This research aims at determining the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by the students learning English and Indonesian copulative verbs, as well as the recommendations to TEFL. The descriptive research design was used. The documentation technique was applied to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researchers used a descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were two similarities between English and Indonesian copulative verbs in meanings and dynamic verb. The three dissimilarities were in grammatical structure, tense on subject-verb agreement and certain verbs. The possible learning difficulties faced by the students learning English and Indonesian copulative verbs was tense and subject-verb agreement. The recommendations of this research was as a fundamental teaching guidance in helping English teachers design a better teaching Grammar on copulative verbs, in terms of nonverbal copulative nominal, stative copulative nominal and dynamic copulative nominal.

This study is aimed at describing the kinds of the English and Indonesian prefixes and suffixes mostly found in the descriptive text of student’s and finding the similarities and dissimilarities. The writer used descriptive qualitative research method. To collect the data, the writer used documentation technique. In analyzing the data the writer used descriptive analysis. After investigating the data, the writer found out four types of English prefix; quantified, locative, temporal, and negation prefixes. English suffixes have four types; nominal, verbal, adjectival, and adverbial suffixes, and five types of Indonesian prefixes; forming verb, forming adjectival, forming noun, forming numeral, and there forming interrogative. The writer also found out thirty two prefixes and suffixes words categorized as English Prefixes and Suffixes, and twenty prefixes and suffixes words categorized as English Prefixes and Suffixes. The writer found out the similarities and dissimilarities. The similarities between English Indonesian prefixes and suffixes in the descriptive text were on prefixes in line with quantity, and suffixes in line with nominal, verbal, and adjectival suffixes. While the dissimilarities were on prefixes and suffixes. In English prefixes, there were no types of prefixes that forming verb, adjective, noun, and interrogative. While in Indonesian prefixes, there were no types of prefixes such as locative, temporal, and negation prefixes. In English suffixes there were no forming numeral and interrogative. In Indonesian There was no adverbial suffix.

The phenomenon of culture shock has some impacts on  foreigners (i.e. psychological impact and intellectual impact), especially for foreign students studying in a new country. This research  is aimed at figuring out the dominant aspects of culture shocks faced by the three Thai students studying at Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang and how they cope with it. Descriptive-qualitative method was used in this research.To collect the data, the researchers used interview and questionnaire. Coding technique was used in analyzing the data. The results showed two dominant aspects of culture shocks found, namely: academic shocks (i.e teacher’s role and attitude, poorly organized program and classroom organization, and local students’ attitude). and social shocks (i.e.women-men relationship, community bonding, habits in social gathering). Generally, the three Thai students coped with the shock by preparing mental and psychology, as well as learning academic destination.

This research was focused on strategy of Teaching English Vocabulary Using Anagrams to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 5 Palembang. The formulation of the problem  in this study was ”is it effective to teach English vocabulary by using anagrams to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 5 palembang?”. Meanwhile, the objective of this study was to find out whether or not it was effective to teach english vocabulary by using anagrams to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 5 palembang?. The population was all of the eighth grade students SMP Negeri 5 palembang. With the total number 30 students for sample. The sample of this study was taken from the population by using non random sampling. The true experimetal method was used in this study. The data obtained were analyzed by using SPSS 16.0 (Statistical Package for Social Science). Based on sample t – test, it was found that the t- obtained was 10,871, which was 0.05 of the level significance with the degree of freedom (df) was 29 with the critical value of the t- table 0.306. because t-obtained 10,871 was higher than t-table 0,306. It meant that there was significant difference between the eighth grade student of SMP Negeri 5 Palembang who were using anagrams and those were not. It also indicated that anagrams could improved the students vocabulary skill for the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Palembang.

Skripsi adalah salah satu mata kuliah wajib yang harus di tempuh oleh semua mahasiswa semester akhir untuk menyelesaikan studi Program Sarjana Strata Satu. Kenyataannya,  mereka masih belum memahami cara menyusun proposal skripsi yang baik dan benar, meskipun mereka sudah memiliki Buku Pedoman Penulisan Adapun metode pelaksanaan pengabdian ini adalah melalui ceramah dan diskusi. hasil pelatihan menunjukkan bahwa kualifikasi kemampuan mahasiswa semester VII Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris dalam menulis mini research proposal baik dengan menggunakan pendekatan quantitative maupun qualitatif adalah baik. Ini terbukti dengan meningkatnya kemampuan mereka dalam menentukan judul serta merumuskan masalah-masalah penelitian yang saing berkaitan. Mereka juga mampu untuk memparafrasekan landasan teori yang mereka gunakan dalam proposal penelitiannya dan juga mampu untuk memberikan kesimpulan (additional voice) terhadap teori yang mereka gunakan untuk menghindari plagiat. Selanjutnya, bisa dilihat dari kemampuan mereka dalam mempresentasi mini research selama berada di breakout room aplikasi Zoom dan berdasarkan observasi Dosen pemakalah, secara keseluruhan, semua peserta mampu untuk mempresentasikan mini research proposal yang sudah mereka susun sebelumnya.