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Conference Presentations by Meinarni Susilowati

The insights offered by Bahktin (1981), Bourdieu (1991), Foucault (1978), Hobsbawm (1990), and Wa... more The insights offered by Bahktin (1981), Bourdieu (1991), Foucault (1978), Hobsbawm (1990), and Wallerstein (2001), and others have become cornerstones for understanding valuation processes attached to language and their relationships with political economy, processes of globalization and marginalization (e.g. Agha, 2007; Blommaert, 2010; Errington, 1998; Heller, 2011; Heller & Duchene, 2012; Inoue, 2006). This panel seeks to engage with this work by focusing on how movement between centralization and decentralization in Indonesia has figured in the reconfiguration and revaluation of languages in the margins, hubs, and peripheries while also creating new margins, hubs, and peripheries. The papers will cover a diverse range of sociolinguistic practices in a broad range of domains (e.g. face-to-face talk, preaching, radio and television, education, heritage tourism, the bureaucracy, and so on).

Papers by Meinarni Susilowati

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Oct 1, 2013

This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers' identity representation in ... more This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers' identity representation in their classroom interactions. This study was conducted by considering the significant roles the teachers played in orchestrating classroom activities which involved the accumulation of the teachers' efforts, values and beliefs. The findings revealed that the teachers exposed their identity in different ways for both different roles and local positioning which were culturally, socially, politically, and religiously constructed. The teachers also perceived their identity which could be clustered into four broad areas which showed their understanding and the significant functions of their identity representation. Some pedagogical implications were derived from these findings.

Fakultas Humaniora UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, 2016

This paper aims at reporting how teachers inoculate their students’ identity in their English as ... more This paper aims at reporting how teachers inoculate their students’ identity in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. It is empirically proved that teachers represent their identity and, at the same time, consciously influence their students. This is positively perceived by the students and they further explained that their teacher identity representation influences, to a certain extent, their identity building. However, from the previous studies, there is no yet empirical finding on how the teachers realize their identity. Therefore, investigating the teachers’ effort in inoculating their students’ identity in classroom is really worth doing. The data from the questionnaire and interviewed revealed that teachers have indicated to make any effort to build their students’ identity from the earlier stages of their teaching. It is interesting to note that these are done through various ways which tend to be sporadically and spontaneously done in classroom interactions. In ...

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora, 2013

This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers’ identity representation in ... more This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers’ identity representation in their classroom interactions. This study was conducted by considering the significant roles the teachers played in orchestrating classroom activities which involved the accumulation of the teachers’ efforts, values and beliefs. The findings revealed that the teachers exposed their identity in different ways for both different roles and local positioning which were culturally, socially, politically, and religiously constructed. The teachers also perceived their identity which could be clustered into four broad areas which showed their understanding and the significant functions of their identity representation. Some pedagogical implications were derived from these findings Key Words: teachers’ identity representation, classroom interactions

Disertasi Dan Tesis Program Pascasarjana Um, May 6, 2013

High mobility of the youth has intensively exposed them into hybridization which commonly signifi... more High mobility of the youth has intensively exposed them into hybridization which commonly signifies new dimensions of their language. They challenge existing values, social categories and ideologies through their use of vernacular. This may project the contesting sociocultural situations which can stimulate newly deployed contemporary Javanese youth’s identity. Therefore, investigating how young people’s practices across spaces and the ways these practices are connected to local places or neighbourhoods is significant to do. This multi-dimension research which combined sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology gathered the data from short stories on two Javanese magazines published in 2017-2018. Narrative sequences from the stories were treated as the sociolinguistic landscapes which mirrored the constellations of sociocultural constructions experienced by the youth. The analysis revealed that the youth’s life was projected within the academic contexts which reflected the urban a...

