Text-based material is known to deliver merely visual messages, unlike audio-visual-media which offer both visual and auditory signals for learners to decode. Meanwhile, practicing English as a foreign language requires sufficient exposures to language input, both auditory and visual. In this study, principles of multimedia learning and multimedia processing for material design are chosen as its initial frameworks. Then, samples of practice material and media implemented in the researchers' EFL classes are discussed in the light of how multimodalities were accommodated. In this study, three classes of English for Specific Purposes used audiovisual media to offer more multimodal exposures in terms of learning contexts, target culture understanding, and language function practice. In reflection, it is concluded that audio-visual media provide promising potentials to empower teachers, engage and motivate learners, and eventually facilitate language learning.

The fact that English has been embraced globally by most countries as a second language has prompted its adoption in various media, such as television and newspaper. As a language is adopted by a community of non-native speakers, a new variety of it tends to emerge due to the influence of the linguistic features of those non-native speakers’ arterial language. In Indonesia, where English is spoken as a second or foreign language, there has been a growing number of newspapers published in it. Along with the trend of world Englishes, this raises a question about the possibility of a new variety called Indonesian English. Even though more and more Indonesian teachers start to realize that the goal of English language teaching is no longer to imitate native speakers’ variety, there is still little research done on the topic of Indonesian English. For that reason, by collecting online data from an English language newspaper published in the country, this research identified the lexical characteristics of English variety used by educated Indonesians. It is basically a corpus-based lexical study that employed Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) to describe contextualized data gathered from the online newspaper. The focuses of this study were contextual information about loanwords, word meanings, word forms, and collocations, which are pertinent to the Indonesian variety of English. The findings indicated that the lexical characteristics of Indonesian English could be categorized into roughly four groups, namely: Indonesian-origin loanwords, Indonesian English lexicon resulting from semantic shifts and those from morphological shifts, as well as Indonesian English collocations. By doing so, it is expected that this research can provide a theoretical basis for English teachers in Indonesia to embrace an English-as-a-lingua-franca approach in their instructions and anticipate a new variety that might exist in the future: Indonesian English.

Abstract-in this 21st century, technology has revolutionized almost all aspects of life, including language learning. However, the trend of testing has substantially remained unchanged. Since the ultimate goal of language testing is to judge and gather information about learners' proficiency, one might archetypically describe it as either having students sit at their tables with paper and pencils trying to answer a number of questions individually and in a very formal manner, or asking them to perform something like a presentation or role play in front of the examiner. Those kinds of tests tend to bring a nerve-racking atmosphere which might hinder students in demonstrating their actual competence. Relating to the issue, this study dwells upon the use of web-based platforms in the gamification of language testing. Gamification is the adoption of game elements for nongame purposes. By promoting gamified testing via web-based platforms, this research seeks to make language assessments more fun and motivating, and of course less terrifying for learners.

Gerakan Literasi Sekolah sudah dicanangkan selama beberapa tahun oleh pemerintah. Namun dalam pelaksanaanya, program ini tidak lebih sebagai usaha penyediaan bacaan bagi para siswa di pojok baca atau perpustakaan yang tidak terintegrasi dengan pelajaran. Kegiatan ini mengacu pada taksonomi kemampuan membaca dan skema 3P GLS (Gerakan Literasi Sekolah), dengan fokus pada Pengembangan dan Pembelajaran kemampuan literasi kritis para siswa lewat mata pelajaran Bahasa. Masukan dari para guru dalam program sebelumnya untuk lebih mendekatkan program membaca dengan pembelajaran, memfasilitasi pembelajaran jarak jauh dengan aktifitas pembelajaran yang bermutu, serta kebutuhan untuk membekali generasi muda dengan kemampuan literasi kritis membuat kegiatan ini menjadi perlu dilakukan. Dalam pelaksanaanya, beberapa contoh materi bacaan yang merangsang kemampuan literasi kritis bagi siswa dikaji bersama dalam pelatihan perancangan aktifitas yang mengembangkan literasi kritis. Para guru memberikan tanggapan yang positif terhadap pelatihan ini dan program ini dianggap memberikan alternatif aktifitas kelas yang mendukung pembelajaran jarak jauh di masa Pandemi Covid19. Beberapa penyesuaian aktifitas perlu dikakukan mengingat lokasi sekolah yang berada di daerah pegunungan dan beragamnya kemampuan sosial ekonomi keluarga peserta didik. Diharapkan juga dengan program yang berlanjut ini para guru semakin memahami bagaimana pelaksanaan GLS (Gerakan Literasi Sekolah) dalam pembelajaran yang dicanangkan Kementrian Pendidikan sejak beberapa tahun lalu.

