Fatimah Fatimah

Brawijaya University · Faculty of Cultural Sciences

This paper discusses how to implement teaching stages that cover receptive and productive skills in an English lesson using digital learning resources. Throughout this paper, the authors elaborate on the teaching stages which include brainstorming, highlighting vocabulary, predicting text, rearranging jumbled paragraphs, listening to the right orde...

Most university students in Indonesia have been learning English for more than ten years, but still find it difficult to express ideas in English properly. This study discusses interlanguage produced by an Indonesian adult learner who is studying English at a state university. The authors analysed samples of her English expressions based on certain...

This paper discussed the spoken language produced by adult learners who attended a General English Intermediate course at one of the best English course providers in Indonesia. The writers analyzed examples of inaccurate and accurate spoken language produced by the students during an observed lesson and then shed light on possible reasons for the s...

This paper describes the processes of designing, administering, and evaluating a reading comprehension test for intermediate-level students who have taken a General English course at the English language centre of an Indonesian university. Using R&D method, the writers developed the test which contains two authentic texts. The first text is It isn'...

Anchored by the need for constructing an online assessment which is mediated by honesty as the character value for grammar mastery among undergraduate students during Covid-19 pandemic, in the present study we developed a test of English Sentence Structure (ESS) situated in an English department of a public university in Malang, East Java, Indonesi...

Reading is a multidimensional, intellectual activity, which requires specific skills and strategies. Indonesian researchers have conducted research addressing various issues in reading in the domain of English as a Foreign Language/EFL. This article reviews the current development of theories and models of EFL reading and qualitative research into...

Teaching reading in English as a foreign language in Indonesia is challenging since it is not only to enable the students to comprehend a reading text, but also to enable them to relate their understanding of the text to their real life. This paper proposes an alternative to English teachers in Indonesia on how to employ higher order thinking readi...

Recent issues on politics have been dominant in Indonesia that people are divided and become more intolerant of each other. Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world and the role of Islam in Indonesian politics is significant. The current Indonesian government claim that moderate Muslims are loyal to the present political system whil...

Academic writing has been an important issue particularly in higher education since students’ works are mainly assessed in written form. In the Indonesian context, university students and graduates were found to have low writing ability and do not have sufficient English writing skills. These facts are contradicted with the high demand of writing s...

Studies on interlanguage in English learning in countries where English as a foreign language have been highlighted for decades. Interlanguage is the type of language produced by second- and foreign-language learners who are in the process of learning a language. This single‐participant study is intended to investigate and analyse the English compe...

Abstract Many definitions of plagiarism fall under the core concept of any activity in using, imitating or owning partially or completely of ideas, thoughts, works, and organizations from others without appropriate citation and acknowledgement. Since this academic dishonesty has negative impacts, it needs to be overcome. The present researchers bel...

Academic writing has been a principal issue in Indonesian universities since students are required to write in English effectively. University students and graduates were found to have low writing ability and do not have sufficient English writing skills. Studies in EFL writing in Indonesian universities mostly focus on the effectiveness of certain...

Reading is the main focus of tertiary English programs in Indonesia. There is a body of research into the development of English at tertiary level and evidence of low outcomes, but little into the development of reading in English. This paper discusses to what extent EFL reading programs at English Departments in three Indonesian universities meet...

Making improvements of the speech feature is possible to do because pronunciation is teachable. Some experts in pronunciation teaching have suggested more comprehensive and contemporary teaching methods and techniques. In narrower context to English Study Program some seemingly cases are found in depicting the condition of how the last semester stu...