EDULITE: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture
EduLite Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture is a blind peer review international journal which publishes manuscripts within the fields of teaching English as a first, second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education, English language and literary studies, literature, and cultures in general (more on focus & scope). It is published by Language and Communication Science Faculty (former Language Faculty), Universitas Islam Sultan Agung twice a year in February and August.
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<![CDATA[Codes across languages at Kedai Inggris Coffee Shop: An autoethnography story ]]>
<![CDATA[Andra Fakhrian]]>;
<![CDATA[Maria Arina Luardini]]>
<![CDATA[ EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.44-58
<![CDATA[This article discusses the successful methods used in English speaking classroom at Kedai Inggris Coffee Shop Sampit, a coursework taught by Andra Fakhrian. Thereof, the purpose of this research is to observe and learn the journey of the teacher got the admission and brought the students to be distinguished and fluent in performing English. A descriptive qualitative method and autoethnography approach are the tools to draw the analysis as this research is a self-study, that the analysis is elaborated in the form of narrative. Throughout the results of Autoethnography description, moreover, this article has found: 1) a role play model is the key to the technique used in the classroom, 2) code switching and mixing are often got through in order to build the engagement between teacher and students, yet it results the clear understanding towards the material. ]]>
<![CDATA[The impact of parental language ideology and family language policy on language shift and language maintenance: Bilingual perspective ]]>
<![CDATA[Idaryani Idaryani]]>;
<![CDATA[Fidyati Fidyati]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.192-208
<![CDATA[This study aims to investigate parents’ language ideology and family language policy (FLP) among Acehnese families that impact on language shift and language maintenance of Acehnese as a heritage language. The participants of the study were 10 female parents from one of the suburbs in Lhokseumawe City, who have young children from 2 years to 15 years old. The study employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The result of the study shows that the majority of parents’ belief that Indonesian is significant for their children's education, has resulted in parents prioritizing Indonesian for their children as the dominant language to speak at home. Furthermore, the family language policy adopted by parents has an impact on language shift among Acehnese children to the Indonesian language. Parents are reluctant to speak Acehnese to their children as a mother tongue and tend to abandon their heritage language. There are two significant points that are lost due to the consequence of parents’ belief and there the family language policy to choose only Indonesian as a mother tongue to their children; first, it has led their children to grow as monolingual people that somehow is a big loss for the Acehnese children in order to gain various benefits culturally, cognitively, and communicatively from being bilinguals; second, Acehnese is under serious threat as Acehnese children ability in speaking their heritage language keep decreasing. Thus, strong efforts need to be done by all parties for Acehnese language preservation as a part of the unique identity of the Acehnese people.]]>
<![CDATA[Text difficulty vs text readability: Students’ voices ]]>
<![CDATA[Agus Widyantoro]]>;
<![CDATA[Jamilah Jamilah]]>;
<![CDATA[Ari Purnawan]]>
<![CDATA[ EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.125-136
<![CDATA[Reading is an essential skill to be mastered, especially by university students and it is the lecturers’ responsibility to train their students to develop their reading skill. In order to do so, lecturers will have to develop materials or choose materials from existing books to be used in the teaching learning process. The text difficulty must be appropriate to the students’ English proficiency level. This study was aimed at finding the students’ perceptions of the difficulty of the texts used in the reading class and the corresponding text readability. This study utilized the survey design and the content analysis involving 141 second semester students of the English Language Education Department of a state university. Questionnaires were used to get data on students’ perceptions of the text difficulty and the text readability was analysed with the help of https://readabilityformulas.com. The data on students’ perceptions were analysed using percentage while the data on the text readability were analysed using the readability test. The findings showed that there was a difference in the students’ perception of the difficulty of the text and the readability level as being calculated using different readability formulas. ]]>
<![CDATA[Engaging busy teachers of young learners in in-service English training ]]>
