English Language and Education Spectrum

Welcome to the first volume of English Language and Education Spectrum (ELECTRUM), an academic journal of language education and applied linguistics. This journal is published by the English Education Department (EED) of Universitas Nasional Karangturi (UNKARTUR) located in Semarang, Indonesia. Universitas Nasional Karangturi is a new university founded in 2017 and the EED is also a new department starting its operation in 2018 under the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. The university vision is to become a crucible for outstanding entrepreneurship. To that end, the EED strives to develop English education programmes oriented towards the work place.

As a start, we have tried to do some research portraying the initial language competence of our new students in order to obtain useful information regarding their English profile so that the EED can take the necessary steps in developing the curriculum, syllabus, teaching materials and other resources. In this volume, we present five research articles addressing language knowledge and skills. Some other topics have been listed in our research agenda and, in the future, we would like to invite articles from colleagues working in the same field to submit papers that fit into certain themes. We will try our best to send call for papers/articles through different media to keep you posted.