Private University In Yogyakarta Research Articles

MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION ABILITY OF PROSPECTIVE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN SOLVING TRIGONOMETRIC PROBLEMS

This study aims to investigate the proficiency of prospective mathematics teacher students in mathematical representation. To achieve this goal, we used a qualitative research design with a descriptive approach. The research subjects consisted of three undergraduate students from Mathematics Education department at a private university in Yogyakarta. Data were collected using a test for mathematical representation ability and interviews. The data were analysed descriptively using techniques by Miles and Huberman. It shows that the mathematical representation ability of prospective teacher students was in low category. This can be seen from the average achievement of indicators of mathematical representation ability (34.74%). The ability to create and use representations for collecting/organizing, recording, and communicating mathematical ideas is 33.33%. The ability to select, apply and translate various forms of representation mathematics to solve problems is 29.76%. And the ability to use multiple representations is 41.11%.

A SURVEY OF INDONESIAN EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS' SELF-REGULATED MOTIVATION TO SPEAK ENGLISH

Self-Regulated Motivation (SRM) is one of Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) aspect that focus only on motivation control or regulation. This study aims to identify college students' SRM levels to speak English and the difference between male and female. The participants were 92 English Language Department students of a private university in Yogyakarta. The data were collected through SRMIS-EFL questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of four factors (task value evaluation, regulation of learning environment, regulation of affect, and regulation of classroom environment) with 20 total items. A descriptive statistic was used to analyze students' SRM level and an independent sample t-test was also used to see the difference of SRM level between male and female students. The analysis of the data showed that generally students had a high SRM level. The highest factor was task value evaluation and the lowest was regulation of learning environment. Related to gender, this study revealed that male and female students show a similar SRM levels and had no difference.

PERSPECTIVES OF INDONESIAN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ON READING PROFICIENCY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

The transformation of the world has brought communication into a complex system. This research focused on understanding communication from reading proficiency and communicative competence perspectives. It is aimed to find a correlation between reading proficiency and communicative competence in English as L2. The quantitative method with the correlational study was employed to analyze the data collected. The study was conducted at a private university in Yogyakarta. Thirty students participated in this research. The study employed a survey design using a questionnaire to collect the data. The result indicated a strong connection between reading proficiency and communicative competence. It implies that reading proficiency and communicative competence are connected.Â

Analisis Anteseden Variabel Intrapreneurship Behavior Pada Dosen Perguruan Tinggi Swasta Di Yogyakarta

Increasing competition for higher education institutions in Indonesia requires internal changes for each organization in preparing a competitive strategy in order to survive in the current environment. Growth and survivability have been the most common goals. Intrapreneurship can be a solution to face competition in the higher education industry. Intrapreneurship is very important and appropriate to be developed among higher education in Indonesia. This research attempts to examine the role of the variable spirituality leadership as an antecedent of the intrapreneurship behavior of lecturers at private universities in Yogyakarta. The population of this study were all lecturers from private universities in Yogyakarta. Samples were taken from the population using simple random sampling techniques, and data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires directly and online to respondents. The data analysis process uses Structured Equation Modeling (SEM) based on Partial Least Square (PLS), to test the model as well as to test the hypotheses offered. Overall, among the four hypotheses proposed, there are two hypotheses that are accepted, and two hypotheses are rejected. The research findings show that spiritual leadership has a positive and significant effect on intrapreneurship and organizational support. On the other hand, organizational support has no direct effect on intrapreneurship, and organizational support is also not a variable mediating the relationship between spiritual leadership and intrapreneurship.

