Historically, the immigrant has been living and interacting with Makassar people and others in Makassar since 2014 until today. These interactions result unique way of how these immigrant use language to communicate. This article mainly aimed to describe how was the language used among immigrant in Makassar. The data were collected through observation by recording the conversation and interviewing some of the participants to confirm how and why they used certain dialect during the conversation. These interactions by using some language variation or dialects can be called a language contact situation. In their early presence that immigrant used English (Eng) and Indonesia language (IL) formally to communicate with IOM staff, UNHCR staff, among immigrant, and out of them, but when they have access to live for a while in Makassar, they interact with Makassar people freely and they use various languages such as Makassar language (ML), Indonesian language by Makassar Malay  language (MML) as the trend of Makassar dialect, or sometimes used English as their language code. MML was mostly used compared to other language by those immigrants in some public area in Makassar. The using of MML by immigrant was a linguistic adaptation to the target language.

The essence of language is human activity. Communication with language is carried out through two basic human activities; speaking and listening during the interaction in a group of people. Immigrants in Makassar city communicate with immigrant communities and Makassar people. They used English and Indonesia to communicate with others. The aims of this article were to find out determinant factors of English as language choice among Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UMC) in Makassar and why they used English as their language choice to communicate with other people out of them. The data were taken from UMC in the shelter under the auspices of Makassar’s Social Office and in the public area of Makassar. This research was a qualitative approach; it was from a sociolinguistic perspective and focuses its analysis with the language choice among UMC. This research showed that most immigrants chose English as their language choice since they were in Makassar because they have acquired better than other international language and it has been mastered naturally by doing social interaction among themselves and people outside their community. UMC had more difficulties to socialize with Indonesian than the adult of Immigrants. Other than their lack of language mastery, they also have the anxiety to adapt to other immigrants and Makassar people. English was used by UMC to show their status as a foreigner who lived in a multicultural situation. Language becomes a power for a human being and it becomes a social identity for language user in one community. During the interaction of UMC in Makassar city, the role of English as an International language is shown.

Kementerian Pendidikan Indonesia mengadakan kompetisi lomba debat Bahasa Indonesia (LDBI) dan Nasional Schools Debating Championship (NSDC) setiap tahunnya.  Kompetisi ini merupakan arena untuk menunjukkan keterampilan dan kreativitas dalam berdebat di banyak bidang pengetahuan tentang isu-isu global terkini dengan dukungan pemikiran kritis, keterampilan analitis, dan logika untuk dapat mengembangkan potensi global dan keseimbangan dalam semua aspek intelektual. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk mendampingi dan melatih debat bahasa inggris dengan metode Krieger siswa SMAN 2 Majene. Dalam metode Krieger ada 6 unit. Keenam unit tersebut adalah introduction to debate, supporting your opinion, debate structure, predicting and refuting the other team’s arguments, judging and final practice dan terakhir adalah the debate. Berdasarkan hasil evaluasi selama kegiatan siswa, siswa lebih berpikiran terbuka tentang masalah, meningkatkan komunikasi siswa, siswa membuat kerangka terlebih dahulu sebelum berbicara, meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa, membantu siswa dalam memperluas kosa kata bahasa Inggris, meningkatkan kepercayaan diri siswa dalam berbicara bahasa Inggris

Language contact is a verbal communication interaction at the same place and time. The phenomenon of language contact can be found in the city of Makassar, both the people of South Sulawesi themselves and immigrant groups from various Middle Eastern countries, where the city of Makassar is used as a temporary area before visiting the destination countries, namely Australia, Canada and America. Seeing the volume of immigrants from 2014 to 2019 living in Makassar, of course every day they interact with the people of Makassar City. The purpose of this article is to describe the use of language for immigrants in interacting with the people of Makassar. The method used is the method of observation and interviews. From the observations it was found that the use of English was only used to interact formally both to UNHCR officers, IOM staff, and to Makassar residents who greeted them in English, Indonesian was also used formally, but in daily interactions a variation of Makassar Malay was used ( BMM) such as when buying, selling, exercising, and other social adaptations. The use of BMM indicates that it is an adaptation effort for language and culture made by immigrant groups to be socially accepted in the Makassar city environment.

This research aims to describe the optimization of online learning method through the application of Google Classroom to the students and to find out their responses after using Google Classroom as online learning method. This research had taken participant from English Education Department undergraduate students of 2017 and 2018 which consist of 4 classes that never experienced online learning method before, specifically 101 participants. This research used descriptive qualitative method. Technique of collecting data used in this research is through observation and questionnaire. The result of this research shows that after applying Google Classroom to the students in sharing information or materials, communicating and discussing, submitting assignment, quiz and mid-test, researcher found out that majority of the students in English Education department of Sulawesi Barat University were helped and satisfied with Google Classroom application as online learning method specifically, in assignment submission which were considered simple and paperless.   .