The 2013 curriculum required authentic assessment to assess students’ achievement in any subjects, including reading skills as one of the four language skills in achieving English as a foreign language in Indonesia. However, teachers still have problems in using authentic assessment to assess reading...

This purpose of this research is to determine modal and modality that used by students in particularly at level of syntactic then to reveal the percentage of students’ accuracy in answering modals and modality questions by using Sikola vitual learning as an online learning media in Covid-19 pandemic...

This study aims at identifying and exploring the critical incidents (CI) experienced by English vocational high school teachers. Their particular tasks, such as creating learning opportunities and resources that must meet the students’ specific needs, bring them some challenges and difficulties. Despite...

The fact that Bali is an international tourism destination places the needs to teach English since an early age in Bali. However, research to date about English teachers of primary schools in Bali shows that not all of these teachers are holding English education qualification backgrounds. This qualitative...

Information Communication and Technology (ICT) is a form of technology used for creating, displaying, storing, manipulating, and exchanging information to support teaching and learning activities. Since 2017, Universitas Negeri Padang using ICT as a teaching and learning media to improve the quality...

Speaking skill is an English language competence that is very important for effective communication either in educational or professional environment. This skill is also required by students of Nursing Study Program to support their academic and professional development. However, students still have...

Coherence is one of the elements that should be considered in writing, especially in writing a review of related theories of the thesis proposal. Furthermore, it is also known if the review of related theories is one of the main sections in the thesis proposal since the students’ understanding of the...

Understanding texts means engaging the learners carefully into the text in such a way that they are filtering the information before consuming and discerning it as their understanding. This study aims to examine some different effects of two non-traditional approaches when they are applied in learning...

With its current developments, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has started to influence how teachers teach and how students learn, including the ones in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. However, there have been debates on whether AI could be beneficial to students’ learning or not. One way...

Due to the Pandemic situation, online teaching is recommended by the Indonesian government. However, the implementation of online teaching may still become a dilemma for English teachers since each school has different facilities, students’ and teachers’ competence, and schools’ different conditions....

One source of English learning material is the textbook. Textbooks aren’t merely for teachers to utilize when they’re teaching or learning. Textbook aids learners in acquiring material linked to their English studies. This study attempted to evaluate the English learning material in textbooks, particularly...

Previous research has reported that flipped learning can enhance the students’ English skills and learning behaviors. However, some challenges remain mainly on the students’ ignorance and demotivation due to increased workload that should be accomplished. Moreover, empirical evidence on the benefits...

In one classroom, students bring various motivations to learn English. However, not all motivations directly connect to their engagement in class. Since students’ engagement affects their learning and long-term success, it plays a significant role in Second Language Acquisition. Since March 2020, due...

The communication strategies implemented by ELT students may vary depending on their oral ability. This research aims to analyze the strategies most commonly used by English language learning male and female students and the communication strategies that affect their oral performance. English Department...

Online learning has been an important part of education and is claimed to offer unique benefits in the learning process. Although the online learning management system has been used by almost all of the academic community as one of the facilities in teaching and learning, some people still do not believe...

In language learning, the learners need to acquire the knowledge of some skills such as speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Among the four skills, speaking is said to be a very important skill. It is a productive skill that people use for communication and used by the language learner more frequently...

TOEFL purposes have developed in recent years, not only for educational needs but also for other needs, such as; job applicant requirements. Meanwhile, the examinee still considers TOEFL as a difficult test. Reading Comprehension appears as one of the sections in TOEFL. As a result of this phenomenon,...

Applying of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) has played a major part in educational system. Besides, the canvas of English language teaching has also experienced in emerging technology into the classroom since it provides the platform to develop students’ second language learning. The kinds...

Questions are often used to stimulate the recall of prior knowledge, build critical-thinking skills and promote comprehension. There are two of the classifications of questioning that can be used in formulating learning objectives, LOTs and HOTs. This study aimed to investigate the cognitive domain of...

Nowadays, students have very little interest in writing which is so important to fulfill education requirements. Students do not only lack of vocabularies but also lack of ideas and motivation. It makes them feel difficult to write. This difficulty can be seen from their low writing scores, and their...

Teachers’ cognition (knowledge, belief, attitude, and self-efficacy) regarding ICT in ELT needs to be revealed to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their perspective and understanding of incorporating ICT into their everyday instructional activities. This study aims to create Teacher Cognition...

