This research is aimed to conduct research about using Group Investigation Method to improve students’ speaking ability. Therefore, the researcher observed in English Department of Sorong Muhammadiyah University. The researcher uses quantitative method and the design of this research used pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The sample of this research was taken from third semester of class C in Teacher and Trainning Education Faculty in English Department of Sorong Muhammadiyah University. The sample was taken with randomized sampling and consisted of 30 students. Based on the result teaching reading used collaborative strategy reading at the second year students of SMP Negeri 1 sorong. The researcher found that the teaching reading using collaborative strategy reading did not give much influence to students reading ability. With the use of Collaborative Strategy Reading in teaching and learning made the students very happy and they think that the strategy of reading was interested in improving the foreign language of them. They gave good response and active in the class. Where the mean score of pre test was 31,67 and the mean score of post test was 46,67 and the t – test was 12.5 and t - table was 1.714. Based on the analysis of the research, Collaborative Strategy Reading,did not give much influence to student reading ability.This statement was proved because in control group students also could improve their reading skill well at the second year students of SMP Negeri 1 Sorong When the t- test was 12.5 more high than t- table was 1.714.

Kegiatan Pelatihan dan Pendampingan ini dilakukan untuk memberikan pembinanan dalam kontes debat Bahasa Inggris dan pengembangan kemampuan berbicara Bahasa Inggris bagi mahasiswa Universitas Muhammadiyah Sorong. Tahapan-tahapan dalam kegiatan ini adalah 1). Planning atau perencanaan, 2) Pelaksanaan yaitu sosialisasikan tentang Teknik debat Bahasa Inggris yang mengadopsi British Parliamentary System. 3). Evaluasi yaitu dengan membuat kelompok yang terdiri dari Government and Opposition kemudian melakukan simulasi debat yang membahas tentang topik yang telah disiapkan. Metode dalam kegiatan ini adalah memberikan pendampingan yang dilakukan oleh para isntruktur. Berdasarkan hasil pengamatan dan evaluasi, peserta termotivasi dan mulai percaya diri menggunakan Bahasa Inggris selama pelatihan dan pendampingan debat. Selama proses pendampingan dan pelatihan, ada kendala yang dihadapi peserta yaitu kurangannya vocabular atau kosa kata. Kegiatan ini dilakukan untuk dapat mempersiapkan peserta debat Bahasa Inggris National University Debating Championship (NUDC) tingkat regional maupun tingkat nasional.

This research aimed to describe the approach of effective and ineffective teaching approaches used by EFL teacher as perceived by the students. This research was designed using qualitative research. This research applied the purposive sampling technique by considering students' English Achievement. The subject of this research was the seventy-five students of the secondary school in Maros regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The data was collected through class discussion and focus group discussion. In analyzing the data, the researchers used qualitative data analysis. The results of this research suggest EFL teachers' use four effective teaching approach used by EFL teacher in the secondary school; they are communicative, cooperative learning, audio-lingual, and simulation and games. The students believed these approaches stimulate the students' activeness and participation in the classroom. There is three ineffective teaching approach used by EFL teacher in the secondary school; they are lecturing, grammar translation, and direct teaching.

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the conventional learning process. So a solution is needed to answer this problem. Online learning is one alternative that can overcome these problems. This study was to obtain an overview of the implementation of online learning at SMP Muhammadiyah Al-Amin Sorong City as an effort to suppress the spread of Covid-19 at the junior high school level. The researchers focused on the impact of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sample of this study was thirteen consisting of 10 eighth grade students, 1 sports teacher, 1 computer teacher, and 1 principal. Data collected through interview techniques. The first is to conduct semi-structured interviews with 10 students who have mobile phones as a tool for participating in online learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact felt during online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The second conducted interviews with 2 teachers and the principal. The purpose of the interview is to support data from the results of student interviews. The results of this study show that there are positive impact, 7 participants feel that online learning does not interfere with their activities, and 5 participants feel that online learning saves their transportation money, and 5 participants better understand the online learning process, because it is helped by material sources on the internet. While the negative impact, 5 participants felt that the learning process was inefficient, 4 participants considered the learning materials provided could not be understood because of the limited internet connection, and 4 participants thought they had to spend more to buy data packages, as an effort to be able to take online learning.

This study aims to identify the role of Muhammadiyah's higher-educational institutions in fostering religious tolerance in West Papua. Applying the qualitative method, this research is conducted in three Muham­­­ma­diyah higher-educational institutions in West Papua i.e., Universitas Muham­madiyah Sorong (UM Sorong) Sorong City, Uni­versitas Pendidikan Muham­madiyah Sorong (UNIMUDA) Sorong Regency, and Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pen­didikan (STKIP) Muham­ma­diyah Manok­wari. The results showed that Muham­ma­diyah’s higher-educational institutions are inclusive in terms of spiritual understanding. In fostering religious tolerance there are three approaches taken by the three Muhammadiyah higher-educational institutions in West Papua: 1) social approach, 2) cultural approach, and 3) excellent service approaches. The strategies implemented the role includes: 1) dissem­ina­ting Muham­madiyah’s vision and mission, 2) inculcating tolerance values since the beginning of students joining Muham­madiyah higher-educational institutions, 3) strengthening tolerance value by lecturing processes, conducting, sharing sessions both formally and informally, and 4) empowering student activity units and other facilities that support multicultural student interaction processes.