Covid-19-Triggered Online Learning Implementation: Pre-Service English Teachers’ Beliefs

The study investigated nine pre-service English teachers’ beliefs on the implementation of online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic in their English Language Education Department. The study used secondary data in the forms of the participants’ written reflections on the implementation of online learning they experienced through their viewpoints both as students and as English teacher candidates. Qualitative document analysis in the form of Thematic Analysis was used to further analyse the data. The study found three factors hampering effective online learning, which were inadequate supporting infrastructures or resources, teachers’ limited pedagogical skills in effectively managing online learning, and the lack of teacher-student and student-student social connections during the learning process. The study also found two perceived good practices, the combination of synchronous and asynchronous modes, which could ease learners’ burden and boost learning effectiveness, and teachers' understanding of learners' struggle manifested in their facilitating actions. Based on the findings, the study's possible contributions and limitations are stated along with suggested directions for future studies in the field

Real Time Feedback in English Microteaching Practice: A Case Study on Online Learning

Online microteaching classes allow the student to practice their teaching ability using the online platform. This case study attempted to find out the perspective of teacher trainees using real-time feedback and peer observation of online microteaching classes. The researcher focused on 3rd year microteaching students in 2020/2021 at one of Indonesia's state universities. In this qualitative case study, the researcher used multiple data collection techniques. The researcher uses a questionnaire from (Eksi, 2020) with some changes to suit the purpose of this study in collecting data. The researcher distributed the questionnaire to 40 teacher trainees who already practiced online microteaching and got real-time feedback from the lecture and their peers.  The teacher trainee showed a positive perspective in using real-time feedback. They thought the process helped increased their professional development. Many student-teachers were engaged in giving real-time feedback to other student teacher's performance. They realized that real-time feedback helped them positively. However, the results found that most of the teacher trainees believe that the direct observation from two or three students was enough. Teacher trainees also thought that online classes are increasing the opportunity for misunderstanding

Maximizing Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) amid Covid-19 Pandemic: Teachers’ Perception

Covid-19 pandemic has brought many significant aspects of human life, such as health, social, economy, and education as well. Temporarily, most government around the world have closed educational institution in order to reduce the spread of Covid-19. The Indonesian government appeals all elements of education to adapt and continue learning activities through online learning. Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) as the newest learning way in the language education where applications or websites are used to facilitate students learning activities. Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) has been studied years by researchers in its connection with education related activities. This research will focus on its main purposes,that is teachers’ perceptions in mobile learning especially English language learning classroom activities. The method of the research was quantitative method which used 70 English teachers as research object. The data were collected through a 5-point Likert Scale questionnaire. The research found; the teachers’ majority had positive perception on the usage of MALL to support classroom activities, especially in learning English language in the middle of Covid-19 pandemi

Perceived Barriers to Online Collaborative Learning by Prospective EFL Teachers

This research aims to unveil the types of online collaborative learning activities undertaken by prospective EFL teachers in one of Indonesian universities located in West Nusa Tenggara Province, along with the barriers to such learning environment and their sources. This research employed mixed-method research with explanatory sequential design and to collect the data, a survey with 41-item questionnaire developed based on six constructs derived from previous research entailing motivation, commitment, social interaction, technical skills, time and support and technical problems distributed to 53 respondents and a semi-structured interview administered to 10 selected interviewees to elicit deeper information on the perceived barriers. Data analysis executed using descriptive statistics and thematic analysis suggests that most of the respondents utilized learning management system and WhatsApp group to carry out collaborative learning tasks. They also reported that the mostly undertaken collaborative activities entail group projects, group discussion, group presentation, and knowledge sharing. In addition, while generally the respondents select neutral responses across all the construct, there is a constant higher refusal than agreement rates to the barriers in all constructs except for the technical problems. This further implies that the barriers on the online collaborative learning depends on several factors and all these constructs are mutually interconnected

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University Students’ Perceptions in Implementing Asynchronous Learning during Covid-19 Era

This study aimed to know students' opinions about the implementations of asynchronous learning (Screencast-O-Matic and Google-Form apps) during COVID-19, to identify the advantages and disadvantages were produced by these devices, as well as to analyze how big the students' confidence on this type of learning when implemented in the rural area. The subject of this study consisted of 45 respondents from the English education study program. They spread in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8thsemester. Qualitative descriptive students were used in this study. Among the questionnaire, open-ended questions and interviews were the methods to collect the data. The results of this study indicated these platforms had shown various obstacles. Over half of respondents criticize that limited internet access was one of the most significant restrictions when implementing asynchronous learning (Screencast-O-Matic and Google-Form apps). Although Screencast-O-Matic and Google-Form had some barriers in their virtual class, they provide more advantages. Many respondents believed they have all these advantages compared to the limits. The majority of respondents argued that it facilitated EFL students to increase acquisitions of language software that could contribute to students' ICT capabilities in particular

