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
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.
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