Grammar is one of the language components that are taught at English Department. Grammar is taught in order to produce good sentences and understand the meaning of sentence. In grammar class, students are expected to be able to write a good sentence especially in compound sentence. This study is aimed to describe the English Department students" ability in writing compound sentence. The type of this research was a descriptive research. The population of this research was fourth semester English Department. The total number of sample was 18 students from education program. Random sampling was used to collect the sample. The data were collected by giving writing test and the test was done in 60 minutes. They were asked to write argumentative essay at least 5 paragraph. Based on the findings research, it was found that the students" ability in writing compound sentences was moderate level.

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This study aimed to determine the effect of maternal empowerment on improving fish consumption patterns to increase protein intake, calcium, zinc, and Z-score height by age when stunting children. The type of this research is Quasi-Experimental with pre and post-test control group design. The results showed an increase in maternal knowledge, increased intake of protein, calcium, and zinc as well as an increase in TB scores / After the intervention in the case group, compared to the control group, there were no differences in protein, calcium intake and Z-score TB / U, an increase in maternal empowerment increased intake of children stunting and the same as intake of children not stunting. Conclusion There is a significant difference in the average value of protein intake, calcium, zinc, and Z-score before and after providing maternal empowerment interventions to improve fish consumption patterns in children aged 13-36 months.   Keywords: Intake, Calcium, Maternal Empowerment, Protein, Zinc, Stunting, Z-Score TB / U

This paper aims at finding out the types of themes and the thematic patterns used in the discussion texts written by the third year students of English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang. This study used a descriptive qualitative method taking 20 students of English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang as the participants who were asked to write a discussion text based on the suggested topics. The data were analyzed using a content analysis method. The results of data analysis indicate that the four types of themessimple unmarked theme, simple marked theme, multiple unmarked theme, multiple marked themeare used in the students' discussion texts. Then, the thematic patterns in the students' discussion texts are: Topical, Textual^Topical, and Interpersonal^Textual^Topical. Simple unmarked theme is the thematic pattern found in all parts of discussion text and plays the most important role in building the arguments. It is concluded that the choice of types of themes and thematic patterns used in the students' discussion texts indicate their lack of attention to the ideas organization, especially in presenting the arguments in the discussion texts.

-This research aims to find out about the types of oral language assessment used by the teachers in their practices, the ways in applying those assessment tasks, and the problems faced by the teachers during the assessment processes. The method used in this research is descriptive. The data were collected through interviews to the English teachers of grade IX, distributing the questionnaires to both teachers and two classes of grade IX students, and analyzing the teachers documents. The findings indicate that (1) both teachers have varied the oral language assessment tasks, (2) both teachers have done several procedures of the authentic assessment, however in rating the speaking skill of the students, they still used the same scoring rubrics stated in the lesson plans, meanwhile each of the tasks has its own criteria in rating students' speaking skill.Keywords: Assessment, Authentic assessment, Teachers' practices, Teachers' difficulties, Speaking skill I. INTRODUCTION The latest curriculum in Indonesia, namely the 2013 curriculum, needs authentic assessment to be applied in assessing students' learning progress in the classroom processes. The reason is because the 2013 curriculum emphasizes both process and product of learning. It means that students are not only expected to master the learning theories, but they are also expected to be able in comprehending and applying those learning theories into the real life situations. In other words, authentic assessment is the right assessment to be used in assessing both process and product of learning.One of language skills which is really necessary to be developed on students is speaking. Speaking is one of ways in deciding whether they are able in applying theoretical knowledge into practice or not. Because of this reason, speaking is one of language skills which is concerned to be developed on students in the 2013 curriculum. In short, teacher should carry out speaking in the classroom instructions and do the assessment on it authentically.However in reality, based on the researcher's preliminary research there were still many problems arise related to the oral language assessment practices. One of them was that there were still a few tasks given to students on speaking. Because of this problem, students were not familiar with any oral language assessment activities. Moreover, it was not common for them to practice the language theories into speaking. Although students had understood the theories, they were sometimes still difficult in conveying their ideas in speaking because there was lack of speaking practice. In addition, the common language used by the teachers in teaching English was Indonesian. It also caused students could not develop the new English vocabularies.In point of fact, the Ministry of Education and Culture (2012: 4) states, the development of the curriculum philosophically is to let students have knowledge, attitudes and skills with them after completing their studies and are able in applying the knowledge in the real life situations. T...