CLASSROOM INTERACTION STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS AT LOWER SECOND…

This article reports a study on teachers’ use of interaction strategies in English Language Teaching (ELT) in lower secondary level of education. The study involved eighteen teachers from Lower Secondary Schools in Malang, East Java. Classroom observation was selected as a method in this study by utilizing Self Evaluation Teacher Talk (SETT) as the instrument. SETT, developed by Walsh (2…

CHALLENGES IN ASSESSING CHARACTER EDUCATION IN ELT: IMPLICATIONS FROM A CASE …

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vol.27 no.2

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183-208

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26 hlm.; 20cm.

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420 JOS c

SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC GENRE PEDAGOGY (SFL GP) IN A TERTIARY EFL WRIT…

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vol.27 no.2

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155-182

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28 hlm.; 20cm.

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420 EMI s

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

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vol.27 no.2

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129-154

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26 hlm.; 20cm.

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420 ASTc

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…

SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTION DELIVERED BY DENTISTS (SCIDD) TRAINING MODULE …

A Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic stated that most adult smokers, 950 million were men and 177 million were women (WHO, 2015). In Malaysia, it is evident from the results of Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) in 2011, that tobacco consumption is still a major public health problem (Institute for Public Health, 2012). The Cochrane Library recently reported that incorporation of an oral exa…

The Linguistics Journal

Formulaic language, word strings that appear to be mentally stored and retrieved as single units, has recently been receiving considerable research attention. The present study explores the functions of formulaic language in interactional discourse on the Twitter microblogging service. Using Wray’s (2008) morpheme equivalent unit (MEU) definition and a diagnostic identification criteria d…