Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature

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Authors: Yanpitherzon Liunokas

Reading activities in this paper includes the habit of students in reading in their daily lives such as reading books, magazine, articles, online news and articles etc. Writing performance is the ability of students in expressing their ideas in written forms or paragraph. The aimed of the research is to find out the contribution of reading activities towards the students writing performance. This research applied descriptive method to describe the correlation between the reading activities and the students’ ability in writing. This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Soe, Kabupaten Timur Tengah Selatan (TTS), NTT. Findings of the research show that the reading habits of students have significant contribution towards the students’ writing ability. Mean score the reading is 81.13 and standard deviation is 8.26 and writing mean score is 68.93 and standard deviation is 8.12. The correlation test using Pearson Product Moment with SPSS 20 software program found that the score of significance is 991, which is higher than α score (991 ≥ 07), is classified as a good correlation. It indicates that when the students have a good reading habit, it will give good contribution towards their competence in writing.

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Authors: Shanty Halim

This research is aimed at finding out to find out whether the use of questions box effective in teaching simple past or not. This research used pre-experimental method. Furthermore, this research was conducted at Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang. There were 20 students as sample. The findings of this research show that using questions box is effective in teaching simple past tense. It was proven by the significant difference between the students’ mean score in pretest and posttest when used SPSS program. There was significant different ability of the students before giving treatment and after giving treatment. In the pretest, the mean score of the students pretest was 2.32 and the mean score of posttest was 7.52. Standard deviation of pretest was 1.42 and the standard deviation of posttest was 0.75. The researcher also found that the students have positive interest toward the use of questions box in teaching simple past tense at Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang.

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Authors: Sri Ningsih

The use of an ethnic language depends on the strength of the language and the efforts of the community to maintain its language. The study aims to describe the factors contributing to the survival of the language viewed from ethno-linguistic vitality and its vitality degree. The study was carried out in Ujung Bulu as the city of Bulukumba regency which is inhabited by various ethnic people (heterogeneous region). It is a descriptive quantitative-qualitative study applying observation, questionnaire distribution, and interview to collect data from a sample of 30 subjects selected based on age groups by means of multi-stage sampling technique. The study indicates that in the heterogeneous area proves that demography factors have insignificant contribution to the maintenance of Konjo language in the regency as indicated by regression value of demography factors p = 0.741. The statuses and institutional factors however have a significant contribution to the maintenance of the language with the values of p = 0.010 and p = 0.002 respectively. Based on the quantitative data analysis and interview as well as observation, the vitality of Konjo language in Bulukumba regency is high as indicated by the use of the language.

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Authors: Muhammad Affan Ramadhana

The development of information and communication technology plays a considerable role for students in writing their theses. The positive side, it will help the students to find countless number of academic sources ranging from journal articles to complete theses written by other scholars. On the other hand, it will also create a chance for the students to commit plagiarism easier. Unoriginal writing and plagiarism in this digital era can be detected in the digital way by using plagiarism detection software. This paper elaborates how students understand the concept of plagiarism, how they avoid plagiarism, and how they perceive online plagiarism detection service. The data was taken from interviews to MA students during their period of thesis writing. This paper concludes several important outlines to be learning guidelines for the students in improving their academic writing.