The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the problems in communication experienced by senior high school students in Jambi City. Students in their final year of secondary education in Jambi City served as participants in this study. This study was carried out at SMAN 03, SMAN 08, and SMAN 11 Jambi City, all of which are recognized educational institutions. There were a total of 130 students in the tenth grade that took part in this research. The research was a quantitative study that was designed in the form of a survey. The questionnaire was the instrument that was employed for this study. There are a total of 25 questions on the questionnaire, all of which pertain to the difficulty that students have expressing themselves verbally regarding linguistics and psychological issues. The findings of this study also suggested that the students attending the three authorized institutions had the perception that psycholog

This study attempts to see the effect of Think, Talk, and Write strategy on the students’ narrative writing competence. Considering the importance of the use of teaching media, this study tries to integrate Stick Figure as a teaching media in Think, Talk, and Write Strategy. A quasi experimental study was conducted to see the improvement of the students’ narrative writing competence. It involved 42 students who were selected on the basis of convenience sampling and assigned into two groups; experimental and control groups. The statistical analyses of paired sample t-test in experimental group showed that there was significant improvement on the students’ writing competence before (M=5.77, SD= 2.342) and after (M= 11.79, SD= 2.342), t(21)=12.059, p<0.05.Moreover, the result of independent t-test between experimental and control groups showed a significant difference. It can be seen that the mean differences was 3.79545 and the significance value is lower than 0.05, 0.000<0.05.

This study aims to determine the mathematical critical thinking disposition of vocational school students in mathematics learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of six indicators, i.e., 1) truth-seeking, 2) open-mindedness, 3) analyticity, 4) systematicity, 5) self-confidence, 6) curiosity. The research methodology used is a qualitative methodology with a case study research design. The research sample was vocational students in Cirebon and Indramayu who were carrying out online learning. The research data were taken by providing a mathematical critical thinking disposition questionnaire distributed online via Google Form. This study shows that the mathematical critical thinking disposition of vocational school students during the COVID-19 pandemic on the truth-seeking indicator got a percentage of 57.60% in the excellent category, the open-minded indicator got a percentage of 76.04% in the excellent category, the systematic indicator got a percentage of 72.79 % in the excellent category, the analytical indicator got a percentage of 66.23% in enough category, the confidence indicator got a percentage of 62.07% in enough category, and the curiosity indicator got a percentage of 68.49% in enough category. The achievement of all indicators got a percentage of 67.19% and is in the good category. This means that students have good attitudes or tendencies to think rationally and reflectively to make decisions under certain conditions.

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Applying certain method in teaching English is important to fulfill the students' need in acquiring language, but having the students attending the learning process is the requirement in presenting effective teaching experience to the students. Effective teaching can be applied as long as the students 'motivation and willingness to learn and respond to the experience exist. However, the issue of being unmotivated in learning process keeps arising. This study, as a matter of fact, tries to bring the evidence of the implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching as a method of teaching English as Foreign Language which is believed can enhance students' language learning motivation. Rather than asking the students opinion about the improvement on their motivation, this study believes in the objectiveness of using observation sheet to analyze the students on-task and off-task behavior. The results of observations show that there is a significant increase in students' motivation during the implementation of the method. The results indeed give the evidence that there is a statistically significant difference between the scores of overall class motivation in the experimental group and control group. Keywords-task-based language teaching; motivation; on task behavior; off task behavior3rd Asian Education Symposium (AES 2018)