This present study reports 30 students' first learning experiences when using Skype in an English Language Teaching (ELT) webinar series. Since numbers of ELT webinars have been flourishing throughout the corona pandemic situation in 2020, the utilization of diverse online platforms to facilitate the events has also been growing. Skype, an online application released in 2003, was not widely used by the participants in this study as their synchronous virtual English Language Learning (ELL) platform. As a result, many of them were not familiar with this application. Underpinning Gibbs' reflective framework, this qualitative scrutiny documented the encountered shortcomings and advantages written in the participants' journal. This study's findings revealed that the Skype-based webinar provides opportunities to stimulate the students' learning motivation, broadens their insights, and offers enjoyable learning circumstances. Despite the opportunities, there were also some drawbacks concerning the lack of intelligibility which generates learning anxiety and technical issues concerning signal stability.

This study aimed to find out the students’ perspective of using Instagram as a writing assignment platform. Using a qualitative research method, this study involved the students of the 2nd semester in English Department Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf Tangerang. There were 61 students in writing class who were involved as the participants. It used the technique of survey with open-ended questionnaire as the instrument of data collection The results show that almost all students have positive perspective towards Instagram as a writing assignment platform. The participants found out that Instagram was fun, easy, and effective media to be used in doing writing assignment. Although, there were also some barriers in using it such as, bad internet network and privacy issue. It can be concluded that, Instagram can be one of useful teaching media, especially for writing, as long as it is used and supervised appropriately.

Afghan women and girls became the portray of the victim of violence in the last years until the recent years. The issue of violence toward Afghan women and girls often arise and being the debate in the international public. The news about the tragedy spread through the newspaper, printed and online, and also in the literature world. The exposure of their sufferings as the impact of war, conflict among the ethnics, Talizam rezim reflected in the Parvana's Trilogy named The Breadwinner (2000), Parvana's Journey (2002), and Mud City (2003). These trilogy were wriiten by Deborah Ellis. How the women and girls became the most victim which received violence caused by all of the trigger displayed obviously show the social facts of violence and the structure of violence toward happened to them. Those will be discussed in this paper to get the deep comprehension about the woman and girls' impact after they get the violence. The theory of violence and framing analysis will be used to analyze in order to get the result of the cause by the viooence and abuse itself. The outcome of the study shows that many efforts done by women and girls to overcome their difficult lives, such as pretending being boys, human trafficking, and living as refugees are the ways to survive from the worst violence caused by the war, conflict between ethnics and Taliban rezime.

Digital storytelling is an innovative and engaging method of learning that has been widely used in various higher education institutions. This research uses a qualitative descriptive analysis method and interviews several students who have created digital storytelling. In this journal, we highlight the importance of digital storytelling as an effective learning tool in higher education and identify the challenges in the process of creating digital storytelling. We also discuss the benefits of using digital storytelling, best practices in its use, and implications and recommendations for educators and higher education institutions. Previous research has shown that digital storytelling is effective in improving students' skills and prosocial behavior in early childhood. Therefore, digital storytelling can be an alternative and effective learning method in higher education

WhatsApp has been extensively used by many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in Indonesia as a near synchronous online learning platform. This program enables users to make announcements, exchange ideas and learning materials, and participate in online debates. Some recent publications inform its utilization in learning language, yet little discusses how students engage in the learning activities. Therefore, to fill this void, the present study aims to investigate the students' behavioral engagement during online learning using WhatsApp. To collect the data, this study employed observation and semi-structured interviews. An observation was completed in one class at a state university in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia to perceive how the students responded to the teacher's instructions during the learning process. Meanwhile, the interviews were conducted with nine students in a similar class. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings revealed that students engaged behaviourally by (1) posing questions or comments politely, (2) using emoticons and emojis as politeness reinforcements, and (3) confirming the unclear information behind the scene. Implications for teaching and further studies are discussed.