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Magister Scientiae
ISSN : 0852078X     EISSN : 26227959     DOI : https://doi.org/10.33508/mgs
Core Subject : Education,
Magister Scientiae journal is published twice annually in March and October. This journal contains articles based on research report and critical analysis in teaching and learning. We only accept manuscripts which have not been published in other media, including personal blogs. The contributing manuscripts should be written in English formatted accordingly with the manuscript direction. Contributors would like to give permission for the editors to edit the manuscript without changing its substance.
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AN ANALYSIS OF JUNIOR HIGH STUDENT’S SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS AFTER COVID-19 Tri Lestari
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 1 (2023)
Publisher : Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i1.4501

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This research aims to analyze the science process skills of junior high school students after 2 years of distance learning or post-COVID-19. The research method used is a descriptive quantitative method using multiple choice questions with 30 items and 4 answer options with 5 SPS indicators: operationalizing definitions, designing experiments, identifying and controlling variables, formulating hypotheses, and describing and interpreting data. The SPS instrument was given to 28 private junior high school students in Surabaya, 9th grade. The results obtained were that the indicator of operationalizing definitions was 33.40% with a low category, designing experiments was 38.89% with a low category, identifying and controlling variables was 40.00% with a low category, formulating hypotheses was 33.00% with a low category, and describing and interpreting data was 44.00% with a low category. The questions 2 and 4 with the indicators of recognizing and controlling variables and articulating hypotheses yielded the fewest correct answers from the students. On question 25, students with the indicator of detecting and controlling variables received the majority of the right responses.
“I GOT STUCK NOT ONLY IN THE FIRST ESSAY”: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON STUDENTS’ WRITING DIFFICULTIES Rachel Gisela Purba; Susana Teopilus
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 1 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i1.4522

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Writing, one of the language skills, seems to be the most difficult skill for students to master. There are five aspects used to evaluate students’ writing abilities: content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics. This current narrative inquiry research aims to find out students’ difficulties in writing expository essays, the factors that cause them to have difficulties, and the strategies they use to overcome them. The data of this research were taken from the students taking Writing Expository and Argumentative Essays course in the English Department of Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University. The data of this study were collected from interviews, observations, and documents. Three participants with   middle-achievement levels were interviewed in three interview sessions, and observations in the writing class were conducted two times. Besides, two essays of each participant were analyzed.The findings show that in relation to the five writing aspects, the major difficulty that the participants had was in the content aspect. Then, the common factor that caused all of the participants to have difficulties was a lack of reading habit. Besides, the common strategy that all participants used to overcome their difficulties was to search on Google.
TIMORESE LANGUAGE STUDENTS’ LEVELS OF METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS OF READING STRATEGIES Manuel Mendonca Araujo; Concilianus Laos Mbato
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 1 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i1.4539

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Reading strategies are crucial in education. This research focused on Timorese language students’ levels of reading strategies. It attempted to answer two research questions; (1) What are the levels of Timorese language students’ metacognitive awareness of reading strategies? and (2) How do Timorese language students apply the reading strategies in their reading experiences? A mixed-method design was adopted. Mokhtari & Sheorey’s (2002) Survey of Reading Strategies (SoRS) was used to collect quantitative data. The findings revealed two high levels; global reading strategies, with a mean value M=3.86, SD=1.1837, and support reading strategies, with a mean value of M=3.79 SD=1.2120. Problem-solving strategies were medium-level, with a mean value M=3.61, SD=1.1718. Highlighting keynotes, using google, discussing, controlling speed were revealed in the qualitative data as adopted reading strategies. Language teachers could use this research to improve language students’ reading strategies, and future researchers should do extensive research to provide more findings.   Keywords: awarenes, metacognitive, reading strategies.  
TRANSMITTING REFLECTIVE TEACHING PRACTICE INTO INDONESIAN EFL EDUCATORS’ PROFESSIONAL JOURNEYS Kristian Florensio Wijaya
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i2.4613

