Dairabi Kamil

This study investigated the effect of contextual teaching and learning approach on students’ reading comprehension achievement. The quasi experimental design was employed in this study involving experimental and control groups. The experimental class received the contextual teaching and learning approach while the control class received the conventional approach. A multiple choice test was used as the research instrument to look at students’ reading comprehension. Data were analyzed through using the parametric levene statistic and non parametric tests.

Research has shown that information on students‟ conceptions of learning (COL) and their language learning strategies (LLS) are beneficial for understanding certain recurring phenomena of foreign language learning and outcomes. However, these two constructs have been separately studied from each other. This study sought to fill this void by investigating the relationship between the constructs and the extent to which COL predicts LLS.

This study aimed at investigating the language learning strategies and autonomy of 76 Indonesian EFL university students and examining the correlations between the two. The Oxford's (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) for ESL/EFL learners was used to collect the data on students’ language learning strategy use and an adapted questionnaire developed by Chan et al. (2002) was used to assess students’ autonomy.

This research sought to explore Indonesian EFL teachers’ professional identity metaphors. Using a multiple case studies design, it involved three teachers in different teaching contexts. Data were collected using questionnaires that gathered the teachers’ professional identity metaphors and in-depth interviews to elicit the reasons for the metaphors. The interview data were analysed using a thematic analysis technique to identify themes in reasons for the metaphors. Then, the metaphors were analysed for their educational orientations.