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Using critical discourse analysis to explore an authentic teaching material: A focus on language and power Sukma Septian Nasution; Nur Najibah Sukmawati; Azhar Aziz Lubis; Tommy Hastomo; Lodya Sesriyani
Studies in English Language and Education Vol 7, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Syiah Kuala

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24815/siele.v7i2.16636

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Many EFL students show anxiety when speaking English in Indonesia. Therefore, when it comes to pedagogical context, critical discourse analysis (CDA) has a significant role to explore linguistics unit, socio-cultural context, and ideology of the text learners need to understand. This study aims at analysing the relation of language and power behind a text entitled ‘Driving Age, Increasing’ and making use of it to pedagogical context. The chosen text is an authentic material adopted from ‘Debatabase’, a book on building argumentative skills. By using Fairclough’s model (1989), the text was examined through three steps of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), namely description, interpretation, and explanation. Then, the analysis is interrelated with the nature of discussion text taught to the learners. The result of the analysis shows that the text is dominated by material, verbal, and relational processes, formal, complex, repetitive, evidence-based, multi-perspective, and over-wording dictions underpinned in an institutionalized social activity and unspecialized semantic domain. Further, the relationship between the author and the readers indicates there is equality in power shown by the provided equal analytical perspectives and evidence-based arguments to both conflicting parties toward the issue. As it fits the nature of discussion text, the paper ends with recommendations for EFL teachers to make use of CDA in raising learners’ language awareness.
The Implementation of Student Exchange Program in Higher Education: The Study in a University in Indonesia Lodya Sesriyani; Saiful Anwar; Rusmaini Rusmaini
AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan Vol 14, No 4 (2022): AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan
Publisher : STAI Hubbulwathan Duri

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.35445/alishlah.v14i4.2104

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This study aimed to analyze the implementation of Program Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) which was implemented in one of the private universities in Indonesia. The focus of this research was the implementation of Program Pertukaran Mahasiswa Merdeka (PMM), where in this program students temporarily exchange to run courses at partner universities. This research is expected to answer what must be evaluated in the program Pertukaran Mahasiswa Merdeka (PMM). The subjects in this study were all students in the PMM program activities in the Perkembangan Peserta Didik' course. Observations were made for nine meetings conducted online both on Google meet and on the Spada Dikti dashboard. There were sixteen students whose activities were observed and two lecturers who taught courses. During the observation, information was found regarding timeliness of students and lecturers in starting and ending lectures, students’ discipline when collecting individual and group assignments, signal problems that often occur, effectiveness of the Dikti dashboard, to the final conversion of students' grades at their respective universities.