The Effect of Module-Assisted Direct Instruction on Problem-Solving Ability Based on Mathematical Resilience

Mathematical resilience is necessary for learning mathematics because the nature and impression of mathematics is a complex subject for most students. This study aimed to determine the effect of the module-assisted Direct Instruction model and mathematical resilience on the problem-solving abilities of prospective teacher students at a private university in Yogyakarta. This research is a quantitative descriptive study with a quasi-experimental design of the nonequivalent control group design type. The sample used was 40 students divided into 19 students in the experimental class, namely the class that received the module-assisted Direct Instruction learning model, and 21 students in the control class, namely the class that received the Expository learning model. The data collection technique is done by giving a mathematical resilience questionnaire. The data analysis technique used quantitative descriptive analysis techniques. The results also show that the Direct Instruction learning model assisted by the module effectively supports problem-solving abilities controlled by the variable of mathematical resilience in discrete mathematics lectures.

Peran Mediasi Perceived Organization Support Pada Pengaruh Antara Religiusitas Terhadap Intrapreneurship Behavior Pada Dosen Perguruan Tinggi Swasta Di Yogyakarta

Intrapreneurship is a form of behavior that appears in a company, with reference to entrepreneurship. Intrapreneurship behavior within the company is reflected in employees with high motivation in their work, who are full of creativity, and innovation, and who look for opportunities to complete work of the highest quality. This study tries to examine the role of the religiosity variable as an antecedent of intrapreneurship behavior of lecturers at private universities in Yogyakarta. By using data from 103 private university lecturer respondents in Yogyakarta, researchers tried to offer four hypotheses as a basis for data analysis tests. By using the PLS_SEM analysis tool, the results of the study prove that religiosity has a positive and significant effect on intrapreneurship and organizational support. Likewise, organizational support has a positive and significant effect on intrapreneurship. The role of organizational support as a mediating variable in the relationship between religiosity and intrapreneurship in this study showed insignificant results. This means that organizational support does not mediate the relationship between religiosity and intrapreneurship.

EFL Undergraduate Students’ Cognitive Strategies in Process-Based Writing

Even though process-based writing has been extensively researched and implemented in higher education, little is known about how cognitive strategies are implemented in process-based essay writing. This study investigated how EFL undergraduate students used writing strategies in English essays. The process of writing was investigated by using cognitive theory in this semi-structured interview qualitative research. The two participants were English language education department batch 2019 students from a private university in Yogyakarta who had completed their processes-based essay writing final project when the study was conducted. The findings revealed that Rara and Kevin (the participants' pseudonyms) used different writing strategies in the essay writing process planning stage. Rara organised her writing using the outline, whereas Kevin used keywords to organise his writing. This study implied that when teaching process-based essay writing, a language teacher or lecturer should be aware of the different stages of the student's cognitive strategies, especially during the planning stage.

Preposition Mistakes in English for Specific Purposes: The Case of Indonesian Accounting Study Program Students

Prepositions remain challenging for learners of English as a foreign language. Linguistically speaking, prepositions are part of grammar and are frequently used in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Thus, this research investigated the mastery of English prepositions of undergraduate accounting program students of batch 2021 at a private university in Yogyakarta. The data of this quantitative research were collected through a close-ended questionnaire using Google Forms distributed to 23 students. The collected data were analyzed to identify preposition mistakes. Results showed three common problems of prepositions, namely the addition of unnecessary prepositions, omission of prepositions, and misuse of prepositions. The findings would assist students, thesis advisors, and teachers in using English prepositions grammatically, particularly in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It is expected that future researchers utilize larger data sets to obtain more robust results of proper uses of prepositions and future researchers are expected to observe the participants directly to maximize the results of the data.
 

Relationship between Spirituality and Emotional Maturity with Cultural Intelligence in Preventing Culture Shock

The role of spirituality and emotional maturity (EM) in cultural intelligence (CQ) is mostly carried out in the Westen country compared to Indonesia. Therefore, this quantitative study aims to examine the relationship between spirituality and emotional maturity (EM) with cultural intelligence (CQ). A total of 97 Psychology students from a private university in Yogyakarta were selected using purposive sampling. Data were collected using a modified scale of spirituality, emotional maturity, and cultural intelligence. The hypothesis was examined by using regression analysis. The result of the study showed a significant relationship between spirituality and cultural intelligence. Meanwhile, emotional maturity is insignificantly related to cultural intelligence.

