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JURNAL LENTERA BISNIS

With trade that does not know cross borders, many companies sell their products or services abroa... more With trade that does not know cross borders, many companies sell their products or services abroad. Cambric Textiles is one of the companies from Indonesia that chooses export as an entry mode to expand its market share expansion globally. Strengthened by capabilities, achievements and experience in doing business, Cambric has a strategy of staying in the global market. The creation of competitiveness as well as a sustainable business is one of the biggest objectives for the company. Of course, with approaches and methods that can support the achievement of these objectives.Keywords: Cambric Textiles, Global Market, Sustainable Business, Competitiveness, Export

PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education)

The contextualization of teaching materials with learners’ needs is an absolute demand to achieve... more The contextualization of teaching materials with learners’ needs is an absolute demand to achieve the success of a language learning. For this purpose, the present study aims to develop representative English materials for accounting students at IAIN Surakarta. Drawing on a research and development, this study was based on procedures adapted from Latief (2014), which followed several stages (1) need analysis; (2) prototype development; (3) experts validation; (4) field test/try-out; (5) product revision; and (6) dissemination and implementation. A questionnaire, focus group discussion, and semi-structured interview were employed to gather the data on students’ needs and material feedbacks from 147 accounting students, 3 English teachers, and the head of accounting department at IAIN Surakarta. The results revealed that the students needed English materials that were closely related to accounting and business field. This study also resulted in a developed modul consisting of eight un...

Jurnal Kependidikan: Jurnal Hasil Penelitian dan Kajian Kepustakaan di Bidang Pendidikan, Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran

This study aims to shed some light on the significant impact of content videos in flipped learnin... more This study aims to shed some light on the significant impact of content videos in flipped learning classroom on students’ higher order thinking skills. The secondary aim of this study is to portray students’ perception toward the practice of flipped learning in assisting their higher order thinking skill development. A total of 36 elementary teacher education students at IAIN Surakarta are involved as participants in this pre-experimental study. Drawing on pre-test, post-test, and focus group discussion, the results of paired sample t-test show a significant difference on the students’ score of pre-test and post-test, meaning that flipped learning with content videos is effective to enhance the students’ higher order thinking skills. Furthermore, the focus group discussion reveals that the students positively perceive the practice of flipped learning instruction to enhance their higher order thinking skills. These results contribute to providing fruitful insights for teachers and sc...

International Journal of Professional Business Review

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate and compare the awareness and perceptions of Islamic microf... more Purpose: This study aims to evaluate and compare the awareness and perceptions of Islamic microfinance institutions and higher education institutions in Indonesia related to implementing Sharia Governance. Theoretical framework: Academic and professional institutions can play an important role in promoting awareness and knowledge of Islamic banking and finance. Design/methodology/approach: This study involved two criteria for a sample of respondents: standards from Islamic microfinance institutions, which include Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT) also known as Islamic Microfinance Institutions and Badan Pembiayaan Rakyat Syariah (BPRS) known as Sharia Smallholder Financing Banks in DKI Jakarta province, as well as university students. Descriptive analysis using Likert scale-based questions was used in reviewing evaluations related to this study. The dyad perspective, which includes the view of microfinance institutions and higher education institutions, is needed in research to fi...

Falah: Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah

This study aims to determine the effect of the characteristics of the Sharia Supervisory Board as... more This study aims to determine the effect of the characteristics of the Sharia Supervisory Board as proxied by the size of the sharia supervisory board, concurrent positions of the sharia supervisory board, sharia supervisory board meetings, company size, and Zakah on Islamic Social Reporting. Employing quantitative method, this study used panel data of Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia from 2015 to 2019. The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression by employing EViews 9 softwere. The result found that the variable of the size of the sharia supervisory board, concurrent positions of the sharia supervisory board, and the company size have a significant positive effect on Islamic Social Reporting. Meanwhile, sharia supervisory board meetings and Zakah have no effect on Islamic Social Reporting. The results of this study contribute to enriching the discourse of Islamic social reporting of sharia commercial banks in Indonesia, especially in terms of zakah and sharia supervi...

Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics

This study sheds light on the delineation of the most frequently used request strategies as reali... more This study sheds light on the delineation of the most frequently used request strategies as realized by Indonesian EFL learners and their reasons of utilizing such strategies. A descriptive qualitative study was employed by involving forty (40) English learners of a university at Surakarta as the participants. The data were gathered by means of DCT-questionnaire, Role-plays, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). The obtained data were descriptively analyzed by referring to Blum-Kulka and Olshtain’s Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) followed by transcribing the result of FGD. The findings illustrated that Indonesian EFL learners made use of conventionally indirect request more frequently than other strategies. Furthermore, the FGD revealed that their reasons of employing conventionally indirect strategy were because of the cultural factors and the social distance between the interlocutors. As an effort to equip EFL learners with adequate pragmatic competenc...

VELES Voices of English Language Education Society, 2021

A number of research studies have been conducted to examine the practices and challenges of onlin... more A number of research studies have been conducted to examine the practices and challenges of online English language teaching in the age of Covid-19 pandemic. However, research on the teachers’ insights and suggestions to overcome the challenges of the emergency remote teaching still remains unexplored. The present study shed some light on EFL teachers’ teaching activities, challenges, and insights of the emergency remote teaching amidst the global pandemic. The data were obtained from 27 Indonesian EFL teachers (17 female and 10 male) by means of self-written reflection and semi-structured interview. The results revealed that the emergency remote teaching activities were conducted by administering online forum and discussion, integrating social media, and designing interactive exercises. Notwithstanding the facts, the teachers encountered some challenges such as unfamiliarity with digital platforms, inability to provide quick feedbacks, and lack of students’ motivation and engagemen...

Journal of Educational Management and Instruction (JEMIN), 2021

In the recent years, flipped learning has become popular and been widely utilized as teaching app... more In the recent years, flipped learning has become popular and been widely utilized as teaching approach to activate students’ learning engagement, which is frequently used to reverse the conventional teaching. However, much more efforts are necessary to enrich the literature about its practices across different teaching and learning contexts. This study is at the cutting edge of examining the practice of flipped learning in higher education contexts; as well as exploring its effects on students’ learning motivation, attitudes, and engagement. Data were collected using a questionnaire from 35 undergraduate students enrolled in “Introduction of Educational Technology” course at a college of education, and the data were tested using 24-version IBM-SPSS linear regression. The results demonstrated that flipped learning strategy is a positive predictor for students’ learning motivation (p-value 0.001 0.05), attitudes (p-value 0.007 0.05), and engagement (p-value 0.003 0.05). The results co...

ENGLISH FRANCA : Academic Journal of English Language and Education, 2020

Covid-19 pandemic brings changes in many aspects of peoples’ lives throughout the world. The spre... more Covid-19 pandemic brings changes in many aspects of peoples’ lives throughout the world. The spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia affects the education system in this country. Face-to-face instructions are shifted into full online learnings from home. Despite this quite drastic change, the literature on students’ insights of this matter has still been silent. Thus, the present study elucidates 45 EFL students’ challenges, suggestions and needed materials during these online classes. Rely on qualitative data analysis from written responses and semi-structured interviews, the findings disclosed that these EFL students’ main challenges in attending online courses were the unsteady networks and the less direct interactions. These students mainly suggested the use of video conferencing applications such as zoom or Google meet, though some students chose assignments over those applications. The students also mentioned that they basically needed grammar related materials within the online class...

ELE Reviews: English Language Education Reviews, 2021

The trend of online teaching and learning in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic has driven contempo... more The trend of online teaching and learning in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic has driven contemporary students to learn English in an informal context outside the classroom. Drawing on this issue, the present study is at the cutting edge of examining the role of Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) in affecting students’ willingness to communicate in a foreign language. A total of 156 (male=63; female=93) Indonesian EFL students participated in survey research upon invitation. The data are obtained by means of an online questionnaire consisting of three parts: (1) willingness to communicate, (2) IDLE, and (3) demographic data. The hierarchical regression analysis results reveal that Frequency of IDLE, Receptive IDLE activity, and Productive IDLE activity are the positive predictors of EFL learners’ willingness to communicate in English as a foreign language. The results indicate that the Indonesian EFL learners are motivated to communicate in English when engaging in a range...

