The quality of Islamic Religion Education textbooks is still considered to be minimum. It has not been effective yet and been less valuable for pre-teacher students in teacher training and education university. This research aims to develop the PAI textbook based on characters education and nationalist soul in order to reduce radicalization towards religious understanding. Research method used in this research was research and development. The subjects and objects of this paper were PAI textbook and students of STKIP Al-Hikmah Surabaya. The data collected were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. The results show that the book meets the needs of pre-teacher students. The students’ responses towards the effectiveness, the quality, the standardization, and the value of developed PAI Textbook products is higher than the old book. The newest handbook average percentage is 85% compared to the old book, which shows 50% in percentage. This book is very valid and worth to use. The results of joint validation according to the expert reviewers and the students indicate that this book is suitable to use and it is categorized as "Very Good" which has 4.32 or 86% percentage in average score.Buku Ajar Pendidikan Agama Islam masih memiliki kualitas standar minimal, belum efektif, dan kurang bernilai tambah bagi calon pendidik di perguruan tinggi keguruan dan ilmu pendidikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan Buku Ajar PAI berbasis pendidikan karakter dan jiwa nasionalis sebagai upaya deradikalisasi pemahaman agama. Metode penelitian menggunakan penelitian dan pengembangan. Subjek dan obyek penelitian adalah Buku Ajar PAI dan mahasiswa STKIP Al-Hikmah Surabaya. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa buku ini memenuhi kebutuhan calon pendidik. Nilai rata-rata respon mahasiswa terhadap efektifitas, kualitas, standarisasi, dan nilai tambah produk buku PAI baru lebih tinggi daripada buku lama. Persentase skor rata-rata buku baru 85%,  lebih tinggi daripada buku lama 50%. Buku ini juga sangat valid dan layak untuk digunakan. Hasil validasi menurut pakar ahli dan mahasiswa menunjukkan buku ini layak digunakan dengan predikat “Sangat Baik” dengan skor rata-rata 4,32 atau persentase 86%.

Measuring the accuracy of a private university in Batam Business English course curriculum to the present needs of workplaces in Batam from students’ perception is essential. Because 85% of the university students are working, it is compulsory to maintain the gap low between what students learned in class and what is implemented in the working field. A questionnaire consists of three dimensions (curriculum, communication performance, and motivation) distributed randomly to 60 students from a population (N=328) of the third-semester students programmed Business English course at a private university in Batam. The result suggested that the curriculum needs to add more practices, peer work, and case studies to improve students’ communication performance. Students’ perspectives in the Business English course reflected a new technical vocabulary that needed to practice in a correlated context. The curriculum content’s relevance to the workplace’s contextual needs is moderately related because not all working students used the English language in their workplace. Additional focus on internal and external motivation through group work and peer work is needed to improve students’ communication performance and confidence. Finally, the existing Business English curriculum is reasonably accurate, supporting students’ communication performance, both written and oral, at their workplace.

Listening and reading play an essential role in students learning English as a foreign language. Recognizing freshmen students’ English language proficiency through the University Test of English Proficiency (UTEP) helps the university to portray the batch performance and decide future policies and teaching strategies for the English lesson. This is important for the EFL teachers developing teaching strategies that are suitable for students. However, a study to describe the current phenomena of the first freshmen students and the existence of the relationship between UTEP listening and reading proficiency scores also needed to be conducted for the sake of UTEP's continuous improvement as an assessment instrument. Therefore, the present study aims to (1) investigate the descriptive statistics of the current batch first UTEP; and (2) find out the existing relationship between freshmen students’ UTEP reading and listening proficiency scores. A quantitative method was applied to describe the current UTEP scores statistically and to find out the degree of correlation coefficient of freshmen students’ first UTEP. The data was collected from 863 freshmen students who took their first UTEP and statistically analyzed using SPSS version 26. The results revealed that there is a positive and quite strong relationship between freshmen students’ UTEP reading and listening proficiency scores. Finally, this report could be used for further consideration for stakeholders in developing teaching strategies for the batch and evaluating the current UTEP for encouraging better tests and continuous improvement to enhance graduates’ English language proficiency and accomplish the expected output.

As English becomes more relevant in today, speaking English in Indonesia needs to be improved to subsidize the change. Therefore, to improve Indonesian students English speaking performance, the usage of Topic Based Vlog is implemented. Therefore, the study aims to find the impact of the usage of TBV to improve the English-speaking performance for higher education student especially at UIB. The quantitative research method was implemented for this research. Then, to conduct research the Experimental method by having one group pre-test post-test was designed in the integrated speaking and listening class batch 2020. 20 English education students participated by producing a Vlog during the research. The TBV was based according to the lesson's schedule, for five weeks students have to make a vlog according to the topics based on the lesson's schedule. After conducting the vlog, the researcher manages the data by using paired sample T-test. The result of the t-test shows the sig. (2-tailed) equals 0.00 < 0.05, meaning that the result of the study shows TBV could significantly improve students’ English-speaking performance. The study finds that students particularly improve in vocabularies and grammar. And according to the interview TBV can also improve abilities beyond speaking such as confidence, student’s expressiveness, and many other. This study could become an outlook to the possibility of topic-based vlog as a means to improve the students speaking performance in UIB and other higher education institutions.Abstract: As English becomes more relevant in today, speaking English in Indonesia needs to be improved to subsidize the change. Therefore, to improve Indonesian students English speaking performance, the usage of Topic Based Vlog is implemented. Therefore, the study aims to find the impact of the usage of TBV to improve the English-speaking performance for higher education student especially at UIB. The quantitative research method was implemented for this research. Then, to conduct research the Experimental method by having one group pre-test post-test was designed in the integrated speaking and listening class batch 2020. 20 English education students participated by producing a Vlog during the research. The TBV was based according to the lesson's schedule, for five weeks students have to make a vlog according to the topics based on the lesson's schedule. After conducting the vlog, the researcher manages the data by using paired sample T-test. The result of the t-test shows the sig. (2-tailed) equals 0.00 < 0.05, meaning that the result of the study shows TBV could significantly improve students’ English-speaking performance. The study finds that students particularly improve in vocabularies and grammar. And according to the interview TBV can also improve abilities beyond speaking such as confidence, student’s expressiveness, and many other. This study could become an outlook to the possibility of topic-based vlog as a means to improve the students speaking performance in UIB and other higher education institutions.Keywords: Speaking English, speaking performance, improving Speaking, Vlog, Topic Based Vlog, Teaching Method