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Different learner’s educational levels need different teaching method orientations. Adult and young learners are certainly treated by using different teaching method orientation. The independency of college students as adult learners in learning is still oftentimes found in low level. Both college students and lecturers still have big chance to be involved in a learning process which is not yet entirely supported by principles of independent learning.. This condition is quite contradicted with their status as adult learners who should have applied independent learning, and still experienced by the students at English Education Department of Muria Kudus University (EED MKU). The high independency of learning refers to the adult learners that should be involved in Andragogically oriented teaching methods (AOTM), while the low independency of learning refers to the young learners that should be involved in Pedagogically oriented teaching methods (POTM.) This study is aimed at comparing the effectiveness of implementing AOTM and POTM to the students graduating from vocational and non vocational high schools. This is a quantitative study with the population of 87 students joining Speaking for Instructional Purposes (SIP) classes at EED MKU. Teaching practice pre and post tests are used as the instrument of this study. The results indicate that AOTM and POTM give impact to improve the teaching practice achievement of the students both graduating from vocational and non-vocational high schools when comparing the scores of pre-tests and post-tests, but the AOTM and POTM implemented in SIP classes with students graduating from vocational schools and from non-vocational schools do not result in impact on their teaching practice. However, in a certainly different condition the implementation of AOTM and POTM might give more impact to the teaching practice achievement of the students graduating from vocational schools than those graduating from non-vocational schools

Debate is considered as one of the best ways and interesting classroom activity of speaking practice. It is also one of the most challenging practices among the others. Furthermore, debate in the foreign language classroom generally helps English learners to develop their communicative abilities. Nevertheless, some English learners’ still have problems in doing debate. This study aims to explore the EFL student teachers’ problems and strategies to solve those problems in debate practicing in academic speaking class at Universitas Muria Kudus. This study is a qualitative research with the questionnaire and interview as the instruments of collecting data. The result of this study shows that there were eleven problems faced by the EFL student teachers in debate practicing in academic speaking class. Meanwhile, the students implement seven strategies to solve those problems. This study suggests that lecturers know the potential problems in debate practicing to anticipate the difficulties when teaching debate as well as to inform the students about the strategies to cope with the problems in debate practicing.

Kudus is one of the regencies in Indonesia that has a lot of tourism potential such as nature, pilgrimage, and culinary tourism. The number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting Kudus increases every year. However, this enormous tourism potential is not adequately supported by the tourism human resources. Many staffs of tourism and culture department of Kudus still lack of English for tourism proficiency to interact with foreign tourists. This community service aims at increasing the English for tourism proficiency of the staffs of the tourism and culture department of Kudus through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) based English training. This training was completed with role play practice in Cigarette museum of Kudus. Through this training, the staffs of tourism and culture department of Kudus can have good English for tourism proficiency that make them able to interact with foreign tourists and in the end increase tourism in Kudus. Kata kunci: English for tourism, pariwisata, communicative language teaching, staf dinas pariwisata dan kebudayaan

Teaching practice may be done in various platforms in this modern era. The platforms enable the interaction of students and student teachers in Microteaching practice to be implemented in offline face to face class as well as in online classes. They are optionally implemented; even the current worldwide pandemic situation forces the online platforms to be implemented in higher frequency. This research is aimed at finding the best Microteaching practice platform by comparing the student teachers’ Microteaching practice achievement as well as their perception in Microteaching Class by using offline, synchronous, and asynchronous platforms of learning during this pandemic at English Education Department Muria Kudus University. Through an expose-facto design this research shows that the best Microteaching practice platform uses Zoom Meeting. This refers to the comparison of the student teachers’ best Microteaching practice achievement scores and opinion of using offline, Zoom, and WhatsApp Group platforms; and the result of the student teachers’ opinion indicates that they basically prefer having offline teaching platform; and supporting that Zoom Meeting is as the best Microteaching practice platform, they have reasons: they felt more comfortable and confident; they felt more efficient; they felt not being directly observed; and they had bigger freedom in practicing teaching.

This study explores self-mentions in Applied Linguistics research articles written by Indonesians and non-Indonesians. Twenty research articles consisting of 10 research articles written by Indonesians, and the other 10 by non-Indonesians were randomly selected from the leading and international Applied Linguistics journal published in 2017-2018. The use of first person pronouns in those articles was recorded and analyzed. The results indicate the more frequent use of self-mentions in the research articles written by Indonesians than by non-Indonesians. However, the use of first person plural pronoun is higher in the research articles written by non-Indonesians.

Pronunciation is one of the key factors in communication. The different pronunciation or different sounds will cause different meanings. It is known that the sound of English vowels and consonants are so much different from Indonesian vowels and consonants. A slip of pronunciation might occur and cause listeners misunderstand the message.This study is aimed at finding the pronunciation errors and the factors contributing to the pronunciation errors made by the EFL student teachers in speech performance.A descriptive qualitative research design was used. The data were collected through document analysis and interview. The result of the study shows that there were 79 errors found, meanwhile the factors contributing to the students’ pronunciations consists of internal external factors.

Due to the global era, bachelor thesis abstracts written by non-native English speakers (Indonesians) from non-English departments in Indonesia are usually written in two languages, i.e. Indonesian and English. The English bachelor thesis abstracts are mostly the translated ones from Indonesian and do not always follow the features of abstract genre. This study aims at examining the rhetorical moves of English bachelor thesis abstracts written by students from non-English departments. The data consisted of twenty abstracts selected randomly from hard and social science departments of Universitas Muria Kudus. The analysis employed Hyland’s five rhetorical move model. The study reveals that most English bachelor thesis abstracts did not follow the five rhetorical moves. The absence of some rhetorical moves in the English bachelor thesis abstracts may lead to the communicative purposes not achieved and thus might cause difficulty for readers to understand the study.Keywords: move, English bachelor thesis abstract, Indonesians

Teaching vocabulary to EFL students in this era can be a challenging task regarding their characteristic as the millenial generation. That’s why, the proper choice of media to teach is needed that will enable EFL students to learn vocabulary effectively. This study aims to find out if hidden words game application can increase English vocabulary mastery of the EFL students. The design of the research was quasi experimental using a single group model of pre-test and post-test. The population of the study was the seventh grade students of SMPN 2 Kudus with class D as the sample consisting of 32 students. The instrument of the research was multiple choice test. The research finding revealed that hidden words game application can increase the English vocabulary mastery of seventh graders.

Teachers’ self-efficacy plays a significant role in determining the success or failure of teaching. The higher teachers’ self-efficacy, the more successful the outcome of their teaching. Some studies reveal that teachers with high self-efficacy produce better students. Furthermore, they feel more satisfied with their jobs of teaching. However, few studies on self-efficacy are conducted with EFL student teachers. In fact, EFL student teachers will be EFL teachers in the future whose self-efficacy will lead them to be what kind of teachers they will be. This study aims at exploring the effects of gender on the self-effficacy of the EFL student teachers at the English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus. The participants of the study were the fifth-semester EFL student teachers. The instrument to collect the data is Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale developed by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk (2001). The result indicates that gender does not influence self-efficacy of EFL student teachers.