22 articles in this issue
Erizal Lugman
International students must successfully adjust to cross-cultural differences in order to fulfil their academic goals while studying abroad. As a result, students must acquire new skills, especially intercultural competence, in order to properly communica... see more
Fitrawati Fitrawati,Hermawati Syarif,Muhammad Zaim,David D Perrodin
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a methodology for teaching and learning content via a foreign language, has become a promising method for developing critical reading material and fostering students' analytical thinking and reasoning abili... see more
Gabriel Fredi Daar,Ni Luh Sutjiati Beratha,I Made Suastra,Ni Wayan Sukarini
This study aims to find out the language politeness strategies applied by the tongka (spokesperson) and other parties involved in the belis negotiation speech event in the Manggarai community, the Pasat-Ruis dialect, Indonesia. This study used a phenomeno... see more
Hasnida Ahmad,Muhammad Zuhair Zainal
The Jigsaw II technique has been found to be effective in teaching and learning grammar based on cooperative learning. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the effect of the use of the Jigsaw II technique on Form Four students’ attitudes and ach... see more
Ignasia Yuyun
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak inevitably impacts the shift in teaching and learning activities worldwide. Online learning has been commonly applied in education, particularly in higher education. Notably, student engagement plays a pivotal role in the on... see more
Irfan Efendi,Fathur Rokhman,Rustono Rustono,Rahayu Pristiwati
Having a good command of public speaking skills has been considered a pivotal modal for students to gain academic achievement and professional success. Practicing to be a master of ceremony can be a means of elevating public speaking skills. However, mast... see more
Lan Wang,Ricky Lam
Although previous studies in the education field have investigated how teachers’ beliefs and practices converge or diverge, native English teachers’ (NETs) beliefs and practices remain underrepresented and underexplored, particularly with respect to unive... see more
Mahmud Layan Hutasuhut,Honglin Chen,Erika Matruglio
Critical thinking has been subject to various theoretical interpretations. Despite the differences, it has been perceived to principally build upon argumentation skills. One of the skills involves anticipation of the putative reader. This paper establishe... see more
Mister Gidion Maru,Gin Gin Gustine,Slamet Setiawan,Julio Juniver Tadete,Tirza Kumajas
The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has driven a world crisis that requires world leaders to respond by voicing their policies and solutions. The political addresses serve to be the path for these purposes. This creates the need for effective rhetorica... see more
Moises Damian Perales-Escudero,Rosa Isela Sandoval Cruz,Gerardo Bañalez Faz
Stance is a key and problematic domain for effective English for Academic Purposes (EAP) reading and writing. Insufficient awareness of stance, cultural attitudes about it, and poor teaching have been identified as underlying sources of stance-related dif... see more
Najah Ahmed Khamis Bin Hadjah,Mohd Hilmi Hamzah
Previous studies on the perception-production correlation focused mainly on transcriptions and native English speaker evaluations for production accuracy assessments; only a few included acoustic measurements. This study aims to investigate the production... see more
Nur Annisa Haris,Yusnita Febrianti,Nurenzia Yannuar
Comic books are taking a new turn as a medium of learning. The combination of modes of visual and verbal in comics is a rich source of meanings. They are arguably one of the contributors to why comic books are considered as a form of reading materials for... see more
Retty Isnendes
The present research is motivated by an examination of the intimate link between women, looms, and woven products. In ancient and traditional Sundanese cosmology, the loom is regarded as Nyai Pohaci's embodiment (the Goddess of Rice). It is not, therefore... see more
Rudy Sofyan,Bahagia Tarigan
The Translation as a Profession (TAP) course, offered in a translation study program at a state university in Sumatra, Indonesia, is designed to prepare its future graduates to become not only translation scholars but also professional translators and ent... see more
Shaista Rashid,Jocelyn Howard
This study investigated how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at a university in Pakistan experienced blogging on their smartphones as a means to gain more extensive autonomous practice writing in English. The blogging was done as a stand-alone... see more
Sri Handayani
This study examined potential verbal attacks in questioning delivered by a host of a political talk show in Indonesia. It aims at describing a realization of the potential verbal attacks in questioning and identifying the patterns which provides the resou... see more
Sultan Sultan,Muhammad Rapi,Hasnawi Haris,Muhammad Saleh
Government-issued communication messages are critical in resolving health problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision of linguistic speech acts also influences the behavior of obedient and disciplined individuals. Gender, age, and race are all pr... see more
Sumardi Sumardi,Rizki Indra Guci
The issues of inaccurate and invalid language assessment were mainly due to teachers’ lower level of assessment literacy and teachers' inadequate skills to design higher-order thinking skills (henceforth HOTS) based language assessments. Thus, this paper ... see more
Utami Widiati,Tengku Intan Suzila Tengku Sharif,Lina Hanifiyah,Meyga Agustia Nindya
Nurturing students to become engaged readers for literacy development may need teachers who can play roles as models of keen readers. This descriptive quantitative study aims to profile the reading engagement of Indonesian EFL teachers as perceived from r... see more
Uun Muhaji,Didi Suherdi,Pupung Purnawarman
Adopting and utilizing online technologies for emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic is a requirement for most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Indonesia in order to keep the pedagogical practice running. Having done the practice f... see more
Ekaterina Veselinovna Teneva,Ilya Bykov
The relations between language and politics in Covid-19 coverage have become significant issues following the rise of Chinese Covid-19 cases in 2022. The study aims to investigate specific rhetorical appeals and language means that were used by journalist... see more
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly,Muziatun Muziatun,Nanan Abdul Manan,Arrofa Acesta,Dadang Solihat
Academic writing seems daunting for novice writers. Unveiling cognitive processes of experienced writers in academic writing can presumably aid novice writers, primarily writing for publication. The purpose of this research is to explore the cognitive pro... see more