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Screen distractions and vocabulary gains in Memrise mobile-assisted vocabulary learning (MAVL) setting

Journal on English as a Foreign Language

Despite the significance of investigating the impact of screen distractions on mobile-assisted vo... more Despite the significance of investigating the impact of screen distractions on mobile-assisted vocabulary learning (MAVL), research in this area is limited. This experimental study investigated the impact of screen distractions on participants’ Memrise MAVL experience. It employed an exploratory case study design in an EFL flipped classroom setting and examined the impact of a two-week Memrise MAVL experience on participants' vocabulary gains, time spent on the process, engagement with screen activities, and the effect of screen distractions. The results showed no significant differences in the completion of target units between the control and experimental groups. However, there was a significant difference in the total amount of screen distractions among individuals in both groups. The study also found significant correlations between participants’ total finished target words and other dependent variables. The linear regression test indicated a strong correlation between total...

Screen distractions during Memrise MALL experience: Course-of-action study on students’ performance and perception

JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature)

This study employed Course-of-Action methodology in a mixed-methods approach to examine the impac... more This study employed Course-of-Action methodology in a mixed-methods approach to examine the impact of screen distractions on Memrise MALL experience in an EFL flipped classroom setting. An Exploratory Sequential Design was utilized to analyze the two-week Memrise MALL experience and its impact on the screen behaviors of 46 Indonesian first-year university students. Descriptive and nonparametric inferential statistics were employed to analyze the quantitative data, while confrontative interview data were transcribed and encoded using in vivo coding to mark key phrases in the participants' comments. Results of the study indicated that social media and entertainment apps were the most common type of distraction and that these distractions had a detrimental effect on task performance. The participants expressed their appreciation for the customizable learning experience and found the app layouts and gamification features were encouraging; however, they found it challenging to switch...

Supporting Children with Speech Delay: Speech Therapy Intervention Frameworks from Preschool Teachers

International Journal of Instruction

Perceptions of the Use of Project Based-Learning in the EFL Context

KnE Social Sciences, 2022

The goal of this study was to determine the views of students about project-based learning (PBL) ... more The goal of this study was to determine the views of students about project-based learning (PBL) in an EFL setting. This was a descriptive qualitative study with 31 participants who filled out a questionnaire. The findings revealed that students had a positive impression of the PBL method and agreed that it should be used in the learning process. Furthermore, the PBL had benefits for students’ learning. Based on these findings, language teachers and teacher educators can use PBL as a teaching method to improve students’ perception and performance in the learning process. Keywords: English language learning, perception, project-based learning

Coherence in Logical Thinking: A Conversation Analysis

Indonesian Journal of Basic Education, Nov 21, 2019

Rape by Blood Relatives: A Study of Children as Subjects of Sexual Assault

KnE Social Sciences

This study’s focus was children as the subjects of sexual assault by blood relatives, commonly kn... more This study’s focus was children as the subjects of sexual assault by blood relatives, commonly known as incest, in Kendari city. The main questions were: 1) what were the modus operandi of these blood relatives in committing the sexual assault; 2) what were the physical and psychological impacts inflicted on the victims; and 3) what were the treatments given by the authorities in an attempt to rehabilitate the victims from post-accident trauma? The data were collected through interviews, observations and document analysis. The findings indicated that these blood relatives committed the sexual assault based on the following modus operandi: isolating the victim from the neighbourhood, taking the victim on a trip, threatening the victim with killing or beating, teasing the victim by offering something desirable, or poisoning the victim with drugs. The physical impacts inflicted on the victims were vaginal infections with pus and blood streaming from the lesion, dysfunctions of the repr...

