The purpose of the study was to focus on parents‘ involvement in the homework, and lecturers’ involvement in homework of students. Participants consisted of parents of engineering and non-engineering students in State Polytechnics of Sriwijaya and its teaching staff. The sample consisted of 150 parents of 95% high-income status and 24 certified lecturers. The research used a qualitative approach. Data was collected via surveys answered by parents and lecturers based on Lickert scale items adapted from Reglin, Cameron, and Losike-Sedimo. The results showed that parental involvement towards students’ homework completion and partnerships between parents and lecturers were very low. Since educational gains of parental involvement are noted and confirmed the significance of parents in educational processes, it is recommended that parents who do not assist their children in homework should be sensitized to do so.

English tea chers who teach reading comprehension course surel y often gi ve thei r s tudents reading assignments , for example reading a rticles , popular press books and/or internet publica tions. Unfortuna tel y, the results were not satisfyi ng and made English tea chers disappointed. This lack of good reading comprehension skills is exa cerba ted by the central role of reading comprehension requi red for the success in hi gher educa tion. One sol ution to overcome this problem of poor reading comprehension skills is the expli cit tea ching of reading comprehension stra tegies to s tudents , specifi call y, recipro cal tea ching (RT). The philosophical root of RT itself is social constructi vism whi ch explains how s tudents mi ght a cqui re knowledge and lea rn; then, this concept is a ccumulated wi th the use of RT stra tegy to teach reading comprehension course a t s chool. Al l are clea rl y dis cussed, so tha t the RT could be an alterna ti ve reading comprehension s tra tegi c choi ce for all English teachers to tea ch reading comprehension course at Pol ytechnic.

This study aimed at investigating students' reading comprehension achievement, vocabulary mastery, and social values among the third semester students at Computer Engineering, English, and Business Administration department of Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya Indonesia. In this research, the writers used Research & Development (R & D) methodology. The purposive sampling included 3 high classes and 3 low classes consisting of 148 students. To collect the data, tests of reading comprehension and vocabulary were given and then statistically calculated with the paired-sample t-tests. Shapiro-Wilk test was used to the normality of data distribution. The findings indicated that the students in the high and low classes could significantly improve their reading comprehension achievement and vocabulary mastery. The students have also shown very positive moral values towards their friends such cooperative, respectful, responsible, and helpful and report that it has made their reading process more tangible and interesting. These results verify the efficacy of the social constructivism-based reading comprehension teaching design and the researchers recommends its application in Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya.

Penyuluhan pelatihan Pelatihan Penerapan Metode Pengajaran Total Physical                                                 Response (TPR)  bagi guru Bahasa Inggris Madrasah  Ibtidaiyah di Pondok Pesantren Al Amalul Khair Palembang bertujuan untuk memberikan penyuluhan kepada Guru Bahasa Inggris Madrasah  Ibtidaiyah di Pondok Pesantren Al Amalul Khair Palembang bagaimana melakukan penerapan metode pengajaran   Total Physical Response (TPR). Hal ini dimaksudkan untuk menambah pengetahuan serta memberikan alternatif pilihan cara pengajaran bagi guru Bahasa Inggris Madrasah  Ibtidaiyah di Pondok Pesantren Al Amalul Khair Palembang. Kegiatan ini dihadiri oleh seluruh guru Bahasa Inggris Madrasah  Ibtidaiyah di Pondok Pesantren Al Amalul Khair Palembang.  Dalam penyuluhan, terjadi diskusi dan brain-storming yang menarik sehingga kegiatan penyuluhan ini sesuai dengan yang telah direncanakan. Pada akhir kegiatan penyuluhan peserta telah memahami tata cara penerapan metode pengajaran Total Physical Response (TPR).

The reason why the writers conducted the research is to know the correlations among reading attitude, and motivation of urban students, and parental involvement towards their reading comprehension achievement of four private polytechnics in Palembang 2018/2019. In conducting the research, the writers used the method of quantitative-correlation. The sample was 99 students and the random sampling method was used.  All the data were analyzed with Multiple Regression. The instrument to collect data in this research is the reading comprehension test comprising 40 questions in terms of multiple choices. The results show that (1) reading attitude has a positive influence towards reading comprehension achievement in which t1= 2.596, p-value = 0.011/2 = 0.0055 < 0.05, (2) reading motivation has a positive influence towards reading comprehension achievement in which t2= 4.658, p-value = 0.000/2 = 0 < 0.05, (3) parental involvement significantly influences students’ reading comprehension achievement in which t3= 6.21, p-value = 0.000/2 = 0 < 0.05, and (4) FCal is 31.189, p-value = 0.000 < 0.05 which imply that students’ reading attitude, students’ reading motivation, and parental involvement positively affect students’ reading comprehension achievement.