7 articles in this issue
Gunadi Harry Sulistyo
The National Examinations, including English as one component, have always implored controversies. And the government has still been determined in its commitment to execute the national examinations backed up with several accompanying arguments as an atte... see more
Dwi Poedjiastutie
This study was designed to examine the potential culture shock experienced by foreign students in Indonesian university. There were 10 foreign students who responded to the questionnaires sent by the writer through BIPA (Indonesian for foreigners) in inte... see more
Flora Debora Floris,Marsha Divina
The present study attempts to investigate kinds of reading skills that EFL (English as a Foreign Language) University students have difficulty with. For this purpose, two reading tests which covered seventeen kinds of reading skills were developed and adm... see more
Dedy Setiawan
The perceived needs of students learning EAP were analysed using a questionnaire which investigated the subjects preference for particular topics and various modes of learning in relation to both the target and present situation. The target situation in t... see more
Joseph Ernest Mambu
This paper attempts to document how the notion of discourse was made sense of by EFL teachers from the U.S.A. and by me as an Indonesian who read and commented on 16 narratives written by four male and four female pre-service/student teachers. While the A... see more
Kukuh Prayitno Subagyo
The American literary canons, mainly those of the nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties, had consistently portrayed women as subservient citizens. Women in the American culture had been put under men's domination and thus lost their identity and been ... see more
Zuliati Rohmah
This study is a part of a larger research project, by a team of English Language Training for Islamic Schools (ELTIS), into the resources used in MTs. This paper talks about the needs of Islamic Junior High Schools (Madrasah Tsanawiyah, henceforth, MTs) f... see more