The aim of this research is to describe the process of improving the students’ listening skill and vocabulary mastery through contextual teaching and learning (CTL) by using online learning at the eleventh grade of SMAN 1 Sajira. This study also attempts to find out the improvement of the students’ skill in listening and vocabulary mastery through contextual teaching and learning (CTL) by using online learning. The method used in this research was qualitative research method by implementing classroom action research (CAR). This research was conducted in three cycles actions in cycle I, cycle 2 and cycle 3. The result of the research is the use of contextual teaching and learning (CTL) by using online learning can improve the students’ listening skill and vocabulary mastery. The finding of the research are (1) the process of teaching and learning using CTL through online learning is conducted successfully in terms of the feeling of happiness and enthusiasm of the students, (2) there is an improvement of the students’ listening skill from 57.85 in pre-test became 81.11 in post-test. This study proves that English teacher can improve students’ listening and vocabulary mastery by optimizing the use of materials at school, and be creative in selecting, developing, and giving materials at class.

The objectives of this research were to discover the lecturer’s perceptions of the English formative assessment through online classroom testing and to determine the washback of students’ formative assessments through online classroom tests in English language teaching. This research employed the qualitative method, specifically a case study as a research design. The participants involved an eleventh-grade English lecturer and 25 students University students who were selected purposively. Semi-structured interviews and the students’ open-ended questionnaires were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed qualitatively through Miles and Huberman’s procedures. Data analysis revealed that: (1) an eleventh grade English lecturer had positive perceptions concerning the formative assessment understanding and several strategies of follow-up actions through online classroom tests by giving some feedback to the students in comprehending the materials and test; (2) the washback of formative assessments through online classroom was dominated by more positive washbacks than negative washbacks in the language testing. The results of 60% students indicated that they tend to be relaxed to complete the online test, 48% students regarded that their English lecturer had reviewed all of the materials at the end of the unit, including the exercise in online test-taking preparation, and 44% students assumed that an English lecturer provided the feedback for improvement. Therefore, it can be concluded that an English lecturer’s perception was appropriate with the positive washbacks that were obtained in the formative assessment through online classroom by giving feedback for the students.

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English has been a particular subject at schools. Most of the students have difficulties in mastering its vocabulary and grammar. Therefore, at this time the researcher conducted a research which aimed to reveal the effects of using whiteboard animation toward the student's vocabulary and grammar mastery. The researchers used the experimental research. The sample of research consisted of two groups from the eighth grade students at Indonesian Junior high school. For data collection were taken from pre-test and post-test. The results of were analysed using T-test to verify the hypothesis of the research. The results of this research indicate that whiteboard animation has positive effects on mastering English vocabulary and grammar. There was 58.9% improvement from the experimental group for the vocabulary. While for the control group, there is 37% improvement. For grammar test, the experimental group shows impressively significant difference with more than 100% improvement. While the control group shows 50.5% improvement in the grammar test. In conclusion, the researchers found that students who learn vocabulary and grammar through whiteboard animation show more significant improvement than the control group taught by conventional teaching method. The researchers also measured the effect size between vocabulary post test score with R squared of 0.321 and grammar post-test score with R squared of 0.485 from the experimental group. Based on the results of the research, the researchers concluded that whiteboard animation has significant effect towards both students' vocabulary and grammar with more improvement on grammar mastery though.

The study aimed at finding out the correlation between (1) Students’ learning style in speaking ability of communication and broadcasting Islam major, (2) correlation of learning motivation in speaking ability of communication and broadcasting Islam major, (3) correlation of students’ learning style and learning motivation in speaking ability of communication and broadcasting Islam major. This study was carried out at Communication and broadcasting Islam Major in UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten. The method which is used in this study was the correlational method. The sample was 30 students which were taken by a simple random sampling technique. The instruments in collecting the data were questionnaires and tests. The questionnaire was used to collect the data on students’ learning styles and learning motivation. The technique which was used to analyze the data was Simple correlation and Multiple Regression Correlation which were computed by the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS). The results of the analysis of the data on this research show that: (1) there is a significant correlation between learning style and speaking ability ρ < α (0.043 < 0.05), (2) there is a significant correlation between learning motivation and speaking ability ρ < α (0.041 < 0.05), and (3) there is a significant correlation between learning style and learning motivation toward speaking ability ρ < α (0.045 < 0.05).