Balinese folklore is an attractive English learning medium for children. During distance learning, in several kindergartens in Singaraja, the teachers provided illustrated storybooks to children, in the form of Balinese folklore as reading material at home for the introduction of English as a foreign...

The Covid-19 pandemic has great challenges in people’s life, including education. Physical distancing requires lecturers or teachers to do teaching and learning process through internet as the media. The use of e-learning is very important to support learning system by applying several platforms, such...

The enforcement of online learning system has led new coercion of circumstances in education. No preparation in such condition got the teachers shocked, thus might had sudden actions to prepare their online class by preparing varieties of media. Webtoon short story was one of the alternative media used...

Extensive studies on teacher identity have been reported; however, little attention has been given to how pre-service teachers shape their professional identity in online teaching practice program. The present study examines EFL pre-service teachers’ professional identity situated in collaborative lesson...

Young adult literature is authentic material that can be used with junior high school students. Nonetheless, students may find it difficult to read young adult literature as a source of information. The purpose of this research was to find out students’ difficulties in reading young adult literature....

Research on writing anxiety has been widely done in an offline setting for many years. The results informed that students were at various levels of writing anxiety. Due to the global pandemic, language classrooms have been shifted into emergency remote learning. It is susceptible that students also experience...

Writing as a productive language skill take a part important role in the curriculum of English. In academic field, ideas are mostly conveyed through writing instead of speaking, because they are more visible and last longer in written form. Argumentative essay is one of the genres studied by students...

This research aimed to investigate the students’ perception of the use of Google Classroom in flipped English learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was descriptive quantitative and qualitative research. The data were collected through the questionnaire and interview. The participants of this...

Online reading has developed into a primary method of obtaining information in the digital era. Nevertheless, research that identifies factors contributing to EFL university students’ online reading comprehension success is limited. The study aimed to understand the relationship among three factors related...

Formative assessment is one of kinds to assess the students. It aims to evaluate students’ achievement in learning English. Formative assessment also find in the textbook. Appropriate formative assessment has an important role in evaluating students’ achievement. Based on the explanation above, this...

Writing has a significant impact in determining students’ capability and quantity in academic activities in language learning at schools or colleges. One of the essays display in English academic writing is an argumentative essay. Writing an argumentative essay leads students to explore their opinions...

As the school closure is implemented, it affects the way teaching and learning at educational institutions from elementary to higher education in Indonesia. This situation promotes what we call remote learning. This research aimed at discovering and comprehend the lived experience of college students...

Reading is an important skill that students need to comprehend and interpret the content of an English text. Teaching reading at the junior high school level aims to improve students’ comprehension skills. The exposition text is one of the genres listed in the English curriculum for junior high school....

This research applies the Think Aloud Method for teaching Extensive Reading. This method has a purpose for not only improving comprehension, but also for assessing and monitoring students’ performance in presenting their ability on understanding passages. The students are trained to read, think, and...

Giving feedback both direct and indirect is believed to help students write better. This paper aims to investigate whether there is an effect of direct corrective feedback on students’ writing quality. There were 26 students as participants. Each student was exposed to two different types of feedback,...

The changes of the learning system from face-to-face classroom interaction to online learning system during the Covid-19 pandemic bring significant impact on the process of learning. Different activities of learning are required to be presented for the continuity of the learning process. These changes...

Researchers investigate the impact of metacognition on language learning achievement and report that metacognition positively influences learners’ learning achievement. Instruments to measure learners’ metacognition have been developed to meet the needs. This article describes an instrument’s development...

In this digital era, transforming the traditional classroom to the online environment becomes urgent, particularly during the COVID 19 pandemic. E-learning becomes an alternative platform for online learning as it provides space for the teacher to open, design, and manage a class. Designing digital material...

The background of the problem is an important component of the thesis. Background of the problem is the first chapter of the thesis that contains the answers to what and why the research needs to be done. Making a background of the problem is not easy, college students are required to arrange ideas systematically...

Writing is one of the skills in learning English that has to be mastered by students, especially at the tertiary level. Students are hoped to be able to write a thesis proposal, but anxiety obstructs students’ thesis proposal writing. Anxiety is a psychological factor that can effected the students’...

