Studies emphasize that collaboration remains an essential part of learning and working in the 21st century. This study seeks to report on the group collaboration of higher education students. Using Explanatory sequential mixed method design, this study tried to discuss the students’ experiences and challenges on group collaboration environment in the online learning cases. Adopting  Razmerita and Kirchner's (2014) questionnaire, 287 students involved in this study. The result indicated that overall students performed positive perception on group collaboration. In addition, to have deep analysis, 15 students were interviewed. This study contributes to an understanding of how students perceived collaboration and how they explain the obstacles recognized in their classes.DOI: 10.26905/enjourme.v6i2.6971

This study investigates the effectiveness of background knowledge or schema in reading comprehension of the EFL students. Based on schema theory, comprehending a text is an interactive process between the reader's background knowledge and the text. Therefore, to understand the text better, the reader should has enough background knowledge. This present research focuses on three pre-reading strategies, namely: pre-teaching new vocabularies, pictorial context, and pre-reading questioning. Participants were 46 students in two groups: experimental and control class. During the treatment, experimental group received pre-reading strategies before reading the text, but control group did not. In analysing the data, independent t-test was used. The result indicated that the reading achievement of students who are exposed to pre-reading strategies showed significantly different than those who did not receive any treatment.

Many studies mentioned the importance of fostering higher education students' critical thinking skills in order to prepare them for their future career. However, many scholars contend that in online courses, critical thinking is difficult to accomplish. Understanding this gap, this paper aims to report the use of Socratic Questions strategy on synchronous discussion as the bridge to promote students' critical thinking in online learning environment. Twenty two Diploma 3 students who enrolled in Intermediate Reading course participated in this study. Due to the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, this class was switched into online learning. To gather the data, the content of participants' individual post will be analysed to know the depth of students' critical thinking based on Yang et al.'s (2005) model. In addition, both quantitative and qualitative analysis of students' post will be applied to measure ÿþthe effects of Socratic questioning on students' critical thinking in synchronous discussion in online learning. The result revealed that Socratic questions strategy were successfully improve students' depth of critical thinking.

This study analyses the used of euphemism and dysphemism in the Indonesian novel which is translated into English. The purpose of this study to find and to explain the used of those terms in the Rainbow Troops Novel by Andrea Hirata. In analysing, descriptive qualitative is used. The data collected through documentation and corpuses. The research revealed that there are a lot of forms and styles in the used of these two expressions. Moreover, this analysis has explained why people speech differently in different social context and by identifying the social function of social language and the way it is used to convey social meaning.

This study defines the characterization of the main character in the Beauty and the Beast movie in 2017 directed by Bill Condon. The main character in this movie is Belle, a daughter of Maurice who is an inventor in Villeneuve, a small town in France. The movie tells about a love story between the cursed prince who turns into a Beast and a beautiful village girl. This study aimed to find out the characterizations of Belle, the most dominant character in the movie. All characterization could be described through appearances, dialogues, personal descriptions, reactions of other characters, actions, and speeches. From the analysis, it is found that the protagonist Belle, not only described as kind, brave, smart, creative, assertive, and loyal but also, a free thinker loner who can be assertive and even judmental. Afterall, Belle the leading female character in Disney's Beauty the Beast, is one of the most beloved and recognized Disney princesses. She is beautiful, motivating, loving, and strong, just like her royal peers.DOI: 10.26905/enjourme.v6i1.6131