Our Digital Footprints during Online Service Learning From Home Program”: EFL Pre-Service Teachers’ Photovoice Analysis

International Journal of Transdisciplinary Knowledge, 2021

The major purpose of this narrative study is to investigate the EFL pre-service teachers’ digital... more The major purpose of this narrative study is to investigate the EFL pre-service teachers’ digital footprints in using digital tools during online service learning from home program in the time of COVID-19. The data in this study is drawn from five EFL pre-service teachers’ photovoices they have narrated on daily reports while conducting the online service learning program amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher accessed their daily reports page on academic information system (SIA) freely to collect five participants’ narrative photovoices. Then, those photovoices were analyzed using thematic analysis (TA) adopted from Braun and Clarke (2006) through coding the data by underlining code. Their photovoice revealed that all pre-service teachers have been engaged with digital skill, digital literacy, and community development leaving a plethora of digital footprints in the virtual world. However, this study implies that they were more creative in producing beneficial content for the...

Rethinking of Acquisition and Learning: A Systematic Review onMethods in Language Teaching and Learning. Thesis. English Education GraduateProgram, State University of Makassar

xiii ABSTRACT Azwar Abidin. 2014. , supervised by Mansur Akil and Muliati. This research was tryi... more xiii ABSTRACT Azwar Abidin. 2014. , supervised by Mansur Akil and Muliati. This research was trying to explore the characteristics of methods that serve to facilitate language acquisition and learning. It was also trying to provide a deep analysis from the critical perspective according to Freire’s conceptual framework of critical literacy education to give a different view of language teaching and learning. This research employed both systematic review and critical discourse analysis (CDA). Data in this research were in the form of text, particularly, discursive statements. The discursive statements in this research were the principal arguments of mainstream language teaching and learning methods and Freire’s conceptual framework of critical literacy education as counter-discursive statements. The data analysis was done through the combination of Van Dijk and Fairclough model of critical discourse analysis. The findings revealed that the methods that will serve to facilitate langua...

The Correlation Between Performances Among Lexical-Related Tasks and The Performance in The Sentence Construction Task

History: Received: 2020-12-18 Accepted: 2021-06-05 Published: 2021-06-22 This study employed a qu... more History: Received: 2020-12-18 Accepted: 2021-06-05 Published: 2021-06-22 This study employed a quantitative correlational design to explore the correlation between the students' performances among lexical-related tasks and how these tasks affect the performance in a sentence construction task. Using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22’s Pearson Partial Correlation Test, this study calculated participants' performance in primary lexical attributes by recognizing the following aspects of lexical knowledge: pronunciation patterns, morphological structures, syntactic properties, semantic characteristics such as abstract and interconnectedness, and a complete sentence construction in a strict naturalistic classroom setting. The test results showed that the participants made 297.05 seconds on average for 42 correct responses in Lexical Decision Task, 5.88 seconds per picture projected on the screen in Picture-Naming Task, 8.33 seconds for each word in Semantic Judgment Task, and 30.17 ...

Improving Students’ L2 Writing through Teacher’s Written Corrective Feedback

This qualitative study aims to improve students’ writing skill through teacher’s written correcti... more This qualitative study aims to improve students’ writing skill through teacher’s written corrective feedback based on 12 students’ writing at one of vocational schools in Kendari. It is expected that the students’ writing skill can be improved, and the students can participate actively in the English teaching and learning process. The instrument used in this study is documentation of students’ writing from the first draft until the third draft. To analyze the data, the researcher uses Creswell’s frame in 2009, such as: the data, displaying the data and concluding the data. The result of the study reveals that most of students improve their writing skill after being given teacher’s written corrective feedback and in the third draft , they make less mistake than the first draft. This study implies that, the use of teacher’s written corrective feedback in writing activity should be encouraged to improve the students’ writing ability. Keywords : Feedback; Qualitative; Teacher; Writing.