<![CDATA[Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih]]>;
<![CDATA[Lemmuela Alvita Kurniawati]]>
<![CDATA[ EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.59-70
<![CDATA[Highly qualified and competent teachers are the key for outstanding education systems. Teachers, however, are too busy with administrative work. Accordingly conducting engaging in-service training for them is a relief, as well as a way to improve their teaching skills. The aim of this research is to report the in-service English training in a bilingual school in Yogyakarta Special Province, Indonesia, which the outcome is to improve the English skills of the teachers as a means of teaching (EMI – English as a Medium of Instruction). Questionnaires, interviews, and written reflections were the techniques of collecting the data. The result of the training shows that through some light hands-on activities, the teachers’ motivation and engagement improved. This improvement resulted in the increase in using classroom language instructions.]]>
<![CDATA[A sociological approach of literature in Leo N. Tolstoy’s short story God Sees the Truth, But Waits ]]>
<![CDATA[Peni Larasati]]>;
<![CDATA[Noer Doddy Irmawati]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.137-147
<![CDATA[Sociology is defined as the social life, change, and the causes and consequences of human behavior study. Literature means any written work, and it can refer to a single work itself or a categorical understanding of literature. Furthermore, the sociology of literature is a specialized area of study which focuses its attention upon the relationship between a literary work and the social structure in which it is created. The objective of this study is to find out and to describe the elements of a sociology of literature in a short story entitled God Sees the Truth, But Waits by Leo N. Tolstoy. Technically, this study talked about the relation between literature and sociology. This study used sociological methods by describing the characteristics and the facts related to people and particular areas. It explained some aspects like introduction, discussion and description, and closure. The present researchers found sociological aspects such as social facts, social history, social behavior and event, and also literature aspects like jobs, residence, customs, and romance in the discussion and description section in the short story which also as the real-life reflection.]]>
<![CDATA[Project-based learning in teaching speaking to young learners: Is it effective? ]]>
<![CDATA[Elok Widiyati]]>;
<![CDATA[Wulan Pangesti]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.71-81
<![CDATA[Students’ disfluency in speaking is caused by limited practice, incorrect pronunciation, and inappropriate learning methods. That of the last point drove this research in finding out the effectiveness of using Project-based Learning (PBL) to improve students’ speaking skills. The study participants were 59 students of the seventh graders of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Kudus, divided into the experimental and the control classes using a quasi-experimental research design. The data were obtained from the pre-test and the post-test. The results showed that the students’ speaking ability mean scores in both classes were higher in the post-test than in the pre-test. In addition, the independent sample t-test supported the result in the hypothesis testing. It means that project-based learning applied had a significant difference or effective to improve young-learner students’ speaking skills. To conclude, using this method created more fun, active, and interactive speaking class atmosphere for young learners.]]>
<![CDATA[The ongoing convergence of blended learning classroom in new normal: Teachers’ and students’ perspectives in higher education ]]>
<![CDATA[Ramli Ramli]]>;
<![CDATA[Farid Helmi Setyawan]]>;
<![CDATA[Ridwan Ridwan]]>;
<![CDATA[Nofvia De Vega]]>;
<![CDATA[Romlah Ulfaika]]>
<![CDATA[ EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.1-15
<![CDATA[Since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, educational technology has become trended by playing E-learning. Teachers and students are forced to transform from traditional classes into E-classrooms. However, full e-learning did not give students a massive impact yet, and lately, they have become less motivated since it provided no real communication (Mese & Sevilen 2021). Integrating face-to-face learning (direct interaction) and technology-based learning (digital communication) becomes promising (Garrison &Vaughan, 2008; Rianto, 2020). This study explored the perspectives of 3 pre-service teachers and 27 students towards the blended learning (BL) practices in the EFL context. The setting was the English education department, Universitas Borneo Tarakan. The data were collected using online interviews to gain in-depth information. The findings uncovered that the teachers and students gave positive perspectives to apply this model to the new normal. In addition, BL could reshape the teachers' roles by applying multiple technology use in the teaching and learning process. BL was also able to broaden students' learning experience and provide them with a technology-based world. This study highlighted some implications, including the need for pre-service teachers' professional development that ultimately will help teachers assist students in succeeding in blended learning.]]>
