scholarly journals Cross Cultural Rhetoric Awareness of Undergraduate Thesis Introduction Section Written by Acehnese EFL Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bustami Usman ◽  
Novalia Rizkanisa ◽  
Iskandar Abdul Samad ◽  
Asnawi Muslem
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Cultural Rhetoric ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Undergraduate Thesis

Abstract: This study investigated cross cultural rhetoric awareness of introduction section by Acehnese EFL students. This study aimed at describing the rhetorical pattern and determine the cross cultural rhetoric awareness by looking at the rhetorical pattern in Introduction section. A qualitative method and content analysis were used in this study which analyzed the Introduction section. The data of this research was English undergraduate thesis written by ten Acehnese students as the documentation was applied as the instrument. The data were collected from two Islamic institutes in Aceh. The research was conducted by using documentation analysis. The result of the analysis demonstrated that the English writings by Acehnese students maintained the inductive style and the idea of the paragraph is circular. However, the use of markers is enough to be considered. The conclusion led to the rhetorical pattern of the Acehnese students which is in oriented style. Indeed, the implication of the finding showed that the students’ cross cultural rhetoric awareness toward English writing convention, especially in academic writing, is low

scholarly journals Thematic Progression in Acehnese EFL Learner-Produced Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Risdaneva Risdaneva ◽  
Syarifah Dahliana
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Writing Classes ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Progression Patterns

This study reports the thematic progression of the EFL learner- produced texts in Acehnese context. The study employed qualitative method focusing on the content analysis. The content analysis technique was incorporated to analyse the corpora of 40 learner-produced texts. The findings of the study highlight both prevalent and problematic thematic progression patterns in the students’ texts. The EFL learners are inclined to use the constant theme pattern with less consistency of accuracy in longer paragraphs. With regard to the problematic patterns, the students tend to find difficulties in developing the ideas throughout the texts. This is shown through the emergence of many brand new themes and empty rhemes which result in incohesive and incoherent texts. The overall findings suggest that introducing the theme- rheme pattern concept to the students in English writing classes can be useful for improving the cohesion of the EFL students’ writings. 

scholarly journals Manipulative Leadership and The Effect towards Its Subordinate as Portrayed in Orson Scott Card’s Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Sharavina Delani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Change ◽  
The Government ◽  
Undergraduate Thesis

Literary works, such as novel, usually comes from the writer’s feeling; it could be the feeling of love, frustrations, angers, satisfactions, disappointments, satire, and many other feelings towards an individual, social, organizations, even the government. A novel could also be some kind of warning towards the readers so that they could be cautious if there are any similar events happen in their real life. The main objective of this research explains the American manipulative leadership and the American cultural values seen in Ender’s Game and to analyze the effect of American Manipulative Leadership towards its Subordinate shows by Ender’s Game. The researcher uses the qualitative method to analyze the primary data and the supporting data using content analysis to interpret the images, symbols, and words.    This undergraduate thesis concludes two major points. Firstly, American manipulative leadership uses two values; which are risk-taking and the future, change, and progress and forgotten two other values, directness/openness/honesty and freedom of American Cultural values. Secondly, American manipulative leaderships also affect the subordinate psychological condition. And novel can also be called as a popular culture due to its enormous achievement and its consumption by the mass.

College students’ awareness in organizational strategy use in English writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Shih-Chieh Chien
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Final Comment ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
High Achieving

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to look at Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ organizational strategy use in English writing at universities in Taiwan. One significant area that has been indicated in contrastive rhetoric studies spins around the notion of culturally constructed organizational patterns. It is claimed that second language (L2) writers may have implicit culturally driven presuppositions and values about academic writing in the first language (L1) that may transfer straightforwardly to academic writing in English. Design/methodology/approach – Data were from 50 high- and 50 low-achieving EFL students’ and 50 native English speakers’ (NESs’) written texts, and semi-structured interviews with EFL students and their teachers. Findings – Based on text analysis, when high-achieving EFL students and NESs were compared, they were similar in location of thesis, existence of introduction, existence of topic sentences, macro-level patterns, existence of conclusion, existence of a concluding sentence and existence of a final comment, but different in existence of background information. Nonetheless, it is noted that low-achieving EFL students were quite different from high-achieving EFL students and NESs in several aspects, such as location of thesis, existence of introduction, existence of topic sentences, macro-level patterns, existence of conclusion, existence of a concluding sentence, and existence of a final comment. In addition, the written texts and interview findings suggest that while cultural differences do, in fact, exist, Chinese writers’ English organizational strategy use were to some extent intertwined with their writing experiences and teachers’ writing instructions. The results also suggest the flexibility of writers and multiplicity of writing experiences within a cultural group. Originality/value – The study makes original recommendations for language pedagogy.

scholarly journals “CONSTANT, ZIG-ZAG LINEAR, OR MULTIPLE?”: THEMATIC PROGRESSION PATTERNS ON EFL STUDENTS’ RECOUNT TEXTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Merina Devira ◽  
Makhroji Makhroji ◽  
Allif Syahputra Bania ◽  
Novia Sari
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Progression Patterns

