After ages..

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It's 2018 already. There're many things I've been through since my last post in this blog (re: 2012). I was still in undergraduate program at that time (Universitas Negeri Padang). Time indeed flies. At present, I've got my master degree in English Language Teaching (Universitas Negeri Malang). My life in Malang was just so amazing. It has left over a lot of memories I will always keep in mind.

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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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Lingua Didaktika , Vol. 13 No. 1, 2019, pp. 26-34 Ainul Addinna, Ririn Ovilia, Risda Asfina ainul.addinna@fbs.unp.ac.id ririn.ovilia@fbs.unp.ac.id risda.asfina@gmail.com Universitas Negeri Padang Abstract Empirically visualizing the text being read into pictures, diagrams, or images evidently deepens students’ reading comprehension. Given the evidence of its significance, this study aims to figure out the effect of visualizing the text upon the students’ reading comprehension observed from their cognitive learning styles namely field dependent (FD) and field independent (FI). Due to its purpose, the experimental study, quasy-experimental research to be specific, was carried out. Fifty four fifth-semester students at Universitas Negeri Malang participated in this study. The findings were shockingly contradictory with the empirical evidence provided in previous studies. It is revealed that visualization strategy was proven to be significantly ineffective in enhancing students...
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