Thai English Code Switching (Tecs) Within The Academic Context Of Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (Imt-Gt) Varsity Carnival

This study investigates the Thai English Code Switching (TECS) within the academic context of Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Varsity Carnival as a result of the spread of English and internationalization in Thai higher education. The study seeks to examine the linguistic features, and functions of motivations behind the discourse used by the Thai academic seminar participants in formal and informal academic activities in such an academic context. The study made use of a qualitative approach in examining the data which were taken from the audio recordings of the Thai academic seminar participants’ speeches, semistructured interviews, and field notes. The Markedness Model of Myers-Scotton (1993;1998), the Conversational Approach of Gumperz (1982) and World Englishes Approach proposed by Kachru (1993) were used to analyse the speech data. The findings revealed that the TECS features at the lexico-semantic and discourse levels appeared in several in-group discussions and they served as a lingua franca in addition to English in the out-group interactions

Improving EFL Students' Vocabulary in a Rural Area through Scrabble with Crossword Picture Puzzle

There are still many EFL students in Indonesia who face struggles in learning English, especially in memorizing vocabulary. This is prominent in particular to students who reside in rural areas, where besides school facilities are limited, motivation is also among the factors for their depleted motivation to learn English. The students in one of the senior high schools in Sabang island, Aceh, Indonesia, still strain when dealing with this subject. To solve the problem, a game insinuated to improve their  vocabulary is the scrabble with crossword picture puzzle. This game demands cooperation of students to work together with their peers in a group in an entertaining way. This research employed the quantitative approach by experimental teaching. The sample of study of were 25 students in the experimental class and 26 students in the control class. Purposive sampling was used in which these two classes had most students with the lowest English scores among the other tenth grade students. The results of the t-score showed that there was a difference between the scores of the pre-test and the post-test of the experimental (4.23) and control classes (3.59). This proved that the used of scrabble with crossword picture puzzle game gave a significant improvement on students’ vocabulary. The application of this game made the students in the experimental class be more active, communicative, and challenging during learning process compared to the control class. &nbsp

Improving EFL Students' Vocabulary in a Rural Area through Scrabble with Crossword Picture Puzzle

There are still many EFL students in Indonesia who face struggles in learning English, especially in memorizing vocabulary. This is prominent in particular to students who reside in rural areas, where besides school facilities are limited, motivation is also among the factors for their depleted motivation to learn English. The students in one of the senior high schools in Sabang island, Aceh, Indonesia, still strain when dealing with this subject. To solve the problem, a game insinuated to improve their  vocabulary is the scrabble with crossword picture puzzle. This game demands cooperation of students to work together with their peers in a group in an entertaining way. This research employed the quantitative approach by experimental teaching. The sample of study of were 25 students in the experimental class and 26 students in the control class. Purposive sampling was used in which these two classes had most students with the lowest English scores among the other tenth grade students. The results of the t-score showed that there was a difference between the scores of the pre-test and the post-test of the experimental (4.23) and control classes (3.59). This proved that the used of scrabble with crossword picture puzzle game gave a significant improvement on students’ vocabulary. The application of this game made the students in the experimental class be more active, communicative, and challenging during learning process compared to the control class

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN TIMES OF CHANGE : A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN UNIVERSITIES

English language education (ELE) has been extensively studied in various contexts and from various perspectives including histories, curricula, policies, and practices. However, in recent years there has been an increasing body of work examining ELE in times of dramatic socio-economic change. The study presented in this paper aimed to add to this body of work by investigating the implementation of ELE in Southeast Asian universities during these periods of transformation. The study specifically investigated the major events that took place during such periods and how these events affected ELE, particularly English language teaching and learning practices within the respective universities. A survey with 47 English language educators from selected Southeast Asian universities revealed that COVID-19 was one of the major events that affected their ELE. A majority of the participants reported having similar experiences with such events and resorting to various common methods in their English language lessons. Such similarities are important as they help rethink the usual way ELE in the era of change has been discussed. More importantly, these similarities call attention to look beyond the differences to find commonalities in the implementation of ELE in times of change, which may open up much-needed conversations about how to support and strengthen the teaching and learning of English in today’s ever-changing and challenging world