The main problem faced by EFL students in writing English texts includes the difficulties to produce a cohesive and coherent text that it seems necessary to show how the tools of Theme and Rheme can be used to help construct the students' good English writing. This study aimed to find out the types of thematic progression patterns in each clause of the recount texts written by students and the dominant pattern of thematic progression revealed from the texts. The research design of this study is a qualitative method which employed the study instrument of the students' recount texts at class IX of SMAN 2 Langsa, Aceh. A content analysis approach by using a Theme and Rheme framework generated from a theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) was used to analyze the thematic progression patterns on the students' recount texts, which included several steps: reading the student's texts, identifying the theme and rheme of every clause of the student's text, describing the thematic progression patterns of student's text and drawing the thematic progression pattern on student's text. The findings of the analysis indicated that there are three (3) thematic progression patterns found on the students' recount texts: the Theme Constant, the Theme Zig Zag Linear pattern and Theme Multiple patterns. The dominant type of thematic progression patterns constructed by the students into their recount texts was revealed mostly on 123 constant or reiteration patterns (76.8%), followed by zig-zag patterns of 35 times (21.8%)  and 9 times (1.25%) of multiple patterns. The results of this study will be facilitative as the tools for English language teaching and learning classrooms particularly for writing English texts. 

scholarly journals Strategi Misi Lintas Budaya Berdasarkan 1 Korintus 9:19-23

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Yohanes Andi ◽  
Oktavina Tola ◽  
Yabes Doma ◽  
I Ketut Gede Suparta
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Mission Strategy ◽  
The Cross

Cross-cultural mission strategy based on 1 Corinthians 9: 19-23. There are several main problems, one of which is that 1 Corinthians 9: 19-23 has been studied by several researchers and interpreters, but they look at it from another side. And also in the service really needs a strategy especially in carrying out cross-cultural services. By using a qualitative method with literature study approach and using the Hermeneutic Bible method. To find the results of the cross-cultural mission strategy carried out by Paul. Based on the analysis of the text of 1 Corinthians 9: 19-23, the author found three mission strategies in cross-cultural namely not exclusive, not selfish and does not discriminate against people based on background or social status.

scholarly journals Postnatal depression across countries and cultures: a qualitative study

2004 ◽  
Vol 184 (S46) ◽  
pp. s10-s16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Oates ◽  
John L. Cox ◽  
Stella Neema ◽  
Paul Asten ◽  
Nine Glangeaud-Freudenthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Postnatal Depression ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Study Support ◽  
The Cross ◽  
People’S Perceptions

BackgroundPostnatal depression seems to be a universal condition with similar rates in different countries. However, anthropologists question the cross-cultural equivalence of depression, particularly at a life stage so influenced by cultural factors.AimsTo develop a qualitative method to explore whether postnatal depression is universally recognised, attributed and described and to enquire into people's perceptions of remedies and services for morbid states of unhappiness within the context of local services.MethodThe study took place in 15 centres in 11 countries and drew on three groups of informants: focus groups with new mothers, interview swith fathers and grandmothers, and interviews with health professionals. Textual analysis of these three groups was conducted separately in each centre and emergent themes compared across centres.ResultsAll centres described morbid unhappiness after childbirth comparable to postnatal depression but not all saw this as an illness remediable by health interventions.ConclusionsAlthough the findings of this study support the universality of a morbid state of unhappiness following childbirth, they also support concerns about the cross-cultural equivalence of postnatal depression as an illness requiring the intervention of health professionals; this has implications for future research.

scholarly journals Non-Native Speakers’ Rhetorical Commonalities in Writing Script Introduction Section

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Iskandar Abdul Samad ◽  
Bustami Usman ◽  
Novalia Rizkanisa ◽  
Siti Sarah Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Way Of Thinking

This research analyzed the rhetorical pattern (RP) of script Introduction section written by undergraduate students at four selected universities in Aceh. Information about the RP of introduction section had been found in literature, including the work of Indonesian students in general. However, specific information about the RP of the work of EFL students in Aceh was not determined yet. The main aim of the study was to explore whether Acehnese studentsperformed the exact pattern of written Academic English. Understanding the RP of this section was important because it helped readers to have a description of the whole script. A qualitative method was applied in this study to draw the RP through the content analysis. The data were taken from twenty undergraduate students’ scripts at four selected universities. CARS model was used to analyze all the data. In general, the result shows a unique RP of the Introductionsection by Acehnese students where RP of introduction section maintains the circular way of thinking.

Cross-Cultural Cognitive Interviewing

Field Methods ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon B. Willis ◽  
Kristen Miller
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cognitive Testing ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Cognitive Interviewing ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Linguistic Groups ◽  
Current Special Issue ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

Cognitive interviewing (CI) has emerged as a key qualitative method for the pretesting and evaluation of self-report survey questionnaires. This article defines CI, describes its key features, and outlines the data analysis techniques that are commonly used. The authors then consider recent extensions of cognitive testing to the cross-cultural survey research realm, where the major practical objectives are: (1) to facilitate inclusion of a range of cultural and linguistic groups and (2) for purposes of comparative analysis, to produce survey questionnaire items that exhibit comparability of measurement, across groups. Challenges presented by this extension to the cross-cultural and multilingual areas are discussed. Finally, the authors introduce the articles contained within the current special issue of Field Methods (2011), which endeavor to apply cognitive testing in specific cross-cultural survey projects, and to both identify and suggest solutions to the unique problems that face questionnaire designers and researchers more generally, in the practice of survey pretesting and evaluation methods as these endeavor to cover the sociocultural spectrum.

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