Implementation Of Transformative Learning Model Through Parents For Early Childhood Parenting In Java Family

Early childhood parenting in a family is a process fraught with problems and transformative states. One of the cases is ‘anak karbitan’ (adultish child) as a result of parents’ ambition which is prevalent in urban areas, while in rural areas many parents do a variety of mistakes in parenting. It is caused by a lack of parental understanding on the parenting ideal knowledge. This study aims at finding the transformative learning process that occurs in the early childhood parenting in a family environment. The researcher employs a qualitative approach with a case study design. The informants of this study were parents who had children aged 0-6 years. The processes of data collection involved in-depth interviews, group discussions, participatory observation, and documentation. The researcher used the interactive analysis models to analyze the data. The results showed that parents did not realize that the learning experience they had, give transformative impact on their parenting style their children in their family environments. The problems faced by the parents in early childhood parenting were those dealing with: (1) with the unique character of the child, (2) the habituation of a child, (3) training the children’s independence, discipline, and responsibilities, (4).the child’s social interaction, (5) training their children’s confidence, (6) sex education of early childhood. The actions that the parents did to solve their problem were giving rewards, advice, warnings, and punishment, and neglecting their children. Transformative impacts that occurred on the parents were internal and external impacts. Keywords: transformative learning, early childhood, parenting, parent

Successful Indonesian startups’ product blogs: A digital genre analysis and its pedagogical implications

Blogs can be deemed as an alternative digital media which have been strategically employed for business communication. One of the realizations is product blogs. As startups, which are identically linked to digital media, have been skyrocketing in number, product blogs play an integral role to accommodate their business communication. In writing an article for the product blogs, startups often open an internship vacancy for, among others, polytechnic students majoring English for business communication. However, generic structure of a product blog article is quite different from academic essays. There is a need to equip the students with adequate product blog article writing skills before they embark on internship. This study aims at empirically delving into generic structure of successful Indonesian startups’ product blogs. To achieve the aim, this research employed corpus-based research methodology. There were 33.430 tokens of product blogs from two unicorn startups. The framework for analysis was adapted from Askehave and Nielsen (2005). The findings show that there were three moves in the corpus, namely contextualizing product, detailing product, and soliciting response. Each move consisted of steps which were categorized into reading mode and navigating mode. The findings lead to pedagogical implications—inculcating the moves to polytechnic students majoring English for business communication—as an attempt to link and match between vocational pedagogy and industry requirements

Successful Indonesian startups’ product blogs: A digital genre analysis and its pedagogical implications

Blogs can be deemed as an alternative digital media which have been strategically employed for business communication. One of the realizations is product blogs. As startups, which are identically linked to digital media, have been skyrocketing in number, product blogs play an integral role to accommodate their business communication. In writing an article for the product blogs, startups often open an internship vacancy for, among others, polytechnic students majoring English for business communication. However, generic structure of a product blog article is quite different from academic essays. There is a need to equip the students with adequate product blog article writing skills before they embark on internship. This study aims at empirically delving into generic structure of successful Indonesian startups’ product blogs. To achieve the aim, this research employed corpus-based research methodology. There were 33.430 tokens of product blogs from two unicorn startups. The framework for analysis was adapted from Askehave and Nielsen (2005). The findings show that there were three moves in the corpus, namely contextualizing product, detailing product, and soliciting response. Each move consisted of steps which were categorized into reading mode and navigating mode. The findings lead to pedagogical implications—inculcating the moves to polytechnic students majoring English for business communication—as an attempt to link and match between vocational pedagogy and industry requirements

Improving 11th Reading Comprehension by Using Making Connection Technique

ABSTRAK Reading is a comprehending process which involves complex steps. It is an important skill that every language learner needs to develop. Despite the important role of reading comprehension, many researchers indicate that the students’ reading comprehension skill is not satisfactory yet. This situationis also found in MAN 3 Malang. The students were found to have difficulty in comprehending the content of reading text because of some factors. They included lack of motivation and low ability in reading, especially in drawing on their prior knowledge and experience. In order to address the issue, the researcher implemented the Making Connection Technique in the reading lessons in collaborative with the classroom teacher. This technique has several steps which could help the students to gradually solve their problems in reading comprehension. The steps that the students can follow are text to text, text to self, and text to world.The design of this research was Classroom Action Research covering four stages; they were planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The subjects of the study were 29 students of class XI MAKBI of MAN 3 Malang. The instruments used to collect the data were students’ reading comprehension test (pre and post-test), observation checklist, and field notes. Since the researcher aimed to know whether the technique could help the students in both lower and upper group to comprehend the reading text, this research is considered successful if there was a significant improvement from their pre and post-test scores.The findings of this study revealed that by using Making Connection technique, the students’ reading comprehension scores had achieved the criteria of success. Besides, the students also showed positive attitude during and after the implementation of making connection technique. This indicated by the results of the observation checklist and field notes, and some students’ testimonial. The several procedure of using the technique that was found to be successful involved, they are (1) making text to text-connection in group, (2) making text to self-connection in group, (3) making text to world-connection in group, and (4) having a class discussion related to the results of their discussion using those three steps in making connection technique. Based on the research findings, the researcher suggestedEnglish teachers to implement the making connection technique in more interesting ways. Future researchers can investigate the use of making connection technique for other research purposes, for example, investigating the effect of prior knowledge on other English skills, such as students’ writing skill