Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL)
Journal on English as a Foreign Language (JEFL) is an open access academic, scholarly peer-reviewed journal and follows a double blind review policy. The Journal is scheduled for publication biannually, in March and September, with the first issue to appear in March 2011. This Journal has been indexed on DOAJ since 2016 and accredited “Sinta 3†as a scientific journal under the Directorate General of Research Enhancement and Development, Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education since 2017.
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<![CDATA[Students’ reflections in teaching practicum: A case study of EFL pre-service teachers ]]>
<![CDATA[Dwi Riyanti]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya, Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.2041
<![CDATA[The importance of reflection in enhancing teachers’ professional development has been widely acknowledged. Yet, little is known about how EFL pre-service teachers do reflection and how they perceive reflective practice as one of the tools to improve their professional development. The current study attempts to address this gap by investigating how EFL pre-service teachers reflect on their teaching performances and perceive their reflective practices. Employing a qualitative case study, the study involved six teacher candidates who were taking microteaching. The data were gathered from an open-ended questionnaire made by the author, journal writing, participants' analysis on the videos of their teaching performances, and an interview with each participant. To triangulate the data, classroom observations and document analysis were also conducted. The obtained data were analyzed thematically based on emerging themes. The findings show that the participants did reflections in different stages of their teaching performances, reflecting on the surface level. In terms of how they view a reflection, the research participants perceive a reflection as a good practice because it gives them opportunities to look back and scrutinize what they did during their teaching practicum.]]>
<![CDATA[Implementing a flipped model of instruction in the EFL listening classroom: Impact on comprehension ]]>
<![CDATA[Ehsan Namaziandost]]>;
<![CDATA[Zohreh Rezaei]]>;
<![CDATA[Parisa Etemadfar]]>;
<![CDATA[Samir Alekasir]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.2065
<![CDATA[Inventive technologies have provided students greater ways to invest more productive time within the classrooms, such as listening class. However, the flipped model of instruction should be practiced as a way to engage students in the process of listening comprehension. This experimental study aimed to investigate the effects of the flipped classroom (FC) on advanced EFL learners’ listening comprehension. Sixty Iranian advanced EFL learners (19 to 23 years old) participated in 14 sessions. Half of the students taught through the flipped model of instruction (experimental group) and the others through traditional instruction (control group). Using a before and after design, students were retested after seven weeks. Results showed that the means average resulted from the L2 listening comprehension test revealed those both groups showing increases in listening scores, but the experimental group’s mean score was higher than in the control group. Therefore, the FC model's implementation in the context of teaching and learning L2 listening comprehension can lead to positive outcomes since they could engage students in the process of learning English. The implication of this study calls for the FC model implementation to engage students in listening comprehension in the chance to learn better and expand their educational knowledge.]]>
<![CDATA[EFL teachers’ challenges in promoting learner autonomy in the 21st-century learning ]]>
<![CDATA[Putu Wiraningsih]]>;
<![CDATA[Made Hery Santosa]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.1881
<![CDATA[Teachers have a responsibility to help students become autonomous learners. However, in promoting learner autonomy, the teachers were faced with the challenges. This descriptive qualitative study aimed to describe the challenges in promoting learner autonomy in 21st-century learning faced by EFL teachers and their strategies. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview technique. Four qualified EFL junior high school teachers with at least five years of teaching experience in Singaraja Bali Indonesia were involved. The interview guideline was constructed based on the dimensions of policy constraints, institutional constraints, language teaching methodology, and learner's background. The interviews were transcribed and categorized into the table of identification based on the four dimensions. Finally, the data regarding the challenges and the strategies were interpreted, and the excerpts of the interview were provided. The results show that the policy constraint identified in this study was due to the school zoning system. The institutional constraint was due to the unscheduled events. The language teaching methodology was due to the lack of knowledge of teaching strategy and different characteristics of students. Thus, in transforming the challenges into possibilities, some strategies were implemented, such as initiating activities, applying collaborative learning, and having good planning and time management. ]]>
<![CDATA[EFL secondary teachers’ assessment literacy: Assessment conceptions and practices ]]>
<![CDATA[Roghibatul Luthfiyyah]]>;
