Yan Mujiyanto

• Professor
• Coordinator of (English) Language Education Postgraduate Program at State University of Semarang

Effective classroom assessment is essential for quality teaching, yet pre-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers often face challenges in assessment decision-making during their practicum. This study explores factors influencing the assessment practices of 42 pre-service EFL teachers in senior high schools in Semarang, Indonesia. Usin...

English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers are under pressure to address today’s educational demands, such as the use of digital technology in the classroom and the need to improve students’ literacy skills. To shed light on these matters, this study examines the EFL teachers’ perceptions of implementing Technology-Enhanced Differentiated Reading...

The aimed of the study is to see the Writing is one of the essential skills that need honing through continuous practice. This skill is significant in the workplace, especially since this is the minimum skill needed in the day-to-day business, office, academe, and corporate transactions which is why students in EFL classes should be trained so that...

This paper presents an evaluation of an English for specific purposes (ESP) curriculum using the social semiotic perspective. This perspective highlights the importance of authenticity, multimodality, and communicative competence in ESP teaching and learning. Five main components of the ESP curriculum at the Port and Shipping Management Department...

This study examined the role of technology integration and teachers' professional competence in developing 21st-century learning. Present studies show a significant gap between technology integration and teachers’ competency in developing 21st-century learning. This study highlights the pivotal roles of technology integration and teacher competence...

Mindfulness-based approach has been widely used in English language learning. It is highly promoted to stimulate and build peace of mind, well-being, and creativity. In EFL poetry writing, a mindfulness-based approach stimulates novelty, new perspective, context awareness, and productivity. The process of how the mindfulness-based approach is imple...

Teaching English as a second language requires pre-service educators to possess a diverse skill set and adapt to evolving teaching methodologies and language acquisition theories. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the factors that contribute to the development of pre-service English teachers' professional competence to ensure their readiness...

This study aimeld at investigating the realization of presupposition in Harry Potter philosopher’s stone and the implication of presupposition on the teaching of English as a foreign language in Indonesia. Thel design of this study focused on pragmatic analysis, and this study employed a qualitative approach. This relselarch useld script and movie...

The study aims to investigate the English presentation self-efficacy of ESP undergraduate students through a longitudinal-experimental research design. Rooted in Bandura's social cognitive theory, it addresses two research problems: how Indonesian ESP undergraduate students' English presentation self-efficacy developed when they were exposed to mas...

Politeness cannot be achieved directly when people are born because of genetic factors or special characteristics given by God. It needs to be learned, and they should consider whom they speak to establish a good relationship between the speaker (S) and hearer (H) in the social interaction. This study aims to explain the similarities and difference...

Some challenges in teaching writing are making students interpret, analyze, and build reasoning for a coherent text. To address this issue, such research is included in a branch of linguistics, namely semantics. This research evaluates the students’ mastery of semantic entailment as reflected in their descriptive text writing. The research method a...

This study delves into the analysis of common errors found in descriptive texts authored by a sample of 32 students, randomly selected from SMA Negeri 12 Semarang. Its primary objective is to identify, categorize, and evaluate errors pertaining to adverbial phrases, conjunctions, prepositional phrases, and discourse markers while assessing their im...

The textbook is defined as the learning materials that are commonly used in the teaching and learning process, are easy to get, and are also commercially provided. There will be different needs for textbooks in senior high school and vocational high school. For that reason, some questions need to be answered. Those were the characteristics of the c...

This study aims to describe the effects of metacognitive strategy on students’ listening performance. The quasi-experimental design was employed. The participants were Indonesian undergraduate learners majoring in English education programs. Listening tests and close-response questionnaires were used for collecting the data. The results revealed a...

Textbook plays a vital role in facilitating students’ learning. However, the content of the textbook sometimes does not meet students’ needs. From this standpoint, this study shed light on the content analysis of an English textbook used in junior high school. By focusing on the analysis of exercises in an English textbook entitled Bright an Englis...

Online English teaching and learning during the pandemic is challenging for teachers and students. One of the problems encountered by teachers is maintaining students’ involvement in class discussions. To maintain students’ involvement, it is important to implement strategies that meet students’ needs. This study aims at describing students’ object...

Language and sociocultural are inseparable and bound to each other. Language is the expression of cultural reality, the embodiment of cultural reality, and the symbols of cultural reality. The inseparability of language and culture has led researchers to investigate English language teaching taught in various cultural contexts. This study qualitati...

This study aims to determine the effects of a self-regulated learning strategy on students’ independence in Literal Reading education. Literal Reading is an educational course working on literal comprehension and assigned to 2nd semester students. This experiment was carried out using a self-regulated learning strategy with the phases; (1) Forethou...

