This study investigated the levels of CT of undergraduate students. Methods: Employing the mix-method design and two instruments (1)Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and (2) interview, the study involved 352 students who are in the first year of their study. Findings: Related to CTS, it showed that most of the students can determine the answer correctly in terms of (1) Deduction 63.07%; (2) Arguments 62.16%; (3) Interpreting information 59,92%; (4) Assumptions 50,19%; and (5) Inferences 37.15%. In sum, only 54.40% of students in their first year indicate low CT ability. It is in line with the results of the interview which postulates that 57% of the students do not really understand what and how to improve their CTS and they need some help to improve it. Conclusion:The University should provide learning and activities which can increase their CTS, especially the inferencing dimension.Abstrak: Tingkat Berpikir Kritis Mahasiswa S1 di Universitas Brawijaya. Tujuan: Penelitian ini menyelidiki tingkat berpikir kritis mahasiswa S1. Metode: Menggunakan desain penelitian campuran dan dua instrument (1) Penilaian Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking dan (2) wawancara, penelitian ini melibatkan 352 mahasiwa yang sedang berada di tahun pertama studi mereka. Temuan: Terkait keterampilan berpikir kritis, penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar mahasiswa dapat menentukan jawaban dengan benar dalam (1) Pengambilan kesimpulan 63.07%; (2) Argumentasi 62.16%; (3) Menginterpretasi informasi 59.92%; (4) Asumsi 50.19%; dan (5) Inferensi, 37.15%. Secara keseluruhan, hanya 54,40% mahasiswa tahun pertama yang menunjukkan kemampuan berpikir kritis rendah. Sejalan dengan hasil wawancara yang menyatakan bahwa 57% mahasiswa tidak begitu memahami apa dan bagaimana cara meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis dan mereka membutuhkan bantuan untuk meningkatkannya. Kesimpulan: Universitas seharusnya menyediakan pembelajaran dan aktifitas-aktifitas yang dapat membantu meningkatkan CTS mahasiswa, terutama dimensi inferensi.

<p class="AbstractText"><em>This study explored the use of direct corrective feedback in the Thesis Proposal writing course where the students are expected to develop their undergraduate thesis proposal at Universitas Brawijaya and how direct corrective feedback can help the students to deal with their academic writing. The data were obtained from six students who have taken the Thesis Proposal Writing course and one lecturer who taught the course using two instruments: an interview guide and observation checklists to triangulate and ensure the validity. The result showed that: (1) direct corrective feedback was employed by the teachers to help the students to deal with their writing because direct corrective feedback was the most suitable and comprehensive feedback  (2) the lecturer provided direct corrective feedback through Google Classroom and Google Documents for asynchronous meeting and Google Meet for synchronous meeting (3) Direct corrective feedback helped the students to deal with their writing since the students had high positive attitude and is preferred by the students  to revise their drafts. In teaching writing, the result implied that it will be very beneficial for the teacher to provide direct corrective feedback to the students as teaching strategies and the students to correct their drafts easily.</em></p>

The tourism development in Malang thematic villages is still not supported by the quality of the tourism doers. Based on the data from Kelompok Sadar Wisata in Kampoeng Heritage Kayoetangan, many tourism workers who also the front-liners are  still not mastering the foreign language, especially English. This reality will influence the service quality for the foreigner. The best solution to this problem is by having English for Tourism and Hospitality workshop which assists them to provide better service. The theme for the workshop were English for Culinary and Hospitality.This topic was chosen based on the people’s need. Many tourism workers in this place own food stalls, yet they do not know how to speak English well to promote the products. This workshop was conducted in August-September 2019 and 20 people participated. The participants learnt the theory of Hospitality in English and practiced it within eight meetings. This community service was conducted based on the agreement of Faculty of Cultural Studies Universitas Brawijaya (FIB UB) and  Malang Department of Culture and Tourism.

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<p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-AU">This study aims at investigating the phenomena of vocabulary strategies used by gamers of the Harvest Moon game. A survey study was conducted to see the most and the least frequent strategies used by the gamers while playing the game. To gain the data, the researcher distributed a questionnare which is adapted from the Schmitt’s taxonomy of VLS namely determination, social (discovery), social (consolidation), cognitive, memory, and metacognitive strategies. The result of the present study shows that the most frequent strategy used is cognitive strategy, the mean is 2.28 which indicates that most of the gamers use this strategy to improve their vocabulary learning. Meanwhile, the least strategy used is the social startegy since the mean score is 1.07 which suggests that the gamers do not really seek help from friends when they have problems with vocabulary. Taking the result of the study into the learning of vocabulary, it is suggested that teachers provide language learners with the cognitive strategy to accomodate their vocabulary learning, so that they can enhance their vocabulary.</span></p>