Learning English to EFL learners must always be challenging since it requires not only the willingness for learning, but also students' awareness of the phonological differences between the students' mother tongue on one hand and English as the target language on the other. One of the potential problems is phonology. This study aims at describing the students' phonological problems in pronouncing English segmental sounds. There are 10 students' each of local language speakers taken as the sample in this study. Data is gained by using phonological test. In the test, the sample were asked to pronounce English words of which the sounds do not exist in each local language phonology. The result reveals that, there two English sounds found to be a problem encountered by Sasak students, both of which are consonants. The sounds

This study aims at describing the components of translanguaging, the reason for using translanguaging, and the functions of translanguaging in YouTube videos. This research used the descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected from the YouTube channel of Nessie Judge. First, the researcher was transcribed the utterances into written text. Then, identified the transcript and classified into each components of translanguaging. After that, reduced data in the form of table. The components are divided according to the utterances. Then, the researcher was interpreted the reasons of translanguaging in Nessie Judge’s YouTube videos. In addition, the researcher was found the speech function of translanguaging used by Nessie Judge in her YouTube videos. The results of this study show there are two components of translanguaging that Nessie used in her YouTube videos. The translanguaging’s components used in the three videos were dominated by 83% code-switching, and 17% translating and interpreting. The difference between translanguaging and code switching lies in the concept. The concept of translanguaging gives freedom for anyone to use more than two languages without any restrictions, while code-switching has its own limitations. The result of this study also finds there are six reasons why Nessie Judge used translanguaging. The most dominant reason of Nessie Judge used translanguaging is talking about a particular topic with 78%. In addition, there are five speech functions Nessie Judge used translanguaging. The most dominant speech function of Nessie Judge used in the three videos is 74% metalinguistic function.

This study aims to determine differences in the choice of topics of conversation between men and women on Facebook media. This study was qualitative in nature, examining the corpus of facebookers available on the internet. The process of data collection was done by referring to the record and documentation method. In the analysis process, data were classified and analyzed based on Tuncay's theory (2006) in determining the theme of masculinity and Cholik (2016) theory in determining the theme of femininity. The results showed that male users tended to upload themes to show their masculinity such as physical strength, altruism, women and sex, love and family, pleasure or fun, leadership, outdoor activities, as well as spirituality and morality, while female users tended to upload theme to reflect the feminine side, such as cooking, parenting, beauty, traveling, hobbies, and fashion.

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