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EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students of vocational high schools are requested to have skillful reading strategies to comprehend specific texts in English. To have a good comprehension, they utilize not only their strategies but also interesting and suitable texts. Therefore, this current study investigated the correlation between students’ perception of the authentic materials and cooperative learning strategy towards students’ reading comprehension. The data of the reading comprehension tests and the students’ perception were analyzed using the multiple regression. The result revealed that (1) there was positive correlation between students’ perception of the authentic materials and students reading comprehension, (2) there was significant positive effect of cooperative learning strategy towards reading comprehension, and (3) there was significant positive effect of reading materials towards cooperative learning strategy. These findings suggested that the choice of authentic materials could motivate students to comprehend ESP texts. Besides this, by doing cooperative learning strategy, the scaffolding could happen so that they could share their comprehension. In spite of its limitation, this study could have certain pedagogical implications to reading classroom activities.

Lembaga pendidikan tinggi memiliki tanggung jawab dalam mengcmhangkan Tridharma perguruan tinggi yang meliputi pendidikan, penelitian dan pengabdian pada masyarakat. Pengembangan tersebut dapat ditumbuhkan apabila didukung oleh suasana budaya akademik (academic culture) yang kuat di lembaga tersebut. Budaya akademik adalah suatu budaya yang tumbuh di perguruan tinggi yang mencerminkan sebuah suasana ilmiah dan ditandai oleh sejumlah aktivitas ilmiah melalui segenap kegiatannya, seperli aktivitas perkuliahan, seminar, kegiatan penelitian yang semua kegiatan tersebut disebarluaskan melalui publikasi-publikasi ilmiah dalam bentuk jurnal-jurnal ilmiah.

This research aims to identify the self construction and communicating acts amongst the homeless while they are doing their daily activities as a vagrant in downtown Jakarta. The method being used for this research is a qualitative method with phenomenologist paradigm which aims to understand human behaviors from an experimental perspective. Result shows that vagrants, especially those who has the same profession, tend to share the area of work in order to avoid conflicts among them. Description from the subject in establishing communication with other vagrants are done by sharing area of expertise from himself and other vagrants. Results also showed that almost all the subjects tend to close their “darker” side from others who don’t know that they are vagrants by impression management. These people came into existence not only because of a poor culture which shows nomadic type of living habit, but it’s also because of the structure and vast majority which sees them with a negative stigma for every type of occupation they choose including a forced action because they were left without any choices other being a vagrant.

This paper presents how to teach cohesion to EFL students who take English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses at the faculty of economics. The teaching is based on the assumption that the direct involvement of students in selecting course materials and intensive exposure to discourse of economic texts in reading practices can raise students’ awareness and knowledge of the way which the content of connected texts hangs together. This acquaintance can in turn make them have better comprehension of the text.

Despite of Indonesian government’s initiative for enhancing technology in educational practices,
the use of computer to mediate teaching/learning seems to be hesitant. This paper is to expose students’ recognition of learning English reading mediated by computer. Case study was used as research design. Results of the research expose no evidence that students with better English background would be successful in this mode of learning reading. However, students who participate more in learning sessions tend to have better achievement in English reading. Furthermore, students recognize that computer mediated learning reading is interesting and brings benefits from the view point of learning flexibility, interactivity, variety of contents, and performance by which motivate them to complete their own learning. The absence of teacher falls into two: 1) teacher’s absence would lower students’ psychological burden, and 2) explanations from teacher remains needed in face-to-face interaction.

The study investigates the use of Task-based Language Teaching in optimizing children’s language acquisition of EFL in speaking skill. The aim of study is to search the TBLT in foreign language learning, and proof that this approach is one of good way in language learning . The study applied descriptive explorative and pre-experimental research which allow the writer to collect the data in three ways: library, observation, and field research. The result of the study shows that TBLT is affective to boost children’s ability in oral communication in simple utterances: instructing, requesting, and warning. Thus they composed simple utterances to express need, it is encouraged the child himself has inner motivation to learn by themselves in the way at their time playing by learning.

The stud}’ investigates the use of mind mapping technique in teaching writing. This study was conducted based on the two main problems: 1) is the mind mapping technique applied in the students’ writing skill? 2) Does mind mapping technique affect on the students’ writing skill? The aim of the study was to find out the students’ writing skill after learning using mind mapping. The study applied free experimental designs, using paired simple t-test with the sample of 30 students from the population of 120 students. The result revealed that the mapping technique affected on improving the students’ writing skill.

The study attempts to investigate the effect of the treatments of student-student interactions versus teacher-student interactions to the students’ speaking skills in Conversation in English Programs. The number of the students in. each of the three classes (namely student-student interactions class, teacher-student interactions class and control class is not more than 12 students; an ideal number for student-centered class. Each class teacher of the experiment group (student-student interaction group and teacher-student interaction group) is provided with lesson plan and discussions on the lesson plans were conducted prior to the treatments; while the control group teacher has no interfere at all (from the researcher). The students were given situational dialog test before being treated. After being treated for ten consecutive sessions, the same test was administered again. To meet the prerequisite for normal distribution, the data of pre test and post test were analyzed. After normal distribution test was conducted, to determine the progress from the pretest andposttest, paired samples t-test is used; while comparing the progress of the students’ speaking skills in those three groups, one way anova is implemented. The results of the gain of the students ‘ achievement was again processed using LSD (Least significant difference) test to further analyze and find out the most significant improvement among the three group. The LSD test showed that the average of students’ achievement in the Student- Student Interactions Group far excelled the achievement of the students in the Teacher-Student Interaction Group and the Control Group. It is clearly seen that the progress of students’ achievement in the Teacher-Student Group did not have a significant difference with the progress of the students in the Control Group. To conclude, student-student interactions, in which students are given exposure to use the language in class around 75%, enhance students speaking skills.

The information and communication technology has been utilized by most universities in Indonesia though it is rarely integrated in teaching and learning activities in classes. This paper, as part of a study to foster learner autonomy using technology based approach, investigated the roles of online peer feedback toward learner autonomy development. The data used in this study involved students’ interview transcriptions. The results showed that online peer feedback has facilitated students’ metacognitive strategies and enhanced their motivation to learn writing.

Para peneliti kemiskinan telah memiliki konsensus bahwa permasalahan kemiskinan
adalah permasalahan yang multidimensional. Penjelasan mengenai kemiskinan pada
Copenhagen Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development tahun 1995
yang menyebutkan bahwa kemiskinan mempunyai berbagai wujud, termasuk kurangnya
pendapatan dan sumber daya produktif yang memadai untuk menjamin kelangsungan hidup;
kelaparan, dan kekurangan gizi; kesehatan yang buruk; keterbatasan akses pendidikan dan
pelayanan dasar lainnya; peningkatan morbiditas dan peningkaan kematian akibat penyakit;
tunawisma dan perumahan yang tidak memadai; lingkungan yang tidak aman; dan
diskriminasi sosial dan pengucilan. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (PBB) menambahkan
kemiskinan dicirikan oleh kurangnya partisipasi dalam pengambilan keputusan dan dalam
kehidupan sipil, sosial, dan budaya (Barrientos, 2010 dalam (Badan Pendidikan dan
Penelitian Kesejahteraan Sosial, 2012, hal. 1)).