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It is principal to understand that EFL educators’ professional journeys are affected by varied internal and external factors such as school policies, particular curriculums, and educational cultures. From this stance, reflective teaching practice can act as one of the promising solutions to transfigure EFL educators into more well-rounded and thoughtful learning facilitators, which in turn is helpful to improve their entire teaching qualities. The researcher initiated this current small-scale qualitative library study to exhaustively investigate the influential impacts of transmitting reflective teaching practice into Indonesian EFL educators’ professional journeys. To fully attain this main study objective, the researcher employed a thematic analysis in reviewing the specifically-obtained research results derived from 25 reflective teaching studies. Based on the thematic analysis, it was deduced that through the constant internalization of reflective teaching practice, EFL educators can gradually transform into more professional language learning facilitators who are capable of promoting better-facilitated English learning enterprises.
STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN WRITING EXPOSITORY ESSAY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY Ivanna Maria Long; Susana Teopilus
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i2.4823

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Writing, one of the language skills, is considered difficult for some students, especially EFL students. The present research, a phenomenological study, aims to find out the students’ difficulties, the factors affecting their difficulties, and the strategies for overcoming their difficulties in writing expository essays. The participants were three students, taken by using purposive sampling, in a private university in Surabaya. The instruments used in this research were observational fieldnotes, rubrics, Focus Group Discussion guidelines, and Interview protocols. The research findings show that the research participants had difficulties in the five components of writing, namely content, vocabulary, language use, mechanics, and organization. The common difficulties the participants faced were related to word choice, finding and developing ideas, verb tense, run-on sentences, spelling, punctuation, and writing the thesis statements and topic sentences. There were internal and external factors that affected their difficulties, but most of the factors were internal. The most common factors were that the participants did the assignments at the last minute or in a hurry, felt sleepy and lazy, and were afraid of plagiarism. Some ways of overcoming their difficulties were finding more ideas and materials on the Internet, discussing the topic and content with their friends and lecturers, writing the ideas in Indonesian before translating them into English, using common vocabulary, learning new vocabulary, finding the opposites and synonyms of some words, doing paraphrase, using Grammar-checking tools, learning from the previous mistakes, paying more attention to the essay structure, making an outline, learning more basic English grammar, revising the mistakes based on the lecturer’s feedback, and listening to music when writing the essays.
CULTURAL INTERFERENCE FROM INDONESIAN-TO-ENGLISH TRANSLATION Marini Wijayanti Majaputri
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i1.4846

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This paper investigates the implementation of cultural interference from Indonesian-to English translation to students of sixth semester in English Department of a university in Surabaya. Study Case was employed by cultural context which was rendered from Indonesian as source language to English as the target language. There were most significant things how the university students as participants produced translation products. They were ideology of translation, translation methods, and techniques of translation. The ideology of translation, the translation methods, and the techniques of translation which were chosen by the participants influenced readers’ readability and acceptability. The findings indicate that (1) each participants implemented different ideology of translation, translation methods, and translation techniques; (2) translation products were influenced by participants’ knowledge; (3) most participants kept the original words of SL and 1 participant translated the original one; (4) most participants compared their translation to their colleges then chose the best one and the other kept to translate based on their own interpretation without involving their colleagues; (5) most participants determined the purpose of translation and target reader but only 1 participant did not; (6) any participants answered irrelevant, most did not have much knowledge about Western culture whose English as a mother tongue, and the other only had general knowledge about it; (7) to make target readers understand most participants made the simple translation by keeping the meaning as natural as possible, some of them adopted the target culture, and the rest ones gave irrelevant questions; (8) most participants kept the original words of SL and the others translated them to TL; (9) The difficulties were found in rendering cultural aspect from Indonesian-English were most participants could not find relevant words in TL and the rest were grammar and idiom; (10) when translating cultural context but the participants did not understand well the culture of TL, most participant would browse and asking people who know well about it and the rest kept the cultural word then gave explanation.
ANTI BULLYING PROJECT “STOP BULLYING EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME, AND FOR EVERYONE ” TO STRENGTHEN THE PANCASILA STUDENT PROFILE Yulianti Yulianti; Maulana Fajar Wandhiro; Endang Setyaningsih
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i2.4852

