Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics  

Abdul Wahid Ibrahim Tocalo

Genre-based studies on moves structure of research article (RA) abstracts have established variations across cultures. However, previous studies included at most two countries for comparisons of abstracts written by native against non-native speakers. Wit... see more

Ahmed Bashir,Md Elias Uddin,Bijoy Lal Basu,Rubina Khan

During the brief coronavirus-induced hiatus in March and April 2020, educational institutions in Bangladesh including public universities began preparations for online classes. By the end of June, almost all private universities and a few public universit... see more

Dang Arif Hartono,Stefanus Angga Badara Prima

While the literature has shown that vocabulary mastery affects reading comprehension, only a few Indonesian researchers investigated this. To narrow this gap, this study aims to: 1) measure Indonesian university students' knowledge of receptive vocabulary... see more

Diana Hardiyanti,Yunita Nugraheni,Mangatur Nababan,Riyadi Santosa

As on old language, Javanese has its uniqueness. The uniqueness of Javanese language is reflected through the use of speech level and the distinctive specification in addressing things and activities. Consequently, Javanese language is rich with vocabular... see more

Erlik Widiyani Styati,Rojab Siti Rodliyah

Pair work, an activity involving learners working together in pairs, has been widely used in language learning, especially in writing classes. Many studies have reported the effectiveness of this technique in improving students’ writing. However, there is... see more

Estefanía Sánchez,Pedro Antonio Férez

Research on teacher perceptions on the use of films in the secondary school English classroom is scarce since most studies have focused on other educational levels and on the opinions of students. Besides, most of these studies are merely of a theoretical... see more

Imelda Gozali,Anita Lie,Siti Mina Tamah,Fransiskus Jemadi

This study is part of a larger-scale research aimed at mapping the pedagogical competence of teachers of English and Indonesian Language across three cities of differing demographic features in Indonesia. As a subset of the study, this paper focused on in... see more

Indah Permatasari,Erna Andriyanti

Teaching a foreign language needs to include its relevant culture as the context of the language use. However, studies indicate that many English lecturers in Indonesia have not integrated culture yet in their teaching materials, resulting in students’ lo... see more

Lydia Kaoo,Rose Acen Upor

This paper investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI) on the acquisition of English vocabulary by third language (L3) learners in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aims to establish how lemmatic CLI from L1 and L2 influences L3 in a multilingual rural ... see more

Mahardhika Zifana,Iwa Lukmana,Dadang Sudana

In Indonesia, the law that regulates defamation case is not only the Criminal Code but also the Law of the Republic Indonesia Number 11 of 2008 on Information & Electronic Transactions (the ITE Law). From 2009 to 2014, the ITE Law has brought 71 defen... see more

Nabaraj Neupane

Translation involves communication across languages and cultures. When one translates, s/he is involved in cross-cultural communication that is necessary in the current world scenario of globalization. English has been a global lingua franca that lubricat... see more

Narongdej Phanthaphoommee

This study examines how the weekly Thai prime ministerial address constitutes as a genre and explains its implications against the Thai socio-political backdrop. Drawing on data derived from Thaksin Shinawatra’s, Abhisit Vejjajiva’s, Yingluck Shinawatra’s... see more

Nur Arifah Drajati,Hilda Rakerda,Hefy Sulistyawati,Joko Nurkamto,Ma’rifatul Ilmi

Applying the Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge 21 Century Learning framework during pandemic gives both chances and challenges for English pre-service teachers. Due to the complexity of integrating the TPACK and 21CL skills, many pre-service... see more

Piyatida Changpueng,Pattama Patpong

Meetings are one of the common activities that play an important role in the field of business.  For the community of Thai engineers, meetings become the salient aspects of their work, and therefore the effective writing of minutes of meetings is req... see more

Rahmawaty Kadir

This study aims to investigate Indonesian females’ language choice in their interracial family in the home domain and factors that contribute to their language choice. Ultimately, the study seeks to describe the influence of language choice on maintaining... see more

Ranti Novianti,Syihabuddin Syihabuddin

This study aims to determine the impact of phonological instruction interventions on dyslexic students in elementary schools. We tested the effect of phonological instruction on phonological awareness, reading, and spelling skills in 4 participants who ha... see more

Ripan Hermawan,F.X. Rahyono,Ruswan Dallyono

In a criminal trial, the plea of the accused is arguably a very important appraising discourse tool functioning mainly to counter the crime narrative made by public prosecutors in their indictment and closing statement. As an appraisal instrument, the ple... see more

Saira Asad,Siti Noor Fazelah Binti Mohd Noor,Rohmani Nur Indah,Lutfan Bin Jaes

For the maintenance of the authorial voice, newspapers use rhetorical markers as an external supporting voice to win their readership. The current five-year studies show that news writers maintain engagement with their readers by their stances towards the... see more

Salim Nabhan

This case study seeks to examine pre-service teachers’ digital literacy conceptions in an EFL academic writing context and aims to identify pre-service teachers’ competences concerning the predominant dimensions of digital literacy encompassing critical t... see more

Stuart Mannix Foster,Alistair Welsh

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed behavioural norms and how people conceptualise everyday life. It has led to prolific use of specific terminology that is new or was previously outside the lexical boundaries of common use. Terms like ‘social distancing’, ... see more

Suharno Suharno,Sri Setyarini

The current rate of advancement in information and technology presents new challenges for EFL teachers at all levels of education. Students are confronted with perplexing data, leaving them feeling disoriented in the digital world and ignoring their aware... see more

Takad Ahmed Chowdhury,Sarbani Roy,Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan Abdullah

English proficiency is considered a door opener almost in any field anywhere in the world, yet all the attempts to improve effectiveness of teaching and learning of English language in Bangladesh seem to fail over decades. Although poor learning motivatio... see more

Utami Widiati,Anik Nunuk Wulyani,Niamika El Khoiri,Lina Hanifiyah,Meyga Agustia Nindya,Tengku Intan Suzila Tengku Sharif

This study aims to explore how, in relation to Indonesia’s Gerakan Literasi Sekolah (GLS – School Literacy Initiative), Indonesian English teachers of secondary schools conceptualize L2 literacy in terms of linguistic and other sign systems, cognitive, so... see more

Yulianeta Yulianeta,Rosmah Tami

It is commonly believed that obtaining a higher education is one way to elevate people's social class. Two movies, the Indonesian film Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini) ALNI (2010) and the Korean Parasite (PR) (2019), challenge this common belief. The two mov... see more