Abstract-This study was conducted to find out the contexts and frequency of instructional and management talks use and the frequency of native and target language use for instructional and management talks. The subjects of this study were four Indonesian English teachers. The data was collected by observation. The finding showed that teachers use instructional talk in 5 contexts and management talk in 15 contexts. Teachers talk more for management talk than instructional talk. Teachers used target language more for management talk than for instructional talk.Index Terms-teacher's language, instructional talk, management talk, native language, and target language

This study aimed to investigate the Multiple Intelligences profiles of the students at junior secondary school in Makassar. The Multiple Intelligences Inventory was used to identify the dominant intelligence among the students. The sample of this research was 302 junior secondary schools students in Makassar Indonesia who willing to participated in this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to investigate the students' MI profiles. The results of this study showed that all intelligences were possessed by the students either in strong, moderate, or weak category. Existential intelligence became the strongest intelligence among the nine types of multiple intelligences. Moreover, other types of multiple intelligences in strong category were interpersonal intelligence and verbal-linguistic intelligence. They were the second and the third intelligence of the strongest intelligences. The other types were in moderate category, were intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, logical mathematic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and naturalist intelligence. In terms of gender, the study revealed, male students significantly possessed stronger in logical-mathematic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence, Meanwhile, Female students were significantly stronger in musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and existential intelligence. The results also showed that there was no significant difference between male students and female students in verbal linguistic intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, and naturalist intelligence.

This study aimed to implement the multimedia learning materials in teaching speaking skills. The problems investigated were to what extent the practicality of the multimedia learning materials was. This was gathered from the lecturers' and the students' responses. Similarly, it also investigated the effectiveness of the multimedia learning materials for teaching speaking skills. Three lecturers had implemented the multimedia learning materials, and the results of the implementation were significantly effective. It was indicated by the comparison between t-test>t-table for groups I, II, III (7.424>2.093; 7.796>2.093; 10.342>2.093).It was concluded that the use of multimedia learning materials in teaching speaking skills was practical and effective.

This study attempted to reveal the perception of EFL students on the lecturer verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication that they experience and expect to foster their positive attitudes and nurture their motivation in learning English at State University of Makassar, Indonesia. The respondents consisted of 152 fifth semester students of undergraduate program, majoring in English Education, attending TEFL course in 2013/2014 academic year. The study was guided by the researchers’ teaching belief stating that teaching is communicating and inspiring virtues in the forms of knowledge, skills and attitudes. The instruments used were (a) The 14 lecturer verbal interpersonal communication  measure (VICM) and (b) the 14 lecturer non-verbal interpersonal communication measure (NVICM) developed by the researcher. The data analysis showed that four of the 14 VICM were not inspiring, namely telling students his personal experience, responding students’ reasons for being late, asking students to tell their most impressive learning English experience, and  allowing students to call their lecturers by their first name; and three of the 14 NVICM were not inspiring, namely moving around the class when teaching, touching (shaking hands), coming closer to students when lecturing. Key concepts: perception, inspiring, interpersonal, communication