Writing research articles is a 'tradition' conducted by students in every learning activity in higher education. This study aimed to analyze the use of grammatical cohesive devices found in the findings and discussion of research articles written by graduate students of English Education. Discourse analysis was employed as the research design and a...

Teacher education programs across the globe include a practicum as a required part of their curriculum. The practicum is also viewed as a gateway between theoretical and practical aspects of teaching, enabling prospective teachers to acquire the specific skills and approaches they will need in the classroom. Teaching practicum also provides pre-ser...

This research studied the possibility of applying socio-affective instruction in online learning in Indonesia during the pandemic. The main objectives of this study were to investigate how Socio-Affective Instruction (SAI) and metacognition levels affected the students' listening and speaking proficiency and to investigate students’ perceptions. Th...

The purpose of this study is to address students' views of EIL in various circumstances by concentrating on the perspectives of Indonesian and Japanese university students about their EIL experiences, including their perception of current status of English (CSE), varieties of English (VE), strategies for multilingual/multicultural communication (SM...

Research has thus far shown that students' interest and active involvement are pivotal in the language learning process. However, there is a paucity of research examining how an English literary text can be exploited to bolster student engagement in an Indonesian EFL setting. Occupying this niche, this article focuses on the student's responses and...

Education is necessary for students who are not only oriented to master subject matters but also to focus on character development. All students seemed to pursue value, rank, or medals, whereas the process of creating an actual character is more important than academic achievement. As a result, students grow up to be smart but characterless. The pr...

The education sector is one affected by the pandemic. The teachers and students are encouraged to conduct teaching and learning through online media. It is assumed that online learning involves the Politeness of students' utterances. Moreover, online learning brings out the characteristics of the realization of positive politeness strategies during...

The present study began with wide use of a textbook entitled "Bahasa Inggris" in Sorong. The book is written by Utami Widiati, Zuliati Rohmah, and Furaidah. It focuses on analyzing all the reading passages in the chosen chapters. Qualitative descriptive implemented in assessing the use of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) the...

Producing a well-organized and coherent text remains a significant problem in EFL context writing. Cognitive demands and low exposure to the language contribute to this issue. Numerous researches are available to tackle EFL learners’ texts by using various ways such as Theme/Rheme and thematic progression. Some studies attempt to uncover EFL texts’...

There are many English novels translated into Indonesian. One of them is Five Feet Apart. The novel not only amazes readers by using the story of a couple with cystic fibrosis but the language in the novel is also presented using figurative language. Sometimes, English novel is still difficult for Indonesian to understand, so it becomes the reason...

“Colours Magazine” is an official monthly publication magazine of Garuda Indonesia Airlines. It is a bilingual magazine written in English and Bahasa Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the implementation of Newmark’s translation procedures and its resulting grammatical equivalence between the source text (ST) and target text (TT). This study foc...

Identifying appropriate writing techniques to help students with different self-esteem improve their writing ability needs to be considered by educators. This study attempted to examine the effectiveness of two writing techniques, Reflective Learning Portfolio (RLP) and Dialogue Journal Writing (DJW) in improving the writing ability of undergraduat...

The selection of appropriate approach(es) to teaching literature in EFL classrooms becomes a necessity that they can result in good performance of the students, both in their critical thinking aspect and their language proficiency. The problem appears when the lecturer does not implement a suitable approach to literary analysis when teaching litera...

This study was about fulfilling felicity conditions in speech acts in Winfrey's speech Learn from Every Mistake. This research analyzed each utterance spoken by Winfrey’s speech entitled Learn from Every Mistake. Each utterance is categorized based on five types of speech acts. The felicity of the utterance was analyzed based on Searle's felicity c...

Teaching English to young learners has attracted many people in the last decades worldwide, so that English has been increasingly practised at the kindergarten levels. The role of parents is very crucial in the early stage of a child. This research shows the effective interaction between kindergarten children’s YouTube songs, flashcard games, and p...

Assessment is a part of the learning assessment phase of the teaching and learning process. It is used to evaluate whether the education goals have been reached by looking at the process and product of learning outcomes. However, many teachers need assistance in developing a suitable assessment system and instrument. Then it should be in line with...

This study focuses on gender representation of the picture, dialogue, and reading texts in a textbook – Bahasa Inggria Untuk Kelas X SMA/MA. For Grade X Senior High School. It used a descriptive qualitative approach, and its objective was both to investigate gender representation in the pictures, dialogue, and reading text and, the representation...

This study aims to measure the effectiveness of collaborative strategic reading (CSR) and cooperative-discussion-question (Coop-Dis-Q) strategies in teaching reading comprehension students with impulsive and reflective cognitive learning styles. To improve students' reading comprehension skills, the researcher wants to study both strategies. This r...

This study investigated the difference effect of implementing brain based teaching (BBT) by building executive function (EF) with technology support. A quantitative research design with factorial 2 x2 was applied, then two classes involving each 38 student of a private college in Indonesia in the fourth grade were chosen as the sample. The instrume...

