The aims of the study were to investigate English teachers’ questioning strategies at one Madrasah in Palembang, South Sumatera. The qualitative research method with a case study approach was employed to look at the ways of the English teachers’ questioning strategies in the processes of teaching and learning and the reasons that made them use certain questioning strategies. The participants in this study were English teachers. We used observation and interviews as our data collection techniques. The observation was used to look at the teacher’s questioning types used in the daily practices of teaching in the EFL classroom while the interview was used to understand the reasons that made them use those types of questioning strategies. Our findings showed three types of teacher’s questioning strategies used by teachers in their teaching and learning processes including convergent, divergent, and procedural questions. Teachers mostly used convergent questions (yes/no and short answers). We also found five reasons why teachers preferred to those types of questioning strategies including recalling students’ understanding, attracting students’ attention, increasing students’ thinking in higher order level, and engaging students in learning activities. Implications and recommendations are also discussed.

Indonesia is preparing to enter the era of Society 5.0 where all aspects of life are interconnected without space and time limitations. Students in Islamic boarding schools must also have the competence to communicate, to think critically, and to collaborate on projects. It is important for the younger generation to improve their public speaking competence so that they can express their critical and creative thoughts in front of others. This study is a descriptive qualitative study and the data are collected by observations. This study aims to describing how to train students’ public speaking skill through drilling method. The samples as well as subjects of this study were 28 students. Public speaking training was conducted for a month using the drilling method at the Tahfidz Takhasus Daarul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School Palembang. The drill method was carried out in seven steps namely association, objectives and core material delivery, motivation, practices, demonstration, evaluation, and program follow-up. The training was carried out by introducing the material through lectures and discussions, and was continued with the drilling method to train the students' rhetorical or speech competence in public. Students demonstrated public speaking in English, Arabic and Indonesian. The advice given to the training participants is to maximize training in public speaking, especially making speeches in various languages so that they can be used when engaging in society.Indonesia is preparing to enter the era of Society 5.0 where all aspects of life are interconnected without space and time limitations. Students in Islamic boarding schools must also have the competence to communicate, to think critically, and to collaborate on projects. It is important for the younger generation to improve their public speaking competence so that they can express their critical and creative thoughts in front of others. This study is a descriptive qualitative study and the data are collected by observations. This study aims to describing how to train students’ public speaking skill through drilling method. The samples as well as subjects of this study were 28 students. Public speaking training was conducted for a month using the drilling method at the Tahfidz Takhasus Daarul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School Palembang. The drill method was carried out in seven steps namely association, objectives and core material delivery, motivation, practices, demonstration, evaluation, and program follow-up. The training was carried out by introducing the material through lectures and discussions, and was continued with the drilling method to train the students' rhetorical or speech competence in public. Students demonstrated public speaking in English, Arabic and Indonesian. The advice given to the training participants is to maximize training in public speaking, especially making speeches in various languages so that they can be used when engaging in society.

The aim of this study was to find out the correlation between the students' listening comprehension strategy and their TOEIC listening score. Correlational study was used as the research design in this study. The samples were 77 students of the 6 th semester at English Department of Sriwijaya State Polytechnic Palembang. Listening Comprehension Strategy Questionnaire and Computer-Based Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) International Test were used as the instruments in collecting the data. The results of the study showed that most students had Good (49%) and Average (48%) Listening comprehension Strategy and most students got level 3 (the highest level) for TOEIC listening score (51%). The Pearson-Product Moment Correlation Coefficient showed that there was a negative and not significant correlation between the students' listening comprehension strategy and their TOEIC listening score.

This research was aimed at designing a video script to promote three Chinese temples in Palembang. In this study, the writers used the research and development (R&D) method. The writers conducted five steps of the R&D method: 1) Preliminary investigation; 2) Designing; 3) Realization/construction; 4) Testing, revising, and evaluation; 5) Implementation [6]. The writers implemented these steps by designing the product. The data were collected from documentation, observation and interview in the preliminary investigation step. In the designing step, the writers arranged the structure and content of the script and made it become the first draft as a realization step. In the testing, revising and evaluating step, the draft of the video script regarding the language, structure of sentences, and the content of the script was revised by several experts starting from tourism, linguistics, and script writing experts. In the last step, the writers made it become the final script. The script was written in English by using Celtx as the software for writing the script. The script described the uniqueness and the long history of three Chinese temples in Palembang. In addition, to design a script, the R&D method [6] was linked to the ten steps of writing a script: finding an idea, creating a plan, researching, selecting material, planning the message, arranging the structure, drafting the script, first draft and testing script, and final draft [7].