More currently literature reviews suggests the use of authentic assessment, which aims to involve students to be more responsible with their learning. This article reports the findings of a descriptive study on student teachers' perception on the use of self and peer assessment to give evaluation on planning the lesson and teaching performance in Reflective Teaching Class. There were 100 samples taken randomly from 234 students in a survey using questionnaire and 15 students participating in the focus group discussion (FGD). The finding from the questionnaire shows that they had a very positive perception toward the use of self and peer assessment. Additionally, from the FGD, they conveyed by practicing doing self assessment, they could learn to see self performance deeply, strengths and weaknesses. From peer-assessment, they could learn collaboratively from feedback given by peers how to make a better lesson plan and perform a more effective teaching. Hence, self and peer assessment is considered beneficial for preparing the real teaching practicum and future career development. However, there are some problems challenged them, such as feeling subjectivity in assessing both self or peers, embarrassed and less confidence, and time constraints to make evaluation and reflection in the classroom.

AbstrakTujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melaporkan efektivitas media audio berbasis lagu kreasi yang dikembangkan berdasarkan tema untuk siswa kelas lima sekolah dasar. Setelah divalidasi oleh dua orang ahli dalam hal isi dan kualitas, media yang dikembangkan diimplementasikan di SDN 1 Sukasada yang melibatkan 16 orang siswa. Desain penelitian menggunakan desain before and after treatment. Hasil penelitian membuktikkan bahwa media audio efektif meningkatkan kompetensi Bahasa Inggris siswa kelas lima yang ditunjukkan dari perolehan rerata hasil belajar dari 6,69 yang terkategori cukup sebelum tindakan menjadi 8,31 yang terkategori baik setelah tindakan. Di samping itu, hasil kuesioner membuktikan bahwa semua siswa (100%) menunjukkan persepsi positif terhadap pemanfaatan media audio berbasis lagu. Mereka menjadi lebih termotivasi untuk belajar karena melalui lagu pembelajaran menjadi menyenangkan, menarik, dan materi lebih mudah dipahami. Kata kunci: media audio, lagu kreasi AbstractThis article aims at reporting the effectivenes of a scripted song-based audio media developed centered upon themes for fifth graders of elementary schools. After being validated by two experts to determine the content validity and the quality, the media was implemented in SDN 1 Sukasada involving 16 students. The design of research utilized before and after treatment. The result proved that the audio media was effective to improve the fifth grade students' English competence shown from the attainment of mean score of learning achievement, from 6.69 categorized as moderate before tratment to become 8.31 classified as good after treatment. Moreover, the result of questionnaire shows that all students (100%) had a positive perception towards the use of a scripted-song based audio media, in which they were more motivated to learn because through the songs, the learning process became fun, interesting and thus the material was easier to understand.

Self-assessment as one of authentic assessments has been currently implemented in EFL teaching pedagogy as to give more opportunity to the students to reflect on their own learning and progress. This study aims at investigating the effect of selfassessment on students' independence and writing competence. In the present study, two groups of junior secondary school students in Indonesia were investigated in their learning of English due to the use of self-assessment towards their independence and writing competence of three genre texts. The research used a post-test only control group design in which one group was given an experimental treatment using self-assessment, while the other received a conventional assessment utilizing teacher's assessment. There were two types of instruments used, questionnaire of students' independence and writing competence test which underwent validity and reliability testing beforehand. The data were analyzed using a one-way ANOVA and MANOVA. Before the inferential statistics analyses were conducted, the data were pre-requisitely tested in terms of normality, homogeneity, and multi co-linearity. The results prove that self-assessment has an effect on the students' independence and writing competence. Thus, teachers are recommended to promote the use of self-assessment to improve the students' independence and writing competence.

Abstract. This paper reports the theoretical perspectives underlying the development of local culture-based picture storybooks for teaching English for young learners. It is a library research which derives from three main sources, journal articles, reference books, and internet articles. Local culture-based picture storybooks are kinds of printed materials which basically contain stories adapted from local culture stories accompanied with visualization in the forms of pictures telling the characters and the settings to help young learners easily understand the stories. They are developed considering the good criteria of storybooks [1,2]. The benefits of its development are (1) to improve reading skill of young learners, (2) to build children English literacy through listening to the story read by the teachers and communicating interactively with them through dialogic reading, (3) create a fun learning atmosphere which enhances motivation and participation to take part in understanding and using the language, and (4) to preserve local culture. The books are developed using a combination of model [3,4] which has 5 main steps namely need analysis, developing product, expert validation, and quality assessment by experts and users (teachers), and main product revision.

