Exploring activities, challenges, solutions, and skills of the Indonesian English professors in writing scholarly English articles in light of bloom’s digital taxonomy

Abstract

Indonesian English Professors’ (IEPs) phenomena in experiencing writing English articles for publication has low attention by researchers. This article discusses a pilot study exploring the activities, challenges, solutions, and skills of the IEPs in writing English articles for publication in the light of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy (BDT). The objectives are (1) to explore activity types, challenge types, solution types, and skill types; and (2) to cluster those types in light of the BDT. Three IEPs of ten accessible Indonesian higher education professors (IHEPs) from state and private universities in Indonesia participated using a purposive sampling technique and ethical clearance. The study employed mixed methods research with exploratory sequential design. The instruments were questionnaires in Google Forms and in-depth interviews, analyzed through criteria content analysis (CCA), triangulation, and member checking. The results show that (1) the tested instruments are reliable for gaining the expected data from the target respondents for further study; and (2) the analyzed data reflected the expected mini findings to cognitive, affective, and psychomotor (CAP) of the BDT in the level of low order to the high order of CAP. Further studies with a more considerable number of participants are essential to gain more solid findings.