This descriptive qualitative research was about the analysis of figurative language in English stand-up comedy. The purposes of this study were to identify the types of figurative language and to describe the functions of figurative language found in the selected video of stand-up comedy show. The data source was taken from one of selected videos of Russell Peters stand-up comedy show. Russell Peters's speech contained about figurative language in the video is observed. The data were collected through content analysis technique by collecting the verbal language used by Russell Peters. The first research questions was analyzed by McArthur (1992) theory and supported by Crystal (1994) theory to find out the types of figurative language found in English stand-up comedy. To answer the second research questions about the functions of figurative language found in English stand-up comedy was analyzed by Chunqi (2014) theory and suppoted by Kokemuller (2001) theory and Turner (2016) theory. After analyzing data, it was found that Irony was the most dominant figurative language used by Russell Peters in "Russell Peters Comedy Now! Uncensored" with 29.94%. It was happened because the kind of topics used by Russell Peters in that show were about ethnics (canadian, white people, black people, brown people and asian), society case (beating child) and culture (accent and life style of various ethnics in the world, habitual of various ethnics in the world). Irony and Hyperbole were needed dominantly in the performance, to entertain the audiences in the stand-up comedy show. The function of eleven types of figurative language which were used by Russell were concluded. The functions were to amuse people in comedic situations, to expand meaning, to explain abstract emotions, to make sentence interesting represented and give creative additions.

This research examines to analyze and find out the students' critical thinking ability in writing argumentative essay in sixth semester students of

Penelitian ini menganalisis mengenai strategi menulis yang digunakan oleh Mahasiswa dalam menulis esai argumentatif dan mengetahui masalah-masalah yang dihadapi oleh para Mahasiswa dalam menulis essay argumentatif berdasarkan teori McLean (2012), ada beberapa strategi menulis yang akan membantu para penulis ataupun para Mahasiswa terutama Mahasiswa perguruan tinggi untuk dapat menyelesaikan tugas menulis mereka dengan baik. Strategi menulis tersebut dibagi menjadi 4 langkah, seperti: menggunakan proses menulis, mengelola waktu, menetapkan tujuan, dan menggunakan sumber pengetahuan yang ada di dalam perguruan tinggi. Metode yang di gunakandalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif. Berdasarkan analisis data pada mahasiswa/i kelas tiga di satu perguruan tinggi swasta di Kuningan, Jawa Barat, dapat ditarik beberapa kesimpulan. Para mahasiswa/i menggunakan lebih dari satu strategi penulisan ketika mereka menulis esai argumentatif. Strategi yang digunakan oleh para mahasiswa/i adalah kita dalam proses penulisan, pengelolaan waktu, penetapan tujuan, dan penggunaan beberapa sumber kuliah. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa strategi yang paling sering digunakan oleh mahasiswa/i adalah menggunakan strategi proses penulisan 17 (42,5%.) Strategi ini membantu siswa dalam mengatasi keterbatasan penulisan esai argumentatif. Temuan ini juga menunjukkan strategi penulisan lainnya yang digunakan oleh mahasiswa/i, seperti, membaca lebih banyak materi, membuat draf atau garis besar, melakukan penulisanFON ; Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra IndonesiaVolume 12 Nomor 1 Tahun 2018ISSN Elektronik : 2614-7718 | 40ISSN Cetak : 2086-0609bebas, membuat skuad terdiri dari beberapa kotak untuk mengklasifikasikan setiap struktur esai, dan salah satu mahasiswa/i mengacu pada kegiatan terkait internet lainnya seperti membaca lebih banyak jurnal dan artikel bahasa Inggris. Strategi tersebut digunakan untuk mengatasi kesulitan mahasiswa/i dalam menulis esai argumentatif.Kata kunci : strategi menulis, esai argumentatif

This study aims to investigate the process type in students' narrative text. It involves 20 first grader of Department of English Education, University of Kuningan. The title of narrative text given to all respondents is "Rabbit and Twenty Crocodiles." This study raises two problems: the process types appear in students narrative texts and the errors of the process types occur in students' narrative texts. This research used a descriptive qualitative method to describe the data. As result, by using Derewianka (2002), the process types found in students' narrative texts were material, mental, verbal, and relational process. Material process was the dominant type found in students' narrative texts in which there were 232 material processes from 371 data with percentage 62.53%. It means that, in the text telling about a sequence of happenings and experiences, the characters did many material activities than the other process types. Besides, this research also found three process type errors occurred in students' narrative texts, namely material, verbal, and relational process. Material process is the dominant error occurred in students' narrative texts in which 100 errors occurred in 157 data with percentage 63,7%. In conclusion, considering that students face diffuculties mostly in material process, teacher should deal with its teaching more cautiously.

This study aims to determine the effect of metacognitive learning strategies on students' argumentative writing skills. This research was conducted on third semester students of the English education study program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Kuningan. A quantitative approach was chosen with an experimental data collection technique tests as a used method, namely: (1) Test of argumentative writing skills. This study examines the effect of metacognitive learning strategies on students' argumentative writing skills. The learning strategies used are metacognitive learning strategies (experimental class) and control class concept map learning strategies. The findings indicate that metacognitive learning strategies are effective in teaching students' argumentative writing in English. Regarding the results of this study, the application of different learning strategies is needed in students' argumentative writing learning. Based on the results and conclusions above, it turns out that metacognitive learning strategies have a significant effect on students' argumentative writing skills in English. Thus, this research provides a beneficial implication in planning and developing learning strategies which will be used in improving students' argumentative writing skills in English, especially with regard to the application of appropriate learning strategies. The argumentative writing skills of students who were given metacognitive learning strategies were better than those who were given concept map learning strategies instead. In this case, the role of the lecturer is very important so that to improve students' argumentative writing skills, metacognitive strategies are more effectively applied in class