The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content a... more The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content at one go could be challenging for language teachers as their expertise is only on the language, not the content. Consequently, it affects ESP teachers' identity. This study takes a deeper look on a teacher's personal experience teaching ESP that contributes to ESP teacher's identity construction. It is a qualitative research using narratives as the approach, written records are taken as the main data. In the study, there are three participants in the research; two are ESP teachers and another is the researcher herself as she also involved in the teaching ESP. The study has revealed that the identity construction of ESP teachers is mainly built through two dimensions: students-related challenge and institutional challenge. To deal with students, teachers are no more as the primary source to knowledge; meanwhile, it is highly possible that students have more understanding than the teachers. To deal with institutional challenge, developing general English curriculum into more specific purposes is demanding for teachers. In addition, teaching ESP for more than one major in a semester adds to its complexity.
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
English teaching at primary school needs some improvement, particularly in its giving exposure an... more English teaching at primary school needs some improvement, particularly in its giving exposure and contextualizing English content. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach can be an effective way to the success of English teaching at the primary school level. Thus, this community service aims at empowering SD Aisyiyah Kota Malang with teaching thematic lessons through CLIL concepts by infusing Islamic content. The strategies implemented were formulated in five stages: need analysis, professional development workshop to school teachers and teaching assistants, syllabus and material design, implementation, and evaluation. Results show that school teachers and teaching assistants were able to integrate CLIL approach observed from the syllabus and material design. Also, students were all enthusiastic and engaged during the classroom activities. This community service implies that teaching assistants can foster English learning engagement for primary school graders.
Primary school teachers have a crucial role to support CLIL and web-oriented media implementation... more Primary school teachers have a crucial role to support CLIL and web-oriented media implementation in class. CLIL approach pedagogically offers double advantages; English competence and content development. This pedagogical approach leads to sufficient English input at the early stage of learning which makes primary learners able to shift the paradigm that English is a challenging language to learn. More importantly, primary school learners can take the advantages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) part of their daily use for the sake of CLIL, so learning can be fun and enjoyable. Nevertheless, much of the previous research in Indonesian context gives limited attention to how primary school teachers perceived CLIL interwoven into ICT based media.) that situation led into this research. Also, this research is expected to encourage the CLIL application in formal education, particularly in primary levels due to time efficacy and effectiveness. The involved participant...
Era 5.0 or Society 5.0 is a human-centered technology-based era that aims to create convenient an... more Era 5.0 or Society 5.0 is a human-centered technology-based era that aims to create convenient and efficient living circumstances and provide further innovation in the life sustainability area. Era 5.0 is visualized as capable of creating a multinational society, whether in business, social, and educational environments. Thus, English should be noted as a crucial matter needed in communicating and takes part in living within era 5.0 in the future. The current research was conducted because of the limited exploration in the previous study that discusses online game VRChat as a learning medium to enhance students’ English speaking ability. Therefore, this paper aims to fill the gap by investigating and exposing the VRChat game’s value as a learning medium to improve students’ ability to speak English. Mixed method research was applied in the current study to analyze and ensure the VRChat game’s advantages for enhancing students’ speaking ability. Moreover, interviews and testing were ...
English is an elective subject at Indonesian primary schools and every school is allowed to offer... more English is an elective subject at Indonesian primary schools and every school is allowed to offer English for providing young learners (YLs) opportunity to practice English for communication in global society. Moreover, English is introduced earlier in primary education as an extra-curricular activity as well as a locally-tailored school subject. This community service program aims at facilitating the sixth graders with extended activities to support the English for Young Learners (EYL) program that they have attended for six years and preparing them with initial experience before enrolling in English a compulsory subject class in lower secondary education. Ar-Rohmah English Week was conducted for 60 minutes within four working days with activities to enhance the YLs’ English listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Four activities were selected based on the learners’ needs within meaningful activities such as Virtual Tour to the USA, Reading Theater, Students’ Activities Journali...
