Measuring the accuracy of a private university in Batam Business English course curriculum to the present needs of workplaces in Batam from students’ perception is essential. Because 85% of the university students are working, it is compulsory to maintain the gap low between what students learned in class and what is implemented in the working field. A questionnaire consists of three dimensions (curriculum, communication performance, and motivation) distributed randomly to 60 students from a population (N=328) of the third-semester students programmed Business English course at a private university in Batam. The result suggested that the curriculum needs to add more practices, peer work, and case studies to improve students’ communication performance. Students’ perspectives in the Business English course reflected a new technical vocabulary that needed to practice in a correlated context. The curriculum content’s relevance to the workplace’s contextual needs is moderately related because not all working students used the English language in their workplace. Additional focus on internal and external motivation through group work and peer work is needed to improve students’ communication performance and confidence. Finally, the existing Business English curriculum is reasonably accurate, supporting students’ communication performance, both written and oral, at their workplace.

The research is about teaching vocabulary to secondary students in Junior High School of Muhammadiyah Plus Batam. The students at this level are supposed to be able to master the vocabulary especially contained in their English Cambridge student’s book and workbook because the level suits them. This research used Classroom Action research (CAR) as a research methodology. The researcher found that the students lack vocabulary and motivation to learn vocabulary. To overcome this problem, a teaching method is needed to be chosen. In this study, the researcher will use a scramble game as a method to improve their vocabulary knowledge. The scramble word game is one method to improve students' learning and speed of thought. Their method needs students to combine the right and left brain. A scramble word game is used to arrange the words and letters that are jumbled and the students need to form a word that has meaning. The aim of this study is to analyze The Effects of the Scramble Game in Improving Student's Vocabulary. The participants are the students from grade 7B which consists of 28 students in total in Secondary School of Muhammadiyah Plus Batam. The class subject is going to be English Cambridge.

Teaching writing in secondary school is found as another level of skill to be mastered (Abdulwahed and Ismail, 2011; Pertiwi and Drajati (2018); Ardiansyah, (2020)). Research about teaching writing at this junior high school level often got less attention which happened in Muhammadiyah Plus Secondary School Batam. However, students at this level are supposed to be able to master the writing skill as well as learn other skills in English. In implementing that, thus, a teaching method is needed to be chosen. In this study, the researcher will examine the use of Dictogloss as a technique to improve secondary students’ writing skills. Dictogloss is going to use as a treatment to help students to develop their grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation as found as the mostly error made by them. This learning which will integrate dictation given by the researcher and peer-assessment as a technique to analyse is expected to be beneficial. Hence, the aim of this study is to analyse the use of Dictogloss to improve students writing skills. The participants are the students from grade 9A, 26 students in total, in Muhammadiyah Plus Secondary School Batam. The class subject is going to be The English Cambridge exposing about Procedure Text. In order to apply the research, a Classroom Action Research (CAR) is selected as the research method to use. Keywords: dictogloss, writing skill, teaching writing, secondary students

Online learning is used because of the Covid-19 virus outbreak and the lecturers and students must use online platform to teach the students. As for the learning, online platforms may have some benefits and problems either for students and lecturers. UIB have implemented the online learning by using Microsoft Teams and Moodle. This research are sought to find what are the students obstacles with online learning in UIB. The subjects of this research are 335 UIB students from 1st semester English class 1 students batch 2020/2021. This research used quantitative approach which of collecting data that yield results such as words or pictures. The data collection used questionnaire that spreaded to 335 UIB students from all major via social media: Whatsapp, Line, etc. This research has 6 lists of obstacles from various researchers which are: Lack of interest, Lack of motivation, Lack of digital devices, Lack of competence in using technology, Role of motivation, and English curriculum. The list of obstacles will be explained in this research to find the similarly comparison from the various researchers with this research. The result of the research could become a suggestion from the students' view for the UIB in conducting the online learning. The suggestions for UIB are repair the LMS server so that the students can submit or download the learning materials without any problem. Then, maybe for the LMS application can add some new features such as notification for the assignment deadline; sort and separate the list of learning materials and assignment from all major so the students can find the learning materials and their assignment easily. Also, increase the file capacity for submitting assignment, material file or video assignment will make the students easier to submit their assignment without have to redo the work to adjust the size of file to submit it on LMS.