<![CDATA[Signification functions of Undomestic Goddess novel cover ]]>
<![CDATA[Cindy Maria Christine Pandie]]>;
<![CDATA[Ahmad Jum’a Khatib Nur Ali]]>
<![CDATA[ EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.148-159
<![CDATA[Novel cover is like human appearance; it is the first thing that the people will take notice of. It turned out that novel cover is quite essential in influencing the opinions and impression of the reader regarding the novel itself. Novel’s cover using symbols, fonts, and colors, construct cover signs functions. The researcher intends to analyze the novel covers sign functions. The source data of the research is selected using purposive sampling following the standard of a novel cover. This research uses three (3) covers of the novel Undomestic Goods by Sophie Kinsella as the data source. The theory of signification by Rolland Barthes is the analytical tool of this research used to determine the function of the elements in the object of research. The results of the study are both covers have their own significations functions; the first edition (1) cover function emphasizes on promoting the novel by using signification content of the novel. Cover (2) emphasizes promotion function using the author popularity and best-selling author status and promoting the novel by using signification content of the novel. Cover three (3) the latest edition function emphasizes on ‘advertises’ the novel by using the author popularity and best-selling author status.]]>
<![CDATA[Engineering students’ English public speaking: Why is it a nerve-wracking experience? ]]>
<![CDATA[Musrifatun Nangimah]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.82-99
<![CDATA[Mastering English public speaking is required for Engineering students to contribute to the Ministry of Education’s internationalization policy that is manifested in the university’s regulation. However, English public speaking has become a nerve-wracking experience for L2 learners. This research aims to explore Engineering students’ English public speaking anxiety and its causes. The explanatory sequential design is applied. The online-based survey was conducted on 197 first-semester students and semi-structured interviews with 8 most anxious participants. The triangulation data analysis of quantitative and qualitative phases was carried out. The results illustrate that students experience moderate to low public speaking anxiety levels. The reasons for public speaking anxiety are linguistics problems, inhibition, lack of speaking practice, the difficulty for sentence construction from L1 into the target language, fear of peer negative feedback and being assessed, and dealing with unfamiliar topics as well as speaking delivery driven thoughts. Furthermore, teachers' reflexive identity and the appointment system used to determine public speakers become additional pressures. These findings can be used as valuable consideration to design appropriate speaking pedagogy, especially in the context of English for non-English major programs. Recommendation for future research is discussed.]]>
<![CDATA[Reading intensively: What do the students really need? ]]>
<![CDATA[Dzurriyyatun Ni'mah]]>;
<![CDATA[Fitri Awaliyatush Sholihah]]>
<![CDATA[ EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022 ]]>
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DOI: 10.30659/e.7.1.16-31
<![CDATA[Intensive reading plays a great role in enhancing students’ reading comprehension. Effective teaching materials are the best assistance for students. Often, in intensive reading class, lecturers neglected the students’ needs and preferences regarding the reading texts and topics being discussed. The materials only come from the lecturers’ perspectives. This study explores the students' needs and lecturers' perceptions toward the effective teaching materials of intensive reading. A questionnaire, delivered to 71 English Department students who have completed the Reading 1 course, is used for analysing the students' needs and preferences on intensive reading materials. Moreover, two English lecturers who experienced in teaching intensive reading for five years were interviewed to get detailed information about the students' needs and effective materials on intensive reading. The data were then analysed using a quantitative and descriptive qualitative approach. The result showed that the reading materials which offer various genres and topics, lists of new vocabularies, clear explanations about reading and vocabulary skills, as well as complete exercises to test the reading comprehension were viewed proper for both teachers and students. This research finding gives important information to develop effective reading materials for both sides.]]>
