Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

One very meaningful benefit of visualizing teachers’ perceptions of expectancy, value, and cost together in one chart is the potential to reveal qualitative patterns or clusters of teachers that exhibit distinct combinations of the three constructs. From these patterns, practitioners and researchers can discern different motivational profiles for each cluster of teachers. For example, one way to do this is by considering how scores along the expectancy and value scales can be divided into four...

This study explains that the implementation of digital technology can take some time to complete, as it is expensive to buy new machines with existing impacts even they take up a lot of space. However, given the trend among young people to pursue higher education rather than VET, recruitment of competent interns is seen as increasingly difficult. The demand for new or different training needs for these jobs as a result of digitization which would require major changes in VET plans for these job...

In this Need Analysis, "giving directions" was reported as a very common thing to do, but when other things happen at the same time, it becomes more difficult. It is an example of a common task that can be simple or complicated depending on the presence and co-occurrence of factors that make the task more difficult in the design of the task. A close look at the factors that make a task more complicated, how they fit into a current task complexity model, and how they can be used in real-world t...

In this study, the author explains the long-term standardized test scores of a group of successive English-speaking bilinguals who live in France. They were all born and raised there. It was important for us to know how these kids would do in their first language and their second language over the course of a year. We also looked into the role of factors that are thought to affect language development. People used here tended to overestimate the L2 children's language skills in both languages a...

Language is prior instrument of communication among human being in a community. Larsen (2003: 2) states that language is a mean of interaction between and among people. Here, it has function as a tool which connects them each other. Language also facilitates the people to interact with surroundings. By getting interaction, they can gain information, knowledge, and express feeling and emotions.

The difference between philosophy and the philosophy of science can be seen from the definition. Philosophy is the science of the foundations of philosophy which includes philosophical systematics, namely ontology, epistemology and axiology, philosophical objects, history of philosophy and philosophical methods. While the philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy and part of Epistemology which studies science in terms of the characteristics and ways of obtaining it. Judging from the object...

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As teachers are being challenged to adapt with the new era of 21st century, an instructional approach that can emerge students’ motivation in learning should be applied in teaching-learning activities inside the classroom. Keeping the students engaged in an attractive lesson is needed to prevent them from being bored and reduce a frustration. Four major skills, which are: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity (4Cs) are also needed to be mastered in this era. Hence, P...

Students in this digital era are encouraged to regulate their own learning to make them becoming successful in learning. Social media seems to be one of the appropriate platforms to facilitate students’ learning, particularly English as a foreign language (EFL). Students specially in senior secondary school are expected to be able to regulate their own learning through social media with or without the help or guidance from other or the teachers (Saks & Leijen, 2014). However, it is still no...

The English proficiency is one of the factor that determine a successful learning. Senior secondary students need to master the English well since they will face the real life as soon as possible. They will use English in their job or even for their advance study. But, the problem appear when there is a fact that students in senior secondary school are still in the very basic English user (A1). That is why implementing the problem-based learning approach is a crucial thing since they need to th...