Effective Written Corrective Feedback on EFL Students’ Academic Writing

Abstract. Written corrective feedback (WCF) is believed to be one of the essential factors in the improvement of students' academic writing in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context. WCF is crucial for EFL students as they may face both language barriers and problems related to academic requirements during the process of writing. Hence, EFL students tend to have more challenges than L1 students, especially in making pieces of academic writing. This current research aims to find out the criteria of effective WCF that help EFL students on their academic writing. This current research employed qualitative approach. The current research isa descriptive qualitative research design. It employed interview as a data collection method. Interview guidelines were used as the instrument of data collection. Participants of the study are four students in an English Education Department in a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The participants experienced the process of writing a research report as the fulfillment of getting an undergraduate degree. The research found that criteria of effective WCF i.e. WCF should be understandable, focused, and direct. These findings imply that teachers should consider how to give WCF to the students. The criteria of effective WCF found in the current study could be reference and guideline by the teacher about what kind of WCF that help students better in their academic writing. By considering the WCF they give, teachers could have better writing feedback to the students.Keywords: Feedback, Written Corrective Feedback, Academic Writing

AN ANALYSIS OF INTONATION PATTERN IN THE PRE SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHER’S TALKS

This study examined the intonation pattern errors occurring in pre-service English teachers’ talks and investigated the causes of the errors. This research used three instruments to gain the data: documentation, observation and interview. Then, the collected data were analyzed using Roach, Wells Haycraft theories and PRAAT software analysis. The participants of this study were 8th semester students in English Language Education Study Program at one of the private universities in Yogyakarta. Three recordings of pre-service English teachers’ talks were transcribed by unitizing schemes, sampling plans, recording/coding, reducing data, abductively inferring contextual phenomena, and narrating the result information of the data collected. The results showed that two kinds of intonation patterns occurred in pre-service English teachers, falling and rising. The speakers’ dominant error was final rising in WH-question sentence type. The errors were caused by the physical impediment, inability in manipulating the pitch voice, and inability to keep the level tone stable. In addition, it was also due to the pre-service English teachers L1 mother tongue. This study gave information of pre-service English teachers’ ability, obstacle, and the causes of errors in producing intonation tone. It can be a reference for pre-service English teachers to look for pre-service teachers’ ability in mastering pronunciation especially intonation.

Metacognitive Reading Strategies and L2 Reading Achievements: A Correlational Study of EFL in Indonesia

This study aimed to investigate how metacognitive reading strategies correlate with EFL learners’ achievement. Three types of metacognitive reading strategies were measured in this study, namely: global reading strategies, problem-solving reading strategies, and support reading strategies. The data collection was conducted with 56 participants from an ESP reading class at a private university in Yogyakarta. This study found that problem-solving reading strategies and global reading strategies correlated positively with students’ achievement, while support reading strategies correlated negatively with their achievement. However, those correlations were not statistically significant. Therefore, it indicates insufficient evidence to suggest that the same correlations also happened in the population or that the observed correlations might have occurred by chance. Despite the correlations not being statistically significant, in this research, the participants were sampled from the population with a 95% confidence level and a margin of error of 5%.In addition to the findings, this study provides teachers with an example of a framework for a needs analysis to measure their students’ metacognitive reading strategies and help them plan more informed reading instruction.