The Covid-19 pandemic has widely affected the administration of teaching, assessments, and the learning process at large. Online learning has been used predominantly during the pandemic. While portfolio assessment has empirically demonstrated a couple of positive points, investigations into the use of portfolio assessment during the Covid-19 pandem...

Presupposition means that people have their own beliefs before communicating with others (Yule, 1996). He defined the types of presuppositions into six; existential, factive, lexical, structural, counterfactual, and non-factive presuppositions. The study examined the existence of the indicators of potential presuppositions in Malala’s speeches af...

A Professional teacher should master some competencies; one of them is professional competence. Accordingly, the preliminary research showed that some teachers had problems in the teaching-learning process. This research aimed to analyze the teachers’ competence in designing the syllabus, creating the lesson plan, developing the learning material...

Hedges and boosters are crucial metadiscourse markers to soften and strengthen the proposition. Presidential candidates also rely on hedges and boosters to draw the publics' intentions. This study aims to explore the use of hedges and boosters in Trump's and Clinton's utterances in the US presidential debates in 2016. Accordingly, discourse analysi...

Semantics is the study of words’ meaning. One of the branches of semantics is a lexical relation study. It refers to the relationship between the meaning of words. The focus of this article is the explanation of the use of three types of lexical relations: synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy in the Rowling’s novel “Harry Potter and the Deathly Ha...

In the Covid 19 pandemic, teachers and students have to implement the distance education by using online learning. It creates new obstacles for them but also stimulates potential methods for teaching and learning process to meet the digital era. This study investigated the difference effect of implementing online instruction integrated with brain-b...

Abstrak. Globalisasi telah membawa perubahan dan tantangan tersendiri di berbagai bidang termasuk di bidang pendidikan. Program pembelajaran yang disusun harus dapat berselaras dengan pendidikan abad 21 yang menuntut setiap lulusan mampu berkompetisi dengan sejumlah keterampilan yang dipersyaratkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaima...

Politics is not only controlled by male but also female. Commissive speech acts often happen in presidential campaign speeches. This research aims to analyze the comparison of commissive speech acts in English speeches by Trump and Warren presidential candidate viewed from gender differences. Qualitative method is applied in this research. The data...

This study aimed to explore the existence of syntactic problems and semantic problems and to explain the relation of syntactic problems to semantic problems among Libyan students in using phrasal verbs during writing English texts. The participants in this study were ten Libyan students studying in three Universities in Semarang, Central Java, Indo...

This study was designed to investigate whether Speech Training with Systematic Desensitization could improve the students’ speaking competence or not. This study used an experimental design. The population of this study was all fourth semester students in the English Department in one of Universities in Kendari of academic year 2015/2016. The instr...

Speech anxiety becomes one of the obstacles for the students to enhance their speaking competence. The students felt afraid of speaking in public because the students were apprehansion to make mistakes, gain negative evaluation and less preparation in giving speech. Thus, this study was designed to know students’ perception toward the implementatio...

This study proposes to explore teachers’ perception, plan, implementation, and evaluation toward the use of Super Minds textbook in EFL Classroom. The study employed case study approach. Two teachers were selected to become participants in this study. The data were gathered through questionnaire, semi-structured interview, classroom observations,...

Jurnal merupakan satu hal yang tidak terpisahkan dalam dunia akademik khususnya perguran tinggi. Jurnal menjadi wadah setiap akademisi untuk mempublikasikan karya akademik sehingga bisa terbaca oleh khalayak umum baik internal perguruan tinggi maupun masyarakat yang lebih luas. Buku ini menghadirkan pengenalan tentang pengertian jurnal secara umum,...

The review explores the philosophical basis of the application of Rosenblatt’s Reader Response Theory (RRT) to teach reading-to write of literary works in practical senses in EFL contexts across borders. Grounded in the integration of paradigm shift from text- to reader-oriented, critical pedagogy and literacy, and socio-constructivism, reader resp...

As an act of communication, people tend to speak with what comes to their minds and beliefs which are called assertive or representative speech acts concerning what the speaker believes to be the case or not. In this regard, this study aimed to explain the realization of assertive speech acts of male and female interactions in The Ellen DeGeneres S...

This paper investigates the implementation of constructivist learning, as it was practiced by five EFL teachers at a vocational high school in Indonesia. We offer a ‘mentoring program’ for teachers to support each other and provide resources that are bottom-up, free, and relevant, conducted in a collegial atmosphere. We adopted a qualitative approa...

Source text analysis is a crucial phase in the translation process. Several issues are proposed by experts in this particular field of study. Nord [1], for instance, proposes that this phase may be constrained by two types of factors, i.e. extra-textual and intra-textual ones, the latter consisting of eight factors which need consideration, i.e. su...

