Addressing the needs of the millennial students brings the implemention of blended learning using social network site in the teaching and learning process. Instagram becomes one of the most popular social network sites in Indonesia. It has been a potential teaching platform to help English teachers to facilitate language learning, especially for learners at the tertiary level. This paper is intended to explore the students’ perceptions toward English language learning and the implementation of Instagram in their English for Business class. Students’ attitudes toward English course should be investigated to form a basis for this further study. The subjects were 116 undergraduate students who took general English for Business course at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Teknokrat Indonesia. They were classified into three groups. The data gained were from observation, questionnaire, and interview. The data, then, were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results indicated that most students showed high positive perceptions in using Instagram in their learning since social network Instagram influenced their motivation, engangement, and attitudes. In addition, internet connection and its speed, misunderstanding, and miscommunication toward the materials and task instructions were considered as the problems that hamper their learning. Instagram might help the students to learn English Language. Thus, it is suggested to improve the teaching of technology skills by preparing suitable digital literacy in academic content.

This study attempts to explore the language learning strategies used by the students’ who take English Literature study programs in English as a foreign language (EFL) setting. This study involves 76 participants asked to fulfill a questionnaire called Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) developed by Oxford (1990). The result of this research showed that metacognitive has been the most frequently used strategy followed by social and compensation strategies while affective strategies become the least strategy used by the students. This research could be meaningful insight for other researches or the students to analyze the language learning strategies used by the students and be meaningful to know the language learning strategies that appropriate especially in the field of the second language.

Studi ini menyelidiki penggunaan Toondoo pembuat komik strip dalam pengajaran teks recount di pendidikan menengah. Dengan partisipasi seorang guru bahasa Inggris, penelitian ini mencoba menangkap proses pembuatan komik sebagai media pengajaran pada tahun akademik 2018-2019 di sekolah umum di Lampung, Indonesia. Observasi digunakan sebagai teknik pengumpulan data. Hasilnya menunjukkan proses pembuatan komik dengan elemen teks recount. Proses penulisan komik terdiri dari pendaftaran, membuat tata letak, memilih karakter komik, memilih latar belakang, membuat balon, dan menerbitkan komik. Proses ini diintegrasikan ke dalam proses belajar mengajar di kelas. Studi ini dapat memberikan implikasi pedagogis bagi guru dan praktisi dalam pendidikan menengah yang dapat dibantu dengan penggunaan komik

The need for supporting the practice of teaching English as Foreign Language (EFL) writing at tertiary level has been the major concern for researchers and practitioners. Peer feedback has received much attention since its effectiveness in enhancing students’ writing ability. However, English teachers have often encountered time constraints and large class during the writing process. Currently, Facebook becomes one of the most popular social network site (SNS) in Indonesia and has been a very potential platform to help English teachers to facilitate learning. This paper attempts to confirm whether the use of Facebook as a medium of peer feedback outside the classroom can improve EFL Students’ Writing ability. The subjects were 81 undergraduate students studying Essay Writing which is a compulsory subject in English Department in Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. The subjects then were randomly assigned into experimental group and control group. The experiment lasted for eight weeks started with pre-test in the beginning and ended with a post-test in the last meeting. During the treatment, the teacher applied planning, drafting, revising and editing stages and online learning with Facebook as the medium to facilitate the students’ peer feedback. The result shows online peer feedback with Facebook may be used as an effective instructional media. It could help students improve their writing ability as well as critical thinking. Keywords: Facebook, Writing Ability, Tertiary Level, Online Peer Feedback

Abstract-Project-based Learning (PBL) has become the central part of ESP practice in higher education. The present study tried to confirm the questions whether the students' foreign language (L2) oral performance in English for Business (EFB) Class is significantly affected after PBL is tailored. The study conducted for a semester used an experimental design with the total of 60 students as participants. Before the learning process began, the students were assigned randomly to experimental class (learning EFB through PBL) and control class (learning EFB through Presentation, Practice, Production). In both classes, a business presentation was employed as an oral test in order to reveal the difference of the L2 spoken performance between experimental class and control class. The finding in this study pointed out that the students who learn EFB through PBL outperformed the students who learned EFB through PPP. Since the finding of this study confirms numerous previous studies conducted in the same area, it is recommended that practitioners apply PBL as an alternative way to teach ESP class, especially at the undergraduate level.