Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): Journal of English Language and Pedagogy

The paper aims at investigating the students’ obstacles in
English learning on speaking skill. The research design in
this study was a descriptive with qualitative paradigm. The
subjects of this study were eight grade class consisting of 28
students at MTs. Miftahul Ulum Gondanglegi. The research
instruments applied in this research were questionnaires and
interviews. The questionnaires were distributed to the
students, while the interview was conducted with the
English teacher.
The results of this research revealed that the students faced
two main obstacles in speaking skill; students’ language skill
and students’ phycological obstacles. In terms of students’
language skill, the students faced poor in vocabulary obstacle,
poor in grammar obstacle, poor in pronunciation obstacle.
While related to students’ phycological challenges, they
encountered challenges such as fear of making mistakes,
having shyness, feeling anxiety, lack of confidence, and lack
of motivation.

This research aims to describe the forms of speech acts in the
form of non-speech locution, illocution, and perlocution in the
animated films of Adit Sopo and Jarwo and Upin & Ipin. The
method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method.
The sources obtained were through the animated films of Adit
Sopo and Jarwo and Upin & Ipin on episodes with the theme
of Eid. Based on data analysis, it has been found that in the
animated film Adit Sopo and Jarwo there are types of speech
acts of locution, illocution, and perlocution. Likewise with the
animated film Upin and Ipin. In the animated film Adit Sopo
& Jarwo, speech acts that often appear are illocutionary acts of
directive type, and the least that appears is the act of speech
management, as well as Upin & Ipin animated films. This
shows that the location of neighboring countries and cultures
that are not so much different in celebrating Eid can be
influential in making the two animated films so that the speech
acts that appear have almost the same percentage.

This study aims to describe linguistic and non-linguistic
features as well as the types of messages contained in the text
of the susu_L wahtasapp chat group. the data used is the result
of text conversations of members of the whatsapp group
Susu_L. the technique used by the author is by taking pictures
(captures or screen shots) from cellphones, then observing
directly in the group to obtain data, and the last is conducting
interviews with the group admins to obtain the information
needed. The results of this study are the linguistic features
contained in the text of the wahtasapp milk_L group in the
form of morphemes, phrases and sentences and the nonlinguistic features contained in the chat group are in the form
of emoticons. The types of messages used by group members
are in the form of verbal messages and non-verbal messages.

COVID-19 is a plague that has become a pandemic for the
world. Necessary, many researchers who conduct research to
understand about COVID-19, both medical and other scientific
disciplines such as language science. The purpose of this study
is to find out whether there is a contextualization of the words
DISTANCE and DISTANCING with SOCIAL kolokat. For
this reason, the mixed method is used to obtain coherent
results. The results of this study indicate that the T-score of
DISTANCING 16.1 and DISTANCE -14. This shows that the
word SOCIAL is more commonly used with the word
DISTANCING in corpora. The second finding is a recontextualization of the word DISTANCING in the negative
direction.

Community is a form of the result of human social interaction.
The formation of this community is based on many things and
provides various kinds of impacts in social life, one of these
impacts is the emergence of certain language attributes in a
community and these language attributes can be different from
those in other communities. This also occurs in one of the
largest online communities in Indonesia, Kaskus, where
members of the community have special language attributes in
interactions between members. The language attribute that
appears in this community is a marker, either implicitly or
explicitly, that those who use the language attribute are part of
that community. In this study, the Kaskus online community
has a language attribute in the form of registers used in greeting
and promotion interactions.