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Compliment Response Strategies of English Pre-Service Teachers Masita, Ella; Fortunasari; Hidayat, Marzul; Marzulina, Lenny; Kamil, Dairabi
Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE| Vol. 9 No. 01 (2025): IRJE |Indonesian Research Journal in Education|
Publisher : Universitas Jambi, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22437/irje.v9i01.24592

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Learning English goes beyond merely memorizing English words and grammar rules. Instead, understanding the socio-cultural background is essential as an important part of successful communication. As a part of politeness strategies, responding appropriately to an English compliment is an urgent skill to master especially by English teachers as they play an important rule for their students in the process of English learning. This article therefore is aimed at investigating how English pre-service teachers at Jambi University respond English compliments. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative. The data collection tool is an interview which then be analyzed using Thematic Analysis. Based on the data, three major findings have emerged, they are: the variations of students’ responses toward English compliments, the influences of Indonesian language system in students’ responses and students’ lack of ability in producing appropriate compliment responses.
Are They on Target? The Order of Thinking Skills of the Reading Comprehension Questions and Tasks of the Merdeka Curriculum English Textbook for Indonesian High School Kamil, Dairabi; Aswad, Muhammad; Hidayat, Marzul; Fortunasari, Fortunasari
Indonesian Research Journal in Education |IRJE| Vol. 8 No. 2 (2024): IRJE |Indonesian Research Journal in Education|
Publisher : Universitas Jambi, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22437/irje.v8i2.39981

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This study sought to investigate the order of thinking of the reading comprehension questions and tasks of the English textbook for Grade 10 of Indonesian high school. The textbook was written within the framework of the Merdeka Curriculum to promote Higher Order of Thinking (HOTS) and was launched by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia in 2022. Drawing on a Quantitative Content Analysis design by using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy as a reference for identification of HOTS, the present study analyzed 50 reading questions and tasks of the textbook. The results showed that the majority of the questions and tasks focused on remembering and evaluating the texts and required the reader to recall and comprehend the information that mostly belonged to the category of Lower Order of Thinking (LOTS). There were only few questions and tasks that required the readers to analyze and create based on the information from the text. To some extent, these showed a misalignment between what the Merdeka Curriculum seeks to promote in terms of HOTS and what the textbook realizes.