I am an English instructor at Universitas Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin, indonesia. I teach English and English for Specific Purposes, English for Nursing. My field of interest is the application of Systemic Functional Linguistics in TESOL pedagogy. Address: Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan, Indonesia
Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time consumin... more Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time consuming work for students who are non-native speakers of the language. It might be more challenging when the L1 text is a discipline specific text. Many words and specific terms are difficult to translate and often unintended meanings emerge during this translation process. Although there have been considerable research on the translation studies, there has been still little study on how translators cope with the challenges. To fill this void, this case study is aimed to describe techniques employed by students majoring pharmacy in translating direction for use texts from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Adopting Vinay's and Darbelnet's (1996) translation methodology, this research is aimed to describe the translation process that students already undertook in order to produce texts that appropriately work in a particular social context. There are four direction for use texts taken as samples of analysis. These texts are students' assignment for the topic of translation. This is a group work and part of the whole assessment. The study provides detailed and specific examples of how students tackle the challenges of translating discipline specific texts into equivalent languages that are socio-culturally and linguistically acceptable. It is hoped that this research will make some contribution to a more accessible information in pharmaceutical literature written in English.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) atau pengajaran bahasa Inggris menggunakan pendekatan komun... more Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) atau pengajaran bahasa Inggris menggunakan pendekatan komunikatif merupakan topik yang masih menjadi perdebatan panjang terutama dalam keberhasilan pengajaran Bahasa Inggris. Munculnya CLT ini dilandasi oleh pemikiran bahwa belajar bahasa tidak bisa dipisahkan dari fungsinya sebagai sarana komunikasi. Tidak terkecuali penerapan CLT dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris di Perguruan Tinggi pun masih menjadi perdebatan antara kemampuan mahasiswa memahami teks-teks ilmiah berbahasa Inggris atau mampu berkomunikasi dengan baik. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendapatkan gambaran tentang penerapan CLT dalam konteks perguruan tinggi di Indonesia, tantangan-tantangan yang dihadapi para dosen dalam pelaksanaan CLT serta aktifitas dan materi yang digunakan dalam pelaksanaan CLT untuk menunjang keberhasilan belajar mahasiswa. Metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi digunakan untuk menganalisis secara kritis hasil refleksi diri dosen-dosen pengasuh mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris. Data didapatkan melalui teknik wawancara mendalam terkait penggunaan CLT dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris untuk pengembangan kemampuan reseptif (mendengar dan membaca) dan kemampuan produktif (menulis dan berbicara) mahasiswa. Responden adalah dosen-dosen pengajar mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris yang menerapkan CLT dalam pengajaran mereka. Responden dipilih secara random dan bersedia memberikan refleksinya tentang CLT dalam proses belajar mengajar. Implikasi penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan kontribusi dalam bidang metodologi pengajaran bahasa Inggris, khususnya pengajaran bahasa Inggris pada level perguruan tinggi. Strategi pengajaran tersebut bisa menjadi alternatif masukan bagi dosen-dosen Bahasa Inggris lainnya.
Media, such as newspapers, take their role in shaping public opinions by positioning the readers,... more Media, such as newspapers, take their role in shaping public opinions by positioning the readers, either to favor or disfavor with specific issues. Even though the sources are the same, the news item may be presented differently. This is because the news reportings are socially, economically, and politically conditioned, thus news is always broadcasted from a particular point of view. An attributed source is just one of the ways journalists work to implicitly position the audiences’ inferences whether they want to align or disalign the audiences with their attitudinal position. To understand this attitudinal positioning in journalistic commentary, the current study identifies and describes the evaluative workings of excerpts of three different newspapers which are called The Guardian Australia, The Jakarta Post (English printed Indonesian local newspaper, and Daily Mail Australia, regarding the Australian Government’s responses to the death penalty for the “Duo Bali Nine” in 2015....
International Journal of Educational Best Practices, 2017
This study analyses 25 nursing care reports written by nursing students majoring in the Internati... more This study analyses 25 nursing care reports written by nursing students majoring in the International Class of Nursing Diploma at a higher education institution in Indonesia. The main research focus is to assess the cohesion and coherence of nursing care reports in relation to their grades. The Systemic Functional Linguistics framework, with a focus on the textual metafunction, serves as a tool for analyzing cohesion, Thematic structures and Thematic development of the texts. The analysis of text cohesion revealed that all texts predominantly used lexical cohesion and reference to build internal ties within the texts. Reiteration of the same lexical items throughout the texts and heavy use of personal pronouns indicated the exploitation of these systems. In terms of coherence via Thematic structure, it was found that textual Themes were predominantly used. All the texts relied heavily on unmarked Themes, with no evidence indicating a proportional use of marked and unmarked Themes. I...