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The limited understanding of teachers in implementing the project method in strengthening the profile of Pancasila students has an impact on the implementation of learning in class. The impact that occurs in the classroom is the lack of formation of the character profile of Pancasila students such as mutual cooperation and global diversity. This study aims to describe the project " No Bullying happens everywhere, everytime, and to anyone" as a strengthening of the profile of Pancasila students. This research uses a type of qualitative research with a descriptive approach. The research subjects were teachers, parents and children of class VI. Two teachers became participants who were selected through a purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques used are interviews, observation, and documentation. Data analysis techniques use the Miles and Huberman models. The results of the study show that the project " no bullying happens everywhere, everytime, and to anyone" arises when children experience bullying trauma which often happens to them and their classmates, they feel uncomfortable at school so they want to find solutions to problems by discussing and identifying bullies . The mutual cooperation character is stimulated when children can work together to identify, discuss activities and students are able to show concern for fellow friends and are willing to share experiences in dealing with bullying. Meanwhile, the attitude of global diversity can be seen in the attitude of understanding each other's language, the cultural accent of each friend, being able to collaborate with anyone and being friends with everyone.
ENGLISH TEACHERS' IDENTITY INFLUENCE ON EMOTIONS AND BELIEFS: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO PRIVATE AND STATE SCHOOL TEACHERS Intan Clara Briliant Mallisa; Concilianus Laos Mbato
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i2.4872

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Teacher identity, emotions, and beliefs are all interconnected aspects of a teacher's professional self-concept and are essential to effective teaching. Therefore, this study aims to find and prove that teacher identity is very influential with emotions and beliefs. The writer used qualitative research from the life experiences of two junior high school English teachers from private and public schools in Tarakan, Nort Kalimantan. This research used a narrative inquiry method with in-depth interviews. An in-depth interview was the primary data, and the support data were collected from some journals and online resources relevant to this study. Furthermore, the results of the interview showed that both teachers had strengths and weaknesses in forming their teachers' identities, emotions, and beliefs.  However, the best and most prominent is the teacher's answer from the private school.
TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD HEUTAGOGY AS THE NEW PARADIGM IN THE 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION Khalif Rahma Riesty Fauzi; Yulianto Saba
Magister Scientiae Vol. 52 No. 1 (2024)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v52i1.4914

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Heutagogy is an educational approach that focuses on self-determined learning and the development of learner capabilities. It places the learner as the primary agent in their own learning process, emphasizing personal experience and independent exploration. In spite of the close relationship between heutagogy and Merdeka curriculum, not many Indonesian teachers are aware of heutagogy. Therefore, this study was addressing specifically how the teachers in Indonesia perceived heutagogy in teaching and learning process. The study involved collecting and analysing non-numerical data that was the results of a survey in the Google form distributed by the writer. The respondents of this study were twenty teachers of IIS SMP Progressive Bumi Shalawat. The survey results showed that most of the teachers as the participants in the study were not really aware of Heutagogy terminology although they had ideas about self-determinism, life-long learning, capability, double-loop learning, and self-reflection. Moreover, the survey results revealed that the respondents in this study were very interested in the concept of heutagogy. Hence, this study focused on the teacher's perceptions of heutagogy in learning practices.   
HEUTAGOGY AS A TRAINING APPROACH FOR TEACHERS IN THE ERA OF SOCIETY 5.0 Ettyani Ettyani; Eka Fadilah; Yuliyanto Sabat
Magister Scientiae Vol. 51 No. 2 (2023)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33508/mgs.v51i2.5030

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In the age of the 5.0 society era, a teacher's job description should include lifelong learners, learning leaders, instructors of learning resources, network builders, and communication facilitators. This study are to identify the difficulties that the 5.0 society era poses and present a heutagogical approach to teacher preparation and an overview of the implementation process. To achieve the goals, a thorough analysis of the literature was conducted. The findings showed that training programmes using a heutagogical approach should be taken into account because it is a self-determined learning process, and its implementation steps include enhancing digital literacy, developing a full and trustworthy learning management system platform, and implementing heutagogical teacher training. It is envisaged that heutagogy can be a substitute method of teacher preparation to create instructors who are ready for the learning difficulties of the society era 5.0.