21 articles in this issue
Angkita Wasito Kirana
The complexity of a reading process often becomes an obstacle for students with dyslexia, particularly those studying in bilingual schools. To date, few studies discuss the Indonesian-English bilingual dyslexic student’s reading processes when they encoun... see more
Budsaba Kanoksilapatham,Attapol Khamkhien
The increasing global and local demands to improve English proficiency have been a burgeoning challenge across the entire paradigm and domains. Specifically, in academia, the ability to read English research articles is of paramount importance. Meanwhile,... see more
Daflizar Daflizar,Eleni Petraki
The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to investigate how Indonesian undergraduate students perceive their teachers’ and their responsibilities in English language learning; (2) to investigate how the students perceive their abilities related to aut... see more
Devina Devina
Advanced language acquisition applies rigorous understanding of the target language (TL) which oftentimes achieved by comparing mother tongue features to the TL. This is where cross-linguistic influence (CLI) occurs as learners transfer knowledge among la... see more
Didik Rinan Sumekto,Taufiqulloh Taufiqulloh,Made Ratna Dian Aryani
In an attempt to increase reading performance at university level. This study aims at perceiving the experiential determinants of EFL students’ online reading performance. Data were collected from 182 undergraduate students’ self-rated questionnaire based... see more
Elis Homsini Maolida,Anisa Sofarini
Collaborative teaching has been performed by special educators in K-12 schools for decades, and myriads of studies have witnessed its promising impacts on both students and teachers. Notwithstanding its vogue, only a few studies have primarily dealt with ... see more
Fransiskus Dinang Raja,Suparno Suparno,Ngadiso Ngadiso
Previous studies have shown that the majority of teachers tend to be receptive towards translanguaging practices (Khairunnisa & Lukmana, 2020; McMillan & Rivers, 2011; Nambisan, 2014; Yuvayapan, 2019). However, in Indonesian context, there are rel... see more
Hadeel A Saed,Riyad F. Hussein,Ahmad S Haider,Saleh Al-Salman,Iyad M. Odeh
The aim of this research is two-fold; first, to explore the most frequent COVID-19 inspired words in medical news reporting contexts, and second, to classify them into different categories. This paper adopts a corpus-based approach to build a lemmatized a... see more
Hicham Lahlou,Hajar Abdul Rahim
Conceptual metaphors have received much attention in research on discourse about infectious diseases in recent years. Most studies found that conceptual metaphors of war dominate media discourse about disease. Similarly, a great deal of research has been ... see more
King Arman Alonzo Calingasan,Sterling Miranda Plata
Previous research on praising students to improve their motivation and their mindset had mixed results. This inconsistency was the impetus for this paper. The present study employed a mixed-method experimental design to examine the effects of effort prais... see more
Kurniawan Yudhi Nugroho,Zulfa Sakhiyya
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to the education sector. The shift from classroom-based conventional learning to virtual mode means that the study from home policy appears to place responsibilities of students learning on parents. By... see more
Mastewal Misganaw Alemayehu
Peer-led team learning (PLTL) has become common in ESL classrooms across Ethiopia. This study explores factors affecting PLTL in students' verbal participation in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). A descriptive survey was employed as a research method,... see more
Murad Abdu Saeed,Atef Odeh AbuSa’aleek,Huda Suleiman Al Qunayeer
How teachers can provide effective feedback that promotes' students' active responses to and use of it is the question of the current debate in research. The need for teachers to formulate/compose their feedback in the form of questioning alleviates their... see more
Nguyen Hai Quan
Identifying characteristics of effective teachers has always been a topic of paramount importance. Accordingly, an extensive volume of theoretical endeavours and empirical research has been devoted to the investigation of typical attributes that effective... see more
Nguyet Minh Nguyen
In English and Vietnamese, demonstratives are considered one of the most important linguistic items for their ability to enhance writing coherence. Crucial as they are, few investigations have been conducted to analyze the differences in their uses in Eng... see more
Septhia Irnanda,Marisa Yoestara,Ismawirna Ismawirna,Faisal Faisal
This study aimed, firstly, to observe the phonological change of the Standard Indonesian (SI), particularly the final-k syllabic pronunciation used in the journalistic videos aired between 1980 – 2019. Secondly, the study investigated the nature of the so... see more
Sri Harti Widyastuti
The Javanese healing texts are mostly found in Ancient Javanese and New Javanese. The texts depict the social-cultural backgrounds of the society producing the texts. Healing texts are written in particular patterns, completed with spell prayers which for... see more
Sri Harto,Fuad Abdul Hamied,Bachrudin Musthafa,Sri Setyarini
Although post-editing of machine translation (PEMT) has been much discussed and spoken among students in higher education institutions, little empirical evidence has been reported regarding the students’ real practices in their academic life. To fill this... see more
Syafryadin Syafryadin,Didi Suherdi,Nyayu Lulu Nadya,Alamsyah Harahap,Annisa Astrid
The significance of learner autonomy in today’s English Language Teaching (ELT) context has been well recognized and confirmed by many research findings; however, in some cases in which independent learning is not well established, the implementation may ... see more
Tanzir Masykar,Roshidah Binti Hassan,Stefanie Pillai
Previous studies have reported that second language (L2) learners filter non-native L2 sounds through their existing native or first language (L1) sounds when learning L2 sounds. The degree of similarity between L1 and L2 sounds can predict the ease of ac... see more
Wening Sahayu,Sulis Triyono,Eri Kurniawan,Putrasulung Baginda,Nurul Huda Gus Tema
Humor has been characterized as an index of children’s language development and cognitive performance. While research on this area has been abound cross linguistically, specific inquiry on children’s humor development in the Indonesian context remains sca... see more