This study aims to explore the practice of peer-assessment in academic writing.The current researchers find it urgent to investigate academic writing because ithas rigid rules that can sharpen writers' critical thinking. The products ofacademic writing need to be assessed. Peer-assessment is one of alternatives usedto assess students learning outcomes and monitor students progress in the class.This research is a case study. Data were collected from the first semester students,who joined an academic writing class, of the graduate program of a university inSurakarta. The findings show that peer assessment practice can be effective as oneof the assessment tools to measure students' writing in the academic writing class.DOI:doi.org/10.24071/llt.2019.220106

This paper analyses four advertorial texts about phone product in the magazines. Advertorials provide the new-image advertisement into promotion activity. It reflects a strong multimodality. The practice of multimodality becomes the new trends that attract the attention of people. A multimodal analysis was chosen since the practice of multimodality surrounds the texts. However, the focus discussion in this paper is the visual semiotic systems that are reflected in the texts. This paper brings the results of the analysis to classroom practice, mainly to teach the brand new promoting agents to the vocational senior secondary school in Indonesia.

Intonation is a primary aspect in phonology, particularly in the supra-segmental area. Intonation carries meaning and changing the intonation of an utterance can quickly change the meaning of that utterance. This research aims to discover the patterns of intonation used in Sesame Street's puppet show and identify how interpersonal meaning is constructed on the show. This research was conducted from a phonology perspective and using the qualitative method. This research concentrates on phonology, mainly the supra-segmental area that is intonation. The focus of this study was on the relation between intonation patterns (tonality, tonicity, and tone) and interpersonal meaning. The website of Sesame Street was the source of Primary data for this study, as well as the puppet show's episode "Alphabet Race" (from Season 38). This research involved the researchers as its major instrument for analysing the data. In the process of collecting data, the researchers did documentation. This analysis finds the different division of the information between the systemic functional grammar level and the intonation level, which is shown from the clauses and tone units found in the show. The findings of this research provide teachers and EFL learners with further insight into how utterances deal with their intonation.

Peer assessment is the alternative assessment used by a teacher/ lecturer in assessing process and product in English language teaching and learning. The practice of peer assessment in higher education fosters graduate students more actively in the assessment process. This article aimed to explore graduate students' perceptions of the practice of peer assessment in an academic writing class conducted in the first semester of the English department graduate program at a University in Surakarta. This research was a case study, and the sampling technique in this research was purposive sampling, where 24 graduate students in academic writing class participated. A focused interview was conducted to explore graduate students' views on the practice of peer assessment for academic writing, which covered the feeling and challenges during peer assessment activity. The data were analyzed through the stages of examining, categorizing, tabulating, and recombining data. This study's result reveal that the peer assessment practice in academic writing class helps graduate students find the weaknesses in their writing that the they could not see by themselves. Feedback from peers during peer assessment practice completed the understanding of things the graduate students needed for revision. This research is expected to contribute to educational development by encouraging English writing lecturers' awareness to optimize peer assessment practice for assessing students writing.

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