<![CDATA[Iin Wariin Basyari]]>;
<![CDATA[Dwiniasih Dwiniasih]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.2101
<![CDATA[Assessment literacy is defined as knowledge, conceptions, and skills to conduct an assessment. Having sufficient assessment literacy levels, teachers can assist students in improving learning and in achieving learning outcomes. This study employs a descriptive quantitative design that explores EFL secondary teachers' assessment literacy and assessment practice. The data were gathered using an online survey and semi-structured interviews. Forty-eight respondents willingly fulfilled an online questionnaire containing 32 questions adapted from the Teachers Assessment Literacy Questionnaire (TALQ). The data obtained from the survey were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Furthermore, three participants representing each assessment literacy level were selected for interviews to explore their classroom assessment practice. The interview data were analyzed using thematic analysis in terms of the conceptions of assessment, the procedure of assessment construction, and some challenges in assessment practice. The findings reveal that EFL secondary teachers generally have a moderate assessment literacy level. However, the participants reflect different conceptions of assessment, procedures, and challenges in assessment practice depending on an individual level of assessment literacy, institutional and national policies, and socio-culture factors. It shows that assessment literacy is not a single element that can influence teachers' assessment practices.]]>
<![CDATA[High-stakes testing policy and English language teaching: Voices of the leftovers ]]>
<![CDATA[Laser Romios]]>;
<![CDATA[Ashadi Ashadi]]>;
<![CDATA[Widyastuti Purbani]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.2005
<![CDATA[High-stakes testing has been controversial in many countries for several impacts and reasons surrounding its implementation. Teachers’ voices should be heard for well-rounded education policy. This study aims to investigate the voices of English teachers on the impacts of the national exam (NE) towards English language teaching at junior high schools (JHS) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is a qualitative study involving three private JHSs and three state JHSs, chosen according to their NE-based ranks: low, mediocre, and high performing – for inclusive representation. The subjects are six English teachers from six JHSs. The data were collected through interviews and analyzed using the analysis model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana, following the steps of data condensation, data categorization, data display, data interpretation, and conclusion drawing and verification. The findings show that NE leads to low order thinking skills, digresses from the goals of curriculum 2013, prioritizes only knowledge, focuses on English passive skills, induces favoritism between teachers, and disables teachers to vary their teaching strategies. Teachers’ involvement in education policy is necessary, and they are generally in favor of the NE abolishment plan. The implication of this study calls for implementing teachers' coping mechanism in transitioning from NE to the newly proposed assessment.]]>
<![CDATA[Social construction of knowledge in synchronous text-based discussion during English language learning ]]>
<![CDATA[Ira Mutiaraningrum]]>;
<![CDATA[Arif Nugroho]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.1934
<![CDATA[The uptake of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was indispensable. Classroom activity, including English language learning, was shifted into remote learning. However, remote learning has not escaped the question regarding its role in students' knowledge construction in language learning. Thus, this study explores whether the social construction of knowledge occurs in the same-time synchronous text-based discussion during students' English language learning. It also investigates the phasesin which the social construction of knowledge present. Content analysis of the Interaction Analysis Model was used as the method to classify twenty-three Indonesian English as foreign language students' discourses in the synchronous text-based discussion. The transcripts from two threads in Google Classroom were sorted into the Interaction Analysis Model Phases to find out the percentage of each Phase's occurrence. Results indicate that the discourses showed the social construction of knowledge was developed by students and thereby pointed out the process of their cognitive thinking during their synchronous English language learning. This study suggests that the social construction of knowledge exists in synchronous text-based discussion with the most frequent postings categorized in Phase I.]]>
<![CDATA[Revisiting euphemisation strategies for English to Indonesian subtitle context ]]>
<![CDATA[SF. Luthfie Arguby Purnomo]]>;
<![CDATA[Ikke Dewi Pratama]]>;
<![CDATA[Lilik Untari]]>;
<![CDATA[SF. Lukfianka Sanjaya Purnama]]>;
<![CDATA[Novianni Anggraini]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.1480
