Poetry learning faces several challenges, particularly in expressing ideas through appropriate diction and figurative language. These challenges are compounded by the limited availability of learning models that address students’ current needs. Students often struggle to express their ideas in poetry, especially when writing Islamic poetry, which requires the appropriate use of Islamic diction and figurative language. This study examines the effectiveness of the Wattpad-integrated CERMAT model in improving students’ Islamic poetry writing skills. A quantitative experimental approach was employed using a pretest–posttest control group design involving 71 students from a private university in Jakarta, comprising 37 students in the experimental group and 34 in the control group. Data were collected through Islamic poetry writing tests and analyzed using the Mann–Whitney U test and the N-Gain test. The Mann–Whitney U test yielded a significance value of 0.000 (p < 0.05), indicating that the experimental group achieved significantly better results than the control group. Furthermore, the experimental group obtained an N-Gain score of 0.64, indicating a moderate improvement in Islamic poetry writing skills. These findings suggest that the Wattpad-integrated CERMAT model is effective and offers a promising alternative for teaching Islamic poetry writing.
This study examines how Augustus Waters, a character in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, constructs meaning while confronting terminal illness through the theoretical framework of Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy. It focuses on the will to meaning and the three categories of values through which meaning can be realized: attitudinal, creative, and experiential values. Using a literary-psychological approach, the study employs qualitative textual analysis of selected narrative passages and dialogues that portray Augustus’s responses to suffering, personal responsibility, relationships, and mortality. The findings indicate that Augustus’s desire not to be forgotten reflects a deeper desire to live a meaningful life rather than merely a fear of death. His meaning-making is also reflected in his understanding of unavoidable suffering, his desire to contribute to something beyond himself, and his experience of love and emotional connection with Hazel. These dimensions illustrate a shift from seeking personal recognition to finding meaning through attitude, responsibility, and relationships. The findings demonstrate that Frankl’s logotherapy provides a useful framework for analyzing how literary characters seek meaning when confronting suffering and mortality.
Indigenous oral traditions describe how landscapes, nonhuman beings, ancestors, and spiritual beliefs shape values and responsibilities toward the environment. This study examines five purposively selected folklore stories from a collection of ten West Papuan folklore stories through the perspectives of spiritual ecology and ecocriticism, focusing on sacred landscapes, ancestral presence, rituals, nonhuman agency, and ecological ethics. Using a qualitative textual-interpretive design, the study employed close reading, open coding, categorization, theme identification, and ecocritical and spiritual-ecological interpretation. The findings show that forests, trees, animals, and culturally significant sites are represented as relational beings connected to humans, ancestors, and land rather than merely as resources or settings. These relationships generate ecological responsibilities through ancestral authority, ritual reciprocity, customary limits, care, and intergenerational responsibility. The study argues that the selected folktales construct a relational spiritual-ecological ethic in which relationships beyond the human world shape environmental responsibility. The analysis does not assume that Indigenous ecological knowledge is inherently conservationist; instead, it identifies the ethical possibilities expressed through the narratives for discussions of culturally grounded environmental responsibility.
This article examines titles inscribed in the tambak necronyms of the Toba Batak community in Simanindo District, Samosir Regency. A tambak is not merely a family burial structure but also a memorial space that represents clan identity, ancestry, social status, religion, and genealogical continuity. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach using onomastics and Stuart Hall's theory of cultural identity. The primary data consist of 82 name inscriptions documented from tambak sites in Simanindo. Supporting data were obtained through observation, interviews, visual documentation, and scholarly literature. The findings show that titles such as Ompu/Oppu, Op., Raja, Guru, Tuan, Datok, St., and academic titles form complex nominal phrases connecting personal names, clan names, genealogical positions, customary status, religion, and education. These titles are grouped into kinship-ancestral, socio-cultural and customary, religious, and academic/modern categories. The study concludes that tambak necronyms function as cultural texts that materialize hagabeon, hamoraon, and hasangapon. Toba Batak identity represented in tambak inscriptions is relational, communal, and hybrid because it is shaped through the interaction of adat, religion, clan, and modernity.
This study aims to examine how Sky News Arabia frames the decline in marriage rates and the increase in divorce rates in Lebanon through the use of conceptual metaphors in its news narrative. The analysis focuses on identifying and classifying types of conceptual metaphors based on Lakoff and Johnson’s theory and mapping image schemas using Croft and Cruse’s framework. This qualitative study employs a note-taking technique. The primary data consist of a Sky News Arabia news report obtained through purposive sampling that discusses the decline in marriage rates and the increase in divorce rates in Lebanon. The findings identify 20 metaphorical expressions in the text, comprising 8 orientational metaphors based on the SPACE schema, 8 structural metaphors dominated by the FORCE schema, and 4 ontological metaphors, all of which employ the FORCE schema. These findings indicate that the media framing of the economic crisis is not neutral, but instead emphasises the economic crisis as the primary cause, obscures the role of the state, and positions society as affected parties with limited control over the situation. This study contributes to cognitive linguistics by highlighting the role of conceptual metaphors in shaping public perceptions of family-related issues in the Middle East.
