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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
Abstrak: Kajian ini meneliti bagaimana tujuan instruksional guru mempengaruhi variasi pola pertukaran interaksi antara guru dan para siswa dalam interaksi mereka di dalam kelas. Artikel ini mencoba menemukan variasi-variasi pola pertukaran interaksi guru dan siswa dan untuk mengobservasi bagaimana tujuan instruksional guru mempengaruhi variasi-variasi tersebut. Data kajian diambil dari hasi…
Abstract This study examines the potential effect of scaffolding-based instruction and portfolio-based assessment on Jordanian EFL tenth grade students’ overall writing performance and their performance on the sub-skills of focus, development, organization, conventions and word choice. The study uses a quasi-experimental experimental/control group, pre-/posttest design. In the experimental g…
Abstract Self-efficacy is the strength of expectations individuals maintain about their ability to successfully perform a behavior. As such, researchers from many fields (e.g., educational psychology, health, medicine) have employed self-efficacy to predict and describe a wide range of human functioning. However, relatively few studies in second language (L2) reading have investigated the rela…
Abstract Literature has gained an increasingly important place in language learning. Particularly in the EFL context, it has been regarded as beneficial for the improvement of English skills. However, there is not much attention given to the teaching of English literature for the sake of literature, not merely as a tool or technique in language learning, especially in Indonesia. The research t…
Abstract This paper explores ESL preservice teachers’ beliefs regarding teaching English to young learners, and examines the interplay between their beliefs and instructional practices. Seventy ESL preservice teachers at a university in Malaysia participated in the study. Data is drawn from semi-structured interviews and lesson plan analysis. The results indicated that the preservice teacher…