since the Covid-19 outbreak all of the institutions in Indonesia are forced to use online learning. The sudden use of online learning causes many obstacles. There are many previous studies explored the obstacles of online learning. However, this present study aims to find out the benefits and obstacles from the students’ experiences during online learning in the pandemic Covid-19. This present study is a qualitative research design which is used thematic analysis. Since the students’ characteristics and other factors are different with the previous studies, this present studies have different findings. The benefits that students can get from online learning experiences are students become technology literate, the learning become accessible and flexible, increase positive attitudes, and more efficient. Nevertheless, the obstacles are technology illiterate thus, students have difficulties to use online learning platform, the course material is less understandable, laziness, lack of communication among the students, time management, less lecturer’s guide, a lot of assignments, and cheating during the examination.
This study is try to find out the students’ attitude towards English language learning in Jombang elementary schools. Attitude is one of the factors that influence the language acquisition. The study used qualitative research methodology. The data were gathered by using questionnaire. The findings showed that most of the students have positive attitude towards English. But, there is a finding that showed the students’ competence in learning English is poor. Positive attitude did not influence their competence in acquiring English. Some suggestions for government to make a guide or curriculum of English teaching –learning in elementary school. So that the teachers know how to teach English for young learner appropriately.
The advantages of collaborative writing and peer feedback have contributed to give significant effect to the writing ability of L1 (first language) learners, L2 (second language) learners, and FL (foreign language) learners. The objective of this study was to find out the strengths and weaknesses of collaborative writing and peer feedback in an EFL intensive reading and writing coursework classroom especially in English education department students of Hasyim Asy’ari University. This study used a qualitative method where the data were described qualitatively. As this study used a qualitative approach, therefore observation and interview were used as instruments to collect the data. The result showed that collaborative writing and peer feedback strategies were not easy to be implemented in an EFL classroom. There were some strengths and weaknesses found during the observation. The strengths of these strategies showed that students could share ideas, improve grammar and vocabulary, make students more active, have good cooperation among peers, build self-confidence and make students happy. However, the strategies may not give any significant effect on the students’ cognitive ability in writing skills if most of the students have the low ability in mastering English. In addition, a smart student would prefer to write individually than in collaborative writing.
This research aimed to find out what teaching speaking techniques are used and the reasons for using the techniques by the tutors at Peace English Course, Pare, Kediri to overcome learners’ difficulties in speaking. The method of this research was a descriptive qualitative method. The researchers obtained the data by observing the three classes of speaking programs, interviewing the tutors of the three classes, and data documents from the Peace English Course. The finding of this research showed that the techniques applied by the tutors were Storytelling, conversation, presenting, problem-solving, discussion, debate, and speech. Story-telling and conversation were applied for the beginner level class while presentation, problem-solving, discussion, debate, and speech were applied for the advanced level class. The reasons for using the techniques were because they were considered fun and were able to make the learners practice more. For the learners who have difficulties in learning to speak, the tutors encourage and motivate them to practice more because every difficulty in the speaking learning process is considered to be easily solved by having more practice.
These present study aims are to find out the students’ L2 motivational self-system and the correlation between e-learning and L2 motivational self-system of English department students. This study was conducted in a private University in East Java, Indonesia. This study used a quantitative research design. L2MSS questionnaire and e-learning questionnaire were distributed to collect data from students, and the data were analyzed with the statistical method of Pearson's correlation coefficient. The findings show that the sub-factors of students’ L2MSS, namely the instrumentally –promotion, have the highest mean (M = 72.03, SD = 8.87). It means that the students do some efforts to achieve the goal in learning English for their future to get a better job and more money. While, the Integrativeness has the lowest mean (M = 16.25, SD = 1.66), which means the students have less effort in studying culture, and art of native speakers of the target language. In addition, the Pearson correlation output shows a positive correlation between e-learning and L2 motivational self-system even though with moderate correlation. The relationship between internet-based learning and students’ motivation is a fundamental factor that needs to be studied to improve the quality of teaching because technology is an essential part of higher education. It is suggested that further research explore more about the students L2MSS in other areas with different characteristics, using a mixed-method approach.
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