Script Journal 

About: Script Journal is an academic journal published by Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda University. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Psychology & Originality. It has an ISSN identifier of 2477-1880. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 45 publications have been published receiving 145 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of linguistics and English teaching & Journal of linguistics and english teaching.

Teaching in 21st century: students-teachers’ perceptions of technology use in the classroom

Abstract: The rapid growth of technology encourages teachers especially who teach English as a foreign language to use it while presenting material and giving instruction in the classroom. Technology, as the newest instructional media developed in this globalization era, presents situation which helps the students to have new authentic and meaningful learning experiences engaging their effort and behavior by providing more fun and effective learning atmosphere. In addition, it provides the opportunity for the students to work collaboratively and easily access the information that can supplement their learning experience. Those benefits become the central part of 21 st century education which should be optimized in order to create sophisticated learning immersion and maximize the quality of students in the future. In this research, some media techolog ies are introduced to one hundred student-teachers having Technology Enhanced Language Learning class . Those media, P rezi as online software presentation, Glogster as visual online poster,Edmodo as online networking application , Toondoo as online cartoon strip making and Goanimate as animated video creation, are known as web-based instructional media which can be used by them to teach English as a foreign language. However, questionnaire and interview are used to obtain the data. It aims to investigate their perception while preparing their teaching by using those applications.

Teacher’s Role in Managing the Class during Teaching and Learning Process

Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate teacher’s roles which used by the English teacher in managing the class during the teaching and learning process at SMP Advent Samarinda. The research methodology used is descriptive design with qualitative approach which is aimed to describe the real situation in the field. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaires, observation sheet, field note and interview guide as the instruments. Moreover, the research subject is an English teacher who teaches at seventh and eighth grades of SMP Advent Samarinda. The result of the research is the teacher runs nine roles in they are as a controller, an assessor, an organizer/manager, a prompter/motivator, participant, a resource/informer, a facilitator, a demonstrator, and as a guide. There are roles which are preeminent which most applied by the teacher such as teacher as a controller and teacher as an assessor. It is shown by the result of students’ respond in the questionnaire, restrictive questions; 77% and 68% and free answer; 68% and 100%, which also found in the time the researcher did the observation. On the contrary, the teacher’s roles as a prompter and as a resource have not been played maximally by the teacher.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie Part II”

Abstract: This study is to analyze songs from Eminem which is related to his life story. In examining the songs, the researchers used the three inter-related processes of analysis tied to three inter-related dimensions of discourse proposed by Faiclough’s model of CDA. This study applied qualitative design with the content analysis approach. The analysis of this research focused on the words used such as African American Vernacular English variety, Informal language and American slang in the lyrics of the song Love The Way You Lie Part II and explain them. The result findings showed that there was a transcultural process or cross cultural in the song lyrics. There was a hiphop culture which was moved, changed and reused to create a new identity of the Eminem. There were 25 words and clauses of AAVE, 3 words of Informal language and 1 word of American slang language in the lyrics of the song of Love The Way You Lie.

Pedagogical Perspectives on Teaching Materials of Translation in English Language Teaching

Abstract: Background: Instructional materials for vocational schools encounter distinguishing features; it manages to take on the English for Special Purposes (ESP). This research was carried out to seek the data of teaching materials for Vocational Schools in Indonesia. It used a survey procedure to gather the English teachers’ perspectives. It stressed the Translation skill. Methodology: A survey design was utilized to gather the data. With a Purposive Sampling Technique, it involved 30 vocational English teachers in Sumatera Utara Province. A set of questionnaires was administered to gain the perspective of English teachers about the translation materials and teaching process in some Vocational Schools. It used a Likert Scale to determine the values responses of samples. Findings: Data gained indicated that 52.45 % of respondents agreed with the teaching material, and 43.10 % strongly agreed with those. Only 4.45 % of respondents strongly disagreed with those topics. Data analysis showed that the 58 elements in the Subject of Translation in ELT had covered the teaching materials in Vocational school. Conclusion: It concluded that translation is a fundamental element of the instructional system in English as a foreign language in Indonesia. Based on this notion, the Vocational English teachers in Indonesia should be trained to consider the appropriate ways of translating by knowing the theories and practice of translating within English teaching material.

An Analysis of Derivational Affixes in Commencement speech By Steve Jobs

Abstract: The study expects to an investigation of derivational appends in the content of initiation discourse by Steve Jobs. The essayist utilized the majority of the words that were connected prefix and postfix as the information. The information sources were all content of initiation discourse by Steve Jobs. This study utilizing subjective plan and substance investigation approach. The aftereffect of the study demonstrated that there were 78 all out words in the content of Commencement discourse which joined derivational fastens. The study discovered 69 postfixes and 9 prefixes. The foundations of the words that has been grouped in light of the grammatical feature are 17 (descriptor), 27 (thing), 33 (verb), 1 (adverb).From the finish of this study, the author proposes that to enhance their dominance of vocabulary, the perusers ought to apply the derivational fastens by breaking the word into its components root and attaches in light of the fact that from single word they can get the structure of words and them additionally discover how the words fabricated. By knowing the roots, the perusers can assemble the word without anyone else's input