Systematic Approach to Teaching English Nouns in The Context of Private English Course Classroom Instruction

Vocabulary knowledge is a crucial component of successful language classroom instruction since al... more Vocabulary knowledge is a crucial component of successful language classroom instruction since all the main aspect of language teaching especially in second and foreign language classroom is depending on vocabulary mastery. In that case, the vocabulary instruction holds a crucial part that the teacher should pay a careful attention to make sure that the students learn the meanings of many words so they can communicate effectively and achieve academically. This research applied descriptive qualitative research to describe private English course instructors’ attitude toward teaching vocabulary through systematic approach and their students’ response. The researcher took notes while the classroom instruction took place and recorded the whole classroom interaction. By the end of the class, the researcher interviewed and transcribed their experience. The findings concluded that the instructors found this systematic approach was easy to implement and the students were engaged more in clas...

Expanding The Tradition in Language Teaching and Learning : The Critical Turn

In instrumentally rational language teaching, the teachers are prepared, from the very beginning ... more In instrumentally rational language teaching, the teachers are prepared, from the very beginning to accept without active response and to bring empirical knowledge formulated by professional curriculum developers and educational researchers into operation. They are merely pure technicians by means of their contributions toward curriculum development are strictly controlled and limited. Language teaching is adjusted to the administration of the learners from every aspect of their academic lives. It drives the practice in literacy teaching to situate learner's cognition on certain exceptional state to obtain an accurate and deep understanding to the structure of language he/ she processes and produces. The cultural understanding, logical reasoning, critical and transformational thinking, and moral consequence of goals such as regulation and usefulness are all out of consideration.

The Critical Literacy Education inside The Classroom: The Freirian Approach

International Conference on Language Education (ICOLE), 2015

The practice of language teaching and learning inside the classroom is, in fact, under the circum... more The practice of language teaching and learning inside the classroom is, in fact, under the circumstance of philosophical assumption or ideological framework. Teaching program and curriculum set are absolutely written on the basis of particular assumptions about the nature and value of knowledge. These assumptions mainly determine actual decisions in listing important items to be taught and learned along with the way those items are delivered. Approaches in language teaching have always been developed, in one hand, under consideration of linguistic and psychological theories of learning and educational objectives along with the expected demands of classroom teaching and learning in another hand.

Screen distractions and vocabulary gains in Memrise mobile-assisted vocabulary learning (MAVL) setting

Journal on English as a Foreign Language

Despite the significance of investigating the impact of screen distractions on mobile-assisted vo... more Despite the significance of investigating the impact of screen distractions on mobile-assisted vocabulary learning (MAVL), research in this area is limited. This experimental study investigated the impact of screen distractions on participants’ Memrise MAVL experience. It employed an exploratory case study design in an EFL flipped classroom setting and examined the impact of a two-week Memrise MAVL experience on participants' vocabulary gains, time spent on the process, engagement with screen activities, and the effect of screen distractions. The results showed no significant differences in the completion of target units between the control and experimental groups. However, there was a significant difference in the total amount of screen distractions among individuals in both groups. The study also found significant correlations between participants’ total finished target words and other dependent variables. The linear regression test indicated a strong correlation between total...

Screen distractions during Memrise MALL experience: Course-of-action study on students’ performance and perception

JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature)

This study employed Course-of-Action methodology in a mixed-methods approach to examine the impac... more This study employed Course-of-Action methodology in a mixed-methods approach to examine the impact of screen distractions on Memrise MALL experience in an EFL flipped classroom setting. An Exploratory Sequential Design was utilized to analyze the two-week Memrise MALL experience and its impact on the screen behaviors of 46 Indonesian first-year university students. Descriptive and nonparametric inferential statistics were employed to analyze the quantitative data, while confrontative interview data were transcribed and encoded using in vivo coding to mark key phrases in the participants' comments. Results of the study indicated that social media and entertainment apps were the most common type of distraction and that these distractions had a detrimental effect on task performance. The participants expressed their appreciation for the customizable learning experience and found the app layouts and gamification features were encouraging; however, they found it challenging to switch...

