This study deals with the utterance of English teachers of SMP A. Wahid Hasyim Tebuireng. It is aimed to know the type of speech function used by English teacher in the classroom, and to find out how speech functions are applied by English teacher in the classroom. The researcher applies qualitative design and content analysis design as the approach based on Ary et al (2010). The subject of this research was English teacher in SMP A. Wahid Hasyim Tebuireng. The source of the data is subject in where the data obtained, while the data is the utterances used by English teacher. The researcher used observation and audiovisual material of collecting data. The data of transcription are classified into six basic types of speech function. There are expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, poetic and phatic. The researcher observed an English teacher. From the teacher who observed, the researcher found different total utterances from each meeting. The total utterance is 41 utterances which classified into five types of speech function. How speech functions are applied by English teacher in the classroom is when the teacher interaction with her students.

Language has an important role for every member of the speech community. The connection between language and society is recognized as the main interest of sociolinguistics. Nowadays, sociolinguistic has involved many significant research topics. One of them is the relationship between gender and language. Studies about gender differences have been conducted for many years, which also deals with the use of a language as a foreign language. For instance, studying English as a foreign language (EFL) among the nonnative speakers and its gender-sensitive investigation. The current article provides insights on gender differences among senior high school students with a focus on their writing ability. The purposes of this article were to find the linguistic feature that male and female students tend to use and to find out the gender differences reflected on the students writing ability. The article used a qualitative design with document analysis as the approach. The subject of this article was one class of X MIPA 2 at MAN 6 Jombang. The source of the data was students’ writings, while the data were all linguistics components of the students’ works. The data contain some types of linguistic features based on Mulac’s theory. This article found four linguistic features used by the students. It can be concluded that males often used locative feature and females often used a reference to quantity feature and “I” reference feature.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mendeskripsikan cara memanfaatkan voice typing mahasiswa Program Permata Merdeka.  (2) mendeskripsikan model PPKSM dengan memanfaatan voice typing mahasiswa Program Permata Merdeka. (3) Mendeskripsikan bentuk karya sastra yang dihasilkan mahasiswa program permata merdeka dengan memanfaatkan voice typing. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif.  Penelitian kualitatif merupakan cara untuk menafsirkan dan menyajikan data dalam bentuk deskriptif. Data-data yang telah ada kemudian ditafsirkan dan dianalisis. Penelitian ini menghasilkan: (1) cara memanfaatkan voice typing mahasiswa Program Permata Merdeka.  (2) model PPKSM dengan memanfaatan voice typing mahasiswa Program Permata Merdeka. (3) bentuk karya sastra yang dihasilkan mahasiswa program permata merdeka dengan memanfaatan voice typing. TKT penelitian terapan inovatif ini berada pada tingkat  enam yaitu demonstrasi model atau prototipe sistem/subsistem dalam suatu lingkungan yang relevan. Penelitian ini mendemonstrasikan model PPKSM (Percepatan Produksi Karya Sastra Mahasiswa)  dengan pemanfaatan voice typing kepada mahasiswa Program Permata Merdeka yang memprogramkan mata kuliah Menulis Kreatif Sastra.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penerapan Strategi penolakan seperti apa yang digunakan oleh komunikasi guru dan siswa di smk pgri 1 Jombang dan bagaimana realisasi strategi penolakan pada komunikasi guru dan siswa di SMK PGRI 1 Jombang . Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dan analisis isi sebagai pendekatan. Subjek penelitian ini adalah guru dan siswa kelas XI dan XII di SMK PGRI 1 jombang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada 21 data yang terdapat dalam video komunikasi antara guru dan siswa selama kegiatan belajar mengajar. Dari semua data, peneliti menemukan 60% (10 data) termasuk dalam Strategi Tidak Langsung yang digunakan guru dan siswa saat berkomunikasi, 21% (6 data) termasuk dalam Strategi Langsung dan 19% (5 data) termasuk dalam tambahan. Strategi tidak langsung lebih dominan digunakan oleh siswa ketika berkomunikasi dengan guru dikelas karena mereka cenderung lebih banyak diam dan guru yang lebih aktif untuk mereview materi kepada siswa, sehingga menjadi kebiasaan siswa untuk lebih banyak diam.