International Journal of Educational Best Practices, 2019
English for nursing is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes. This type of English... more English for nursing is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes. This type of English lesson requires the teacher to choose a specific method in order to meet a specific learning objective. The final goal of learning this kind of English is to equip learners with competencies that suit their future job, one of them, is English skill. This is inseparable from the choice of an appropriate teaching method by the teacher. Many studies on the implementation of specific teaching methods have been undertaken. However, little is still known about the students' responses to the implementation of Task-Based Language Instruction in English for Nursing Classes. To fill this gap, the current study shed a light on this matter. This qualitative research aimed to explore students’ perception of this teaching method. There were 58 nursing students invited as the respondents. The data were garnered through interview and questionnaires. The implication of this research is to be contrib...
The inclusion of information and communication technology is a requirement in today’s education. ... more The inclusion of information and communication technology is a requirement in today’s education. During the COVID-19 outbreak, this necessity becomes more significant since we need to move from face-to-face to online classrooms. This article aims to explore English teachers’ perception and use of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-two English teachers in South Kalimantan voluntarily joined this research. Questionnaire and interview are two main instruments to collect the data. The questionnaire explored their perceptions on how technology helped them in improving the learning quality during remote teaching. Then, the interview is intended to deepen the data regarding the information given by the participants. The findings reveal that most English teacher's had positive attitudes toward the use of technology to improve the quality of learning. In addition, the condition of COVID-19 made them learn to use various digital tools to teach English. Some challenges and re...
OMNICODE Journal (Omnicompetence Community Developement Journal)
The publication of articles is a place for teachers to share their teaching experiences. In addit... more The publication of articles is a place for teachers to share their teaching experiences. In addition, the publication of articles can support the careers of teachers in promotion. However, it was found that teachers had difficulty in publishing their writings in the Open Journal System. This community service activity aims to provide assistance to English teachers’ association members (MGMP) in South Kalimantan region. Six groups of teachers joined the assistance project, but only two groups can finally submit their papers in the online journal system. The method used is lecture, simulation and discussion through Zoom Meeting. The results of the community service showed that teachers can publish their scientific papers on the Open Journal System. The teachers’ problem is they confuse how to finish writing their scientific papers before they can submit it. While the submission is not really difficult for them, but of course they need some guidance and practice to do it correctly
This research reports on the results of an interview study of nine English teachers at vocational... more This research reports on the results of an interview study of nine English teachers at vocational schools (VS) in Indonesia. The study aimed to explore English teachers’ voices of the revitalization program at VS’s in Indonesia. The study shed the light on two major issues of English teaching and learning at VS’s concerning revitalization program implementation. The two main themes were the use of specific technology in the language classroom and video mediated language learning in vocational English classroom.The results indicated that most of teachers more preferably used social media for teaching than utilizing a learning management system (LMS). Teachers have used video mediated teaching method for their English classes either self-production videos or a ready-made video from the internet. English for business was also introduced to students to equip them with basic knowledge for a job selection The results have implications for the implementation of revitalization programs i...
Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) diharapkan bisa memberikan jalan keluar terhadap permasalahan pen... more Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) diharapkan bisa memberikan jalan keluar terhadap permasalahan pengangguran dan kemiskinan, kenyataannya justru lulusan SMK menyumbang angka penggangguran tertinggi di Indonesia. Mengingat peran Muhammadiyah untuk membawa kebaikan bagi lingkungan sekitar, perlu kiranya kita melihat bagaimana peran Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Muhammadiyah (SMKM) dalam membina kader-kadernya agar mempunyai keterampilan yang mumpuni agar siap kerja dan pada waktunya akan membesarkan nama Muhammadiyah. Pemerintah membuat kebijakan berupa Revitalisasi SMK untuk meningkatkan mutu lulusan SMK dan menyelesaikan permasalahan-permasalahan pengangguran dan kemiskinan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tingkat pemahaman para pimpinan SMKM tentang kebijakan mengenai strategi revitalisasi SMK, permasalahan-permasalahan yang dihadapi, serta harapan mereka terhadap pengembangan SMKM ke depan, terutama untuk meningkatkan kualitas kader Muhammadiyah lulusan SMKM. Peneliti...
