For many reasons, the use of scoring rubrics has acquired more attention. However, the number of studies investigating the perception and the writing performance as well as the relationship between those two variables in the use of rubric is limited. Therefore, by involving 27 students in Writing-class of an English Language Education Department at a particular university in Indonesia, the present study aimed to explore the students' perceptions through surveys and their writing performance in the three different situations in which they had no scoring rubric, generate their own scoring rubric and had teachermade scoring rubric prior to the writing tasks. Also, the study was intended to explore how the students perceived the three situations related to their writing performance. After analyzing the data, it was found that the most helpful situation for the students was the second situation. It also helped the students to achieve the higher score compared to the other two situations. However, there was a contradictory finding in which the students' perception and their performance were negatively correlated.

<p>Folklore in Indonesian language learning is an interesting object of study to discuss. Due to the lack of students’ knowledge about folklore, requires an application that can help and facilitate students in learning folklore. Therefore, this study aims to describe the Citra (Cerita Rakyat) Applications to facilitate the identification of folklore elements in fifth-grade elementary school students in Malang. This research uses the descriptive percentage method. The research population in this study were fifth grade students from SD Muhammadiyah 1 Malang, SD Muhammadiyah 4 Malang, SD Muhammadiyah 6 Malang, and SDN 1 Tlogomas. There are 40 students in total from the four elementary schools used as research samples taken by simple random sampling technique. Data collection techniques used interviews and surveys. The data analysis technique used is descriptive analysis. The results of the study show that (1) the application of the Citra <ins cite="mailto:Aninda%20Hima" datetime="2021-12-08T15:10">to</ins> facilitate the identification of folklore elements in Indonesian language learning<ins cite="mailto:Fina%20Fakhriyah" datetime="2021-10-19T06:52">,</ins> and (2) the existence of the Citra Application can also act as a learning medium that can provide benefits for students.</p>