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LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
ISSN : 14107201     EISSN : 25799533     DOI : https://doi.org/10.24071/llt
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, to be published twice a year, namely in April and October, is a scientific peer-reviewed journal published by the English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. The journal welcomes articles on language and language teaching, including 1. language studies/investigations, 2. language teaching/learning, 3. literature related to language studies or learning, and 4. linguistics related to language learning.
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BOOK REVIEW: PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS ON RACIAL LITERACY AS AN APPROACH TO CRITICAL WRITING INSTRUCTION Nanquil, Luisito Manalansan
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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This paper examined and reviewed the book authored by two ESL experts. It was discovered by the researcher-reviewer that racial literacy is important in teaching critical writing. Teaching writing skills is not a piece of cake. Learners always come to school with varied interests and motivations but it may not indicate they are inclined to writing. To make learners proficient in writing is indeed a challenging task on the part of the teacher. A racial literacy is one of the effective and appropriate approaches that can be infused by the teacher to make classroom experience holistic and engaging. This article depicts issues about the use of the approach in an EFL and ESL classroom. Furthermore, some steps to racial literacy were examined by the researcher to ensure their effectiveness in teaching composition writing.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2020.230114
ENHANCING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS ON CONTENT AREA Politton, Mariana Ester; Hadiyanti, Kayetana Maria Widi
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 22, No 2 (2019)
Publisher : English Education Study Programme of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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Writing, as an instrument of communication, is nowadays accomplished mostly in English to ensure information understood globally via digital platforms. This creates a transformation in job fields into utilizing technologies to textually deliver messages. Therefore, it is vital to generate high qualified future employees competing in the work places. Accordingly, university students must be equipped with English writing competencies as well as strategies focusing on content area, in addition to forms, so as to promote meaning-making concerning critical and logical thinking skills, besides to comprise comprehensive realization. This qualitative research utilized a critical literature review by conducting in-depth data collection, organization, integration, and classification of writing strategies. It offers suggested maneuvers to overcome higher education learners? writing problems: lack of content maturation practices, through implementing collaborative writing discussions with either or both verbal or / and online discussions. It can as well integrate (intensive / extensive) reading and writing instructions in contextual cognitive processes concentrating on intellectual meaning development. DOI: 10.24071/llt.2019.220202 
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF TABLEAU IN EFL CLASSROOM Agustin, Aulia; Susilowaty, Susilowaty
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 22, No 2 (2019)
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This is the qualitative study that examines the students? perception of benefits and concerns of tableau used in EFL classroom. Tableau actually is one of the process drama techniques which allows the students to create a living picture using their body, gesture, and facial expression. Tableau is theoretically useful for students to be engaged in reading because it offers all reading strategies. However, there has been few available studies regarding to tableau, especially in EFL classroom context. It was then compelling for conducting the study of how students perceive of their experience in doing tableau in their classroom. The participants were 25 students in one of the EFL classroom in Indonesia. These participants were engaged in doing tableau for three-time meetings. After they experienced doing tableau in their classroom, they were asked to write a reflective journal to know their perceptions in regards to the benefits and concerns of tableau. Moreover, four participants were interview to get deeper understanding of their perception of tableau. The results from reflective journals and interviews revealed that the students perceived several benefits were gained after doing tableau, such as it helps them create sensory images, gain more vocabulary knowledge, deepen characters feeling, learn collaboratively, provide an alternative learning, and creating a fun atmosphere in the classroom. However, they also perceived several concerns about tableau, such as it takes much time, some ineffective groupworks still happens, and they also reported that they found some students misinterpreted the text in tableau.DOI: 10.24071/llt.2019.220207
BOOK REVIEW: EXPLICIT LEARNING IN THE L2 CLASSROOM Prasetyo, Hardi
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 22, No 2 (2019)
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This book provides a theoretically framed and empirically supported approach to support explicit learning (learning with awareness) in L2 development with a link to learning in the classroom setting. It approaches explicit L2 learning from five perspectives: theory, methodology, empirical work, model building, and pedagogy.  It is theoretically based on mentalist or psycholinguistics SLA which posit that L2 development is more cognitive in nature. It also reviews studies which were motivated by cognitive accounts of SLA, more specifically studies on explicit L2 learning. It provides teachers with a model of L2 learning process in instructed SLA, and researchers with reviews on data elicitation procedures (online and offline) in SLA research. This book is written with novice teachers and researchers in mind, therefore it is both theoretical and practical in nature.DOI: 10.24071/llt.2019.220212
EFL TEACHERS’ AND LEARNERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTED LANGUAGE LEARNING: CONFLICT OR CONSENSUS? Connor, Owen; Nazari, Ahmad
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 1 (2020)
