Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
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Collaborative Video Project in English Online Learning: Challenges and Benefits
Full text linkCooperative foreign language learning can be achieved by creating a video in a group. The purpose of this study is to discover university students’ perception of the implementation of creating collaborative video projects in English online learning during the pandemic situation. This study seeks to answer two research problems: first, the challenges that students face in the process of video creation; second, the benefits that they obtain from the video project. The data was contributed by 83 English Department students in a private university in Indonesia. For their final project, the participants were asked to create a group video related to the topics of learning materials. Two types of data collection were used in the study namely the open-ended questionnaire and the videos as the final products. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The findings show that students have faced several challenges in creating videos, especially technical preparation and time management; however, they have also benefited from the video project as they were immersed in autonomous learning. This study demonstrates that a video project is needed as it helps to foster students’ creativity, teamwork, and English language development
A Comparative Study on Pedagogy, Andragogy and Heutagogy in the Walk towards Education 5.0
Full text linkLearning influenced by multitasking and the development of rapid search technology, social networking, artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, and big data are considered to be the influences of the major shift from education 4.0 to education 5.0. Therefore, it becomes important for teachers and students to understand the theoretical gaps that exist in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy in order to spearhead a broader discussion about how the teaching-learning process occurs in and will happen in the post new normal. This paper is an attempt to compare and suggest ways to integrate Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy in New Indian English Classrooms where connectivity is key to its success
Body Image Representation in MS Glow for Men Advertising; An Analysis of Circuit of Culture
Full text linkThis study discusses an advertising video of “MS Glow for Men” starring Babe Cabita and Marshel, which is intended as an encouragement for people to promote self-acceptance and break the myth of beauty of light skin and a perfect body. This study aims to answer the questions of how advertising was created, distributed, consumed, or perceived by the public and seek the explanation of how the body image represented in MS Glow for Men advertising. The researchers answer the question by applying Stuart Hall’s framework of the circuit of culture that covers five aspects: regulation, production, identity, consumption, and representation. The study shows that the advertising contains a message that the standardization of beauty should cover all types of body image and physical appearance by representing the idea that anyone can become an ambassador of the beauty brand just like Babe Capita and Marshal. The visual text shows that the advertisement influences the audience in building a perception of the ‘beauty’ through the visual image of the advertisement which presents a more realistic notion of beauty
Character Education to Boost Quality of Students’ Soft Skill in English Class in Indonesia
No full textEnglish language teaching (ELT) serves as a tool to teach students how to communicate in workplace. Character education taught in ELT can influence some of the ways students live in society, in terms of ethics, philosophy and principles. Moral education, as a part of character education, can be included in language learning and in character development in three important ways: integrated into school practice with an emphasis on literacy, socialized by moral content, and applied to course materials. This research provides description on developing human resources quality through character education. There are 38 respondents in this research, 36 students and 2 lecturers. They are chosen to obtain more objective data. The implementation of character education in teaching process happens from the planning to evaluating process. In planning, it shows that most students already know character education and its importance in higher education. In enacting process, most students implement moral values in their daily life. It makes their soft skill quality increase, both in personal and professional qualities. Last process is evaluating. In this process, some students think that the lecturers always help them internalize character education by implicitly including it in the problem sheet and the scoring rubrics
Sumbanese’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK): Warung Hupu Liku Ritual and Ecological Ethics
Full text linkTraditional communities have long been recognized as actors practicing nature-friendly behaviors. They are commonly deemed the champion of sustainable lifestyles. Since the 1980s, there has been a call to learn the so-called Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) embraced by traditional communities. One of the reasons is that the issues of climate crises should be addressed and tackled from various corners. This article attempts to delineate a TEK, an ecological ritual practiced by the traditional community living on the island of Sumba. The ritual, called WHL (warung hupu liku, which means giving the rope tips back [to nature]), could give us an idea of how the community perceives their relationship with natural surroundings, which in turn, exposes their ecological ethics. Primary research data were collected through interviews with four experts of Sumbanese culture/environmental activists and two ritual speakers (wunang). The research reveals that WHL ritual portrays the Sumbanese’s worldview of the human-nature relationship. WHL gives an idea of the Sumbanese ecological ethics, covering reciprocity with nature, mutual respect, modesty in consumption, and sustainable use of natural resources. Because Indonesia is rich in TEK, this time-enduring knowledge and practice should be exposed as a valuable contribution to ecological discourses and policies. The discussion on Sumbanese WHL suggests that traditional and modern approaches could work in tandem to address current environmental issues
Explicitation and Implicitation through Translation Shifts in the Annual Reports from Indonesian to English
