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Library's collection Library's IT development Cancel| Humanistic strategies in the EFL speaking Class | This paper focuses on the humanistic strategies woven into the EFL speaking class activities. The speaking class, which the writer used for her study, is the highest level of speaking course offered in the curriculum of the English Department of Petra Christian University, to develop students? English speaking skills, particularly in public speaking. The humanistic strategies ...
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| Developing materials for the course of introduction to communication: an experience in writing an ESP book of an integrated approach | The article aims at giving several considerations in developing materials for Introduction to Communication, a new subject of elective package at English Department of Petra Christian University. Principles of material design used are the one identified by Nunan (1988). In this article a sample lesson is included.
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| Communicative listening in the language laboratory | Language laboratory actually is advantageous for ESL teaching-learning process. In the language lab, students can improve their language skill, especially their listening skill, since most of the activities done there deal with listening comprehension. However, ESL students often feel bored when they study at the language lab because they only do monotonous activities there. Thus, ...
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| The Elizabethan anti-stage movement | Criticism of the theater in the Elizabethan period was not the first thing happened in the history of the world?s drama. Most historians and critics agree that the antitheatrical prejudice began with Plato. The Platonic belief in the reality of the Idea was often referred to in later arguments against the stage. According to ...
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| Movies | Melodrama has been a part of the American life since colonial time. This genre, with its `hero-villain? or `black and white? development of characters, has formed the idea of the American heroes. In Western films, in which the `local? themes of westward movement on the American society are developed, melodrama treats the dichotomy of hero-villain ...
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| Living in Limbo: the buddha of suburbia and the final passage | Karim and Leila live between two cultures that are considered to be in two polar opposites, the cultures of the white and the black. Because of their parentage, they belong to both cultures and yet they do not belong to either one. The white British regards Karim as "the other", but he also regards ...
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| Research studies in second language writing and in contrastive rhetoric | The major aim of this article is to review studies of second language writing. The first part deals mainly with the process of writing in the second and first languages. The second part concerns contrastive rhetoric. In this second part, the findings of research studies on the relationship of first and second language rhetoric ...
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| Understanding prose through task oriented audio-visual activity: an american modern prose course at the Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University | The method presented here provides the basis for a course in American prose for EFL students. Understanding and appreciation of American prose is a difficult task for the students because they come into contact with works that are full of cultural baggage and far apart from their own world. The audio visual aid is ...
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| A Study on the conflicting ideas of Black Women?s Roles in Sula and Nel?s Friendship as seen in Toni Sula | Toni Morrison?s Sula portrays the conflicting ideas of two black women, Sula and Nel who used to settle themselves as soulmates. Starting as friends of deepest emotion and sharing all the deepest dark secrets in Medallion, Sula and Nel continue their journeys of life in separation and come to the gate of adulthood which ...
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| Presentations of positive and negative images in A. M. Kollontai?s Vasilisa Maligina: a search for an ideal woman | This article is a contribution to the issue of possible relation between fiction and society, approached by a study of A.M. Kollontai?s story, Vasilisa Maligina. The aim of the study is to examine how far the Kollontai?s background, her purpose of writing, and condition of society under which she lived and wrote contribute to ...
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| Social research methods in feminist?s perspective: a new way in doing sociolinguistic qualitative research | Traditional research methods have been dominated by positivism which assumes the importance of objectivity, contextual independency, linear causality and value free research. Feminist researchers found that such methods do not suit their inquisitive needs especially in the study of women. Naturalistic research methods, however, do not only suit them but they are also able to ...
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| Simplification in Child Language in Bahasa Indonesia: A case study on Filip | This article aims at giving examples of characteristics of simplification in Bahasa Indonesia and proving that child language has a pattern and that there is a process in learning. Since this is a case study, it might not be enough to say that simplification is universal for all children of any mother tongues, but ...
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| Electronic collaboration across cultures in a web-based project for English writing instruction | The paper highlights the importance of experimentation and an innovative approach to English language writing instruction with the help of information communication technology (ICT or IT). First, it describes the local situation of English language teaching at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Then, it summarizes the development of IT proficiency and student-led ...
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| Materials for literary enjoyment class | As the introductory class of literature at the Faculty of Letters, Literary Enjoyment serves as a campaign to motivate students to appreciate and enjoy works of literature. Materials, which generally hinder the students? ability to enjoy literary works, should be carefully considered. Ideally, language and content should be easily digested but a compromise can ...
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| Reconstructing Womanhood in Tony Morrison's Beloved | Tony Morrison's fifth novel, Beloved (1987), explores the degradation of slavery imposed upon slaves, even when they were owned by a "humane" slave master. The novel is set in the Reconstruction period, the period after the American civil war. The word reconstruction may be used for the Afro-Americans, especially for the Afro-American women who ...
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| The Constructivist theory of reality in literary research | As a sign system, literature is not limited to the imaginative world only. Literature, however, is also a system which involves the author, the work, the reader, and the field of knowledge (society). Although the facts presented tend to be mental facts, it does not mean that facts in literature cannot be seen as data ...
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| Collaborative work in the prewriting stage | This paper explores the notion of collaborative work in the prewriting stage. Several collaborative prewriting activities are presented to encourage students to optimize their peers? help in obtaining ideas to write. Those activities will ultimately help students get interesting ideas to write and develop them into dynamic writing.
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| Abject selfhood in Toni Morisson?s the bluest eye | The Bluest Eye (TBE) is Toni Morrison?s tribute to Afro-American women who are derailed by psychological racism and black complicity. As "a minority in both class and class" (TBE 18), they are defenseless against the insidiousness of psychological racism, which induces them to devalue their self-worth. In this novel Morrison talks about Pecola Breedlove, ...
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| Rhetorical strategies used in the English persuasive essays of Indonesian University Students of EFL | The Purpose of this study was to investigate the use of rhetorical strategies in English persuasive essays written by Indonesian university students of English as a foreign language. This study also examined to what extent overall proficiency in English composition was predictive of the rhetorical strategies used in English persuasive essays. Two groups of ...
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| A Sociolinguistic study of compliment responses among Americans and Indonesians and its implications for teaching English | The writers in this study would like to find out whether there is any difference between Indonesians and Americans in responding to compliments. This study also attempts to discover whether both the Americans and Indonesians in this study show a preference for certain types of compliment responses. Lastly, it also tries to see if ...
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