Perubahan kebijakan belajar mengajar di masa Pandemi COVID-19 membuat guru harus melakukan penyesuaian metode, bahan dan media ajar, serta evaluasi hasil belajar. Para guru yang tidak siap baik secara pedagogi maupun secara teknis pembelajaran jarak jauh mengalami berbagai kesulitan dalam hal perancangan skenario pengajaran, pelaksanaan pembelajaran berbasis teknologi, maupun evaluasi hasil belajar. Program pengabdian masyarakat ini menyajikan sebuah rangkaian analisa kebutuhan, kegiatan pelatihan, dan evaluasi serta rencana tindak lanjut bagi para guru sebuah SMP swasta di Sleman, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Data kebutuhan para guru diperoleh melalui kuesioner daring dimana sebagian besar peserta menyatakan perspektif yang positif terhadap teknologi informasi dan komunkasi  (TIK), percaya terhadap manfaat TIK demi efektifitas pembelajaran, dan keyakinan potensi TIK bisa membuat pembelajaran lebih menarik. Kebutuhan program-program penunjang pembelajaran jarak jauh juga diperoleh melalui kuesioner ini. Dalam pelaksanaannya, pelatihan ini dilaksanakan secara daring dengan skenario Flipped Learning dimana materi diberikan beberapa hari sebelumnya dan review serta diskusi dilaksanakan pada sesi pelatihan. Rancangan skenario pembelajaran menjadi luaran pelatihan. Rancangan tersebut dipaparkan oleh para peserta dan dilanjutkan secara mandiri dengan supervisi kepala sekolah. Dalam kuesioner evaluasi tanggapan yang positif dan kebutuhan pelatihan lanjutan disampaikan oleh para guru

The article reports a community service programme in the form of the English Conversation Club (ECC) for students of Kalam Kudus Senior High School, Surakarta, Central Java. It was conducted in the form of eight 40-50-minute online sessions via Google Meet from January 2022 up to May 2022. 30 students participated in the programme. The programme was mainly designed to introduce the participants to varieties of English such as Tagalog, Korean, Japanese, Australian, and Singaporean Englishes and to describe various places in Indonesia or abroad. Introducing varieties of English, more specifically, was intended to nurture positive attitudes towards varieties of English around the world and local accents with speaking English, including Indonesian accents, which in turn could motivate them to speak English confidently regardless of their accents. The participants reported generally positive attitudes towards the programme even though some participants still saw little relevance as to why they should learn varieties of English other than British and American. This slightly negative attitude may be attributed to the participants' limited previous exposure to varieties of English. The combination of limited duration, a big number of participants, and the online mode of the programme may also lessen the effectiveness and how well the materials on varieties of Englishes were delivered. Based on the limitations, it is suggested that to be more effective, future programmes were designed considering more carefully the duration of each meeting, the number of participants, as well as the participants' level of proficiency and previous background knowledge.

One important aspect of English language learning is vocabulary. However, the availability of vocabulary proficiency tests, both manual and computer-based, is still limited. Almost all currently existing vocabulary tests are monolingual and have not accommodated the needs of EFL learners. The objective of this study was to develop a web-based vocabulary size test for English learners in Indonesia. It consisted of 6 stages, namely: (1) needs analysis; (2) corpus selection and corpus data analysis; (3) sampling to select words from corpus data; (4) generating test items; (5) developing a web-based version of the test and pilot study; and (6) reflection and evaluation. Pilot study involved having a sample group of English learners in Indonesia try out the designed vocabulary size test. A paired-samples t-test was then used to determine whether there was a significant difference between the learners’ scores on the designed test and those on a free online vocabulary size test not specifically designed for Indonesian test takers. The t-test indicated that there was a significant difference between the designed test scores (M=6433, SD=1169) and free online test scores (M=5700, SD=1616); t(35)=-3.597, p = 0.001. The identifiable factors which seemed to contribute to this difference were different corpus data (COCA vs. BNC), different varieties of English (American vs. British), and different formats (bilingual vs. monolingual). Despite the difference, there was a positive correlation between the two tests (Correlation = 0.657) meaning that higher scores on one of the tests equals higher scores on the other.

This study aimed to investigate how metacognitive reading strategies correlate with EFL learners’ achievement. Three types of metacognitive reading strategies were measured in this study, namely: global reading strategies, problem-solving reading strategies, and support reading strategies. The data collection was conducted with 56 participants from an ESP reading class at a private university in Yogyakarta. This study found that problem-solving reading strategies and global reading strategies correlated positively with students’ achievement, while support reading strategies correlated negatively with their achievement. However, those correlations were not statistically significant. Therefore, it indicates insufficient evidence to suggest that the same correlations also happened in the population or that the observed correlations might have occurred by chance. Despite the correlations not being statistically significant, in this research, the participants were sampled from the population with a 95% confidence level and a margin of error of 5%.In addition to the findings, this study provides teachers with an example of a framework for a needs analysis to measure their students’ metacognitive reading strategies and help them plan more informed reading instruction.