In this information era, where values and beliefs tend to be borderless and globalized, exposing ... more In this information era, where values and beliefs tend to be borderless and globalized, exposing one’s identity becomes unavoidably important. Within this framework, it is important to investigate how Javanese values, which characterize Javanese identity, are used on the conversations found in the textbooks of Javanese lesson. The present paper would be of great input to find out how the existing textbook provides the sufficient space to build the community identity. To be more specific, the study investigated how the three basic values of Javanese are reflected on the conversations found on the textbook. This study uses a qualitative with a combination of discourse analysis (DA) and sociolinguistics. In addition, politeness strategies are used to determine how these three Javanese values are used in the conversations. Based on the findings of the research, there are several things to do to improve the quality of Javanese language teaching mainly, teachers need to adapt and adjust t...

Despite the fact that he frequently produced controversial statements in the public domain, Donal... more Despite the fact that he frequently produced controversial statements in the public domain, Donald Trump has attracted researchers' attention to investigate his political speech. His controversies may be seen as a potential area that brings linguistic currency, which may trigger ideological implications due to its condensed power. This paper aims to report how such a controversial speech served a certain degree of power that represented a particular ideology. Wodak's discursive strategies were applied to analyze 15 data derived from Trump's speech as his response to the idea of proposing Jerusalem as the capital city. The results show that nomination or referential, predication, perspectivation, argumentation and intensification strategies were applied and essentially framed within positive selfpresentation. The fact that positive self-presentation mantles ideology and power via controversial statements galvanizes propositions, strengthening the acceptance of controversy in a different fashion. Based on the findings, it is recommended to further investigate power and ideology representation, which transpires ironical expressions as positive self-representations. Such ironical expressions may conceptualize the nature of ideological power in various patterns in different contexts.

Some studies have empirically proved that teacher identity representation can be productively uti... more Some studies have empirically proved that teacher identity representation can be productively utilized to enhance the students’ learning. This case study, therefore, is geared toward investigating how teacher identity in English as foreign language (EFL) contexts can function as cultural resources which can endorse the students’ English mastery. The findings show that in exploring their identity the subject teachers produce certain utterances function not only as information transfer but also as cultural resources. The teacher identity representation tends to be spontaneously and sporadically executed in classroom interactions. To a certain extent, these can bridge the differences between local culture and target culture as well as escort the students to interculturality. The findings also entail some significant implications for teaching and learning English which may provide spacious places for teachers to inoculate the students’ identity. However, the conclusion should be careful...

Language is a very essential in human life, moreover English as foreign language. Since English l... more Language is a very essential in human life, moreover English as foreign language. Since English language is used almost all countries around the world as the international language. However, people often get difficulties in practicing it and producing some errors. The most common speech error is slips of the tongue. Therefore, this research aimed to analyse and observe the types of slips of the tongue and the possible condition which caused the international students produce slips of the tongue in their oral presentations at Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. Thus, if second language learners know about slips of the tongue, they will avoid to produce the same errors on slips of the tongue. The researchers used descriptive qualitative approach since the data were derived from speakers’ utterances which were transcribed. This research applied the theories proposed by Fromkin about eight types of slips of the tongue, and Clark and Clark about the factors which influ...

EGALITA, 2012

Pengaruh pengarusutamaan gender membawa angin segar dalam sosialisasi program dan kegiatan pember... more Pengaruh pengarusutamaan gender membawa angin segar dalam sosialisasi program dan kegiatan pemberdayaan perempuan. Paling tidak, masyarakat luas sudah terbiasa mendengar istilas-istilah ‘pemberdayaan perempuan’, kesetaraan gender’ dll dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Namun demikian, perlu dilakukan upaya-upaya yang lebih sistematis dan membumi agar kesetaraan gender segera dapat direalisasikan. Dalam artikel ini, penulis memberikan argumen pentingnya merangsang kesadaran siswa untuk menyadari pentingnya kesetaraan gender melalui kegiatan belajar mengajar.

