Final Test of Critical Reading

 Summary and response about journal “EFL(Englis as a Foreign Language) Classroom Discourse Analysis of a Vocational College and Some Reflections” by Liu Xin, Lou Luzheng, Shi Biru.

This journal talk about discourse analysis in vocational college for English as Foreign Language (EFL). This research implemented to know how teacher or lecturer perform in their teaching and how they make improvement. Further, the author also want to inform present condition of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in a vocational college especially in discourse analysis study by teacher talk (TT) aspect . The author make this research in three classes of vocational college in Zheijiang Province. The students from three classes were freshmen of various non English majors. The classes recorded were intensive English reading classes.

Summary and response about journal “Digital Literacy of Language Learners in Two Context”

Summary about journal “Digital Literacy of Language Learners in Two Context”

This journal talk about digital literacy that use in English learning. This journal examine the concept of digital literacy and presents a digital literacy questionnaire containing questions related to the use of digital technologies and the level of digital literacy skills.This journal provide 2 studies that used the digital literacy questionaire. The participant are 100 English for academic purposes (EAP) students at a university in Australia and 70 English as a foreign language (EFL) students at a university in Japan. The author also examine factors affecting their use of digital technologies for learning English.

The Use of Presupposition in Pragmatic

Mini Research About Pragmatic in Song as Use of Presupposition

Dewi Mistika Sari

STKIP PGRI JOMBANG

dewi4932@gmail.com

Abstract

Communication use a language, and in language people usually not realize in some sentences or when people speak have other meaning. It depend our thinking. To know about that, the author want to make a mini research. The purposes of this mini research are describe about one of pragmatic theory, that is presupposition. The author begin this article with discussion about definition pragmatic by many expert in that study. Then continue with definition of presuppositon. The researcher use song to analyze the use of presupposition. This research use qualitative approach by using document or content analysis. The song that will be research is rude by Magic.This song has released on 2014 by Sony Music Entrtainment. This song is a real story from vocalist of Magic band that have unhealthy realition with his previous girlfriend. The source of data is Magic song lyrics accessed from website on January 18^th 2018. From lyrics of Rude song, the author analyse what the lyrics contain presupposition or not. The result of this research, the author find five sentences from Rude song lyrics by Magic.

Keyword : pragmatic, presupposition, song