All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the 4th International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICON-ELT) on August 30–31, 2023 in Malang, Indonesia. These articles have been peer-reviewed by the members of the 4th ICON-ELT Board of Reviewers and approved by the Editor-in-Chief,...

Technology plays a vital role in educational institutions today. Educators are required to integrate technology in their teaching and learning sessions and teach their students 21st-century skills simultaneously, on top of teaching the subject matters. Hence, 21st-century TPACK was introduced as a framework...

Writing anxiety refers to negative emotions when students are situated in writing activities. Studies have found that negative feelings may hinder students from performing well. Seeing the negative influence of anxiety on performance, this study examines the correlation between writing anxiety and students'...

Venturing into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), being digital savvy is what makes a fresh graduate to be more employable than the others. Graduates with good digital skills will emerge as highly employable graduates as they are able to meet the industry’s needs. Most companies nowadays are diverting...

The current study intends to examine the argumentative indicators produced by second language learners in a university-level student debate competition and the functions of the indicators in each stage of argumentation (confrontation, opening, argumentation, and conclusion). The researchers employed...

In the teaching practicum programs, stimulating ESL/EFL preservice teachers’ (PSTs) pedagogical competence is essential in the transformative learning (TL) framework. This paper discusses stimulating PSTs’ pedagogical competence (PC) for TL through critical reflection on ELT practicum. Critical reflection...

The professional identity of the teacher is formed from habitus, capital, and field, and that formation is important but not easy, especially for novice teachers who are low-skill, inadequate, or even with different interest backgrounds. In discussing the field, the environment and community also have...

Extensive research has been carried out on proficiency pairing in recent years. However, those studies mostly focused on unpacking the benefits of the homogeneous pairing method, and the effectiveness of the heterogeneous pairing method in asynchronous settings has received little attention. This study...

Analytical Thinking and Emotional Tone are two important psycholinguistic domains of the LIWC framework by Pennebaker, Boyd, Jordan, & Blackburn [12] LIWC framework. These domains were used to examine the perceptions on the unresolved issue of native and non-native English rhetoric in academic writing....

This study investigates three issues: 1) English students' levels of Internet addiction, 2) the types and intensity of use of digital support in writing, and 3) the correlation between Internet addiction and digital support in writing. A total of sixty third-year English students from a private...

Numerous studies have investigated self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies and reading comprehension in L2/ foreign language contexts. Nevertheless, limited attention of research has been concentrated on an online reading test. Reading strategies on the computer screen is different from printed paper,...

Indonesia's digital education ecosystem has a wide range of control spaces, including geographical differences, gaps in infrastructure distribution, gaps in educators' digital capabilities, and gaps in different teaching methods. Thus, several scenarios or strategies must be used during the...

Language functions as a means of communication. In order to communicate well, higher education learners need to acquire speaking competence in a foreign language. Nevertheless, due to the limited time during the process of teaching and learning of foreign language, students cannot get a chance to practice...

This study exhibits ethnographic-eventualities of Madurese-Scholar’s English Second-Language (L2), scheming to identify Plurilingualism (PL), Translanguaging (TL), & Multilingual-Education (MLE) habitudes (Madurese-to-Indonesian-to-English utilization & awareness), their employments privileges,...

Possessing a good language proficiency could significantly help one to speak better. However, taking an online test in that target language could impact one’s performance. This paper aims to investigate online test anxiety in a group discussion among graduating students majoring in TESL. Oral interaction...

Language teachers are active, imaginative, and compassionate, and their identities are constructed by short- and long-term social connections. Research on teachers’ professional identities has become more prevalent to understand how teachers grow and develop educational resources that meet their needs....

This study seeks to investigate the perceptions of EFL students regarding the use of blended learning to promote autonomous learning in English language teaching, particularly in the writing class, and the extent to which teachers foster students’ autonomy. Twenty students were given a questionnaire...

This study aims to examine the contributing factors of public speaking anxiety (PSA) among international and Malaysian postgraduate students. To realise the study, a Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA) and Foreign Language Communication Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), were employed through a qualitative...

This research aims to examine the impact of strategy-based instruction on students' reading comprehension. This study uses pre-experimental research since the researchers want to investigate more profoundly in a group of 31 students sitting at a literal reading course. A package of a hundred and...

As one of the documents communicating the content of a language course, a syllabus should be prepared according to the learner's needs. In response to this need, the study aims to design a problem-based learning syllabus for the English Language Teaching Research (ELTR) Course. To achieve the objectives,...

In Indonesia, electronic portfolios for teaching English, especially writing, have been used for the last decade. This study investigates students' perceptions of their writing development and problems in implementing Electronic Reflective Portfolios in an Indonesian EFL writing class. A case study...

Plagiarism as a type of cheating in theses is prevalent in higher education institutions. Academic fraud frequently occurs in the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels of education. Cheating in student thesis papers is escalating out of control and is tough to eradicate. This study aims...

Students’ pragmatic deficit is closely related students’ language impairment due to the lack of innate ability to interact emotionally with other. It can be found in teacher-students interaction. This study attempts to illuminate the students’ pragmatic deficit in classroom discourse. The participant...

This study aimed to describe the in-service teacher perceptions of constructing best practices using the STAR method regarding overcoming student learning problems. Teachers often experience difficulties in dealing with students' problems when learning English. This research was designed using a...

In today’s world, where there is a vast amount of information available, users must navigate through the ambiguity and evaluate viewpoints from multiple perspectives. Postgraduate students, in particular, require critical thinking skills, as merely knowing the content is inadequate. Additionally, international...