<em>Covid-19 outbreak enforced teachers and students to adapt to the situation by doing online learning which automatically involves some online learning applications and platforms. These programs allow teachers and students to conduct the teaching and learning activities even though they are currently in different places. Therefore, choosing and using appropriate and relevant learning applications and platforms could support the online teaching and learning process to take place. This research attempts to investigate platforms and applications used by EFL teachers in Surabaya during the remote teaching. Also, factors interfering the use particular applications and platforms were studied to see teachers’ considerations in preparing online teaching platforms and applications. There are 31 EFL teachers in Surabaya who teach senior high school students participating in this research. A questionnaire and a follow-up interview were employed to obtain research data. The result revealed that there are four categories of online learning applications found in this research, including Learning Management System, Content maker, Video Conference as well as chat and messages applications. Meanwhile, four factors interfering teachers to choose and use the platform and applications were revealed: application features, school’s policy, teachers’ familiarity, and financial consideration.</em>

<p>Social media was a proof of the rapid development in information technology. It was in line with the appearance of slang words formed by its users. Most of social media users were teenagers. The rapid of vacabulary creation of slang language was a proof of linguistics creativity formed by social media’s users mostly teenagers. This research aimed to identify words form of slang language found in instagram feeds and comments column. The data was slang words collected by using observation methods with screenshot and note taking techniques. Data was taken from instagram feeds and comments of @dagelan and @memecomic.id. The result showed that words forms of slang language classified into some forms, namely (1) acronym, (2) abreviation, (3) contraction, (4) klipping, (5) walikan form, (6) borrowing from foreign language, (7) association, (8) monophonization, (9) infiltration of vocal letters, (10) words formed by improving from original words, and (11) new words formed of the creativity of instagram users.</p>

There have been plenty of studies on translation accuracy, but that focusing on cultural words under-investigated. The current study investigated the translation accuracy of The Maze Runner Novel in English by James Dashner into Indonesian by Yunita Candra.  As many as 11 cultural words were collected. To measure the accuracy, questionnaires were distributed to 12 translators of at least 1 year of professional experience.  The taxonomy developed by Pelawi (2014) covering categories of accurate (<strong>Ak</strong>), less accurate (<strong>KAk</strong>), and not accurate (<strong>TAk</strong>) was applied. Results show that (Ak) occurs 7/64%, (KAk) does 3/27%, and (TAk) does 1/9%. That a number of the data fall into the category of (KAk) and (TAk) indicate that while cultures share common features (universal), at the same time they contain characteristic features that are unique. It goes, therefore, no cultural expressions can be in total accuracy if they are transplanted into other cultures.

The study analyzed the types of errors based on ATA Error Categories version 2021 on the three submitted journal articles translated by lecturers of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Community of Akademi Farmasi Surabaya. It aimed to find the types of errors often made by pharmacy lecturers in translating the articles from the Indonesian language into English so that the results of this study can help them identify and avoid errors in translation. The study used the descriptive qualitative, using the content analysis method. The objects of this study were three journal articles in the Indonesian language (ST) and English (TT). The data focused on the translation errors based on ATA Error Categories in the words or phrases level. The results showed there were 14 types of errors found, namely: literalness (31.05%), usage (22.22%), punctuation (7.84%), terminology (7.52%), verb form (6.86%), grammar (6.54%), capitalization (3.59%), parts of speech (3.59%), syntax (3.27%), style (2.94%), register (2.29%), omission (1.31%), cohesion (0.65%), and ambiguity (0.33%). The study recommended that translators have sufficient knowledge about the target language mechanics, produce clear renditions of the source text, and maintain the writing quality of the target text.

The struggle of finding a job during the Covid-19 pandemic and social restrictions makes people more creative in looking for opportunities to improve the household economy, online selling on Instagram. Unfortunately, many sellers do not understand the effective way of online selling. Most sellers upload the product images without adding the promotional text in Instagram's caption. The purpose of the program is to understand online shop owners on the importance of writing promotional text (copywriting) on Instagram captions to increase product sales. This program was carried out online, namely using a zoom meeting, so it is hoped that it can reach more online sellers and avoid direct interactions to break the chain of spreading the Covid-19 virus. This activity was addressed for online shop owners, whose products are clothes, shirts, skincare, and other women's products. There were 65 participants from East Java, such as from Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Gresik, Tuban, Tulungagung, Madiun, Jember, Banyuwangi and also from Bandung, West Java that attended the program. Online shop owners can understand how to write attractive copywriting and practice the copywriting technique on Instagram captions by participating in this program. Writing Instagram captions can attract engagement of customers so that it can increase the Instagram traffic. As a result, there was an increase in sales and an expansion of the online shop marketing network.ABSTRAKSulitnya mencari pekerjaan di tengah pandemi Covid-19 dan adanya pembatasan sosial menjadikan masyarakat semakin kreatif mencari peluang guna meningkatkan perekonomian keluarga, salah satunya dengan cara berjualan online di Instagram. Sayangnya, banyak yang tidak memahami kiat- kiat berjualan online. Kebanyakan penjual cenderung mengunggah gambar produk saja tanpa menuliskan teks promosi di caption instagram. Tujuan kegiatan ini yaitu memberikan pemahaman tentang pentingnya menulis teks promosi (copywriting) di caption Instagram kepada pemilik onlineshop untuk dapat meningkatkan penjualan produk. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan secara daring yaitu menggunakan zoom meeting, sehingga diharapkan dapat menjangkau lebih banyak penjual online serta dapat mengurangi interaksi secara langsung dalam rangka memutus rantai penyebaran virus Covid-19. Kegiatan ini ditujukan kepada pemilik onlineshop yang menjual produk makanan, pakaian, skincare ataupun produk- produk wanita lainnya. Terdapat 65 mitra yang mengikuti kegiatan ini, yang berasal dari beberapa daerah di Jawa Timur, seperti Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Gresik, Tuban, Tulungagung, Madiun, Jember, Banyuwangi dan dari Jawa Barat yaitu dari Bandung. Dengan mengikuti kegiatan ini, para pemilik onlineshop mendapatkan pemahaman dan pengetahuan mengenai penulisan teks promosi (copywriting) yang dapat menarik minat pembeli serta dapat mempraktikkan penulisan teks promosi (copywriting) di caption Instagram. Penulisan caption Instagram dapat memancing engagement dari pelanggan sehingga dapat meningkatkan traffic Instagram. Hasilnya, terjadi peningkatan penjualan dan perluasan jaringan pemasaran onlineshop.