Abstract This paper shows the linguistic aspect in term of discourse analysis in the lyrics of song. Those aspects are cohesion device and grammatical cohesion. Cohesion devices divided into two descriptions, those are; grammatical and lexical cohesion devices. Grammatical cohesion contains reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction while lexical cohesion contains collocation and reiteration. This research analyzes the lyrics from the soloist band namely Alec Benjamin entitle “Six feet apart”. After analyzing grammatical and lexical cohesion of six feet apart’s lyric, the result shows that the kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesion exist in the lyric. The first kind of grammatical cohesion which is found is reference. The kinds of references namely personal, adverbial demonstrative, selective nominal demonstrative, and comparative reference are found in the lyric. The most frequent reference which is used in the lyric is personal reference. The usage of cohesive devices is so important to make meaningful language to the lyrics of the song. The cohesion devices make the text united.. The function of lexical cohesion within the stanza in the lyric of six feet apart song is making a relationship and also it is used to express and to stress the singer’s idea.   Key word: Discourse analysis, Lexical Cohesion, Grammatical Cohesion

English writing, for a number of EFL learners, appears to be challenging. Let alone, this language should be mastered by every learner since English is mean of communication between nation and nation, country and country all over the world. This paper aims to investigate whether learners can improve their writing ability and grow out of the writing difficulties by engaging in journal writing activity. 60 second-year students from the two writing classes are involved. One treated as the experimental group (EG) and the other as the control group (CG), at the Faculty of English Department Education of the IAI Al-Qolam Gondanglegi were invited to participate in the study, whose findings shows the benefits of journal writing as an extensive activity to enhance learners' writing motivation and foster their writing skill as well as to build a close interactive communication between teachers and learners.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perencanaan metode tilawati dalam pembelajaran Al-Qur’an di TPQ Al Ishlah Majangtengah Dampit Malang. Selain itu, juga bertujuan untuk mengetahui penerapan metode  tilawati  dalam  pembelajaran  Al-Qur’an  di  TPQ Al Ishlah Majangtengah Dampit Malang. Juga untuk mengetahui faktor penghambat dan pendukung penerapan metode tilawati dalam pembelajaran Al-Qur’an di TPQ Al Ishlah Majangtengah Dampit. Untuk mempermudah penelitian tentang Penerapan Metode Tilawati Dalam Pembelajaran Al-Qur’an di TPQ Al Ishlah Majangtengah Dampit Malang, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan pengumpulan data yang dilakukan menggunakan teknik observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Hasil dari penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa: Yang pertama, perencanaan dalam pembelajaran Al-Qur’an yaitu dengan memilih penerapan metode tilawati, menguasai   teori,   materi   dan   mempersiapkan   perlengkapan   mengajar. Kedua, Penerapan metode tilawati dilakukan dengan menggunakan teknik klasikal secara bersamaan antara guru dan peserta didik serta baca simak secara individual antara guru dan peserta didik, penerapan posisi tempat duduk berbentuk “U” untuk mempermudah mengontrol keadaan peserta didik saat pembelajaran berlangsung, dan yang terakhir adalah evaluasi atau munaqosyah untuk mengetahui seberapa kemampuan peserta didik dengan cara guru memberi penilaian saat kegiatan baca simak individual. Ketiga, yang menjadi faktor penghambat dan pendukung metode tilawati berasal dari peserta didik itu sendiri, pengajar atau guru dan juga lingkungan.

Effective strategy is very important to conduct by teacher in order to improve performance and quality of teaching and learning process. The investigation of using Think pair share technique to teach simple present tense has been conducted by some researchers. However, This research investigates teaching Simple Past using Think Pair Share Technique in eight grade of Junior High School of Raudlatul Ulum Gondanglegi. The aim is to know whether Think pair Share effects to the students score or not. This research uses a Quantitative Research, especially applies one group Pre-Experimental design. This research consists of pre-test and post-test for one group only. The effectiveness of the instructional treatment is measured by comparing average score of the pretest and the post test. The result found that based on the SPSS computation, the value of t- test is -793. It can be said that the null hypothesis is rejected. Then the significant difference found is 0,435 which means over than 0,05. So, the null hypothesis is rejected. Therefore, there is nothing difference between the students ability on before and after taught using TPS. So, it can be concluded that TPS is not effective yet in eight grader Junior High School students of Raudlatul Ulum Gondanglegi in writing skill especially for teaching Simple Past. Keyword: Strategy; Think-Pair-Share; grammar; simple past

Reading comprehension is the ability to analyze and understand the text in some reading context. This ability is taught to generalize the ability and share information in the reading context. In this research, the researcher applied Jigsaw Technique to solve the problems that were faced by the students. This research was conducted in order to improve students’ reading comprehension in descriptive text through Jigsaw Technique in the first grade students of SMA NU AL-FUDLOLI Ganjaran Gondanglegi Malang 2017-2018. In conducting this research, the researcher used Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the method of research. The researcher conducted this research in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of three meetings. The researcher used Jigsaw Technique to make pleasant atmosphere during teaching and learning process of reading, and more importantly to improve the students’ reading comprehension especially on reading descriptive text. The subject of this research was the students of first grade students in SMA NU AL-FUDLOLI. The instruments to collect the data were interview, observation checklist, and reading test. The result of this research showed that by using Jigsaw Technique in teaching reading descriptive text, the researcher could improve the student’s reading comprehension especially descriptive text. Their responses showed that they were interested to learn reading subject because they felt easier to read using Jigsaw Technique. Based on the result of cycle 1 the average of their score is 67. The result of cycle 2, the average of their score is 76.