This study attempts to investigate the cultural contents of two EFL textbooks entitled English for Elementary School Students Grade 6 and Grow with English Book 6. This research is qualitative descriptive research, particularly content analysis. This study uses the categorization of cultural aspects by Cortazzi and Jin (1999), including source culture, target culture, and International culture. Adaskou’s et al. (1990) categorization of cultural dimensions covering sociological sense, aesthetic sense, semantic sense, and pragmatic sense is also employed. The findings show that the two English textbooks present the cultural aspects and dimensions differently. English for Elementary School Students Grade 6 textbook carries out more source culture than target culture and international culture. In comparison, Grow with English Grade 6 textbook carries out more target culture than source and global cultures. The findings also reveal that the sociological sense is the most prominent sense occurring in the two textbooks compared to the aesthetic, semantic, and pragmatic senses. Therefore, from the results, it can be inferred that the proportion of the cultural content in the two textbooks is imbalanced.

During an online learning environment, students organize and develop their ideas in writing using Google Docs, and they hold their online consultation through the comment section. The research aims to explore students’ perspectives towards Google Docs in writing classes. A survey method using a quantitative approach was employed to collect data for this research. The researcher composed a questionnaire consisting of 17 questions and an interview as the instrument of this research to explore EFL students’ perspectives regarding Google Docs and distributed it to 24 students in a Seminar on ELT D of the English Language Education Program at Universitas Brawijaya. After processing the findings of the questionnaire using SPSS ver. 25.0, the researcher found that the students of the Seminar on ELT D project had a positive perspective towards Google Docs in writing class. As an alternate writing tool in online learning, Google Docs can be useful to students. However, students prefer using face-to-face for consultation or employing synchronous learning, such as video conferencing, to assist students in better grasping how to develop and arrange their thoughts.

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Kesadaran bermorfologi berhubungan dengan perkembangan bahasa. Sebagian besar mahasiswa Teknik Informatika (TI) Politeknik Kota Malang angkatan 2017 kurang memiliki kesadaran bermorfologi terutama dalam pemahaman kosakata dan kegiatan membaca. Hal ini disebabkan karena pembelajaran morfologi itu sendiri tidak diajarkan secara eksplisit dan tidak ada media pembelajaran yang sesuai dengan karakteristik mahasiswa tersebut. Oleh karena itu, studi ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan game pembelajaran "Adventure of Word" untuk meningkatkan kesadaran bermorfologi mahasiswa sebagai materi tambahan. Studi ini merupakan Penelitian dan Pengembangan menggunakan model pengembangan milik Lee dan Owens. Dari hasil validasi para ahli, dari ahli isi, diperoleh 96.8% sedangkan dari hasil ahli media/desain diperoleh 78.7%. Dari hasil tersebut, maka dari kedua ahli produk ini dikategorikan 'valid'. Setelah produk divalidasi oleh para ahli, produk diuji cobakan kepada sebelas mahasiswa TI angkatan 2017. Hasilnya nya adalah 96.6% yang artinya produk ini dikualifikasikan sangat baik. Hal ini dapat disimpulkan jika produk dikembangkan sangat baik dan dapat dijadikan media pembelajaran untuk mengajarkan morfologi kepada mahasiswa seingga dapat membantu mereka dalam meningkatkan kemampuan bermorfologi terutama dalam kata dasar, prefiks, sufiks, dan sirkumfis

When learning English, speaking is one of the English skills which is important to learn. Learning to speak will make students able to communicate with others and know what happens in the world. In fact, learning to speak is more challenging than learning other skills in English. In order to speak effectively, students need to practice their speaking regularly. However, the appearance of Covid-19 limits students to practice their speaking face-to-face. After teachers and students adapt to online learning for 2 years, suddenly learning process back to offline learning with certain regulations. Due to that problem, this descriptive qualitative study came up intending to explore the perspective of the teacher regarding EFL students’ speaking performance in the pandemic context and the factors affecting it. Using semi-structured interviews as the instrument, an English teacher who teaches English pre, during, and post-pandemic in SMA Widya Gama Malang has been interviewed in this research. The results of this study revealed that reading material has an impact on students’ speaking performance, the difference in students’ self-confidence during and after the pandemic, students’ willingness to speak during and after the pandemic from the teacher’s perspective, ICT is the best multimedia factor for improving speaking performance, and there is no fixed teaching methodology for teaching speaking.

