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Portraying the Use of Facebook for Educational Purposes Among Female Undergraduates: Causes and Activities Joice Yulinda Luke
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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This study describes the use of Facebook for educational purposes among female students. The study focuses on two main objectives. First, the study reveals the causes to use Facebook as educational platform. Second, the study depicts the learning activities which female students did with Facebook. To explore the findings, the study gathered the data from survey among twenty-one female students of Bina Nusantara University who were selected randomly. They were asked to complete the closed-ended Likert-scale questionnaires. Then, the data were quantified and analyzed descriptively. The results show that the main reason of female students to use Facebook for learning was its ease accessibility from anywhere with the respondents’ personal gadget. Finally, the research proved that female students were extremely used Facebook to post the writing assignments like stories and essays. Overall, the study significantly conveys the worth usages of social networking sites as Facebook for educational purposes.
EFL Vietnamese Students towards Language Learning Autonomy Phan Thi Kim Thao
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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Language autonomy is one of aspects in second language acquisition. It becomes vital theme for many scholars and researchers to investigate how language learners take responsibility for their study. The current paper attempts to examine language autonomy strategies were used EFL Vietnamese students to engage the language process as well as EFL teachers’ perceptions towards students’ language learning autonomy. The study used mixed research method. There were 246 participants consisting of 238 English major students and 8 EFL teachers were surveyed by questionnaire and semi-structured interview to indicate their own perceptions on language learning autonomy. The result showed high percentage of learners are independent in learning and EFL teachers’ perceptions on students’ language learning. Keywords: Learning strategy, language autonomy, EFL students.
Pilot Study: Malaysian University Students’ Attitudes towards Wiki Writing as an Alternative Assessment Nur Hafezah Hussein
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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Recently, alternative assessment has gained increasing attention especially in the context of Malaysian tertiary education. In line with this, the present study aimed at investigating Malaysian university students’ attitudes towards the use of wiki writing as an alternative assessment in English learning. 29 university students participated in this study and data was collected via a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were employed in analysing the data. Results showed that the students’ attitudes were negative towards the use of wiki writing as an alternative assessment for their English writing. They believed that alternative assessment is time-consuming and ignores students’ writing skills. The students further expressed their preference for traditional written tests over alternative assessment. Limitations of the study as well as recommendations were further discussed.
Improving Students’ Critical Thinking to Develop Variety Essays through Picture Word Inductive Model Amrina Rosyada
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language for students in English Education Program sounds less difficult. However, teaching English for Academic Writing that students have to develop their original writings in the form of essays is a great challenge. Most students do not know where to start their writings, how to generate their thoughts, and even how to manage their sentence by sentence in sequence. This study was administered to enhance students’ critical thinking in developing variety essays as the basic writings through Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM). Engaged by 54 students of English Education Program in sixth semester, the study was measured quantitatively and qualitatively with mix method analysis. The PWIM was applied to inductively generate and improve students’ critical thinking comprised in 2 cycles for two different essay genres which were descriptive essay, and compare and contrast essay. Findings showed that there were 41 students in first cycle and 52 students in second cycle, inductively improved their critical thinking and interestingly experienced new process of writing through the use of PWIM.
Social Media Tools at Developing Academic Writing Skills Aftab Ahmed Charan; Ghulam Ali Buriro
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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Facebook is considered as an effective Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) form. It is estimated that 2/3rd majority of Pakistani Facebook users are below 24 years old. The users spent around 40 minutes every day on facebook. They are either reading posts or responding by different emojis or comments. The study attempts to weigh the role of Facebook in developing writing skills in the students of English literature. 210 students of literature from four public sector universities participated in this research. A 15 item questionnaire suing a 5 – pint Likert scale was applied to record their observations. All students were invited to write at least one academic paragraph. Later their views, draft and profiles were cross tabulated through a data base to determine the results. The results show that 87% students use Facebook. The users consider Facebook as an opportunity to improve their writing skills. Among those who do not use Facebook around 30% did not participate in paragraph writing. The communication traffic on Facebook is found pertinent, critical and relevant. It was established that Facebook and other social media channels can be useful of distant or e-learning prospects.
