This qualitative study investigates multi-cases of junior high school English teachers to reveal the dissonances between teachers' beliefs and practices of formative assessment in EFL classes viewed from different Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The Data were collected by conducting semistructured interviews to all respondents, classroom observations and document studies such as journals and lesson plans. The result of this study showed that teachers with high CPD participation level have stronger beliefs in formative assessment compared to those with lower CPD involvement. Their beliefs, however, were not always practiced appropriately in the classroom. Teachers' CPD participation has no real impact on the success of formative assessment practices, although it may influence teachers' beliefs. This is due to some factors influenced the implementation of formative assessment in the classroom. Futhermore, it is expected that teachers carefully consider the influecing factors and carry out formative assessment in accordance with their beliefs.

This present research was aimed to improve the EFL learners' speaking ability and their classroom activities through the implementation of Interactive Storytelling Strategy. Therefore, this study was directed to explore the beneficial of Interactive Storytelling that closely related to the EFL learners' everyday activities at their home and school. The subject consisted of 22 of Junior High of Indonesian EFL learners. A Classroom Action Research in two cycles had been conducted within 6 meetings for every cycle. The meetings were focused on the interactivity and communicative ability among learners. The research result showed that the learners' speaking ability improved from 17 or 72,27% passed in Cycle 1 to 22 or 100% passed the criteria of success in Cycle 2. It also showed that their classroom activities improved from 8 or 36,36% who were very active (VA) and 14 or 63,64% who were active (A) to 18 or 81,82% were very active (VA) and 4 or 18,18% were active (A). In conclusion, the implementation of Interactive Storytelling Strategy increased the EFL learners' speaking ability and their classroom activities.

Writing in English is often claimed as the most complex skills compared to the other three skills. Due to its complexity, feedback is seen to be an important part in writing process since it can lead to the students' better writing performance. It has been a consensus that teacher feedback is not practical to be given in a class with a big number of students; thus, this challenges peer feedback to be implemented in the writing classroom. While there are studies showing that peer feedback is effective to enhance the students' writing performance, how peer feedback should be conducted has been overlooked and limited. In this study, we investigated the effect of two types of peer feedback provision on the students' writing performance. This study involved 55 EFL students of the English Department of a state university in Indonesia. The study revealed that both in-class peer feedback provision and small group peer feedback provisiom led to the students' better writing performance. Nonetheless, neither of these two was more effective than the other. This indicates that regardless of the types of peer feedback provision, the results will be the same.

Abstract-This study aims at examining the effect of environmental problem-based learning (PBL) on the environment-related vocabulary mastery and writing ability of Indonesian EFL students. Previous studies showed that problem-based learning is a student-centered learning approach that affects students' learning positively and significantly. This study employed a quasi-experimental design by involving two classes of senior high school students, each consisted of 30 students. One class was assigned to be the experimental group and treated with environmental PBL, while the other class was assigned to be the control group and taught conventionally. A vocabulary test was used to measure the students' environment-related vocabulary mastery, while a hortatory writing test was used to examine the students' writing ability. The data were analyzed by using independent sample t-test. The results of the study showed that the students who were taught by using environmental PBL improved their environment-related vocabulary mastery and their writing ability significantly. The PBL approach is then recommended for future teaching and research. Nevertheless, before implementing this approach, other teachers and future researchers should consider the readiness of the curriculum, the students, and the school infrastructure.Index Terms-environmental problem-based learning, environment-related vocabulary, writing ability

This study investigates Indonesian EFL learners' corrective feedback preferences including the timing, types of error, strategies of corrective feedback, and providers of error correction; and the relationship between foreign language anxiety and preferences for corrective feedback among students. Two hundred fifty seven EFL English department undergraduate students from two different course grades participated in the survey. The data were collected through questionnaire as the main data and interview as the supplementary data. The students' were assigned to either a low anxiety group or a high anxiety group. The results showed that both sophomore students and freshman students agreed that student errors should be treated; freshman students and sophomore students had significantly similar opinions about perception, types, strategies, and providers of error correction.Key Words: students' preference, corrective feedback, speaking instruction Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap pilihan siswa terhadap umpan balik korektif yang termasuk waktu umpan balik korektif, tipe kesalahan umpan balik korektif, strategi umpan balik korektif, dan pemberi umpan balik korektif. Dua ratus lima puluh tujuh mahasiswa Bahasa Inggris dari dua tahun kelas yang berbeda ikut serta dalam penelitian berbentuk survey. Data kuantitatif diperoleh menggunakan kuesioner sebagai data utama dan interview sebagai data tambahan. Hasil pengolahan data menunjukkan bahwa kedua tingkat kelas siswa baik dari mahasiswa baru dan juga mahasiswa tahun kedua memiliki persamaan penilaian terhadap umpan balik korektif, mereka setuju bahwa kekeliruan segera dikoreksi; mahasiswa baru dan mahasiswa tahun kedua memberikan persamaan penilaian yang signifikan tentang persepsi, tipe, strategi, dan juga pemberi umpan balik korektif.Kata kunci: pilihan siswa, umpan balik korektif, instruksi berbicara