THE AHP APPROACH FOR DETERMINING E-LEARNING PLATFORM IN UNIVERSITY

Physical distancing policy as the response to pandemic covid-19 has forced the educational institutes to provide online learning for the students. The students and lecturer have to adapt to using online platforms to continue the learning activities. An E-learning platform is needed for distance learning. This research aims to analyze the preference of e-learning platforms among Google Classroom, Youtube, Whatsapp, and Zoom for students in a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, using the Analytical Hierarchy Process approach. Several criteria are formulated for determining the e-learning platform based on the students’ common difficulties during online-based learning, namely service of platform, learning comprehension, internet usage, and network strength. The result shows that learning comprehension has the highest weight (0.363), followed by network strength (0.258), internet usage (0.230), and platform service (0.149). Learning comprehension has become the most important criterion that students consider on selecting an e-learning platform. The final result from the Analytical Hierarchy Process approach proposes the best alternative e-learning platform for students based on the previous criteria. Based on the research, Whatsapp is an e-learning platform with the highest weight of 0.359. Therefore, it is determined for recommendation as to the most suitable e-learning platform for students. It has a high local weight based on each criterion considered in selecting an e-learning platform. The result of this study is expected to be input for lecturers and education institutions to evaluate the platforms they use and e-learning processes.

Students’ Strategies and Challenges to Understand Materials in Asynchronous Learning

Pandemic in Indonesia makes people in the education environment have to do learning from home, and students must do online learning. Asynchronous learning is one of the learning methods used in education as learning from home. This study aims to know the students' strategies and challenges in implementing the strategies in understanding the material in asynchronous learning. This study uses a descriptive qualitative design. To collect the data using an interview with six participants from the English Language Education Department at one of the private universities in Yogyakarta. The researcher found nine strategies used by students: reading the material, looking for additional material, making a note, watching the video, learning independently, studying together, translating the material, asking the friend and the teacher, and boosting the mood. There are five challenges that students face when implementing the strategies, namely, exhaustion, difficulty in comprehension, lack of confidence, absence of help, and mood swing.

Classroom Oral Presentation: Students’ Challenges and How They Cope

Abstract. Classroom oral presentation is one of the techniques that has been used in any language classroom to provide an opportunity for language practice. This research investigates EFL students' challenges in classroom oral presentation and their strategies to face the challenges. The presentations covered group and individual presentations. Using a qualitative research approach and a descriptive design, authors collected data through in-dept interviews. Participants were four students of the English department of one private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, who had multiple experiences performing oral presentations in the classrooms that they had been attending for at least three years. The study found nervousness, group dynamics, audience, missing points, challenging content, language boundaries, and high self-expectation as the challenges the participants faced in classroom oral presentations. In addition, the study also discovered that strategies used to overcome the challenges were self-assurance, better preparation, peer discussions, directed eye contact, direct communication, backups, self-isolation, and presentation aids use. The implication is that in EFL classroom contexts, all factors surrounding the students might play a part in the way students view their experience and their success in an oral presentations. It also implied that eventually, students will have the ability to utilize the resources around them to solve their issues in an oral presentation. This gives an insight to how teachers can provide the environment that enables students to independently solve their problems. Keywords: Classroom Oral Presentation, Challenges, Strategies To Face The Challenges, CBI, CLT

Undergraduate Students’ Perceived Self-Efficacy in Academic Reading

Reading academic materials is necessary for acquiring knowledge and new insights to perform well in all academic demands. Nevertheless, many students were still struggling in understanding academic texts due to their high level of complexity and so avoided reading. Thus, self-efficacy as a motivating force and continuous effort in the reading process must be activated. This study aimed to investigate the undergraduate students’ perception of their self-efficacy in handling the academic reading materials. One research question was proposed namely, to what extent do undergraduate students perceive their self-efficacy in reading academic texts? To answer this question, a mixed method was undertaken. The respondents consist of 35 undergraduate students from two private universities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The findings indicated that most undergraduate students prefer to read academic texts as a process of constructing meaning. Moreover, to succeed in reading academic text, both external (effective strategies) and internal factors (self-efficacy) were required. One of the implications for teachers and lecturers, namely applying learning procedures that can equip undergraduate students with powerful reading strategies and more importantly stimulate their self-efficacy belief to a stable level which enables them to overcome various difficulties in reading academic texts, such as articles.

