This is a pragmatic study, qualitatively describing in particular how learners use speech act strategies in giving suggestions during peer response activity. The study involved 25 Indonesian students of Japanese as a Foreign Language of the intermediate level at the Al Azhar University of Indonesia. The results show that the learners use speech act strategies of direct, conventionalized forms, and indirect. The strategy most widely used by the learners in giving suggestions is the indirect one, i.e. the strategy of giving suggestions indirectly. This shows that the cultural background of the learners, i.e. Indonesian culture, strongly influences the choice of strategy. The mitigation devices used are verbal devices consisting of the opener, specific words as mitigation markers (mungkin, kayaknya, cuma), justification/reason, phatic expression, and closing. Besides, non-verbal devices are also used, such as emoticons and laughing forms.

ABSTRACT   The study aims to examine the ideological representations that appear in the news in the media. The analysis of this research uses the CDA Van Dijk concept. The data of this research is the news entitled “DKI Mengklaim Perluasan Ancol untuk Publik” published in TEMPO Newspaper, Monday July 6, 2020. From the analysis, this news shows support for the reclamation policy of the Ancol area of the DKI Jakarta Government. Besides, it is known that this news represents the ideological strategy of capitalism. Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis; Van Dijk model; ideology

<p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Masalah yang dihadapi oleh Panti Asuhan Harapan Remaja adalah kurangnya motivasi dan inspirasi anak asuh siswa SMP untuk belajar bahasa asing. Tujuan dari kegiatan ini adalah menumbuhkan motivasi dan inspirasi belajar bahasa asing untuk belajar bahasa asing.</em><em> Salah satu cara untuk menunbuhkan motivasi dan isnpirasi belajar bahasa asing adalah dengan dilakukannya pengenalan bahasa asing dengan konteks yang dekat dengan keseharian anak asuh/siswa. Untuk itu telah diadakan program penumbuhan motivasi dan inspirasi berbahasa asing terutama bahasa Jepang dan Inggris masing-masing selama 2 kali. Hasil dari kegiatan ini adalah munculnya ketertarikan siswa terhadap bahasa asing dan ketertarikan untuk belajar bahasa asing terutama bahasa Inggris dan Jepang. Selain itu terlihat juga peningkatan motivasi belajar bahasa asing selain pelajaran sekolah. Akan tetapi tidak ada peningkatan ketertarikan untuk berinteraksi dengan orang asing. Saran kegiatan ke depan adalah mengadakan yang berkelanjutan dan berkala.</em></p><p><strong>Kata kunci:<em> </em></strong><strong><em>Bahasa Asing, Inspirasi</em></strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Motivasi</em></strong></p><p><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><em>This community service activity had purposes to inspire and motivate the junior high school students to learn a foreign language at the Harapan Remaja Orphanage. This orphanage has a problem dealing with foster children’s motivation in learning foreign languages. The result of this activity is the emergence of an interest in foreign languages and learning those languages, especially English and Japanese. After the activities, the result shows that the learners’ motivation is still low. However, the activities related to foreign languages increased the participants’ interests to learn foreign languages, in this context, Japanese and English. It is suggested that the activity can be carried out continuously because raising inspiration and motivation requires enough time.</em></p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>Foreign language,</em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>Inspiration</em></strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Motivation</em></strong><strong><em>, </em></strong></p>

Language and culture are two things that are interrelated and cannot be separated. This study aims to determine the conflicts caused by language, which cause misunderstanding due to culture. The study also discusses the background of cultural values that creates this misunderstanding. This research is a qualitative research conducted by interviewing four graduates of the Japanese Language Study Program. The analysis results identified two types of conflict caused by language, namely, conflicts caused by verbal and nonverbal language. These conflicts occur because of the different cultural backgrounds.

<p><em>Abstrak</em> – <strong>Kesulitan yang dihadapi oleh pembelajar bahasa Jepang yang berasal dari negara yang  beraksara alphabet adalah kanji. Salah satu faktor penyebabnya adalah kurangnya pengetahuan mahasiswa tentang strategi belajar kanji. Penelitian ini menfokuskan pada strategi yang dipakai oleh mahasiswa tingkat pemula maupun tingkat menengah di UAI. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah Strategi yang digunakan oleh Kelompok Pemula kurang bervariasi, Kelompok Menengah lebih banyak menggunakan variasi pembelajaran kanji dibandingkan dengan Kelompok Pemula, Kelompok Menengah KT (Kemampuan Tinggi) lebih banyak menggunakan strategi pembelajaran kanji dibandingkan dengan Kelompok menengah KR (Kemampuan Rendah).</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Abstract</em> – <strong>One of the difficulties faced by Japanese language learners who come from countries that use the alphabet letters is kanji. One of the factors that cause those difficulties is the lack of student knowledge about kanji learning strategies. This study focuses on the strategies used by beginner and intermediate level students at University of Al Azhar Indonesia. The results of this study are as mentioned below. First, learners from the beginner group do not often use strategy compared with the intermediate group. Second, learners from intermediate group use the variations of kanji learning strategies more than the beginner group. Third, learners from high ability intermediate group use kanji learning strategies more than the low ability beginner group .</strong></p>