This study aims to explain the students’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional attitudes toward teachers’ written corrective feedback, as well as the students’ competence in writing skill. It is a quantitative research which was designed to prove the hypothesis with statistical analysis. The population of this study is the 3rd semester student...

This paper aims at exploring the students' perceptions of the teacher's use of Edmodo in English instruction and its contribution to the development of autonomous learning. Therefore, the questions addressed in this study are 1) How do the students perceive the teacher's use of Edmodo in English instruction? and 2) How does the teacher's use of Edm...

This paper aims at exploring the students' perceptions of the teacher's use of Edmodo in English instruction and its contribution to the development of autonomous learning. Therefore, the questions addressed in this study are 1) How do the students perceive the teacher's use of Edmodo in English instruction? and 2) How does the teacher's use of Edm...

This study targeted to research the students’ strategies in the use of formula expressions in accordance with what is taught in the curriculum through e-book instructions via Edmodo and when taking oral proficiency exam with multi-task.It also aims to investigate if there is a correlation with the utilization of formulaic expressions with fluency a...

Teaching in digital era allows the pre-service teachers to build their digital literacy to run digital teaching effectively and efficiently. Digital literacy on language teaching is the ability to select, evaluate, operate and apply digital media and digital tools in teaching and learning process. This current study aimed at investigating the pre-s...

This research is to measure the effect of focused and unfocused feedback on second language (L2) learners’ writing accuracy with involving gender and learners’ cultural background factors. The study applied a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. The participants were 128 learners at IAIN Palangka Raya, Indonesia. During the learning process,...

This research is to measure the effect of focused and unfocused feedback on second language (L2) learners’ writing accuracy with involving gender and learners’ cultural background factors. The study applied a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. The participants were 128 learners at IAIN Palangka Raya, Indonesia. During the learning process,...

Through the final product of writing, students can communicate their ideas, thoughts, and feelings to the reader. Deixis is one of the branches in pragmatics and one of the writing components that have to be noticed by the students to communicate the meaning in writing. This study is aimed at finding out the realization of deixis in students’ wri...

Translation involves at least two languages which come from the source language (SL) and target language (TL). In addition, it also involves the ideology in all of the translation fileds including novel. Novel has many components on it including figurative language. It means that the ideology depends on the belief of the writer or the translator wh...

This study focused on a comparison of conversational structures between two talk shows, Zach Sang Show and Radio 1 Breakfast Show. This study is a descriptive qualitative study. It used Zach Sang Show and Radio 1 Breakfast Show on an episode interview with Sam Smith as the object of the study. To analyze the data, the researcher used conversation a...

Recently, the need to communicate has been a major concern by many experts. Learners tend to do better in written test than spoken one. It raises the awareness that students deem speaking as the most difficult task to do in learning a language. It may lead to the vast assumption that communicating in L2 is impossible to do. However, experts find th...

The terrorist attacks makes the global phenomenon in the world as the radical action by terrorist group. Therefore, this study wants to find out the ideological constuction of the 2015 Paris attacks in the Jakarta Post. The writer analyzed the data by using Critical Discourse Analysis which is proposed by van Dijk. This theory known as socio-cognit...

Grice’s maxims refer to the use of the four conversational implicature and cooperative principle proposed by Paul Herbert Grice (1975). In order to make communication successful, participants have to follow such a principle. This study is aimed at investigating the realization of Grice’s maxims in English teacher’s interaction with male and f...

This research was done to have the answers of these main questions; 1) what learning style dominates the reading ability?; 2) how is the implementation of E-6tslearning?; and 3) how is the effectiveness of E-6tslearning in teaching reading for academic purpose?. The objectives of this study are 1) to explain the learning style dominates the reading...

In communication, commissive is a kind of speech acts that commit a speaker to do some future action. People should have the ability to produce and understand sentences which are appropriate in order to communicate effectively. The aims of this study are to analyze the candidates’ utterance and the candidates’ visual expression, and also to exp...

Indonesia is a country consists of various cultures and possesses hundreds of native language. Therefore, in the process of l2 acquisition, the impact of L1 on English articulation certainly is seen as a tough obstacle for the Indonesian EFL learners. In SLA, it is known as language transfer. Buginese language as one of the native language existed...

Students of English as a foreign language find it difficult to initiate a talk and exchange meanings in an interaction. They find it hard to break the iceberg and act by asking, commanding and answering to make the speakers or listeners’ intention fulfilled. As such they do not have medium to exchange experiences. The present study aims to explain...

Until the end of the 20th century, a part of applied linguistics, translation still focuses primarily on verbal rendering. Language elements are explored extensively in translationstudies.Theexplorationsincludeconceptsofequivalence,shift,modulation, and untranslatability. That texts are not only in the form of verbal languages but also audio, visua...