The study aims to describe the strategy of terminology translation from English into Indonesian. This descriptive study used fifty data taken from the terminology used in recent billboards, notice, and signs in Indonesia. The results show that some strategies were employed in the translation of the data....

Currently, English has taken a more significant role in all domains of life and is always associated with globalization and industrialization. In Indonesia, the growing importance of English has created new purposes and needs for learning English mainly by university students. This also calls for a shift...

Writing skill is one of the core competencies for students to succeed in academic. However, students often face many difficulties when conveying their ideas through writing. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify students’ problems in writing exposition texts based on three indicators; 1)...

Many students are committing mistake in writing by showing some errors in written product. The existing approach to teach ESP writing applied by the teachers is still using traditional grammar. Systemic Functional Linguistics offer a new perspective in analysing students’ text which focuses on meaning...

This study is about 30 students’ ways of logic and reasoning in English language learning analyzed through HOTS-based questions in a private senior high school context in West Sumatera, Indonesia. All students were in the first grade who just began their first semester in the school. First, class observation...

This paper discusses the usage of WhatsApp grouping class for increasing students’ English ability. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methods, with primary data in the form of semi structured online interviews, participatory observation, documentation and test result. Purposive sampling...

Recently, there are many ways to get a new vocabulary and to learn English. One of the ways is watching YouTube. Watching Youtube has paid fully attention in students’ area. Imitating what favorite YouTubers say in their channel as colloquial words is very common to see in students’ daily conversation....

This study aims to identify strategies in condolence expressions and explain the effect of power and distance on the choice of condolences strategies used by 20 Indonesian adolescents at the age of 11 to 19 years old. The study was employed by using a qualitative descriptive method. In the form of discourse...

Previous literature in the EFL context has reported that lack of learning motivation may cause a decrease in students’ reading comprehension skills. Therefore, the literature circle is believed to be capable of elevating their motivation towards reading English texts. This article seeks to capture Indonesian...

This study describes the semiotic signs and implied meanings of two music videos. The videos studied were “Goodbye Christmas” by Lay and “Universe” by EXO. The writer focused on the study of denotation, connotation, and myth in these videos by using Barthes’ theory. In this case, all scenes such as properties,...

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of subtitle features, include the selection of the right words to be used in the vocabulary in the visual novel games (VNG) on L2 English viewers’ retention and recall of texts, that used as the teaching material. Quasi experimental research played in this...

This study investigated the effects of topic familiarity on eleventh graders’ writing performance in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. The students were assigned to finish two writing tasks with topics that they were familiar with. One of these familiar topics had been experienced by the students,...

The study is aimed at exploring teacher’s strategies in designing bilingual test items in science and mathematics. Through employing a qualitative approach and using an interview to collect the data, the study involves an elementary teacher in a private school that implements a bilingual program in the...

This study aims to describe (1) vowel phoneme, diphthong, consonant, and semivowel (2) vowel distribution, diphthong, consonant, and semivowel, and (3) syllable patterns in Minangkabau Kenagarian Koto Alam. The dialect in question was chosen because it is quite different from the general Minangkabau...

Teaching English using Direct Method (DM), which only uses the target language and refrains from using the learners’ native one, does not always seem understandable for some students, especially those who are in the first year of study in a tertiary level context. Responding to such an issue, this study...

Sinandong Batolurlah Kau Sinangin is a product of oral tradition in Tanjungbalai which serves as the medium for transmitting cultural values like poems, mantra, and others. This oral tradition is sung with affection, love, heartache, sorrow, etc. Sinandong is rich in didactic values that have not been...

The high demand for English to be taught at the primary level in Indonesia fosters the needs of EYL teachers who are qualified in terms of teaching and mastering content knowledge. Language proficiency is considered as one of the factors which determine the quality of English teacher (Richards, 2015)....

The main purpose of this study is to find out the similarities and differences in the form of speaking dialect intonation of Sinar Resmi traditional society of Sukabumi Regency which is spoken by parents and young people. This study was conducted qualitatively with identification and classification in...

The study aims to identify the types of word-formation processes of slang found in KasKus. It also determines the functions of the word-formation processes of the slang. The data are fully collected from kaskus.co.id by observing the post from eight categories, namely: Anime&Manga Heaven, Computer, Games,...

This study aims to investigate the types of deictic expressions used by Jack Ma in one of his speeches in Nairobi and how these deictic expressions helped him in motivating his audience. Drawing on Fillmore’s (1997) category of deixis, this qualitative study found that three types of deixis were present...

Teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language in this globalization era should be taught along with teaching culture. Culture underlies all language learners’ emotion, cognition, and their senses of who they are. The purpose of this study to analyze teachers’ views on intercultural communicative...

This paper examines tense and aspects markers in the Javanese dialect of Cirebon. This language is included Western Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian, spoken in West Java, Indonesia. Varieties of Javanese display a wide range of variation not only in lexicon and pronunciation but also in various aspects...

Capturing the EFL students in managing their speaking phenomenon led the study to focus on scrutinizing the categories of fillers, as well as identifying the functions of each filler used in an academic presentation. This case study was conducted at one of educational universities in EFL settings with...

This study aims to determine the process of acquiring a second language for children, by describing the gains made by children in the linguistic, and complete stages of competence. This study used descriptive-analytical methods. Data obtained directly and indirectly. Children sampled were children who...

Assessment is truly essential in teaching writing skills. An analytical rubric is a common evaluation to find out the achievement of students’ writing skills. However, a kind of rubric which is adopted to score summary writing is different from the general writing skill rubric. This study aimed at finding...

