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Students’ Elements of Motivation in Joining the EFL Virtual Classroom Using the Zoom Application During the Covid 19 Pandemic Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko
Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya Vol 11, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : Fakultas Bahasa dan Budaya Asing (FBBA), Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26714/lensa.11.2.2021.194-205

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The students’ motivation in learning has been a crucial issue for many researchers so far. It is because motivation takes an important role to support the students’ learning achievement. Hence, motivation cannot be separated from the teaching and learning activities conducted by the EFL teachers. This current research was aimed at investigating the elements of the students’ motivation in joining the EFL virtual learning activities using the zoom application during the covid 19 pandemic. The research applied a qualitative descriptive approach. To collect the data, the researcher observed one elective class and interviewed some students from the class investigated. The results revealed that the students’ motivation was mostly influenced by the positive effect related to the learning situations created by the teacher when using the zoom application to conduct the teaching and learning activities. This also implied that the zoom application could lead the teachers to think of being creative in conducting the virtual teaching and learning activities.
Feeling nature in writing: environmental education in the EFL writing course Lestari Setyowati; Sari Karmina; Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko; Nova Ariani
Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 12, No 1 (2022): Issued in March 2022
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v12i1.3092

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Environmental degradation increases the threat to ecological disaster. Thus, environmental education is crucial for disaster mitigation. This study is intended to investigate the students’ level of environmental attitude, the students’ writing performance when writing with environmental issues, and their opinion when writing about an environmental topic. The study uses a cross-sectional design. The subjects were 23 students of the Department of English at a state university in Malang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia who joined the Essay writing course. The result shows that the students’ environmental attitude fall in the moderate category, the students’ performance in writing essays with environmental topics belongs to the ‘good’ category, and the students said that using an environmental issue raised their ecological awareness and their critical thinking skills. The result also shows that most of the students can write the introduction well, make relevant topic sentences well, give a relevant explanation well, and write a proper conclusion by using a recommendation to save and protect the environment. The study implies that environmental topics can be incorporated into language classes to sharpen language skills and to nurture the care and love of nature.
Feeling nature in writing: environmental education in the EFL writing course Lestari Setyowati; Sari Karmina; Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko; Nova Ariani
Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 12, No 1 (2022): Issued in March 2022
Publisher : Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v12i1.3092

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Environmental degradation increases the threat to ecological disaster. Thus, environmental education is crucial for disaster mitigation. This study is intended to investigate the students’ level of environmental attitude, the students’ writing performance when writing with environmental issues, and their opinion when writing about an environmental topic. The study uses a cross-sectional design. The subjects were 23 students of the Department of English at a state university in Malang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia who joined the Essay writing course. The result shows that the students’ environmental attitude fall in the moderate category, the students’ performance in writing essays with environmental topics belongs to the ‘good’ category, and the students said that using an environmental issue raised their ecological awareness and their critical thinking skills. The result also shows that most of the students can write the introduction well, make relevant topic sentences well, give a relevant explanation well, and write a proper conclusion by using a recommendation to save and protect the environment. The study implies that environmental topics can be incorporated into language classes to sharpen language skills and to nurture the care and love of nature.
Building ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’ through Writing Ability in the EFL Classrooms Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko; Lestari Setyowati
ELITE JOURNAL Vol 5 No 1 (2023): ELITE JOURNAL: Journal of English Linguistics, Literature, and Education
Publisher : ELITE Association Indonesia

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ABSTRACTMany educated people are found to be unemployed due to lacks of the job vacancy provided in accordance with their background knowledge at university or college. This can be a serious problem entailing the failure of building economic growth in society. This study investigated the students’ entrepreneurial mindset seen from their essay writing products. This study also used a cross-sectional design. There were 25 subjects from English department of the Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. The instruments used were a questionnaire and a depth-interview. The results showed that most of the students did not have a good motivation, intention, and experience in doing business due to some factors like having no permission from the parents, no skills for practicing business, no social networks in business, and also feeling taboo to connect education with business in the life. However, the students’ writing performance were mostly good. The study implies that entrepreneurial mindset can be the alternative topic to support the students’ writing skill and be the solutions for leading them to be prosperous people with a bright future behind their education level. Keywords: Entrepreneurial mindset, Writing ability, EFL classrooms
EFL Learners’ Cultural Perspectives towards Online Learning through Flipped Classrooms in Indonesia for Facing 4.0 Industry Era Mulyanto Mulyanto; Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko
Journal of Social Science Vol. 3 No. 5 (2022): Journal of Social Science
Publisher : Syntax Corporation Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (283.723 KB) | DOI: 10.46799/jss.v3i5.396

