In 2016, Jember Regency was the largest rice production center in East Java, but there were still many rice farmers who were not empowered. In 2017, Jember Regency became one of the pilot projects of the Agromaritim Hulu Hilir Agriculture Program held by East Java Province. The purpose of this study is to describe the empowerment model of rice farmers by PEMDA as a function of empowerment. The research approach uses a qualitative approach. The technique of determining the informant using purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the model of empowerment of rice farmers carried out by the local government of Jember in the Agromaritim Upstream Program in the Field of Agriculture was a partnership empowerment model. Stakeholders in this program include the government of East Java Province,

This study investigates how conjunctions are used for organizing ideas in abstracts of linguistics and literature theses written by undergraduate students of English Department in an Indonesian university. It also reveals the similarities in the ways conjunctions being used in the abstracts. It employs descriptive qualitative design to examine 82 abstracts which have been collected from 41 linguistics and 41 literature theses. The abstracts are analyzed by classifying and calculating the use of conjunctions using conjunctions taxonomy proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2014). The study finds that six abstracts do not apply conjunctions. While the rest use the three types of conjunctions: elaboration, extension, and enhancement. Elaborating conjunctions are used appropriately, whereas extending and enhancing conjunctions are partly inappropriately. Two kinds of inappropriate uses of conjunctions are misuse and overuse. The use of conjunctions in abstracts of linguistics and literature theses is quite similar in the ways they are used and total number of their uses. Certain conjunctions are present in the abstracts, while the others are inexistent. Both kinds of abstracts mostly use extending conjunctions, more especially positive additives. It can be concluded that the use of conjunctions varies in terms of their appropriateness. Inappropriate uses of conjunctions evince that EFL (English as a foreign language) learners had difficulty in using conjunctions in their writing. The students whose abstracts do not apply conjunctions connected the ideas in their abstracts using words and/or phrases which are excluded in the theoretical framework of this study. More similarities than differences in the ways conjunctions being used in the two kinds of abstracts prove that students from the same department of study had the same discourses.

English Department students are expected to be able to write an academic essay as they learn the theories of writing an academic essay in Writing courses. Yet, their academic essays still contain structure errors. This study aims to analyze the structure errors in the fields of unity and coherence. The methods of this study are first identifying the structure errors on the data and second classifying the errors on whether the error is about the unity or coherence. The finding shows a significant number of errors on unity and coherence in most paragraphs of the essays.

This study aims to develop a learning media, namely a smart board. This learning media is highly recommended to be implemented in both low and high grades of elementary schools. This study applies qualitative research since it focuses on in-depth observation. Therefore, the use of qualitative methods in research can produce a more comprehensive study of a phenomenon. Data collection techniques used are interviews, tests, and observations. The validation results obtained were 96.15% which means that the smart board learning media can be applied. Based on the results of the data that have been obtained, it can be concluded that the knowledge or cognitive abilities of fifth grade students at SDN Bluru Kidul 2 Sidoarjo increased with the application of smart board learning media. In other words, the actions carried out in the study were said to be successful without any further action