English for Communication at Workplace: Teacher's Book

For 15 years, Ardianna has been teaching English at Language Centre, English Department of Faculty of Cultural Sciences, and English Diploma Study Program Vocational School of Universitas Sebelas Maret. Her passion and love of English, Linguistics and Translation sparked her ideas to produce a number of research articles on Systemic Functional Linguistics, Translation, Subtitling, American Pop Culture, and Community Service Activities in proceedings and journals. She released Bloom and Shine: A Primary English Book for a Bright Student for grade I – VI published by PT Tiga Serangkai Pustaka Mandiri in 2022-2024. She is also one of the authors of the books Voice Over Video Promosi Pariwisata Berbahasa Inggris, Memukau Khalayak dengan Buklet Promosi Pariwisata Dwibahasa, and Kamus Saku Peristilahan Keris: Terjemahan ke Bahasa Inggris. Ardianna is continuously devoting her life to education, especially industrial-driven vocational education, that is very dynamic, innovative, and up-to-date.

Known as Miss Sapta, she has been teaching English at the university for over 12 years, leading various classes such as English skills for specific purposes, translation, editing, and entrepreneurship at the Language Center, English Diploma Program, and English Department of Universitas Sebelas Maret. She also taught English, Literature, and Translation at Universitas Surakarta, Universitas Setia Budi, and Poltekkes Surakarta. Her passions lie in teaching, translation, linguistics, literature, and tourism, and she has authored academic articles in line with her research and community service activities. Actively collaborating with the Language Development and Fostering Agency (Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa) of the Republic of Indonesia, Miss Sapta contributes to children’s story translation, with her works available on Penjaring website. She likes to share her thoughts and experiences through seminars and workshops on translating children’s stories, academic articles, and other types of texts, as well as English for specific purposes such as tourism and creative writing. She has collaborated with her colleagues and produced some books, including Voice Over Video Promosi Pariwisata Berbahasa Inggris, Memukau Khalayak dengan Buklet Promosi Pariwisata Dwibahasa, Kamus Saku Peristilahan Keris: Terjemahan ke Bahasa Inggris, The Master of TOEIC, Toilet Lantai 13, Semoga Kebahagiaan Tidak Pernah Ada, and Dongeng Fabel Pilihan. She also translated a phenomenal book Brigitte Bardot dan Sindrom Lolita and is actively involved as a board member of the Association of Indonesian Translators (HPI) for 2020-2024. She is a passionate lifelong learner who thrives on challenges and is always seeking opportunities to grow.

Bayu, majoring in English Linguistics and Translation, has been an English teaching staff of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) for approximately 8 years. He was ever assigned to teach classes of English for Academic Purposes at UNS Language Centre before joining English Diploma Program Vocational School of the university. Being active in the Research Group of English for Vocational Purposes, he has written some articles and become one of book writers entitled Voice Over Video Promosi Pariwisata Berbahasa Inggris and Memukau Khalayak dengan Buklet Promosi Pariwisata Dwibahasa. For translation fields, he handled Legal Translation and Subtitling courses. The scope of legal text covers agreement texts but in a small scale. He is also interested in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). He scrutinized the significance of ergativity (extra causer) in detective novel for his disertation. In the result, he managed to contribute in providing a new theory that relates to ergativity. SFL and translations alway intrigues him to conduct more research and very welcome to the rapid development of technology.