Full text linkLanguage serves a significant role in many forms of international business communication, one of which is the translation of annual reports. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the manner in which translation shifts can uncover explicitations and implicitations in the process of translating annual reports from Indonesian to English. Additionally, it seeks to identify aspects of translation that are made more explicit and implicit through translation shifts. This study incorporates Catford’s (1965) and Becher’s (2011) classifications of translation shifts to reveal the forms and functions of translation shifts for the purposes of explicitation and implicitation. We obtained the data from six annual reports of public companies in Indonesia. Through a descriptive-qualitative analysis, we discovered that the translation of annual reports from Indonesian to English performed explicitations through intra-system shifts and implicitations through structure-shifts. The study reveals how translation shifts do not only modify the syntactic structure of the target text, but they also modify the information load in the translation of annual reports from Indonesian to English
Social-ecological Values and Practices of Indigenous Whale Fishing Community in Lamalera, East Nusa Tenggara
Full text linkLamalera is a traditional fishing village. The Lamalera indigenous people are traditional fishermen, who catch whales in the traditional sea area of the Sawu Sea. In 2014, the Sawu Sea was designated as a conservation area and National Marine Park by the central government through the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and the regional government of East Nusa Tenggara. Since then, the Lamalera indigenous people have been worried that the tradition of whaling will be banned and access to marine spaces will be restricted due to strict enforcement of conservation laws in the future. Thus, this research reports the aims of (1) exploring the Lamalera community’s local wisdom through the form of socio-ecological capabilities and practices of the traditional fishing community and (2) positioning the local wisdom as a cultural foundation for marine environmental governance. This research uses qualitative methods with cultural phenomenological, environmental justice, and environmental governance analysis. The results found were that the Lamalera community had social-ecological capabilities, namely lefo, tena-laja, and ola nuâng-lefa nué. Based on these findings, this research also encourages partnerships between the central government, regional governments, and the Lamalera indigenous community in supporting sustainable conservation and equitable management of the Sawu Marine National Park
‘God Protects Us’: Nationalism versus Religious representation in the US and Indonesian Presidential Speeches
Full text linkPresidential speech may reflect the cultural identity of the nation. This corpus-based research investigates the religiosity reflection in the U.S and Indonesian presidential speeches to reveal the underlying values. It built the corpus from the US presidential speeches (321,508 words) and the Indonesia presidential speeches (93,419 words) It applies Wordsmith 4.0 for the data mining. The findings show that both presidents used religious-related words, particularly ‘god’. The US president has used ‘god’ in fixed expressions ‘God bless you all’ and ‘May God protect our troops’, while the Indonesian president uses the word ‘god’ including its synonym in Arabic ‘Alloh’ in a wider variety of expressions such as ‘May god bless us all’, ‘May God protect us’, ‘the almighty God’, and ‘God’s help’ and ‘Bismillah’ (by the name of God), ‘Alhamdulillah’ (Praise be to Alloh), and ‘Insyaalloh’ (God willing). However, the use of ‘god’ in presidential speeches has different underlying values: the American president demonstrates strong nationalism, while the Indonesian president shows the strong religious side of the Indonesian people. The research concludes that the US president expresses religiosity in a more implicit manner, being in line with the self-reliant attitude of American society. On the contrary, the Indonesian president expresses religiosity in a very explicit manner, reflecting a god-dependent attitude in Indonesian society
Explanatory Study of Student-Teacher Interactions, Students’ Academic Motivation, and Teacher’s Motivation in English Classes
Full text linkThis study aims to determine the relationship between student-teacher interaction, students' academic motivation, and the teacher's motivation in the eighth-grade English classroom. Quantitative and qualitative data on student-teacher interaction and academic motivation in English learning were collected using a questionnaire, observation, and interview. 137 eighth-grade students at Semarang's Karangturi junior high school in the academic year 2022-2023 were the subjects of this study. Using an observation sheet from Ottevanger (2001), it was determined to see to what extent the teacher uses student-teacher interaction to increase students' and teachers' academic motivation. A final interview is conducted with the English teacher to determine her perception of student-teacher interaction. The results demonstrate a correlation between student-teacher interaction and students’ academic motivation in English classes. The instructor utilizes these interactions by posing questions and issuing directives. Moreover, the instructor concurred that student-teacher interactions are highly beneficial for both students and instructors
Rhetorical Structure in Scientific Article Introduction Section Written by Tertiary Students
Full text linkThis pilot research objective is to investigate the rhetorical structure of an introduction section of scientific articles written by tertiary students of social and humanity studies. The research method used is qualitative, which applied purposive sampling in collecting the data. Four journals from Talenta Publisher were selected based on several characteristics, such as socials and humanities discipline, English articles written by undergraduate and post-graduate students, and published in the last two years (2019-2020). The data analysis used an interactive model by applying data collection, condensation, display, and conclusion drawing and verification. The Creating Research Space (CaRS) model used for data analysis is to describe the rhetorical structure of the introduction section in the articles. The results of this research stated that Move 1 Step 2 (making topic generalizations), with a percentage of 31%, is identified as the dominant rhetorical structure. On the other hand, move 2 Step 1c (question-raising) and Move 3 Step 3 (indicating article structure) are not realized in all data. In conclusion, the majority of authors do not follow the standard rhetorical structures of a scientific article. Some of these journals have not applied rhetorical structure, which is an important thing that must be followed, such as Move and Steps, which consists of components: background of the study, research gap, problem statement, and research ai