[ISSN:2086-7484] Jurnal Saung Guru ini merupakan jawaban atas urgensi kebutuhan para dosen dan guru dalam rangka tuntutan karir sebagai tenaga pendidik.
Abstrak Have a happy new year to all Conaplin Journal readers! This issue of Conaplin Journal opens up the new year of 2012, with a coverage ranging from such psychological substances as learner awareness and the role of L1 in the acquisition of EFL, to classroom issues like teacher talk, cultural items in textbooks, content-based instruction, specific materials for young learners, and how learners use metafunctions in making sense of the text. In addition, pragmatic and semiotic analyses were also reported, one investigating conversational implicature in Take me out Indonesia and the other regarding positive and negative ideologies of masculinity in an advertisement.