Heni Dwi Iryanti

Exploring Quizizz-based learning media for teaching maritime English vocabulary: A needs analysis for marine engineering students

Integrating digital tools into ESP teaching: A need analysis of a business English course

This case study was a preliminary stage of an on-going research and development project on developing a business English textbook integrated with digital tools for students of English Education at Nahdlatul Ulama University of Yogyakarta. It investigated the students’ perceived needs on their business English course. To collect the data, a needs analysis questionnaire was administered to the students using Google form including the students’ necessities, lacks, and wants for a practical business English course design. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyse the collected data. It defined the context in which the students would use business English in their future profession. Results showed that (1) the students’ English proficiency was still in the middle, (2) The use of English in daily life communication was on occasion, (3) The English skills’ preferences should be learnt in the business context were speaking, writing, listening, and reading, (4) Topics included in the business contexts were interview, curriculum vitae, and presentation in the top three, (5) Digital tools’ preferences to be integrated into learning were Kahoot, Padlet, and VoiceThread in the top three, and (6) Learning methods implemented were group discussion and project-based learning in the top two.

Intercultural language learning in a sister school partnership between Indonesia and Australia

This case study aimed to: (1) reveal how intercultural language learning occurred within a sister school partnership in an Indonesian public high school in Yogyakarta, and (2) describe student behaviours perceived to be indicative of intercultural language learning. Using an ethnographic approach through observations and dialogues, this study investigated real life interactions occurring among the research participants within the uniqueness of the partnership between an Indonesian public high school in Yogyakarta and its Australian school partner. The results showed that intercultural language learning occurred in the forms of learning experiences which engaged the students in interaction, observation and reflection with the target community. A number of indicators of intercultural language learning were revealed in the students behaviours within four authentic language experiences including exploring language and culture, noticing verbal and non-verbal cultural behaviours, making connections between home and the target language and culture, and reflecting on the development of a third or intermediate personal position between cultures.