Didik Murwantono

Sultan Agung Islamic University, Semarang · English Literature

This study is by no means a comprehensive account of individualism or more accurately, individualism, in America. It is intended to be more suggestive than comprehensive though it is characterized by more summery than controversy. Many ideas as well as some of the highlights of American manifestations of individualism and modes of individualistic t...

English has been integrated into medical curriculum in higher education in countries where English is not the official language of instruction. For medical students—non-English department students—English has been taught to meet specified academic and professional needs of learners in so-called English for specific purposes (ESP). To ensure that En...

Donald Trump�s rhetoric in his campaign was markedly different, his speeches on Islamophobia and anti-immigrant rhetoric became a big issue. Trump used the rhetoric of fear to induce his followers against Muslims and immigrants by linking to both groups with the terrorism issue. This article has aims to analyse Trump�s speeches for protecting Ameri...

The existence of culture shock is undeniably true for foreign students studying in other countries. This phenomenon becomes more common nowadays. It also happened with some Thai students who are studying at University of Islam Sultan Agung Semarang and University of Ahmad Dahlan Yogyakarta. The main objectives of this article are to find out the cu...

Gamification is gaining momentum together with technology-infused training as an advancement to inspire and engage students in their learning process. The correlation between game play and increased motivation and interaction is shown by strong evidence. More and more games of learning appear, offering a promise to help learning a language. This re...

The purpose of this inquiry is to explore and make sense of the stories of language teachers� perceptions and experiences in using WhatsApp during New Normal Post-Covid-19 era. More specifically, the study is intended to understand the popularity and the usage of WhatsApp in the process of teaching and learning. To achieve the purpose of the study,...

In Indonesia error in speaking are often done by Junior High School students to Graduated students. Especially Graduated students, even though they have learned grammar since they were in bachelor's degree but they still made grammatical errors when they spoke in English. Based on that problem, the writer wants to find out what types of error, how...

Industrial Revolution 4.0 is a real phenomenon in modern higher education system in Indonesia. This challenges lecturers to integrate the use of technology in their teaching strategies. This paper presents the perceptions of undergraduate students toward Edu-Techno empowerment in teaching-learning process. Participants were undergraduate students o...

The reality of education 4.0 is undeniably true of contemporary higher education systems. This is demonstrated by technological developments and online-based developments. This phenomenon is a challenge of any kind, particularly for students to adapt to the creation of learning processes. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the stude...

The development of technology brings a bunch of changes in every aspect in the world. In the education fields, it brings new concepts; a sense of easiness in learning and teaching process, such as, easiness of receiving information (knowledge) through internet, conducting teaching and learning process in distance area. This new concept is called sh...

In this research, the writers make research of consumptive behavior and its impacts. “The Joneses” film represents the impacts of consumptive behavior in American society in many aspects of life. The objective of this paper is to describe and find the impacts of consumptive behavior toward American society, as reflected in the film "The Joneses." I...

Flash cardboard is one of the media used for speaking, especially in storytelling. Teaching by using media is very necessary for learning because it greatly influences the results of the learning process. This research wants to know English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ perception after they learned storytelling using flash cardboard as a m...

Indonesian students have learned English for many years from elementary to university. However, English proficiency among most Indonesian students is not improved significantly. Therefore, this qualitative research with case study approach aims to find out factors causing low English proficiency among Indonesian university students. There were six...

This study investigates some errors of fricative pronunciation gained by Javanese and Sundanese students. The main purpose is to find out the error frequency and the most error fricative from both tribes. The researchers employed a qualitative ethnography method design. The data were collected by using students' recording. Furthermore, the data wer...

Technology plays an important role in people’s day-to-day life and various aspects of life including education also use technology. Artificial Intelligence is regarded as an example of the advancement of technology. The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ perceptions of using Artificial Intelligence mobile applications to improve Engl...

Conservative, once at the periphery of American politics, now occupies a central and strategic position in the seat of political power, mainly after the World War II. This writing presents the research on American conservatives in the United States by analyzing a synthesis of the relationship among American Founding Fathers, social change, and poli...

Error correction and feedback are two indispensable factors in shaping literature technique and theory. In this case, these techniques were applied to students who took American Multicultural Literature at College of Languages, UNISSULA Semarang. The students were asked to make any literary criticism toward several literary works from different cul...

This paper examines democracy to Jefferson’s and Tocqueville’s philosophy in shaping the American polity. A few scholars have discussed the connection between Jefferson and Tocqueville, but this writing provides a value of democracy as hemispheric mind or trans-national sources. Democracy is not only an American intellectual mind, but also a global...