Covid-19 pandemic has made many countries adapt on new situations in different sectors including education. The Indonesia government has decided to adjust the education mode from face-to-face to online meeting using various learning management systems (LMS) such as moodle and google classroom. Moreover, the present research depicted the online learning barriers faced by students as well as their alternatives to cope them. The research implemented descriptive mixed-method survey design. The participants were 25 students of English Education Department. The instruments used to gather the data were the questionnaires and interview regarding the topics. The results showed that students experienced three barriers during the online learning including infamiliriaty of e-learning, slow internet connection, and physical condition e.g. eye strain. The alternatives they proposed were providing training to implement the LMS before the real class, converting high-definition or big-size files into smaller one, and giving break during the online class. The conclusion stated that students had to be creatives to find any solutions and innovations regarding learning barriers including maintaining good communication with teacher and understanding best learning styles individually

Pandemic had intrigued the change of EFL learning mode in higher education. The students had to adjust to the situation that created learning challenges that might obstruct learning progress. Furthermore, students’ motivations and creativities would lead them to find alternatives. Hence, the present study was aimed to investigate the students’ challenges, motivations, and alternatives. It was a descriptive qualitative research case study by gathering students’ responses using questionnaires and interview with 10 students who joined KSP (short course) English Syntax using WhatsApp group at English Education Study Program of UIN Mataram in July 2020. The results showed that students’ motivations were increasing scores in remedy class (90%) and gaining more science understanding (10%). The challenges faced by students during the online courses were poor internet connection (50%), simultaneous agendas (30%), limited WhatsApp feature (10%), and anxiety (10%). Regarding challenges, students did alternatives such as preparing phone credits (30%), praying for the end of the pandemic (10%), learning extensively (10%), searching for the best place to get an internet signal (20%), setting alarm (10%), and creating on-going motivation (20%). The research showed that online mode learning needed adequate preparations mentally, physically, and financially to back up their learning deficiency.Keywords: Online learning; EFL; Motivations; Covid-19; Education

This study aimed to scrutinize the correlation between English as a foreign language (EFL) lecturers’ digital literacy competence (DLC) based on the TPACK-SAMR framework and their technostress. In addition, this study revealed how the variables correlated to the lecturers’ EFL teaching performances. Therefore, a correlational design with a descriptive explanation model was conducted. The participants were six EFL lecturers from six different universities in various cities in East Java Province, Indonesia. The data were collected by administering TPACK-SAMR DLC and technostress questionnaires, conducting a semi-structured interview, and documenting the teaching scenarios. The results showed that most participants were more confident with their pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge. They claimed it was hard to mingle them into harmonious teaching performances with technology that challenged them to achieve the higher TPACK-SAMR DLC level. Relevant to this finding, their DLC had a negative ‘very high’ correlation with technostress, shown by -.824 Pearson correlation coefficient. Henceforth, their EFL teaching performances reflected the minimum operation of technology, according to SAMR stages, to mediate EFL teaching by substituting and augmenting the technology. Therefore, this study highlights the importance of DLC training to escalate the positive outcomes of EFL teaching with technology and minimize technostress.

This study aims at investigating students’ autonomy and attitude in learning TOEFL online which the program was organized by the Language Centre, Department of Education and Culture, West Nusa Tenggara during the pandemic Covid-19. A set of questionnaires was distributed to 134 students that came from a different geographical location in West Nusa Tenggara province, and were different in age. The participants in the present study were all who had been announced officially as the TOEFL course awardees for Mataram area. The findings indicated that albeit positive tenets on students’ autonomy and attitude. The results showed very close similarity as described by 2% difference in mean scores between students’ autonomy and attitude. The poor category results were found from students’ inability to evaluate their strength and weakness in learning autonomously and the students found it was hard to keep make correspondence immediately with teachers. This study ends with suggestions for the next TOEFL course programs

[Bahasa]: Pertumbuhan ilmu pengetahuan, teknologi, dan ekonomi dunia yang cukup pesat, menyebabkan mobilisasi manusia semakin tinggi. Bergulirnya AFTA (Asia Free Trade Agreement) dan bergaungnya era revolusi industri 4.0 membuat masayarakat Indonesia harus memiiki daya saing Internasional. Sehingga, tujuan pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah meningkatkan kompetensi bahasa asing komunitas berbasis Desa dengan pembentukan kampung Inggris untuk meningkatkan daya saing masyarakat. Pengabdian ini dilaksanakan di Desa Kalipakem, Kecamatan Donomulyo, kabutapen Malang dengan metode PAR (Participatory Action Research). PAR adalah metode penelitian aksi partisipatoris, dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui masalah yang dihadapi subyek penelitian dan menjadikanya sebagai target untuk dipecahkan sesuai kebutuhan subjek yang diteliti. Pengabdian ini melibatkan tokoh penggerak masyarakat Desa Kalipakem dan masyarakat desa yang meliputi remaja dan ibu-ibu jamaah kemasyarakatan. Metode ini dilakukan untuk memahamkan masyarakat Donomulyo terhadap: a) kelemahan-kelamahan yang dialami dan dimilikinya, b) keinginan-keinginan masyarakat untuk mengatasi kekuranganya, c) menyusun strategi dan metode untuk memecahkan masalahnya dan d) membantu masyarakat mengatasi, memecahkan, dan menemukan jalan keluarnya. Berdasarkan implementasi pengabdian, diketahui bahwa 1) masyarakat Desa Kalipakem memberikan dukungan maksimal melalui antusiasme partisipasi dan pemfasilitasan kegiatan pengabdian, 2) materi pelatihan pengabdian yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan masyarakat mendorong antusiasme pelatihan bahasa Inggris, dan 3) optimisme keterwujudan kampung Inggris di Desa Kalipakem sangatlah tinggi yang ditunjukkan dengan keseriusan setiap pihak dalam mengikuti proses pengabdian. Kata Kunci: kampung Inggris, Participatory Action Research, komunitas, desa [English]: The rapid growth of science, technology, and the world economy has caused human mobilization to increase. The implementation of the AFTA (Asia Free Trade Agreement) and the reverberation of the industrial revolution 4.0 require Indonesian people to boost international competitiveness. Thus, the aim of the present community service was to increase the international language competence ​​in village-based communities by establishing English villages to increase community competitiveness. This program was carried out in the village of Kalipakem, Donomulyo sub-district, Malang using the PAR (Participatory Action Research). PAR is a participatory action research method which aims at finding out the problems faced by research subjects and making them targets to be solved according to the needs of the subjects being studied. It involved community leaders in Kalipakem Village and village communities, including teenagers and community worshipers. This method was utilized to make the community: a) understand experienced and possessed weaknesses, b) understand desires of the community to overcome weaknesses, c) develop strategies and methods to solve the problem, and d) help the community to overcome, to solve, and to find a way out. Based on community service implementation, it was found that 1) Kalipakem villagers provided maximum supports through the enthusiasm of participations and facilitating the community service activities, 2) dedicated training materials that fitted the needs of the community encouraged enthusiasm for English language training, and 3) optimism for the realization of the British kampung in the village of Kalipakem is very high shown by the seriousness of each party in following the activities. Keywords: English village, Participatory Action Research, community, village