This study aims to identify the students' reason for doing self-directed learning, listening material that the students learn, and  the contribution of self-directed learning using mobile devices to enhance listening skills.This research is a qualitative study that uses narrative analysis. The data source in this study is three undergraduate...

This study explores an Indonesian pre-service teacher’s experiences related to a 4-week international teaching experience in Morocco. The experience included teaching English in the classroom and outside the classroom. Using qualitative data from diaries, the pre-service teacher’s experience of professional teaching development during their...

This paper reports a narrative study on the teacher identity development of an EFL pre-service teacher during the teaching practicum program in Indonesia. Guided by the teacher's personal interpretive framework of Kelchtermans' (Kelchtermans, 1993) theory, this study examined written reflective narratives as a tool to determine the...

Motivation plays an essential part in learning English which stimulates students to learn. If there are obstructions, the student’s motivation can be down. In this case, instrumental motivation commonly happens in the EFL student context because of the use of English in several fields. Instrumental motivation is someone's desire to learn...

Effective intercultural communication requires linguistic skills and the ability to implement these skills successfully and appropriately in diverse cross-cultural settings.  The responsibility of a language teacher is to prepare students to interact effectively with individuals of diverse cultural, linguistic, and national backgrounds. ...

Siti Muazizah (2022). “An analysis of the Readability of texts in an English Textbok entitled “English on Target””. A Thesis. Surakarta. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Universitas Sebelas Maret. 2022.  This research was aimed to investigate the readability level of reading texts and the factors affecting readability in an...

A textbook is fully specified and pre-constructed materials that provide a certain amount of uniformity in what occurs with different teachers and students in many different classes, which serve the interest of accountability. Material development has been rarely discussed, but it is an attractive issue. This can be seen from the deletion of the...

There  are  two  main  aims  of  this  study:  (1)  To  explore  my authentic learning experiences as a learner in Intercultural Communication and the learning process in the CCU classroom in the academic year of 2019/2020; (2) To explore challenges in the authentic learning experiences in Intercultural Communication and the learning...

The main objective of this study is to examine the implementation of lexical set as a vocabulary teaching technique for higher secondary school students focused on teaching materials, test materials, and students’ achievement. The method used in this study is analysis of the content coverage of the documents relevant to the research. The...

ABSTRACT Annisa Rachma Maulina. STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIC READING ON EFL LEARNERS: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY. Thesis, Faculty of Teacher Training and Educarion of Universitas Sebelas Maret, July 2022.            The objective of this research are: (1) to examine the students’ perceptions of Collaborative Strategic...