Development in ICT has resulted in innovations in terms of new applications and software to use in education, one of them is in the English language teaching. This study aims to find out the strengths and drawbacks of LyricsTraining implementation as one example of the web-based CALL in the Basic Listening course, one of the obligatory courses in the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University. LyricsTraining is a website that integrates audio and video taken from YouTube with the song lyrics. It allows the students to play the music video and requires them to type in the missing lyrics or choose from the options provided. Survey was used as the method of this study, involving 30 first semester students from one class of Basic Listening course as the participants. Questionnaire with close and open-ended questions was used to gather the data. The results of this study describe the strengths as well as the drawbacks of the implementation of LyricsTraining in the Basic Listening course experienced by the students.

English is an international language that most people in the world use to communicate. Video or movie is one of the effective media to be used in a language classroom. In the English Language Education Study Program (ELESPA) of Sanata Dharma University, movies with English subtitles were used in a class as a learning media. This research aims to know how ELESP students perceive English subtitled movies as learning media. There are two research questions in this research: (1) What is the ELESP students perception on the use of English subtitled movie? (2) What are the effects of using English subtitled movie for ELESP students? The researcher used a survey as the method in this research. The participants for this research were the students from C class batch 2016. The instruments used by the researcher were questionnaire and interview. The results of this research showed that most of the respondents had a positive perception of the use of English subtitled movies.

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EFL students speaking skill at the university level is normally assessed through presentations in the teaching and learning activities. Therefore, the ability to deliver effective presentations is needed as it affects the EFL students competence in speaking. Most EFL students choose to use Microsoft PowerPoint to deliver their presentations in class. However, the additional pressure given to present in English normally causes them to include as much information as possible on their slides. They have the tendency to focus too much on the content and neglect the delivery aspect. As a result, most of the students only end up reading aloud their text-heavy slides, which often leads to boredom. Pecha Kucha is then introduced as a creative and innovative presentation format to improve EFL students speaking skill in delivering presentations. It is a simple, concise and effective presentation format which allows only twenty (20) slides that will advance automatically for 20 seconds each. The results of the study show that the use of Pecha Kucha has increased the EFL students speaking skill in delivering presentations. It is shown from the increased mean scores of the students presentation scores from before and after Pecha Kucha is used. It is also strengthened by the results of the interview on two students stating that Pecha Kucha has improved their speaking skill in delivering effective presentations in terms of the language use, speech delivery and interaction with audience.DOI:doi.org/10.24071/llt.2019.220109

Vocabulary is one of the most important parts of language acquisition. Without vocabulary, people will not be able to deliver the message of the conversation. Therefore, students need to develop their vocabulary in order to be able to communicate in English. This research was conducted to investigate on how short story helped students on acquiring English Vocabulary in Basic Reading 2 Class. Therefore, the researcher had formulated two research questions: How do short stories help students to learn vocabulary in Basic Reading 2 class? and What are the activities using short stories that can be applied to teach vocabulary in Basic Reading 2 class? Theories from Nation (1990) and Parvareshbar Ghoorchaei (2016) were used to answer the research question formulated. Survey method was conducted in this research. The data were collected using observation sheet and field notes that were used to note the activities conducted in the class of thirty second semester students who were enrolled in Basic Reading 2 class, also an interview with the lecturer of Basic Reading 2 class. The result of this research is that there are five activities conducted by the lecturer. Two of the activities are stated in the theory by Nation (1990) and the other three were found in the teaching and learning process. Future researchers are suggested to explore more methods that will benefit the students of Basic Reading 2 class in their process of learning new vocabulary.