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SMART: Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics ISSN: 2356-2048, e-ISSN: 2356-203X a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by Language Centre STKIP Muhammadiyah Pringsewu Lampung in collaboration with Asosiasi Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris (APSBI). The journal publishes both conceptual and research-based articles within the fields of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. Its scope encompasses English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, Asesment Language, Translation, vocabularies, Curriculum, semantics, syntax, syllabus discourse, english skills, teaching method,structure pragmatics, sociolinguistics, morphology, psycholinguistics. It published biannually in the months of January and August.
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ICT in University: How Lecturers Embrace Technology for Teaching Aminatun, Dyah
Smart Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
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Current era demands educators to deal with technology. Seeing that most students of university are supported with abundant facilities in learning nowadays, lecturers need to get familiar with current issues and technologies to encounter it. Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in pedagogy will facilitate lecturers in teaching and learning process as well as improving their professionalism. It is a qualitative research with fifteen lecturers as the sample of research. The result shows that although all lecturers have used ICT for teaching, they apparently still need traditional medium such as whiteboard since ICT is also lack in some parts. Keywords: ICT, teaching technology, teaching media
The Impact of Social Media Usage On Students’ Academic Performance (SAP) Sutarno, Sutarno
Smart Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
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This study investigated to what extended do students used social media related to academic purposes and its impact on students? academic performance. This study applied a qualitative research method through using of social media and academic performance of students? questionnaire (SMAAPOS) adapted from Osharive (2015). The result showed that social media could be used as means of communication among students, and students to lecturer.  The students also used the social media to get better understanding on the course taken. Then, the social media usage has impacted the students? academic performance positively. Keywords: Social Media Usage, Students Academic Performance (SAP),      Impact.
PROVIDING EXPLICIT STRATEGY INSTRUCTION TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT ENGLISH FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES CLASS Muzammil, Sa?dulloh; Suhono, Suhono
Smart Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
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The aim of research  is to identify the effects and advantages of providing explicit strategy instruction to enhance students? reading comprehension at English for Islamic Studies class of IAIN Pontianak. This was a classroom action research, and its data were collected through reading comprehension test, observation, interview, and document review. Then, the data were analysed though interactive model data analysis. The results showed that, after providing explicit instruction of comprehension strategy, students? reading comprehension improved for they became more strategic and more metacognitive when reading after being introduced with reading comprehension strategy explicitly. 
INDONESIAN ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ENGLISH AND ARABIC ANXIETY: A COMPARISON Irfani, Bambang
Smart Vol 5, No 2 (2019)
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This article reveals the phenomenon of speaking anxiety in two foreign languages, Arabic and English, simultaneously studied by students of Islamic junior high school in Indonesia.  It is aimed at analyzing the differences of level, causes as well as coping strategies of speaking anxiety in Arabic and English faced by the respondents.A survey inquiry was conducted by employing questionnaires to gather the data of respondents?level, causes and coping strategies of speaking anxiety.  The analysis indicates a similarity of speaking anxiety level of the two languages, yet some major differences regarding the prominent causes occur. Keywords: Speaking anxiety; Arabic; English; Indonesian students