The study aims to describe inhibiting factors of pedagogic and professional competencies from primary school teacher, as well as its problems. Primary data obtained through interviews on focus group discussion, and secondary data obtained through document. Research informants are teachers, principals, head of Education Department, head of District Staffing Agency, and head of District Planning and Development Agency. Data were analyzed descriptively. Result shows that there were four inhibiting factors of teacher competence, such as: inadequate school infrastructure; teacher educational qualification was low; implementation of teacher training was ineffective; and lack of government attention in reward for outstanding teachers.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara kecakapan literasi digital guru dengan kreativitas mengajar guru pada Sekolah Menegah Kejuruan Negeri di Kabupaten Gowa. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode survei yang bersifat korelasi dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Populasi dalam penelitian yaitu guru yang berstatus Pegawai Negeri Sipil yang terdapat pada 5 Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Negeri di Kabupaten Gowa dan sebanyak 70 orang guru yang menjadi sampel melalui tekni proportional random sampling pada setiap unit populasi dalam memperoleh data penelitian. Pengumpulan data penelitian ini menggunakan kuesioner skala likeart yang telah memenuhi syarat validitas dan reabilitas. Teknik analisis data untuk mencapai tujuan penelitian menggunakan statistik inferensial yakni analisis korelasi sederhana. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan bahwa berdasarkan nilai pearson correlation yang diperoleh dari analisis korelasi sederhana sebesar 0,731 dengan arah positif dan nilai sig.p 0,00 < α (0,05) yang memberikan pengertian bahwa terdapat hubungan positif dan signifikan antara kecakapan literasi digital guru dengan kreativitas mengajar guru pada Sekolah Menegah Kejuruan Negeri di kabupaten Gowa, serta diperoleh nilai koefisien determinasi sebesar 53% yang dapat diartikan bahwa 53% variansi total nilai-nilai kreativitas mengajar guru dapat dijelaskan oleh nilai-nilai kecakapan literasi digital guru.

This research aims to investigate the use of emoji in WhatsApp group conversation to reveal the types and meaning of emojis used in the setting where members from groups communicate online. The participants were 21 students of English Applied Linguistics year 2019. The data were collected from since the WhatsApp group conversation made, surely since August 2019 to September 2021of interaction in the WhatsApp group. The methodology of the research is qualitative descriptive using technical analysis of Roland Barthes semiology. The technique of collecting data is based on two resources. The primary data are collections of screenshot chat that contains of emojis in WhatsApp. The secondary data are references supporting the topic of the research. In validity technique, the primary data are collected based on the topic of the discussion. After that, the data are processed descriptively by explaining, and comparing the information gained from many resources. Then, the data are reduced and presented. The findings showed that all members of WhatsApp group used the following emojis, namely face with tears of joy, rolling on the floor laughing, loudly crying face, grinning face with smiling eyes, frowning face, thumbs up, folded hands, hugging face, smiling face smiling face with hallo and woman facepalming, in the WhatsApp group communication. In terms of real meaning of emoji used by the sender is not entirely accurate with the context of the message, while the researcher could conclude that the meaning of the emoji is constantly shifting based on the real context or situation within the conversation at the group conversations. The findings contribute to research on the use of emojis relatively scarce in WhatsApp corpus. The findings also suggest how to communicate using emojis in forums with members from various group conversations.