This study aims to find out students’ perceptions on the use of songs in Spotify Application on their idiomatic expression activity. The participants of this study were the third semester students of Universitas Riau. This study used quantitative descriptive research design. Additionally, the data were collected through questionnaire with validity and reliability tested using SPSS 27 and also…
This study aims to identify the translation techniques and the most dominant ones used in the subtitle of an animated movie, and to discuss the phenomena found during the research process. The methodology used in this research is a qualitative analysis with a descriptive approach, but a simple quantitative approach is applied to find out the most dominant techniques. The utterances of two main …
This study aims to find the effect of Think, Talk, Write (TTW) strategy on the writing descriptive text ability of SMK students. The study used a quasi-experimental method with two groups: an experimental class taught using the TTW strategy and a control class using the conventional method. The data collection instrument was a descriptive writing test conducted before (pre-test) and after (post…
This research aims to analyze the use of the language of instruction in English language teaching at SMA Negeri 5 Mandau and students' perceptions of the use of the language of instruction. This research used a descriptive qualitative method approach and involved three teachers and fifteen grade XI students selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured intervi…
This research aims to describe the pathos and logos rhetorical techniques used by Habib Ja'far to persuade the public in the CloseThedoor Login Program. The method in this research is descriptive qualitative. The research data was taken from 20 videos in season 1 and season 2. The data collection technique in the study used listening and recording techniques. Then the collected data is analyzed…
Patriarchal culture is a social system in society that places men as rulers or a more dominant gender. Gender discrimination often occurs against women as an impact of patriarchal culture. The Gadis Kretek series raises the theme of feminism and social conflict that occurred in the 1960s which was revealed in 2002. This study aims to describe the forms of gender discrimination found in the Gadi…
This research design is pure experimental research (true experiment), with a pretest post- test control group design, namely research to obtain students' initial scores through giving a pre- test, then giving a final test (post-test) to conclude the research. Based on the results of research carried out in experimental classes using animated film media and control classes using conventional…
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Riau, Indonesia Abstract: This study investigates strategies used by university English department students to overcome their speaking anxiety. It applied an explanatory sequential mixed method. The selected samples of the present study were 71 out of 109 population. Two main instruments used to collect the data were a questionnaire and…
This study investigates cyberloafing among students in English Study Program, Universitas Riau, Pekanbaru, focusing on how students use digital devices for non-academic purposes during class. The aims of this study are to assess the level of cyberloafing and identify the reasons why do students engage in cyberloafing. The total number of the sample was 71 students for the quantitative stud…
The purpose of this research was to determine whether there is a significant effect of Listen- Read Discuss strategy of second grade students of SMA 4 Pekanbaru in comprehending explanation text. This research is a quantitative research using pre-experiment design. The population of this study was grade XI students totaling 594 students, while the number of students who became the research samp…
Bahasa merupakan alat penting dalam interaksi sosial, dan tiap komunitas menggunakan ragam bahasa yang berbeda. Salah satu fenomena dalam penggunaan bahasa adalah disfemisme, yaitu ungkapan atau kata yang memiliki makna kasar, tidak sopan, atau berkonotasi negatif. Dalam masyarakat Desa Igal, Kecamatan Mandah, Kabupaten Indragiri Hilir, disfemisme sering digunakan dalam komunikasi sehari-h…
Penelitian ini mengenai efektivitas Ludo Word Game (LWG) dalam meningkatkan penguasaan kosakata bahasa Jepang siswa kelas XI SMK Kansai Pekanbaru. Berdasarkan hasil pengamatan peneliti pada saat proses pembelajaran bahasa Jepang, menunjukkan bahwa siswa mengalami kecenderungan konsentrasi belajar yang kurang, dan penguasaan kosakata yang rendah, yang mengakibatkan rendahnya angka ketuntasan sis…
The problem based learning model can have a high impact when applied to learning activities. Then in this research, researchers used a paired sample t-test, to find out how big the influence of the problem based learning model was. In hypothesis testing, the data used are the results of the students' pretest and posttest in the experimental class. Based on the results of data processing with th…
This study aims to describe the types of audience responses contained in a collection of Lesti Kejora songs by Adibal Sahrul on the 3D Entertainment YouTube column in the period June - December 2024. Until 2023 Adibal had created six songs for Lesti Kejora, in this study the three songs with the highest comments from the six songs were chosen as the object of research. The three songs include K…
Semantik merupakan salah satu cabang dari ilmu linguistik yang menelaah lambang- lambang atau sebuah tanda-tanda untuk menyatukan makna, hubungan antara satu makna dengan yang lainnya, dan pengaruhnya kepada manusia dan masyarakat. Bentuk dari ekspresi makna dapat merangsang penafsiran yang lebih dari satu makna terutama penggunaan idiom dalam kalimat. Idiomatik pada penelitian ini merupakan…
Learning to read poetry in grade X of high school has a learning objective, namely that students are able to read poetry with appropriate intonation and methods, conventional learning provides challenges in maintaining student interest and involvement, so learning media are needed that can help teachers present interactive learning so that learning objectives are achieved with significant learn…
This research aims to explain the expressions with positive and negative connotations found in the language of football commentator Valentino Simanjuntak at the AFF U-19 event. The data for this research are language units meaning positive and negative connotations in the language of football commentator Valentino Simanjuntak at the AFF U19 event, namely in the Indonesia vs Philippines match on…
This study aims to determine and describe the level of poetry writing ability through Malaikat Juga Tahu short story transformation of class XI SMA Negeri 5 Pekanbaru. This study was conducted at SMA Negeri 5 Pekanbaru with a sample of 80 class XI students. The duration of the study lasted for 10 days from 6 to 15 August 2024. The data collection methods used were observation and tests. Data an…
This research examines the form, meaning and function of slang language in the talk show Bercanda Tapi Santai (B.T.S.) on YouTube Trans7 Official. The research method employed is descriptive qualitative with a sociolinguistic approach. The data were derived from 16 episodes of the B.T.S. show and analyzed by the tenets of Roman Jakobson's theory of language variation and function. The findings …
Poetry, as a part of literature, has the potential to enhance students' literacy skills, but conventional teaching methods are sometimes ineffective in fostering students' interest in poetry. Therefore, this study aims to develop multimodal learning media for teaching poetry in the digital era, tailored to the needs of Junior High School (SMP) students. This research employs the Research and De…