<![CDATA[Character equivalence and offensive word rank in subtitling context are understudied on the previous studies on euphemisation strategies. The exclusion of these two concerns leaves the prior constructed euphemisation strategies unable to explain how shifts on narrative identity might occur and how taboo words are functionally negotiated. In addressing this issue, the study investigates the relationship between offensive word levels with character equivalence and narrative identity, types of euphemisation strategies, and the strategies' implementation. The data were collected from the English and Indonesian versions of four films containing taboo words, which were analyzed by applying the theories of offensiveness rank by Ofcom, constructed in English as a foreign language context, and character equivalence by Petrucci. The findings indicate that offensive word translation suffers a rank shift on offensive word ranks Departing from these findings. We propose euphemisation strategies with offensive word rank and character equivalence as the primary narrative basis with mediality and subtitling standard as the primary mechanical basis. Those strategies are downgrading, degrading, sidegrading, outgrading, ingrading, and retrograding. The reasons of euphemisation strategy implementation are bipolarly divided into aesthetics and mechanics in relation to distances and perspectives of the applied offensive words. ]]>
<![CDATA[Cohesive devices in argumentative essays by Indonesian EFL learners ]]>
<![CDATA[Meyga Agustia Nindya]]>;
<![CDATA[Utami Widiati]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.1949
<![CDATA[Cohesive devices are essential elements that have long been recognized as important features of good writing. However, making use of them appropriately is viewed as problematic for learners. This descriptive qualitative study aimed to investigate Indonesian EFL learners' ability to use cohesive devices in their writings. Twenty EFL learners of a state university in Malang, East Java, Indonesia were required to write and send one piece of argumentative essay consisting of five paragraphs to be analyzed. Twenty essays were analyzed by identifying the number of correct and errors of grammatical cohesion. The errors were then evaluated to know the possible causes that contributed to the learners' errors. The results showed that the total number of grammatical cohesion used by the learners was 2386, while 175 of them performed errors. It was also found that there was a heavy reliance on the use of particular cohesive items. The intralingual transfer mostly caused the errors made by learners. This implied a need for writing teachers to apply strategies for the development of EFL learners' writing ability, such as exposing students to exercises, using collaborative learning, giving feedback, and using the learning management system.]]>
<![CDATA[Learning English mediated by Kahoot: Insights from the Indonesian EFL instructors ]]>
<![CDATA[Moh. Arif Mahbub]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.1917
<![CDATA[Now, EFL pedagogical practices have gradually transformed from traditional classrooms into digital learning. Within this context, mobile devices have now been considered as an auspicious medium for future learning. This study investigated how EFL instructors from different secondary education institutions viewed the in-class use of Kahoot in English-language classrooms. To this end, they were invited to fill a 13-items web-based questionnaire covering several categories: factual, behavioral, and attitudinal. Twenty-seven (n=27) Indonesian EFL instructors in secondary education at both public and private high schools mostly located in East Java, Indonesia, voluntarily participated in this present study by completing the online survey. The results indicated that participants mostly demonstrated positive feelings toward the utilization of Kahoot in EFL classrooms. It showed that Kahoot was perceived as a promising software application to enhance the English-language learning process. To explore the effectiveness of this online game-based platform, more future-related research with large-scale participants in broader geographic regions should be carried out in this area.]]>
<![CDATA[Online backchannel as a formative assessment in improving writing skills ]]>
<![CDATA[Entika Fani Prastikawati]]>;
<![CDATA[Wiyaka Wiyaka]]>;
<![CDATA[AB Prabowo Kusumo Adi]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 10, No 2 (2020): Issued in September 2020 ]]>
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DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v10i2.2044
<![CDATA[Technology integration in language assessment has been regarded as a common strategy in an educational setting. However, teachers need to adjust the perception and cogency of assessment in an online setting as well as the concept of formative assessment in online environments. This research aimed to investigate the students' perception of online backchannel implementation as a formative assessment in improving the students' writing skills in an English classroom. For this purpose, a mixed-method was applied with a closed-ended questionnaire distributed to 32 students and semi-structured interviews carried out to 24 students at the eighth-grade students of a state junior high school in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. The collected data were then analyzed quantitatively using SPSS 23 and qualitatively. The findings revealed positive perceptions of online backchannel implementation as a formative assessment in improving their writing skills. They considered it a new and innovative process of an assessment that helped them get the maximum result of writing. Furthermore, students' motivation and confidence in writing were raised. This study's implication calls for the implementation of online backchannel in English class as a formative assessment during the writing process.]]>
