scholarly journals A case for the use of the ability-in language user-in context orientation in game-based assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lay ◽  
Elizabeth Patton ◽  
Micheline Chalhoub-Deville
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andi Samsu Rijal ◽  
Andi Mega Januarti Putri

The essence of language is human activity. Communication with language is carried out through two basic human activities; speaking and listening during the interaction in a group of people. Immigrants in Makassar city communicate with immigrant communities and Makassar people. They used English and Indonesia to communicate with others. The aims of this article were to find out determinant factors of English as language choice among Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UMC) in Makassar and why they used English as their language choice to communicate with other people out of them. The data were taken from UMC in the shelter under the auspices of Makassar’s Social Office and in the public area of Makassar. This research was a qualitative approach; it was from a sociolinguistic perspective and focuses its analysis with the language choice among UMC. This research showed that most immigrants chose English as their language choice since they were in Makassar because they have acquired better than other international language and it has been mastered naturally by doing social interaction among themselves and people outside their community. UMC had more difficulties to socialize with Indonesian than the adult of Immigrants. Other than their lack of language mastery, they also have the anxiety to adapt to other immigrants and Makassar people. English was used by UMC to show their status as a foreigner who lived in a multicultural situation. Language becomes a power for a human being and it becomes a social identity for language user in one community. During the interaction of UMC in Makassar city, the role of English as an International language is shown.


Tamaddun ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
Umar Mansyur

Indonesian language learning in schools is directed at improving students’ language skills, bothin the aspects of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking is one of the language skillsthat is vulnerable in relation to spoken ethics. Language ethics is defined as a normative rule oflanguage use which becomes a general guideline agreed by the language user community thatsuch a method is recognized as a language that is polite, respectful, and in accordance with thevalues that apply in society. Someone who is skilled at speaking must consider what will be saidbefore speaking. It is not wrong if the saying goes that language is someone’s personal mirror.The phrase shows that a person’s personality can be judged by his speech in language. Formany people, good words, gentle, polite, will portray someone as a good person and virtuouscharacter. Conversely, rude and bad words will also cause a bad image in the person. On thatbasis, Indonesian speech ethics has an important role in learning in schools which also contributes to the student’s character education curriculum.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
thobias sarbunan

Slang uses referred to modernity, language assimilation, and language variety in socialdiscourses; that underlined the background to the reason of young generation toassimilate and modification, as a tool for communicating also socialization. Importantly,slang even the outer level of young ages, will interpret as negative meanings, but theygoing to acquire in variety moment. That culture or we can appeal as language behave,promoting their boundaries as independent language user. In further slang became thesymbol of freedom of speech, the popularity of zoom generation, a group of human classentity, and modern life. All perspective above, that grounded and interrelated to slanguses, was implicating to the use of Anjay word [as the representative or reflection of thevarious slang in Indonesia]. A word such Anjay, transported from negative meaningswhich rooting of [dog-word; in Bahasa Indonesia as Anjing] became one of popular slangthat expressed of enthusiasm, adore, joke, love, and friendship to one object.Unpredictable and unthinkable, why, today, as researcher try to describe this topic, thatword was problematic to the outer ages of young generation. We have to notice that,Anjay popularity have been using for years, and Indonesian known as one of our Prokemor in English call Slang. Besides that, the highest trend of the uses of that word wasachieving in period of YouTube golden age likes in the mid of pandemic. There hasnumerous user of Anjay word in the moment of speaking. To adhere that issue, researcherwas in purpose to describe from scientific attention, in short the interchangeable oflanguage scope to the Anjay word in depth, the method was literature study that compiledof journal-thesis-and bachelor paper. Result showed that slang in general studies, wereseveral of type. So that, we have to consider not also the root of word, but the locus,segment of the user, the reason behind the slang used, and the other language studiesfactor, such as semantic, lexicon, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic. Shortly, Anjay wordinterpretation or description, considered as various slang that not only simply to relate fornegative meanings as its viral discussion, but as the language expression to the entitygroup such young ages.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (24 A) ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Wioletta A. Piegzik

This paper presents the phenomenon of anticipation which is one of the manifestations of linguistic maturity and language user rationality. Anticipation, taking place essentially in implicit structures and based on evolutionary old intuition, improves speech comprehension and increases the efficiency of cognitive processes. The phenomenon in question is presented on the example of foreign language communication, because it is there that the mechanisms governing the formulation of accurate hypotheses about form and content are particularly evident. The first part of the article discusses speech perception, and with it the categorization and selection of an appropriate cognitive schema conditioning accurate anticipation. The second part presents factors that facilitate and hinder the right hypothesis. Finally, conclusions and directions for future research on anticipation are formulated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Goro Murahata ◽  
Yoshiko Murahata

Abstract Applied linguists have investigated the nature of linguistic multi-competence (LMC) as a consequence of languages in contact in the minds of individuals and have observed that our first language is more amenable to change than once thought. However, LMC can manifest itself in not only an individual language user but also a linguistic community. This study explores the manifestation of LMC at the community level from historical and socio-cognitive perspectives with special focus on the use of a Japanese plural marker -tachi. It is a suffix usually attached to humans, but is frequently observed with animals and even inanimate nouns such as hon-tachi ‘books,’ which is conventionally considered unacceptable. This study analyzes over 100 -tachi cases collected from narrations and commentaries in public broadcasts. The analysis investigates the type of nouns to which -tachi is attached and the contexts where -tachi is used. The findings suggest that while retaining its original plural system, Japanese has accomplished the integration of a certain grammatical feature of English into Japanese. We argue that this innovative expressive means embedded in LMC as an integrated system in the community enables Japanese users, when necessary, to realize discrete objects, irrespective of whether they are living things or not, as individuated entities in the cognitive foreground with conceptually characteristic profiles.


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