Wiwiet Eva Savitri

Universitas Negeri Surabaya | unesa · English Department

Background: The ability to adapt, imitate and modify knowledge in a learning context into another learning context is an important ability for students. However, the ability of pre-service English teachers to adapt their knowledge and skills from one course to other courses has not been studied. This research seeks to find out how pre-service Engli...

Teachers must overcome the challenges of engaging and interactive English instruction. However, interactive and creative learning is usually conducted online via a digital platform. Sadly, not all Indonesian schools have good internet access. In Trenggalek, East Java, English teachers struggle with a similar issue. To overcome this problem, the PKM...

Reading is an important skill for all students. It is the action of extracting meaning (the message) but in the case of language acquisition, language aspects (pronunciation, structure, spelling, and vocabulary) are also included. The purpose of this research was to find out the improving of students reading comprehension using digital book Let’s R...

The change in the learning system from the previous teacher-centeredness to learner-centeredness makes the students demand to take responsibility, manage learning, and implement knowledge to become autonomous learners, especially in speaking class. However, in learning to speak, teachers dominate most learning activities, making students passive to...

Learning autonomy has been widely seen as a key predictor of a language learning success. There have been many studies on learning autonomy, however, most studies do not investigate how students conduct their autonomous learning. The number of those which investigate how learning autonomy is implemented across personality type is even fewer. To add...

Bencana alam seperti gempa bumi, banjir, tanah longsor, gunung meletus, dan puting beliung sering terjadi di Indonesia dan umumnya terjadi tanpa adanya peringatan dini bencana. Banyaknya bencana alam menimbulkan banyak korban jiwa dan harta. Untuk mengurangi dan meminimalkan jumlah korban, masyarakat perlu disiapkan untuk menghadapi bencana. Litera...

Teachers’ belief of their own competence, especially subject-matter and pedagogical, is instrumental in teaching success and failure. This self- belief, commonly called self-efficacy, is believed to determine teachers’ effort, persistence, goal setting, and aspirations for themselves and their students. Despite playing the crucial motivational role...

Grabbing meanings in oral texts is not always easy. Therefore, listening is considered as a difficult task by many learners of English as a foreign language. The preliminary study of this research even revealed that students of English Department still face this problem. To ease the task, it is essential for students to know and apply suitable list...

Technology advancement is unavoidable, including in learning English. It is said that at present everything is at one’s finger’s tip. It is easy nowadays for students to access information by the help of technology. They can find learning materials, interact with others in any group discussion, send and receive documents, have fun while learning ea...

Writing sentence is not a simple task. Yet, it is found many times that even students of latest semesters are unable to compose good writing text due to their inability in producing good sentences. It is an unfortunate because ability in writing good sentences is the fundamental for the next level of writing. The failure of senior students to make...