While learner autonomy has proved to be one of the determinants of successful language learning, little has been scrutinized when implemented in EFL online learning settings. This study aimed to investigate learner autonomy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) online classes as viewed from the students’ standpoints. Through a mixed-method approach, the researchers collected data both quantitatively and qualitatively using questionnaires and interviews. As many as 513 students from 8 universities across Indonesia filled out the questionnaires, and 10 of them were interviewed to corroborate the findings. The quantitative data were converted into percentages, while the qualitative ones were analyzed using content analysis by categorizing them into themes, coding, and evaluating to find connections. The findings show that most students (80.5%) had positive attitudes towards their autonomy during English online learning, as indicated in their motivation to be self-reliant. Even so, this positive attitude did not imply satisfactory learning outcomes, for there were only 18.5% of the students who got an A in their English course. To make learner autonomy impact achievement, lecturers could take pedagogical measures, such as encouraging peer-tutoring, selecting interesting and easy-to-use online learning platforms, and implementing the Project-Based Learning model. These findings imply that teachers should be more thoughtful in selecting learning activities and settings that could stimulate the development of learner autonomy.
The existence of the COVID-19 pandemic forces the Indonesian government to carry on online learning at all education levels, to keep the teaching and learning going on. For students, this ongoing online learning has brought about various impacts on their online learning success. One important factor determining online learning success is students’ interaction. Thus, paying more attention to whether an online learning environment has promoted the students’ interaction is crucial to creating successful online learning. This study aimed to investigate the dimensions of students’ interaction in the online listening learning environment. Moreover, this study also tried to explore how students perceived the interaction in the online listening learning environment. There were 78 students majoring in English Education as participants in this study. A convergent mixed-method was applied in this study, in which the results of the quantitative and qualitative data analysis were brought together. A modified questionnaire of OLLES (Online Learning Environment Survey) and a close-ended interview were carried out to gather the data. The results showed that the dimensions of interaction in the online listening learning environment had a statistically significant high rating. The interaction between the lecturer and the students placed the highest among all of the dimensions. Overall, all the dimensions of interaction in online listening learning were highly perceived by the students. The implications suggested that providing well-designed authentic materials, collaborative activities, and asynchronous models were needed to support the students’ online learning performance.
This study aimed at investigating the students’ linguistic and non-linguistic constraints in doing the Structure and Written Expression section of the TOEFL. This was a qualitative study in the form of a case study and was carried out in two universities in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The data comprised document analysis on 42 students’ answer sheets on TOEFL and interviews with four students. The data were analyzed using the difficulty index (IF) formula proposed by Brown (2004) and the interactive model developed by Miles and Huberman (1994) for quantitative and qualitative data, respectively. The findings revealed that the students encountered three linguistic constraints in terms of grammatical items as caused by both intralingual and interlingual interference: active-passive verbs, double comparatives, and pronoun-noun agreement. Besides, non-linguistic factors such as unpleasant past learning experiences and limited exposure to the L2 worsened their performance on the test.
Keterampilan literasi digital di era pembelajaran abad 21 memegang peranan penting sebagai salah satu indikator penentu keberhasilan terutama dalam pembelajaran daring. Kemampuan literasi digital seorang guru merupakan salah satu kunci dalam pelaksanaan pembelajaran daring. Untuk mendukung kemampuan literasi digital perlu melibatkan peran aktif dari berbagai pihak secara bersama-sama khususnya di lingkungan sekolah. Kegiatan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk membekali guru-guru SDN Kedungsari 1 dan 5 di Magelang Selatan agar para guru memiliki keterampilan literasi digital, terutama dalam memanfaatkan media ajar berbasis digital literacycloud.org untuk mengakses berbagi media pembelajaran digital serta pemanfaatan sumber informasi secara efektif, tepat, dan terpercaya. Dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini menggunakan tiga metode pendekatan yaitu wawancara, workshop dan praktik terbimbing, dan evaluasi. Sebanyak 25 guru SD dari kedua sekolah mitra berpartisipasi dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini. Pelatihan ini mendapat respon yang sangat positif dari para guru. Hasil dari pelatihan ini dapat mereka manfaatkan sebagai bahan dan media ajar pembelajaran daring di kelas mereka masing-masing. Pelatihan ini memiliki implikasi positif untuk mendukung peningkatan kemampuan literasi digital guru SD yang sangat diperlukan untuk mendukung pembelajaran daring di era pandemic COVID 19 ini.
The development of computers and information technology today has influenced each individual's work patterns and activities in education, especially in the teaching-learning process. This study aimed to find out the effectiveness of an intervention using ELITA to enhance the academic writing of college students. ELITA is a learning management system that Universitas Tidar uses. It tries to reveal whether there is any effect on the writing ability of the students taught using ELITA media. This study was quantitative research. The sample of this research was 32 students in the English study program at Universitas Tidar. Between the study's beginning and end, they were given two months of treatment. It can be seen in the result of the paired sample t-test that the t-observed (6.038) was higher than the t-table (1.697). The t-test showed that the p-value (Sig.) was 0.000, the significance level was 5%, and the degree of freedom was 31. Therefore, the results showed that there was a significant effect on the writing ability of the students taught using ELITA. The use of ELITA media can be alternative media to support the student's practice writings.
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