Browsing by Author "Al-furqan"

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Adopting Learning Management System in Indonesian Higher Education: The Encountering Challenges to the Transformation
(2019) Rahman, Ahmad Ardillah; Arifin, Muhammad Ahkam; Al-furqan
"As a third world country, Indonesia undergoes a huge digital divide compared to other developed nations. With this condition, educators and university staff should transform the practices of education by adapting to technological platforms of Learning Management Systems (LMS) as one of the ways to accelerate the increasing quality of Indonesian education. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to evaluate the implementation of LMS in Indonesian higher educations. There are three aspects elaborated from the practices: technical issue, organisational issue, and demographic issue. It is found that the major problem with the technical issue is the lack of teachers’ expertise on computers literacy. Furthermore, the lack of systematic procedure in implementing the system, the absence of faculty members’ commitment towards the transformation, and the less involvement of university leaders in promoting the system are concluded as challenges from the organisational issue. From the demographic issue, it is apparent that the government should provide equal educational access across Indonesia for the new transformation to be effective. Given the various challenges, some further recommendations are offered to tackle the problems."
The Analysis of Native and Non-native EFL Teachers in Indonesia: A review of literature
(2019) Al-furqan; Rahman, Ahmad Ardillah
"This study investigated the issue regarding the native and non-native EFL teachers in the context of Indonesia. In pursue of evidence regarding the addressed issue, this study employed synthesis research methodology whereby a number of conceptual and empirical studies are combined together to draw a conclusion. Findings from this review depict that the superiority of native speaker identity or what is commonly known as ‘native speakerism ideology’ has become a rooted ideology among Indonesian people across Indonesian educational institutions. Its impacts are around the EFL teachers’ recruitment process, societies preferences, and peoples’ judgements, indicating that the non-native teachers are claimed as less-credible than those of the native teachers. However, findings from the review also indicates that there are some notions emerging as the means to challenge the native speakerism ideology such as world Englishes, teachers’ professional identity, and the strength of non- native teachers. However, those emerging tenets are not sufficient enough to challenge or even to be equal to the superiority of native speakerism ideology. This is because, in recent days, there is no other way to take part in global competition except through learning and using the native speakers’ forms of English which absolutely benefits the native teachers."