The pandemic of COVID-19 has forced the Indonesian government through its Ministry of Education and Culture to implement policies moving conventional classroom to online classroom. The current study is a collective case study consisting of analysis of survey on students' perceptions of their online learning during the pandemic. Sixty-six students of English Language Education Study Program at Pamane Talino College of Education (STKIP Pamane Talino) were involved. Their perception s of their online classroom that were recorded through a survey. The recorded perceptions are in terms of students' participation, accessibility, material and assignment delivery, and the use of e-learning platforms. The results were then summarized into tables and narrative descriptions. The study identified three major obstacles in conducting online learning in English Language Education Study Program at STKIP Pamane Talino: the first is availability and sustainability of internet connection, the second is accessibility of the teaching media, and the last is the compatibility of tools to access the media. The result of the current study suggests that accessibility is still the major factor influencing the success of online learning. Online learning for English Language Education Study Program at STKIP Pamane Talino, and potentially Indonesia in general, requires some more friendly platforms so that students' participation can be increased. This is especially for students who reside in rural areas with limited internet connections and other support systems.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language is challenging. The body of literature has addressed the issue of the current challenges in teaching English as a Foreign Language. However, only a few studies have investigated the issue in remote areas of Indonesia. This qualitative study investigates the current challenges in teaching English in the least-developed region of Indonesia based on the following criteria: language comprehension, method and approach, practical implementation, and socio-cultural environment. The data were collected from four English lecturers in one of the teaching universities in Indonesia. The participants were selected using purposive sampling technique. The data were collected using in-depth interview and field observation which were then analyzed descriptively. The results of the study reveal that the participants have to deal with several obstacles in teaching English. Those obstacles include the students' low proficiency of language comprehension, limited resources of materials, a communication gap between lecturers and students, students' lack of enthusiasm and participation in learning and lack of environmental support from society. From the observation, the participants show that the challenges are mitigated by adjusting their choice of pedagogical instruction and learning materials according to students' level of language comprehension. The study suggests that infrastructure development is strongly essential to establish a good teaching environment. Besides, creating positive understanding and paradigm about the sanctity of learning English for students might be able to help the students' to study English better.

Difficulties in Learning English in EFL context are always interesting. Analysing it from the view of external and internal factors is the major interest of this case study. Describing the findings qualitatively is the purpose of this study. The subject in this research was the eleventh graders at SMAN 2 Sengah Temila in Landak Regency. There were 76 students participated in this study. The sources of the data were gathered from the classroom teacher, the students, and the portfolios. Data collection techniques in this research were: open-ended questionnaire, in-depth interview, and observation. Meanwhile, data analysis techniques used interactive analysis.This study finds the internal and the external factors affect the learning difficulties. The indicators on internal factors show (a) health conditions has no significant effect on learning difficulty, (b) the students’ interest and motivation affect the learning difficulty  because no variation on the teaching method bored the students, (c) bad habits in studying evoke the learning difficulties. The indicators on external factors find (a) the teacher has a significant role to expand learning difficulties especially on the use of teaching method and media, (b) the classroom environment has no significant effect in learning difficulties since it is a conservative one.

This study is a research and development under the issue of developing English textbook oriented to HOTS-Based Critical thinking for Junior High School Students especially for the seventh grade students in Ngabang, Landak, West Kalimantan. It is based on the evidence that the English teachers find difficulty in finding HOTS-based English textbook as one of the teaching tools. This issue is supported by the result of textbook evaluation. It reveals that most of the existing English textbooks used by the teachers still emphasizing on remembering and understanding level. These preliminary data led the researchers to develop HOTS-Based Critical Reading Textbook for the seventh grade students. The objectives of this study are to describe the materials needed by both teachers and students and to develop “Critical English”, the English textbook with HOTS and critical reading as the basis. In developing “Critical English” textbook, the researchers employed 7 stages of Research and Development study suggested by Borg and Gall (1983) namely need analysis, textbook evaluation, designing product specification, developing the product, expert validation, revision, try-out, and finalization. This study involved 2 English teachers and 20 (twenty) students of the seventh grade at SMP Negeri 2 Ngabang. The data were obtained through questionnaire, interview, classroom observation, expert judgment sheet, documents analysis, and focus group discussion. Then, the gathered data were analysed using a descriptive qualitative method. The research findings reveal that “Critical English” textbook facilitate the teachers to build the students’ critical thinking and the materials provided in the textbook trigger the students to develop their creativity and critical thinking so that the teaching and learning process can be more active and interesting.

The 4.0 growing Industry pushes trading and marketing into the digital market. Facebook allows everyone to stay connected virtually. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook has become a popular digital market. The use of English dictions is booming in marketing promotion as and it is widely used by millennial online marketers in West Borneo when promoting their products using buzzwords. The data in this study were taken from one year of document observation in several online trading groups on Facebook. The study aims at finding out the error used by online marketers when posting their promotions. The study found that they used English as a "trend" rather than creating buzzwords. The in-depth interviews found that online marketers did not realize that they have used inappropriate words. The correct writing of it is often neglected without any correction as long as it sounds English and commonly used. The results of this study may reflect the language used-error analysis in future studies. Moreover, educating millennial-online marketers is considered beneficial for the sake of language politeness.