The new educational policy in Indonesia does not require English as a compulsory subject in prima... more The new educational policy in Indonesia does not require English as a compulsory subject in primary school. To respond to the current policy, some primary schools, especially Islamic affiliated primary schools still have a commitment to provide English lessons as an extracurricular subject. Since there is no regulation toward the teaching and learning process, implementing Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach into teaching materials aims to improve the learning process. This study used ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model to design the CLIL materials and reached the third stage. The results highlight that after conducting a need analysis, the syllabus and the students' activity book consists of three selected topics that integrate Islamic values into CLIL model. They were Caring for Living Things, My Heroes, and My Dream Job. Those topics were adapted from a thematic book applied in the school partner under the Curriculum 2013. These topics were designed into three main subjects i.e., Science, Islamic Content, and Arts. Furthermore, before each topic, vocabulary-based activities were presented followed by three kinds of activities. Islamic values are integrated into CLIL materials to promote Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) also to advocate local wisdom-based curriculum, particularly infusing the Muslim cultures and values. This study concludes that there is a need to integrate Islamic content to English materials in Islamic primary affiliated schools.
Englisia : Journal of Language, Education and Humanities, Apr 30, 2022
The Quran is the oldest scripture revealed by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him), ... more The Quran is the oldest scripture revealed by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him), and its originality has been preserved to this day, as evidenced by the language it employs-Arabic. It has become a popular reference for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, especially since the 9/11 tragedy. Not surprisingly, its native text, Arabic, is now widely available in translated versions, with English-translated Quran being the most frequent. The current study intends to investigate the meta-religious text concerning Prophets and the people mentioned in the Quran. The primary data of this study were obtained from the English-translated Quran by Talal Itani and analyzed with qualitative analysis software, NVivo 12 Plus, using the text search and query feature. Following that, discourse analysis was used to examine the text, social cognition, and sociocultural context. The results indicate that Moses ranked first in the Prophets category with 135 references, while the other prophets had a varied distribution: Abraham had 72, Jesus had 25, and Muhammad had 12 references.
There are a lot of English books published in Indonesia today. Since learning English is the matt... more There are a lot of English books published in Indonesia today. Since learning English is the matter of playing sounds, using book as the source of learning has some advantages and disadvantages. Written English has no sound, it is only captured by the eyes while sound is something that should be heard by the ear. Thus, to learn English sound in the proper way, sound symbol in the English books are supposed to be recognized in international standard. One of the standards is International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Therefore, the writer wants to analyze on the vowel phonemic transcription as English sound representation used in the selected English books for children based on IPA. This research used descriptive qualitative research design because this research used the data from documents to present the finding. Each book had different chapters and contents. From those chapters, the researcher selected only the contents which had the same title. Finally, one same title selected for this...
The analysis of using video blog (Vlog) in language learning has been widely done. However, most ... more The analysis of using video blog (Vlog) in language learning has been widely done. However, most of the studies only focus on investigating the students’ perception about Vlog. This study analyzed the use of Vlog in improving students’ oral language production. Meanwhile, the students’ results and perceptions after applying Vlog in language learning also became the focus of this investigation. The complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) were the aspects that were calculated from students’ performance. The mixed methods; quantitative and qualitative were applied in this study to answer those variables. The test and semi-structured interview were used to support those research methods. In addition, this study involved six participants; male and female in the forth semester in English Language Education Department of University of Muhammadiyah Malang. The findings of the CAF results were fluctuated with the increasing mean of accuracy result and the decreasing of complexity and fluency....
Teaching profession has been dominated by women mainly in low-level grade. The most significant g... more Teaching profession has been dominated by women mainly in low-level grade. The most significant gap between female and male teacher is identified in kindergarten and elementary level. In line with this issue, there is a course in university-level which is also dominated by female students, namely English for Young Learner (EYL) course at English Language and Education Department (ELED) in University of Muhammadiyah Malang. It is, therefore, this study aims to investigate male students‘ perception toward EYL course. Survey research design was applied in this research and the data was collected using questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The participants who filled the questionnaire were fifty-three male students of ELED UMM in academic year 2015 who have taken elective course—Business English, Translation, and English for Young Learner. The findings of this study highlighted that 9 out of 15 items resulted in negative responses toward EYL course. They perceived that EYL course...
. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has a direct impact on educational setting, schools and univers... more . The global pandemic of COVID-19 has a direct impact on educational setting, schools and universities finally have to use an online platform as a way out. This present research aims to analyse EFL students’ and teachers’ perception on their online learning during the outbreak using metaphoric words. A questionnaire using metaphor analysis concept was distributed online to 55 students and 14 teachers at one private university in Indonesia. Data coding was done through qualitative analysis software, NVivo 12 Plus. Results show that EFL students and teachers have various metaphoric entailments to describe their perceptions. Three major metaphoric words used by students were related to hobby, game, and food for 11 coding references respectively, whereas for teachers the metaphoric used were hobby (4 coding references); game (3 coding references); relationship (2 coding references), others was in small distribution. Derived from the metaphoric words used by the students and teachers, th...
Textbook plays important role in teaching learning process so that education goals could be achie... more Textbook plays important role in teaching learning process so that education goals could be achieved. In fact, there have been lot of vocational schools cannot provide reliable textbooks which are research-based and appropriate to students’ needs and industry’s needs. This is one of the factors so that the graduates of vocational school could not communicate well and many of them are jobless especially for jobs that require English skill. Therefore, the textbook which is related to the department in vocational school is hardly needed. The textbook which could facilitate good English language teaching and learning based on the students’ and industry’s needs should be authentic. This research aimed at finding a good construction of authentic ELT textbook of vocational school especially for subject of Automation and Management Office. The results indicated that there were various authentic materials could teacher present according to the existing curriculum.
English for Specific Purposes in tertiary level puts its importance to Need Analysis (NA) process... more English for Specific Purposes in tertiary level puts its importance to Need Analysis (NA) process for syllabus design. This present research is concerned with designing ESP syllabus for Mechanical Engineering students in tertiary level through need analysis. The research aims to identify the immediate needs of the Mechanical Engineering students and design appropriated syllabus based on students’ needs using Target Situation Analysis (TSA) and Present Situation Analysis (PSA). In order to achieve the research’s objectives, a questionnaire was administered to a total 50 respondents. The finding of the research shows that among 4 basic English skills, listening skill emerged as the most important skill that students’ really need, followed by speaking, reading, and writing. Thus, this research suggests that ESP teachers should design more varied activities on listening course that students will have the competence to apply the skills later in future life context.
A Journal of Culture English Language Teaching Literature & Linguistics, 2018
The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content a... more The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content at one go could be challenging for language teachers as their expertise is only on the language, not the content. Consequently, it affects ESP teachers’ identity. This study takes a deeper look on a teacher’s personal experience teaching ESP that contributes to ESP teacher’s identity construction. It is a qualitative research using narratives as the approach, written records are taken as the main data. In the study, there are three participants in the research; two are ESP teachers and another is the researcher herself as she also involved in the teaching ESP. The study has revealed that the identity construction of ESP teachers is mainly built through two dimensions: students-related challenge and institutional challenge. To deal with students, teachers are no more as the primary source to knowledge; meanwhile, it is highly possible that students have more understanding than the teachers...
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture, 2020
English learning has now largely been driven by global socioeconomics. Thus, English for Specific... more English learning has now largely been driven by global socioeconomics. Thus, English for Specific Purposes is likely taught at tertiary level education in Asia. Especially, in Indonesia, where Muslim is the major population, teaching English to students majoring in Islamic Studies must be carefully planned. Experts have discussed widely that English language has its association to Western civilization and Christian value. Therefore, this present research aims at developing Trivia Cards which infuse Islamic elements to teach English for Islamic Studies for students majoring in Islamic discipline at one private Islamic university in Indonesia. Research and Development (R&D) was implemented in the study involving some procedures as follows: need analysis, product design, product validation, and revision. Results on need analysis comprised five important topics, they were Islamic manner (akhlak), oneness of God (tauhid), Islamic history, and hadith. Further, the experts highlighted that...
