Social media is a part of modern people lifestyle in Industrial Revolution 4.0. Furthermore, it has started to be utilized in education field as one of the learning media, for example, Instagram. It is widely known among social media users. Several studies have proved positive impacts on the use of social media in developing students' English skills. However, the studies about Instagram, specifically in relation to English lesson at schools are limited. Thus, using a case study method, this study is conducted to describe the use of Instagram to develop students' motivation and to enhance their English knowledge and skills. The participants are students in an Indonesian school of Jeddah. They come from various background yet they are lack of motivation. Results indicate Instagram has succeeded in motivating students to learn English and improving their English competence. The materials preferred are those relate to grammar, vocabulary, and writing.
Research Article (RA) abstract in journals has been a popular topic of study in recent years. Several studies compared abstracts from various areas and journals
Four C skills’ integration in English curriculum has been investigated in recent years. Unfortunately, those studies focused on the integration of 4Cs in lesson plans carried out in elementary schools. Thus, this research aimed to analyze how the 4C skills were implemented in English lesson plans of 7th grade. The data were collected through content analysis on ten lesson plans of public and private junior high schools in Jakarta and Bekasi. It was found that all analyzed lesson plans have incorporated the 4Cs skills; communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. However, there were indicators of each skill that more dominantly appeared in a certain topic or were seen not to be incorporated in any examined lesson plans. In addition, teachers mostly incorporated the 4Cs skills in the learning activity and assessment. Although all the analyzed lesson plans have integrated 4Cs, the fulfilment of the indicators of each skill still needed to be improved. These findings are expected to be a recommendation for educators especially English teachers in designing lesson plans which integrated the 4C skills as the keys to a lifetime of learning and creative work as the current world of work is required leads to the need for integration of 4Cs in the classroom.
The teaching and learning strategies in the context of ICT implementation in EFL Class are considered as the important aspect to encourage the improvement of students English performance. The current research aims to investigate the teaching and learning strategies on Genre Based Approach in Indonesian EFL Class. This research was conducted in urban area at Indonesian School of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A case study was utilized in this research which used questionnaire, observation, and interview as techniques for collecting data. This study found that students' learning strategy is mostly cognitive strategy, and other strategies also employed such as social strategy, affective strategy and metacognitive strategy. This research also found that active learning was considered dominant strategy of teaching.
This study was conducted to investigate the solutions to English teaching and learning problems at senior high schools in teachers’ classroom action research reports. The methodology of this study was a content analysis of the problems and solutions in teachers’ classroom action research reports. The data were the problems and teachers’ solutions in the English teaching and learning at senior high school in teachers’ classroom action research reports. The data sources were thirty-one reports of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and lexicogrammar. This study found that the teachers utilized various technique or method to solve the problems in four skills and lexicogrammar (such as, quartet cards, jigsaw, a series of pictures, etc.), even though they had similar problems. There were two solutions in listening problems, eleven solutions in speaking problems, eight solutions in reading problems, six solutions in writing problems, and one solution in lexicogrammar problem. Furthermore, there were reports which had different problems-similar solutions (the use of quartet cards in speaking), and similar problems-similar solutions (the use of jigsaw in reading and the use of series of pictures in writing).
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