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Luke, Joice Yulinda This study describes the use of Facebook for educational purposes among female students. The study focuses on two main objectives. First, the study reveals the causes to use Facebook as educational platform. Second, the study depicts the learning activities which female students did with Facebook. To explore the findings, the study gathered… Continue reading Portraying the Use of Facebook for Educational Purposes Among Female Undergraduates: Causes and Activities

Maharsi, Ista Language learning strategies are important for students to help develop their language competences and succeed academically. This paper is aimed to identify the learning strategies used by two Thai university students taking English language training program. The two female students speak Thai language as their mother tongue, Bahasa Indonesia and English as their… Continue reading Learning Strategies of Two Thai Undergraduate Students

Thao, Phan Thi Kim Language autonomy is one of aspects in second language acquisition.  It becomes vital theme  for many scholars and researchers to investigate how language learners take responsibility for  their study. The current paper attempts to examine language autonomy strategies were used  EFL Vietnamese students to  engage the language process as well as… Continue reading EFL Vietnamese Students towards Language Learning Autonomy

NURAENI, NURAENI In the process of learning English, EFL learners undergo many difficulties and give negative attitude towards the language. This research is conducted to respond this phenomenon. The aim of this research is to find out problems encountered by students who learn English as a foreign language and how they cope with the problems.… Continue reading Problems Encountered by Learners and How to Deal with Them in Learning English as A Foreign Language

Hussein, Nur Hafezah Recently, alternative assessment has gained increasing attention especially in the context of Malaysian tertiary education. In line with this, the present study aimed at investigating Malaysian university students’ attitudes towards the use of wiki writing as an alternative assessment in English learning. 29 university students participated in this study and data was… Continue reading Pilot Study: Malaysian University Students’ Attitudes towards Wiki Writing as an Alternative Assessment

Andhini, Rifa Using different forms of assessment is beneficial. The practice will increase the reliability of the assessment itself and enable teachers to obtain deeper and richer information regarding students’ abilities. Even though it might present numerous challenges, applying the principle in assessment for young language learners can be advantageous as well. Thus, literature review… Continue reading Using Different Forms of Assessment to Assess Young Language Learners

Sulistyani, Ummi Nur Laila Improving the quality of education is one important point planned by Indonesian government. In order to achieve the good quality of education, Indonesian educational system has set the goal to be achieved; as written in Indonesian constitution number 20, year 2003. To achieve the national educational goals set by Indonesian government,… Continue reading The Importance of Needs Analysis in a Language Curriculum Development: An Evaluation to 2013 Curriculum

Aprillianti, Linda This study tries to explain in detail related to the differences between concept of evaluation on KTSP and 2013 Curriculum.  the curriculum may is  referred to as a set of plans and arrangements concerning the objectives, content, and lesson materials and methods used as guidelines for the implementation of learning activities to achieve… Continue reading Comparison between Concept of Evaluation on KTSP Curriculum and 2013 Curriculum

Pelawi, Rinawati Abstract This study is a critical discourse analysis towards an advertisement campaign by one of famous sport brands. Critical Discourse Analysis has been used mainly to examine how language is used to convey power and ideology in both written and oral discourse. There have been many studies on critical discourse analysis, however there… Continue reading ‘What are girls made of?’ A Critical Discourse Analysis

siahaan, junita This study investigated about the adjacency pairs in the conversation between David Frost and Paul Mc.Cartney. The aims of this study are to find out what types of adjacency pairs appeared in the conversation and what types of communicative function contained in the conversation between David and Paul. This research used qualitative descriptive… Continue reading AN An Analysis of Adjacency Pairs in The Conversation between David Frost and Paul Mc.Cartney