A Comparative Study of the IGM Use in China’s English Textbooks

IGM (ideational grammatical metaphor) is frequently used in English textbooks, the application of which may influence learners’ proper understanding. The present paper conducts an empirical research on the application of IGM in three English textbooks for English learners of different levels in China including junior high school, senior high school and college with a view to exploring the rate and tendency of IGM application at different levels. It is found that IGM is favored in all the textbooks and nominalization ranks the first among other types of IGM. Besides, the higher the learning level is, the more frequently IGM is used. These findings suggest that the use of IGM in the investigated textbooks turned to be appropriate for EFL learners across three different levels.

COGNITIVE CONSIDERATION IN PERSUADING READERS IN ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING

The objectives of this study was to describe the writers’ ways of persuading readers in argumentative writing. This study followed the theory of Ramage et.al. (2016) about the ways of persuading readers which comprises of text structure, reasoning, and persuasive appeal. This study used descriptive qualitative design. The data of this study were gathered by using elicitation technique, asking the 8th semester of undergraduate students to write argumentative text under predetermined topic Social Media Should be Banned with three intended readers, they were: Junior High School, Senior High School, and Undergraduate students.This study revealed that the subjects manipulated the text structure by presenting three-layered text structure of argumentative writing, and presenting the pseudo-evidence and organizing cause and effect relationship in terms of the reasoning aspect.Keywords: Cognitive Consideration, Argumentative, Writing, Persuasive

Development of Communicative Culture of High School Seniors in Different Age Groups as a Pedagogical Problem

The problem of development of communicative culture of modern high school seniors for modern pedagogical science on the basis of the needs the permission of the identified contradictions is revealed in the article. The author proposes the solution to indicated problem by utilizing the potential of intergenerational learning and interaction in mixed-age groups. Another, different from the traditional meaning of the term «high school senior», that is typical for schools implementing multiage training is represented.

NUMBER OF FRIENDS IN SCHOOL AND THE LEVEL OF SELF-CONFIDENCE OF THE STUDENTS

Friendship is extremely important in people’s lives. On the other hand, self-confidence is some of the important variable for the students. Those who have high level of self-confidence tend to have positive outlook on his capacities. This study aims to assess the relationship between the number of friends in school and the level of self-confidence of the students in Jagobiao National High School-Senior High Department. The researcher used a descriptive quantitative design that seeks descriptive information on the relationship between the students’ number of friends and their level of self-confidence and also; there are two hundred forty-three respondents. The instrument used for the data collection was a quantitative survey using Likert scale to gather the needed data the researcher adopted a questionnaire from Rosenberg (1965). The data was analyzed through use of weighted mean and chi-square for determining the significant association between the number of friends in school and the level of self-confidence of the students. The findings of the study showed that there was no significant association between the number of friends in school and the level of self-confidence of the students. Generally, having a low or high number of friends does not seem to affect the student's self-confidence.

Pengaruh Komunikasi Interpersonal Orang Tua-Anak Terhadap Agresi Siswa Kepada Guru

This research was conducted to find out the influence of parent-children interpersonal communication on student aggression to the teacher. This research used quantitative research method and the data are processed by using the regression analysis method. The population of this research are adolescent who studied in junior high school, senior high school, and vocational high school. The sample of this research are 360 students from junior high school, senior high school, and vocational high school in Central Jakarta. The instrument of this research is “The Aggression Questionnaire” which has been modified to devoted measuring student aggression to the teacher. Then, using the interpersonal communication scale to measure parent-children interpersonal communication. The result of this research shows that there are 4.4% of negative influence of interpersonal communication on students aggression to the teacher. It means that the more parent-children interpersonal communication happens, the more student aggression to the teacher decreases, and vice versa. Keyword: interpersonal communication, aggression, students.

Family Status and Self-Motivation in Studies

Family can inspire the child to perform well in school. When the students belong to a complete family they can gain more confidence to do the task. Students who have complete family can be encouraged themselves to produce positive learning style in their studies. When the student belongs to a broken family the set of behaviors can be different towards certain task. Using the correlation quantitative design, the study was conducted in the Jagobiao National High School-Senior High Department in which the data were treated with chi-square to determine the relationship between family status and self-motivation. As a result, family status and self-motivation has no significant correlation in studies of any students, self-motivation exist regardless of family status, broken and complete. The motivation of student deals with their innate behavior and attitude to achieve better academic performance.

CONFIDENCE: BEFORE AND AFTER ORAL RECITATIONS

A belief in one’s capability to do and perform the task well is referred to as self-confidence. Meanwhile, oral recitation is a form of speaking in front of other people to report information. Hence, this study was conducted in Jagobiao National High School- Senior High School Department. The researcher-made likert scale questionnaire was used to assess the students from the different strands, aimed to know the students’ confidence regarding their oral recitation performance and students’ confidence before and after they perform oral recitations. Moreover, the quantitative data were analyzed through weighted mean and paired samples t-test. In which, the result shows improvement of students’ confidence after ten or more times of performing oral recitations due to their intensive oral participation. It means that when a student is highly confident then she or he is able to perform the oral participation efficiently. Thus, it revealed that there is a significant difference between students’ confidence before and after oral recitations. In this study, suggestions were provided to students such as engaging in different activities that could enhance their confidence in all aspect and to the teachers and parents who need to help the students to perform well in school with self-confidence.