The tenet of being able to speak English in public sphere as a global life skill has now been a d... more The tenet of being able to speak English in public sphere as a global life skill has now been a driving force for many Indonesians to learn English since early age. Not only in educational sector, public speaking skill is also in high demand for nowadays’ context—industrial marketplace era. Yet, in many situations, teachers fail to support students with the necessary skills to perform public speaking. As English is still a foreign language in Indonesia, assigning students to perform public speaking without proper training leads into fear or anxiety. However, a practical training into what the best practices of public speaking should be undertaken by educators. Moreover, Indonesia as the biggest Muslim country has many Islamic schools around. For Islamic high school students, Islamic-based material is the content that likely becomes the discourse of the school curriculum. To preach Islam in a global level, English can open up ways to this. Thus, the notion of infusing Islamic-based c...
Name-giving is not merely a compilation of words to meet official record registration, yet the id... more Name-giving is not merely a compilation of words to meet official record registration, yet the idea behind this has some socio-cultural values. Indonesian Muslim names have now experienced some changing from the past. This research aims at analyzing the discourse of millennial Muslim names in Indonesia. NVivo 12 Plus was used to analyze the nodes data of three categories—Pure Indonesian, Pure Arabic, and Mixing across its case—parents and children. Another analysis used was word frequency to picture the frequent word clouds used in parents' and children's naming practices. Results show a shift in Indonesian millennial Muslims' naming practice, as the Pure Arabic and Mixing categories have upward trends compared to the Pure Indonesian variety. This present research has shed a light that Indonesian Millennial Muslim parents want to pertain their children's identity as Muslims and want their children to be part of the global world.
Cheating and plagiarism have been crucial issues among students studying either at high school or... more Cheating and plagiarism have been crucial issues among students studying either at high school or undergraduate levels. This present study aims to reveal the cheating and plagiarism practices among pre-service teachers in their undergraduate program at one Islamic university in Indonesia. As Muslim teacher candidates, the respondents are urged to uphold academic integrity and honesty. Thus, this study seeks to provide data on how serious the academic ethics immersed in Muslim pre-service teachers. The method implemented for this study was a cross-sectional survey. The respondents were students enrolled in the Faculty of Education, which comprises several departments in the education fields. Results indicate that respondents were recorded as having morally ethical on one aspect of academic integrities, 95% never paid someone else for the exam, 75% never changed answers after the marking process, and 50% declared rarely copy an answer. Yet, there was also a display of less ethical att...
KEMBARA Journal of Scientific Language Literature and Teaching
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has received significant attention from both researchers and ... more Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has received significant attention from both researchers and practitioners of second language learning. This approach has been reported to be effective in various contexts. Studies on the teachers’ perception on TBLT have also been conducted. The results inform the perceived benefits and challenges of using TBLT in teaching context. However, very few studies have investigated the teachers’ perception in Indonesian context. To investigate the perception, a qualitative research design was employed. Three female English teachers of a vocational school in Malang, East Java, Indonesia were the participants of the study. Before the study was conducted, these three participants were asked to attend a training or coaching on TBLT. At the end of the training or coaching, they had to design a TBLT lesson plan which later were used in their real teaching to their students. After the whole training or coaching was finished, their perceptions about the perceiv...
The 9/11 aftermath has led people into negative view of Muslims around the globe. Consequently, M... more The 9/11 aftermath has led people into negative view of Muslims around the globe. Consequently, Muslims and their symbols—beard, hijab, and mosque—are perceived as evil in the public eyes. In the worse case, media as one of public services which is responsible for every information broadcasted, in fact, are very tendentious that add Muslims into stern opposition of the society. The news angle related to terrorism has been framed in accordance to their political needs. This study recovers the objectivity of media through headlines whether the discourse equally used in the terror-related news or not. Framing analysis from Zhongdang Pan and Kosicki (2013) was adapted as an approach to this research by analyzing six news headlines in three different topics of terror-related events. It is revealed that the selected online media used the word terror only on events that accused Muslim as the suspect doer, such Paris Bomb in 2015; in contrast, terror events like Palestine-Israel and the kil...
