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Teachers’ and Student’s Scaffolding in Second Language Learning
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to show how scaffolding from teacher to students and that from students to students work during a sequence of language learning in which communication skills and fluency are the goals to reach. Pedagogical sequence that includes the roles of teacher in facilitating students involved in various types of learning activity and tasks has been analysed to find educational implications of the theories. Based on the data of some empirical studies, it shows that the strategy used by teacher to facilitate the activities and give corrective feedbacks is very helpful to make students focus on the goals. This is how scaffolding from teacher works efficiently in classroom learning. Pair and group work interactions among students with different characteristics also prove how scaffolding from students to students are present and contributes to the communication skills development. However, not all students can provide useful scaffolding for others due to their different personality. In conclusion, the teacher’s scaffolding and students’ scaffolding occur in different patterns (Storch 2002: 119-158). Teacher’s scaffolding comes in a various range of support, while student’s scaffolding might be helpful, but not as significantly as that of the teacher
Understanding non-English Major’s Students’ Motivation in Learning English via Photovoice: Insights from Tertiary EFL Students
No full textDespite various studies on the motivation in the ELT context, there is a lack of study that centers on the learners’ motivation of non-English majors through photovoice research. The current study attempts to fill this gap. This study was conducted in a private university in Indonesia, involving five non-English major students. A photovoice study was utilized so as to capture and understand their learning motivation. It was found that the photographs the students took illustrated that the students have now been learning English in much more critical ways. Various reasons for their learning English include the ideas that English is a beautiful and a useful language. They also perceived that learning English can help us get a better job; traveling is much easier with a good knowledge of English; and having knowledge of English can help you study abroad. They perceived that they should study English harder to achieve such goals. The findings also show that they belong to non-English majors. Suggestions for future studies are also offered in this paper
Reimagining Blended Learning Post-COVID-19: Insights from EFL Students’ Narratives
Full text linkBackground: During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, many academics and researchers in English Language Teaching (ELT) have studied a variety of issues faced in various types of online teaching and learning, including examining the efficacy of the Blended Learning (BL) approach as a result of the emergency remote and fully online learning or e-learning in response to the learning-from-home policy. Nevertheless, the researchers discovered that only a few studies employed a narrative inquiry method to explore students' perspectives, stories, and voices relating to their ways of learning during and after the pandemic.
Objective: This study helped the researchers better understand the challenges students faced and the adjustments they made, providing unique insights that other methods might miss.
Methods: This study addresses that gap by examining the stories and views of nine EFL students from three Indonesian universities who experienced various learning modes during and after the pandemic, including face-to-face, fully online, and blended classes. The students were requested to share their experiences and viewpoints about the BL approach through open-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The methods and tools from the narrative analysis were then employed to analyze the gathered stories and responses.
Findings: The findings indicate that while most students supported BL using appropriate online tools, their understanding of the approach varied, emphasizing the need for specific conditions for its successful implementation.
Conclusion: This study contributes to the understanding of the approach variations of BL
BRIDGING THE GAP
Full text linkThe research explores how Indonesian hotel staff perceive their needs of acquiring English competence and explores the communication challenges they face. As global guest expectations rise, English proficiency becomes essential for hotel employees to deliver high-quality service. Employing a qualitative narrative inquiry approach, the research investigates the experiences of six hotel staff members from diverse job roles through in-depth interviews. Findings reveal that English is used situationally, primarily with foreign guests, and that speaking and listening are the most challenging skills due to limited vocabulary, unfamiliar accents, and lack of real-world practice. While some staff benefit from workplace training and AI tools like ChatGPT, disparities in digital access and confidence persist. The study highlights the importance of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) instruction and the potential of blended learning approaches that combine AI tools with traditional, face-to-face training. The study suggests recommendations that include implementing role-specific ESP programs, enhancing practical exposure, and addressing technological gaps to support inclusive and effective language development in the hospitality sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Ketahanan UMKM Menghadapi Masa Pandemi Covid (Studi Kasus Pada UMKM Olahan Pangan dan Toko Klontong di Kota Semarang)
Full text linkBanyak UMKM telah mengalami penurunan pendapatan penjualan sebagai dampak kondisi pandemi Covid 19 saat ini. Akhir-akhir ini secara Internasional banyak negara yang terjadi krisis multidimensional, termasuk di dalamnya adalah bangsa Indonesia, di Kota Semarang salah satunya, penyebabnya adalah adanya wabah virus pandemi Covid-19 yang berkepanjangan sampai dengan tahun 2022 sampai saat ini pun masih belum berakhir. Dampak negatif yang ditimbulkan adalah dapat melumpuhkan dunia usaha, menggoyahkan sendi kesejahteraan masyarakat luas, dunia kerja semakin sempit, sementara masyarakat yang membutuhkan pekerjaan yang terus meningkat, muncul masalah pengangguran yang terus meningkat. Sebagai solusi yang tepat untuk fenomena permasalahan tersebut adalah menumbuhkembangkan jiwa wirausaha. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis variabel-varibel yang mempengaruhi ketahanan UMKM dalam melewati masa pandemi ini. Beberapa variabel yang diduga dapat mempengaruhinya adalah; Produk, Strategi Promosi dan Kecerdasan Emosional Sebagai Variabel Moderating. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah UMKM Olahan Pangan dan Kelontong di Kota Semarang. Sampel dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode non probability sampling dengan teknik purposive sampling diperoleh sampel sebanyak 304 (10 x 30) + 4. Para pelaku usaha di sektor UMKM berupaya mempertahankan bisnis atau usahanya di tengah pandemi Covid 19 dengan tetap mengikuti peraturan pemerintah dan protokol kesehatan serta keamanan dengan berbagai upaya yang diamati (observe), diidentifikasi (to orient), membuat keputusan (decide), dan melakukan aktivitas kembali (to act) dengan terus melakukan observasi, mengidentifikasi, membuat keputusan, dan bertindak secara terus menerus dalam satu siklus yang tidak dibatasi waktu. Para pelaku usaha menerapkan strategi pemasaran yang efektif serta memaksimalkan kemampuan kecerdasan emotional mereka untuk tetap mempertahankan siklus bisnis merekan dengan memperhatikan setiap perubahan yang terjadi sewaktu-waktu
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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