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DIGILANG: ENHANCING ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN COMMUNITY-BASES TOURISM THROUGH TAILORED E-LEARNING
Get PDFThis study presents DigiLang, a customized e-learning platform, specifically developed to enhance English for Tourism proficiency among Community-based tourism members in Bogor Regency. The DigiLang platform was tailored to meet the specific purposes of language needs in the tourism sector. Through a comprehensive needs assessment, DigiLang provides a variety of focused resources, including personalized content, interactive modules, and practical exercises designed to foster proficient communication in the context of tourism. Further, the participants involved in this study were 30 villagers from three community-based tourism members who were randomly chosen from three tourism sites located in Bogor Regency. The participants were actively engaged in using DigiLang for English language learning within the tourism context. Their experiences and feedback were collected and analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness and suitability of the DigiLang materials in enhancing community-based tourism members' English proficiency. The results of the survey reveal learners’ positive attitudes towards (1) the user interface, (2) the language content and learning material, (3) the localized learning material. Participants also noted effective ways of online learning using DigiLang platform. Drawing from the outcomes of this developmental research, the DigiLang platform fulfilled the criteria for its adoption as a medium for online language learning, particularly in the English for Tourism context.
ANALYSIS OF MOTIVATION AND NON-COGNITIVE PERSONALITIES IN ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT AND GLOBAL COMPETENCES: THE CASE OF AGRICULTURE STUDENTS
Get PDFThe ability to speak English is essential to compete in global competition. As a provision in this competition, honing global competence must get attention. Good English skills and the knowledge related to the capacity to identify cultural differences and willingness to interact with other people are also critical. The success of mastering these abilities cannot be separated from the role of individual personality and learning motivation as factors that influence the success of educational outcomes. This research aimed to discover the influence of non-cognitive personality that moderates students' motivation to learn English, which also affects the achievement of English learning outcomes and global competence. The non-cognitive personalities are taken from Goldberg's Big Five Personality Traits (1992), namely Openness to new experiences (Openness), conscientiousness, enthusiasm for socializing (extraversion), compliance (agreeableness), and mental stability (Neuroticism). The research used an online survey of 304 First Year Faculty of Agriculture students who took English courses. The data analysis used descriptive qualitative study. The results obtained showed that extraversion personality dominantly influences the motivational variable. Meanwhile, the global competence and skills variables are dominated by Openness. Lastly, the global knowledge variable is dominated by Neuroticism.
NEW NORMAL CAMPAIGN OF COVID-19 ADVERTISEMENTS BY WHO: A MULTIMODAL STUDY
Get PDFAfter Covid-19 outbreak spread around the world, many advertisements campaign the new normal life. WHO made some rules how the way to life in new normal. This research aims to describe verbal and visual elements in the new normal campaign of Covid-19 advertisements by WHO. The research used qualitative descriptive research with an interactive model. The technique of collecting data was documentation. The researcher used Ideational Function to analyze verbal elements and Grammar Visual Design Theory to analyze visual elements. Based on the finding, there were three dominant elements in verbal elements. First, the dominant participant was the goal (19). Second, the dominant process was material (20). Third, the dominant circumstance was manner (4). Meanwhile, there were also three dominant elements in visual elements. First, the dominant representational was narrative (17). Second, the dominant elements in interactive were offer (19), medium long shot (6), oblique (16), and eye level (17). Third, the dominant element in compositional was salience (54). The conclusion was the visual elements were more dominant than the verbal elements. The visual element showed many images that made the readers understand by looking at them and the verbal elements were just additional information to the readers to not get misunderstood the images. Thus, the verbal elements correlated with the visual elements to convey the meaning from advertisements to the viewer
THE USE OF GOOGLE SITES IN EXTENSIVE LISTENING CLASSROOM: STUDENTS’ VOICES
Get PDFExtensive Listening (EL) is a recent study whose development is sparked by Extensive Reading (ER). However, not many studies have been conducted on the implementation of Extensive Listening in the classroom using digital tools provided on the internet such as Google Sites. This study aims to examine students’ perceptions of the use of Google Sites in extensive listening classes. It was conducted using a qualitative design by involving 18 second-year students at a higher education level. The students’ classroom reflections and the semi-structured style of the interview were included as the research instruments. The results showed that most of the students believed that Google Sites is useful to enhance their creativity and motivate them to be actively involved in extensive listening activities
UNVEILING COHERENCE: ANALYZING GRAMMATICAL DEVICES IN RECOUNT TEXT
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine the grammatical cohesive devices used in the recount text writing of bilingual students. The cohesive device is crucial because it consists of grammatical and lexical devices that contribute to the writing’s strength and accuracy, as well as its contextual understanding. Twenty bilingual ninth-grade students of a junior high school participated in this study. The students’ recount text writings were used as the main data in this research. The qualitative descriptive method employed in this study to thoroughly assess and describe students’ writing and its’ cohesive device used. The result shows that the bilingual ninth-grade students were able to use grammatical cohesion in their recount text writing. The result revealed the reference is most dominated in 68.42% and the second device is in conjunction with 29.97%. Meanwhile, substitution showed the low rank with 1.61% and the last was ellipsis with 0%. Furthermore, in the reference device category, personal reference becomes the most highly used at 85%, meanwhile in the conjunction category, additive category becomes the most frequent one at 46% as well as nominal substitution at 50% in the substitution device. It was also found that the ninth-grade students of bilingual class can write well using numbers of grammatical cohesive devices even though there was still some monotonous repetition in their writing. he findings of this study have pedagogical implicature as the need to enhance students’ knowledge of grammatical cohesion device because understanding of cohesiveness is necessary for pertaining to the text’s cohesion and coherence particularly in writing ability
IDEOLOGY IN TRANSLATION PROCESS OF NEWS CONTENT IN ENGLISH INTO INDONESIAN: A CASE OF PIKIRAN RAKYAT DAILY NEWSPAPER
Get PDFThis study aims to reveal another side that is more in-depth than just translation, especially translation in print media. In this regard, the researcher studied translation in one of the leading print media in Indonesia based in Bandung, West Java, namely the Pikiran Rakyat Daily News. The researcher explores ideology in maintaining meaning in the translation of news content in Pikiran Rakyat. This research needs to be done because the translation of international news from English to Indonesian for the sake of print media has many dimensions and problems. The research was conducted using descriptive qualitative methods. There are eleven news of the Pikiran Rakyat examined in this study. The news sourced from foreign news agencies was published in the 2018-2020 range. This research combines two theories, namely translation theory of Newmark and critical discourse analysis (CDA) theory of Van Dijk. Specifically, this study examines ideology and the maintaining of meaning in translating English news content into Indonesian. The results of this study indicate, with the existence of partiality, translation becomes very ideological. This can be seen from the diction, placement of news, and the addition or removal of certain elements in the news. It can be concluded that the translation of international news in Pikiran Rakyat is very ideological. From the linguistic data studied, it appears that Pikiran Rakyat consistently carries the ideology of peace.
