Improving students’ critical thinking is very important in learning process because one of the goals of critical thinking is to develop students ' critical thinking in the perspective of collectable information. The approach used to address the problem of critical thinking is through learning style and metacognitive skill. The Student Creativity Program is a great way to hone critical thinking at the university level. This research is intended to find out the level of metacognitive skills, learning style, and critical thinking and the influence of metacognitive skills and learning styles among a total of 55 students of a Korean Education Study Program at a state university in Indonesia in the context of Student Creativity Program. This research used survey to find about students’ learning styles and their level of metacognitive skill. A test was also conducted to find out the level of students’ critical thinking. The data were calculated by the SPSS to test the hypothesis. The research results for learning styles show that 33 (60%) of the students were in the “medium” category and 22 (40%) were in the “high” category, and there was no student categorised into the “low” category. In terms of metacognitive skills, 53 students (98.2%) were in the “high” category and 2 (1.8%) in the “medium” category, and no one was in the “low” category. All students were identified to have “high” level critical thinking. Based on the significance test, there learning style had no significance influence on critical thinking; however, there metacognition skills had significant influence on critical thinking because.

Previous literature has articulated the contributing role of personality more than teaching competence to be an effective EFL teacher. However, the ideal qualities of an effective EFL teacher in a technology-enhanced flipped English classroom are not much revealed. This paper seeks to compare the ideal teacher’s attitudes and teaching styles with the teacher’s actual practices in a technology-enhanced flipped English classroom from the students’ perceptions. Eighty-three Indonesian undergraduate EFL students majoring in information technology participated in this research. A questionnaire with a checklist and open-ended items was filled out after the students accomplished a 16-week English course. The results showed that an effective EFL teacher in a technology-enhanced flipped English classroom should possess and exemplify the attitudes of patience, friendliness, and niceness, as perceived by the students. Most students also envisaged that an effective EFL teacher in such a learning context can use various, innovative, easy-to-follow methods and employ English and Indonesian alternately. The realities generally accorded with the students’ expectations. More students favored the use of various kinds of instructional technology by the teacher. However, the teacher was less favored for being too serious, not being open to students, giving unclear instructions for doing the assignments, and giving less guidance to use the educational technology

The representation of cultural values in textbooks is crucial to be examined because learning a foreign language is bound with the culture. Although previous research has quite extensively investigated this issue, much is yet to be explored in the context of Korean as a foreign language learning. This study aims to address the gap by investigating how cultural values are represented in the Korean as a foreign language (KFL) textbook, published by The Korea Foundation for Indonesians. A critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach was employed to analyze the data. The findings exhibited the representation of cultural values in four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The introduction to the Korean language could be given through cultural recognition. Among the identified cultural values in the textbook, the representation of showing respect to creative products or the results of local culture was more evident than the other categories, followed by showing respect to cultural differences from various ethnic or religious groups and merging with nature and life. However, the representation category of showing respect to indigenous people’s culture was not seen in the textbook. This suggests that the textbook is intended to foster the students’ multicultural awareness in learning Korean as a foreign language.

Bahasa Korea termasuk ke dalam bahasa aglutinatif, yaitu pemakaian afiksasi untuk berbagai tujuan ekspresif, di antaranya untuk menerapkan prinsip kesantunan berbahasa. Persoalannya, apakah para pemelajar bahasa Korea memiliki kemampuan untuk menerapkan prinsip kesantunan melalui proses morfologis bagi tujuan honorifik?  Untuk menjawab pertanyaan ini dikumpulkanlah data yang diperoleh  dari sekelompok pemelajar bahasa Korea di  kota Bandung. Mereka berjumlah 20 orang, berlatar belakang budaya Sunda, berusia antara 18-31 tahun, sebagian berprofesi sebagai penerjemah  bahasa Korea,  dan dikelompokkan  sebagai pemelajar tingkat lanjut. Hasil tes menunjukkan nilai rata-rata sebesar 70,5 dan belum mencapai skor ideal tingkat lanjut yang ditetapkan peneliti, yaitu 81-100. Menurut para ahli, standar pencapaian pemelajar tingkat lanjut terbagi dalam empat kategori, salah satunya ialah pemelajar dapat menggunakan dan menjelaskan interpretasi aspek-aspek tatabahasa, serta aspek konteks dari sintak suatu bahasa. Hasil penelitian ini belum menunjukkan adanya kemampuan pada kategori tersebut. Pemerolehan honorifik tanpa imbuhan (Kondisi 1) dan cukup didasarkan pada konteks lebih sulit diperoleh pemelajar daripada honorifik dengan imbuhan (Kondisi 4). Untuk mengatasi kesulitan tersebut dan untuk meningkatkan kemahiran, para pemelajar  memanfaatkan  media hiburan berbahasa Korea.

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