ULUL ALBAB Jurnal Studi Islam, 2018

Secara umum, pengajaran ketrampilan menulis selalu membutuhkan waktu panjang agar sampai pada tuj... more Secara umum, pengajaran ketrampilan menulis selalu membutuhkan waktu panjang agar sampai pada tujuan yang ditentukan. Dilihat dari proses penulisannya, ketrampilan ini melibatkan berbagai aspek bahasa lain sehingga seringkali dianggap sebagai ketrampilan berbahasa yang paling sulit untuk dikuasat. Artikel ini difokuskan pada pemberian alternatif terhadap pengajaran menu/is di tingkat unversitas dengan memanfaatkan materi yang bersifat otentik. Para dosen dapat memanfaatkan materi kuliah lain (novel, cerita pendek atu teks lain) sebagai bahan awa! pengembangan ketrampilan menu/is. Dengan demikian, untuk mengaplikasikan a!ternatif yang ditawarkan pada tulisan ini, kolaborasi antar dosen mutlak diperlukan. 1. The importance of Writing In this global era in which people can possibly communicate orally with the help of a wide range of communication technology. writing skill even becomes more significant 1 • There are many convincing reasons why this skill is really pertinent. but there are at least four important points to mention. First, if we have

This paper discusses the significance of applying an ethnographic action research to investigate ... more This paper discusses the significance of applying an ethnographic action research to investigate the teacher identity representation. It is quite common to do an action research for improving the quality of our teaching learning processes, with a wide range of topics and scopes. Combining an action research with an ethnography creates much broader coverage and longer term effect as well. Investigating teacher identity representation can be an alternative for an ethnographic action research. Some notes, however, should be made considering the complexity of an ethnography and the 'practical short term' nature of a classroom action research to acquire the expected outcomes.

International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Teachers, parents, and students have had difficulty with character development exercises in onlin... more Teachers, parents, and students have had difficulty with character development exercises in online learning programs. Students’ character quality has suffered as a result of these issues. This study described the essence of reading fondness, learning discipline, and social care in developing the students’ character development. In addition, this study also aimed to analyze the role of teachers and parents in character development during the online learning process. Students, teachers, and parents provided information via online questionnaires and interviews. Descriptive quantitative analysis, thematic analysis, and reflective thinking were used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that teachers and parents faced challenges that impacted student character quality. Teachers and parents have limited opportunities to shape a students’ character. Instead, they must collaborate to develop it. The limitation of this study lies in the online data collection process, thus suggesting th...

The present study aims at investigating the students’ opinion toward the teacher’s identity repre... more The present study aims at investigating the students’ opinion toward the teacher’s identity representation in EFL classroom interactions. This study was conducted to reveal how actually students perceive teachers’ identity representation in classroom interactions. It is significant to conduct this study because teachers’ efforts to reflect their identity were not necessarily successful. This survey shows that the students consider it important for the teachers to represent their identity in their EFL classroom interactions. It is also found out that a particular language is perceived as cultural specific and value laden in reflecting teachers’ identity. Some conclusions, however, should be cautiously made considering the limitations of the present study.

Lulu Press Inc., Jul 1, 2020

This paper aims at reporting how teachers (re)construct student identity in their English as fore... more This paper aims at reporting how teachers (re)construct student identity in their English as foreign language (EFL) classroom interactions. Even though it is empirically proven that in classroom interactions teachers represent their identity and, to a certain extent, subconsciously intend to shape student identity, empirical data are required for justifying how the (re)constructions of student identity occur. Based on the observations and in-depth interviews with two content course English teachers of a state Islamic higher education institution in Indonesia, this study revealed that teachers were shown to make efforts and endorsements to build student identity from the earlier stages of their teaching. Despite the fact that (re)constructions of student identity by the teachers were sporadically and spontaneously done in classroom interactions, it was found that the teachers' commitment to build students' character was the point of departure of the student identity (re)constructions. It is interesting to note that teachers utilized some cultural factors as effective triggers to construct student identity. Some recommendations are also proposed for further investigations of the processes of character building as well as student identity representation within dynamic sociolinguistic nature of classroom interactions.

