The Rhetorical Moves in The Thesis Background of English Language Education Department Students at UIN Sunan Ampel.

This research aims to analyze the rhetorical patterns used by English Language Department Students (ELED) at UIN Sunan Ampel in their thesis backgrounds. In this research, qualitative descriptive is used as the research design. The data of this study were collected from ELED students’ thesis published in Digilib. There are nine students’ thesis background taken and analyzed using the CARS model developed by Swales. The results revealed that the majority of research background in students’ thesis follow Swales CARS model while some other thesis backgrounds tended to skip certain steps: 1-3 (reviewing the previous studies) and 3-2 (announcing present research). In move 2, the majority of thesis background do not use 4 steps but only one or two steps. This indicates that the research background of students thesis confirm the general pattern of research background in the discourse of research paper

The Rhetorical Moves in The Thesis Background of English Language Education Department Students at UIN Sunan Ampel.

This research aims to analyze the rhetorical patterns used by English Language Department Students (ELED) at UIN Sunan Ampel in their thesis backgrounds. In this research, qualitative descriptive is used as the research design. The data of this study were collected from ELED students’ thesis published in Digilib. There are nine students’ thesis background taken and analyzed using the CARS model developed by Swales. The results revealed that the majority of research background in students’ thesis follow Swales CARS model while some other thesis backgrounds tended to skip certain steps: 1-3 (reviewing the previous studies) and 3-2 (announcing present research). In move 2, the majority of thesis background do not use 4 steps but only one or two steps. This indicates that the research background of students thesis confirm the general pattern of research background in the discourse of research paper

Students Perception towards the Use of Insert Learning App in Blended Learning to Enhance Reading Comprehension

One of essential skills to expand students’ knowledge and abilities is reading. Various media and platforms have been used by teachers to support the learning and teaching process moreover during the online class. However, to help students to easily understand about what they read, teachers have to make and provide technique, strategy and media for the needs of their students, including in reading mastery. The use of appropriate media can be pivotal for teachers in order to make the students understand by considering its efficiency. This paper focuses on investigating the students’ perception towards the use of Insert Learning App in Blended Learning and Teaching to enhance students’ comprehension in reading. This study uses a case study method. The participants were master degree students of English Department, in total 50 students consisted of 22 male students and 38 female students. To find out the students’ perception towards the use of Insert Learning, the data were collected mainly through questionnaires and interviews. The result of this study reveals that the majority of students have positive perceptions regarding the usage of Insert Learning as a teaching media for reading comprehension in blended learning. It is beneficial tools to makes reading more interactive and engaging. Students also claim that Insert Learning is easy to use because it is connected as an extension in Google Chrome

Character Building in Lang Leav Poetry “Sea of Strangers”

This research aims at analyzing the character building of selected poetries in Lang Leav’s “Sea of Strangers”. In this research, a qualitative approach is used as the research design, and the data was analyzed using content analysis. “Sea of Strangers” is a continuation of Lang Leav book series Love & Misadventures, Lullabies, and The Universe of Us. There were eight poetries analyzed and several character buildings found in those poetries. The character buildings that appear are the character of patient, hard-working, religious, strong, creative, independent, confident, being realistic, respectful, honest, caring, and loving. From the eight poetries analyzed, almost all of those poetries explained the women's strength when they feel the pain of heartbreaking, waiting, romance, and insight into everyday life. Besides the beauty of the words used by the writer, these poetries also contain a lot of inspiring messages

RHETORICAL MOVES VARIATIONS OF RESEARCH ARTICLE DISCUSSION SECTION PUBLISHED IN REPUTABLE JOURNALS

Publishing academic articles is no longer an option but an obligation among academics. Nevertheless, in reality, many students have difficulty writing research results in the form of articles. The current research aims to describe the arrangement of the discussion sections in research articles published in reputable journals and the difference between the research article discussion section in journals indexed with SINTA 1 and SINTA 2. A qualitative study content analysis is used in this research. The data in this study were analyzed using Yang & Allison's (2003) Models. Twenty discussions were taken as the primary data. At first, twenty research articles were selected from SINTA, ten discussions from S1, and the other ten articles were from S2. The articles selected here are those which were published in 2021. The research findings show that there are three moves that the authors always include, namely Move 2 (reporting results), Move 4 Step a (interpreting results), and Move 4 Step b (comparing results with literature). The findings also imply that the authors have used most of the moves and steps proposed by Yang & Allison's (2003) framework in compiling the discussion section. This research can benefit researchers, especially university students who want to submit their manuscripts to journals. By knowing what the editors want in writing the discussion section, mistakes can be minimized since the most revision is on this part