The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content a... more The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content at one go could be challenging for language teachers as their expertise is only on the language, not the content. Consequently, it affects ESP teachers' identity. This study takes a deeper look on a teacher's personal experience teaching ESP that contributes to ESP teacher's identity construction. It is a qualitative research using narratives as the approach, written records are taken as the main data. In the study, there are three participants in the research; two are ESP teachers and another is the researcher herself as she also involved in the teaching ESP. The study has revealed that the identity construction of ESP teachers is mainly built through two dimensions: students-related challenge and institutional challenge. To deal with students, teachers are no more as the primary source to knowledge; meanwhile, it is highly possible that students have more understanding than the teachers. To deal with institutional challenge, developing general English curriculum into more specific purposes is demanding for teachers. In addition, teaching ESP for more than one major in a semester adds to its complexity.
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
English teaching at primary school needs some improvement, particularly in its giving exposure an... more English teaching at primary school needs some improvement, particularly in its giving exposure and contextualizing English content. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach can be an effective way to the success of English teaching at the primary school level. Thus, this community service aims at empowering SD Aisyiyah Kota Malang with teaching thematic lessons through CLIL concepts by infusing Islamic content. The strategies implemented were formulated in five stages: need analysis, professional development workshop to school teachers and teaching assistants, syllabus and material design, implementation, and evaluation. Results show that school teachers and teaching assistants were able to integrate CLIL approach observed from the syllabus and material design. Also, students were all enthusiastic and engaged during the classroom activities. This community service implies that teaching assistants can foster English learning engagement for primary school graders.
Primary school teachers have a crucial role to support CLIL and web-oriented media implementation... more Primary school teachers have a crucial role to support CLIL and web-oriented media implementation in class. CLIL approach pedagogically offers double advantages; English competence and content development. This pedagogical approach leads to sufficient English input at the early stage of learning which makes primary learners able to shift the paradigm that English is a challenging language to learn. More importantly, primary school learners can take the advantages of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) part of their daily use for the sake of CLIL, so learning can be fun and enjoyable. Nevertheless, much of the previous research in Indonesian context gives limited attention to how primary school teachers perceived CLIL interwoven into ICT based media.) that situation led into this research. Also, this research is expected to encourage the CLIL application in formal education, particularly in primary levels due to time efficacy and effectiveness. The involved participant...
Era 5.0 or Society 5.0 is a human-centered technology-based era that aims to create convenient an... more Era 5.0 or Society 5.0 is a human-centered technology-based era that aims to create convenient and efficient living circumstances and provide further innovation in the life sustainability area. Era 5.0 is visualized as capable of creating a multinational society, whether in business, social, and educational environments. Thus, English should be noted as a crucial matter needed in communicating and takes part in living within era 5.0 in the future. The current research was conducted because of the limited exploration in the previous study that discusses online game VRChat as a learning medium to enhance students’ English speaking ability. Therefore, this paper aims to fill the gap by investigating and exposing the VRChat game’s value as a learning medium to improve students’ ability to speak English. Mixed method research was applied in the current study to analyze and ensure the VRChat game’s advantages for enhancing students’ speaking ability. Moreover, interviews and testing were ...
English is an elective subject at Indonesian primary schools and every school is allowed to offer... more English is an elective subject at Indonesian primary schools and every school is allowed to offer English for providing young learners (YLs) opportunity to practice English for communication in global society. Moreover, English is introduced earlier in primary education as an extra-curricular activity as well as a locally-tailored school subject. This community service program aims at facilitating the sixth graders with extended activities to support the English for Young Learners (EYL) program that they have attended for six years and preparing them with initial experience before enrolling in English a compulsory subject class in lower secondary education. Ar-Rohmah English Week was conducted for 60 minutes within four working days with activities to enhance the YLs’ English listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Four activities were selected based on the learners’ needs within meaningful activities such as Virtual Tour to the USA, Reading Theater, Students’ Activities Journali...
