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Journal of Language Education, Linguistics, and Culture
Published by Universitas Islam Riau
ISSN : 27746003     EISSN : 2775099X     DOI : 10.25299
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Jurnal ini merupakan sarana publikasi ilmiah yang dikelola oleh Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Islam Riau. Tujuannya adalah sebagai wahana publikasi ilmiah berupa hasil penelitian, pengembangan teori, eksperimen, dan tinjauan pustaka. Frekuensi publikasi adalah triwulanan, terbit tiga kali setahun pada bulan Februari, Juni dan Oktober. Proses penilaian artikel melibatkan dua orang reviewer yang memiliki disiplin ilmu yang relevan dengan artikel penulis. Selanjutnya hasil penilaian reviewer ditindaklanjuti oleh editor untuk diputuskan.
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Creating an English-Speaking Community: A Qualitative Case Study of Students’ Experiences of Using English Beyond the Classroom Wulandari, Amelia; Fajriansyah, Syukron; Tjalla, Magdahalena
J-LELC: Journal of Language Education, Linguistics, and Culture Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026): J-LELC: Journal of Language Education, Linguistics, and Culture
Publisher : UIR Press

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Abstract

English clubs are widely studied in Indonesian EFL research, yet most existing studies frame such clubs primarily as instruments for producing measurable gains in speaking competence, leaving the social and experiential processes through which an English-speaking community is created comparatively unexamined. This qualitative case study explored students’ experiences of using English beyond the classroom through the English Club of the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Tarbiyah, IAIN Parepare, using Communities of Practice as an interpretive lens. Data were collected through a semi-structured written questionnaire distributed to English Club members; following screening against the study’s inclusion criteria, sixteen of twenty original responses (P1–P16) were retained for reflexive thematic analysis. Findings showed that students experienced English use in the club as a progression from initial nervousness to gradually increasing confidence, facilitated by a relaxed, non-judgmental atmosphere and by learning mediated through peers rather than pursued individually. English use was encouraged by peer support, peer modelling, tutor encouragement, and habitual practice, and discouraged by fear of mistakes, limited vocabulary, classroom-carried evaluation apprehension, and a social concern about being perceived as showing off; language choice was managed through flexible, situation-dependent code-switching. Participation contributed to the creation of an English-speaking community through newcomers’ peripheral participation, internalized shared expectations, and a shared improvement goal sustained by peer and tutor relationships, although the sense of community was not uniformly stable across members or sessions. The study extends the Communities of Practice framework to a student-run, extracurricular English-speaking community within an Islamic higher education context and offers a process-oriented alternative to outcome-oriented framings of English clubs in prior research.

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