analyzing the existence of Thematic Progression in selected written tex... more This study was focused on analyzing the existence of Thematic Progression in selected written texts taken from “Creative English Workbook” for tenth grade students in Senior High School. The objectives of this study were to find out the patterns of Thematic Progression employed in selected written texts and to reveal what the patterns of Thematic Progression indicate in selected texts. This study was conducted by using a qualitative method emphasized on Critical Discourse Analysis. In this study, eighteen written texts in three different genres were collected from “Creative English Workbook” for tenth grade students in Senior High School through document study. The result of this study showed that three Thematic Progression patterns were employed in selected written texts, namely Theme Reiteration, Zig-zag Theme, and Multiple-Rheme. Theme Reiteration predominated with 97 occurrences or 60.3% (12 occurrences two narrative texts, 37 occurrences in six descriptive texts, and 48 occurre...
Abstract: Writing activities entail the activation of students’ present wisdom so that students a... more Abstract: Writing activities entail the activation of students’ present wisdom so that students are pedagogically encouraged to be involved. This paper revealed what the teacher designed, observed and reflected in a lesson of argumentative writing project in which students’ ideas onthe decided topic were profoundly manipulated. It was initiated by the review of necessities of discourse markers to build a sound paragraph and a format of argumentative essay for eight High Intermediate High School Students in a non-formal English Institution. Subsequently, they embarked to weigh the essence of the topic based on their own wisdom interactively. Essentially, it also disclosed the elaborated accounts of how the 4Cs principles, that are collaboration, creativity, communication and a certain extent of critical thinking that students were exposed as completing the writing project held in the classroom. On the basis of questionnaire responding to the writing activities and teacher observation...
: High Intermediate-2 students’ brief responses in a discussion forum cause a long-expected discu... more : High Intermediate-2 students’ brief responses in a discussion forum cause a long-expected discussion last in a couple of minutes in mixed-ability classes, depicting a minority of students are overtly dominant, while others are precisely passive. What yields discussions endure immaturely stems from both unclear roles of participants and their inadequate techniques to expand both interactions and spoken discourse. Therefore, Teacher-researcher assigned each participant in a discussion group of three to put reflection into practice, referring to the self-selected and discussed topics. The data were gained through non-participant observations, in which the teacher-researcher observed and recorded a singled-out group. A sample recording was, subsequently, transcribed and analyzed regarding with the number of exchanges in a five-minute discussion intake and the number of content words that students generated. It was found that employing reflective techniques, students were able to keep a...
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Papers by Dr. Marwito Wihadi, S.Pd., M.Pd