The insights offered by Bahktin (1981), Bourdieu (1991), Foucault (1978), Hobsbawm (1990), and Wa... more The insights offered by Bahktin (1981), Bourdieu (1991), Foucault (1978), Hobsbawm (1990), and Wallerstein (2001), and others have become cornerstones for understanding valuation processes attached to language and their relationships with political economy, processes of globalization and marginalization (e.g. Agha, 2007; Blommaert, 2010; Errington, 1998; Heller, 2011; Heller & Duchene, 2012; Inoue, 2006). This panel seeks to engage with this work by focusing on how movement between centralization and decentralization in Indonesia has figured in the reconfiguration and revaluation of languages in the margins, hubs, and peripheries while also creating new margins, hubs, and peripheries. The papers will cover a diverse range of sociolinguistic practices in a broad range of domains (e.g. face-to-face talk, preaching, radio and television, education, heritage tourism, the bureaucracy, and so on).

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Oct 1, 2013

This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers' identity representation in ... more This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers' identity representation in their classroom interactions. This study was conducted by considering the significant roles the teachers played in orchestrating classroom activities which involved the accumulation of the teachers' efforts, values and beliefs. The findings revealed that the teachers exposed their identity in different ways for both different roles and local positioning which were culturally, socially, politically, and religiously constructed. The teachers also perceived their identity which could be clustered into four broad areas which showed their understanding and the significant functions of their identity representation. Some pedagogical implications were derived from these findings.

Fakultas Humaniora UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, 2016

This paper aims at reporting how teachers inoculate their students’ identity in their English as ... more This paper aims at reporting how teachers inoculate their students’ identity in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. It is empirically proved that teachers represent their identity and, at the same time, consciously influence their students. This is positively perceived by the students and they further explained that their teacher identity representation influences, to a certain extent, their identity building. However, from the previous studies, there is no yet empirical finding on how the teachers realize their identity. Therefore, investigating the teachers’ effort in inoculating their students’ identity in classroom is really worth doing. The data from the questionnaire and interviewed revealed that teachers have indicated to make any effort to build their students’ identity from the earlier stages of their teaching. It is interesting to note that these are done through various ways which tend to be sporadically and spontaneously done in classroom interactions. In ...

Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora, 2013

This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers’ identity representation in ... more This sociocultural linguistic study aimed investigating the teachers’ identity representation in their classroom interactions. This study was conducted by considering the significant roles the teachers played in orchestrating classroom activities which involved the accumulation of the teachers’ efforts, values and beliefs. The findings revealed that the teachers exposed their identity in different ways for both different roles and local positioning which were culturally, socially, politically, and religiously constructed. The teachers also perceived their identity which could be clustered into four broad areas which showed their understanding and the significant functions of their identity representation. Some pedagogical implications were derived from these findings Key Words: teachers’ identity representation, classroom interactions

Disertasi Dan Tesis Program Pascasarjana Um, May 6, 2013

High mobility of the youth has intensively exposed them into hybridization which commonly signifi... more High mobility of the youth has intensively exposed them into hybridization which commonly signifies new dimensions of their language. They challenge existing values, social categories and ideologies through their use of vernacular. This may project the contesting sociocultural situations which can stimulate newly deployed contemporary Javanese youth’s identity. Therefore, investigating how young people’s practices across spaces and the ways these practices are connected to local places or neighbourhoods is significant to do. This multi-dimension research which combined sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology gathered the data from short stories on two Javanese magazines published in 2017-2018. Narrative sequences from the stories were treated as the sociolinguistic landscapes which mirrored the constellations of sociocultural constructions experienced by the youth. The analysis revealed that the youth’s life was projected within the academic contexts which reflected the urban a...

In this information era, where values and beliefs tend to be borderless and globalized, exposing ... more In this information era, where values and beliefs tend to be borderless and globalized, exposing one’s identity becomes unavoidably important. Within this framework, it is important to investigate how Javanese values, which characterize Javanese identity, are used on the conversations found in the textbooks of Javanese lesson. The present paper would be of great input to find out how the existing textbook provides the sufficient space to build the community identity. To be more specific, the study investigated how the three basic values of Javanese are reflected on the conversations found on the textbook. This study uses a qualitative with a combination of discourse analysis (DA) and sociolinguistics. In addition, politeness strategies are used to determine how these three Javanese values are used in the conversations. Based on the findings of the research, there are several things to do to improve the quality of Javanese language teaching mainly, teachers need to adapt and adjust t...