Supporting Children with Speech Delay: Speech Therapy Intervention Frameworks from Preschool Teachers

International Journal of Instruction

Perceptions of the Use of Project Based-Learning in the EFL Context

KnE Social Sciences, 2022

The goal of this study was to determine the views of students about project-based learning (PBL) ... more The goal of this study was to determine the views of students about project-based learning (PBL) in an EFL setting. This was a descriptive qualitative study with 31 participants who filled out a questionnaire. The findings revealed that students had a positive impression of the PBL method and agreed that it should be used in the learning process. Furthermore, the PBL had benefits for students’ learning. Based on these findings, language teachers and teacher educators can use PBL as a teaching method to improve students’ perception and performance in the learning process. Keywords: English language learning, perception, project-based learning

Coherence in Logical Thinking: A Conversation Analysis

Indonesian Journal of Basic Education, Nov 21, 2019

Rape by Blood Relatives: A Study of Children as Subjects of Sexual Assault

KnE Social Sciences

This study’s focus was children as the subjects of sexual assault by blood relatives, commonly kn... more This study’s focus was children as the subjects of sexual assault by blood relatives, commonly known as incest, in Kendari city. The main questions were: 1) what were the modus operandi of these blood relatives in committing the sexual assault; 2) what were the physical and psychological impacts inflicted on the victims; and 3) what were the treatments given by the authorities in an attempt to rehabilitate the victims from post-accident trauma? The data were collected through interviews, observations and document analysis. The findings indicated that these blood relatives committed the sexual assault based on the following modus operandi: isolating the victim from the neighbourhood, taking the victim on a trip, threatening the victim with killing or beating, teasing the victim by offering something desirable, or poisoning the victim with drugs. The physical impacts inflicted on the victims were vaginal infections with pus and blood streaming from the lesion, dysfunctions of the repr...

Our Digital Footprints during Online Service Learning From Home Program”: EFL Pre-Service Teachers’ Photovoice Analysis

International Journal of Transdisciplinary Knowledge, 2021

The major purpose of this narrative study is to investigate the EFL pre-service teachers’ digital... more The major purpose of this narrative study is to investigate the EFL pre-service teachers’ digital footprints in using digital tools during online service learning from home program in the time of COVID-19. The data in this study is drawn from five EFL pre-service teachers’ photovoices they have narrated on daily reports while conducting the online service learning program amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The researcher accessed their daily reports page on academic information system (SIA) freely to collect five participants’ narrative photovoices. Then, those photovoices were analyzed using thematic analysis (TA) adopted from Braun and Clarke (2006) through coding the data by underlining code. Their photovoice revealed that all pre-service teachers have been engaged with digital skill, digital literacy, and community development leaving a plethora of digital footprints in the virtual world. However, this study implies that they were more creative in producing beneficial content for the...

Rethinking of Acquisition and Learning: A Systematic Review onMethods in Language Teaching and Learning. Thesis. English Education GraduateProgram, State University of Makassar

xiii ABSTRACT Azwar Abidin. 2014. , supervised by Mansur Akil and Muliati. This research was tryi... more xiii ABSTRACT Azwar Abidin. 2014. , supervised by Mansur Akil and Muliati. This research was trying to explore the characteristics of methods that serve to facilitate language acquisition and learning. It was also trying to provide a deep analysis from the critical perspective according to Freire’s conceptual framework of critical literacy education to give a different view of language teaching and learning. This research employed both systematic review and critical discourse analysis (CDA). Data in this research were in the form of text, particularly, discursive statements. The discursive statements in this research were the principal arguments of mainstream language teaching and learning methods and Freire’s conceptual framework of critical literacy education as counter-discursive statements. The data analysis was done through the combination of Van Dijk and Fairclough model of critical discourse analysis. The findings revealed that the methods that will serve to facilitate langua...

