This research aims at developing the Intensive Reading material for the second-semester English Language Education Program students. It is a Research and Development study that was done by using Reeves’ (2000) Design-Based Research model. Tomlinson’s (1998) definition of learning material is also used as one of the considerations in developing the material since the material needed by the students should contribute to the students’ needs. The needs analysis showed that the intensive reading skills are still considered difficult for some students. Additionally, the content of the product is based on the syllabus and the Outcome Based Education (OBE) curriculum. The researchers develop 11 units of Intensive Reading material based on the previous needs analysis data. It covers the descriptive, narrative, recount, and procedure text materials, as those types of text are supposed to be taught in the Intensive Reading class. Moreover, materials related to the intensive reading skills such as scanning, skimming, previewing, predicting, building a powerful vocabulary, context clues, and understanding topic, main idea, and paragraph are also included in the final product. The Intensive Reading materials were validated by two experts and will be tried out to the second-semester students and three English lecturers in the English Language Education Program of Universitas Brawijaya Malang.

Tujuan dari pengabdian kepada masyarakat tahun berkelanjutan ini adalah untuk memberikan pendampingan kepada para guru bahasa Inggris SMA/MA se-Malang Raya untuk melakukan penelitian tindakan kelas serta menuliskan hasilnya dalam laporan penelitian berupa karya ilmiah yang akan dipublikasikan pada jurnal. Metode yang digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan ini adalah dengan menyelenggarakan pendampingan penelitian dan penulisan artikel untuk jurnal dalam 32 jam daring dan tatap muka yang dilakukan selama 8 pertemuan. Namun, karena adanya kondisi krisis akibat pandemi, penelitian yang dapat didampingi bukan dalam bentuk penelitian tindakan kelas namun difokuskan pada penelitian yang dapat dilakukan di masa pandemi, jadi tidak hanya berfokus pada penelitian tindakan kelas saja. Hasil dari pengabdian ini adalah 5 artikel yang layak terbit di jurnal bereputasi. Pengabdian ini merupakan pengabdian berkelanjutan dari dua tahun sebelumnya, sehingga diharapkan para guru bahasa Inggris dapat membangun kebiasaan untuk melakukan penelitian dalam memecahkan permasalahan dalam pengajaran bahasa Inggris dan dapat menuliskan dalam artikel untuk diterbitkan dalam jurnal yang sesuai sehingga dapat meningkatkan profesionalismenya.

Since 2018, there are 2.449 pre-service teachers (PSTs) prepared to be professional teachers. In Indonesia, those PSTs are enrolled in the professional development program called PPG. To become a teacher, they have to obey teacher professionalism regulated in the Law Number 14 Year 2005 explaining, among others, that teacher roles, teacher competencies, and teacher professional development programs are the important aspects in determining teacher professionalism. This research aims to know their perspectives towards teacher professionalism. The method used was the qualitative research method and a narrative inquiry research design. The subjects were ten pre-service English teachers who have different background of studies, experiences, and even interests in becoming teachers. An adapted semi-structured interview guideline from Yuwono (2008) and FGD guideline developed from 4 previous studies and the Law Number 14 Year 2005 were employed to collect the data. To avoid bias data, triangulation of source and methodology was conducted. The results show that the PSTs thought that it has to be more flexible and practical. They also revealed that teacher roles, teacher competencies and teacher professional development program are the determiners of teacher professionalism as what is explained in the law. However, they considered that teacher roles can be supportive aspect towards teacher competencies performed in the classroom. Thus, teacher competencies are the most dominant factor that can influence and determine teacher professionalism. Further, professional teacher certification consisting various professional development programs is needed to improve their competencies.

A translator must have a thorough grasp of a language and its culture in order to determine the most appropriate interpretation while being true to the culture's intent. They must understand the translation technique and category to maintain consistency while translating cultural texts such as idioms and culture-specific items. This study explored translation procedures for idioms and culture-specific items, as well as their categories, in light of these considerations. The researcher did a descriptive qualitative study utilizing two instruments from Lucy M. Montgomery's original novel "Anne's House of Dreams," which was first published in 1917 and had 275 pages. Meanwhile, Maria M. Lubis released a 275-page Indonesian translation in 1998. According to the findings, there were 146 data points for idioms and 26 data points for culture-specific things. The most common translation approach utilized was Translation by Paraphrase, and the least common was Translation by Omission, according to the initial statistics on idioms. Meanwhile, the second set of data on Culture-specific Items revealed that Transfer was the most regularly utilized translation approach, while Deletion was the least. Finally, the most often used category for classification was Ecology. Overall, we believe that this study will aid readers in comprehending translation.