The paper investigated non-observance of maxims among Indonesians and foreigners male and female passengers at Indonesian airport when the customs officers were checking the passengers. Specifically, it analyzed the types of non-observance of maxims along with the possible reasons as to why the passengers...

Anxiety in speaking is one of the common obstacles in learning English as a foreign language which leads students to neglect the opportunity to speak English in the classroom. To help students in reducing speaking anxiety, teachers need to find a suitable teaching strategy. Based on the issue, this study...

This study aims to investigate the use of interactional modifications proposed by Long (1983) by two English teachers and language learning opportunities obtained. The study found out the distribution and the form of interactional modification in two different levels of English proficiency, elementary...

Corrective feedback which requires the appropriate strategies in treating learner errors during the classroom interaction is known to have a greater impact on younger learners than to the older ones. Regarding this issue, this research paper investigated teachers’ strategies in providing corrective feedback...

The 2013 English curriculum for high school demands students to write a personal letter in English to improve their writing ability. However, some students met some difficulties in writing a personal letter. This study investigated the students’ problems in writing a personal letter based on three metafunctions...

In Indonesia, alternative approaches to language and literature teaching that involve critical literacy tend to be regarded as something new. Teachers who want to apply critical literacy, mostly have limited knowledge or experience of what critical literacy is and how to apply it in their classrooms....

This study aims to investigate the contribution of power relations to the realization of refusal strategies done by Sundanese male and female students. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach. The data used in the present study were gathered from a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) that was...

This research aims to analyze five selected song lyrics from Queen’s Greatest Hits album, and it is to generate the meanings from the analysis results. The objectives of this study are to describe the types of interpersonal meaning by looking at the most dominant mood types and value of modality. The...

How students acquire a second language (L2) has been varied due to the development of information and communications technology (ICT). Different digital technologies, especially video games, which are used to assist students in acquiring language have been examined by researchers. However, studies exploring...

As a first document used to assess someone’s capacity, an application letter is required to be created in good genre moves to show someone’s positive identity. This study analyzed the genre moves of students’ application letters and investigated the students’ identity portrayed in their texts. Using...

The increasing number of non-native English speakers has caused an inevitable effect which is the emergence of English varieties. Accordingly, English does not belong to one specific country. Thus, the ownership of English belongs to those who speak it. However, teaching English in Indonesia has been...

Indonesia is one of the Asian countries which has just little field regarding learner autonomy. Moreover, it is still doubted that if teachers generally accept the views about learner autonomy or even to what extent they understand about it. As a response, this study was conducted to investigate the...

This paper reports an implementation of Outdoor Education as a contextual learning activity to improve the writing ability of young adolescents. It aims at (1) investigating how Outdoor Education is implemented in teaching English to young adolescents to improve their writing ability; (2) identifying...

Despite its increasing importance in academic life, writing is still considered the hardest skill by most English Language Learners (ELLs). In addition to linguistic barriers, writing in English becomes more challenging for junior secondary school students in Indonesia due to limited language proficiency...

Generation Z students with millennial spirit 4.0 are always expected to increase their competitiveness globally. One of the elements to compete is the ability to speak English with good grammar. A tertiary school in Bandung adopts Cross-Cultural Skype Conversation (CCSC) to improve students’ English-speaking...

This study aims at revealing students’ perspective toward the implementation of news voiceover activity in pronunciation class. This study employed qualitative descriptive method by selecting 40 tertiary students enrolling Pronunciation Course in English Education study program in a tertiary level in...

This study investigated the types of repair strategies and techniques of repair initiation used by Indonesian elementary EFL students during the classroom interaction with their teacher. The participants were elementary EFL students at the beginner level. By using qualitative research, the study used...

This study aims to examine the speech act of gossip on selected Instagram posts and categorize the existing utterances based on the speech act classification by Searle (1969). The selected Instagram posts were selected by following a Verbal Response Modes (VRM) approach. A descriptive method was chosen...

This study investigates the progression of text complexity based on Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. Being largely qualitative, this study analyzed three consecutive textbooks (grade VII, VIII, and IX) issued by the Ministry of Education. The data were analyzed in terms of lexical density, lexical...

In Indonesia, educators usually apply more than one code in the EFL classroom as an alternative way to support language learning activities. This issue is known as code-switching. This research focused on investigating educators’ perceptions of assessing learners’ foreign language proficiency. Particularly,...

This study investigated some features of language use in two contexts: traditional markets and modern market, or more commonly known as malls. The data of language use and physical appearance as the class markers were gathered through observation and interviews with the traditional market and the mall...

This study investigated the use of emoji between male and female genders. Using mixed-method research, the study collected messages with emojis from 20 male and 20 female college students in one of the cities in Indonesia. The study also used brief interviews to learn the reasons and factors for using...

Job application letter is a type of short functional text learnt by secondary school students. The ability to write a convincing and persuading job application letter is important for students to attain their intended job after graduating. Yet, the genre of an application letter is still less studied...

Music and language acquiring spots may be different in the brain yet share the same sound production. Skills to acknowledge music is beneficial to produce musical arts while the ability to recognize phonology in English leads to not only native-like pronunciation but also word-class identification and...

This research aims to analyze students’ recount texts by using mood block analysis. To achieve this purpose, a qualitative case study design was employed in this study. This study was conducted at one university in Indonesia. The data were collected from six students’ recount texts, selected from the...

Flipped-classroom has been reported to be able to provide more exposure as well as more opportunity to develop students’ higher-order thinking skills both inside and outside the classroom. However, this pedagogical model is generally implemented at the university level instead of the secondary one. o...