Abstrak: Artikel ini membahasa hasil dari penelitian komentar umpan balik yang diberikan oleh tutor terhadap tugas-tugas dari mahasiswa Magister Pendidikan dalam institusi pra-pengajaran dan pembelajaran tahun 2002 di Inggris. Metodologi yang digunakan melibatkan analisis wacana kualitatif dari lima puluh komentar umpan balik dan menggunakan prosedur inter-rating yang melibatkan tiga penilai un…
Abstrak: Sejumlah universitas di dunia yang jumlahnya terus meningkat mengadopsi bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa pengantar pembelajaran, khususnya untuk program sarjana. Tulisan ini diawali dengan menggambarkan secara ringkas sejarah perkembangan program pembelajaran dengan bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa pengantar (EMI) pada sejumlah universitas di Eropa dan beberapa alasan yang sering dikemukakan…
Abstract This paper elucidates the articulated proposals for the initial stages of adult third language (L3) syntactic transfer, addressing their application for L3 and the subsequent fourth language (L4) acquisition. The study was set to demonstrate empirical evidence in line with or against the tenets of the models and to indicate if and how syntactic transfer might obtain differently de…
Abstract Any activities conducted at the boundary area between countries will only be successful if the community of speakers has mutual understanding in terms of language, especially those involving business. This study focuses on a community in the northern part of Malaysia near the Thailand border where majority of people are bilingual in Malay and Thai. This study aims to investigate …
This study is aimed at describing the mindset of Sundanese people in their language expressions examined from psycho-pragmatic aspects. The description is connected to Sundanese language as the reflection of mindset, the cognitive system, and Sundanese people's way of thinking in Sundanese language expressions. The study applied descriptive method. To collect data, textual technique (literar…
Abstract. This article reports some of the compelling concerns in using various approaches to teaching writing. On this note, this paper provides an alternative teaching framework for the teaching of ESL writing to address these concerns. This sociocognitive-transformative framework incorporates the cognitive, social, cultural, and transformative components of learning. Specific…
This study examines whether sociocultural context and discipline substantially affect usage of hedges in research articles. The corpus for the study consists of 104 research articles from two languages (English and Indonesian) with the disciplines of applied linguistics and chemistry. The analysis reveals that there is a statistically significant effect of sociocultural context in research a…
In a cause-and-effect type sentence, the choice of lexis and grammar is crucial. This paper focuses on five nearly synonymous Indonesian lemmas indicating effect, which are: . In Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (the online version of the Indonesian reference dictionary used in this study), these lemmas are described without any feature of semantic prosody. Does this mean that the prosody of the…
Abstract: This article begins by explaining the student centered learning paradigm. Next, the article explains various features of a student centered approach to education and how extensive reading (ER), as it is most often practiced, fits with those features. The bulk of the article suggests how ER might be implemented to make it even more learner centered.
The present study examined research articles from eight academic disciplines to measure the frequencies and functions of hedges and boosters. The quantitative results showed that hedges exceeded boosters, with philosophy articles showing a significant use of hedges and boosters. The natural science papers were underrepresented in the number of hedges and boosters. Moreover, the results indic…