ETERNAL (English, Teaching, Learning, and Research Journal), 2021

English for automotive technology is a specific discipline in which the students require particul... more English for automotive technology is a specific discipline in which the students require particular language learning materials to meet their academic and future career needs. Hence, contextual material is a prerequisite to achieving the success of language learning. Drawing on this issue, the present study identified the English material needs of automotive technology students for working in vehicle inspection. The required data were collected using a web-based questionnaire and semi-structured interview from 186 students, 7 English lecturers, and 44 graduates of Poltrada Bali and PKTJ Tegal Indonesia who were purposively selected as the participants. This study classified English materials into content areas of automotive technology, language skills, and linguistic features. The results revealed that content areas needed by the students included vehicle components and their performances, ranging from engine system to support components. This study further suggested that speaking a...

Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching, 2021

The unexpected shift of English language teaching from face-to-face classroom interaction to onli... more The unexpected shift of English language teaching from face-to-face classroom interaction to online learning activities using digital platforms has resulted in a number of challenges for English teachers and students. Hence, examining the teachers’ challenges and their insights of the online learning activities is highly required. The present study sheds some light on university EFL teachers’ challenges and insights of online learning activities amidst global pandemic. Drawing on the data collected using self-written reflections and semi-structured interviews from 17 Indonesian EFL teachers, the results revealed that the absence of an e-learning platform, lack of students’ motivation and engagement, and time consuming to prepare online learning materials became the primary challenges of the teachers. The results further portrayed that developing a representative digital platform, designing online learning materials, and improving the quality of teaching method were several valuable ...

Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2021

The success of language learners’ intercultural communication highly depends on their acquisition... more The success of language learners’ intercultural communication highly depends on their acquisition of not only grammatical knowledge but also pragmatic aspects of the target language. However, research examining English for specific purposes (ESP) learners’ request realization, as a crucial indicator of pragmatic competence, still remains a paucity of evidence. Addressing this issue, the present study aims to examine English for specific purposes (ESP) students’ most frequently used request strategy and their reasons behind the selected strategy. To this end, 36 ESP students of a public university in Surakarta Indonesia were involved in a descriptive qualitative study. A set of Discourse Completion Test (DCT), role-play, and semi-structured interview were employed as a means of data collection. The data were analyzed based on Blum-Kulka and Olshtain’s Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) and followed by thematic content analysis for the interview responses...

JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), 2020

The shift of language learning from face-to-face classroom interaction to online learning beyond ... more The shift of language learning from face-to-face classroom interaction to online learning beyond classroom amidst global pandemic of Covid-19 has changed how teachers and students deal with teaching and learning activities. To address the issue, the present study sheds some light on 71 EFL learnersâ€™ perception toward digital learning of English beyond classroom and a range of English learning activities in social distancing measures. Drawing on the data from a web-based survey and Focus Group Discussion, the results indicated that the students positively perceived the use of digital technology as a means of language learning amidst the global pandemic. It was also revealed that digital learning of English beyond classroom could potentially be conducted by means of available social networking sites such as Youtube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Google classroom, and Facebook. Some activities using digital learning of English beyond classroom are clearly highlighted. The results of this stud...

EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture, 2020

The last two decades have been the witness of many studies reporting the disparity between EFL te... more The last two decades have been the witness of many studies reporting the disparity between EFL teachers� beliefs and practices in technology integration around the world. Notwithstanding the enormous studies on EFL teachers� beliefs and perceptions of digital technology use for language classroom, the literature has still been silent on the relation between Indonesian EFL teachers� beliefs and practices. The present study thus sheds some light on 15 EFL teachers� beliefs and practices about digital learning of English in Indonesia. Drawing on data from the written reflections and semi-structured interviews, the findings revealed that these EFL teachers were well equipped with the importance and objective of teaching English by means of digital devices, but appeared hesitant and lacked of preparation in their teaching practices. The semi-structured interview further depicted that their unconfident and lack of preparation was not only a result of inadequate training but also of limite...

