Surono Surono
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Indonesia

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Teachers' Attitudes towards Webinars in Professional Development: A Case Study at Secondary School in Indonesia Adi Budi Perkasa; Surono Surono
Journal of Innovation in Educational and Cultural Research Vol 4, No 2 (2023)
Publisher : Yayasan Keluarga Guru Mandiri

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The pandemic has prompted the proliferation of webinars for professional development in the teaching profession. This case study investigates the teachers' attitudes toward the webinars as professional development. The participants were the teachers from a junior high school in one public school in Indonesia. The researchers selected three participants based on the questionnaire by considering the frequencies following the webinars. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews by adapting the three components of an attitude referring to behaviour, cognition, and affective. The study is significant to investigate how teachers perceive webinars as a tool for their professional development, describe the impacts, and as input for the educational organisation in conducting teachers' training. The results revealed the teachers’ positive attitudes regarding behaviours, beliefs, and feelings towards the webinar as professional development. A webinar has eliminated the time and geographical boundaries in conducting professional development. Moreover, more professional networking and opportunities are additional advantages that bring more engagement and exposure to continuing their professional development. This research advocates that more webinars be held to develop the teachers' professionalism by related institutions and to open more access to growing teachers' careers by considering appropriate material and time based on the teachers' needs.
Teaching English Based on The Kurikulum Merdeka at Muhammadiyah Junior High Schools in Yogyakarta: The Teachers’ Implementation and Perception Heri Riskianto; Surono Surono; Iin Inawati
JIIP - Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan Vol. 6 No. 11 (2023): JIIP (Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan)
Publisher : STKIP Yapis Dompu

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This research aims to reveal the implementation and perceptions of the Kurikulum Merdeka by English teachers and also to find the English teachers’ problems in implementing the Kurikulum Merdeka. This research belonged to a qualitative study conducted by using interview and observation to collect data. The research participants were three English teachers at three Muhammadiyah Junior High Schools in Yogyakarta who had implemented the Kurikulum Merdeka. Interview guidelines, observation checklist, and observation field note were used as research instruments. This research used coding technique to analyze data. The research findings showed that the English teachers implemented the Kurikulum Merdeka by varying the learning process, adapting to the students’ characters, requiring more preparations, focusing the learning on vocabulary mastery, reading literacy, and the use of technology. In other words, the Kurikulum Merdeka has not been successfully implemented. Then, the teachers’ perceptions on the Kurikulum Merdeka were actually good but still confusing; the learning resources of Kurikulum Merdeka for teachers were diverse; the Kurikulum Merdeka demanded the development of better education and more differentiated learning; and the schools needed to change the learning activity budget and did a longer assessment analysis. Lastly, the problems in the Kurikulum Merdeka faced by English teachers were the lack of teachers’ understanding on the diverse students’ characters, the lack of equipment that supported learning English in the Kurikulum Merdeka, the need for a change in the mindset of parents about implementing the Kurikulum Merdeka, and the lack of understanding of the Kurikulum Merdeka.
THE INTEGRATION OF FOLKLORE ASLOCAL WISDOM IN TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT: A CASE STUDY AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH BERAU Sutiawati Sutiawati; Surono Surono; Dwi Santoso
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol. 6 No. 6 (2023): VOLUME 6 NUMBER 6, NOVEMBER 2023
Publisher : IKIP Siliwangi

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Integrating local wisdom as a medium for narrative reading makes it easier for teachers to create interesting learning experiences. The objective of this study was to investigate the teacher's strategy in teaching narrative texts by integrating folklore as local wisdom, analyze the student's narrative text produced by students when teaching strategies were implemented, and find out students' responses to teachers' strategy in narrative learning using folklor as local Wisdom. The researchers conducted qualitative research using case study designs. Two English teachers and 30 students from Muhammadiyah Berau High School, East Kalimantan, participated in the study. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews, class observations, and documentation.The findings reveal that teachers use sensory strategies, figurative language, and living words to teach narrative texts through three processes: pre-teaching, while-teach, and post-teacher. Increases enthusiasm and motivation among students. The rating shows a significant increase in the average score, from 85 to 87. Students also tell narrative texts and find folklore as an interesting medium to learn, as it enhances critical thinking and makes imagination flourish.
INDONESIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES IN UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH JOURNAL ARTICLES Nariza Ayu Pasha; Shifak Aisyah; Retno Vinsi Damayanti; Surono Surono
PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1, JANUARY 2024
Publisher : IKIP Siliwangi

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For academic purposes, higher education students need to analyze the information in English journal articles to write academic articles and graduate students are no exception. Furthermore, this study was conducted to investigate and explore the challenges in comprehending English journal articles faced by graduate students, and their strategies to overcome the difficulties. The respondents of the study were first and second-semesters of graduate students of English Education graduate students in two private universities in Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The qualitative research design used open-ended questionnaires and forum group discussions to collect the data. The results of this study indicated that the difficulties students face when understanding journal articles were lack of vocabulary, unfamiliar academic vocabulary, boredom with reading long texts, difficulties in finding the details, and unfamiliar sentence structure and different culture with the author. To overcome this problem, there were five categories of ways for students: getting used to reading, creating a comfortable atmosphere when reading, using a dictionary to translate the text, enriching new vocabulary, looking for simpler articles, and using appropriate reading strategies. Therefore, this research can provide reflection and evaluation of lecturers and students in the teaching and learning process in enhancing students’ reading skills.