Zuhrul Anam

• Master of Humanities
• Lecturer at State University of Semarang

In the current digital era, learning videos have become a popular alternative for delivering information and teaching materials. Therefore, it is important to analyze the effectiveness of speech acts, especially directive speech acts used in educational videos. The purpose of this study is to analyze and realize the number of speech acts, namely in...

The development of psychosexual stages in children significantly influences their behavior. There are five stages: oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital. Disruptions or fixations during any stage can impact societal conduct and relationships. In Kafka on the Shore, parental abandonment causes fixation in one of these stages, as seen in the main...

In the literature field, the investigation of self-identity within cultural and historical contexts offers insights into the life experience and self-belief of the character. This article examines the portrayal of self-identity in An Enola Holmes Mystery: The Case of the Missing Marquess, a book from Nancy Springer’s Enola Holmes series, utilizing...

This study explores the ideological conflict within intercultural marriages as portrayed in Mario Puzo’s renowned novel, “The Godfather”. Utilizing a qualitative approach and Althusser’s theory of Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs), the researchers delve into Puzo’s intricately woven narrative, highlighting the inherent tension arising from the c...

This study investigates locutionary speech acts in self improvement videos on Hawaariyyun's Instagram account. Locutionary speech acts are speech acts that say something directly without other intentions. The subject of this research analysis is the use of locutionary speech acts in the self improvement video uploads of Hawaariyyun's Instagram acco...

Female English teachers make significant contributions to their field, yet stories about them are under-researched. This paper presents the framework of an ongoing narrative inquiry aimed at understanding female teachers’ agency and its role in their professional identity construction during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on a systematic review of re...

The concept of individuality's sense of self may trigger some conflicts in an ex-colonized country. The British colonized Nigeria for sixty years, and the colonization formally ended after Nigeria declared its independence on the first of October, 1960. A new Nigerian dictatorial government performs hegemony as the remnant of colonization. This phe...

This case study investigates how an EFL teacher educator flipped the classrooms to promote 4C learning skills among student teachers planning a lesson. In lesson planning, collaborative works and participation of students are vital as both help students develop their knowledge. The flipped classroom as a breakthrough in the teaching and learning pr...

Fossil fuels will always take command of human’s daily life. Despite being “dirty energy”, humans cannot jettison them since they are the mainstay for multipurpose energies. They are more dependable and accessible than renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar panel, and wind power. Even more so, in this present globalization the increasin...

This study seeks to investigate the thematic features of research article abstracts written by Indonesian and English-Native speakers in language education and learning. With a huge interest in international publication among Indonesians, many go for a publication in academic journals that have a standard style of native English language. Thus, the...

This paper explores crisis communication during the pandemic in multilingual Indonesia. Crisis communication during the pandemic is a discursive act of sense-making in responding to the pandemic. As Asia’s pandemic epicentre, Indonesia provides a fascinating setting to enhance the discussion between crisis communication and multilingualism because...

The dichotomic concept of space between white and Aboriginal Australians has been widely used in the colonial discourse. Through The Secret River, Grenville dismantles the binary oppositions that serves as the main strategy for colonization. We argue that space as a medium of negotiation is used as her strategy to involve in the national reconcilia...

Artikel ini mengutarakan kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat bagi dosen. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk menumbuhkan literasi ekologis dengan keterampilan story-telling bermuatan konservasi bagi guru dan siswa di Sekolah Alam Ungaran (SAUNG), Kecamatan Ungaran Barat, Kabupaten Semarang. Terdapat lima tahapan pelaksanaan dalam kegiatan ini pengab...

The increasing cases of terrorism and extremism unite practitioners and theoreticians to put serious attention to the role of education for peacebuilding. However, finding an appropriate strategy connecting literature education to peacebuilding is challenging. Thus, the study explored the effectiveness of engaging suitable literary works to be used...

Every popular literature has a particular formula for certain intrinsic elements such as favorite plots, stereotyped characters, and accepted ideas. Therefore, the genre is widely accepted by readers. It represents familiar shared images and meanings that assert an ongoing continuity of values. Therefore, this study aims: (1) to elucidate the kind...