Integrating Technology in the learning process is very important in today’s digital era so that educators do not only have a component of content and pedagogical knowledge but also be have to be supported by the ability to integrate both components with technology. The purpose of this study was to analyze the competence of Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) of Education technology alumni in supporting their profession to become professional teachers. The method applied in this study was a Mixed method, using data from alumni who graduated in 2016-2017 through questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The results showed that the variables in TPACK, content knowledge variable and pedagogy content knowledge variable had a high average compared to other variables, namely 73.50 and 73.10. This indicated that from the pedagogic and content side, Education Technology alumni had a good mastery of content and pedagogical knowledge. However, being viewed from the average score in applying technology, their competence was still low. The Technology Pedagogy Knowledge variable achieved 48.30, while the TPACK variable reached 52.40. These results implies that Education Technology alumni still need to improve their TPACK competence in order to become a professional teacher in the era of industrial revolution 4.0.

Reading is the basic literacy as the foundation for intellectual development. Researchers found that Indonesian students have low reading competence. This is due to the fact that they do not possess a good reading habit. Hence, the study aimed at investigating the effect of local culture-based storybooks, one of which is a fable on students' reading competence and analyzing the effect size of the treatment. It was an experimental research administering post-test only control group design. The population was sixth grade students of elementary schools in Buleleng Regency, Bali. The samples were determined using intact group cluster random sampling technique of 34 students from two elementary schools. Experimental group was treated by using storybook, whereas control group was taught by using text-based story. The data were collected through post-test. The obtained data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using t-test. Cohen's d was administered to check the effect size. The result proves that there was a significant effect of local culture-based storybook on students' reading competence, while Cohen's d shows that the effect size was medium. Thus, teachers are recommended to regularly use stories for improving reading competence.

Implementation of Board Games and its Effect on Students’ English Learning Achievement. This study is an experimental research which aims at investigating the effect of board games on students’ English learning achievement. The population of this research was all elementary schools in 9 districts of Buleleng Regency determined by intact group random sampling taken using lot­tery. There were 12 experimental groups and 12 control groups which consisted of 681 students of grade 4, 5 and 6 representing 4 areas of eastern, western, northern, and sourthern Buleleng Regency. The experimental groups were taught with board games, while the control groups were taught without board games. The data were analyzed non-parametrically using Kruskal Wallis and Mann-Whitney. The results prove that board games have an effect on the students’ English learning achievement.Abstrak: Implementasi Board Games dan pengaruhnya terhadap Hasil Belajar Bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimental yang menginvestigasi pengaruh board games ter­hadap hasil belajar bahasa Inggris siswa. Populasi penelitian adalah sekolah dasar di 9 kecamatan di Kabupaten Buleleng, yang ditentukan dengan menggunakan intact group random sampling berdasar­kan lotere. Terdapat 12 kelompok eksperimental dan 12 kelompok kontrol yang berjumlah 681 siswa kelas 4, 5, dan 6 yang mewakili 4 area Kabupaten Buleleng Timur, Barat, Utara dan Selatan. Kelompok eksperimental mendapatkan tindakan, yaitu diajar dengan menggunakan board games, sedangkan ke­lompok kontrol diajar dengan tanpa menggunakan board games. Data dianalisis secara non parametrik dengan menggunakan analisis Kruskal Wallis dan Mann-Whitney. Hasil penelitian membuktikan bahwa board games berpengaruh terhadap peningkatan hasil belajar Bahasa Inggris siswa.

The study aimed at developing a multilingual thematic picture dictionary as a media to support literacy in English language for fifth grade elementary school students in Bali. This study used Design and Development (D&D) model by Richey and Klein (2014). The steps were (1) analysis, (2) design, (3) development, and (4) evaluation. Fifth grade elementary school students and English teachers from rural and urban area were the research subjects. They were chosen through purposeful sampling technique. In analysis, the data were collected through observation, interview, questionnaire, and document analysis. The result of needs analysis found that there is an urgency of developing multilingual thematic picture dictionary. The students needed dictionary while learning English because it helped them in finding the word’s meaning independently and could help them prepare for additional point while participating in teaching learning process content validity judgement showed that the dictionary was highly valid to criteria of a good multilingual thematic picture dictionary. The result showed that the multilingual thematic picture dictionary was categorized as ‘excellent’ media. Thus, it can be used as a media to support fifth grade elementary school students in developing their literacy skills.