Arisya Putri

Joining the content from the 2018 ADE report is data available through Humanities Indicators, A Project of the American  Academy of Arts & Sciences, which also affirm that the number of individuals completing. English degrees has fluctuated for decades. While the number of completed English degrees experienced an increase in the 1960s, there was a dramatic decline in the 1980s before a slight resurgence in the 1990s. The current decline has been particularly significant since 2009: the only humanities degree programs to experience notable growth since this time have been in communications, with an eight percent increase (American Academy of Arts &  Sciences, 2017). Perhaps the number of students pursuing a communications degree is growing because students assume it is more applicable to a professional setting or provides more practical skills than what is perceived as a vague, traditional English degree. A recent perusal of advertisements with “communications” as a par...

Writing is one of the important skills that we must learn. Writing is not just stringing words together. Writers need to understand the purpose of writing before finally creating a beautiful literary work. In addition, writing is also a medium of communication between writers and their readers. Writing allows people to communicate their thoughts, emotions, or stories to others. Writing is a skill that everyone must practice continuously. Therefore, many people find it difficult to master this skill. Many of us often still find it difficult when writing, such as difficulty conveying the ideas we think or problems expressing complex topics in writing, and many other challenges. Of the many factors that hinder the effectiveness of students in writing, several common factors are usually felt by students in writing, among others, the first is grammatical problems. There are various causes for the writing problem. For starters, that is the nature of the writing process. Writing is a difficul...

 Formulaic language is defined as sequences of words "stored and retrieved whole from the memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar" (Wray and Perkins 2000, 1).  Lexical Bundle is defined as "a recurring sequence of three or more words" that "commonly go together in natural discourse" (Biber et al. 1999, 990).  Lexical bundles are two or more string of words that co-occur frequently in a corpus. Hence, this corpus-based research design study examines the effects of lexical bundles on English as a foreign language learner’s abstract genre academic writing skills, and it also investigates students’ perception towards lexical bundles instruction to enhance their academic writing skills. Lexical bundles, on the other hand, are groups of words that appear repeatedly in the same register. Combinations of three or more words identified empirically in a natural language corpus. Students have instructed t...