Visual And Metaphorical Representation In McDonald’s Singapore Advertisement

The raise of technology advanced the advertising platform, social media, as one of their ways of offering products that can reach wide audience around the world. This research aims to scrutinize the advertisement of McDonald’s Singapore Instagram account using social semiotic approach and pictorial metaphor theory. This research applied four steps of collecting and analysing 60 multimodal data 1) collecting the data in McDonald’s Singapore account, 2) observing the data, 3) taking data sample, and 4) transcribing and analysing the data. From the analysis, the result of this research shows that conceptual representation dominates the data by 39 data and it is followed by embedding and narrative representation by 19 and 2 data respectively. The compositional meaning was combined with the analysis of pictorial metaphor and the result shows that the non-metaphorical centre is more dominant that others by 15 data, and then it is followed by non-metaphorical tryphtic as many as 13 data, non-pictorial metaphor ideal-real by 8 data, pictorial metaphor tryphtic by 6 data and pictorial metaphor centre by 5 data, while the rest is pictorial metaphor given-new, non-pictorial metaphor given-new, pictorial metaphor ideal-real, and verbo-pictorial metaphor ideal-real by 5, 4, 2, and 2 data respectively

Personal and Social Deixis as A Political Campaign Strategy Used in Donald Trump’s Rally

The use of personal and social deixis often has a crucial role in political speeches. This study investigated how personal deixis was used as a strategy to get other people’s support in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign speech. The object of the study was Trump’s speech in his presidential rally on October 10, 2020, and the data were the personal and social deixis in the speech. The occurrences of deixis were counted to reveal the parties to whom Trump gave his attention, and an analysis of the words used was conducted to see Trump’s attitudes toward the parties addressed by the deixis. The study revealed that Trump used personal deixis more than social deixis. There were five big parties to which he gave his attention using the deixis: the audience, Trump himself, the USA and its people, his opponents, and his party and government. Using the deixis, Trump also showed a positive attitude to his side and a negative attitude to the opponents. His use of personal and social deixis was also used as a campaign strategy. The deixis created inclusiveness, positioned Trump in different roles, showed support from several American communities, and influenced the audience’s attitude toward Trump’s opponents

Online Learning Media: English Education Department Students’ Perspective

The use of virtual learning media is now being daily needs since global pandemic appears. All educations units must use virtual platform to ruin learning process. This study is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of virtual media platform used by lecturer from students’ perspective, in teaching and learning process of English education students in Public Speaking subject. Besides, the research focuses on analyzing how effective the media is from students’ point of view. This study is a case study approach, that is natural qualitative. The study involved university students, conducted on one biggest university in Medan, Indonesia, majoring in English Education. The participants were surveyed through questionnaire distributed through Google Survey. The questionnaires and interview were conducted to assemble the data related to students’ experiences in using certain online media given by the lecturers, both provided by the institutions and other platform. By their response, Zoom Cloud Meeting is the most effective media in teaching-learning process, where 79% of them say so. It is followed by Whatsapp, where 41.30% respondents choose it. This findings hopefully will be great consideration for the researcher and other parties, to apply the chosen media in teaching learning process, as students expect in their response

The Effect of Prophet Yusuf Storytelling on Students' Grammar Mastery

The study of grammar has been shifting in language teaching classroom. However, the fact that the difficulty to understand grammar, especially past tense among the junior high school students has been an issue that needs to be solved. This study investigated the effect of using storytelling of Prophet Yusuf based on Quran verses towards students’ grammar mastery at the 8th grade in MTsS Diniyyah Pasia, Agam, West Sumatera. This quasi-experimental research involved 32 sample students who were treated as experimental class and taught by using storytelling of Prophet Yusuf and another 32 students as control class who were taught by using conventional technique. These two groups of samples were determined by using purposive sampling technique. To analyze the data from the students’ grammar test of pretest and posttest of experimental and control classes, the researcher used SPSS program.  The result of the post-test scores of both classes, experimental and control classes, showed that the t-obtained (3.557) was bigger than t table (1.67). It indicates that the use of Prophet Yusuf Storytelling which is based on Quran verses in learning Grammar can help the students to master the grammatical pattern effectively