-The purpose of this paper is to describe how language teachers in Indonesia can independently develop an authentic assessment for measuring their students' reading competence. This is a high priority in terms of two reasons: 1) in the era of globalisation, teachers can no longer rely on traditional approaches (Djiwandono, 2011) in testing their students' reading competence due to the fact that the students are supposed to be able to take part in international reading competition like PISA and PIRLS whose test items are developed from authentic texts, and 2) authentic assessment is more relevant with daily communication needs and professional development. Therefore, the focus of discussion would be given to various concepts of authentic assessment for reading competence.

The present study aims to find out and describe the educational values reflected in the main character suffering from intellectual disability in Forrest Gump movie and to find out how the intellectual disability influenced the behaviour of the main character in Forrest gump movie. The writer used descriptive qualitative method. The data were in the form of words and sentences. This study was as a qualitative research in which the data were collected from primary and secondary sources. The primary source was the movie itself and its script. The secondary sources were articles, and several references on literature. After the data had been collected the writer used suitable scenes and conversations to analyze the types of educational values in the story. The results reveal that 1) The educational values reflected through the main character were bravery, peace, confidence and potential, loyalty and trustworthiness, respect, love and affection, unselfishness, kindness and friendliness, fairness and humanistic attitude  2) The intellectual disability affected the behavior of the main character including “difficult to understand some things”, “less able to make decision”, and “make him unaware with some situations”.

This study aims to describe how the implementation of scientific approach influences the score of the students and to describe the techniques or procedures the teacher used in teaching recount texts through scientific approach to improve the tenth grade students' writing. This research used quantitative research and focused on the regression of the teacher that implements the scientific approach and the teacher to improve the students' writing competence in recount texts which were taken from class X accounting 1 of SMKN 1. First, the regression of the variable X toward variable Y was low because R Square of the teacher was 0.306 and R Square of the writer was 0.356. Second, the teacher improves the students with the second time remedial test and Belajar Ulang in the next semester. In brief, not only the approach but also the other factors influence the learning process in addition to the teacher who has paid attention to other factors to get a maximum result of the students' activities.

There were some reasons why this research was carried out 1) to describe the setting of the novel entitled Agnes Grey and 2) to describe the character educational values reflected in the main character of Agnes Grey novel. The approach of this research was a qualitative study. The object of the research was a novel entitled Agnes Grey written by Anne Bronte. In the process of collecting data, the researcher used document analysis by reviewing some literary books. The data analysis technique was inductive content analysis. After analysing the data, the researcher found that 1) there were three types of settings found in the main character of Agnes Grey novel; they were the setting of place, time, and culture 2) the character educational values in this research consisted of religiousity, honesty, discipline, hard work, creativity, autonomy, democracy, curiosity, rewarding achievement, love peace, joy of reading, environmental care, social care, and responsibility.