Speaking is one of the four macro skills of English. It is also a productive skill that requires ... more Speaking is one of the four macro skills of English. It is also a productive skill that requires language learners to gain much exposure to use it. Accuracy and fluency are two elements to be used as parameters of speaking ability for foreign language learners. Apart from this, language learners still find it hard to express out their speaking ability in front of classroom as well as outside the class. Lack of self confidence, limited vocabulary acquisition, and English grammar have become obstacles for learners to develop their speaking ability. Through this hands-on workshop, we introduced three educational games, namely, hot seat, comic strip, and that’s an unusual view to students and teachers at panti Asuhan Sentosa Banjarmasin. These games are intended to make learning english more fun, to help students gain self confidence to use the language, and to boost cooperative work between students and teachers. The participants responded positively to the ideas and they would use tho...
Situated in character-based education, the Indonesian Government mandates all teachers to incorpo... more Situated in character-based education, the Indonesian Government mandates all teachers to incorporate moral values into school subjects. Teaching English to young learners (TEYL) is no exception. Little empirical evidence reports how school textbooks (e.g., language textbooks) discursively teach particular values explicitly and implicitly. To validate whether English for young learners (EYL) textbooks teach particular moral values, the present critical discourse study (CDA) reported in this article examines how moral content is discursively infused into EYL textbooks. Framed in Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory, it looks specifically at how particular moral values are represented in three nationally-adopted EYL textbooks through lexical choices, the representation of images, and selected texts that the textbook writers use to represent their attitudinal discourse. The findings show that the value of helping others is predominantly represented in the textbooks. ...
English for Specific Purposes, which has been so-called ESP, created to achieve specific learning... more English for Specific Purposes, which has been so-called ESP, created to achieve specific learning goals for specific students in a specific field. Therefore, an ESP instructor is required to find specific teaching techniques in order to meet students’ learning needs. This in-practice article reports the implementation of step by step of teaching nursing English through a simulation technique. This study attempted to examine the impact of this teaching technique on the improvement of students’ language skills. There have been abundant resources of research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes. However, there is still little known study in the field of nursing English, particularly, the investigation of the impact of nursing simulation techniques on nurse students’ language learning achievement. To fill this void, the current study invited 58 nurse students to participate in this research. The simulation teaching technique was introduced to a nursing English class. ...
Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time-consumin... more Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time-consuming work for students who are non-native speakers. It might be more challenging when the L1 text is a discipline specific text. Many words and specific terms are difficult to translate, and often unintended meanings emerge during this translation process. Although there has been considerable research on the translation studies, there has been still little study on how translators cope with the challenges. To fill this void, this case study is aimed to describe techniques employed by students majoring pharmacy in translating direction for use texts from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Adopting Vinay’s and Darbelnet’s (1996) translation methodology, this research is aimed to describe the translation process that students already undertook in order to produce texts that appropriately work in a particular social context. There are four drug brochures taken as samples of analysis. These texts ar...
Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time consumin... more Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time consuming work for students who are non-native speakers of the language. It might be more challenging when the L1 text is a discipline specific text. Many words and specific terms are difficult to translate and often unintended meanings emerge during this translation process. Although there have been considerable research on the translation studies, there has been still little study on how translators cope with the challenges. To fill this void, this case study is aimed to describe techniques employed by students majoring pharmacy in translating direction for use texts from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Adopting Vinay's and Darbelnet's (1996) translation methodology, this research is aimed to describe the translation process that students already undertook in order to produce texts that appropriately work in a particular social context. There are four direction for use texts taken as samples of analysis. These texts are students' assignment for the topic of translation. This is a group work and part of the whole assessment. The study provides detailed and specific examples of how students tackle the challenges of translating discipline specific texts into equivalent languages that are socio-culturally and linguistically acceptable. It is hoped that this research will make some contribution to a more accessible information in pharmaceutical literature written in English.
