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Evaluasi dan pengembangan silabus mata kuliah Grammar dengan menggunakan descriptive approach
No full textBringing students’ home and foreign culture into language classroom: unveiling Indonesian EFL teachers’ belief and practices
Full text linkIn the 21st century teaching, the function of English language classroom is not limited merely to preparing students to be able to communicate with native English language users. But, it is widely to prepare them to be successfully engaged with a global milieu in intercultural settings. However, this situation remains challenging for EFL teachers worldwide. It was evidenced by many scholars that teachers’ positive perception toward interculturality in language teaching did not concurrently lead to the practice of language pedagogy in the classroom. This paper attempts to explore how Islamic Indonesian teachers perceive intercultural competence in the language classroom as well as how it is reflected in their teaching practices. By using electronic questionnaire, data were collected from 20 lecturers teaching Intensive English Course offered in the first semester of new college students majoring English. The results of the study indicated a strong positive belief toward intercultural competence, yet it is not congruent in its pedagogical activity in the classroom. Following this, further research possibility is also discussed in last section of this paper
Communication strategies used by native-english speaking teachers in classroom interaction: A case study on EF English First Course Malang
No full textABSTRACT
Communication is the most basic one in human relationship. Through communication, one can change ideas, share experiences with others, help, and understand others and maintain good social relationship with others. In real situations, communication is always meaningful and more spontaneous; it does not consist of only fluent sequences of grammatically incorrect forms. It is due to imposed by performance limitation. Communication practice provided in schools differs from that in real life situations. In classroom interactions, communication does not serve the primary function of exchanging ideas and of acting in various ways by means of language or linguistic forms, but rather has the function of making students or learners learn.
This study was conducted in order to investigate the communication strategies that are used by native-English teachers in EF English First Malang. It was aimed to answer the research problem: what kind of communication strategies that are used by the teacher in their teaching-learning interaction process? The results of the study are expected to broader knowledge about communication strategies used by native- English speaking teachers in classroom interaction
In the present study, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative classroom research. The subjects of this study are four native-English teacher in EF English First Malang. The data of this study were the utterances of the teachers. However, the utterances spoken by learners are considered as complements of data as a kind of additional measurement in order to know the level of effectiveness of the communication strategies. Hence, it is also called as a conversational analysis.
In collecting the data, the writer employed several instruments, and the key instrument was the researcher herself. Other instruments were observation and interview. After the data were collected completely, the researcher analyzed the data. In analyzing, the writer selected, transcribed, and organized the raw data. Then, the data were displayed. In the last procedure, the researcher concluded and verified the data that were transcribed.
Based on the result of the study, the researcher found several kinds of communication strategies that were used by the native-English teachers. They are, (1) repetition, (2) mime, (3) circumlocution, (4) literal translation, (5) Language switch and (6) Appeal for assistance. However, the usages of each strategy among the teachers are different. It is based on the teacher characteristics and it is based on the level of the students’ capability. The other strategy that is not proposed in the theory was also employed by the teachers to make clearer for the students; it was the teachers’ writing on the white board. Based on the finding of the study, the writer concludes that the most frequent strategy that was used by the teacher was repetition and the most rarely strategy that were used here is appeal for assistance and language switch.
Based on the findings of the present study, the writer proposes some suggestions, they are: (1) for native-English teacher, recognizing a little of first- students language are suggested, especially in teaching in the lowest level for helping the students to recognize the appropriate language. (2) for further researcher, it is suggested to conduct the same study in the field of communication strategies used by native-English teacher and non native-English teacher by using different research design, and (3) it is suggested for further researcher to conduct the study in the field of the usage of media in communication in native-English teachers classroom
Pre-Service Teachers Perception and Strategies in Teaching English as a Lingua Franca in Indonesia (sertifikat hak cipta)
No full textEnglish is evolving into a lingua franca, reflecting its capabilities in global communication. Educators are challenged to prepare students for this linguistic landscape. The ELF teaching component facilitates effective cross-cultural communication, Â which is essential in today's interconnected world. This study aims to explore the implementation and pre-service teachers' perceptions of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and provide insights for Indonesian teacher preparation programs and curriculum development. The research design used mixed methods, with questionnaires and interviews as research instruments, and involved 64 pre-service English teachers in Indonesia. Convenience sampling was used to collect quantitative data. Google Form responses from the participants were taken for data analysis and tabulation. Descriptive statistics were conducted on the data using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS v. 20). The results show the importance of improving pre-service teachers' understanding and implementation of ELF teaching practices in Indonesia. They need assistance in implementing ELF-based teaching approaches. Recommendations are given to incorporate ELF more effectively into the curriculum and teacher training to support the development of their teaching skills. Therefore, ELF teaching not only influences English language teaching but also plays an essential role in preparing students to communicate in a multilingual global context. Through better understanding and implementation of ELF teaching practices, teachers can help students develop critical cross-cultural communication skills
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
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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