ARTISHTIC

Exploring Expressive Illocutionary Act and Humanity Values in The Demon Slayer Manga

Ika Rahayu — 2025-01-22

This study explores expressive illocutionary acts and humanity values in the Demon Slayer manga,
specifically in chapters 1 and 2. Employing a qualitative descriptive method and discourse analysis,
the research identifies and categorizes utterances into expressive illocutionary types as per Searle and
Vanderveken's framework and examines the presence of humanity-related virtues according to
Peterson and Seligman. The findings reveal 113 expressive illocutionary acts in chapter 1, with
"lament" being the most dominant, while chapter 2 presents 17 expressive acts, with "protest" as the
most frequent. Additionally, the study identifies 28 instances of virtues of character strength humanity
in chapter 1, predominantly "kindness," and 12 instances in chapter 2, also highlighting "kindness" as
the most prevalent virtue. The analysis underscores the role of expressive illocutionary acts in
conveying moral values and character development in the narrative, providing insights into the
interplay between language and virtues in the manga's storytelling.

An Analysis of Mood and Moral Values in the Novel “The Call of the Wild”

Ela Nurmala — 2025-01-18

In literature, novels serve as a popular medium for storytelling, often embedding moral messages and
diverse linguistic elements. One significant aspect of literary analysis in novels is the study of mood
types, which reveals the interpersonal dynamics and underlying themes conveyed by the author. This
study focuses on The Call of the Wild, a novel by Jack London, aiming to identify the types of mood
employed—declarative, imperative, and interrogative—and to explore the moral values illustrated
through these interactions. This research employs a qualitative approach, utilizing document analysis
and content analysis techniques to gather and interpret data. The theoretical framework is grounded in
Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (1994) for mood analysis and Lickona's (2004) moral
values classification, which includes trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and
citizenship. Findings indicate that declarative mood is the most frequently used, highlighting the
informational and descriptive nature of the novel. The moral values conveyed through the protagonist
Buck’s experiences emphasize resilience, loyalty, and compassion, offering readers timeless ethical
lessons.

Improving Students’ Creative Writing by Using Story Cubes Media

artishtic artishtic — 2025-01-22

Creative writing ability is one of the important abilities that must be possessed by students, however,
in reality, there are still many students who experience difficulties in creative writing. Therefore, a
learning method that can increase students' creativity and motivation in writing is needed, namely by
using story cubes media. The subjects in this study were grade XI students at SMA Negeri 4 Subang.
This study used a pre-experimental Quantitative design. The results showed a significant increase in
students' creative writing ability after the application of Story Cubes. The questionnaire results showed
that students gave positive responses to the use of Story Cubes. They consider this media effective,
easy to use, and very interesting. The majority of students reported an increase in motivation and
creativity when using Story Cubes in their writing activities. In conclusion, the use of Story Cubes
media significantly improved students' creative writing skills at SMAN 4 Subang. This innovative
teaching tool not only improved students' writing skills, but also increased their engagement and
motivation in the learning process.

The Use of Caricature Strips in Teaching Recount Text to Improve Students’ Writing Skills

Isti Sitihindun — 2025-01-18

Writing as one of the English productive skills, is very crucial in communication. Communicating in
English as the curriculum demands and competencies are getting better. Students must be able to share
ideas, opinions, experiences in spoken and written language in every situation and place. Therefore, in
improving students' writing skills, it is necessary to provide a method, a learning model that can
improve it. This study was conducted in an effort to find out the improvement of students' writing
skills in writing past stories or telling someone's biography and students' responses to visual learning
models, namely caricature strips. This research used quantitative pre-experiment method with one
group pretest posttest. In this study, the research subjects were students of class X OTKP Integrated
SMKS Lampang. Test is used as a data collection technique as a comparison before and after treatment.
Questionnaires as a data collection technique to get student responses to visual learning models,
namely strip caricatures. After that the data is processed in the form of tables and statistics, and
described based on the results of tests and questionnaires. The data shows that the results of the test
produce high criteria and are quite effective, which means that there is an increase in the test results.
The questionnaire data shows a good response, interest in strip caricatures.

The Use of Reallife Application in Learning English to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill

Gigin Ginanjar Sapari — 2025-01-18

The RealLife app is designed primarily for people who want to improve their listening and speaking skills with people around the world. The purpose of this study is to find out if the RealLife app can improve students' speaking skills and to explore students' perceptions towards its usage in speaking learning. Conducted at SMA Swasta Yadika Kalijati, this study used a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test. SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis including normality assessment, homogeneity and hypothesis testing to evaluate the impact of RealLife implementation on students' speaking ability. The results showed that the mean pre-test score of the experimental class was 61.96, which increased to 70.87 after treatment and the independent samples t-test showed a significant p-value of <0.001. In essence, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. The results of the questionnaire indicated that most students were interested and motivated to use the RealLife application in learning English with a mean score with average score of 81.09%, which was classified as good. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of RealLife application can improve students' speaking skills. In conclusion, these positive results underscore the importance of integrating technology-based language learning technology-based language learning tools into the educational environment.