The objective of the studies is to analyze of anxiety levels the students at sixth semester of English Department of Muslim Nusantara University in academic year 2020/2021. This research used a descriptive quantitative research design. The collected data were described and presented through a simple...

The purposes of this study were to find out the kinds and the meaning of thanking expressions used by the multiculturalism students. The data was collected from 11 fourth-semester students. This study used descriptive qualitative. The instrument was a discourse completion test (DCT). The result showed...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the teaching process. From face-to-face learning to online learning with various conditions/locations between learners and teachers. This research aims to explore the implementation of digital tools in online classrooms. This is a case study that explores the teaching...

Students’ reading interest is important to know to develop reading assessment. By considering students’ reading interest, teacher can select material for assessment that was close to students’ favorite reading material and reading setting. This research is aim at identifying students’ reading interest...

Public Speaking is an academic necessary for University Students. Public speaking is the process of giving the information, persuading the audience or attracting the hearers. This Paper reports the findings drawn from third-semester students’ skill in public speaking. The aims of this study were to reveal...

The Covid-19 outbreak has resulted in the transformation of EFL undergraduate thesis supervision from offline to online, bringing with it its inherent complexities. Hence, this qualitative study sought to investigate the complexities associated with online EFL thesis supervision from the lecturers’ perspective....

The Covid-19 epidemic has resulted in an offline-to-online shift in EFL undergraduate thesis supervision, with all of its associated difficulties. As a result, this qualitative study used a constructivist epistemology to look at the challenges of online EFL thesis supervision from the perspective of...

Textbook is important in the process of teaching and learning because it is used by the students and teachers in the classroom. It helps students to get information related to the learning especially in learning English. Appropriate textbook is important thing for senior high school during the teaching...

The aim of this study is to know the implementation of virtual board games teaching media in teaching speaking. The writer also conducted this study to investigate whether virtual board games teaching media was able to make the students have active engagement in spoken activity. The participants of this...

Design-based research (DBR)’s use in education research is flourishing since it enables teachers and researchers to collaboratively work to improve, implement, and provide a constructive learning environment. Plethora of studies utilize the methodology to design and develop macro pedagogic documents,...

Online learning is one of the learning methods applied by the government in the pandemic situation. In the 2013 curriculum, authentic assessment of English subjects is the most important part in assessing students’ authentic skills including speaking skills. However, authentic assessment has experienced...

The literary research is inspired by nature of literature as dulce et utile, namely beautiful and teach about something. Literary language does not only give beauty but also teaches the value behind the beautiful language. This research discusses about the role of learning literary work in enhanching...

Emergency remote learning has led students and teachers to interact in distance by the involvement of media, platforms and learning strategies within a full virtual learning community. This study aims to investigate community of online learning in the E-learning class and how this can humanise the online...

Interpreting information of a language through the medium of printing refers to reading as a process of receiving massages. This study is aimed at analyzing Edmodo application of learning narrative text at vocational high school with an interview as data collection technique. Using Edmodo application...

This study aims at exploring lecturers’ strategies in teaching speaking skill at university context. The participants were one male lecturer and one female lecturer. The data were collected by conducting observations and interviews. The research findings showed Lecturer A focused the class on accuracy...

Writing is often regarded as a difficult skill to acquire by majority of EFL learners. Teaching writing is also unquestionably challenging. It is argued that an essential effort to enable learners to write better is to assign them to explore as much information through reading topic and genre- related...

The purpose of this research as descriptive research was to find out the platforms which students used in blended learning during Covid-19 pandemic, particularly the platform in improving speaking skill. The samples of this research were 7 students from XI Science and Social class, and also 4 English...

Translation is an ability that has to be mastered by the students especially to translate report text from Indonesian into English. Report text is one of the genres that should be translated by the students. It aims to analyze students’ ability in translating report text. Translating report text is also...

This study applied a critical discourse analysis approach to Donald Trump’s speech at his first public event since being diagnosed with Covid-19. The objective of this research is to describe the vocabulary selection strategy used by Donald Trump in his first public speech since being diagnosed with...

The goals of the study were to determine which hyponymy category was the most frequent and which was the infrequent in the short tale of “My Hero is You (How Kids Can Fight Covid-19)”created by IASC. The descriptive qualitative method was used in this study. The data was examined by breaking down substance...