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Challenges and Opportunities of Online Learning : Can Online Learning Continue to be Applied in Indonesia?

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Challenges and Opportunities of Online Learning: Can Online Learning Continue to be Applied in Indonesia?  The online learning system started when the COVID-19 pandemic became more widespread so almost all countries in the world implemented this learning system, including Indonesia. Online learning is a learning system carried out online; not face to face directly; it relies on the internet. The early implementation of this learning system reaped a lot of controversy among the community, both from the students, teachers, and even parents. Starting from kindergarten, elementary, junior high, high school, to college. However, the government was forced to implement online learning to prevent the high spread of the COVID-19 virus. In the end, until today, the application is slowly starting to be abolished due to several reasons, but not a few schools or universities are still implementing the learning system. The discontinuation of the online learning system is news that comes as a rel...
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Why Student doing plagiarism?

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Background of English Students Doing Plagiarism   Plagiarism is the activity of copying other people's ideas or works to be recognized as one's own work. This dirty thing generally occurs in the world of education, especially at the university level. Most of them (final students) who have to make a thesis as a graduation requirement make them forced to do it or it is intentional.  There are three possibilities of students committing plagiarism for students writing in English as a second language. The first is the desire to take shortcuts. Second, there are differences in cultural practices. The three students have poor skills and/or mastery of the language. Based on the Journal of "Plagiarism and Academic Writing of Learners of English" written by Virginia LoCastro and Mayumi Masuko. In this journal, three sources of research have been conducted; (1) senior thesis, in English and Japanese, (2) other papers written by students, particularly reaction-summary papers, ...
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Why we need to have English and writing skill?

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The Importance of English and Writing Skills to Support Future Professions. T oday, the ability to speak English is one of the skills that are in great demand by all young people. It is undeniable that having good English skills can increase the value of one's self-quality. Many of them sometimes even feel inferior if they are not skilled in English and meet friends who are very fluent in English. Someone who is good at English is seen as more expensive than someone who is good at arithmetic. Even in the world of work, English language skills are the main requirement for most companies in accepting job candidates. That means that in addition to being profitable in academics and work, English language skills can also increase a person's interpersonal value. The writing ability is no less important than the ability to speak English. Writing skill is a primer skill that a university graduate must have to support their career. Colleges really pressure the desire of college graduate...
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Students' Writing Problems in English as a Second Language

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Students' Writing Problems in English as a Second Language At this meeting, the discussion about the problem of students writing English in Suban and how to solve the problems. Based to the journal written by Dr Ibrahim Mohamed Alfaki, there were 20 students who were involved in the study. The students were asked to write about 250-300 words with the theme “Description of my own town or village”. The student's performance will be monitored twice by 10 English instructors. It aims to find out common mistakes that students often make. So that a solution can be found according to the procedure. Writing is an important element that can significantly develop one's language competence. Through writing skills, a person can express ideas, opinions and thoughts about a thing. The purpose of writing is not only for learning, but can also be used for entertainment, personal pleasure, or healing. Many people or students use blogger sites to share their creative ideas. In that plac...
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How Lexical Bundle Affects EFL Writing Quality

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  How Lexical Bundle Affects EFL Writing Quality IN  six academic writing meetings, we attended the Research Talk 11 seminar with speakers Christianus I Wayan Eka Budiartha from Sampoerna University and Siti Aisah, M.Hum. from Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University as moderators. The topic of Research Talk 11 is "EFL Vocabulary Profile and Lexical Collection of Academic Writing: Corpus-Based Studies in English Language Teaching".  What is a lexical bundle??.... Lexical bundles are two or more strings of words that co-occur frequently in a corpus or in a particular register. Lexical Bundles help to shape meanings in specific contexts and contribute to our sense of coherence in a text. There are three distinct strands of research in the study of vocabulary: lexical knowledge, literacy, and metalinguistic awareness. Student literacy can have an important effect on the writing quality of EFL students. The importance of mastery of medium to low-frequency words affects the a...
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How to Write Good Academic Writing

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ACADEMIC WRITING:  How to Write Good Academic Writing At the 4th Academic Writing meeting, the topic discussed was Academic Writing. Although at the first meeting the topic was discussed, this time the discussion was more in-depth and detailed. So that students can understand the meaning of academic writing itself. So what is the meaning of academic writing? Academic writing is formal writing that has a higher standard of discipline than informal writing. Discipline standards in it, namely; clear, concise, focused, structured, and supported by accurate evidence. As we know in academics, writing must use a formal tone and style. This means that in writing academic writings, you must avoid jargon, slang, and abbreviations. Formal writings can be found in legal documents. Writers working on school papers, college application essays, scientific papers, research papers, conference presentations, and business proposals generally use a more formal style. As for the things that need to...
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Perceptions of Gender Equality in Indonesia: Focus on Education

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  29 March 2022 Perceptions of Gender Equality in Indonesia: Focus on Education G ender equality is an old issue that is still developing today. Many people in Indonesia and even the world are still having problems with this problem. Differences in perception are the main points that cause these cases to continue to this day, although not as bad as before. Especially against women, as we know in ancient times women were underestimated by most people. Where they are made sex slaves even though they have become wives, they are only considered housemaids who are always in touch with "kitchens, wells, mattresses". Thus giving birth to female emancipation players, until now. These women's emancipation fighters were born as a form of awareness, progress, and justice for their rights as they should be. R.A. Kartini is one of the heroes of Indonesian women's emancipation. Meanwhile, in the international world, there are several other women's emancipation heroes such as;...
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