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Being polite is a complicated business in any language. It is difficult to learn because it involves understanding not just the language, but also the social and cultural values of the community. We often don't appreciate just how complicated it is, because we tend to think of politeness minly as a matter of saying please and thank you in the right places. In tact, it involves a urcat deal more than the superficial politeness routines that parents explicitly that parents teach their children, as the discussion of directives and and expressives suggested.  Take the word please for example. Children are told to say please when they are making requests, as a way of expressing themselves politely. But adults use please far less than one might suppose and, when they do, it often has the effect of making a directive sound less polite and more peremptory. Compare the pairs of utterances in this example, for instance. (al) Could you take my bags up? (a2) Could you take my bags up, please. ...

Madura is my father and my mother home town and also my home town.  Madura is divided by four regencies. They are Sumenep, Pamekasan, Sampang, and Bangkalan.  Each regency has its own speech level engaged to social dialect. Firstly, Sumenep is the regency which has the most polite Madurese language and  typically has the strongest Madurese dialect. Sumenep society frequently uses Enggi/Bunten level of speech. The second regency is Pamekasan  which is the central regency of Madura. Pamekasan people usually use Enja’/Iya as their daily language even though when they are talking to their parents. Thirdly, Sampang regency has less polite language compared to the other regencies. They use Enja’/Iya for their daily communication including talking to their parents. It is suspected because they live in a maritime area. However, Sampang people use Enggi/Bunten level of speech when they are talking to the teacher or those  who are considered as the educated people. Compar...

  The Philippines is an archipelago in the Pacific with rich linguistic and cultural diversity. According to the Ethnologue, there are 171 living languages spoken in the Philippines today. For the most part, this linguistic variety has not been accurately reflected in governmental and educational policies. The current constitution declares both English and Filipino (Tagalog) to be the official languages of the country, as both are spoken in metro Manila, the nation’s capital. Making English and Tagalog the official languages of the Philippines is a practical move, seeing as there needs to be language that can be used to do business and trade as well as to communicate on both national and international levels. Still, the constitutional declaration of these two languages as official and the other languages as auxiliary takes a discriminatory tone when looking at how it resonates in other policies and in the public sphere. The linguistic discrimination is present in the educational sy...

 In a multilingual community, the multilingual speaker needs to make the right language choice which principally depends on the domain of usage and the linguistic repertoire of speech participants. This paper investigates factors that govern language choices that multilingual speakers make in Larteh, a multilingual community. The study is informed by insights from the Markedness Model, developed by Myers-Scotton (1993, 1998). Larteh is a non-reciprocal bilingual community, where the people speak Leteh2 and Akuapem Twi (Johnson, 1973, p. i). English is the third language for those who have had formal education. In this paper, three domains of language use are examined: education, tradition, and religion. Data from an interview survey on language use and participant observations are employed. The paper notes that due to changes in various spheres of life in Larteh, current language use patterns in the community differ from what pertained about three decades ago (Johnson, 1973, 1975)....

  From its term, sociolinguistics is derived from two different disciplines: sociology  and  linguistics. SOCIOLOGY : a study about social structure, social organizations, relationship between and within groups of people, and social behaviour.  In a broader sense, sociology studies about groups of people in society (family, clan, tribes, and nations), how they behave and affect each other. Sociologists assume sociology as a single discipline which is not related at all with any other disciplines and consider that society could be constituted without language.  All scientists (sociologists, psychologists, physicists, biologists, linguists, economists, historians, literary scholars) are all interested in arrangements. Basically, all disciplines try to find patterns of arrangements LINGUISTICS (often called general linguistics, or structural linguistics) is a study about phones (phonology), words (morphology) and sentences (syntax). Only very recently, it studies d...

The significant aspects of the writing skill on the students’ writing performance, motivating them to reformulate their errors by the sense of awareness and autonomy that the learners are conscious when using these tools without the support of the teacher’s feedback. It is suggested that teachers should provide students extra practice by giving them a bank of topics or letting students to select topics of their interest to be developed as additional assignments in order to provide learners more autonomy when writing. Writing should no longer occupy a lesser role in language learning and instruction. The diversity in approaches suggests its usefulness and relevance to the language students. ocess writing instruction, though, calls for instructional quality. Teachers themselves need to be able to understand the writing process and its benefits so that they can convey it to students in a way that is meaningful and useful. DA sessions help EFL teachers develop EFL learners’ acad...

Hello, here I would like to share you about me and my friend review of our journal. My name is Siti Rohmah (1810631060049) and also my friend Fina Damayanthi (1810631060154) My journal is tell about the writing skills, and Fina tell about the listening skills enjoy this video!

The First Journal is Mediating EFL learners’ academic writing skills in online dynamic assessment using Google Docs This journal tell about The findings of the study imply that conducting DA sessions help EFL teachers develop EFL learners’ academic writing skills to a great extent. It is suggested that online synchronous one-on-one DA sessions help the learners achieve their potential level of functioning in academic writing skills. More specifically, the findings might benefit those learners who require more attention in academic writing skills. The mediators can determine and respond to the learners’ ZPD and help them achieve their potential level of functioning through online synchronous one-on-one DA sessions using the generated mediation typology or generate their own context-specific typologies. It further behoves EFL teachers to conduct online synchronous one-on-one individual DA as the supplementary and complementary sessions to measure and develop the learners’ aca...

Utilizing Video Simulations to Improve Educational Leaders’ Public Speaking Skills  Abstract                  This article examines specific uses of video simulations in one educational leadership preparation program to advance future school and district leaders’ skills related to public speaking and participation in televised news interviews.  One faculty member and two advanced educational leadership candidates share their perspectives of several applications of advanced technologies, including one-on-one video simulations with the instructor and collaborative peer review of video portfolios.  Finally, the authors provide links to multimedia examples of these digital artifacts from an advanced educational leadership course, titled Effective Practices: Media, Government & Public Communications, offered at the University of MissouriKansas City. Introduction               ...

This journal that had been reviewed by Siti Rohmah " Utilizing Video Simulations to Improve  Educational Leaders’ Public Speaking Skills " Introduction:    School and district administrators may unexpectedly find themselves in front of a television news camera with only a few moments notice prior to a live or videotaped interview session. A breaking news story could be anything from a crisis situation to a human interest segment celebrating a school eventand educational leaders need to be prepared to effectively represent their school and district communities through this medium. In addition to these situations, many school districts now produce their own cable television programs, broadcasting talk shows hosted by superintendents, town hall meetings, or formal speeches made by administrators. This article will explore ways in which educational leadership programs may utilize video simulations and video portfolios to prepare future school and district leader...

What is Journal? Journals are scientific publications that contain a collection of articles and are generally published regularly, such as twice or four times a year. Articles written for journals are reviewed or evaluated by the reviewer team before entering the journal editorial table. Journal article reviewers are usually more than one person who is an expert in a particular field of study according to the topic written in the article.Journals in general contain a number of references which are the references for writing each article. The types of articles written are not limited to research reports, but can also take the form of literature reviews. A journal article that is a typical research report consists of several parts of the title, abstract, introductory description, literature review, methodology, results of analysis, discussion and implications of research results. Sometimes it is accompanied by suggestions about further research agendas and recommendations. What is...