EFL students crucially need pragmatic competence to communicate appropriately and effectively. However, teaching pragmatic aspects is easier said than done in the Indonesian classroom context. This study aimed to question (1) how Indonesian EFL textbook writers introduce pragmatic aspects to junior and senior high school students, (2) what barriers to teaching pragmatics are encountered by the Indonesian EFL teachers, and (3) to what extent EFL students make use of pragmatic aspects when they speak Indonesian and English. To address these questions, some English textbooks written by Indonesian writers were analyzed, and some Indonesian EFL teachers and students were selected to be respondents: answering questionnaires and composing short dialogues respectively. The result revealed that pragmatic aspects were partially discussed in the textbooks and rarely taught by the EFL teachers due to some obstacles. As a result, the EFL students’ pragmatic competence was not developed properly. Because of the importance of students’ pragmatic skills, a further study of a practical teaching is needed for the EFL teachers in order to facilitate the EFL students to develop their pragmatic competence.
The study aims to find out the responses of Oral Corrective Feedback and Students’ Uptake on EFL students’
learning process in speaking class and to identify the most frequent type of oral corrective feedback and uptakes
by one non-native teacher and EFL students. To find out the responses and the types, the classroom observation
and interview were done. The results revealed that explicit correction is the most frequent type of oral corrective
feedback used by the teacher and self- repair as the most frequent type of students’ uptakes. Regarding the
responses of giving oral corrective feedback, the student admitted that 1) they became aware of their own errors;
2) they were motivated to improve their speaking skill; 3) their pronunciation and grammar input improved; and,
4) their vocabulary enriched. In spite of the positive responses of the students on the explicit correction, a further
study should be done with a different level of English proficiency in order to obtain comprehensive contributions
to the importance of feedbacks and uptakes in the learning process.
This paper reports the use of recast technique in correcting students’ errors in the EYL (English for Young Learners) classroom. Observation and interview methods were conducted to collect the data. While observation was implemented to find out the role of recast in teaching-learning processes, interview to ten teachers and twenty-four students was conducted in order to answer teachers and students’ perceptions of recast technique. Findings showed that teachers and students gave positive perceptions of recast. Recast can encourage students’ language awareness, motivation, and independence. The findings of this study suggest that recast technique can be used as an alternative feedback in giving correction to students’ errors. The study confirms literature showing that recast is an effective corrective feedback.
The study aims to find out how Indonesian EFL students perceive and make use of washback of portfolio
assessment in reading academic texts. To explore washback of portfolios, 20 students from English department at
the faculty of education were interviewed. The result revealed that the students had positive perceptions because
the washback improved their reading strategy, contributed positive changes to their learning attitude, and
cultivated their learning autonomy. They also perceived portfolio assessment a ‘novel’ method in assessing their
reading and a helpful tool in learning; therefore, they made use of portfolio assessment for future teaching and
learning guidelines. In spite of the positive washback of portfolios, a further study has to be done because
teachers have some challenges, such as preparing an appropriate design and taking time into account when
applying portfolios in language assessment.
Lembaga pendidikan tinggi memiliki tanggung jawab dalam mengcmhangkan Tridharma perguruan tinggi yang meliputi pendidikan, penelitian dan pengabdian pada masyarakat. Pengembangan tersebut dapat ditumbuhkan apabila didukung oleh suasana budaya akademik (academic culture) yang kuat di lembaga tersebut. Budaya akademik adalah suatu budaya yang tumbuh di perguruan tinggi yang mencerminkan sebuah suasana ilmiah dan ditandai oleh sejumlah aktivitas ilmiah melalui segenap kegiatannya, seperli aktivitas perkuliahan, seminar, kegiatan penelitian yang semua kegiatan tersebut disebarluaskan melalui publikasi-publikasi ilmiah dalam bentuk jurnal-jurnal ilmiah.
EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students of vocational high schools are requested to have skillful reading strategies to comprehend specific texts in English. To have a good comprehension, they utilize not only their strategies but also interesting and suitable texts. Therefore, this current study investigated the correlation between students' perception of the authentic materials and cooperative learning strategy towards students' reading comprehension. The data of the reading comprehension tests and the students' perception were analyzed using the multiple regression. The result revealed that (1) there was positive correlation between students' perception of the authentic materials and students reading comprehension, (2) there was significant positive effect of cooperative learning strategy towards reading comprehension, and (3) there was significant positive effect of reading materials towards cooperative learning strategy. These findings suggested that the choice of authentic materials could motivate students to comprehend ESP texts. Besides this, by doing cooperative learning strategy, the scaffolding could happen so that they could share their comprehension. In spite of its limitation, this study could have certain pedagogical implications to reading classroom activities.
Pendekatan pembelajaran holistic didasarkan pada filsafat pendidikan yang mengasumsikan bahwa peserta didik akan mendapatkan hasil pembelajaran yang bermakna untuk diri dan hidupnya bila proses pembelajaran dilakukan melalui hubungan antara dirinyadengan masyarakat, lingkungan alam, dan nilai-nilai spiritual (agama).
Prof. Anton Moeliono itu sosok dosen yang idealis, disiplin, perfeksionis dan “angker” inilah yang sering dikesankan oleh hamper semua mahasiswa yang pernah menjadi didikan beliau, tidak terkecuali penulis sendiri yang pernah menjadi mahasiswanya di program S-2 LTBI dan S-3 LTBI Unika Atma Jaya Jakarta. Kenpa Pak Anton itu idealis, disiplin, dan perfeksionis? Tidak perlu dijabarkan ditulisan pendek ini, karena hamper seluruh orang mengenal beliau tahu jawabannya bahkan diyakini lebih tahu dari penulis. Yang perlu disampaikan di sini adalah sisi “angker” –nya yang ternyata di balik itu adalah wujud sangat perhatian beliau terhadap mahasiswanya
At present, the escalation of violence has been intense nationally and globally due to variety of reasons such as religions, human rights, culture, and politics. The violence has threatened the peace, harmony, and plurality in the community. One of the main sources of the violence is the uncontrolled aggressive instinct of the human being. In line with this issue, this article attempts to reintroduce religious, cultural, and social values that the people can use to control their provocative aggressive instinct and transform it into good deeds for the sake of the peace and harmony among the pluralistic society.
Before presenting the notion of vocabulary strategies, it is necessary to know what language learning strategies mean. The term of language learning strategies has been associated with the four basic skills such as, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.lt also deals with other skill areas as well. For example, there are strategies associated with vocabulary and translation. But what are actually language learning strategies?
The study attempts to investigate the effect of the treatments of student-student interactions versus teacher-student interactions to the students' speaking skills in Conversation in English Programs. The number of the students in. each of the three classes (namely student-student interactions class, teacher-student interactions class and control class is not more than 12 students; an ideal number for student-centered class. Each class teacher of the experiment group (student-student interaction group and teacher-student interaction group) is provided with lesson plan and discussions on the lesson plans were conducted prior to the treatments; while the control group teacher has no interfere at all (from the researcher). The students were given situational dialog test before being treated. After being treated for ten consecutive sessions, the same test was administered again. To meet the prerequisite for normal distribution, the data of pre test and post test were analyzed. After normal distribution test was conducted, to determine the progress from the pretest andposttest, paired samples t-test is used; while comparing the progress of the students' speaking skills in those three groups, one way anova is implemented. The results of the gain of the students ' achievement was again processed using LSD (Least significant difference) test to further analyze and find out the most significant improvement among the three group. The LSD test showed that the average of students' achievement in the Student- Student Interactions Group far excelled the achievement of the students in the Teacher-Student Interaction Group and the Control Group. It is clearly seen that the progress of students' achievement in the Teacher-Student Group did not have a significant difference with the progress of the students in the Control Group. To conclude, student-student interactions, in which students are given exposure to use the language in class around 75%, enhance students speaking skills.
