Mr. Ling (Chairil Anwar Korompot) THESIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I quote this thesis acknowledgement, because he is my Favorite  lecturer when I was on my undergraduate study at UNM and I want to read it again and again.

here is the acknowledgement.

Chairil Anwar Korompot

 MY THESIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all, I would like to thank my supervisors, Dr. Zifirdaus Adnan (Pak Zi) and Dr. Elizabeth M. Ellis (Ibu Liz) for their support, patience, encouragement, and guidance. I cannot thank them enough for everything both of them have done for me.

For the financial assistance I was so lucky to receive, I would like to thank the Indonesian Government for its Dikti Scholarship, the Keith and Dorothy McKay Scholarship for the fieldwork funding, and Dr. Syahrul Yasin Limpo, Governor of South Sulawesi Province, for the financial assistance from his Overseas Doctorate Scholarship Program. My heartfelt gratitude goes to the School of Arts (SoA) and the School of Behavioural, Cognitive, and Social Sciences (BCSS) at UNE for the facilities, funding for conferences, and annual allowances.

I am grateful to the Rector of the State University of Makassar (UNM), Prof. Dr. Aries Munandar, M.Pd., for granting me study leave. I would like to thank my friends and colleagues at SoA and BCSS for their friendship and encouragement all these years. All UNE staff, particularly Ms. Gill Willis and Ms. Rhonda Brown, have also been very supportive to me—thanks a lot. Many thanks as well to Ms. Vicki Knox for her excellent proof-reading.

My very special thanks goes to the 66 teachers in Makassar, Padang, and Malang, and the 32 key informants in the three cities and Jakarta for their invaluable contribution to this project. In particular, I am indebted to Prof. Andi Qashas Rahman, Prof. Eko Hadi Sujiono, and Pak Iskandar Daeng Ma’kio in Makassar; Prof. Muhammad Zaim, Ibu Desvalini Anwar, and Dinda Diki Atmarizon in Padang; Mas Moeh. Arief and Mas Agus Supriyadi in Malang; and Bang Muhammad Desril in Jakarta. I am also grateful to my colleague Pak Muh. Hasbi and his CLS-UNM team for helping me with the transcription of most of the recordings.

A special thanks goes to Dr. Richard Torbay, NSW State Member of Parliament for the Northern Tablelands and Chancellor of UNE, for making it possible for my children to attend local schools—it was like another scholarship for my family.

I am also grateful to my dear friends Ibu Dawn Fletcher, Ibu Leola Gilliland, Ms. Marie Wall, Mr. Vinko Patelis, and all the Bistro on Cinders staff (especially Mary, Chéfs Ness and Dave, Paul, Sam, and Harrison) for their friendship and ongoing support. My English teacher at SMA Muhammadiyah Kotamobagu, Ibu Rumondor, deserves my big thanks for the inspiration she gave me over 24 years ago which has led me to the teaching profession, further studies, the Land Down Under, and this thesis. Sukur moanto’, enci’.

Last but not least, I thank my wife and best friend, Mursalina Syamsuddin Gp. (Nina) and our two daughters, Adelaida and Ginamorinda Korompot for their patience and support in difficult times. To them I dedicate this thesis first and foremost. Upoji ki’.