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) atau pengajaran bahasa Inggris menggunakan pendekatan komun... more Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) atau pengajaran bahasa Inggris menggunakan pendekatan komunikatif merupakan topik yang masih menjadi perdebatan panjang terutama dalam keberhasilan pengajaran Bahasa Inggris. Munculnya CLT ini dilandasi oleh pemikiran bahwa belajar bahasa tidak bisa dipisahkan dari fungsinya sebagai sarana komunikasi. Tidak terkecuali penerapan CLT dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris di Perguruan Tinggi pun masih menjadi perdebatan antara kemampuan mahasiswa memahami teks-teks ilmiah berbahasa Inggris atau mampu berkomunikasi dengan baik. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendapatkan gambaran tentang penerapan CLT dalam konteks perguruan tinggi di Indonesia, tantangan-tantangan yang dihadapi para dosen dalam pelaksanaan CLT serta aktifitas dan materi yang digunakan dalam pelaksanaan CLT untuk menunjang keberhasilan belajar mahasiswa. Metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi digunakan untuk menganalisis secara kritis hasil refleksi diri dosen-dosen pengasuh mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris. Data didapatkan melalui teknik wawancara mendalam terkait penggunaan CLT dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris untuk pengembangan kemampuan reseptif (mendengar dan membaca) dan kemampuan produktif (menulis dan berbicara) mahasiswa. Responden adalah dosen-dosen pengajar mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris yang menerapkan CLT dalam pengajaran mereka. Responden dipilih secara random dan bersedia memberikan refleksinya tentang CLT dalam proses belajar mengajar. Implikasi penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan kontribusi dalam bidang metodologi pengajaran bahasa Inggris, khususnya pengajaran bahasa Inggris pada level perguruan tinggi. Strategi pengajaran tersebut bisa menjadi alternatif masukan bagi dosen-dosen Bahasa Inggris lainnya.
Media, such as newspapers, take their role in shaping public opinions by positioning the readers,... more Media, such as newspapers, take their role in shaping public opinions by positioning the readers, either to favor or disfavor with specific issues. Even though the sources are the same, the news item may be presented differently. This is because the news reportings are socially, economically, and politically conditioned, thus news is always broadcasted from a particular point of view. An attributed source is just one of the ways journalists work to implicitly position the audiences’ inferences whether they want to align or disalign the audiences with their attitudinal position. To understand this attitudinal positioning in journalistic commentary, the current study identifies and describes the evaluative workings of excerpts of three different newspapers which are called The Guardian Australia, The Jakarta Post (English printed Indonesian local newspaper, and Daily Mail Australia, regarding the Australian Government’s responses to the death penalty for the “Duo Bali Nine” in 2015....
International Journal of Educational Best Practices, 2017
This study analyses 25 nursing care reports written by nursing students majoring in the Internati... more This study analyses 25 nursing care reports written by nursing students majoring in the International Class of Nursing Diploma at a higher education institution in Indonesia. The main research focus is to assess the cohesion and coherence of nursing care reports in relation to their grades. The Systemic Functional Linguistics framework, with a focus on the textual metafunction, serves as a tool for analyzing cohesion, Thematic structures and Thematic development of the texts. The analysis of text cohesion revealed that all texts predominantly used lexical cohesion and reference to build internal ties within the texts. Reiteration of the same lexical items throughout the texts and heavy use of personal pronouns indicated the exploitation of these systems. In terms of coherence via Thematic structure, it was found that textual Themes were predominantly used. All the texts relied heavily on unmarked Themes, with no evidence indicating a proportional use of marked and unmarked Themes. I...
International Journal of Educational Best Practices, 2019
English for nursing is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes. This type of English... more English for nursing is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes. This type of English lesson requires the teacher to choose a specific method in order to meet a specific learning objective. The final goal of learning this kind of English is to equip learners with competencies that suit their future job, one of them, is English skill. This is inseparable from the choice of an appropriate teaching method by the teacher. Many studies on the implementation of specific teaching methods have been undertaken. However, little is still known about the students' responses to the implementation of Task-Based Language Instruction in English for Nursing Classes. To fill this gap, the current study shed a light on this matter. This qualitative research aimed to explore students’ perception of this teaching method. There were 58 nursing students invited as the respondents. The data were garnered through interview and questionnaires. The implication of this research is to be contrib...
The inclusion of information and communication technology is a requirement in today’s education. ... more The inclusion of information and communication technology is a requirement in today’s education. During the COVID-19 outbreak, this necessity becomes more significant since we need to move from face-to-face to online classrooms. This article aims to explore English teachers’ perception and use of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty-two English teachers in South Kalimantan voluntarily joined this research. Questionnaire and interview are two main instruments to collect the data. The questionnaire explored their perceptions on how technology helped them in improving the learning quality during remote teaching. Then, the interview is intended to deepen the data regarding the information given by the participants. The findings reveal that most English teacher's had positive attitudes toward the use of technology to improve the quality of learning. In addition, the condition of COVID-19 made them learn to use various digital tools to teach English. Some challenges and re...
