Zulfa Sakhiyya

State University of Semarang | UNNES · Department of English Language and Literature

A good speech is a speech that is easily understood by the audience. To achieve it, cohesion should be built among the clauses in the speech. This study aims to analyze the realization of theme and thematic progression in the speeches of senior high school students at the Erlangga English Speech Contest 2021. A systemic functional discourse analysi...

This chapter presents an overview of the Indonesian education system by considering its historical, socio-political, and economic background. In a global knowledge economy where Indonesia is actively participating, education is the engine of development to innovate economic values and sustain economic growth through knowledge. Several significant r...

In the past three decades, there has been a rise in young academy movements in the Global North and South. Such movements, in at least Germany and the Netherlands, have been shown to be quite effective in connecting scientific work with society. Likewise, these movements share a common goal of developing interdisciplinary collaboration among young...

This research explores the collaboration between Indonesian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in content development. Employing a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted to delve into the perspectives, experiences, and interactions of educators in the realm of AI-enhanced content...

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...

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...

Pesantren, Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, has spanned historically from pre-colonial era to contemporary times. Adaptations, innovations, and adjustments have been made to maintain the relevance, aspired vision, and marketability of this educational model. Studies have pointed out its important contribution in introducing Islamic scholarship...

This introductory chapter addresses issues of educational inequality in Indonesia and highlights the needs of critical approaches to investigate education in Indonesia. Critical approaches enable the analyses of the underlying structures and hegemonic discourses that have become the roots of various social injustices. This chapter explains the focu...

The chapters in this volume have begun to map the landscape of Indonesian education vis-à-vis equity and social justices through critical perspectives. Education is both not only having the potential to reproduce social inequality but also enabling social change. Whether as researchers, teachers, or policymakers, the complexity of policies and prac...

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...

The technological revolution has changed the required knowledge and skills of teachers in facilitating the development of students’ 21st-century skills. In light of this, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) has been defined as a useful conceptual framework to help define the knowledge base needed for effective technology integration...

Omah Dongeng Marwah, a library community and school equivalency organizer, distinguishes itself from typical school equivalency institutions, which are often seen as mere diploma publishers. Through storytelling, book discussions, and nurturing students' talents, ODM offers an innovative outlook on literacy practices. This research explores the pro...

Rising wealth and social inequalities around the world place great pressure on social researchers to interpret and explain the impact. However, it is equally important to recognise that scientists too have been part of the reproduction of social inequalities. This article expands on Burawoy's (2015) appeal to social scientists to acknowledge that s...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to higher education. This paper explores the challenges Indonesian female academics encountered during the pandemic in which the boundaries between home and work were further blurred. Accordingly, the gender gap was further widened as unpaid and unacknowledged academic and domestic work disprop...

This study compares the communication strategies employed in synchronous and asynchronous media during the learning of English. E-learning has been employed more frequently. This condition enables English subjects to be taught and learned in a setting without face-to-face interaction. E-learning is available in both synchronous and asynchronous mod...

By employing a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this paper examines the issues of women’s movement and empowerment by exploring the literacy practices of feminist activists. The narratives of literacy and its impact on women’s empowerment have been dominated by economic approaches. Freire’s notion of consciousness-raising has provided insight int...

Using formative assessment to analyze tasks in the textbook is uncommonly used. Textbooks as the primary resources should follow the latest curriculum version in teaching-learning processes. This study aimed at investigating the implementation of formative assessment on speaking and writing activities in the "English for Nusantara" textbook. Qualit...

While there is little agreement about the definitions, theories and practices of internationalisation, they have one thing in common. They tend to originate from Europe and North America and primarily serve the interests of Anglo-American academia (Ivancheva and Syndicus 2019; Marginson 2016; Rhoades et al. 2019). These two articles take a differen...

From the perspective of peripheralised countries, internationalisation is imbalanced and hegemonic, as it is predominantly constructed by universities in the Global North. We explore the imbalanced inter-nationalisation from the cases of sub-Saharan Africa through the dominance of Western knowledge systems and brain drain; China through isolation a...

Contemporary scholars have called for more diverse conceptions and practices of alternative ‘democratic’ education to contest the increasingly neoliberal and neoconservative educational systems. The current study responds to this call by exploring how the notion of ‘democratic’ education can be enriched using the contextual practices of education i...

This paper explores crisis communication during the pandemic in multilingual Indonesia. Crisis communication during the pandemic is a discursive act of sense-making in responding to the pandemic. As Asia’s pandemic epicentre, Indonesia provides a fascinating setting to enhance the discussion between crisis communication and multilingualism because...

