Papers by christiana sidupa
Lingua Cultura
The research aimed to find out what Indonesian vocational students’ constructions of resilience i... more The research aimed to find out what Indonesian vocational students’ constructions of resilience in relation to academic achievement and improvement of English writing skills post the COVID-19 pandemic. A narrative inquiry method was adopted in order to make sense of the unique and common vocational students’ experiences. Specifically, narrative inquiry informed the whole research process by focusing on three aspects of the research process: data collection, data transcription, and data analysis. Excerpts from semi-structured and focus group interviews with 11 participants from three provinces on Java Island were analyzed. Research results indicate that academic resilience is reinforced by personal qualities, such as the capacity to keep trying, the ability to handle hard circumstances, and self-discipline. It also reveals that teachers’ support, students’ hope and optimism appear to play a protective role in assisting the students to cope with available English writing challenges. F...
Vocational Students’ Perceptions on the VBee Diary Writing Application: Features and Writing Activity
2023 11th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET)
The Implications of Using Web-Based Diary Writing Apps as Innovative Learning for Writing Enforcement
2022 8th International Conference on Education and Technology (ICET)
Second Language Research, 2001
In this article, we address the important issue of 'how we know what learners know' based on evid... more In this article, we address the important issue of 'how we know what learners know' based on evidence from second language (L2) learners' spontaneous speech samples gathered longitudinally. We first examine some of the problems involved in the analysis of spontaneous speech, with focus on L2 studies within the generative framework. Next, we revisit the issue of the comparative fallacy in L2 research. We first consider the effects of the comparative fallacy in relation to analyses of interlanguage with a target language bias. Next, we extend the comparative fallacy to include interlanguage analysis where the bias is towards the native language. We argue that the comparative fallacy in interlanguage studies, regardless of the nature of the bias (i.e., target language or native language) can lead to the underestimation and/or overestimation of the learners' linguistic competence.
Borneo Educational Journal (Borju)
The present article aims to describe to what extent VBee as a web-driven diary writing app affect... more The present article aims to describe to what extent VBee as a web-driven diary writing app affects university students’ well-being during a month of usage. A descriptive qualitative design is used in this research as the details are described and the data obtained during the research are interpreted. This qualitative research data uses a written survey that is questionnaire. Google survey is free survey by Google to make it more practical for researchers to collect the data from the participants. The participants in the study consist of 13 English-as-a foreign-language learners in their second semester at a private university using VBee. After performing analysis on the data, it is found that mostly the students agree that by using this application they can freely express their ideas, communicate their daily thoughts and experiences, convey the students’ doubts or feelings, and build continuous interactions between students and teachers. Finally, some practical recommendations are n...
international conference on information technology, Dec 30, 2019
As increasing of using technology, educational system has shifted from traditional to online. Onl... more As increasing of using technology, educational system has shifted from traditional to online. Online learning or e-learning is an alternative to accelerate English learning since it is no limitation to time and place. Universities around the world are investigating e-learning system to support their traditional teaching system. Some previous research showed an effective learning system when meet the students" needs This study was undertaken to find out whether the implementation of English online learning system would give positive impacts for the students in Binus University. The study was done by spreading survey questionnaire with Google Form and through two forms of social media, such as Line and WhatsApp, had yielded responses from 38 students. The respondents supported this idea of implementing online learning for English subject and had their personal reasons. Overall perceptions of the online learning were positive. The majority of students in the online learning indicated that they would prefer if the approach was offered. Therefore, this research found that online learning for English subject was applicable in Binus University.
Transformative Process of Redefining Language Curriculum Post Pandemic Covid-19 in Higher Education
2020 3rd International Conference on Education Technology Management, 2020
The world of education has experienced very rapid development and devised a prioritized strategy ... more The world of education has experienced very rapid development and devised a prioritized strategy in a disruptive era. This development is marked by the emergence of adaptive literacy in education. In this vein, it involved three important literacies, namely data literacy, technology literacy, and human literacy. Arguably, the development of education was also accompanied by the use of these three literacies in response to the Covid-19 and post-pandemic era. In this case, education undergoes an extensive transformation process to fulfil the learning process, especially learning English at the university level. Technically, this process involves a series of online learning activities and the use of appropriate technology to achieve the provision of skills, leadership, and social concerns. The reasons are related to communication skills, both oral and written, that enable the graduates to meet international professional standards by integrating literacy excellence. In this background, the research aims to describe the transformative process of the refining language curriculum that excels in the industry. This research uses mix-method. Besides, the respondents involve active BINUS University students who are contributively exposed by the industrial and entrepreneurial world. Data will be analyzed qualitatively. The preliminary result describes a process of redefining the curriculum of English learning that encompassed the utilization of technology and essential aspects of technology selection is more in line with the literacy era in the industrial revolution 4.0. Furthermore, this research will lead to curriculum alteration that is matched with the future industry needs eventually.