Despite the fact that he frequently produced controversial statements in the public domain, Donal... more Despite the fact that he frequently produced controversial statements in the public domain, Donald Trump has attracted researchers' attention to investigate his political speech. His controversies may be seen as a potential area that brings linguistic currency, which may trigger ideological implications due to its condensed power. This paper aims to report how such a controversial speech served a certain degree of power that represented a particular ideology. Wodak's discursive strategies were applied to analyze 15 data derived from Trump's speech as his response to the idea of proposing Jerusalem as the capital city. The results show that nomination or referential, predication, perspectivation, argumentation and intensification strategies were applied and essentially framed within positive selfpresentation. The fact that positive self-presentation mantles ideology and power via controversial statements galvanizes propositions, strengthening the acceptance of controversy in a different fashion. Based on the findings, it is recommended to further investigate power and ideology representation, which transpires ironical expressions as positive self-representations. Such ironical expressions may conceptualize the nature of ideological power in various patterns in different contexts.

Some studies have empirically proved that teacher identity representation can be productively uti... more Some studies have empirically proved that teacher identity representation can be productively utilized to enhance the students’ learning. This case study, therefore, is geared toward investigating how teacher identity in English as foreign language (EFL) contexts can function as cultural resources which can endorse the students’ English mastery. The findings show that in exploring their identity the subject teachers produce certain utterances function not only as information transfer but also as cultural resources. The teacher identity representation tends to be spontaneously and sporadically executed in classroom interactions. To a certain extent, these can bridge the differences between local culture and target culture as well as escort the students to interculturality. The findings also entail some significant implications for teaching and learning English which may provide spacious places for teachers to inoculate the students’ identity. However, the conclusion should be careful...

Language is a very essential in human life, moreover English as foreign language. Since English l... more Language is a very essential in human life, moreover English as foreign language. Since English language is used almost all countries around the world as the international language. However, people often get difficulties in practicing it and producing some errors. The most common speech error is slips of the tongue. Therefore, this research aimed to analyse and observe the types of slips of the tongue and the possible condition which caused the international students produce slips of the tongue in their oral presentations at Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. Thus, if second language learners know about slips of the tongue, they will avoid to produce the same errors on slips of the tongue. The researchers used descriptive qualitative approach since the data were derived from speakers’ utterances which were transcribed. This research applied the theories proposed by Fromkin about eight types of slips of the tongue, and Clark and Clark about the factors which influ...

EGALITA, 2012

Pengaruh pengarusutamaan gender membawa angin segar dalam sosialisasi program dan kegiatan pember... more Pengaruh pengarusutamaan gender membawa angin segar dalam sosialisasi program dan kegiatan pemberdayaan perempuan. Paling tidak, masyarakat luas sudah terbiasa mendengar istilas-istilah ‘pemberdayaan perempuan’, kesetaraan gender’ dll dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Namun demikian, perlu dilakukan upaya-upaya yang lebih sistematis dan membumi agar kesetaraan gender segera dapat direalisasikan. Dalam artikel ini, penulis memberikan argumen pentingnya merangsang kesadaran siswa untuk menyadari pentingnya kesetaraan gender melalui kegiatan belajar mengajar.

ULUL ALBAB Jurnal Studi Islam, 2018

Secara umum, pengajaran ketrampilan menulis selalu membutuhkan waktu panjang agar sampai pada tuj... more Secara umum, pengajaran ketrampilan menulis selalu membutuhkan waktu panjang agar sampai pada tujuan yang ditentukan. Dilihat dari proses penulisannya, ketrampilan ini melibatkan berbagai aspek bahasa lain sehingga seringkali dianggap sebagai ketrampilan berbahasa yang paling sulit untuk dikuasat. Artikel ini difokuskan pada pemberian alternatif terhadap pengajaran menu/is di tingkat unversitas dengan memanfaatkan materi yang bersifat otentik. Para dosen dapat memanfaatkan materi kuliah lain (novel, cerita pendek atu teks lain) sebagai bahan awa! pengembangan ketrampilan menu/is. Dengan demikian, untuk mengaplikasikan a!ternatif yang ditawarkan pada tulisan ini, kolaborasi antar dosen mutlak diperlukan. 1. The importance of Writing In this global era in which people can possibly communicate orally with the help of a wide range of communication technology. writing skill even becomes more significant 1 • There are many convincing reasons why this skill is really pertinent. but there are at least four important points to mention. First, if we have

