CONCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF ASSESSMENT: A CASE OF TEACHERS REPRESENTING IMPR…

Edisi

vol.27 no.2

ISBN/ISSN

129-154

Deskripsi Fisik

26 hlm.; 20cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

420 ASTc

THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ L1 AND SPOKEN ENGLISH IN ENGLISH WRITING: A CORP…

Academic writing requires both style and grammatical correctness; however, efforts in improving the quality of English academic writing by non-native students have been focused on grammar. Structures observed in this study were grammatically correct, but considered unnatural in academic writing genre. This research involves a group of non-native English speaking students who were assigned …

STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING DISCOURSE MARKERS TO BUILD COHERENCE IN COMPOSIT…

The study attempts to find out how Indonesian students apply Discourse Markers (DMs) to build coherence in English compositions. It employs a descriptive design, analyzing 52 target DMs and how they are used in 21 argumentative papers. The participants of the study were 21 Master’s students majoring in English Language Teaching (ELT). The results reveal that the participants employ 44 DM…

PROMOTING LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ CROSS-CULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH COMPARATIVE …

With the global spread, the English language has become a lingua franca and a component of basic education in many Asian countries, making Asia one of the regions in the world with the largest number of English speakers. However, due to the rich cultural diversities of Asian societies, using English as a lingua franca in Asia implies that speakers need to develop not only communicative com…

CHARACTER EDUCATION IN CONTENT COURSES: SELF-SCORING AS A MEANS FOR DEVELOPI…

As character education is gaining currency, some institutions have started to incorporate character education into its instructional practices. However, this is not an easy task. Limited hours of contact and teachers’ insufficient know-how of teaching and evaluating students’ characters have hampered the efforts. This paper reports a small effort to shape students’ honesty through se…

PRACTITIONER OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING AS PART OF NOVICE TEACHERS’ PROFESSION…

This paper identifies challenges that English as a foreign language (EFL) novice teachers in Indonesia may face in developing a professional identity, which, in this paper, refers to becoming a practitioner of cooperative learning. Cooperative learning is a mandated teaching method both in the 2006 and 2013 Indonesian curriculum, and is under the umbrella of Communicative Language Teaching…

DEBUNKING THE MYTHS OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER TEACHERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH…

Masaki Oda is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Use. Prof. Oda got his PhD program from Georgetown University, where he also taught Japanese for several years. He returned to Japan in 1990 and began teaching EFL and training EFL teachers at Tamagawa University. He was the 2003 – 2004 Chair of the …

INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Abstract The advancement of technology provides education with varioussolutions to create new learning environments. Edmodo as a learning platform is believed to offera solution in the teaching of English, particularly for teaching writing. This research was aimed to investigate how Edmodo as a learning platform,in a blended learning setting, was implemented in teaching writing in its comb…

INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Abstrak: Kajian ini adalah bagian dari kajian yang lebih besar yang meneliti teori- teori (kepercayaan) pribadi guru sehubungan dengan pengajaran dan pembelajaran bahasa Inggris. Dengan melibatkan empat puluh dua guru bahasa Inggris dari lima belas Sekolah Menengah Pertama di kota Sukabumi, Jawa Barat, kajian “survey penampang silang” ini memanfaatkan data yang diperoleh dari angket …

INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Abstrak: Penelitian terbaru (seperti, Hunston, 2007; Hyland, 1999; 2008; 2009) telah menunjukkan dan membuktikan pentingnya penggunaan fitur-fitur kebahasaan secara efektif sebagai komponen utama dalam mengekspresikan sudut pandang dan sebagai bagian penting dalam berbagi pengetahuan dari sebuah komunitas wacana profesional dengan memberikan ruang negosiasi dan evaluasi terhadap cara pandang. P…