The potential use of social media-supported learning in educational context, especially in English learning, is very great due to the massive number of social media users among the youth. Young people now tend to become very active users of social media and spend much of their time using social media. One of the social media actively used by them is video blog or Vlog. Educators should see this condition as an excellent opportunity to apply this media for improving students' speaking skill. It is expected that by employing this media, students will be more active in practicing their skill in English. Based on that consideration, this article will discuss about how Vlog can help students to improve their oral communication skill. This paper will explore about (1) Vlog description, (2) The significances of vlog for improving students' speaking skill, (3) How to apply this media in teaching and learning process, (4) Related research. By employing this media intelligently in English classroom, it is expected that the students' speaking ability will be improved.

The pandemic situation in the last two years has forced us to move almost all activities online, including our teaching and learning activities. This creates challenges for teachers to discover suitable techniques or media to motivate students to keep being active in online class interaction. One of the possible media that can be used is songs; a media which is already popular among the youths. This paper presented a data survey towards 107 female students aged 19-20 years old from one of the midwifery academies situated in Central Java, Indonesia. This study used an online questionnaire form. There were 18 items in the questionnaire and the data consisted of demographic data and students’ perception towards the use of songs for improving their skills in English. The data were presented in the percentage data and analyzed using descriptive explanation. The result showed that the students’ perception on songs as media for English online learning achieved positive perception on all items. Referring to this finding, teachers can consider using songs for English online learning in order to create an attractive and interactive online learning process.

The emergency remote learning due to COVID-19 pandemic and the government strategy to move the lesson into online mode make language learning technologies play an important role to help students achieving the goals of learning. WhatsApp application as one of learning media offers some benefits that can be utilized by the students and teachers to achieve this goal. This study aimed at knowing the midwifery and nursing students‘ perception on the use of WhatsApp as the media of English teaching and learning process in the context of Emergency Remote Learning (ERL). This paper presented data survey towards 183 students of nursing and midwifery departments at Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang. The instrument of this study was an online questionnaire designed based on the literature review and administered to the participants through class‘s WhatsApp Group. There were 25 items in the questionnaire and the content was conveyed the demographic data and students’ perception towards the use of WhatsApp application that helped them mastering four English language skills and components as well as getting scoring and feedback. The data were presented in the percentage data and analyzed using descriptive explanation. The finding showed that students’ perception on WhatsApp as learning media in English online learning in ERL context gained highly positive perception on all items. Based on this result, teachers can utilize all features on WhatsApp to design meaningful learning in the time of emergency remote teaching and learning.

Education and technology are becoming indispensable nowadays. The pandemic outbreak also hastens all things up. This also applies to the English teaching and learning process that should be done by using a hybrid learning system, which combines direct interaction and an online platform. Due to that condition, a suitable online-based learning media should be applied to support the process. Quizizz application is one of the learning media that can be considered to be employed since it has attractive features and design. The research described in this article was aimed to find out the level of the students’ satisfaction with the use of Quizizz for learning English. It also presented survey data about students’ perceptions on the use of the Quizizz application for English online learning. The population involved 68 students of the Health Promotion Study Program, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang. The data was collected by applying an online questionnaire form, presented in the form of percentage data, and analyzed by using a descriptive explanation. The results showed a high perception of the students on the use of Quizziz for English online learning which can be seen through the result of the survey that showed a high percentage of students’ satisfaction in regards to the application. Regarding the result of the study, it is recommended for teachers to consider utilizing this application to create meaningful and engaging online learning interactions.

The pandemic situation for the last two years has brought an abrupt change in our education system. Face-to-face learning at schools must be changed into a hybrid learning setting, where it combines direct teaching and learning processes with an online learning system. Teachers and students must adapt to the situation and problems related to this new situation start to occur. Ways to minimize the problems must be considered to be able to get the maximum result from the hybrid learning process. Based on the literature study conducted in this research, it has been proven that the Quizziz app can be one of the best alternatives for English hybrid learning.  This application provides attractive, interactive, and fun media for online learning especially the English subject, which makes it suitable be considered one of the best options in this emergency remote learning situation. Besides, the nature of this application is also suitable for the nature of today’s generation. This paper describes in detail why Quizziz are one of the best options to use in English online learning and how to get the most from them as well minimizing their disadvantages.