This study is aimed at finding out the level of speaking anxiety experienced by a group of pre-service English teachers at a university in Indonesia and investigating the factors contributing to their speaking anxiety. Using cluster random sampling, this mixed-method research took 30 pre-service English teachers from the same class as the research participants. The data were collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The questionnaires were adapted from FLCAS (Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale) designed by Horwitz et al (1986). The result of the questionnaire shows that the students’ speaking anxiety is overall in the mildly anxious level. It was identified that there were six students (20%) in the level of very anxious, seven students (23%) in the level of anxious, 14 students (47%) in the mildly anxious level, one student (3%) in the relaxed level, and two students (7%) in the very relaxed level. The interview data indicated that the anxiety was likely because of several inter-related factors: social, linguistic, and personal factors. The social factors include fear of making mistake, feeling under pressure dealing with people, afraid of negative evaluation by teachers, worrying of losing face; the linguistic factor relates to students’ lack of English ability (grammatical issues, proper pronunciation, and vocabulary). While from the personal factor deal with issues such as low motivation and and family problems.

This study focuses on examining the use of Language Learning Strategies (LLS) by autonomous learners at senior high schools in relation to the type of school and academic factors in Dumai, Bengkalis, and Selat Panjang (coastal areas). The study also concentrates on the preferred by ways operated by the selected respondents to master general English, four language skills, vocabulary, and structure.  The target groups of the research are autonomous learners ( more or less 3000 students) from state senior high schools in three different small towns. Due to the homogenous characters of the target groups; academic achievement, age, and learning motivation, the sample is taken randomly as big as 10% out of the population. To collect the needed data quantitatively, the strategy inventory for language learning (SILL) (Oxford 1990) is applied, and for the qualitative data, an interview is conducted to 60 selected learners out of the sample. To analyze the quantitative data, descriptive and inferential statistics are used and for the qualitative data, listing the preferred ways are made accordingly. The findings reveal that the various LLS are used based on academic and types of school backgrounds. The social strategy is the highest use of LLS (402) among other strategies (memory, cognition, compensation, metacognition, and affection). The qualitative findings exist in the body of this article (table 6 – through table 8). The suggestion is that LLS would be better to be well instructed and discussed in the classroom.

The aim of this study was to evaluate and validate language learning strategies used by excellent students based on gender, socio-economy, types of school, and academic background in the English Studies Programme at Riau University, Pekanbaru. This study investigates students' reading strategies in terms of memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective and social. This study comprehensively investigates excellent students' learning strategies in reading. One hundred and one subjects who are studying and doing well in the English Education programme were recruited for this study. The data were analyzed using a descriptive statistic with min. For this study the data were collected using questionnaire to explore the learning strategies of excellent students. A pilot study was conducted to increase the reliability of the instrument used and was assessed using cronbach alpha and value was between 0.82 and 0.91. The findings show different language learning strategies among the students based on gender, ethnic group, parents' income, and academic results in secondary school. It was found that there was no significant difference in learning strategies among excellent students based on types of school. This study This finding has important implications for various parties in educational sector to cooperate in their effort to develop and improve the students' learning strategies in order to produce quality human capital.

ESP competence has the essential role because it is required in the workplace. The development of ESP as a field of discipline in ASEAN continues increase. The rapid changes in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) also impact to the work competence. Hence, ESP students must be equipped with ICT usage competence. This article presents the result of investigation the use of ICT in ESP lesson and the description of the ICT tools used during ESP lesson at Agribusiness Study Program University of Pasir Pengaraian. The data were collected and analyzed using qualitative research design through questionnaire and interviewto 52 agribusiness students and observation to two agribusiness classes. The findings of the research draw the use of ICT into three groups. They are ICT as the learning resources, instructional organization of learning, and ICT for communication. Three ICT devices mostly used for learning ESP were Internet, Laptop (computer), and smartphone. It can be concluded that ICT is very helpful for ESP students as the sources of learning, learning material, and communication channel. Moreover, students can easily use ICT devices because they exist around them.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui adanya pengaruh iklim sekolah terhadap kinerja guru, supervisi akademik terhadap kinerja guru, iklim sekolah dan supervisi akademik secara bersama-sama terhadap kinerja guru. Responden penelitian adalah Guru Sekolah Dasar di Kecamatan Rumbai Kota Pekanbaru yang berjumlah 136 orang. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui penyebaran angket sebagai instrumen penelitian. Analisis data yang digunakan yaitu analisis deskriptif, analisis statistik inferensial dan pengujian hipotesis. Koefisien reliabilitas instrumen dihitung menggunakan rumus alpha cronbach. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya pengaruh signifikan antara iklim sekolah terhadap kinerja guru sebesar 0,430, dan terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara supervisi akademik terhadap kinerja guru sebesar 0,339. Sedangkan secara bersama-sama terdapat pengaruh iklim sekolah dan supervisi akademik terhadap kinerja guru sebesar 0,484