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RISDA ASFINA 12249 K.4 Hi, Zie ! I have a surprising news for you. Now, I'm in Sydney, Australia. I've been here since four days ago. I'm here with my cousins. How nice sydney is! We've visited several famous places here. They are Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Royal Botanical Gardens, Luna Park, and Sydney Tower. All of them are really wonderful. So, that's why Sydney is stated as one of the nicest cities in the world. But, everything is expensive here. Of course because Sydney is the most expensive city in Australia and the 66th in the world. I will come back to Padang after holiday is over. So, I still have time for about three days. I won't miss anything here. So, for the rest time, I plan to go to some museums here, such as Powerhouse Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Museum of Contemporary Art. If you were here right now, you would enjoy it too, and you wouldn't want to leave it soon. So, I look forward to having travelling around...
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Hedges Used by Indonesian ELT Students in Written and Spoken Discourses

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Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics , Vol. 7 No. 3, January 2018, pp. 650-658 Risda Asfina, risda.asfina@gmail.com A. Effendi Kadarisman, effendi.kadarisman@gmail.com Utari Praba Astuti, utari_pastuti@yahoo.com Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia First received: 30 August 2017 Final proof received: 31 January 2018 Abstract Hedging expression is considered an important interactional metadiscourse device which shows the writer’s/speaker’s degree of confidence in the truth of a proposition and his/her attitude to the readers or listeners in academic discourse. Although considerable research on hedges has been undertaken, there have been virtually no studies on hedges in spoken discourse in educational contexts. To fill this gap, this study aims at describing and comparing the use of hedges by Indonesian ELT students in written and spoken discourses. This study is descriptive qualitative in nature. The research subjects were 20 ELT graduate students registered in 2...
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Spiderscribe.net as a Breakthrough for Organizing Students’ Ideas in Writing

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Conference Proceedings, Language in the Online and Offline World 5. Surabaya: Universitas Kristen Petra, 19-20 April 2016 Muhammad Affandi Arianto, Universitas Negeri Malang affandia@rocketmail.com Risda Asfina, Universitas Negeri Malang finfrensz.caprime@gmail.com Abstract : The integrating of technology in English language teaching is considerably something demanding in this digital era. It is so crucial for educational development that it is no longer considered as secondary or complementary need anymore. Moreover, the benefits of it are undeniable. Therefore, as stated in Kurikulum Nasional regarding the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in English language classroom, particularly in writing class, students are expected to be able to make use of digital programs or softwares to push their critical thinking in expressing their arguments, ideas, feeling, and thoughts. In this matter, web-based technology can be used as an alternative source to make the t...
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