<span>Writing is a powerful multipurpose tool that helps us discover and explore more fully what we are thinking so that we learn as well as express our feelings and thoughts. One of reason that students lazy to written something because the methods are used by their teacher. Most of them still used direct learning method (extracurricular learning), the students were bored and they are did not enjoy when teaching learning process. So, that is why, in this study the writers try to use snowball throwing method to help students in learning descriptive writing. The data collection methods which used in this study are observation checklist and questionnaire checklist. Observation used to find out the implementation snowball throwing on students writing in descriptive text. The questionnaire was used to know the students’ responses after being taught descriptive text by using snowball throwing method. This study reveals that the highest aspect score of observation checklist in first observation is less, but in the second meeting, the writers found that highest aspect score of observation was good. Based on data questionnaire checklist, the writers found that the highest students’ responses were good. Based on this result data resource above, the writers concluded that the students could master writing after they were taught using snowball throwing in writing descriptive text. Finally, the writers suggested that the students had to practice their writing skill in many times. Besides, teacher had to have an interesting method in teaching writing descriptive text.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 5.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-left: 5.8pt; text-align: justify;">The objective of the research to compare of Zimmer twins website tool as digital storytelling than use nondigital in writing text narrative on students writing ability at the eleventh grade of MA Yayasan Sirojul Islam Sukolilo 2018/2019 academic year. Zimmer twins media is an animated movie maker based on the website for the students to create their short stories in movies with many emotion, etc. The sample of this research the Eleventh of MA YASI those are XI- 1 class as the experimental class, and the X1-2 class as the control class consisted of 20 students. The method in this research was a quantitative method. In addition, the design used was quasi-experimental research, and the instrument used a test. The research was taken by using non-random sampling. Moreover, this research was conducted through the following procedures: giving pre-test, applying treatments and giving post-test. The data analyzed and processed by using the statistic data calculation of ANCOVA by SPSS 23 program. The significant was shown by the students post-test mean in experimental class is 76.55 and the mean post-test in control class is 70.55. The result of the statistical hypothesis testing found from p-value was 0.000. It is lower than the level significant of 0.05. If p-value ≤ from the level significant 0.05. It means that H<sub>1</sub> was accepted and H<sub>0</sub> was rejected. In conclusion, Zimmer twins media can be effective as media teaching to writing ability of narrative text at the eleventh-grade students of MA Yayasan Sirojul IslamSukolilo.</p><table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 468.1pt; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext;" width="624" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes; height: 62.1pt;"><td style="width: 305.8pt; border: none; border-top: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; height: 62.1pt;" valign="top" width="408"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 5.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-left: 5.8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">The objective of the research to compare of Zimmer twins website tool as digital storytelling than use nondigital in writing text narrative on students writing ability at the eleventh grade of MA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yayasan Sirojul<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Islam Sukolilo 2018/2019 academic year. Zimmer twins media is an animated movie maker based on the website for the students to create their short stories in movies with many emotion, etc. The sample of this research the Eleventh of MA YASI those are XI- 1 class as the experimental class, and the X1-2 class as the control class consisted of 20 students. The method in this research was a quantitative method. In addition, the design used<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was quasi-experimental research, and the instrument used a test. The research was taken by using non-random sampling. Moreover, this research was conducted through the following procedures: giving pre-test, applying treatments and giving post-test. The data analyzed and processed by using the statistic data calculation of ANCOVA by SPSS 23 program. The significant was shown by the students post-test mean in experimental class is 76.55 and the mean post-test in control class is 70.55. The result of the statistical hypothesis testing found from p-value was 0.000. It is lower than the level significant of 0.05. If p-value ≤ from the level significant 0.05. It means that H<sub>1</sub> was accepted and H<sub>0</sub> was rejected. In conclusion, Zimmer twins media can be effective as media teaching to writing ability of narrative text at the eleventh-grade students of MA Yayasan Sirojul IslamSukolilo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
<span lang="EN-US">Podcasts is one of the technologies that can be used as an effective media to teach students’ listening skill, especially extensive listening. This research aims to know the effectiveness of using podcasts application in teaching extensive listening. The method in this study used quantitative research. The design of this research was pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design. It involved the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Bangkalan as the subject of the research. In this research, the data were obtained toward the results of listening tests. The research was started by giving pre-test, treatments, and post-test to experimental group. The data of the tests were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-Test. The results showed the significant difference between pre-test and post-test, It indicate that the value of significance (Sig. 2-tailed) is 0.002 lower than 0.05. The results of the statistical hypothesis testing showed that the P-value lower than α (0.002<0.05), it means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. It can be concluded that podcasts application is effective and brilliant media that can be suggested to be used on teaching listening.</span>
Classroom action research is one of the way pre-service and in-service teachers performed professional development in classroom research to gain better quality of teaching- with different portion and ways. This research deliberates the outcome of a case study involving an Indonesian in-service teacher in a collaborative action research with one pre-service teachers from a college of Education, STKIP PGRI Bangkalan, during an internship period. They worked on the classroom problems found during internship term and attempted to find the way to overcome them through technology integration in the instruction. Five open-ended questions were given to the in-service teacher and the pre-service teacher. With qualitative data analysis, the research found some significant results: 1) The in-service teacher felt more helped in utilizing technology, especially in the use and making of podcast for teaching listening. The teacher’s years of experience in handing teaching learning process in the class compiled the pre-service teacher’ competence as a novice teacher. (2) On the other side, the in-service teacher, felt more helped in getting fresh idea of teaching EFL, especially with the technology utilization. Challenges from both perspectives were also found in terms of workload, internship duration, feedbacks, digital literacy, pedagogical belief, and publication. Overall, professional development has been achieved by the two kinds teacher, and one of the means of doing that is through collaborative action research.
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