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EDULITE: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture
ISSN : 24775304     EISSN : 25284479     DOI : 10.30659/e
Core Subject : Education,
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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Utilizing test items analysis to examine the level of difficulty and discriminating power in a teacher-made test Sayit Abdul Karim; Suryo Sudiro; Syarifah Sakinah
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 6, No 2 (2021): August 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (237.565 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.6.2.256-269

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Apart from teaching, English language teachers need to assess their students by giving a test to know the students’ achievements. In general, teachers are barely conducting item analysis on their tests. As a result, they have no idea about the quality of their test distributed to the students. The present study attempts to figure out the levels of difficulty (LD) and the discriminating power (DP) of the multiple-choice (MC) test item constructed by an English teacher in the reading comprehension test utilizing test item analysis. This study employs a qualitative approach. For this purpose, a test of 50-MC test items of reading comprehension was obtained from the students’ test results. Thirty-five students of grade eight took part in the MC test try-out. They are both male (15) and female (20) students of junior high school 2 Kempo, in West Nusa Tenggara Province. The findings revealed that16 items out of 50 test items were rejected due to the poor and worst quality level of difficulty and discriminating index. Meanwhile, 12 items need to be reviewed due to their mediocre quality, and 11 items are claimed to have good quality items. Besides, 11 items out of 50 test items were considered as the excellent quality as their DP scores reached around 0.44 through 0.78. The implications of the present study will shed light on the quality of teacher-made test items, especially for the MC test.
Performing motherhood in the height of the New Order era: The contestation of two women in Dua Ibu Edi Dwi Riyanto; Yuanita Albhar
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 6, No 2 (2021): August 2021
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (209.146 KB) | DOI: 10.30659/e.6.2.341-352

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The New Order regime in Indonesia was marked with a strong and centralized power including in defining motherhood. This article is aimed at investigating how the “Ibu” or motherhood becomes a contested arena between nameless Ibu and Tante Mirah and how this arena reflects the contestation of tradition and modernity in Java in the 1980s. Using close reading technique and contextualization, an investigation is done to see how the one role is contested by the two women. The nameless Ibu represents traditions shaped by the cultural and traditional milieu in Solo, Central Java. Meanwhile Tante Mirah migrates to Jakarta and builds her new economy and life.  It is evident that performing traditions has drained out Ibu’s financial resources. At the same time, Tante Mirah is successful in accumulating wealth. Consequently, Ibu goes bankrupt and lets Mirah take the son back. The novel documents the inevitable change of socially defined motherhood performed in the center of Javanese culture.
Portfolio assessment in the frame of multi-layered peer coaching: An alternative portfolio for pre-service teachers Siti Tarwiyah; Nuna Mustikawati Dewi; Fatah Syukur
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 6, No 2 (2021): August 2021
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Literature has shown that portfolio assessment is meaningful for supporting student-teachers’ language and teaching skills. However, integrating portfolio assessment and Multi-layered Peer Coaching (MPC) is still scarcely done. To fill in this empirical void, this study elaborates the implementation of portfolio assessment in Micro Teaching class integrated with MPC. This is a case study with 22 pre-service teachers and one teacher educator as data sources. The data were collected through observation and documentation, and analyzed by using interactive model of analysis. It reveals that the artifacts of portfolio are dominated by collaboration-based products, comprising 13 artefacts. This portfolio may be developed to accommodate alternative assessment in Micro Teaching Class.
The cultural repertoire of recontextualized superhero in the Avengers sequels Musrifatun Nangimah
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 6, No 2 (2021): August 2021
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This research presents content analysis to the cultural repertoire of Marvel Cinematic Universe’s superhero motion pictures. It investigates the content, theme, and core ideas of Avengers sequels: The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). It explores how the Avengers sequels portrays recontextualization of superhero characters and whether as well as to what extent it provides US cultural monomyth. The finding shows that each character of the Avengers has flaws and vulnerabilities as common human beings that leave them from traditional superhero monomyth. Nevertheless, it still illustrates US cultural imperialism, pharmakon portrayal, hegemonic masculinity, and sovereignty. These motion pictures still serve US heroism and patriotism interest as well as binary interplay: order-chaos, law-violence and villain-superhero that occurs among superheroes, extra-terrestrial race, robots and Titans despite its recontextualized characters. Moreover, it depicts the traditional masculine ideal valorisation where men are more likely powerful, intelligent, and equipped by sophisticated technology whereas women are seen as supportive superheroes with implied beauty standards. The recommendation for future research is discussed.
Affective damage from teachers’ written corrective feedback Gartika Pandu Bhuana; Ula Nisa El Fauziah
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 6, No 2 (2021): August 2021
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Several studies believe that providing feedback on a students’ writing task offers several benefits. However, giving excessive corrections on students’ mistakes can have a negative impact on the students’ feeling. This study aims to investigate English Foreign Language students’ emotional response to the teachers’ written corrective feedback. A qualitative method was applied. The participants were 72 third grade students at an institution in Cimahi. To collect the data, a five-point Likert scale questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were applied. The results revealed that the teachers’ written corrective feedback had negative impact to the students’ feelings, especially for the students who had mid and low proficiency level in writing. It even led to the students’ demotivation. This indicates that the teachers have to consider several things before they give some written feedback as it can affect the students’ attitude in a negative way.
Codes across languages at Kedai Inggris Coffee Shop: An autoethnography story Andra Fakhrian; Maria Arina Luardini
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022
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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. 
The impact of parental language ideology and family language policy on language shift and language maintenance: Bilingual perspective Idaryani Idaryani; Fidyati Fidyati
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022
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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.
Text difficulty vs text readability: Students’ voices Agus Widyantoro; Jamilah Jamilah; Ari Purnawan
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022
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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. 
Engaging busy teachers of young learners in in-service English training Fransisca Endang Lestariningsih; Lemmuela Alvita Kurniawati
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022
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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.
A sociological approach of literature in Leo N. Tolstoy’s short story God Sees the Truth, But Waits Peni Larasati; Noer Doddy Irmawati
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 7, No 1 (2022): February 2022
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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.