The purpose of this study was to explore students' activities and perceptions in carrying out online lectures through the WhatsApp Group application, Google Classroom, and Zoom and finding effective ways to study during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study was expected to identify the readiness of students to follow online lectures and find effective ways to study as well as being the basis for higher education institutions to establish policies for implementing online lectures. The researcher used a qualitative study. The participants were the 33 EFL students of the English Department both male and female who joined the Essential Writing Class. The researcher used convenience sampling which invited subjects to participate. The instruments used in this research were a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Data analysis used was thematic coding. The results show that most students were ready to study online. They only focused on the material. However, they did not pay attention to the way they learned; that was online learning. There are three aspects involved to make the class more effective; they are the lecturer, the students, and the media. These three aspects must work together to create effective online courses. Keywords: perception, readiness, online
The study completion in undergraduate program (S1) requires the completion of thesis writing for students. The flow of thesis preparation at the Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS), Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa), has followed the Thesis Writing Guidebook issued by FBS Unesa. In the manual, the requirements and procedures for writing a thesis are clearly written. But even so, there are still many students who have not been able to complete their thesis writing on time, which hinders the completion of their studies. Therefore, it is necessary to identify students' difficulties in completing their studies, especially at the thesis writing stage. From the results of the distribution of research instruments in the form of questionnaires, it was concluded that there were five categories of difficulties faced by students, namely: 1) Difficulties in submitting / selecting research titles, 2) Difficulties in the consultation process, 3) Difficulties in data collection and processing, 4) Difficulties in the examination process, and 5) Difficulty in the revision process.
This research aims to analyze and investigate the rhetorical patterns used by undergraduate ELT students in writing the introductory section of thesis proposals. This study focuses on the rhetorical structures (rhetorical moves) used by the students, in particular how the argumentation and rhetorical patterns of thesis proposal writing are adopted by the students. This study uses a mixed sequential explanatory method, which investigates the rhetorical patterns used by students quantitatively through text analysis and continues with descriptive analysis using the Project Justifying Model (PJM) adapted from Swales' CARS. From the investigation and discussion, it was found the tendencies (general patterns) used by students in the introduction to confirm the previous studies to set the niche of their thesis proposals. The results corroborate the lack of rationale to argumentation, e.g. urgency and rationale upon the research proposal. The findings are expected to become the basis for the supervisory approach to ELT students in writing research proposal.
In the classroom, students need to have good reading comprehension. Without that, they will not have critical skills for studying academic material. However, many students in Indonesia still have difficulty understanding the text. Using an appropriate strategy can help them understand the text. Story maps can be used can be used for students to help them in understanding the text. This research aims to know students’ perceptions on the use of story maps in reading comprehension, the advantages and the difficulties of using story maps for students’ reading comprehension in class. This research was conducted to the students of tenth grade at one senior high school in Lamongan. The instruments in this study were a questionnaire and interview. The research design of this study used a qualitative research design. The technique to analyze the data were data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results show that story maps can help the students in understanding the text. Most students felt that they have an improvement in reading comprehension because they felt easy and fast to understand the text. Story maps also help the students understand the structure of the text and it was also an interesting activity. Besides that, the students also faced difficulties when using story maps such as difficult making the story maps, still don’t understand the concept of story maps and difficult to understand the content of the text so they also have difficulty in making story maps.
Education field has provided more space for teachers to be more creative in using technology, as well as being an opportunity to improve students' competence in facing the society 5.0 era. However, social conditions prove that not all teaching staff are able to adapt to the presence of a digital role in the education sector. This workshop was done through several methods, such as observation sheets, scoring rubrics, and questionnaires for pre and post test. The number of participant in this service community was 54 Engliah teachers for junior high in Trenggalek. The results showed that English teachers have experienced improvements in aspects of knowledge and skills related to making digital storytelling media based on local wisdom which can be used as alternative media. It could also improve the quality of teaching and learning. In addition, this service activity would be based on local wisdom considering that the Trenggalek area is a tourist area that is rich in tourist charm and has natural and cultural beauty so that it becomes a new tourist destination in Indonesia. It was concluded that PKM activities can run effectively and efficiently which can be seen in the increased aspects of knowledge and skills. For this reason, it is suggested that English teachers can take advantage of existing culture as an alternative to English teaching materials to attract and motivate students in learning English.
The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of the implementation of Storybird in writing a recount text for tenth-grade students in Surabaya Senior High School. Storybird is a web application that supports the educational process. Storybird is a creative digital storytelling website that allows students to write their own stories using its writing feature. Therefore, this study aimed to determine if there was a significant difference in the post-test score for producing a recount text between the experimental and control groups after Storybird was implemented. A quantitative method was used in this study, and a true experimental randomized subject posttest-only control group was the design. The samples of this study were 61 tenth-grade students of Senior High School in Surabaya from the experimental class and control class. The data were gathered through post-test and analyzed by the t-test formula using SPSS computation. The findings of this study revealed that there was a significant difference in post-test scores between the experimental and control groups. The independent sample t-test results were significant at .012 < .05, showing a significant difference in the post-test results. In conclusion, it suggested that students can implement Storybird in writing a recount text.
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