OMNICODE Journal (Omnicompetence Community Developement Journal)
The publication of articles is a place for teachers to share their teaching experiences. In addit... more The publication of articles is a place for teachers to share their teaching experiences. In addition, the publication of articles can support the careers of teachers in promotion. However, it was found that teachers had difficulty in publishing their writings in the Open Journal System. This community service activity aims to provide assistance to English teachers’ association members (MGMP) in South Kalimantan region. Six groups of teachers joined the assistance project, but only two groups can finally submit their papers in the online journal system. The method used is lecture, simulation and discussion through Zoom Meeting. The results of the community service showed that teachers can publish their scientific papers on the Open Journal System. The teachers’ problem is they confuse how to finish writing their scientific papers before they can submit it. While the submission is not really difficult for them, but of course they need some guidance and practice to do it correctly
This research reports on the results of an interview study of nine English teachers at vocational... more This research reports on the results of an interview study of nine English teachers at vocational schools (VS) in Indonesia. The study aimed to explore English teachers’ voices of the revitalization program at VS’s in Indonesia. The study shed the light on two major issues of English teaching and learning at VS’s concerning revitalization program implementation. The two main themes were the use of specific technology in the language classroom and video mediated language learning in vocational English classroom.The results indicated that most of teachers more preferably used social media for teaching than utilizing a learning management system (LMS). Teachers have used video mediated teaching method for their English classes either self-production videos or a ready-made video from the internet. English for business was also introduced to students to equip them with basic knowledge for a job selection The results have implications for the implementation of revitalization programs i...
Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) diharapkan bisa memberikan jalan keluar terhadap permasalahan pen... more Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK) diharapkan bisa memberikan jalan keluar terhadap permasalahan pengangguran dan kemiskinan, kenyataannya justru lulusan SMK menyumbang angka penggangguran tertinggi di Indonesia. Mengingat peran Muhammadiyah untuk membawa kebaikan bagi lingkungan sekitar, perlu kiranya kita melihat bagaimana peran Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Muhammadiyah (SMKM) dalam membina kader-kadernya agar mempunyai keterampilan yang mumpuni agar siap kerja dan pada waktunya akan membesarkan nama Muhammadiyah. Pemerintah membuat kebijakan berupa Revitalisasi SMK untuk meningkatkan mutu lulusan SMK dan menyelesaikan permasalahan-permasalahan pengangguran dan kemiskinan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tingkat pemahaman para pimpinan SMKM tentang kebijakan mengenai strategi revitalisasi SMK, permasalahan-permasalahan yang dihadapi, serta harapan mereka terhadap pengembangan SMKM ke depan, terutama untuk meningkatkan kualitas kader Muhammadiyah lulusan SMKM. Peneliti...
Speaking is one of the four macro skills of English. It is also a productive skill that requires ... more Speaking is one of the four macro skills of English. It is also a productive skill that requires language learners to gain much exposure to use it. Accuracy and fluency are two elements to be used as parameters of speaking ability for foreign language learners. Apart from this, language learners still find it hard to express out their speaking ability in front of classroom as well as outside the class. Lack of self confidence, limited vocabulary acquisition, and English grammar have become obstacles for learners to develop their speaking ability. Through this hands-on workshop, we introduced three educational games, namely, hot seat, comic strip, and that’s an unusual view to students and teachers at panti Asuhan Sentosa Banjarmasin. These games are intended to make learning english more fun, to help students gain self confidence to use the language, and to boost cooperative work between students and teachers. The participants responded positively to the ideas and they would use tho...
Situated in character-based education, the Indonesian Government mandates all teachers to incorpo... more Situated in character-based education, the Indonesian Government mandates all teachers to incorporate moral values into school subjects. Teaching English to young learners (TEYL) is no exception. Little empirical evidence reports how school textbooks (e.g., language textbooks) discursively teach particular values explicitly and implicitly. To validate whether English for young learners (EYL) textbooks teach particular moral values, the present critical discourse study (CDA) reported in this article examines how moral content is discursively infused into EYL textbooks. Framed in Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory, it looks specifically at how particular moral values are represented in three nationally-adopted EYL textbooks through lexical choices, the representation of images, and selected texts that the textbook writers use to represent their attitudinal discourse. The findings show that the value of helping others is predominantly represented in the textbooks. ...
