The impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the education system is inevitable that higher education institutions choose to transform their instructional practices to entirely online using specific platforms. This shifting comes with challenges to students as they are demanded to be independent and autonomous. This study investigated the students’ readiness and perception towards being an autonomous learner in online language-learning. This case study investigated 25 students who joined online language learning by the WhatApps group in an English department of  STAI Sufyan Tsauri Majenang. The data were gained by giving an online questionnaire, having an online interview with some students who were chosen randomly, and also assigning students self-report. The data showed that the students do not have enough autonomy in online language-learning. It means that the students are not ready to be autonomous learners in online language learning. The result of the study indicated that the students prefer having a face to face class and direct guidance from the teacher where 66.9% of the same students prefer learning in class or face to face meeting. In comparison, only 18.5 % who share no problem having an online class. 14.6% of them enjoy both options. This finding suggests that teachers need some strategies to promote and foster students’ learner autonomy to achieve learning objectives in online language learning.

This study reports the result of a qualitative case study research design. This study aims to explore teachers' beliefs about teaching English for Vocational school, to investigate how those beliefs are reflected in classroom practices, and to explore that affect the shaping of teachers' beliefs in the teaching and learning process. The participant of this study were six English teachers from three different vocational high schools in Majenang. The data was taken using a semi-structured interview, documentation, and classroom observation. Then the data was analyzed using line by line analysis. Teaching English in Vocational High School is believed different from Senior High school (SHS) as it belongs to English for specific purposes (ESP) and demands different knowledge of material, method, and strategies. The result shows that the teacher’s beliefs are not always realized in their classroom practices for a variety of potential reasons. The inconsistency between belief and practices are related to various factors, including class density, time constrains, incompatibility of the assigned text-books, huge workload, and students need.

Most of writing teachers agree that writing skill is the most difficult subject for foreign language learners. The difficulties come from complexity of planning, idea organization, revision, and the use of lexical and grammatical. Correcting or giving feedback to students’ writing is also difficult for teachers, since it takes time and energy. Thus, this study tried to explore students’ perception towards teachers’ attitude in writing correction by distributing questionnaire to 20 students and 4 writing teachers, observing the teaching activities, and documenting students’ work. The study showed the result that teachers and students responses revealed various discrepancies between teachers and students’ perception for error and mistake correction. Then, most of students indicated that they do not understand the teachers’ feedback towards their writing composition. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers incorporate classroom discussions on error correction, feedback, and writing in order to help their students understand how feedback is intended to affect their writing and why it is given in particular way.

Listening is one of the most important skills which should be had by students of English as foreign language. Listening has a vital part in learning foreign language especially in term of communication because many of students’ activities are used to listen. However, students’ listening comprehension has not met good result yet. This study was conducted to find out the impact of using dictogloss in improving students’ listening comprehension achievement. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental study. By using purposive sampling, the samples were taken from the second grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Pandeglang. The experimental class was taught by using dictogloss, while the control class was taught without using dictogloss. Test was used as the primary instrument in collecting the data. The final mean scores gained from both classes were analyzed by using t-test with significance level of α = 0.05. It was found that the mean score of experimental class was 67.6, while the control class was 59.96. The statistical computation of gained score revealed that the t-value was 2.53, and the t-table at α = 0.05 is 1.668. This data show that the gained t-value is greater than t-table. It means that there was a significance difference of two mean scores gained. Therefore, it can be concluded that dictogloss brings positive influence to students’ listening comprehension achievement, and it can be an alternative technique to be used in teaching listening in the classroom.

Motivation to learn is one of the factors that influence learning success. The greater the motivation to learn, the greater the opportunity to achieve learning success. The zoning system is a policy for admitting new students by using the distance between the studeZnt's residence and the school. With this system, the implementation of the admission of new students is no longer seen in terms of value. So the zoning system will undermine learning motivation. Because to enter your favorite school, you don't need high grades and abilities. The formulation of the problem discussed is how the zoning system is implemented in SMP Negeri 1 Majenang, what factors affect student motivation, how is the impact of the zoning system on the learning motivation of SMP Negeri 1 Majenang students. The aim is to provide an overview of the impact of the zoning system on student motivation at SMP Negeri 1 Majenang. This type of research is field research with a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques in the form of questionnaires, interviews, observation. The analysis technique uses descriptive qualitative analysis. The results of the research on the impact of the zoning system on the learning motivation of students of SMP Negeri 1 Majenang as a whole are still relatively good with a percentage of 65%. Factors that influence student learning motivation consist of internal and external factors. The grouping system implemented at SMP Negeri 1 Majenang makes learning more effective and efficient.