This paper discusses a study that is focused on English Department students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning for English content courses in online learning. This study is a quantitative descriptive study that involved 114 English Department students taking in Semantic Class at Universitas Riau. The participants are selected through a saturated sampling technique, where all populations who respond to the questionnaire are the samples of this research. The data are collected from a set of questionnaires that are broadcasted online through the WhatsApp Group feature and analyzed by using descriptive statistics through SPSS Application. The findings show that the English Department students’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning are high with a total average of 3.83 and 3.57 while learning English content courses in online learning. It can be inferred that the students who have background knowledge in operating technology and are familiar with it, are less likely to experience any problems while learning. Moreover, the understanding about self-efficacy and self-regulated learning should be more cultivating both the teachers and the students.

Videos containing authentic interaction-based video clips play an important role in facilitating EFL learners to study the target language. This study aimed to develop video lectures containing authentic interaction-based video clips, which can facilitate students in learning requests and apology speech acts. This study employed Research and Development using the ADDIE model. The analysis phase showed that it is necessary to develop the videos. Experts’ evaluations showed that the videos were acceptable, relevant, usable, and appropriate to a very high extent. The students’ evaluation revealed that the videos were valid and applicable to a high extent. In the implementation of the videos, it was revealed that there was a significant increase in the students’ ability. This means that the content of the videos was significant to increase the students’ ability. This means that the products of this research can be applied as lecture videos or instructional devices in teaching and learning devices for independent study.

This quasi experimental research aims at looking at the effect of Journal Writing technique on students’ ability in writing a paragraph.  Specifically, the research answers the research questions about the students’ ability in writing, the effect of Journal Writing technique on the students’ ability in writing, and the students’ attitude toward Journal Writing technique applied in their Writing class. The sample are one class from the second semester of English Department students in 2017-2018 academic year. The data were collected through writing test and the distribution of a set of questionnaire. The results show that nearly 60% of students’ ability ini writing is at  Average to Good level before the treatment. After the treatment, 56.76% of their ability is at Good to Excellent level. To test whether the increased score is statistically significant or not, the data were analyzed using t-test. Having t-obs (8.26) which is higher than t-table (2.030), it can be said that the teaching of writing using Journal Writing technique significantly effects the students’ ability in writing paragraph. The data from questionnaire support the previous findings where nearly 64% students have ‘high’ attitude toward Journal Writing technique applied in their class.

The patient of rescue incident is an accidental event and condition which give impact or have potential injury that can be prevented by patient. The mistake of misunderstanding often happened to the most all aspects or stages diagnoses and healing, so that it is needed patient identification properly. The aim of this research is to know the factors which related to the adherence of nurses in applying patients identification of internest department in inpatient room Dr. M. Djamil hospital Padang. This research is descriptive corelation study with collecting the data as cross sectional. The sample were 66 nurses with proportion sampling random. The data analysis with chi-square test. The result of the research showed that nurses perceived high motivation (50%), complete facilities (74.2%), good supervision (57.6%), high social support (54.5%), high knowleage (90.9%). Adherence nurses (63.6%). There significant relationship between facilities factors and supervision with adherence nurses in applying of patients identification . There was no significant relationship between  motivation factors, knowleage, social support with adherence nurses in applying of patients identification. The facilities of dominant variable in assembling patient identification (OR 19.789). It is recommended that hospital to do supervision as continiue and collect the facilities patient identification to perform patients identification properly and give punishment to the nurses properly who do not perform patients identification corectly.

Teaching writing in senior high schools provides students with knowledge, experience and strategies of writing simple texts to more complex ones. This research aims at looking at how writing skills are taught at senior high schools in Riau Province-Indonesia. Specifically, the research answers the research questions about teaching materials, methods/strategies used by English teachers in the teaching of writing and students’ attitude towards writing skills. The samples are second year English Department students of FKIP Riau University coming from different cities and regencies in Riau Province. The data were collected through distributing a set of questionnaire. The results show that most writing materials consist of linguistics knowledge such as sentence structure, vocabulary and punctuation and lack of writing skills and strategies like brainstorming, drafting, revising and editing. Moreover, most teachers are product oriented in their teaching of writing. Finally, most students (65.9) have low attitude towards writing skills. From these findings, it can be concluded that: writing materials need to be focussed on writing skills and strategies, teachers’ knowledge and skills on teaching methods/strategies need to be upgraded and students’ attitude towards writing skills needs to be improved. These findings can be used as a reference to do some improvement in the teaching of writing in senior high schools in Riau province.