Learning English through International Student Exchange Programs: English Education Department Students’ Voices

English language learning is a process that students must go through in order to reach the optimum level of proficiency in the language. International student exchange programs are activities that might assist students in practicing and improving their English. The purposes of this study were to investigate the benefits and to identify the challenges of participating in an international student exchange program while studying English at the English Language Education Department of an Islamic Private University in Yogyakarta. The research design for this study was a qualitative descriptive one. The data for this study were gathered through interviews. Three students from the English Language Education Department of a private Islamic university in Yogyakarta participated in this investigation. The first finding concerned the advantages of participating in an international student exchange program while studying English. It shown that participating in international student exchange programs aided students in making foreign friends, interacting with native English speakers, practicing, and improving their English abilities, and boosting their self-confidence. The second result concerned the challenges associated with participating in an international student exchange program to improve their English. It demonstrated that students who participated in an international student exchange program failed to engage with local people outside of school and experienced culture shock. All associated parties, including students, host universities, university senders, and the program's committee, should organize and execute the program's activities with care and attention, beginning with the program's planning, preparation, deployment, evaluations, and follow-up.

A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) Analysis on Educational Psychology Class: The Challenges in Delivering a Fully Online Classroom Environment

In assisting students’ transformation, classes provide activities with face validity. This paper aims to provide readers with cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) analysis of Educational Psychology class at a private university in Yogyakarta. Activity Theory is a theoretical framework for the study and interpretation of human interaction through the use of instruments and objects. It provides a holistic and contextual discovery approach that can be used to help qualitative and interpretive research. Activity Theory is especially important in circumstances that have a large historical and cultural context and where participants, their goals and their tools are in a state of rapid and continuous change. Few studies explored the use of CHAT framework to reveal the challenges in providing a fully online class in a higher education. Therefore, this study intended to explore the practical importance of CHAT theory use for the delivery of a class in a fully online learning environment. The results revealed the units of analysis (UoA) of the CHAT framework. In addition, the students shared some challenges they faced in relation to those units of analysis. The implication of this study is to utilize the CHAT framework as a tool to evaluate the learning process.

The Effect of Financial Literacy, Financial Inclusion, Peers and Pocket Money on Student Saving Behaviour at Universities in Yogyakarta

One of the good qualities that students should have is to get used to being frugal by saving. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence saving behavior. The factors that are thought to influence the saving behavior of students to be studied are financial literacy, financial inclusion, peers and pocket money. The population in this study were students of private universities in Yogyakarta. Samples were taken by purposive sampling of 100 students from various private universities. Collecting data using a questionnaire that is distributed online using a google form. The analytical technique used to test the hypothesis is the multiple regression method which is processed with the SPSS version 25 data processing program. The results show that (1) financial literacy has a significant effect on the saving behavior of private university students in Yogyakarta, (2) financial inclusion has a significant effect on significant effect on the saving behavior of private university students in Yogyakarta, (3) peers significantly influence the saving behavior of private university students in Yogyakarta, and (4) pocket money significantly affects the saving behavior of private university students in Yogyakarta

Students' Interest in Online Learning in Higher Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic in various countries has had an impact on changes in the education system. The implementation of learning has changed from classroom to online learning. The implementation of online learning certainly affects the learning interest of students. This study was conducted to determine student interest in learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The subjects in this study were students of the Mathematics Education Study Program at a private university in Yogyakarta as many as 72 students who were selected using the simple random sampling method. The data in this study were collected through Google Form questionnaire. The questionnaire contains 15 items of multiple choice and each item contains “why” question to obtain in-depth data about the answers given by respondents. The data of questionnaire analyzed descriptive qualitatively. The results indicated that students' interest in online learning needed to be insreased. It can be seen from students’ responses to the questionnaire that only 15.3% of students gave a positive response to online learning and 32% to online exams. In general, students prefer classroom learning compared to online learning in terms of student attendance, interaction of lecturer-students, and technical in learning. Online learning tends to reduce student interest in attending lectures. Limitations of internet access, lecturer delivery methods and the amount of workloads are factors causing the decline in student interest. By knowing students' interest in learning and the factors that cause low students’ interest in learning, lecturers can improve the quality of learning to increase student interest in online learning.