Teaching writing is one skill that is taught by English teacher in school. It became important skill that student have to master writing skill. The researcher chooses Descriptive Text, because it is one of type text to describe something such as place, animal, people and things. The researcher use social media of “Instagram” to teach student in writing descriptive text to improve students writing ability. The researcher use experimental research in quantitative method which two classes as experimental and control group. The sample of the data is taken from Barunawati Junior High School students.  The researcher use snowball sampling. The result has been calculated by using SPSS 20.0. The result showed that teaching writing descriptive text using social media“Instagram” to improve students writing ability is effective.

As far as the researcher’s knowledge, the analysis of “The Effectiveness of Inside-Outside Circle Method  by Using Cue Card for Students’ Speaking Ability” is still difficult to find, the researcher formulates the  statement of the research, Inside-Outside Circle method is effective for student’s speaking ability. The objective of research is to find out whether Inside-Outside Circle method can be effectively for students’ speaking ability. This research uses experimental design. The subject are 7B grade as experimental group and 7C as controlled group at SMP Muhammadiyah 11 Surabaya, this sample is taken by snowball sampling. The data collection uses test (pre-test and post-test) as intrument to measure the result of students. The results of the research will be counted using T-test statistic with𝛼= 0.05. The result of the the study is gotten that Tcount = 6.059 and Ttable is 2.007. It means that H0push away and H1 is accepted. From the results, it can be summarized that the use of Inside-Outsied Circle by using cue card is effective for students’ speaking ability at seventh graders.

Research has shown that the initial few years of children’s lives are the best times for language to develop at a rapid pace, the first language (L1) or a foreign language (FL) may be acquired these times. Researches on preschoolers FL acquisition with home-based intervention (HBI) have not been studied extensively under the L1 environment. This study aims to examine the results of HBI on the development of the acquisition of Indonesian preschoolers’ English as a Foreign Language (EFL) sentences. This research is a case study with naturalistic observation design, where data were obtained from logbooks and interview. The research subjects were 2 preschoolers about 36 months. The study’s duration was 24 months from the 13th until the 36th month with HBI, namely parents-based and authentic/semi authentic-media intervention. The data were the children’s English sentences taken at 24th to 36th months at their own homes. The Owens’ acquisition of sentence forms measured the English sentences’ development of in the respondents’ conversation and self-narration. This research found that at about 36th month, these Indonesian preschoolers were able to communicate in English in various sentences such as declarative, negative, interrogative, imperative, embedded and conjoining. HIGHLIGHTS: Simultaneous foreign language learning and first language acquisition for children is tangible advantage. Authentic input and active interaction act as the language environment substitute in foreign language learning. Intensive learning makes preschoolers speak a foreign language earlier.

English teacher is one of the main factors to students to master English. Their competencies will lead them into professional teachers.  Aiming to know the correlation between pedagogical and English skills of the pre-service teacher to their willingness to be teachers, this research uses an explanatory correlation design. Documents of pedagogical competence and English skills score and questionnaire are the instruments of the research. The result of the analysis shows that there is a significant correlation between pre-service pedagogical competence and their willingness to be teachers. Meanwhile, there is no correlation between pre-service English skills and their willingness to be. Then, there is no correlation between pre-service pedagogical competence and English skill together with their willingness to be teachers. However, from the findings, it can be concluded that pre-service teachers’ pedagogical competence affects their willingness to be teachers, that pre-service teacher is suggested to master teacher competencies to increase their willingness to be teacher especially pedagogical competence.

This study analyzes the metaphor in Malcolm X's speech entitled The Black Revolution. The method used is qualitative descriptive method using the theory of Lakoff and Johnson (2003) and strengthened by the theory of Saeed (2005) in describing the characteristics contained in the metaphor. This analysis aims to identify the metaphors contained in Malcolm X's speech. The Black Revolution explains how oppression and injustice have been accepted by the black community in America over the years. The results of the research are Structural, Orientation, and Ontological metaphors. The most dominant metaphor used in speech is structural metaphor. Then there are the characteristics of Conventional, Systematic, Asymmetric, and Abstraction. The most dominant characteristic in speech is the systematic one.