The purpose to be reached in conducting this study is to share information about the use of flash card as instructional media to enrich the students' vocabulary mastery in learning English. It is true to say that there are lots of instructional media available in such a way that they can be used as the assistance for the teachers to deliver the materials as well as for the students to understand the materials. Accoding to certain research findings done by the students of English department of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University, it is recommended that the teachers should apply various media to improve the quality of teaching and learning English in the classroom, such as role play, flash card, and picture series. However, the are many students from elementary school up to university level still get difficulties when they learn English. The students cannot listen carefully and get misunderstanding, they also hesitate to speak English, they do not understand the difficult words when they read English passage, and they cannot write good sentences and/or paragraphs in English as well. From those points above, it is clear that the use of flash card can be expected to be the solution to solve the problems occurred in attempts to increase the vocabulary mastery for the students when learning English. Besides, the use of flash card can also make the vocabulary learning become enjoyable and interesting. Flash card can be an excellent media to be used because there are many students interested in flash card. In flash card they can stimulate their imagination to develop their ideas and they can learn and find new vocabulary.

The aim to be reached in conducting this study is to develop suitable English materials for the students of the Information System Department at Technology and Information Faculty of Mathla’ul Anwar University so that they can study what they need to learn. The development will produce an English textbook (module) that is relevant to the objective of curriculum and the needs of the students. It is expected that lecturers and the students can take advantage of the product of the development. The design of this study is categorized under Research and Development (R&D) with analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. From the research that has been done, it can be concluded that the module is developed which is more valid, practical and effective. The analysis of the validity of the module can be seen from the aspect of content and presentation. The future suggestion for other researchers is to develop an English language module specifically for education. Students need a special book that is more relevant to be a reference for using English in the context of teaching. Because English is an international language, English course in the Information System Department is expected to contribute to all aspects of life, especially when the students graduate from university

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This paper explores the result of an appraisal analysis found in the editorial board of the Jakarta Post newspaper entitled “What the Pandemic Teaches Us”. The appraisal analysis focused on attitude, graduation, and engagement aspect. The findings show that the three kinds of attitudes, i.e affect, judgement and appreciation are applied in the texts, but mostly are judgement and appreciation. The types of the items are in the form of a word, nominal group, and clause. Meanwhile, the engagement mostly is mostly heterogloss. Most of the graduation is force and the scaling of graduation is up-scaled