STUDENTS’ LEARNING STRATEGIES USED IN IMPROVING THEIR SPEAKING PERFORMANCE: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY

Speaking is one of the language skills that students, particularly English department students, should develop. In order to master the act of speaking English, students should have a strategy that they can implement. This study explores how students improve their speaking performance while learning English. More particularly, this study explored the strategies students use to develop their speaking performance. A narrative inquiry was employed in this study. Three excelled students in the English department of a private university in Surabaya participated in this study. The results of this study showed various strategies that students used to improve their speaking performance. They included direct strategies consisting of memory, cognitive, and compensation, and indirect strategies consisting of metacognitive, affective, and social strategies. Among these strategies, the compensation strategy was the least used, and the affective strategy was used in all kinds of situations by students who excelled in their speaking performanc

THE IMPACT OF A FLIPPED CLASSROOM ON STUDENTS SELF-REGULATION IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

The research examines the impact of flipped classrooms students’ self-regulation of sixth- and fifth-grade students at SD Citra Berkat The Taman Dayu. The goal of the research is to determine how the flipped classroom approach affects students' ability to self-regulate by combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, identifying patterns, and making interpretations based on the findings. The research involves a survey of 52 elementary school students to evaluate self-regulation and perceptions of the flipped classroom. The findings are presented through interviews, observations, and surveys, indicating positive outcomes such as improved self-regulation, increased understanding of concepts, and enhanced student motivation to learn. The research's findings indicate that the implementation of the flipped classroom approach may enhance student self-regulation by providing opportunities for independent learning, time management, and task organization, ultimately enhancing academic achievement and understanding of concepts. The finding point to the flipped classroom approach's potential advantages for encouraging student involvement and self-regulation

THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND ICT TOOLS USED BY INDONESIAN EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO IMPROVE THEIR ENGLISH

Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with its social media platforms, is essential in the education field. This study aimed to discover ICT and its social media platforms used by Indonesian EFL undergraduate students to improve their English. This study was conducted to answer three research questions; (1) What ICT tools do Indonesian EFL undergraduate students use the most to improve their English? (2) What social media platforms (SMP) do Indonesian EFL undergraduate students use the most to improve their English? (3) Why do Indonesian EFL undergraduate students use social media platforms to improve their English? The mixed-method was adopted. The findings revealed that 60% of the participants were using phones at home and 71% using phones in the classrooms. Regarding social media platforms; Google was the first preferred search engine (M = 4.74, SD = .443), YouTube was the second (M = 4.49, SD = .781), TikTok (M = 3.51, SD = 1.442) and Instagram (M = 3.51, SD = .951) were the third preferred social media platforms to improve English. The participants affirmed that using phones is effective to improve English at home and in the classroom. Google, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are the common and easiest platforms that are helpful in empowering English. Based on the findings this study recommends that language teachers should adopt these ICT tools to improve students’ level of using ICT and its media platforms. The future researchers could undertake extensive research on the same topic to involve more EFL students from different universities to figure out more representative findings. The implications of this study are discussed

IMPLEMENTATION OF ARDUINO-ASSISTED 5E LEARNING MODEL IN PHYSICS ONLINE LEARNING

As communication technology develops, online learning grows significantly. However, online physics learning still faces constraints related to incorporating laboratory work. This paper reports on implementing the Arduino-assisted 5E learning model in physics online learning. The learning phase consists of engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation. The learning strategy includes Arduino-based hands-on physics experiments conducted by students at home. The learning model is implemented in a class consisted ten college students majoring in physics education. We also investigate the effect of the learning model on improving students' understanding of thermal physics. Our study shows that students' understanding of thermal physics improves moderately, with an average N-gain of 0.56

TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD HEUTAGOGY AS THE NEW PARADIGM IN THE 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION

Heutagogy is an educational approach that focuses on self-determined learning and the development of learner capabilities. It places the learner as the primary agent in their own learning process, emphasizing personal experience and independent exploration. In spite of the close relationship between heutagogy and Merdeka curriculum, not many Indonesian teachers are aware of heutagogy. Therefore, this study was addressing specifically how the teachers in Indonesia perceived heutagogy in teaching and learning process. The study involved collecting and analysing non-numerical data that was the results of a survey in the Google form distributed by the writer. The respondents of this study were twenty teachers of IIS SMP Progressive Bumi Shalawat. The survey results showed that most of the teachers as the participants in the study were not really aware of Heutagogy terminology although they had ideas about self-determinism, life-long learning, capability, double-loop learning, and self-reflection. Moreover, the survey results revealed that the respondents in this study were very interested in the concept of heutagogy. Hence, this study focused on the teacher's perceptions of heutagogy in learning practices.  

