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Abstrak: Exploratory Practice (EP) has recently been established as an innovative form of practitioner research in language education, one which includes learners alongside their teachers as co-researchers. However, to date, little attention has been given to learners' perspectives on this approach. This article focuses on the experiences of learners engaging with EP for the first time in an undergraduate English for Academic Purposes context.

Abstrak: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of four instructional methods on students' mathematical reasoning and metacognitive knowledge. The participants were 384 eighth-grade students. The instructional methods were cooperative learning combined with metacognitive training (COOP+META), individualized learning combined with metacognitive training (IND+META), cooperative learning without metacognitive training (COOP), and individualized learning without metacognitive training (IND). Results showed that the COOP+META group significantly outperformed the IND+META group, which in tum significantly outperformed the COOP and IND groups on graph interpretation and various aspects of mathematical explanations. Furthermore, the metacognitive groups (COOHMETA and IND+META) outperformed their counterparts (COOP and IND) on graph construction (transfer tasks) and metacognitive knowledge. This article presents theoretical and practical implications of the findings.

Abstrak: Pend?dikan dan pengajaran bahasa Inggris telah lama berjalan di Indonesia baik di bidang pendidikan formal maupun non-formal, tetapi jarang diadakan evaluasi atas apa yang telah dikerjakan. Tulisan ini bertujuan meninjau dan membahas beberapa masalah yang terdapat di dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris di Indonesia dengan fokus: pengajaran bahasa Inggris pada tingkat pendidikan menengah. 'Error analysis', beberapa strategi belajar yang dapat menyebabkan kekeliruan baik karena 'interferensi bahasa', 'interlanguage', 'proses-proses psikologis' atau sebab-sebab lain, disajikan di sini. Juga dibahas beberapa trend [= aliran pembaharuan] di dalam penulisan silabus yang sesuai dengan perkembangan di bidang linguistik, yaitu di bidang psiko dan socio-linguistik. 'Notionalstructural syllabus' dari Wilkins (1973), serta 'the monitor model' buah pikiran Krashen (1974) dibahas di sini. Akhirnya dikemukakan juga tiga alternatif dari Michael Long tentang sikap guru terhadap kekeliruan agar memberi arah kepada guru di dalam mengambil sikap terhadap kekeliruan. semoga tulisan ini bermanfaat.

Abstrak: The ability to participate in extended interactions is an important aspect of second language proficiency but has not been much investigated. in this study, we focus on how a group of low-proficiency learners managed extended conversations in role plays involving requests. We compared them with intermediate and advanced-level learners and found that low. proficiency learners are less likely to delay their request and less likely to use explanations or accounts preceding the request. However, the atypical structure of their requests seems to signal to the interlocutor a need to take a more collaborative role in the interaction and suggest possible explanations and accounts for the learner to confirm. This demonstration of the expected sequential organization of requests raises possibilities for classroom instruction, especially if coupled with metapragmatic awareness raising.

Abstrak: This paper reports on a detailed thematic analysis of learners' evaluative comments at the end of a five-week academic writing MOOC run by a university in the UK which used a novel content+process MOOC approach. The authors wanted to identify whether this innovative approach to a MOOC course worked in terms of student satisfaction and achievement in mastering both the content and process of critically-based academic writing in second language (L2) English. The MOOC use of peer feedback, and limited availability of detailed expert feedback from educators and mentors, were the primary sources of negative evaluation. However, in general, they found an overwhelming delight in taking the course, demonstrating a clear sense of pride, achievement, and satisfaction of mastering an unfamiliar and difficult skill that many saw as crucial to their future life plans.

Abstrak: This article investigates the experience of seven refugee students with academic reading during their first year of college, with a focus on the challenges they faced completing assigned readings and the strategies they used to cope with these challenges. Although the participants graduated from American high schools, they were not considered 'college-ready, according to their scores in standardized exams. Data were collected over two semesters through interviews with participants and faculty, class observations, and written documents such as assigned readings. Data analysis followed qualitative procedures. Findings show that all seven participants were able to cope with academic reading in first-year college, despite the numerous difficulties they faced. This article has implications for college instructors teaching not only refugee students but also teaching any of the growing numbers of international students currently attending higher education worldwide.

Abstrak: Curriculum innovation is challenging and, as several commentators have reported, moves to introduce communicative language teaching in many contexts internationally have resulted in mixed outcomes, or even failure. In an effort to shed some light on this complex problem, this article focuses on curriculum change through the introduction of new communicative textbooks in an engineering college (kosen) in Japan. First, three key factors that inhibit change are considered and then other factors that specifically hindered change in the kosen environment are identified. A study investigating the attitudes and classroom practices of four Japanese teachers of English highlighted a culture of pedagogical uncertainty and lack of professional support. Suggestions for supporting teachers to implement curriculum change more effectively, both in Japan and elsewhere, are drawn out.

Abstrak: We have a lot colonial architecture bulding all over country in Indonesia. They have many different style and characters. On of the oldest colonial architecture style was “Indische Empire Style” was bulid between the midle of 18th century until the end of 19th century. Many of them are in poor condition and some have been destroyed. There was not much apprication to the “Indiche Empire Style” building shich is coused by the lack of architectureal articles in the past. This article tries to explain the “Indische Empire Style” from socio culture point of view.

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Abstrak: The planet is in the midst of an environmental crisis. Human behavior toward the environment is based on belief systems. Belief systems that are earth- or nature-friendly will help to preserve the earth more than those that are not. The paper posits, using hermeneutic and analytic methods, that the traditional Shinto idea of "kami" and the African panpsychic idea, which sees the presence of the divine or spirits in all things, provide a basis for the protection of the environment.