The stud}' investigates the use of mind mapping technique in teaching writing. This study was conducted based on the two main problems: 1) is the mind mapping technique applied in the students' writing skill? 2) Does mind mapping technique affect on the students' writing skill? The aim of the study was to find out the students' writing skill after learning using mind mapping. The study applied free experimental designs, using paired simple t-test with the sample of 30 students from the population of 120 students. The result revealed that the mapping technique affected on improving the students' writing skill.
The study investigates the use of Task-based Language Teaching in optimizing children's language acquisition of EFL in speaking skill. The aim of study is to search the TBLT in foreign language learning, and proof that this approach is one of good way in language learning . The study applied descriptive explorative and pre-experimental research which allow the writer to collect the data in three ways: library, observation, and field research. The result of the study shows that TBLT is affective to boost children's ability in oral communication in simple utterances: instructing, requesting, and warning. Thus they composed simple utterances to express need, it is encouraged the child himself has inner motivation to learn by themselves in the way at their time playing by learning.
Despite of Indonesian government's initiative for enhancing technology in educational practices,
the use of computer to mediate teaching/learning seems to be hesitant. This paper is to expose students' recognition of learning English reading mediated by computer. Case study was used as research design. Results of the research expose no evidence that students with better English background would be successful in this mode of learning reading. However, students who participate more in learning sessions tend to have better achievement in English reading. Furthermore, students recognize that computer mediated learning reading is interesting and brings benefits from the view point of learning flexibility, interactivity, variety of contents, and performance by which motivate them to complete their own learning. The absence of teacher falls into two: 1) teacher's absence would lower students' psychological burden, and 2) explanations from teacher remains needed in face-to-face interaction.
This paper presents how to teach cohesion to EFL students who take English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at the faculty of economics. The teaching is based on the assumption that the direct involvement of students in selecting course materials and intensive exposure to discourse of economic texts in reading practices can raise students' awareness and knowledge of the way which the content of connected texts hangs together. This acquaintance can in turn make them have better comprehension of the text.
The information and communication technology has been utilized by most universities in Indonesia though it is rarely integrated in teaching and learning activities in classes. This paper, as part of a study to foster learner autonomy using technology based approach, investigated the roles of online peer feedback toward learner autonomy development. The data used in this study involved students’ interview transcriptions. The results showed that online peer feedback has facilitated students’ metacognitive strategies and enhanced their motivation to learn writing.
This paper describes the use of single-correct answer (SCA) and multiple-correct answer (MCA) in assessing secondary school students’ grammar proficiency in Indonesia. There were 154 students from year 11aged 15 year old that participated in the study. From the total 154 students; 98 students participated in the SCA test session, 103 students complete the MCA test, and 84 students filled in the survey. In addition, 52 students were recorded to attend the three sessions from the study: SCA, MCA and survey. Result of the study has shown that the design of SCA and MCA in multiple-choice the computer assisted language testing (CALT) program corresponds the main principle of language testing similar to the paper-based testing format. Although the design of both SCA and MCA tests fulfilled the requirement of CALL environment such as interactivity, flexibility, content appropriateness as well as performance; as the nature of test the application of SCA and MCA test in delivering the grammar test was believed to suggest stressful environment. The authenticity setting of both SCA and MCA test which was proposed to promote the originality of students’ work was identified to drive uncomfortable testing situation. Within comparison between the SCA and MCA tests, result of the study has shown that students preferred to SCA test than the MCA test. The SCA test was believed to serve practicality for the students to complete the grammar task for the sake of number of correct answer available. Although students were challenged to complete the grammar test carried within the MCA test format, students preferred not to have such testing as it created more uncomfortable testing environment for them.
The present study aims to explore the types of Indonesian EFL students' strategies to comprehend the economics texts. To identify the types of strategies, retrospections and reading comprehension tests were adopted and analyzed. The results revealed that most students with a low level of English proficiency remained more dependent on the bottom-up strategies than top-down strategies. However, using the bottom-up strategies had facilitated the students comprehend the economics texts. Thus, in spite of its limitation, the study has some implications to ESAP reading in EFL classrooms.