The main objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness electronic dictionary in learning vocabulary at Indonesian junior high school context. The method employs pre-experimental with pre-test and post-test design, 15 students is involved as the participants of the research. The result of this research reports that there is a significant increase on students’ vocabulary, proven by the value of sig. (2-tailed) is 0.00 0.05. This indicates that H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. It is assumed that there is a significant difference between the students’ vocabulary after being giving treatment. This is evidenced by the high average students’ post-test score compared to the pre-test, which means it is effective to use electronic dictionary in learning vocabulary.

This paper focused on exploring the teachergrams phenomenon and English language learning. Thus, this paper outlined two main points including the the teachergrams existence in Instagram and their roles in English language learning. The result discussed showed that teachergrams have ability to turn instagram into interactive learning tool in English language learning. The discussion concludes that the existence of teachergrams have become a useful tool to spread English materials and contents for the followers/English learners in Instagram. Additionally, the content written in this paper is expected to be valuable resources for the people who teach and learn English in digital platform especially Instagram.

The main concern of this research was aimed at confirming the students’ individual readinghabit on academic text. It was navigated by online descriptive survey which involved 31students of English Education program. The data were collected through online questionnaireon WhatsApp Group Discussion by considering under the Covid19 situation and analyzed byusing SPSS. The result exposed (1) that the students have positive feeling on academic text,(2) most of the students read academic text at least once a week, (3) Academic book is themost types of academic text read by the students, (4) Busy with assignments becomes themain reason why the students not reading academic text. This research confirmed that thestudents have sufficient reading habit on academic text.

This research is under the discipline of Discourse Analysis. It focused to investigate the politeness used by students in social media, especially WhatsApp application. This research was consist of 20 students in one class at the Graduate Program of State University of Makassar. To collect the data, the researchers transcribed students’ chat and discussion from the students’ WhatsApp group discussion. This researcher was analyzed by using discourse analysis approach based on the politeness theory by Brown and Levinson (1987). The result of this research showed that students only use positive politeness in questioning to show closeness and respect to the other students in the WhatsApp group discussion.