Nurul Hairuddin

The aim of this study is to investigate students from non-major English department perspectives toward the use of Video-Based Learning in an online English language process. This study was conducted at Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang using a convergent-parallel design, a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Eighty students of the first semester from the accounting department who were involved in a video-based learning process became the participants of this study. The data was gathered through the use of a questionnaire that included closed-ended and open-ended questions. The data from the closed-ended questions were quantitatively analyzed using descriptive statistics in SPSS. Additionally, a narrative method was used to analyze the open-ended questions. The results of this study indicate that the non-English major students have a positive perspective toward video-based learning utilization because it increases their motivation to learn and makes it easier for them ...

Individuals frequently speak English differently depending on their native language or the society they live in. A primary goal of our research is to learn more about the unique linguistic characteristics of the Indonesian people. This study aims to discover the language variation of English used by Indonesian tourist guides. Researchers used library and field research to perform the analysis. The researcher gathered data by recording, transcribing, and categorizing it in three separate processes. Furthermore, the researchers utilized a descriptive qualitative method to examine the usual linguistic features of English used by the tour guide. According to the findings of this study, the code choice of the three tour guides is relatively comparable. They used some particular lexical, namely actually, so, this is I and ‘and then’ In addition, they perform code-switching and code-mixing. Keywords: English, Language Variation, Tourist, Guide, Indonesia

Reading anxiety is believed as one of factors under affective domain which influences the successfulness of students’ reading comprehension. The aims of this study were to identify the level of anxiety experienced by the EFL young learners while reading in the classroom context and to investigate the symptoms of anxiety suffered by young learners as well as their perception towards reading in English and their current reading ability. The design of this study was quantitative research. The research was carried out in the second-grade students of a junior high school in Makassar with age between 13-14 years old. The sample of this study was 30 students and selected using purposive sampling method. The data were collected using questionnaire named Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) which developed by Saito et al (1999) and consists of 20 items of statement with five-point Likert scale. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. The results indicated that the stude...

One of the most challenging skills for non-English major students is writing an essay since they have to pay attention to the language structure and must be able to transfer their thoughts and ideas into the target language. In regard to solving this problem, regular change and development are needed in teaching English writing. One of the methods that increased to be used is collaborative writing using Google Docs. This study aims to investigate the non-English major students’ perspectives and difficulties in collaborative writing through Google Docs. This study examined 22 students from a state polytechnic in Makassar who have involved in collaborative writing activity through Google Docs. A convergent parallel design was applied in this study, where the data collected by using a questionnaire which consists of closed- open-ended questions and interview. The closed-ended questions data were analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistic with SPSS. Further, the collected data ...