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Beyond Strategy: Exploring Cultural Familiarity, Metacognition, and Learner Autonomy in Reading Comprehension: Kunene, Mfanukhona Wonderboy; Nyika, Nicholus
ELE Reviews: English Language Education Reviews Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): November
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Mas Said Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/elereviews.v5i2.12753

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Literature on reading strategies ignores the critical role of cultural familiarity in the strategic selection and metacognition control of learners. This phenomenological study explores the rationale for implementing reading strategies and for metacognitive control among learners in culturally familiar and unfamiliar texts. The paper argues that cultural context shapes the reasons for using or abandoning a specific strategy, a process controlled by learners’ autonomy. The findings show that learners commonly use Global strategies to attain efficiency with known texts. However, they use Problem-Solving strategies when texts become culturally irrelevant, indicating a strong strategic bifurcation. The Reading Comprehension Pathway (RCP) Model embodies this strategic process and reconceptualises comprehension as a dynamic pathway under cultural control. The RCP Model provides a general framework for developing culturally responsive English Language Teaching (ELT) pedagogy.
DeepL as a Translanguaging Tool in an Indonesian EFL Student’s Academic Writing Fathinah, Fahdah; Rusmawaty, Desy; Aridah, Aridah; Amarullah, A. K.
ELE Reviews: English Language Education Reviews Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): November
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/elereviews.v5i2.12945

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This study investigates how an Indonesian EFL student uses DeepL, a machine translation (MT) tool, as part of her translanguaging practices in academic writing, and how she refines machine-generated texts to meet academic standards. Using a qualitative case study design, this research employed semi-structured interviews, writing assignments, and screen recordings to collect in-depth data. DeepL was specifically chosen among other MT and AI tools due to the participant’s consistent preference, contextual accuracy for academic writing, and a unique alternative-word-suggestion feature that appears to facilitate the participant’s text refinement process directly. The findings suggest that DeepL acts as a learning resource that supports vocabulary development, paraphrasing, and linguistic reflection. The participant critically engaged with DeepL’s translation results by employing several strategies, including back-translation, paraphrasing, and text evaluation, demonstrating an awareness of meaning, tone, and academic style. These practices reflect the translanguaging theory that the use of multilingual repertoires can be supported by digital technology in the construction of meaning. The novelty of this research lies in its rich, contextual insights into collaborative interactions between humans and machines in a single case, thereby providing an exploratory foundation for future, larger-scale comparative studies. The findings of this research also contribute to the field of applied linguistics and EFL pedagogy by proposing the pedagogical integration of MT tools to enhance critical digital literacy and reflective language learning.
How English Texts Work for Deaf Learners: A View from Systemic Functional Linguistics’ Transitivity System Zharfa, Ratri Izzati; Anjaniputra, Agung Ginanjar
ELE Reviews: English Language Education Reviews Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): November
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Mas Said Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/elereviews.v5i2.13090

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This study examines how experiential meaning is realized in an Indonesian government-published English textbook for eleventh-grade deaf students in Special Senior High Schools (SMALB). While this meaning concerns who is doing what in certain circumstances, it can also investigate what happenings are involved, given that aural happenings pose significant linguistic and pedagogical difficulties among deaf students in accessing learning materials. However, little is known about the instructional content in such a textbook. Using the transitivity system from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to capture the language realizations and insights of the social model of disability in coping with structural barriers, this study examined clauses as the unit of analysis, comprising 176 short commands and 87 brief dialogues. The findings highlight the need to accommodate the nature of deaf students, as both text types lack adequate linguistic diversity and multimodal support, thereby limiting accessibility and engagement. These findings reflect structural barriers in the textbook design. This study recommends revising the command structure, diversifying participant roles and circumstantial elements, and integrating visual strategies such as sign language models, gestures, and contextual images. This study highlights that transitivity analysis can be harnessed to inform appropriate doings and experiences related to learning, contributing to inclusive English language instruction and equitable learning experiences for deaf students.

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