The research was done to find the aspects of omission and addition errors in English texts made by the students of MAN 3 Bantul. The research was a descriptive study which was conducted in MAN 3 Bantul. The data was collected by analyzing the students’ writing. There were 20 exposition texts made by the eleventh-grade students of MAN 3 Bantul. The text is written in four different themes. After getting the data, the data were analyzed by identifying and deeply checking the students’ errors according to the theory form James (1998). The data found then categorized by entering the data to the table based on the linguistic taxonomy and surface strategy taxonomy. There were many aspects of omission or addition errors found in this study. From the data analysis, the study found seven aspects of omission errors and six aspects of addition errors. The aspects of omission errors were omission of (1) to be, (2) article, (3) pluralization, (4) verb, (5) preposition, (6) pronoun, and (7) agreement. While the aspects of addition errors were addition of (1) preposition, (2) article, (3) conjunction, (4) to be, (5) sub clause marker, and (6) verb. It can be concluded that the students still have lack of grammatical mastery and implies that grammar should be inserted in the teaching and learning process. It implies that the students should be given enough opportunity in learning English grammar more. The teacher should also increase their awareness concerning with the errors made by the students. They have to give more emphasize and also feedback to increase the students’ awareness in applying English grammar rule in creating sentence or texts.

This research is aimed in improving students’ speaking skills for Aliyah students at grade XII by using Podcast media. The background of this research is the need of technology application in the teaching and learning process in covid-19 pandemic. This research applied quasi experimental method with pre-test post-test design. The sample of this study are female students of grade XII IPS as the experimental class and female students of XII IPA for the control class. The instruments used to collect the data are speaking test and questionnaire. The speaking test used to gather the data about speaking achievement, while the questionnaire used to obtain the data on students’ perspective of using Podcast in speaking teaching and learning process. To analyze the data, the researcher used normality, homogeneity, and t-test. While descriptive statistics is used to analyze the data on students’ perspective.  The result of independent sample t-test is 0.014 means it is lower than 0.05. So, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between control and experimental group. While for the students’ perspective of the use of Podcast in the English teaching and learning process found most of the students have positive respond. Most of them said that Podcast can help them in learning English, especially in speaking skills.

This study is aimed to develop English learning module for grade seventh students of MTs Al Falaah Pandak which is based on Higher Order Thinking Skills. This study implemented quantitative and qualitative research methods. The quantitative data is gained from the questionnaire given to the expert and students. Meanwhile, the qualitative data is gained from the observation, book analysis, and comments from the expert validator. The result of this study is a product of learning module contains materials and learning activities based on the familiarization of higher order thinking skills. It includes the ability to analyze, evaluate, create or produce. The mean score gained from the expert judgment is 3,48 and the mean score from the students' questionnaire is 3,23 which means that this module is good or proper to be used.

Today’s curriculum is focused on Higher Order Thinking Skills to improve the quality of learning and the graduates. So that, today the teaching and learning materials and activities for the students are recommended to be implemented. This study is aimed to know the effectiveness of HOTS English module in the English teaching and learning process in MTs Al Falaah Pandak. This is a quasi-experimental study which is implemented pre-test and post-test group design. To collect the data, the researcher used test as the instrument. The data then analyzed used t-test. The result of the study shows that HOTS English module is effective in improving the seventh-grade students’ achievement in learning English in MTs Al Falaah Pandak. The result of two tailed t-test from the data analysis is 0.000. It is smaller than 0.05 which means that Ho is denied. So, it can be concluded that there is significance of the students’ achievement before and after applying HOTS English module in learning English.