Indonesian government policy supports the international of education at thesecondary level, consequently more institutions have commenced bilingual programs.Content is taught both in Bahasa Indonesia and English, making code-switching inclassroom discourse. The study was conducted at a single International school inSemarang, East Java, Indonesia. This case study explored in what ways and underwhat circumstances Indonesian teachers and learners use code-switching in theselected bilingual classroom and semi structured interviews with six-bilingual classstudents and teachers at an International secondary school in Semarang, East Java inIndonesia are used to get the data. The finding shows Teachers’ and students’ codeswitchingdemonstrated collectivist phatic functions – for example, teachers codeswitchedto build rapport, remind students and reduce students’ anxiety, and studentscode-switched to show their solidarity and concern for their peers. Thus,interconnectedness was a key characteristic of code-switching by both teachers andstudents. This study argues that code-switching is not just about language deficiency,but involves intentional communicative purposes which support teaching andlearning. It can be concluded that code-switching can be a useful tool to bring aboutunderstanding of unfamiliar concepts and processes as well as the languageassociated with them.

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policy to carry out distance education by employing full online learning. The research explores the EFL students perception toward distance education during Covid19 Pandemic with online collaborative platforms which employed in EFL Students of English Department of a private college in Indonesia. This research used a descriptive case research using purposive sampling techniques by taking 27 respondents from English Department at STKIP PGRI Jombang. The online questionnaire used to collect data on the perception of students by employing online collaborative platforms. The questionnaire are adapted from the technology acceptance model (TAM) constructed by Davis, 1989 with little modification as it excludes the external factors such as the availability of the internet access, and the support from the administration. TAM is possibly the most widely-used framework for measuring technology acceptance, and its high validity has been proven empirically in many previous studies (Basri & Paramma, 2019 and Wiyaka et.al., 2018). The quantitative data was collected using an online questionnaire posted in Google form. The method of descriptive case research in terms of percentage has been used for data processing. The result of this research indicates the positive perception those EFL students of English Department at STKIP PGRI Jombang who took Critical Reading by using online collaborative platforms held on the use of online collaborative platforms. Further research can refer to this Acceptance Model in determining a suitable ICT integrated learning program betien various platform and the user expectations of the online platforms used.

Tenses in grammar are considered to be one of the difficult parts of learning English by most young students,because tenses are not well mastered by students as a simple indicator, general students think twelve or maybe sixteen tenses in English. This conceptual confusion leads to a low budget for applying English in the right limits. According to Merriam Webster gender is a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female. Female and male have different characteristics and different abilities as in understanding grammar. According to Grey (2001) convey that female have the verbal intelligence (language) than male.The type of the research was analytic observational with Microsoft Excel.The study was conducted in English students 2017-B of STKIP PGRI JOMBANG. The population in this study was English students 2017-B of STKIP PGRI JOMBANG. The sample in this study was 10 students that consist 5 male students and 5 female students. The research instrument to collect data was a questioners. The results showed that Gender influences the results of students' understanding of grammar. The factor that most influences the results is the level of student learning. Female is more diligent than male, evidenced by female learning English every day, while male learns English only every month.