This research aims to find out whether Jigsaw technique and N-H-T technique are effective in teaching reading comprehension to high and low critical thinking students. This research used experimental study that was conducted at SMAIT Bina Amal Semarang. The population of this research was the Tenth Graders of SMAIT Bina Amal Semarang. Two classes w...

This article examines the roles of university elites in enhancing internationalisation agenda in Indonesian higher education. This is done by exploring the relationship between internationalisation and cosmopolitanism. Drawing from two stages of field studies of the internationalisation of Indonesian universities, interviews with key correspondents...

This study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic when a shift from traditional classrooms to online classroom learning happened. Faced with online learning challenges, teachers practiced various strategies to support their classes. In EFL contexts, the way teachers manage these challenges can be investigated through online code-switching. The...

Teachers play very important roles on students learning, especially during the pandemic situation where emergency online learning has replaced the traditional classroom learning. Some factors can influence teachers’ performance such as teachers’ self-efficacy and TPACK (technological pedagogical content knowledge) framework. Here, the teacher parti...

This paper employs discourse analysis to investigate cohesive devices and coherence in research articles. The research was based on a purposive random sampling of 10 research articles from the 8th ELTLT Conference 2019. The text analyzed in this paper includes the abstract, introduction, research methodology, findings and discussions, and conclusio...

Publishing in highly-indexed journals is greatly competitive, thus writing a qualified and eligible text becomes more challenging for a second/foreign language writer of English. A good text should be written logically and organized effectively according to the role of good academic writing. Thematic structure and thematic progression contribute to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to the education sector. The shift from classroom-based conventional learning to virtual mode means that the study from home policy appears to place responsibilities of students learning on parents. By focusing on primary level education, we explored parents’ voices and aspirations in assisting...

This article uses acultural materialism approach that combines Williams’ keyword analysis with Sum and Jessop’s cultural political economy to problematize the word ‘policy’ by taking the case of Indonesia. This combination offers away to be more reflective of political discourses, especially their keywords. The examination shows that while the doma...

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...

This study analyzes an English Course textbook entitled Symphony to find out to what extent higher and lower order level thinking is used in the reading tasks. The questions central in this study are: how the composition and to what extent are reading tasks on the Symphony 1 Course Book for Senior High School contribute to build students’ Higher Or...

Feminist scholars have critiqued neoliberal meritocracy as discriminating against female academics through the persistence of gender-biased assumptions, closed procedures of recruitment and promotion, and patriarchal network connections. While these scholars demand fairer meritocratic competition, we explore possibilities to (re)imagine academic ca...

Penelitian terkini mengenai penyelenggaraan produksi riset di Asia memperlihatkan dampak marketisasi terhadap kualitas kerja akademik. Kasus Indonesia dalam laporan ini menggambarkan kompleksitas dampak tersebut dalam konteks pasca-otoritarian. Produksi riset seturut pasar yang tidak independen dan tidak memiliki kualitas tinggi terbentuk karena me...

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...

Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

This paper examines the tension between meritocracy and empowerment discourses in Indonesian public universities and its relationship with gender-related leadership representation. The recent emergence of five female rectors signals a change that allows women to undertake leadership roles. We argue that there are two contradictory discourses (i.e.,...

This paper examines a shift in the value awarded to the disciplinary knowledge developed in universities. The instrumentalised function of this type of knowledge as it is ‘priced’ and sold in the global higher education marketplace is given a value greater than that given to its symbolic or ‘priceless’ function in contributing to society’s social m...

This article examines “what will be taught” or the knowledge base demonstrated in the English language teacher education curricula by using the framework of English as a Lingua Franca. The need for enhancing the professionalism of English teachers in the ascendancy of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Indonesia demonstrates a critical point where...

Bloomsbury Childhood Studies

Questioning is a potential means to establish identity in social interaction, and thus it helps position oneself in relation to others. However, this relationship between question and social identity remains relatively under-explored in the theoretical territory (Kao & Weng, 2012; Tracy & Naughton, 1994). This paper contributes to this area of inqu...

This article aims to implement Processability Theory (PT) to Bahasa Indonesia or Indonesian language and to identify developmental stages for question formation in the setting of Bahasa Indonesia as a second language (ISL). PT provides a theoretical framework in making predictions about the course of language development, in this case the question...

This paper examines the impact of the International Standard School (ISS) on the identity of Indonesia as a postcolonial nation. According to the Indonesian Ministry of National Education, an ISS is ‘a school which complies with the National Standard of Education and enriches its standards from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developm...