Abstract— The onslaught of technology in language learning necessitates ESP teachers to enhance their teaching quality by integrating technology, pedagogy, and subject matters. To this end, the present research was an effort to discern Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) of ESP teachers in a blended learning format. A modified online survey comprising 28 closed-ended questions were administered to 70 ESP instructors of nursing purposes from 35 Universities in Indonesia. The data were analyzed statistically to be depicted in descriptive statistics (percentages of frequencies, means, and standard deviations). As a result, three out of four TPACK subdomains, including technological content knowledge (TCK), and Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK), Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) have been mastered by most ESP teachers. However, they have to improve their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The current research also contributes some empirical insights into how ESP teachers can construct the overarching ESP instruction in English for nursing purposes integrating TPACK.
Along with the rapid development of technology and digital era, this research investigated and reveal millennial students about their reading habit and interest. Specifically, this paper investigates about students’ reading interest through creative WhatsApp<em> </em>status. This study was carried out by 18 students taking “Basic Reading” class and “Cultural Based Reading” class. It was conducted with descriptive qualitative method by using interview and observation of the students’ WhatsApp <em>status</em> screenshot. It is found that 89% students of English Department Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang are more interested in reading fiction than the factual text. Besides, students also find that learning using experiment with social media is fun and challenging.
This research aims at explaining communication strategies (CS) used by the 4 th semester students of English education in University of Muhammadiyah Semarang. Data gained from the transcription of YouTube video in each channel owned by students. This descriptive qualitative study observed the frequency of communication strategies employed by students by analyzing their utterance used Tarone's typologies of communication strategies. Based on the analysis, it can be seen that the use of communication strategies in speaking class were dominated by Topic Avoidance (28%), followed by Message Abandonment (24%), and Approximation (20%). After that, it is followed by Mime (16%), and Literal Translation (12%). It can also be said that the 4 th semester students of English department of University of Muhammadiyah Semarang employed 25 communication strategies in their YouTube video.
Students at Public Elementary School 03 Ujung-Ujung Pabelan learned English only in extracurricular activities, where grade 4 and grade 5 were joined in one class. The learning was done by memorizing vocabulary and learning the structure of English grammar. During extracurricular activities, students were not introduced to HOTS-based storytelling, they only learned English vocabulary and structures. Based on this explanation, students needed HOTS skills in learning English so that they can stimulate critical thinking skills in responding to reading and other English language materials. But in reality, they tended to memorize vocabulary and grammar relatively. Based on this statement, our service team focuses community service on the implementation of storytelling to increase student’s HOTS at 03 Elementary School Ujung-Ujung Pabelan Semarang, which had 42 students. The service method used is the lecture method, brainstorming, storytelling practice, and evaluation of the satisfaction of community service participants. The results show that the student’s HOTS in learning to read English stories, retelling what they had read, and increasing the students' critical thinking patterns. The students become motivated to retell story in English and the students improve their critical thinking patterns.
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