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018), 2019
Todays semantic preference and semantic prosody are two notions that many scholars have been care... more Todays semantic preference and semantic prosody are two notions that many scholars have been carefully studied in the field of corpus linguistics as corpora have become larger in size, and tools for extracting different lexical items for different purposes have been developed. The focus of this study was semantic preference, the relation between a word form and set of semantically-related words. This research specifically studied semantic preference of words increase and improve that seem to be problematic for language learners. Hence, the present study aimed to describe students' usage of verb-noun collocation by analyzing their argumentative essays. This, therefore, triggers the researcher to further compare it by semantically exploring how the native speakers' collocation usage of increase and improve. In the scope of corpus, the online British Academic Written English (BAWE), the research used sequential explanatory design that primary focus is to explain the phenomenon. The result of the study was that the English language learners mostly made errors in using the collocations of increase and improve. In addition, BAWE pointed out increase mainly collocates with quantity, such as rate, number, level, cost, value, amount and price whereas improve with quality. The errors are caused by the transfer of first language, Indonesian, to second language, English. To establish evidence, researcher used the Indonesian Web Corpus (IndonesianWaC).
Lexical quality of English language writing of undergraduate students in Indonesia
Asian EFL Journal, 2019
Journal of English Education, 2019
The notion of applying ICT to support traditional learning approach (face-to-face learning) is ob... more The notion of applying ICT to support traditional learning approach (face-to-face learning) is obviously not new todays. This study aimed to seek the significant difference between the mid test and final test scores of students’ English listening and reading skills. Mid test score represents face-to-face learning approach applied from first meeting whereas final test score represents blended learning approach employed after the mid test. The method used in this study was quantitative. A random selection of samples was carried out involving 133 first year undergraduates in Jakarta pursuing English as a compulsory course. Data collection technique used mid and final tests of two English skills: listening and reading. This study revealed that there was a significant difference between the mid test and the post test scores.
Journal of English and Education, 2016
In studying English as Second Language (ESL), learners’ autonomy is needed. As we know, learner a... more In studying English as Second Language (ESL), learners’ autonomy is needed. As we know, learner autonomy has been claimed to be an ultimate goal of education for a long time and has been identified as a complicated capacity that potentially has a great impact on personal growth and achievement. The autonomy positively affects language learning and it is no doubt that learners’ autonomy is a prerequisite for effective language learning. This qualitative research aimed to describe the strategies to foster learners’ autonomy in writing class. Participants consisted of students at Bina Nusantara University. Qualitative research was conducted because the researcher wanted to understand the context or setting in which the participants of the study addressed an issue connected with the strategies to promote the learners’ autonomy in writing. The result showed that there were two strategies that foster learners’ autonomy in writing class that covered the uses of Computer-Assisted Language L...
Video Project and Online Peer-Assessment: Benefits and Challenges
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology, 2018
This paper describes the benefits and drawbacks of peer assessment toward fifteen (15) undergradu... more This paper describes the benefits and drawbacks of peer assessment toward fifteen (15) undergraduate students' online video projects. The data gathered from participants' video polling. It was analyzed using descriptive qualitative approach. The findings showed that the best video was chosen as the video signified the quality of the video content. In addition, the participants enjoyed doing the peer assessment because of its immediate feedbacks and stimulation to produce better videos. In contrast to the benefits, the participants' experienced challenges, like confusion of assessing projects in diverse platforms. These results signify that the peer assessments are applicable for online learning to trigger students' motivation.
International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, 2020
As increasing of using technology, educational system has shifted from traditional to online. Onl... more As increasing of using technology, educational system has shifted from traditional to online. Online learning or e-learning is an alternative to accelerate English learning since it is no limitation to time and place. Universities around the world are investigating e-learning system to support their traditional teaching system. Some previous research showed an effective learning system when meet the students" needs This study was undertaken to find out whether the implementation of English online learning system would give positive impacts for the students in Binus University. The study was done by spreading survey questionnaire with Google Form and through two forms of social media, such as Line and WhatsApp, had yielded responses from 38 students. The respondents supported this idea of implementing online learning for English subject and had their personal reasons. Overall perceptions of the online learning were positive. The majority of students in the online learning indicated that they would prefer if the approach was offered. Therefore, this research found that online learning for English subject was applicable in Binus University.
The Effectiveness Level and Positive Values of Practicing Translation Using Mobile App DUOLINGO for Indonesian Freshmen Students
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology, 2018
This study identifies the effectiveness and positive values of using mobile translation app namel... more This study identifies the effectiveness and positive values of using mobile translation app namely DUOLINGO for translating bilingual texts for Indonesian freshmen students. There were thirty undergraduate students from English in Focus subject took part as respondents of this study. The data were gathered from the result of practicing the mobile application, DUOLINGO, for translating sentences from Indonesia into English. The data is also validated through a survey questionnaire to obtain the benefits of using the app for the respondents. To analyze the data, the study used descriptive qualitative analysis. The findings indicate that majority respondents viewed that the use of DUOLINGO app were effective to improve the translation accuracy. The respondents also experienced positive values when using the apps, such as: ease of accessibility, self-improvement, time-flexibility. That's why the findings signify that DUOLINGO is beneficial and accommodative to support learning proce...
Indonesian Language Transfer of Esl Students
This study examined the issue of transfer for ESL students at the elementary level. The main resu... more This study examined the issue of transfer for ESL students at the elementary level. The main result stated that negative transfer or interference happened at syntactic level, particularly tense, from Indonesian language as first language (L1) to English as second language (L2). In conclusion, in Second Language Acquisition, interference occurred in sentence level produced by elementary students, especially in the use of tense. Keywords: Transfer, interference, first language, second language __________________________________________________________________________________________
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