A crucial but often neglected, the sequential organization of advice giving in supervision and the role of power, are believed to mediate the students’ research outcome and their well-being. Dealing with the complexities of advice-giving and power dynamics in discourse, this study utilized text mining to analyze supervisor’s advice-giving and their power in recorded-conversation during research supervision. Conversation Analysis (CA) and text mining, particularly Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) were combined to explore a contextualised picture of supervisors’ advice-giving and reveal how power was contested. Data from recorded-conversation between supervisors and students from five Indonesian universities were collected and examined. Findings showed that advice-giving were affected by cultural differences and institutional context. Additionally, hierarchical power relations involved in advice-giving captured a unique interpersonal relationship and personal positioning which mediated the students’ well-being to finalize their research. This study practically contributes to provide text analytics of advice giving utterances and the role of power involved to Indonesian pedagogical research supervisory interaction.

Authors:
Elok Putri Nimasari, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Indonesia
Bambang Harmanto, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Indonesia
Adi Fajaryanto Cobantoro, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Indonesia

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Elok Putri Nimasari is currently the Head of the English Education Study Program, Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo, Indonesia. Recently, she is leading research grants from Indonesian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology 2025.

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