Learning strategy has been widely acknowledged to play an important role in foreign language learning to help the learners in improving language competence. However, studies about language learning in EFL setting in various setting with different participants are still required as to provide a comprehensive representation of how language learning strategies are applied by L2 learners, particularly in an Indonesian EFL setting. This study aimed to examine what language learning strategies are used by EFL learners who work as the local tour guide at National Park of Bromo Tengger Semeru /Taman Nasional Bromo Tengger Semeru (TNBTS), located in East Java, Indonesia.  Participants of this study were 33 English learners who work as local tour guide The instruments used was Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) version 7.0 adapted from Oxford (1990) consisting of 50 questions with 5 scale for each item. This study had a quantitative design as it dealt with the analysis of the numeric data collected from the questionnaire results and employed SPSS software as a tool to analyze descriptive statistics. The result showed that the most frequent strategy used was compensation strategy with mean value 3.64 and the least frequent strategy used was memory strategy with mean value 2.77.

<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Implementation of outcome-based Education (OBE) in Indonesia has been urged since 2019. It primes to the need of some adjustments in the higher education curriculum. In Academic writing classes in which English is served as a foreign language, implementation of OBE principles imposes issues as assessment must measure all abilities, skills, and knowledge targeted in the learning outcomes. The challenge escalate with large size classes that lead to a less optimum assessment given to learners’ writing. The need of writing assessment model that obeys OBE principles and facilitates academic writing teachers in coping with complication in providing quality assessment to scads of students in Indonesia is of a paramount importance. Yet, studies aimed at meeting the need are barely conducted. This research, therefore, designs writing assessment model which can (1) measure the expected learning outcomes, (2) monitor student’s abilities, skills and knowledge with regard to their individual learning pace, (3) assist the teachers of writing classes to comprehensively provide rigorous assessment to lots of students. ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model is employed to reach the research objectives. As the whole process is still on going, this article presents the Analysis and Design stages of the study. It elaborates underlying considerations of the proposed assessment model by reviewing previous studies related to writing assessment and OBE assessment in writing. The descriptions of the illustrated assessment model are presented to provide vivid view of how the assessment model works.</p><p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Implementasi Pendidikan Berbasis Hasil (OBE) di Indonesia telah digalakkan sejak tahun 2019. Hal tersebut didorong oleh perlunya beberapa penyesuaian dalam kurikulum pendidikan tinggi. Dalam kelas menulis akademik dimana bahasa Inggris disajikan sebagai bahasa asing, penerapan prinsip-prinsip OBE memberlakukan masalah karena penilaian harus mengukur semua kemampuan, keterampilan, dan pengetahuan yang ditargetkan dalam hasil pembelajaran. Tantangan meningkat dengan kelas berukuran besar yang mengarah pada penilaian yang kurang optimal yang diberikan pada hasil tulisan peserta didik. Perlunya model asesmen menulis yang menganut prinsip OBE dan memfasilitasi guru kepenulisan akademik dalam menghadapi kesulitan dalam memberikan asesmen berkualitas kepada siswa di Indonesia menjadi sangat penting. Namun, studi yang ditujukan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut hampir tidak pernah dilakukan. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini merancang model penilaian menulis (1) mengukur hasil belajar yang diharapkan, (2) memantau kemampuan, keterampilan dan pengetahuan siswa terkait dengan kecepatan belajar individu mereka, (3) membantu guru kelas menulis untuk memberikan penilaian yang cermat secara komprehensif kepada siswa. banyak siswa. Model ADDIE (<em>Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation</em>) digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan penelitian ini. Karena keseluruhan proses masih berlangsung, artikel ini menyajikan tahapan Analisis dan Desain dari studi tersebut. Tulisan ini menguraikan pertimbangan yang mendasari model penilaian yang diusulkan dengan meninjau penelitian sebelumnya terkait dengan penilaian menulis dan penilaian OBE secara tertulis. Deskripsi model asesmen bergambar disajikan untuk memberikan gambaran yang jelas tentang cara kerja model asesmen.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

Students of English Language Education Program in Faculty of Cultural Studies Universitas Brawijaya ideally master Grammar before taking the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan. However, the fact shows that they are still weak in Grammar especially tenses. Therefore, the researchers initiate to develop a video as a media to teach tenses. Objectively, by using video, students get better understanding on tenses so that they can communicate using English accurately and contextually. To develop the video, the researchers used ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). First, the researchers analyzed the students’ learning need to determine the product that would be developed, in this case was a movie about English tenses. Then, the researchers developed a video as the product. The product then was validated by media expert who validated attractiveness, typography, audio, image, and usefulness and content expert and validated by a content expert who validated the language aspects and tenses of English used by the actors in the video dealing with the grammar content, pronunciation, and fluency performed by the actors. The result of validation shows that the video developed was considered good. Theoretically, it is appropriate to be used English Grammar classes. However, the media expert suggests that it still needs some improvement for the next development especially dealing with the synchronization between lips movement and sound on the scenes while the content expert suggests that the Grammar content of the video should focus on one tense only to provide more detailed concept of the tense.