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High Stakes Testing Cancellation and its Impact on EFL Teaching and Learning: Lessons from Indonesia Ashadi Ashadi; Margana Margana; Siti Mukminatun; Amrih Bekti Utami
International Journal of Language Education Vol 6 No. 4, 2022
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Makassar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26858/ijole.v6i4.34743

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The differential impacts of high stakes testing (HST) on curriculum, pedagogy, students learning, teacher professional development, and equity have been known in the literature, but its cancellation impact is not yet known. Situated in the post cancellation policy in Indonesian education system, this study seeks to explore the impacts of such policy change on schools, teacher pedagogical practices, and students’ English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning. A multiple case study design was employed in three different high schools involving 3 school leaders, 3 English teachers, and 9 students in semi-structured and group interviews. Their voices were thematically analysed and constantly compared across cases. The results demonstrate shifts on: (i) the individual student’s and school’s reorientation towards their own vision and mission, (ii) curriculum driven and more varied EFL instructional practices, and (iii) more self-regulated learning activities among certain teachers and students. Further and wider scale investigation is required to look deeper on how these shifts occur among larger groups of stakeholders.
Students’ perceptions on the implementation of ELT in a language center to their multicultural background Amrih Bekti Utami
Lingua Pedagogia Vol 5, No 1 (2023): MARCH
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21831/lingped.v5i1.60074

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This study is aimed at finding out the extent to which students’ perceptions towards the roles of language centers in higher education context clearly stated the implication of further better services and management of the language center. The study explores how students perceive the function of a language center in relation to their improvement of their language competence and performance. By using a set of well-developed questionnaires, researchers conducted the study and collected the data from 303 participants of higher education students with multicultural background. The results demonstrate that a language center in a higher education context need to provide diversification as well as standardization, particularly, on language services offered to all of university stakeholders, especially, the students taking parts as active users of the language center. The reported results have shown a special role of a language center and the opportunity of further language policy maker in a university level to illuminate the roles of the language center as an intermediatory between students and academic language services.