META-ANALYSIS OF MIND MAPPING IN VOCABULARY LEARNING OF THE PAST DECADE
Get PDFThe type of research used is meta-analysis research aimed at determining the level of effectiveness or quality of mind mapping in vocabulary learning, including at elementary, middle, high school, and college levels. This quality was examined using several previous research results that collected data with inclusion and exclusion conditions from the Google Scholar, DOAJ, and Scopus databases. The search results found up to 51 dates that met the requirements with the number of students (N), F-counts, t-counts, and r-counts. The results of data analysis obtained by the simulation software JASP showed that the impact on learning media vocabulary based on mind mapping is 73% significant, which included the High category. The moderator variable is the lowest level of education, the high impact of using mind mapping, namely the college level, with an estimate of the effect of 0.569, Based on the number of participants, the application of mind mapping has more influence on participants totaling more than 30 students with an estimate of 0.928 (strong category), while the lowest effect is seen from the number of participants who collected more than 91 students with an estimate of 0.529, meaning that this mind mapping learning model is most appropriate to be applied in high school rows with more than 30 participants in order to maximize student learning outcomes.
AN ALTERNATIVE DIGITAL FEEDBACK THROUGH SCREENCAST: BLENDED LEARNING PRACTICES ON ACADEMIC WRITING
Get PDFAiming at elucidating screencast use as alternative digital feedback in the academic writing class throughout blended learning, screencast was investigated in classroom action research with three cycles. The results discovered that screencast feedback was successfully implemented and evidenced to enhance students' writing skills. The success was proved by the higher number of students who passed the passing score as competent writers. Given screencast feedback, students found it was helpful, clear, and easy. Also, they felt an increased teacher-student interpersonal relation, improved teacher praise, and a conversation-like atmosphere during screencast feedback with an additional teacher’s visual presence. Several teachers’ reflections from each cycle were also discussed further. In short, screencast was implemented successfully in academic writing courses and was able to enhance students’ scientific article writing
SOCIAL CONFLICTS FOUND IN THE LEGENDS OF DAYANG MERINDU AND NAYA SENTIKA AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATIONS IN LITERATURE LEARNING
Get PDFThis research describes the realizations of social conflicts, the function of social conflict, the similarities and differences of Dayang Merindu and Naya Sentika legends, and the implications on literature learning. The research applied a descriptive comparative method supported by an objective approach. Then, the researchers analyzed the data by collecting, reducing, presenting, and concluding the data. The data sources were the legends of Dayang Merindu and Naya Sentika. The research data were social conflict realizations and functions of the legends in the form of text excerpts. The results showed differences in the legends. The legend of Dayang Merindu had three types of conflicts: interpersonal, interest, and inter-social conflicts. The legend of Naya Sentika had four types of conflicts: interpersonal, interest, inter-group, and international conflicts. The similarities of the legends were the social functions of the conflicts. They were two functions: solidarity and communicative functions. The current research results are applicable for literature learning and further reading sources as the realization of literature appreciation.
EXPLORING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS EXPERIENCES TOWARDS SYNCHRONOUS ONLINE LEARNING AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Get PDFAs a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, learning systems all around the world have shifted from traditional classrooms to online learning. Synchronous learning was developed to promote online learning interactions via audio, video, text chat, interactive whiteboards, and app-sharing audio, video, and text chat. This study focused on how the English Language Education Department (ELED) pre-service teachers experience participating in synchronous online learning during the covid-19 pandemic. The participants involved in this research were six ELED pre-service teachers. This research was conducted at English Language Education Department at one Islamic Private University in Yogyakarta. As a research design, the researcher used descriptive qualitative. The information was obtained through an interview. The result showed that pre-service teachers participated in synchronous online learning activities such as listening to lectures, doing a group discussion, doing a presentation, and completing evaluations. There were also various tools that made learning easier for pre-service teachers, such as sharing screen, recording, camera, and microphone. Regarding the perceptions of the ELED pre-service teachers, this study revealed some positive impacts and negative impacts of synchronous learning as perceived by the pre-service teachers. The positive impacts were flexibility in learning, a variety of ways of learning, live interaction, and more autonomous learning. Otherwise, the negative impact of synchronous learning was missed learning activity, lack of interaction, undelivered messages, and feeling isolated