Education is one of the sectors of life that has been affected by the global pandemic. As an attempt to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus, one of the policies implemented by the Indonesian Ministry of Education is online learning. It is can be a triggered acceleration of education digitalization in Indonesia. Technology-based learning media and applications have been applied at the Universitas Islam Kadiri (UNISKA Kediri) during online learning in the pandemic era. UNISKA Kediri develops learning media in the form of a Learning Management System (LMS UNISKA) based on Moodle for lecture activities. One of the popular teaching media used as online learning is Microsoft Office 365 A1. This research aimed to prove the use of Microsoft Office 365 - A1 as online English teaching and learning media, especially in academic reading lesson and its challenges. The research was carried out at the English Education study program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, UNISKA Kediri. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach. The data collection was carried out by interview, field observation and documentation. After data collection. The data validation through a data triangulation process with a source triangulation model. The results showed that the implementation of teaching and learning using Microsoft 365 – A1 in academic reading lesson have been applied during the COVID-19 pandemic, the obstacles both lecturer and students have problem on their ability for adapting the habitual in online teaching and learning process. From the study can be concluded that using Office 365 A1 on Academic Reading in the English Education study program UNISKA Kediri helps students in conducting online lectures during the COVID 19 pandemic. The use of learning media according to the needs of learners is very effective in achieving learning objectives.

Listening skill has been neglected even if being the most necessary ability in daily communication. It has an important role to improve the students’ language. As learners of English Courses, they need facilities to support their learning process. The podcast is one of the primary facilities by which students are able to develop their scientific and general knowledge. The research intended to describe the preparation, implementation, evaluation, and students’ perceptions of teaching listening through English podcast at the pre-intermediate program of Seventeen English Learning. the research used a qualitative design. The samples are nine students at the pre-intermediate program of Seventeen English Learning. Meanwhile, the instruments used to collect data are an observation checklist, interview guide, and documentation. The collected data are in the form of observation, interview, and documentation. Thus, they are analyzed by using data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions and verification. The findings showed that the teacher did some preparation before doing the teaching, The teacher also did the learning procedures of teaching listening through the podcast, The teacher as well did evaluation of teaching listening through podcasts started from the beginning, during, and at the end of the learning process. The students’ perceptions after being taught the listening through podcast were positive and it’s able to encourage their speaking, pronunciation, and understanding the speakers’ speech.

Role playing game is defined as one of the popular genres of video games being released for computer and video game console system. In some of role playing game, the students can give the main character is name of story. Especially in teaching narrative using RPG, narrative is basically story within this story telling, there are many kinds of narrative comedy, mystery, romance, etc. The topic of RPG related with education has become interesting topic recently. In SMPN2 Purwoasri, the teacher has been done the implementation of teaching writing using RPG since a year ago. The game was conducted to make students more interesting in in teaching writing. In this research, the design used is descriptive qualitative design. The subject of the research is students VIII-F class which consists of 30 students. Concerning the preparation that the teachers have in teaching writing English at SMPN 2 Purwoasri. The teacher should have the syllabus or lesson plan before they teach writing English at SMPN 2 Purwoasri. Concerning about the material that the teachers used syllabus and lesson plan based on the curriculum 2013. The method used was think pair solo. While the media used as brainstorming the idea in writing is RPG Final fantasy. The teachers automatically evaluated the students’ writing English in every meeting the teacher gives evaluation using four aspect those are: grammatical, generic structure, words and spelling and content   Key words: narrative text, teaching process, RPG (Role playing game)

Teaching writing is not as easy as teaching reading or speaking. On some cases, it sometimes shows monotonous method so that most students feel bored; moreover, they do not understand the material at all. In teaching writing, the teacher must be creative to make students understand the material because writing is a difficult arithmetic number. It aims to determine if the method is effective to teach writing or not in this pandemic era. This research used is pre-experimental design with one-shot case study. In this research, the researcher took one class as the sample. The subject research is eleventh grade. The instrument used in this thesis was test. In collecting the data, the writer used pre-test and post-test. Before conducting post-test, the writer gave treatment. After getting enough data, the researcher calculated the data by using SPSS to find out the effectiveness of online teaching by using WhatsApp messenger in teaching writing of report text. Based on the result of the pre-test and post-test , it shows that there is a difference significance between pre-test and post-test and teaching writing by using WhatsApp messenger is one of the effective way. It is also supported by Dumanauw (2018) on the research. It shows that The use of WhatsApp to teach writing of recount text is succeeded in increasing students’ writing achievement.