Fernandes Arung
@un-sultra.ac.id
Faculty of Teacher and Education
Universitas Sulawesi Tenggara
Fernandes is an Indonesian lecturer and researcher who has dedicated his life to education. His influences on the education thoughts making him more confident to improve Indonesian education. He is active in writing and researching and some books and journals were published. That is why he is assigned as the national and international editor and reviewer.
EDUCATION
Ph.D at the State University of Jakarta (Universitas Negeri Jakarta)
Master's Degree at the State University of Makassar (Universitas Negeri Makassar)
Bachelor Degree at the STKIP - YPUP MAKASSAR
Diploma at the Atmajaya Academy of Foreign Languages
RESEARCH INTERESTS
TEFL, Language Philosophy, SLA, Language Education, Education, Educational Technology, and any Interdisciplinary.
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Scopus Publications
Fernandes Arung, Zainal Rafli, and Ratna Dewanti
Sciedu Press
Formal educational practitioners tend to neglect the students’ sense of liking; we labled as Preferent learning, in order to acquire certain skill in the learning foreign language, especially speaking skills. In general, so far, issues of formal learning with the focus on bounded academic rules, cognition, and motivation have been used as the main basis for the learning foreign language and even learning in general. In fact, the individual learning, language community, social change, and sopihisticated technology need to be considered in how students acquire the skills they want based on their preferences. By investigating how the University students in Kolaka learned and improved their English speaking skills, we applied a Grounded study that involved 10 informants who were the students and alumni of the English Language Education Study Program of the University X in Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. All data were collected 12 times in 3 stages then were analyzed using three steps of Strauss and Corbin's analysis that applied theoretical sampling and constant comparison in generating the substantive theory. The findings revealed that the informants acquired the English speaking skills because of a sense of liking or preference toward any topic to learn. Further, they prefer to learn in an unpredictable ways without any rules and an informal self-evaluation were applied as a way in sustaining the skills.