This study was designed to investigate the role of „Hot Potatoes‟ in promoting autonomous learning of the English education students at Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. This study was conducted on some reasons: first, autonomous learning is very significant in the success of learners‟ learning, and to make the learners implement autonomous learning is quite tricky. Second, the use of Hot Potatoes as the software is very simple and fun to publish any education materials online, and as a result, the students like the program. Therefore, it is very challenging for the teacher to find a way to promote autonomous learning to the students through the use of a simple education software called „Hot Potatoes‟. The study was aimed at exploring the roles of Hot Potatoes in English teaching and learning. Further, it also explored the advantages of the Hot Potatoes in developing the students‟ ability or habit in having autonomy in their learning. This research was a qualitative case study in nature since it dealt with a holistic description. The setting of the research was Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta with 10 students who have implemented Hot Potatoes in designing teaching materials for them to use at schools. The procedure to collect the data was through questionnaires and interviews with the participants. In analyzing the data, the researcher first categorized the data gained from the questionnaires and then extracted the information from the data collected through the interview process. The data were then grouped into categories and interpreted in accordance with the research questions. The study found that students first had awareness to be better in mastering English due to their online publishing the teaching materials developed with Hot Potatoes. They were aware that by publishing materials online, people all around the globe would have a chance to stop by and read the materials. This awareness led them to learn by themselves on the grammar of the sentences they wrote. As a result, they started looking up grammar books to check if the grammar was appropriate or not. The same process also happened to the choice of words and the spelling of words used in the teaching materials they developed. They checked and rechecked until they were sure of the correctness of the dictions and the spelling. The last but not least is about the cultural issue in the sentences. It dealt with the appropriateness of the sentences they make due to native speakers‟ cultural background. Therefore, the writer concluded that the use of Hot Potatoes promoted autonomy in students‟ learning.

This research study on improving the students’ ability in writing procedure text through picture series is action research. This is categorized as action research since there is a self-reflective, critical, and systematic approach that the researcher does to identify a problematic situation as a way of improvement and changes in educational practice. In doing this action research, the researcher considers phases that involve each cycle. Those are planning, action, observation, and reflection.  Every phase is done based on the researcher’s ideas on the research. This study is aimed at exploring the improvement of the teaching and learning process writing procedure text using picture series. It is also intended to identify the improvement of students’ ability in writing procedure text using picture series. Based on the research findings and the discussions in section four, some conclusions can be drawn as follows: the use of picture series promotes the improvement of students’ ability in writing procedure text and can elevate the students’ interest or motivation in the classroom. Picture series is very good in providing the idea for the students to write. The students’ works are also more persistent to the idea as compared to when not using the picture series. The pictures also attract more attention from the students and motivate students to get involved in the classroom interaction with the teacher and among themselves. For the detailed works of the students, the use of appropriate diction and the improvement of vocabulary mastery is also the effect of the use of the picture series. Further, the changes of the pictures in every meeting make the students remain interested in participating in the teaching and learning process because they do not feel bored.

The demand for professional development for teachers in higher education is paramount.  In doing so, the teachers must have a good professional development scheme in upgrading their knowledge and skills in performing their main duty. This research was aimed at investigating the areas of teachers’ professional development which are supported by the implementation of peer review in team teaching.  It also aims at exploring the challenges in applying team teaching. This study applied qualitative research design with the interview as the data collection method and four English teachers as the participants of the research. The result showed that there are three aspects of TPD which occur. The first one is an attitude which becomes better in terms of improved awareness of the teachers. The other element is self-esteem where it is also improved due to the feedback given after the peer review.  While the third is patience. As suggested in the feedbacks, teachers require to be more patients in dealing with misbehaving students. As for the challenges, it can be concluded that they come from two different sources. The first one is from the individual teacher where they think that some of the suggestions cannot be done or too hard to do. The second one is,  Since TPD requires funding, the institution should also provide necessary and sufficient funding to support the TPD.  This can be done by setting up the policy dealing with the sustainable TPD which, in turn, will give more benefits to the institution.

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