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Friday, November 6, 2026
HAPPY UAS ASSIGNMENT OF ACADEMIC WRITING 2026
Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Dear students,
Please carefully read the following instructions and guidelines for your Final Examination (UAS) assignment in the Academic Writing course.
1. Assignment Description
You are required to develop a research proposal employing a qualitative research approach. Your proposal should clearly identify the anticipated research participants or respondents and/or the written or spoken data that will serve as the primary sources of your research.
2. Required Components of the Research Proposal
Your research proposal must include the following seven components:
a. Research Title
Provide a clear, specific, and academically appropriate title that reflects the focus of your proposed research.
b. Research Problems and Rationale
Identify the research gap, explain the significance of the research, and highlight its potential theoretical contributions. You should demonstrate an academic concern or research problem (keresahan akademik) that justifies why the study is worth conducting.
c. Research Locus and Primary Data Sources
Specify the anticipated research setting, participants/respondents, and/or sources of primary data. These may include written texts, spoken discourse, interviews, conversations, or other relevant qualitative data.
d. Research Questions / Problem Statements
Formulate at least two research questions or problem statements that will guide your investigation.
e. Theoretical Framework
Identify and explain the relevant theories or theoretical frameworks that will underpin your research analysis.
f. Research Methodology
Describe the research methods you intend to employ. Your study must adopt a qualitative research approach using a case study design.
g. References / Bibliography
Provide a list of relevant academic references that support your research topic, theoretical framework, and methodological approach.
For further guidance, please refer to the following document: Focus the Locus of Your Research UAS Assignment Dec 2022.pdf (available on Google Drive).
3. Submission Link
Submit your completed research proposal through the following Google Forms link:
https://forms.gle/rqi9PrNFy9yw26UP8
4. Submission Deadline: Saturday, December 19, at 11:59 PM (midnight).
Please ensure that your assignment is submitted before the deadline. Late submissions may not be accepted.
5. Video Explanation and Further Guidance
For a more comprehensive explanation of the Academic Writing final examination assignment, please watch the following instructional video:
https://youtu.be/IJmGUUbyKRoPlease pay close attention to all the requirements and ensure that your research proposal demonstrates a clear research focus, a well-defined academic problem, an appropriate theoretical foundation, and a coherent qualitative research methodology.
I wish you all the best in completing your final examination assignment.
Wassalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Thursday, November 5, 2026
French offers various ways of saying hello
French offers various ways of saying hello depending on the level of formality, time of day, social relationships, and communicative situations. The most common expressions include Bonjour (Hello/Good morning), a polite and universal greeting; Bonsoir (Good evening), used in the evening; and Salut (Hi/Hey), an informal greeting among friends, classmates, and family members. Other expressions, such as Bonjour à tous (Hello, everyone) and Bonjour, Monsieur/Madame (Hello, Sir/Madam), are appropriate for addressing groups or showing respect in professional and formal interactions.
French also has several friendly and context-specific greetings. Coucou expresses warmth, affection, and familiarity, while Ça va? and Comment ça va? mean "How are you?" and help establish interpersonal connections. Quoi de neuf? (What's new?) invites people to share recent experiences, whereas Enchanté(e) (Nice to meet you) is commonly used when meeting someone for the first time. Other expressions include Allô for telephone conversations, Rebonjour for greeting someone again, and Bienvenue for welcoming guests. Regional variations also exist; for example, Bon matin (Good morning) is particularly associated with Quebec French, while French greetings in Senegal may coexist with local expressions such as the Wolof Nanga def?.
From a sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspective, French greetings communicate more than simply acknowledging someone's presence; they reflect politeness, social distance, solidarity, familiarity, respect, and cultural conventions. The choice between Bonjour and Salut, for instance, indicates differences in formality and interpersonal relationships, while Coucou conveys emotional closeness and Bonjour, Monsieur/Madame demonstrates respect. In France, saying Bonjour when entering shops, restaurants, or offices is an important politeness convention, as beginning a conversation directly with a request may sound impolite. Therefore, understanding these expressions helps language learners develop pragmatic competence, appropriate register selection, and intercultural communication skills.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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collocation vs adjacency pair
Collocation is a habitual combination of words within language, while an adjacency pair is a two-turn conversational structure in which one speaker’s turn makes a particular kind of response expected. They belong to different levels of analysis: collocation is lexical, adjacency pairs are interactional.[ladal.edu][studocu]
Core difference
| Feature | Collocation | Adjacency pair |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Words that commonly occur together | Two related turns by different speakers |
| Level | Lexis / phraseology | Conversation / discourse |
| Focus | Word combinations | Social interaction and turn-taking |
| Example | make a decision, heavy rain | Question → answer; greeting → greeting |
| Relation | One word predicts another word | First turn creates an expectation for the second turn |
Collocations are recurrent word partnerships, such as strong tea rather than normally powerful tea, or make a decision rather than do a decision. They may be adjacent, but they can also occur with words in between.[ladal.edu][files.eric.ed]
Collocation
A collocation is a combination of two or more words that co-occur more frequently than chance would predict. It is about which words naturally go together.[ladal.edu][ucrel.lancs.ac]
Examples:
- heavy rain — not usually strong rain
- make a decision — not usually do a decision
- fast food
- take medicine
- commit a crime
In text analysis, you might identify provide information as a collocation; it can even appear non-adjacent, as in “provide some of the information.”[files.eric.ed][site.uottawa]
Adjacency pair
An adjacency pair is a sequence of two conversational turns: a first pair part and a second pair part. The first turn creates an expectation that the next turn will perform a related action.[studocu]
Examples:
- Question → Answer: “Where do you live?” → “In Salatiga.”
- Greeting → Greeting: “Good morning.” → “Good morning.”
- Invitation → Acceptance/declination: “Would you like coffee?” → “Yes, please.”
- Complaint → Apology: “You arrived late.” → “I’m sorry.”
- Compliment → Response: “I like your presentation.” → “Thank you.”
The two turns are linked by their conversational function, not by word frequency.[studocu]
Quick illustration
A: “Could you close the window?”
B: “Sure.”
Here, request → acceptance is an adjacency pair. Within A’s utterance, close the window is a natural word combination, but the key interactional pattern is the request followed by an appropriate response.[studocu]
In short: collocations link words; adjacency pairs link speakers’ turns.[ladal.edu][studocu]
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