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDEPENDENT LEARNING BY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

This paper reports on a study that aims to find out the extent to which the students of English Education Study Program implemented Independent Learning. This study is qualitative in nature employing phenomenological approach. Independent Learning involves individuals’ planning, self-monitoring, controlling and evaluating their learning activities. The participants of this study were students of the English Language Education Study Program of a private university in Surabaya. The implementation of Independent Learning by the students participated in this study was analysed based on those activities involved in Independent Learning.  A questionnaire was used to collect data. The result of this study revealed that the extent to which the students implemented Independent Learning varied. The majority of the students  did not do complete activities supposedly involved in Independent Learning. Only a few of them did self-monitoring and evaluation of their learning activities

BRIDGING EFL LEARNERS’ TARGET LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE DISCREPANCY WITH THE SUPPORT OF CRITICAL CULTURAL AWARENESS

It has been a long-standing issue that EFL learners are required to consistently showcase gratifying target language performances, competencies, and achievements while taking part in a wide variety of second language learning activities without being prepared well with suitable and authentic learning materials. In response to this aforesaid issue, second language educators need to immerse EFL learners into critical cultural awareness to make them become more efficient target language users. This present small-scale library study was projected to profoundly investigate the way critical cultural awareness can bridge globalized EFL learners’ target language knowledge discrepancy in actual second language learning contexts. To do so, the researcher conducted an in-depth thematic analysis of the previously generated research results addressed by 20 critical cultural awareness studies published worldwide. Concerning the specifically-obtained research results, critical cultural awareness can potentially become one of the worthwhile strategies to be further applied in nowadays second language circumstances by which EFL learners foster their target language competencies to the desired outcomes and transform into more skillful target language users

ENHANCING THE SPEAKING SELF-CONFIDENCE THROUGH THE USE OF VLOG AMONG 11TH-GRADE STUDENTS AT MADRASAH ALIYAH ROUDLOTUL JADID IN LUMAJANG

Students in the eleventh grade at Madrasah Aliyah Roudlotul Jadid in Lumajang were the subjects of this study. The XI grade was chosen due to their self-confident in speaking were low. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the pupils' improvement in self-confidence and to see the students’ perception in using VLOG to enhance their self-confident in speaking. The study was classified as classroom action research. This study used 4 (four) phases consist of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Pre-cycle shows that 22 Student (73%) were under criteria of success (KKM) , and only 8 students (26%) have the criteria of success. The cycle 2 shows that 27 students (84%) have reached the criteria of success, only 3 students (16%) haven’t met the criteria of success. From the data collected, it shows that the students self-confident improved 58% compared to pre-cycle score. Moreover, students’ perception on using vlog in enhancing their self-confident through questionnaires was result positive. It is proven that VLOG can enhance the students self-confident in speaking and accepted positively by the students.

CULTURAL INTERFERENCE FROM INDONESIAN-TO-ENGLISH TRANSLATION

This paper investigates the implementation of cultural interference from Indonesian-to English translation to students of sixth semester in English Department of a university in Surabaya. Study Case was employed by cultural context which was rendered from Indonesian as source language to English as the target language. There were most significant things how the university students as participants produced translation products. They were ideology of translation, translation methods, and techniques of translation. The ideology of translation, the translation methods, and the techniques of translation which were chosen by the participants influenced readers’ readability and acceptability. The findings indicate that (1) each participants implemented different ideology of translation, translation methods, and translation techniques; (2) translation products were influenced by participants’ knowledge; (3) most participants kept the original words of SL and 1 participant translated the original one; (4) most participants compared their translation to their colleges then chose the best one and the other kept to translate based on their own interpretation without involving their colleagues; (5) most participants determined the purpose of translation and target reader but only 1 participant did not; (6) any participants answered irrelevant, most did not have much knowledge about Western culture whose English as a mother tongue, and the other only had general knowledge about it; (7) to make target readers understand most participants made the simple translation by keeping the meaning as natural as possible, some of them adopted the target culture, and the rest ones gave irrelevant questions; (8) most participants kept the original words of SL and the others translated them to TL; (9) The difficulties were found in rendering cultural aspect from Indonesian-English were most participants could not find relevant words in TL and the rest were grammar and idiom; (10) when translating cultural context but the participants did not understand well the culture of TL, most participant would browse and asking people who know well about it and the rest kept the cultural word then gave explanation

THE USE OF MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING WRITING TO EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS USING GOOGLE MEET PLATFORM VIEWED FROM THEIR CREATIVITY

Writing accelerates students' use of the target language, making it an essential part of classroom preparation. Writing skills can be improved through the use of mind mapping. The following are the research's goals:1) to determine whether teaching writing to eighth-graders using mind mapping or peer review is more effective, 2) to determine whether eighth-graders with higher levels of creativity have better writing skills than those with lower levels of creativity, and 3) to determine whether teaching methods and students' creativity interact when teaching writing to eighth-graders. An experimental study with a 2x2 factorial design is this one. This study uses 48 students as samples. In this study, writing and creativity tests are used to collect data. ANOVA and the Tukey test are used to analyze the data. The data analysis revealed that the mind mapping method is more effective than the peer review method for teaching eighth-grade writing. In the eighth grade, students with high creativity have better writing skills than students with low creativity. There is an interaction between teaching techniques and students' creativity in teaching writing in the eighth grade