The new educational policy in Indonesia does not require English as a compulsory subject in prima... more The new educational policy in Indonesia does not require English as a compulsory subject in primary school. To respond to the current policy, some primary schools, especially Islamic affiliated primary schools still have a commitment to provide English lessons as an extracurricular subject. Since there is no regulation toward the teaching and learning process, implementing Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach into teaching materials aims to improve the learning process. This study used ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model to design the CLIL materials and reached the third stage. The results highlight that after conducting a need analysis, the syllabus and the students' activity book consists of three selected topics that integrate Islamic values into CLIL model. They were Caring for Living Things, My Heroes, and My Dream Job. Those topics were adapted from a thematic book applied in the school partner under the Curriculum 2013. These topics were designed into three main subjects i.e., Science, Islamic Content, and Arts. Furthermore, before each topic, vocabulary-based activities were presented followed by three kinds of activities. Islamic values are integrated into CLIL materials to promote Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) also to advocate local wisdom-based curriculum, particularly infusing the Muslim cultures and values. This study concludes that there is a need to integrate Islamic content to English materials in Islamic primary affiliated schools.
Englisia : Journal of Language, Education and Humanities, Apr 30, 2022
The Quran is the oldest scripture revealed by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him), ... more The Quran is the oldest scripture revealed by Allah to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him), and its originality has been preserved to this day, as evidenced by the language it employs-Arabic. It has become a popular reference for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, especially since the 9/11 tragedy. Not surprisingly, its native text, Arabic, is now widely available in translated versions, with English-translated Quran being the most frequent. The current study intends to investigate the meta-religious text concerning Prophets and the people mentioned in the Quran. The primary data of this study were obtained from the English-translated Quran by Talal Itani and analyzed with qualitative analysis software, NVivo 12 Plus, using the text search and query feature. Following that, discourse analysis was used to examine the text, social cognition, and sociocultural context. The results indicate that Moses ranked first in the Prophets category with 135 references, while the other prophets had a varied distribution: Abraham had 72, Jesus had 25, and Muhammad had 12 references.
There are a lot of English books published in Indonesia today. Since learning English is the matt... more There are a lot of English books published in Indonesia today. Since learning English is the matter of playing sounds, using book as the source of learning has some advantages and disadvantages. Written English has no sound, it is only captured by the eyes while sound is something that should be heard by the ear. Thus, to learn English sound in the proper way, sound symbol in the English books are supposed to be recognized in international standard. One of the standards is International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Therefore, the writer wants to analyze on the vowel phonemic transcription as English sound representation used in the selected English books for children based on IPA. This research used descriptive qualitative research design because this research used the data from documents to present the finding. Each book had different chapters and contents. From those chapters, the researcher selected only the contents which had the same title. Finally, one same title selected for this...
The analysis of using video blog (Vlog) in language learning has been widely done. However, most ... more The analysis of using video blog (Vlog) in language learning has been widely done. However, most of the studies only focus on investigating the students’ perception about Vlog. This study analyzed the use of Vlog in improving students’ oral language production. Meanwhile, the students’ results and perceptions after applying Vlog in language learning also became the focus of this investigation. The complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) were the aspects that were calculated from students’ performance. The mixed methods; quantitative and qualitative were applied in this study to answer those variables. The test and semi-structured interview were used to support those research methods. In addition, this study involved six participants; male and female in the forth semester in English Language Education Department of University of Muhammadiyah Malang. The findings of the CAF results were fluctuated with the increasing mean of accuracy result and the decreasing of complexity and fluency....
Teaching profession has been dominated by women mainly in low-level grade. The most significant g... more Teaching profession has been dominated by women mainly in low-level grade. The most significant gap between female and male teacher is identified in kindergarten and elementary level. In line with this issue, there is a course in university-level which is also dominated by female students, namely English for Young Learner (EYL) course at English Language and Education Department (ELED) in University of Muhammadiyah Malang. It is, therefore, this study aims to investigate male students‘ perception toward EYL course. Survey research design was applied in this research and the data was collected using questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The participants who filled the questionnaire were fifty-three male students of ELED UMM in academic year 2015 who have taken elective course—Business English, Translation, and English for Young Learner. The findings of this study highlighted that 9 out of 15 items resulted in negative responses toward EYL course. They perceived that EYL course...