The Need Analysis of English for Specific Purpose in Faculty of Law Fikri Asih Wigati; Candra Hayatul Iman
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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The flow of globalization is inevitable. This has brought changes in the development of English for Specific Purpose. Responding to this condition, this study was conducted to determine the need analysis of ESP in faculty of Law, however this study focus on the undergraduates point of view. This research focused to students of Law Faculty in on state university in West Java, Indonesia by using qualitative research design. The data were obtained from several techniques, namely interview, and documentations. Based on the interview data, it was found that the expected materials for the ESP in Law Faculty are communication skills especially on speaking and writing to prepare themselves to serve their clients. In addition, grammar focus and pronunciation drilling are less interesting, they think that active learning activities are more engaging. Keywords: ESP, Law Faculty, students point of view
Classroom Experiences of Creative Thinking Suciana Wijirahayu; Vidia Lantari Ayundhari
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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This study examines the application of higher order thinking in a real classroom practices. Some theories are presented to give a solid ground for examining the evidence. The experience of joining the instruction and assessment will also be elaborated. The course description, classroom activities and assessment are presented to give evidence on how HOTS was applied by the lecturers and the students. The scope of discussion in this study is limited on creative thinking through teaching strategies and assessment in Research Method and MA Thesis Writing subjects at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. Critical linguistic and cultural approach used in both of the courses coloured the result of the creative thinking exposed in this qualitative research. Information on how teaching-learning and assessment could be done more creatively especially by Indonesian teachers to facilitate appropriate teaching strategies and learning environments to support the English as a foreign language learning competence growth and their flexible attitudes are one of the objectives.
The Use of Cohesive Devices in Argumentation Essay Writing of English Literature Students Merry Rullyanti; Tri Anggeraini
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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Writing arguments in an essay is both a challenge and an obstacle for students in writing essays. In fact, students make writing arguments as a constraint due to their lack of understanding of the use of Cohesive Devices in the right writing. The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent to which the use of Cohesive Devices in Unity and Coherence to improve the ability to write Argumentation Essays of English Literature Department students. This research method is quantitative descriptive research. The instruments used in researching Cohesive Devices on Unity and Coherence aspects in argumentation essay are Writing Test, Checklist, Questionnaire, and Interview. The results of the study showed that the ability of English Literature students to write essays in the arguments that were integrated and unity and coherence was at a fairly good level although there were still weaknesses in the selection of transition signals and pronoun references as part of the aspects of Cohesive Devices. Based on observations during the study, students can explain the background of the problem they want to raise in their essay's argument, besides that the use of sentence structure is also quite well controlled by students. Furthermore, there are some transition signals as part of Cohesive Devices used by students in essay writing arguments in this study, starting with the most commonly used are and, but, because, however, so. Only a few use other transitions such as a result, on the other hand, although. According to Zemach and Rumisek (2015), the use of transitions is sufficient to meet the conditions for using transitions used in argumentation essays and / or cause and effect essays. However, students are still weak in writing essays coherently using cohesive devices especially in using transition signals. These constraints are caused by several things, among others, firstly students still cannot distinguish usage and place the transition signal in the sentence correctly. Second, students still cannot form the right argument by using the correct transition signal in the essay. Apart from that, students still try to express their ideas naturally in writing argumentation essays.
Prewriting Activities in Teaching EFL Writing Dwi Sloria Suharti; Nurbaiti Eka Permanasari; Ihsana El Khuluqo
UICELL No 2 (2018): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2018
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In this paper, the researchers would like to propose a teaching EFL writing course: News Story, which the researchers have used in an EFL classroom context. This effort is different from others in some occasions. Firstly, in the stages of developing ideas of a news story: a biography news, the researchers encourage students to seek for related information for their composition through pre writing activities such as, the activity of research that is by interviewing: preparing some questions and asking those questions to the (intended person) source. Secondly, at the phase of drafting, the researchers ask students to work cooperatively, to construct the main ideas and supporting ideas this activity ends with the results which are sentences then paragraphs. Furthermore, before the researchers provide a writing task: writing a biography news, students are given transitional words to make their composition coherently. Lastly, they upload their composition in their blog. In short, in the proposed teaching EFL writing: a biography news story, by interviewing, students can understand how to organize the writing material according to the necessities of the writing task; writing biography News. To sum up, prewriting activities; through interviewing can assist EFL students to generate the ideas which can inspire and aid them realize both what they want to write and how to write it on their writing task: A Biography News.
Student’s Perceptions of Using TED Talks to Improve EFL Speaking Skill Patria Erry Kusumastuty; Herri Mulyono; Anita Dewi Ekawati
UICELL No 3 (2019): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2019
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This quantitative study investigated the students’ perception of using TED Talks to improve their speaking skill. The study drew upon 210 in-service EFL scholar across universities in fourteen provinces in Indonesia. These student participants were asked to complete seventeen items of close-ended questionnaire. Statistical data analysis using reliability, descriptive analysis and One-Way ANOVA were performed using SPSS software. The findings revealed two students’ perceptions about using TED Talks, there were positive and negative perceptions. The results were performed with differences between gender and age as demographic. Keywords: TED Talks, Speaking Skill

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