The increasing number of foreign companies offering job vacancies in Indonesia is a blessing for new graduates. However, they could not use the opportunity due to their limited English skill. This condition may occur because there is a lack of human resource providing direct, gradual, and continuous assistance to improve their English skills. Nowadays, social media are very popular among various groups of people but they are mostly used for information exchanges. This study aims to develop an application inside Facebook as an English learning media to help students learn English more efficiently. This application is in the form of a Chatbot (an answering robot) as a substitute for a teacher to help those who have difficulties in learning English. The Chatbot integrated in the social media is expected to provide an easier adoption as the users are already familiar with its interface and navigation. This application has been applied to students of Telkom Vocational High School Malang and D3 English Study Program, State Polytechnic of Malang. With this application, students can learn English independently and utilize a rich collection of information and organized exercise items to get help or find more challenges whenever needed to avoid learning boredom.

Bagi sebagian kalangan belajar bahasa Inggris adalah sesuatu yang tidak mudah sehingga perlu pendamping untuk memperbaiki jika terjadi kesalahan. Belajar bahasa Inggris bisa diawali dengan memahami secara benar strukturnya sehingga dapat membantu dan  memberikan rasa percaya ciri saat mempelajari materi-materi selanjutnya seperti reading, listening maupun writing. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengembangkan suatu aplikasi chatbot untuk belajar struktur bahasa Inggris menggunakan media sosial. Pertimbangan utama penggunaan media sosial sebagai sarana pembelajaran yaitu sebagian besar aktifitas masyarakat hingga pelajar di musim pandemic ini menggunakan media sosial atau sarana belajar berbasis online, sehingga dirasa bahwa media sosial bukan sesuatu yang baru bagi khalayak ramai dan menjadi alternatif terbaik yang dapat digunakan sebagai sarana untuk menyampaikan materi struktur bahasa Inggris. Facebook dengan fasilitas chatfuel-nya digunakan untuk mengembangkan chatbot pembelajaran struktur bahasa Inggris dengan memanfaatkan metode Organization Exercise Items (OEI). Dengan menggunakan metode OEI maka chatbot secara otomatis akan memberikan bantuan apabila ada seseorang yang sedang belajar mengalami kesulitan. Aplikasi yang diberi nama ELA-bot atau English Learning Assistant Bot ini telah diimplementasikan pada mahasiswa program studi D3 Bahasa Inggris, Politeknik Negeri Malang. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa 98% mahasiswa menyatakan chatbot telah membantu dalam proses pembelajaran struktur Bahasa inggris.

Despite its prominent role, university students encounter problems in progressing themselves in learning English. The situation gets worse when the allocated time of learning English in the classroom is not adequate. Several solutions can be proposed including the use of appropriate teaching and learning strategies as well as the implementation of autonomous learning. This study was aimed at developing a mobile phone application for autonomous learning of English. This study employed design and development research method, which was a product and tool research. Respondents were 166 students of State Polytechnic of Malang. Research methods used included questionnaires, interviews, and focus group discussions. Findings in the preliminary study showed that respondents needed additional time to learn English while mobile phones and computers were believed to be the most effective media. Findings from the field test revealed that the developed English mobile learning was considered interesting, motivating and useful to improve English.

One effort considered quite effective in assisting vocabulary mastery and facilitating understanding of English texts is the provision of a bilingual glossary (English-Indonesian). This glossary becomes more essential especially for non-English Department students because basically English for Specific Purposes has a higher level of difficulty than general English. This study was a design and development research, with a product cluster and research tool. There were four main stages undergone, namely preliminary study, product development, expert validation, and field-testing. The research subjects were students and lecturers in seven departments of both commerce and engineering schools at State Polytechnic of Malang. Instruments of data collection used were questionnaires, interviews, and focused group discussion. The output of the study is an android application of bilingual E-Glossary of English for Specific Purposes. There were seven fields of glossary, each of which consists of vocabulary in English, the translation or description in Indonesian language, along with example sentences in two languages. Pictures are also displayed for easy understanding of the vocabulary. Field testing proves that the E-Glossary application is quite effective in helping users in comprehending English texts better. The application is also considered attractive, easy to use, and easy to understand.

Kemampuan berbicara mahasiswa dalam bahasa asing – dalam hal ini  bahasa Jepang – menjadi salah satu tolok ukur keberhasilan mahasiswa tersebut dalam menguasai bahasa Jepang. Penguasaan kosakata menjadi komponen penting untuk menguasai keterampilan berbicara. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui korelasi antara penguasaan kosakata dan kemampuan berbicara bahasa Jepang mahasiswa Jurusan Administrasi Niaga Politeknik Negeri Malang. Populasi pada penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa Program Studi D-III Administrasi Bisnis Jurusan Administrasi Niaga Politeknik Negeri Malang kelas IIA, IIB, dan IIC semester 4. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik sampling jenuh dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 83 responden. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan instrumen berbetuk tes tertulis dan wawancara. Analisis data menggunakan uji statistik korelasi Pearson (Product Moment Correlation). Uji statistik korelasi Pearson menghasilkan koefisien korelasi sebesar 0,612. Nilai ini menunjukkan adanya korelasi yang positif dan signifikan antara penguasaan kosakata dan kemampuan berbicara bahasa Jepang mahasiswa Jurusan Administrasi Niaga Politeknik Negeri Malang. Hasil penelitian juga menunjukkan responden belum menguasai bentuk lampau kopula dan kata kerja bahasa Jepang.