. The global pandemic of COVID-19 has a direct impact on educational setting, schools and univers... more . The global pandemic of COVID-19 has a direct impact on educational setting, schools and universities finally have to use an online platform as a way out. This present research aims to analyse EFL students’ and teachers’ perception on their online learning during the outbreak using metaphoric words. A questionnaire using metaphor analysis concept was distributed online to 55 students and 14 teachers at one private university in Indonesia. Data coding was done through qualitative analysis software, NVivo 12 Plus. Results show that EFL students and teachers have various metaphoric entailments to describe their perceptions. Three major metaphoric words used by students were related to hobby, game, and food for 11 coding references respectively, whereas for teachers the metaphoric used were hobby (4 coding references); game (3 coding references); relationship (2 coding references), others was in small distribution. Derived from the metaphoric words used by the students and teachers, th...
Textbook plays important role in teaching learning process so that education goals could be achie... more Textbook plays important role in teaching learning process so that education goals could be achieved. In fact, there have been lot of vocational schools cannot provide reliable textbooks which are research-based and appropriate to students’ needs and industry’s needs. This is one of the factors so that the graduates of vocational school could not communicate well and many of them are jobless especially for jobs that require English skill. Therefore, the textbook which is related to the department in vocational school is hardly needed. The textbook which could facilitate good English language teaching and learning based on the students’ and industry’s needs should be authentic. This research aimed at finding a good construction of authentic ELT textbook of vocational school especially for subject of Automation and Management Office. The results indicated that there were various authentic materials could teacher present according to the existing curriculum.
English for Specific Purposes in tertiary level puts its importance to Need Analysis (NA) process... more English for Specific Purposes in tertiary level puts its importance to Need Analysis (NA) process for syllabus design. This present research is concerned with designing ESP syllabus for Mechanical Engineering students in tertiary level through need analysis. The research aims to identify the immediate needs of the Mechanical Engineering students and design appropriated syllabus based on students’ needs using Target Situation Analysis (TSA) and Present Situation Analysis (PSA). In order to achieve the research’s objectives, a questionnaire was administered to a total 50 respondents. The finding of the research shows that among 4 basic English skills, listening skill emerged as the most important skill that students’ really need, followed by speaking, reading, and writing. Thus, this research suggests that ESP teachers should design more varied activities on listening course that students will have the competence to apply the skills later in future life context.
A Journal of Culture English Language Teaching Literature & Linguistics, 2018
The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content a... more The notion of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program which integrates language and content at one go could be challenging for language teachers as their expertise is only on the language, not the content. Consequently, it affects ESP teachers’ identity. This study takes a deeper look on a teacher’s personal experience teaching ESP that contributes to ESP teacher’s identity construction. It is a qualitative research using narratives as the approach, written records are taken as the main data. In the study, there are three participants in the research; two are ESP teachers and another is the researcher herself as she also involved in the teaching ESP. The study has revealed that the identity construction of ESP teachers is mainly built through two dimensions: students-related challenge and institutional challenge. To deal with students, teachers are no more as the primary source to knowledge; meanwhile, it is highly possible that students have more understanding than the teachers...
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture, 2020
English learning has now largely been driven by global socioeconomics. Thus, English for Specific... more English learning has now largely been driven by global socioeconomics. Thus, English for Specific Purposes is likely taught at tertiary level education in Asia. Especially, in Indonesia, where Muslim is the major population, teaching English to students majoring in Islamic Studies must be carefully planned. Experts have discussed widely that English language has its association to Western civilization and Christian value. Therefore, this present research aims at developing Trivia Cards which infuse Islamic elements to teach English for Islamic Studies for students majoring in Islamic discipline at one private Islamic university in Indonesia. Research and Development (R&D) was implemented in the study involving some procedures as follows: need analysis, product design, product validation, and revision. Results on need analysis comprised five important topics, they were Islamic manner (akhlak), oneness of God (tauhid), Islamic history, and hadith. Further, the experts highlighted that...