Journal on English as a Foreign Language, 2020

The uptake of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was indispensable. Classroom activity,... more The uptake of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was indispensable. Classroom activity, including English language learning, was shifted into remote learning. However, remote learning has not escaped the question regarding its role in students' knowledge construction in language learning. Thus, this study explores whether the social construction of knowledge occurs in the same-time synchronous text-based discussion during students' English language learning. It also investigates the phasesin which the social construction of knowledge present. Content analysis of the Interaction Analysis Model was used as the method to classify twenty-three Indonesian English as foreign language students' discourses in the synchronous text-based discussion. The transcripts from two threads in Google Classroom were sorted into the Interaction Analysis Model Phases to find out the percentage of each Phase's occurrence. Results indicate that the discourses showed the social con...

Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa, 2020

Among the four English skills, oral communication becomes crucial for undergraduate students to b... more Among the four English skills, oral communication becomes crucial for undergraduate students to be more competitive in the work-places. In a foreign language teaching, designing appropriate classroom activities is a prerequisite for the success of a language learning. Therefore, this study sheds some light on 92 EFL learners’ perceptions and insights of classroom activities for teaching speaking. Drawing on the data obtained from questionnaire and focus group discussion (FGD), the findings illustrated that the students held moderately positive perceptions toward the speaking activities in their classroom. In addition, the results of FGD revealed some insights from the students with regard to the ideal classroom activities for teaching speaking. The findings of this study provide insights for EFL teachers in designing appropriate classroom activities to achieve the success of teaching speaking.Keywords: teaching speaking, classroom activities, students’ perception

Digital Press Health Sciences, 2018

Melon is one of the agricultural commodities that effected Indonesia's economic rate, hence melon... more Melon is one of the agricultural commodities that effected Indonesia's economic rate, hence melon breeding is important to develop specifically for assemble the cultivar to be superior. Meloni was resulted by crossing between female melon SL-3 and male melon PI 371795. This study aimed to discover superior character, determine the stability of phenotypic characters melon Meloni F 4 GH, F 4 LH and F 5 LH. In this study, quantitative phenotype characters were analyzed using SPSS software. The results showed that unique character of Meloni's fruit was elliptical fruit shape, cream skin fruit, the size was approximately 550-840 g (small to intermediate), the sweetness was approximately 8.6-10.6 (brix), and has fragrant aroma. The analysis showed that phenotypic character between melon Meloni F 4 GH (4th generation in the green house) and F 4 LH (4th generation in field) was stable in parameters of vertical around, thick of rind, and thick of fruit flesh, whereas between F 4 LH (4th generation in field) and F 5 LH (5th generation in field) almost all of characters was stable, except fruit thickness and sweetness level (brix). Environmental differences might affect the stability of phenotypic characters and increase variation.

Paper repository at higher education is a collection of scientific articles created by the academ... more Paper repository at higher education is a collection of scientific articles created by the academic society. This study took as many as 80 universities in the Webometrics ranking of repositories in the Southeast Asia region. The tools used in this research is Google for number of web page and Google Scholar for number of document paper repository and Ahrefs for referring page, backlink and reffering domain. The result of this study, Eprints is the most widely used tools in higher education, as many as 37 higher educations (46,25%). Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November got the highest score in number of web page in Google (2.010.000), Bogor Agricultural University Scientific Repository got the highest score for number of document paper (44.300). University of Sumatera Utara Repository got the highest score for reffering page (82588) and backlink (86421). Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Institutional Repository got the highest score for reffering domain (532).

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policy to carry out online learning, the present ... more In view of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policy to carry out online learning, the present research is aimed at investigating how EFL teachers carry out online EFL learning and its challenges. 16 EFL teachers volunteered to participate in this research through invitation. The EFL teachers were requested to make written reflections regarding their practices in carrying out online EFL learning and the challenges they encounter. Five of them were involved in a follow-up interview individually. Semi-structured interview was administered. Data coding was done and appropriate extracts were informed in results section. To validate the data, data coding was done independently by both researchers, continued by several cycles of discussion. As results, the EFL teachers have carried out online learning through a series of activities ranging from checking the students’ attendance to giving score on the students’ works synchronously or asynchronously depending on each school policy. Variou...