Puji Astuti

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at State University of Semarang

Internet and technology innovation has traditionally been employed in education as a learning and teaching tool. Research and publications also have been examined and found to be associated with significant outcomes. In today's age, technology and the internet have its own place in education, forcing students to employ 21st-century technology skill...

Female English teachers make significant contributions to their field, yet stories about them are under-researched. This paper presents the framework of an ongoing narrative inquiry aimed at understanding female teachers’ agency and its role in their professional identity construction during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on a systematic review of re...

Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan agar para guru menguasai literasi digital untuk mendukung upaya konstruksi identitas guru sebagai pembelajar sepanjang hayat. Sebagai pendidik, guru perlu untuk untuk terus berkembang mengikuti perkembangan zaman agar dapat mengikuti kebutuhan peserta didiknya. Untuk itu, literasi digital sangat diperlukan...

Previous studies shows that several learning strategies have been used to promote critical thinking skills for students at the university level, the most frequently used is presentation. The students in the third semester of the English department in IAIN Pekalongan have distinctive responses regarding their critical thinking skills in their presen...

While literature suggests the significance of peer interaction for language learners, little is known about how the interaction specifically works to benefit them. Additionally, while putting students in groups has become a widespread practice in language classrooms, most teachers appear not to have a clear idea of how to structure classroom intera...

Needs analysis for vocational high school English course is important because English course for vocational high school is considered too general compared to the target situation that the students will need in their future career. This study aimed to analyse the students’ teachers’, alumni’s, stakeholders’, and expert’s perceptions to exp...

English language learning has shifted with the development of technology in education. Learning can also be done through easy access from a mobile phone. Educational mobile applications bridge the teaching learning processes effectively. This study aims to investigate the teachers’ practices in using educational mobile applications to teach Engli...

Literacies researchers have long argued that the new literacies made possible by the internet facilitate global connectedness. However, much of the research about digital literacies has centered the experiences of participants and researchers from only certain parts of the world. The field needs to embrace a more inclusive understanding of global,...

This study focuses on English teachers’ methods in teaching reading comprehension of procedure text. The main purpose of this study is to describe the methods used by English teachers and reveal the strengths and weaknesses of those methods used for teaching reading comprehension of procedure texts. The research was a qualitative case study. The pa...

The aim of this study was to analyze the relevance of the materials with the cognitive and psychomotor domains in the 2013 English curriculum competence in English Rings a Bell textbook for grade eight of junior high school. This study used qualitative methodology. The researcher conducted the analysis of textbook based on theory of Anderson and Kr...

ermasalahan yang dihadapi oleh guru-guru MGMP bahasa Inggris SMPSub Rayon 1 Ungaran (mitra) adalah bahwa mereka membutuhkan hal-hal berikut: 1) panduan praktis dalam melaksanakan Kurikulum 2013 (Kurtilas), khususnya dalam melaksanakan kegiatan pembelajaran, 2) pelatihan kegiatan pembelajaran yang mengintegrasikan dan dapat mengembangkan sikap, peng...

Research shows that cooperative learning (CL) supports foreign language learning (e.g., Almuslimi, 2016; Wei & Tang, 2015). However, there is little research demonstrating how CL works and, specifically, how it promotes learning, particularly individual accountability, which is a principle in CL. This article reports on part of a larger study that...

This article attempts to add to the literature supporting Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) by proposing the use of Cooperative Learning (CL), specifically focusing on the enactment of a key principle of CL, i.e., individual accountability. It illustrates how to train students on CL and its individual accountability work and demonstrates how ac...

The contribution of cooperative learning (CL) in promoting second and foreign language learning has been widely acknowledged. Little scholarly attention, however, has been given to revealing how this teaching method works and promotes learners’ improved communicative competence. This qualitative case study explores the important role that individua...