Self-regulation is required to retain or even improve the students’ motivation to achieve the targeted goal. Students can arrange, observe, and assess their learning and thinking processes. In the process of reading, students might find difficulties that can make them unmotivated, and they need better motivation-regulation to help them attain their motivation to achieve the targeted goal. Therefore, it can be understood that motivation is a key factor to help the students’ strategies in regulating their motivation in academic reading. Nineteen graduate students of the English Education Master’s Program (EEMP) of Sanata Dharma University batch 2021 were the participants in this research. One research question to be answered in this research is “what are the strategies undertaken by graduate students’ in regulating their motivation in academic reading?” Mixed-method was implemented to answer the research question and discover nineteen graduate students’ strategies in regulating their motivation in academic reading. The data were gathered using questionnaires and interview instruments. The result revealed that the students used some motivation-regulation strategies to boost and maintain their motivation in reading academic journals namely interest enhancement, goal-oriented self-talk, self-consequating, and environmental control. This research also has implications for the students, thesis advisors, and future researchers.

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.