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The current study was aimed to investigate the cultural perspectives on online learning through the flipped learning activity to face the 4.0 industry era in Indonesia. Online learning has been a trend in education as the development of education in the world refers to the current situations due to the development of technology. The important thing needed to be considered is concerned with the strategy of providing the learning time allocation and using technology. The best alternative strategy to support online learning is conducting the flipped learning activity. However, it is not an easy matter since some cultural aspects in Indonesia can be great obstacles. That's why it is crucial to recognize the problems and find the solutions referring to the existing cultural dimensions. The results revealed that the way how the learners studied English through the online learning activities was mostly influenced by the cultural dimensions such as getting passive in the class, focusing on getting good grades, expecting the teachers’ dominations in the class, and getting fond of being given playful learning activities. Regarding this, some solutive efforts were also done by the teachers in the form of flipped learning activities leading the acts of building the classroom interactions through questioning and giving various tasks targetting to improve the generic capabilities. Hence, it is recommended that both the EFL teachers and learners can overcome the problems related to the existence and influence of the cultural dimensions by implementing the flipped learning activities to support the online learning activities conducted for reaching better academic achievements through the developments of their generic capabilities to face the 4.0 industry era.
Peer Assessments in Cooprative Learning Teamworks of Problem-Based Cross-Cultural Translation Classrooms Mulyanto Mulyanto; Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko; Amirul Mustofa; Didik Sugeng Widiarto
Journal of Social Science Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Social Science
Publisher : Syntax Corporation Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (272.452 KB) | DOI: 10.46799/jss.v3i6.493

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Cooperative Learning (CL) strategy can be the alternative way for leading the students to have the capacity in solving the problems in learning grammar. It is because CL gives the access for the students to have mutual or cooperative working within the groups or team works formed. The students’ mutual or cooperative working can be measured by peer assessments given. The study was aimed at revealing how the students in the groups or team works performed their contributions in solving the problems related to understanding grammar through cross-cultural translation. The study used a quantitative approach within a survey design. There were 50 participants in this study. The research instrument used a questionnaire containing about 16 closed questions distributed via Google form. The result showed that most of the students were initiated to have mutual and cooperative working by being consistent to contribute, feeling a complete sensitivity to others, encouraging others, and having high social attention and care in solving the problems on learning cross-cultural grammar translation. It is recommended that the teachers apply the CL strategy which also gives the access for the students to improve their learning motivations and self confidence through mutual and cooperative working done.
THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT BUILDING CHARACTERS THROUGH EMPLOYING CRITICAL THINKING ACTIONS IN WRITING Ahmad Heki Sujiatmoko Sujiatmoko; Sri Rachmajanti; Sari Karmina; Nova Ariani
SENTRI: Jurnal Riset Ilmiah Vol. 2 No. 6 (2023): SENTRI : Jurnal Riset Ilmiah, Juni 2023
Publisher : LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.55681/sentri.v2i6.980

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Critical thinking in writing skill has a very good potential to become the access for the students to build their own characters. It is because critical thinking in writing skill leads the students to express their various ideas about the characters that they want to build to form good attitudes. The study was aimed at invesigating about the acts of building elementary students’ characters through critical thinking in writing. The study used a quantitative approach within the survey design. There were 50 students of Laboratory Elementary School of Universitas Negeri Malang, East Java, Indonesia who participated being the subjects of the study. The results revealed that all students were highly enthusiastic in building their own characters. This could be seen from various types of characters they wanted to build. However, among the various types of characters existing, loving homeland was mostly wanted character type chosen. Hence, it is recommended that the teachers are expected to apply critical thinking actions in writing as one of the best alternative ways to build the students’ characters