This paper discusses the significance of applying an ethnographic action research to investigate ... more This paper discusses the significance of applying an ethnographic action research to investigate the teacher identity representation. It is quite common to do an action research for improving the quality of our teaching learning processes, with a wide range of topics and scopes. Combining an action research with an ethnography creates much broader coverage and longer term effect as well. Investigating teacher identity representation can be an alternative for an ethnographic action research. Some notes, however, should be made considering the complexity of an ethnography and the 'practical short term' nature of a classroom action research to acquire the expected outcomes.

International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)

Teachers, parents, and students have had difficulty with character development exercises in onlin... more Teachers, parents, and students have had difficulty with character development exercises in online learning programs. Students’ character quality has suffered as a result of these issues. This study described the essence of reading fondness, learning discipline, and social care in developing the students’ character development. In addition, this study also aimed to analyze the role of teachers and parents in character development during the online learning process. Students, teachers, and parents provided information via online questionnaires and interviews. Descriptive quantitative analysis, thematic analysis, and reflective thinking were used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that teachers and parents faced challenges that impacted student character quality. Teachers and parents have limited opportunities to shape a students’ character. Instead, they must collaborate to develop it. The limitation of this study lies in the online data collection process, thus suggesting th...

The present study aims at investigating the students’ opinion toward the teacher’s identity repre... more The present study aims at investigating the students’ opinion toward the teacher’s identity representation in EFL classroom interactions. This study was conducted to reveal how actually students perceive teachers’ identity representation in classroom interactions. It is significant to conduct this study because teachers’ efforts to reflect their identity were not necessarily successful. This survey shows that the students consider it important for the teachers to represent their identity in their EFL classroom interactions. It is also found out that a particular language is perceived as cultural specific and value laden in reflecting teachers’ identity. Some conclusions, however, should be cautiously made considering the limitations of the present study.

Lulu Press Inc., Jul 1, 2020

This paper aims at reporting how teachers (re)construct student identity in their English as fore... more This paper aims at reporting how teachers (re)construct student identity in their English as foreign language (EFL) classroom interactions. Even though it is empirically proven that in classroom interactions teachers represent their identity and, to a certain extent, subconsciously intend to shape student identity, empirical data are required for justifying how the (re)constructions of student identity occur. Based on the observations and in-depth interviews with two content course English teachers of a state Islamic higher education institution in Indonesia, this study revealed that teachers were shown to make efforts and endorsements to build student identity from the earlier stages of their teaching. Despite the fact that (re)constructions of student identity by the teachers were sporadically and spontaneously done in classroom interactions, it was found that the teachers' commitment to build students' character was the point of departure of the student identity (re)constructions. It is interesting to note that teachers utilized some cultural factors as effective triggers to construct student identity. Some recommendations are also proposed for further investigations of the processes of character building as well as student identity representation within dynamic sociolinguistic nature of classroom interactions.

TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English

The rapid development of digital technology with its likely disruptive impacts on students’ moral... more The rapid development of digital technology with its likely disruptive impacts on students’ morality and character necessitates teachers to reorient their roles. Teachers need to be skillful in incorporating moral messages and character education in their teaching supported by suitable learning resources. The current research is conducted to fulfill the needs of the English teachers in Islamic junior secondary schools in Indonesia for supplementary materials that can support the integration of Islamic moral messages and values in the teaching of English. These needs were identified from data collected through questionnaires, FGDs, and interviews. The supplementary materials, which were designed based on the needs analysis, underwent expert validation and a pilot study. The final version of the materials consists of ready-to-use-worksheets and teacher's guide and is named the Islamic Life Resource Pack (ILRP).