scholarly journals The Implementation of Critical Literacy Approach towards EFL College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Desak Made Yeni Wardani
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
English Education ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Multiple Skills ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

Literacy is a crucial aspect in English education that concerns the ability to read, write, then integrate and link what they have learned to daily life. However, several researchers found that there was a lack of literacy activity in Indonesia. Literacy pedagogy was rarely seen in campus life in which it was mostly applied at primary and secondary school levels. Therefore, this study explored the implementation process of critical literacy approach in learning English for EFL college students. An action research methodology was applied in this study involving six EFL college students. The study investigated the benefits and challenges of this teaching approach. The findings indicated that critical literacy approach could improve college students’ English proficiency and multiple skills, such as leadership, presentation, collaboration, self-contribution, respect, critical thinking, and expansion of multiple viewpoints through the discussion section. Improving English proficiency of college students and offering recommendations to EFL teachers for applying critical literacy approach in EFL class come as the expectation of the study.

scholarly journals EFL College Students’ Skill in Using Collocations in Writing Essays

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Dewi Nopita
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Academic Year

Collocation is a natural order of words in which one word should be attached to another in a particular context. For students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL students), using collocations has been recognized to become a problem. This article is going to describe EFL college students’ skill in using collocations in writing essays. 42 students from the same class were selected. They were the 4th semester students of English Education Study Program at Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UMRAH who took Essay Writing course in the academic year 2019/ 2020. The students were given a take-home assignment to write essays. Then, the essays were analyzed to find out the students’ skill in using collocations. It was found that in using collocation in writing essays, 5 students had excellent skill, 14 students had good skill, and 23 students had low skill. The incorrect use of collocations consisted of lexical and grammatical collocations. Finally, it is hoped that these findings could be a useful input for future Essay Writing course.

scholarly journals Investigating Chinese EFL College Students’ Writing Through the Web-Automatic Writing Evaluation Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Zongwei Song
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Writing Evaluation ◽  
Automated Writing Evaluation ◽  
Vocabulary Richness ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students

WWE-pigai is a kind of upgraded automated writing evaluation (AWE) system and there are 444,877,400 essays submitted and corrected on this platform. Some previous research on AWE system indicates that students do not tend to utilize AWE feedback to revise essays and improve writing abilities. The major objective of this study is to investigate Chinese EFL college students’ writing through the comparison of WWE-pigai and traditional writing method. The study lasts two terms and 120 Chinese colleges students participate in the research. The findings reveal that WWE-pigai can motivate EFL students to revise and resubmit their essays more than ten times, improve the scores, increase students’ grammar accuracy and vocabulary richness. The surface-level spelling errors (including punctuation mark misuse) are the most common for freshmen. WWE-pigai is not very effective to correct certain grammatical errors besides spelling and conjugation errors. For certain grammatical errors that the students cannot correct by themselves, the assistance of EFL teachers is necessary. We argue that the results reached through this study can offer useful implications for the usage of EFL writing strategies.

scholarly journals A Voluntary Reading Program (VRP) to Stimulate EFL Reading Interest

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-207
Author(s):  
Erna Iftanti
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Online Reading ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Voluntary Reading ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Good Habit ◽  
Reading Interest

ABSTRACT This article explores the implementation of a Voluntary Reading Program (VRP) which aims at stimulating an EFL reading interest among Indonesian EFL college students. This qualitative study conducted within seven weeks to EFL college students of State Islamic Institute of Tulungagung attending a practice course on Cultivating EFL Reading Habits formally set for eight meetings. This course is intended to address a big concern on the strategy to better stimulate EFL students’ reading habits. By the end of the program, through an interview done to all participants, the program indicates positive effect on stimulating the EFL college students to read for some reasons. Reading brings about great advantages to widen their knowledge and set awareness that reading is not a difficult activity since they can read a lot through their mobile phones (online reading).  wriiten texts found anywhere, or even any ads hanged on the walls. In a nutshell, this program proves to be a good way of stimulating good habit of EFL reading for EFL college students. ABSTRAK Artikel ini mengeksplorasi implementasi Program Membaca Sukarela (PMS) yang bertujuan menstimulasi daya tarik membaca bacaan berbahasa Inggris bagi mahasiswa Indonesia yang belajar bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing. Penelitian qualitative dalam waktu 7 minggu kepada mahasiswa Prodi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris yang mengikuti mata kuliah praktikum “Cultivating EFL Reading Habits” secara formal dijadwalkan dalam waktu 8 minggu. Penelitian ini dilakukan karena perhatian besar terhadap permasalahan kebiasaan membaca para pembelajar bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing. Di akhir Program, melalui wawancara kepada seluruh peserta, Program ini mempunyai efek positif untuk menstimulasi mahasiswa bahasa Inggris untuk membaca karena membaca bermanfaat untuk memperluas pengetahuan mereka dan memunculkan kesadaran bahwa membaca merupakan kegiatan yang tidak sulit karena mereka bisa membaca banyak hal melalui HP (Online reading), tulisan-tulisan yang ditemukan dimana-mana atau bahkan iklan yang dipasang di dinding. Singkatnya, Program Membaca Sukarela terbukti sebagai cara yang baik untuk menstimulasi mahasiswa bahasa Inggris untuk mencintai membaca bacaan-bacaan berbahasa Inggris. How to Cite: Iftanti, E. (2016). A Voluntary Reading Program (VRP) to Stimulate EFL Reading Interest. IJEE (Indonesian Journal of English Education), 3(2), 192-207 doi:10.15408/ijee.v3i2.5512. Permalink/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/ijee.v3i2.5512Key words: Voluntary Reading Program, to Stimulate, Reading Interest.

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