Social media has now much been integrated as a learning platform in various
educational settings, including those in Language Teaching and Learning (LTL).
Increasing number of studies has also reported the effectiveness of social media to
support LTL activities. This present study aimed to investigate whether Facebook, as
the most popular social media in Indonesia, would be an effective learning tool for EFL
university students taking advanced writing class. This study employed a case study
qualitative approach. The data were collected through questionnaire, interview, and
observation of students’ discussion on Facebook and then analyzed using frequency
count and thematic content analysis. The findings reveal that most students find
the use of Facebook in writing class effective in boosting their confidence in using
English as communicative means, encouraging their participation in class discussion,
and improving their English language proficiency, particularly the writing skill. This
study suggests that Facebook can be used as a supplementary learning tool in higher
education classrooms as it brings positive effect not only on students’ learning habits
but also competence.
Reported speech is one of difficult topics in learning English grammar, especially in changing the form from direct into indirect or reverse. Descriptive quantitative was used to find out the students’ ability in changing direct into indirect speech and reverse. There were five sentences that were changed by the students for two kinds of test. First, the test consisted of five direct sentences and the second, it consisted five indirect sentences. As the conclusion of the students’ answers, the students found difficulties in changing those two kinds of sentences.
Improving the quality of education is determined by the implementation of education management standards. An important factor for the success of learning is decided by the teacher's insight into classroom management. Library research is used to find answers to a problem by carrying out some activities to collect, process, and conclude data. Based on the data in this study, it was concluded that the objectives of classroom management: 1) to create conducive classroom situations and conditions, 2) to eliminate obstacles in teaching and learning interactions, 3) to provide and manage learning facilities, 4) to foster and to guide according to individual characteristics. There are three components in classroom management, namely: physical conditions, socio-emotional conditions, and organizational conditions. Actions that need to be taken in managing the class are preventive actions, corrective actions, and curative actions.
Reading comprehension is one of the skills that students must have to enrich their knowledge, especially university students. There are two kinds of reading strategies: Top – Down strategy and Bottom – Up Strategy. The aim of this research is to find information about students’ reading comprehension strategies that were applied by the students when they were given reading comprehension text. The research design was qualitative approach. The informants consisted of ten English educational department students, one reading subject lecturer and the head of English educational department. Interview and observation were the major sources of the data to find out the students’ strategies on reading comprehension. Based on those data, it was found that most of the students applied bottom – up strategies in reading comprehension texts
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