Communicative competence is the goal of language learning, for which students have to learn language in a real context; and it also becomes the focus of Curriculum 13 in Indonesia. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are conflicts in realizing communicative competence for the students online. This study aims to identify conflicts faced by the teachers in integrating communicative language teaching method and online platforms used during the pandemic, as the lessons in long distance learnings. This study is qualitative with in-depth interview as the main data collection technique. The respondents of this study cover 137 senior high school teachers. The data is analyzed by identifying the relevant interplays between graduate competences, language learning methods, online platforms used, and conflicts on the teachers and students learning autonomously along pandemic. The findings show that there are conflicts among the teachers and students in implementing online communicative language teaching autonomously, since the method and the used online learning platforms are irrelevant and internet literacy and infrastructure are still poor. There must be comprehensive understanding and skills of the teachers and students in handling autonomous learning digitally along the pandemic including learning outcome, materials, learning methods and process, and testing the outcome. These conflicts bring about lessons of adaptability, collaboration, communication, and resilience, they have learned valuable skills that will serve them well in their future education and careers.
This study aims to investigate the problems of financial, social, and sexual aspects of working females in labour force with the three-time shift system in Indonesia. Working females, as a matter of, are responsible for both household and working duties from which they are highly potential to face various problems. This case study interviewed (either in group or individual) and observed 150 randomly selected respondents of working females from garment industries in Surakarta and Yogyakarta Indonesia. Data triangulation technique of observation and interview were to firm the trustworthiness. The data were analysed interactively as suggested by Miles and Huberman: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The findings showed that the majority of the respondents participated in the labour force due to their family financial problem. Though the financial problem was reduced, being a working female in three-time shift system brought about the other problems, such as social and sexual problems. The females could fulfil the family financial needs by sacrificing the social and sexual fulfilments of the family because they had no time and physical energy anymore. These problems were commonly found from the respondents, although it was found several variables that vary the level of the problems from each individual and group.
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