Two Edges of Sword of Strategy-Based Instruction (SBI) and Implicit Task-Based Instruction (TBI) on EFL Oral Performance

This pilot study aimed to investigate the effects of two classroom instructions on the complexity, accuracy, and fluency of EFL learners’ speaking. The first one involved implicit task-based instruction with meaning-focused pedagogic tasks. The second instruction reduced learners’ practice time but complemented it with explicit strategy-based instruction (SBI) to raise their metacognitive awareness in planning, monitoring, and evaluating their speech. Participants in the explicit instruction group learned to practice three specific strategies, while the first group had only more practice opportunities. The study involved 16 English students from a third-tier university in Indonesia. Audio recordings of each participant’s oral presentations during the pre-test and the post-test were transcribed and coded for non-parametric analysis. The findings revealed that both instructions had a comparable impact on EFL learners' oral performance by improving complexity but not accuracy and fluency. There was also a possible trade-off effect found in participants’ performance. The study findings could provide a basis for EFL teachers to use either explicit strategy instruction or implicit instruction for their speaking class

Fluency Strategy Training and the L2 Oral Task Performance of Indonesian EFL Classroom Learners

This quasi-experimental study investigated the impacts of two instructional conditions, explicit fluency strategy training and implicit task-based instruction, on university English learners in Indonesia. The results revealed that both instructional conditions could not significantly improve participants’ speech fluency, but improvement on oral proficiency reached statistical significance. A degree of variability in participants’ speech fluency development was also found. Both instructional conditions could be applied with potentially complementary effects in Indonesian EFL classrooms

Pembuatan Brosur Promosi Kampung Tematik Bank Sampah Andalas Sepakat: Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat Dosen Bahasa Inggris Politeknik Negeri Padang

Artikel ini memuat laporan kegiatan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat yang dilaksanakan oleh dosen Jurusan Bahasa Inggris Politeknik Negeri Padang di Kampung Tematik Bank Sampah Andalas Sepakat. Kegiatan pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk membuat brosur promosi tentang Bank Sampah Andalas Sepakat yang berlokasi di Kelurahan Andalas, Kecamatan Padang Timur, Padang. Brosur ini merupakan sarana promosi dari bank sampah tersebut yang berisikan semua produk dan kegiatan usaha yang terkait dengan bank sampah. Desain brosur dibuat menggunakan Adobe Photoshop dengan menggunakan dua tampilan Bahasa, yaitu Indonesia dan Inggris. Dengan adanya brosur ini diharapkan Bank Sampah Andalas Sepakat beserta semua produk usahanya akan lebih dikenal masyrakat local, nasional, dan internasional sehingga akan membuka peluang lebih besar untuk mengembangkan usahanya untuk dapat lebih mensejahterakan masyarakat sekitar