Learning activities should be conducted effectively to create conducive learning conditions to develop students’ creativity and their higher learning competence. Through conducting appropriate and effective learning activities, the learning objectives and learning competencies are easier to achieve. To create effective learning activities, teachers are required to have adequate understanding and competence in employing learning methods. This study aims to explore effective learning methods to create more creative learning activities for the students. This study found several alternative learning methods that can be utilized in the time of the new normal of covid-19 to continually improve the students’ competence. This study implies that teachers should continually expose themselves to various learning methods to establish conducive learning conditions in the classroom. ABSTRAKKegiatan pembelajaran harus dilakukan secara efektif untuk menciptakan kondisi pembelajaran yang kondusif untuk mengembangkan kreativitas dan kompetensi belajar siswa yang lebih tinggi. Melalui pelaksanaan kegiatan pembelajaran yang tepat dan efektif, tujuan pembelajaran dan kompetensi pembelajaran lebih mudah dicapai. Untuk menciptakan kegiatan pembelajaran yang efektif, guru dituntut memiliki pemahaman dan kompetensi yang memadai dalam menggunakan metode pembelajaran. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggali metode pembelajaran yang efektif untuk menciptakan kegiatan belajar yang lebih kreatif bagi siswa. Penelitian ini menemukan beberapa metode pembelajaran alternatif yang dapat dimanfaatkan pada masa new normal covid-19 untuk terus meningkatkan kompetensi siswa. Studi ini menyiratkan bahwa guru harus terus-menerus mengekspos diri mereka kedalam berbagai metode pembelajaran untuk membangun kondisi pembelajaran yang kondusif di dalam kelas.

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Many aspects of life have to be reorganized as an impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The application of physical distancing for the world of education forced the learning activities to be conducted through online systems. In the beginning, online learning was a highly difficult challenge for most educators, because they were unfamiliar with online learning and some of them were doubtful about the effectiveness of online learning. Consequently, many teachers implemented whatever learning strategies they thought to be effective to improve students’ learning achievement. This study explored effective learning strategies used by educators in Indonesia during the new normal era of Covid-19. This study used a mixed-method research design, and the data were collected by using a questionnaire and interviews. 216 respondents participated in this study consisting of university lecturers and schoolteachers. The collected data were then critically analysed, and the findings were described descriptively. This study revealed that educators mostly used online learning, blended learning, project-based learning, and limited face-to-face learning to continually enhance students’ learning competence. This study implies that teachers should creatively develop the existing teaching strategies to suit students’ learning conditions.

Penerjemahan saat ini sangat terbantu oleh hadirnya teknologi penerjemahan, baik mesin penerjemah otomatis maupun kamus online. Mesin-mesin penerjemah otomatis dapat dikatakan sangat mempermudah proses penerjemahan dengan fitur data base yang digunakan. Selain mesin penerjemah otomatis, kehadiran online dictionary pun sangat membantu dalam proses penerjemahan, terutama dalam proses pembelajarannya. Seringkali, mahasiswa beranggapan bahwa proses penerjemahan adalah proses yang sulit dan memakan waktu karena harus berhadapan dengan kamus manual. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan penggunaan online dictionary dalam membantu mahasiswa dalam pembelajaran penerjemahan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu deskriptif kualitatif dimana data-data kualitatif dijabarkan secara deskriptif. Data dikumpulkan melalui tes dan wawancara. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan online dictionary sangat membantu mahasiswa dalam pembelajaran penerjemahan walaupun memeiliki kendala dalam penggunaannya. Kesalahan penerjemahan yang kerap dilakukan mahasiswa mencakup kesalahan leksikal dan kesalahan gramatikal.

Reading comprehension is a very important language skill to support our life in many aspects. In education sectors, reading comprehension is an ability for the students to continually develop their skills in various subjects. Consequently, assessment of students' reading comprehension is absolutely essential to be conducted to systematically collect information and making inferences about the ability of a student or the quality of the learning process. This study revealed that students' reading comprehension is at a sufficient level and students still experienced some challenges in reading comprehension. This study implies that more intensive reading comprehension activities should be carried out and better learning strategies should be employed by the teachers in teaching reading comprehension.