Life and Career Skills (LCS) are already considered to be the essential skills to get equipped by the next generation in anticipating and facing complex challenges in life and work environment in the 21st Century era. In preparing skillful and compatible next-generation, the education-al institution has a responsibility to evolve fast by addressing the 21st century-skills into educational syste…
Maxim is one of the aspects studied in pragmatics, a relatively new field in linguistics. It is used in social interactions, especially in the form of conversations. In this study, the researchers conducted maxim analysis in an EFL class. The research data were collected from the WhatsApp-group communication of an online class in the English language education department of a public university …
This study aims to describe the sense of self-efficacy of pre-service teachers in the context of EFL. This issue needs to be discussed because of the importance of self-efficacy in teaching for the pre-service teach-er. The study used the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) questionnaire as the instrument. There were 103 respondents participated in this study. The results showed that pre-se…
Community of Inquiry (henceforth, CoI) allows learning activities to run optimally. There are three components in CoI, i.e., teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence. This study aims to investigate the implementation of CoI among English Language Education students during lectures. The students’ opinions, com-ponents of teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social pres…
In the current education context that encourages students to be independent learners, self-assessments have gained more attention as one of the effective ways to support self-learning. However, teachers in Indonesia seem hesitant to use self-assessments because they assume that students cannot understand and perform self-assessments. Therefore, the research is aimed to know about undergraduate …
This article reports a proposed instructional model to teach the second language (L2) academic writing in education with citations and references to learners in En-glish Education departments. The model is suggested to be implemented in two semesters in a row. In the first semester of the implementation, learners are to take essay writing and academic reading courses simultaneously. In the form…
YouTube is a video-watching application that is very popular in today’s society. Therefore, people can access YouTube anywhere and anytime. Not only ordinary videos, but nowadays, YouTube is also used for academic purposes for children. Children can also learn English by watching stories, music, or YouTube videos. Various videos on YouTube can be helpful. Be accessed easily, one of which is …
A successful learning process is determined by teaching strategies that are used by teachers. The strategies will affect the learning output of students. Many graduated students claim that they need more experience to study English. One alternative way to improve their ability is to join an English Course in Pare East Java “Kampung Inggris”. The aim is to investigate how teaching speaking …
The role of activists in raising humankind’s awareness regarding environmental or ecological issues has gained so much attention since they are communicated and told in many different ways. One of the ways of sharing ideas about those issues is done through speech and statements that are spoken before world leaders, politicians, or in any other occasions. This study focuses on the speech of a…