REVIEW ARTICLE | Nov. 7, 2024
Study on the English Translation of “Xi-style” Speech from the Perspective of Appraisal system --Taking Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the China-Central Asia Summit as an Example
Liu Yi
Page no 316-319 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2024.v07i11.001
By analyzing the English translation of “Working Together for a China-Central Asia Community with a Shared Future, Featuring Mutual Assistance, Common Development, Universal Security, and Everlasting Friendship” delivered by President Xi Jinping, who presided over the first China-Central Asia Summit in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, on May 19, 2023, the article analyze how President Xi's keynote address used the attitude of evaluation theory system to promote China's joining hands with Central Asian countries to build the Belt and Road, and to lead the future in-depth cooperation between China and the Central Asian region.
Nigerian poetry has consistently responded to issues affecting the country and the people since the pioneer stage to contemporary time. In this instance, the burden of societal failings has propelled the level of social commitment and ideological postures identified in the poetry. However, recent experiences in the socio-political and economic landscape of the Nigerian society seems to have shaped the mentation and emotional condition of contemporary Nigerian poets in a way that calls for a psychological approach to the study of the poets’ creative nuances. Therefore, adopting a descriptive research method and employing relevant psychoanalytic theoretical framework, the study explores how Lara Owoeye's collection, Time to Sing and Other Poems, represents psychosocial disorders and escapism. Through a close reading of the selected poems from the collection, it is discovered that Owoeye employs the resources of language and music like imagery, metaphor, parody, allusion, enjambment, rhyme, tone and other literary devices vis-à-vis the motif of a distressed singer to convey her psychosocial condition. The study also shows that the psychosocial disorders represented in the collection are triggered by memories of bad leadership and harsh socio-economic conditions. In this instance, the poet finds an escape into the world of imagination and emotional recovery through poetic expression. This way, Owoeye's poetry does not only reflect the cultural, historical, and social contexts of the Nigerian society but also offers an understanding of the complex interplay between psychosocial disorders and poetry as an escape mechanism.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE | Nov. 18, 2024
Improving Learning Motivation and Poetry Writing Skills Through the Picture and Picture Type Cooperative Method at Singaperbangsa University Karawang
Achmad Suherman
Page no 329-334 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2024.v07i11.003
This study aims to improve learning motivation and writing skills of complex explanatory texts in Semester II Students of Singaperbangsa University, Karawang by applying the cooperative method of the picture and picture type. This study is a classroom action research (CAR) which is carried out in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, action implementation, observation, and reflection. The subjects of the study were 30 Semester II Students of Singaperbangsa University, Karawang. The data sources in this study were informants and documents. Data collection techniques used were observation, interviews, tests, and documentation. Data validity used data triangulation techniques, method triangulation, and informant reviews. Data analysis used comparative descriptive analysis techniques. The research procedure is an interrelated spiral model. The results of the study indicate that the application of the cooperative method of the picture and picture type can improve motivation and writing skills of complex explanatory texts in Semester II Students from pre-action to cycle I and from cycle I to cycle II. This is indicated by the increase in: (1) Student motivation from cycle I to cycle II is quite significant; (2) the average value of student writing skills, namely from 49.09 in the pre-action to 72.07 in cycle I, and 82.07 in cycle II.
This article analyzes the famous soliloquies in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet through the concept of ideational function in Halliday’s systemic functional grammar theory. The focus is on how this theory reveals the deep structure of the text and the complex psychology of the characters, particularly through six processes of ideational function. The analysis demonstrates that these processes not only enhance the understanding of Hamlet’s inner conflicts but also highlight the philosophical reflections embedded in the text. The article emphasizes that while systemic functional grammar theory provides rich perspectives and profound insights for literary text analysis. Overall, this theory offers a structured analytical framework for understanding Hamlet and deepens the appreciation of this classic text.
The concept of a global language is a powerful idea that plays an important role in education, communication, and professional growth. The profession of ELT has evolved dramatically in the course of learning to meet the demands of the globalized and highly digitally connected world. This paper, under these contemporary trends, presents diversified approaches to teaching English, ranging from CLT, task-based learning, flipped classrooms, technology integration, and so forth, down to inclusive pedagogical practice. Based on theoretical underpinnings such as the sociocultural theory and constructivism, it highlights the manner by which such approaches enhance learner interest and flexibility and foster learner achievement. With respect to pedagogical implications, such a paper would provide insight into effective English language education in diverse settings.
The cultivation of talents in higher education institutions is a process that combines education and talent cultivation, and the curriculum of ideological and political education is the concrete implementation of the fundamental mission of "cultivating virtue and nurturing talents" in education. This paper takes the non-ideological and political subject of Foreign Trade English Correspondence as the research object, specifically studying the ideological and political elements that can be integrated into this course, and exploring effective ways to achieve the value function of this course.