The objective of the research was to find out whether or not the used of digital storytelling can improve students’ speaking fluency at SMA Muhammadiyah 9 Makassar. The researcher used a purposive sampling method and took only class XII the sample of the research which consisted of 37 students. In addition the researcher applied an instrument of the research namely oral test. In pre-test and post-tes the researcher gave topics through digital storytelling to stimulate the students to speak in front of the class. In pre-test and pos-test the students one by one to speak face to face with the researcher in the class.Based on the result of the data analysis it was found that the mean score of pre-test was 3.45 and the mean score of post-test 4.54. by applying the level of significance 0.05 with the degreeof fredom (df) = 37 - 1 = 36, it was found that the result of t-test was 10.33 which was greater that t-table value 1.688. It mean that the alternative hypothesis was accepted and Null hypothesis was rejected. It could be conducted that digital storytelling materials was significant effect toward students speaking fluency through asking and answer question.

Analyzing the Challenges of English Teachers in Facing Students' Affective Competencies at SMA 1 Muhammadiyah Makassar Thesis Department of English, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Makassar. Supervised by Nunung Anugrawati and Ardiana. This study was conducted to determine the purpose of the study, namely to describe Challenges of English Teachers in Facing Students' Affective Competencies at SMA 1 Muhammadiyah Makassar. The subjects in this study were teachers of SMA 1 Muhammadiyah Makassar. The purpose of this study is to find out what challenges are faced by English teachers in dealing with students' affective competence. The instruments used to collect data are observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis in this study is Analysis (QDA), Data Reduction, and Data Display.The results showed that the challenges of the English teacher in dealing with students' affective competence consisted of two factors, namely internal factors and external factors. The strategy used by the English teacher in dealing with students' infective competence is to make learning methods, namely the discussion method and the game method.

This study aimed at finding out how the students' skills in using subject-verb agreement in writing essays. This research method is descriptive quantitative method. The research data was collected through the writing test as an instrument. The sample of this research was the fifth-semester students of English Education at the Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. The sample was taken by using simple random sampling. Based on the analysis and discussion about this research, the researcher concluded the researcher concluded that the students' ability to use the subject-verb agreement in the fifth semester students of English Education at the Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar was categorized into very good level with a score was 88.24. This value is obtained based on the results of the scores of all students that are divided into the number of students who are the samples of this study. From 35 students, there were 7 students whose mastery levels were excellent, 16 students gained a very good level, 8 students whose mastery levels were good, 3 students gained a good level, 1 student gained a fair level, and no student gained a poor level. Moreover, the last level is very poor and no student gained this level.

This research aimed to find out the teachers’ strategies in overcoming student’ anxiety in speaking English and students’ perception toward the strategies used by the teacher to overcome student’ anxiety in speaking English at SMAN 1 Gowa. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. The data was collected through observation checklist and semi-structured interview. The participants were the English teachers and students of at SMAN 1 Gowa. The researcher took 6 students from 3 classes; the X IPS1, XI IPA1, and XII IPA5 class and there English teachers.The findings showed about the teachers’ strategies to overcome students’ anxiety in speaking English and students’ perceptions toward the strategies used by the teachers. First, there were three strategies that were used by the teachers. The teacher who teaches at X IPS1 (T1) used playing games strategy, the teacher two who teaches at XI IPA1 (T2) used question and answer strategy, and the last teacher who teacher at XII IPA5 (T3) used guess word strategy in overcoming students’  anxiety in speaking English. Second, every single students who became respondents in this research said that they agree with the strategies used by the teacher can overcome their anxiety in speaking English.

This paper is concerned with communication that occurs in the classroom. It aimed at investigating students’ responses on lecturers’ instructional strategies in EFL class. Instructional communication is a field of study that certainly is essential to teachers of speech communication. It focuses on communication variables that can affect any instructional situation, classroom context, or school environment, it is of value to teachers of any subject matter in any discipline as well as to those such as parents who are not teachers by profession but who do engage in instruction periodically. This research used qualitative research method with a case study design. This research was conducted in natural setting. This study was conducted at the campus of state and private universities in South Sulawesi, namely State University of Makassar and Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. There were six lecturers involved in this research from two different universities, and 20 students. Two kinds of instruments were used in collecting data namely observation and interview. In interpretation, it followed Discourse Analysis approach to present the data in extract form. The results the lecturers applied nine strategies to keep the students active the class. Those instructional strategies are using code – switchig, grouping, the use of Information and Communication Technology, feedback, walking arround, humor insertion, question-answer, and scoring system. It can stated that most of students gave positive responses on lecturers’ instructional communication strategies in EFL classroom. They revealed that the strategies applied helped them to actively participate in the classroom.