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.

Abstract. As a written representation of society, novel contains sociolinguistic issues which deserve a comprehensive analysis one of which is the use of slang words. This study explored slang words used in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a novel written by Jesse Andrews. The aims of this study were to categorize types of slang words used in the novel and to explain the interpretations of them. The data were collected from the dialogues in the novel. Using qualitative approach, the writer used the theory of Chapman (1988) to classify the data into their types. To explain the interpretations of slang words, the writer analyzed the role relationship among the speakers, the way the actors speak, and the meaning of each slang word found using slang dictionaries.  The analysis reveals that as the relationship among the actors are equal and they naturally raise within the community, actors in the novel dominantly use primary slang words. Conversation using secondary slang words take place when the actors are not engaged within the community.Keywords: Novel, Slang Words, Sociolinguistics

The use of code-mixing in any social media platform rises significantly. As one of currently popular social media, Instagram is mostly-found platform to mixing languages in users’ caption posts. Observing 10 captions written by an instagram-based influencer known with selebgram,, this study aims at (1) finding out code-mixing practices from the captions; and (2) classifying them into types of code-mixing based on Musyken’s theory. The captions were written by a celebrity, a trendsetter for Indonesian teenagers who use English as their target language. This study finds that (1) there are 10 code-mixing uses found in the 10 captions which are classified into (2) alternation type for 8 times, and congruent lexicalization type for 2 times.

Pengabdian kemasyarakatan ini mengangkat tema “Meningkatkan pesan moral dalam cerita pendek anak melalui aktifitas membaca”. Kegiatn ini diadakan di RW 16 Kelurahan Benda Baru, Pamulang 2. Di setiap minggunya, anak-anak di RW 16 ini mengikuti kegiatan informal untuk meningkatkan kemampuan mereka dalam berbahasa Inggris. Kegiatan ini dikoordinir oleh pengurus RW setempat. Hal ini untuk mendukung mereka agar lebih dapat mengembangkan  kemampuan mereka yang mungkin tidak mereka dapat di sekolah mereka. Tiga media utama yang digunakan dalam kegiatan pengabdian kemasyarakatan kali ini adalah teks bacaan cerita anak berbahasa Inggris, buku aktifitas peserta, video panduan dari para pembimbing. Teks bacaan anak berbahasa Inggris adalah media utama yang digunakan peserta untuk memahami pesan moral melalui kesusastraan dalam kontek kehidupan anak-anak. Kemudian buku aktifitas membaca dibuat oleh pembimbing dari Tim PkM yang merupakan teks bacaan  cerita anak berbahasa Inggris berikut dengan instruksi-instruksi aktifitas membaca. Lalu video yang dibuat oleh para pembimbing yang merupakan mahasiswa Universitas Pamulang. Video ini diperuntukkan agar memudahkan para peserta mengerti dan memahami instruksi instruksi dalam buku aktifitas membaca yang diberikan pembimbing kepada peserta. Dari semua hal tersebut maka hasil yang didapat oleh Tim PkM adalah peningkatan pemahaman peserta mengenai pesan moral yang terkandung di dalam cerita berikut kosakatanya.