The Correlation Between Performances Among Lexical-Related Tasks and The Performance in The Sentence Construction Task

History: Received: 2020-12-18 Accepted: 2021-06-05 Published: 2021-06-22 This study employed a qu... more History: Received: 2020-12-18 Accepted: 2021-06-05 Published: 2021-06-22 This study employed a quantitative correlational design to explore the correlation between the students' performances among lexical-related tasks and how these tasks affect the performance in a sentence construction task. Using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22’s Pearson Partial Correlation Test, this study calculated participants' performance in primary lexical attributes by recognizing the following aspects of lexical knowledge: pronunciation patterns, morphological structures, syntactic properties, semantic characteristics such as abstract and interconnectedness, and a complete sentence construction in a strict naturalistic classroom setting. The test results showed that the participants made 297.05 seconds on average for 42 correct responses in Lexical Decision Task, 5.88 seconds per picture projected on the screen in Picture-Naming Task, 8.33 seconds for each word in Semantic Judgment Task, and 30.17 ...

Improving Students’ L2 Writing through Teacher’s Written Corrective Feedback

This qualitative study aims to improve students’ writing skill through teacher’s written correcti... more This qualitative study aims to improve students’ writing skill through teacher’s written corrective feedback based on 12 students’ writing at one of vocational schools in Kendari. It is expected that the students’ writing skill can be improved, and the students can participate actively in the English teaching and learning process. The instrument used in this study is documentation of students’ writing from the first draft until the third draft. To analyze the data, the researcher uses Creswell’s frame in 2009, such as: the data, displaying the data and concluding the data. The result of the study reveals that most of students improve their writing skill after being given teacher’s written corrective feedback and in the third draft , they make less mistake than the first draft. This study implies that, the use of teacher’s written corrective feedback in writing activity should be encouraged to improve the students’ writing ability. Keywords : Feedback; Qualitative; Teacher; Writing.

Systematic Approach to Teaching English Nouns in The Context of Private English Course Classroom Instruction

Vocabulary knowledge is a crucial component of successful language classroom instruction since al... more Vocabulary knowledge is a crucial component of successful language classroom instruction since all the main aspect of language teaching especially in second and foreign language classroom is depending on vocabulary mastery. In that case, the vocabulary instruction holds a crucial part that the teacher should pay a careful attention to make sure that the students learn the meanings of many words so they can communicate effectively and achieve academically. This research applied descriptive qualitative research to describe private English course instructors’ attitude toward teaching vocabulary through systematic approach and their students’ response. The researcher took notes while the classroom instruction took place and recorded the whole classroom interaction. By the end of the class, the researcher interviewed and transcribed their experience. The findings concluded that the instructors found this systematic approach was easy to implement and the students were engaged more in clas...

Expanding The Tradition in Language Teaching and Learning : The Critical Turn

In instrumentally rational language teaching, the teachers are prepared, from the very beginning ... more In instrumentally rational language teaching, the teachers are prepared, from the very beginning to accept without active response and to bring empirical knowledge formulated by professional curriculum developers and educational researchers into operation. They are merely pure technicians by means of their contributions toward curriculum development are strictly controlled and limited. Language teaching is adjusted to the administration of the learners from every aspect of their academic lives. It drives the practice in literacy teaching to situate learner's cognition on certain exceptional state to obtain an accurate and deep understanding to the structure of language he/ she processes and produces. The cultural understanding, logical reasoning, critical and transformational thinking, and moral consequence of goals such as regulation and usefulness are all out of consideration.

The Critical Literacy Education inside The Classroom: The Freirian Approach

International Conference on Language Education (ICOLE), 2015

The practice of language teaching and learning inside the classroom is, in fact, under the circum... more The practice of language teaching and learning inside the classroom is, in fact, under the circumstance of philosophical assumption or ideological framework. Teaching program and curriculum set are absolutely written on the basis of particular assumptions about the nature and value of knowledge. These assumptions mainly determine actual decisions in listing important items to be taught and learned along with the way those items are delivered. Approaches in language teaching have always been developed, in one hand, under consideration of linguistic and psychological theories of learning and educational objectives along with the expected demands of classroom teaching and learning in another hand.