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The developmental nature of second language acquisition research has resulted in various and at times seemingly contradictory theories, methods and approaches. In 2005, Rod Ellis published his ?Principles of Instructed Language Learning,? which he considered to be a set of teaching ?generalisations? that could stimulate debate and reflection among teachers in the ?post-methods era? (Richards & Rodgers, 2014). The purpose of this study was to investigate Ellis?s principles in terms of their perceived relevance and applicability in an adult EFL learning environment. In order to achieve this aim, a mixed methods research approach was utilised. Separate questionnaires were administered to seventy-one students and eight teachers employed in the English Language Department of a Training Institute in Doha, Qatar. Additionally, thirteen students participated in two ? single sex ? focus group sessions. The results revealed consensus between students and teachers regarding the importance they placed on some principles, but not others, particularly the contentious issue of meaning vs. form. Furthermore, while both groups emphasised the importance of interaction, many students nonetheless felt uneasy interacting in English with other Arabic speakers. A further key finding was that neither party clearly understood the concept of the learner?s built-in syllabus. The principal conclusion is that the best way to deal with the aforementioned anomalies involves experimentation with task-based approaches as these allow for  a focus on meaning, opportunities for interaction, and a retrospective focus on form via corrective feedback, which takes into account the learner?s built-in syllabus.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2020.230105
WHO AM “I” IN ACADEMIC WRITING?: THE STUDY OF AUTHORIAL IDENTITY Asprillia, Anandya; Hardjanto, Tofan Dwi
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 1 (2020)
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In this paper, we attempt to examine the identity of researchers in writing their research articles (RAs) by exploring the linguistic forms indicating the identity of the authors in English RAs, determining the functions these forms serve in the discourse, and revealing the socio-cultural aspects implied from the use of the authorial identity. We will identify the English first-person pronouns used by native and non-native authors in Scopus-indexed linguistics and education academic journal articles. This study applied the corpus linguistic method to collect the data and to draw conclusions about the authorial identity presented in the articles. Hopefully, this paper will help to not only comprehend the role and the importance of the authorial presence but also encourage researchers to represent their identity in their own RAs.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2020.230110
EFL TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES ON GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENTS Belaid, Louiza; Sarnou, Hanane
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 22, No 2 (2019)
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This work assesses the perspectives of teachers on pupils? classroom performance in a foreign language. Its objectives target to discover the challenges that educators face in teaching English. English is a foreign language that teachers encounter difficulties to teach especially to a population whereby their linguistic background does not help in using the language properly. In this prospect, our research questions search for the obstacles that hinder the teachers of English from receiving a positive feedback from their pupils? performance. As a research tool, a questionnaire is handed to forty six teachers in Tissemsilt-Algeria. The results exhibit weaknesses in dealing with pupils especially in using the language in an oral or a written task, besides the violent behaviour of males in the classroom which represents a hindrance for educators to manage the classroom, communicate and teach effectively.DOI: 10.24071/llt.2019.220203
A READER RESPONSE APPROACH IN COLLABORATIVE READING PROJECTS TO FOSTER CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Pasaribu, Truly Almendo
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 22, No 2 (2019)
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Reading has become a major concern of EFL educators.  Reading does not only help students learn foreign languages, but it is believed that it has a strong link with critical thinking skills. A reader response approach in collaborative works, adapted from literary theory, is believed to be beneficial for the students. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the answers to these two questions: (1) how are the collaborative reader responses implemented in Critical Reading and Writing II? and (2) To what extent does reader response approaches promote students? critical thinking skills? With these questions in mind, the researcher collects the data by involving 24 participants from CRW II (Critical Reading and Writing) class. The data from students? reflections, questionnaires, and focus group discussion are analyzed descriptively, using both qualitative and quantitative method. It is hoped that the implementation of this approach can be useful not only to improve students? reading skills, but it provides more opportunity for students to exercise their critical thinking skills.DOI: 10.24071/llt.2019.220208
VARIATIONS AND INSERTIONS OF SCHWA: EARLY TEENAGE L2 LEARNERS OF ENGLISH Agor, John Tetteh
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 1 (2020)
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This study examines variations and insertions of schwa observed in the speech of 200 early teenage pre-intermediate second-language learners of English. The respondents were final-year students of a junior high school located in an urban setting in Ghana, a multilingual post-colonial African country south of the Sahara. The respondents read aloud sections of familiar texts they themselves chose. The reading sessions and subsequent oral interaction sessions were video-taped, transcribed verbatim, and analysed. The respondents? articulation of schwa as captured in the recordings was compared with corresponding forms in the Ghanaian school variety of English. This variety served as the reference point for the comparisons made. Variations recognised were categorised and described focusing on their plausible sources. The findings indicate that all the unpredictable variants of schwa observed in their speech are traceable to their mother tongues. This has implications for second language theory, second language research, and second language pedagogy. DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2020.230101
DEVELOPING ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING THROUGH PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING Nangimah, Musrifatun
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching Vol 23, No 1 (2020)
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Critical thinking skill is crucial for higher education students. However, the development of critical thinking for engineering students has been overlooked. The previous research on students? critical thinking in higher education mainly focuses on Humanities and Social Sciences department. Therefore, this research aims to evaluate engineering students? critical thinking ability in English public speaking. A case study was carried out on 28 students (18 Males, 8 Females) of Telecommunication Engineering faculty at Institut Teknologi Telkom Purwokerto. The study found that students had the potential to be critical despite their lack of English vocabulary and poor pronunciation ability. They developed critical thinking by understanding the context given, gathering relevant sources as analysis resources, evaluating the gathered information through discussion, and generating the solutions. Evaluative teaching strategies that encourage scaffolding and learning autonomy are needed to enhance their critical thinking.DOI: doi.org/10.24071/llt.2020.230106