The tenet of being able to speak English in public sphere as a global life skill has now been a d... more The tenet of being able to speak English in public sphere as a global life skill has now been a driving force for many Indonesians to learn English since early age. Not only in educational sector, public speaking skill is also in high demand for nowadays’ context—industrial marketplace era. Yet, in many situations, teachers fail to support students with the necessary skills to perform public speaking. As English is still a foreign language in Indonesia, assigning students to perform public speaking without proper training leads into fear or anxiety. However, a practical training into what the best practices of public speaking should be undertaken by educators. Moreover, Indonesia as the biggest Muslim country has many Islamic schools around. For Islamic high school students, Islamic-based material is the content that likely becomes the discourse of the school curriculum. To preach Islam in a global level, English can open up ways to this. Thus, the notion of infusing Islamic-based c...
Name-giving is not merely a compilation of words to meet official record registration, yet the id... more Name-giving is not merely a compilation of words to meet official record registration, yet the idea behind this has some socio-cultural values. Indonesian Muslim names have now experienced some changing from the past. This research aims at analyzing the discourse of millennial Muslim names in Indonesia. NVivo 12 Plus was used to analyze the nodes data of three categories—Pure Indonesian, Pure Arabic, and Mixing across its case—parents and children. Another analysis used was word frequency to picture the frequent word clouds used in parents' and children's naming practices. Results show a shift in Indonesian millennial Muslims' naming practice, as the Pure Arabic and Mixing categories have upward trends compared to the Pure Indonesian variety. This present research has shed a light that Indonesian Millennial Muslim parents want to pertain their children's identity as Muslims and want their children to be part of the global world.
Cheating and plagiarism have been crucial issues among students studying either at high school or... more Cheating and plagiarism have been crucial issues among students studying either at high school or undergraduate levels. This present study aims to reveal the cheating and plagiarism practices among pre-service teachers in their undergraduate program at one Islamic university in Indonesia. As Muslim teacher candidates, the respondents are urged to uphold academic integrity and honesty. Thus, this study seeks to provide data on how serious the academic ethics immersed in Muslim pre-service teachers. The method implemented for this study was a cross-sectional survey. The respondents were students enrolled in the Faculty of Education, which comprises several departments in the education fields. Results indicate that respondents were recorded as having morally ethical on one aspect of academic integrities, 95% never paid someone else for the exam, 75% never changed answers after the marking process, and 50% declared rarely copy an answer. Yet, there was also a display of less ethical att...
KEMBARA Journal of Scientific Language Literature and Teaching
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has received significant attention from both researchers and ... more Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has received significant attention from both researchers and practitioners of second language learning. This approach has been reported to be effective in various contexts. Studies on the teachers’ perception on TBLT have also been conducted. The results inform the perceived benefits and challenges of using TBLT in teaching context. However, very few studies have investigated the teachers’ perception in Indonesian context. To investigate the perception, a qualitative research design was employed. Three female English teachers of a vocational school in Malang, East Java, Indonesia were the participants of the study. Before the study was conducted, these three participants were asked to attend a training or coaching on TBLT. At the end of the training or coaching, they had to design a TBLT lesson plan which later were used in their real teaching to their students. After the whole training or coaching was finished, their perceptions about the perceiv...
The 9/11 aftermath has led people into negative view of Muslims around the globe. Consequently, M... more The 9/11 aftermath has led people into negative view of Muslims around the globe. Consequently, Muslims and their symbols—beard, hijab, and mosque—are perceived as evil in the public eyes. In the worse case, media as one of public services which is responsible for every information broadcasted, in fact, are very tendentious that add Muslims into stern opposition of the society. The news angle related to terrorism has been framed in accordance to their political needs. This study recovers the objectivity of media through headlines whether the discourse equally used in the terror-related news or not. Framing analysis from Zhongdang Pan and Kosicki (2013) was adapted as an approach to this research by analyzing six news headlines in three different topics of terror-related events. It is revealed that the selected online media used the word terror only on events that accused Muslim as the suspect doer, such Paris Bomb in 2015; in contrast, terror events like Palestine-Israel and the kil...
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