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Developing a corpus-based maritime English dictionary for enhancing engine room crew communication abimanto, Dhanan; Pratama, Hendi; Areni, Galuh Kirana Dwi
The Proceedings of English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT) Vol. 14 (2025)
Publisher : The Proceedings of English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT)

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This study addresses a critical gap in maritime communication within the Indonesian context, where engine room communication typically involves a hybrid of Bahasa Indonesia and unstandardized English technical terms. While international regulations like the Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP) mandate English, they do not account for this prevalent code-mixing practice, creating significant risks of miscommunication linked to maritime incidents. To mitigate these risks, this research developed a specialized, corpus-based Maritime English dictionary for Indonesian Engine Room Crew (ERC). Adopting a qualitative, corpus-aided lexicographic design, the study compiled and analyzed a corpus of authentic Indonesian engine-room texts including logbooks and technical manuals, to identify high-frequency English technical terms and their contextual usage patterns. The findings confirm the existence of a core lexicon of English terms that are systematically embedded into formulaic Bahasa Indonesia phrases, representing the functional norm of technical discourse. The resulting thematically structured dictionary, validated by subject matter experts, serves as a practical tool to standardize this critical vocabulary. The study's novelty lies in its dedicated focus on this hybrid linguistic domain, aiming to enhance communication clarity, operational safety, and the effectiveness of Maritime English training for Indonesian marine engineering personnel.
Blended Problem Based-Learning: Enhancing speaking performance across self-efficacy levels Lestari, Yunda; Hartono, Rudi; Yuliasri, Issy; Pratama, Hendi
TLEMC (Teaching and Learning English in Multicultural Contexts) Vol 9, No 1 (2025): TLEMC (Teaching and Learning English in Multicultural Contexts)
Publisher : Siliwangi University

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This study examines the effectiveness of the Blended Problem-Based Learning (Blended-PBL) approach in enhancing speaking performance among EFL students with different self-efficacy levels and explores students’ perceptions of its application in speaking instruction. Employing a quasi-experimental design, the research involved 32 undergraduate students of an English Education Study Program, consisting of 16 students with high self-efficacy and 16 with low self-efficacy, who participated in a speaking course during the 2023/2024 academic year. Data were collected through pre- and post-test speaking performance assessments evaluated with an analytic rubric, a self-efficacy questionnaire, and a perception survey, and analyzed using paired sample t-tests and descriptive statistics. The results indicated a significant improvement in students’ speaking performance after the Blended-PBL intervention, with a paired sample t-test yielding a value of t = -12.162 (p 0.05), confirming that the gains were statistically significant. Interestingly, although students with high self-efficacy performed slightly better than their peers with lower self-efficacy, the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant, suggesting that Blended-PBL is equally beneficial across varying levels of self-efficacy. Furthermore, perception data demonstrated that students held favorable views toward Blended-PBL, particularly in terms of motivation, collaboration, confidence building, and problem-solving skills. These findings highlight Blended-PBL as an effective and inclusive pedagogical model for EFL speaking instruction, with potential to foster learners engagement, reduce performance gaps, and promote a more supportive and equitable language learning environment.Keywords: Blended problem-based learning, self-efficacy levels, speaking performance