English for Specific Purposes, which has been so-called ESP, created to achieve specific learning... more English for Specific Purposes, which has been so-called ESP, created to achieve specific learning goals for specific students in a specific field. Therefore, an ESP instructor is required to find specific teaching techniques in order to meet students’ learning needs. This in-practice article reports the implementation of step by step of teaching nursing English through a simulation technique. This study attempted to examine the impact of this teaching technique on the improvement of students’ language skills. There have been abundant resources of research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes. However, there is still little known study in the field of nursing English, particularly, the investigation of the impact of nursing simulation techniques on nurse students’ language learning achievement. To fill this void, the current study invited 58 nurse students to participate in this research. The simulation teaching technique was introduced to a nursing English class. ...
Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time-consumin... more Translating an L1 (source text) into a target language would be a daunting task and time-consuming work for students who are non-native speakers. It might be more challenging when the L1 text is a discipline specific text. Many words and specific terms are difficult to translate, and often unintended meanings emerge during this translation process. Although there has been considerable research on the translation studies, there has been still little study on how translators cope with the challenges. To fill this void, this case study is aimed to describe techniques employed by students majoring pharmacy in translating direction for use texts from English into Bahasa Indonesia. Adopting Vinay’s and Darbelnet’s (1996) translation methodology, this research is aimed to describe the translation process that students already undertook in order to produce texts that appropriately work in a particular social context. There are four drug brochures taken as samples of analysis. These texts ar...
English for nursing is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes. This type of English... more English for nursing is one of the branches of English for Specific Purposes. This type of English lesson requires the teacher to choose a specific method in order to meet a specific learning objective. The final goal of learning this kind of English is to equip learners with competencies that suit their future job, one of them, is English skill. This is inseparable from the choice of an appropriate teaching method by the teacher. Many studies on the implementation of specific teaching methods have been undertaken. However, little is still known about the students' responses to the implementation of Task-Based Language Instruction in English for Nursing Classes. To fill this gap, the current study shed a light on this matter. This qualitative research aimed to explore students' perception of this teaching method. There were 58 nursing students invited as the respondents. The data were garnered through interview and questionnaires. The implication of this research is to be contributed to the field of EFL teaching methodology as the expansion for the current studies in English for specific Purposes field.
Learning English is indispensable from the use of games as one of
the teaching media. Even. in t... more Learning English is indispensable from the use of games as one of the teaching media. Even. in traditional classes. where teachers are the center of information. games are sometimes introduced and played to make the classroom atmosphere more fun. Now, as the rapid growth of information technology. The forms and types of games have also evolved significantly. This is like two sides of the coin which has both positive and negative impacts on students' learning motivation. However, this community service report just looks at the benefits of the game in the English classroom and its feasibility to be used as a catalyst to make students engaged in learning English grammar. This community service was conducted in SMAN 1 Amuntai as the host. Teachers of English from around Am untai regency were invited to come and introduced to use Ka hoot as a learning tool. They were taught how to design quizzes and exercises about grammar using this game application. The participants enjoyed it and would plan to use it as learning media for their English classes.
Speaking is one of the four macro skills of English. It is also a productive skill that requires ... more Speaking is one of the four macro skills of English. It is also a productive skill that requires language learners to gain much exposure to use it. Accuracy and fluency are two elements to be used as parameters of speaking ability for foreign language learners. Apart from this, language learners still find it hard to express out their speaking ability in front of the classroom as well as outside the class. Lack of self-confidence, limited vocabulary acquisition, and English grammar have become obstacles for learners to develop their speaking ability. Through this hands-on workshop, we introduced three educational games. namely, hot seat, comic strip, and that's an unusual view to students and teachers at Panti Asuhan Sentosa Banjarmasin. These games are intended to make learning English more fun, to help students gain self-confidence to use the language and to boost cooperative work between students and teachers. The participants responded positively to the ideas and they work: use those games as learning media.
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the center of information. games are sometimes introduced and played to make the classroom atmosphere more fun. Now, as the rapid growth of information technology. The forms and types of games have also evolved significantly. This is like two sides of the coin which has both positive and negative impacts on students' learning motivation. However, this community service report just looks at the benefits of the game in the English classroom and its feasibility to be used as a catalyst to make students engaged in learning English grammar. This community service was conducted in SMAN 1 Amuntai as the host. Teachers of English from around Am untai regency were invited to come and introduced to use Ka hoot as a learning tool. They were taught how to design quizzes and exercises about grammar using this game application. The participants enjoyed it and would plan to use it as learning media for their English classes.