Collocation is a natural order of words in which one word should be attached to another in a particular context. For students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL students), using collocations has been recognized to become a problem. This article is going to describe EFL college students’ skill in using collocations in writing essays. 42 students from the same class were selected. They were the 4th semester students of English Education Study Program at Teacher Training and Education Faculty of UMRAH who took Essay Writing course in the academic year 2019/ 2020. The students were given a take-home assignment to write essays. Then, the essays were analyzed to find out the students’ skill in using collocations. It was found that in using collocation in writing essays, 5 students had excellent skill, 14 students had good skill, and 23 students had low skill. The incorrect use of collocations consisted of lexical and grammatical collocations. Finally, it is hoped that these findings could be a useful input for future Essay Writing course.

It cannot be denied that almost all aspects of human life are in gadgets. Gadgets are equipped with different types of applications that can make human activities more effective. Smart 3D hologram is one of the applications that can be downloaded and installed on a smartphone. Smart 3D Hologram is considered as the most advanced technology that gives several advantages in education such as helping teachers and students to view devices that cannot be seen in traditional teaching-learning, offering virtual teachers, and making teachers and students still connected. It also shows us the real-size object. This article intends to describe Smart 3D hologram, an innovative teaching tool for future education that can be used offline in students-parents’ smartphones in a virtual learning environment. It is hoped that smart 3D hologram can become a smart solution in facilitating students in learning during exigent circumstances.

This classroom action research was conducted in a State Islamic Junior High School in Tanjung Pinang at the 8th grade in academic year 2020-2021. The purpose of the research was to describe how mind mapping can improve students’ reading comprehension of descriptive texts. The participants of the research consisted of 27 students. To gather the research data, the researchers used observation and test. The test was administered three times (pre-test, post-test 1, and post-test 2). Then, the data got from the observation were analyzed qualitatively while those from test were analyzed quantitatively. The result of pre-test was 9 students (33,3%) scored ≥70. In the post-test first cycle, the score of 16 students (59,25%) was ≥70, and in the post-test cycle II, 20 students (74,1%) scored ≥70. The results of the tests showed that the number of students who got score ≥70 improved. Meanwhile, the result of the observation showed that the use of mind mapping was successful in improving students’ reading comprehension. The students became more interested and more motivated to learn. It showed that ≥70% of the students participated actively in the teaching and learning process. Therefore, it is recommended for teachers to use this technique to upgrade students’ learning achievement.

Writing is considered as a hard language skill for students. English teachers have been trying to find the effective way to enhance their students’ writing skill. One of them is providing feedback in students’ written work, also known as written Feedback. This article retrieved from the research on the effect of online written feedback through social media on students’ writing in SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang. This research aims to find out the effect of Online Written Feedback on students’ writing skill through social media Facebook at SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang. A pre-experimental design with one group pre-test-post-test was used in this research. There were 30 eleventh grade students of SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang as the sample of the research. This research used written assignment as its instrument. A pre-test is administered at the beginning of the research and followed by providing online written feedback on students’ writing personal letter as the treatment. A post-test was also conducted after the treatment. The pre-test and post test scores were analysed by using a paired sample t-test to answer the research hypothesis. This research showed that online written feedback did not significantly affect the students’ writing skill in SMAN 4 Tanjungpinang. There was a difference between the mean score of pre and post-test, from 83.07 to 85.70, but it was not significantly.

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