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.

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.

The improbability of continuing the traditional classroom during the pandemic Covid-19  caused an Unavoidable condition where blended learning was the most proper solution to conduct the learning process. This study intends to investigate how students view blended learning, particularly in English classrooms. The research's population is the eighth-grade students of MTS Fadhilah Pekanbaru with 93 students involved as the research samples. The instrument used to gain the data is a questionnaire consisting of 35 items divided into four aspects (behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and economic). The data were scored using a Likert scale with four options; Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D), and Strongly Disagree (SD). The findings showed that the students’ perception on blended learning was high level with an average score of 107.46. Owing to this, it can be determined that the students had positive perceptions when learning English through a blended learning method. They showed positive behaviors during blended learning where they always came to the lessons and submitted their assignments on time. Also, they believed blended learning allowed them to explore their potential and be more creative in the learning process.

The aim of this research is to discover the correlation between social media activeness and vocabulary mastery of the English department students of Universitas Riau. The population of the research is all third-year students of the English department of Universitas Riau. The number of samples is 117 students. The research instruments are 1) a questionnaire, and 2) a test. The questionnaire is for the data on social media activeness while the test is for the data on vocabulary mastery. To analyze the data, the researchers employed IBM SPSS Statistics 25. The data analysis revealed that the mean score of the student’s social media activeness is 20.2, classified as 'high' level, whereas the mean score of the student’s vocabulary mastery is 69.3, categorized as 'good' level. Additionally, the research finding showed the correlation coefficient of the two variables is 0.480, denoting a positive and moderate correlation. Also, the determinant coefficient is 0.2304, which implies social media activeness has a 23% influence on the students' vocabulary mastery, leaving the other 77% to other factors. Having discovered that there is a moderately significant correlation between social media activeness and vocabulary mastery, it is suggested that the students need to start utilizing their social media well and wisely. Besides providing entertainment, social media can be a great platform for students to improve their English vocabulary mastery.

This research was aimed to find out the significant effect of using Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) strategy on improving reading comprehension of the second year students of SMK Dar El Hikmah Pekanbaru. This research is Pre-experimental with one group Pre-test Post-test design. The population of this research was the second year students of SMK Dar El Hikmah Pekanbaru, then taking all of the population as the sample by using total sampling technique. This research used a reading test that consisting of 40 items in the form of multiple-choice in pre-test and post-test. The pre-test mean score was 60.15; the mean score of post-test was 74.97. To determine the difference between pre-test and post-test, this research used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, it was found that the t-test score was 8.782 which means it was higher than t-table (2034). From the result of data analysis, it can be concluded that the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) of this research was accepted. This means that there was a significant effect of using Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) strategy on improving reading comprehension of the second year students of SMK Dar El Hikmah Pekanbaru. Based on the findings of the research, it is recommended that Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) strategy is effective on improving the students’ reading comprehension, particularly in narrative text.

Complaint commonly appears in daily life interaction (Sukyadi, 2011). People do not only provide words when they speak up but also deliver an action. The way how they complain is sometimes different. Hence, the study described in this article aimed to investigate the types of complaining strategies produced by the EFL learners of the English Study Program at Universitas Riau. The research was conducted in Pekanbaru. Research design used was a descriptive qualitative study accompanied by descriptive statistics. The participants of the research involved 36 EFL students of the English Study Program selected by using the cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected by using a DCT( Discourse Completion Task) system consisting of some situations in which students were requested to express their complaints. The result showed that the students mostly used direct complaint strategies. Subsequently, based on the overall strategies, the direct accusation strategy appeared as the strategy mostly employed by students in their daily interactions. It means that they prefered to give a direct and simple complaint by using a question to accuse the complainant directly. Moreover, they complain about something by using an Indonesian structural context as their L1, which was not appropriate in the English structural context as their L2. One of the strategies that were not used by the students was the direct strategy to condemn or curse the defendant’s actions because it was claimed as a harsh accusation.

This learning improvement study aims to improve teaching and learning outcomes in academic writing through reading ability by applying CIRC model. This research was conducted based on the problems that occur when students taking Academic Reading and Writing courses. Among the problems found is that students still find difficulties in writing a summary of the specified article. The research subjects were students in the fourth semester of the academic year 2018/2019. Before applying this method, the writer conducted a pre-test. The pre-test results showed that the students' writing summary skills were still low. The pre-test result was 2.77% of students scored very well, 19.43% got a good score, 27.77% of students scored moderately, 47.22% scored less, and 2.77% in the category of failure. The Classroom Action Research method is carried out in the application of the CIRC model which consists of two cycles, where each cycle took place in two meetings, and each cycle applied different learning activities. The results of the first cycle have shown changes in several assessment criteria, but the research was still being carried out into the second cycle. This was done to further strengthen learning by using the CIRC model. The percentage of student scores in the second cycle shows that 36.03% got a very good score, 33.33% got a good score, 30.55% got a sufficient score, and no more students scored less, and failed. From the above results can be concluded that the application of the CIRC model by the distribution of different discussion groups in each cycle affected learning outcomes. Thus the CIRC model can be considered to use in learning academic writing through reading ability in Academic Reading and Writing courses.

The advancements in technology make it unavoidable to be used as a teaching medium in education. Thus, this research aims to develop an interactive learning media in the form of an Android-based application as a teaching medium for writing descriptive texts in senior high school and to determine the validity of the media. The researchers applied the Research and Development (R&D) by employing the 4D Model developed by Thiagarajan et al. (1974). The instruments used were an interview, the validation sheets from a material expert, a media expert, and a learning expert (an English teacher), and a students’ response questionnaire. The research findings showed that the average result of the experts' assessment was 3.75 which was classified as 'Very Valid', then from the result of the students’ response questionnaire a percentage score of 81.19%, categorized as 'Very Decent’. Therefore, interactive learning media indicates valid and suitable to be utilized as teaching and learning media for writing descriptive texts for tenth-grade students in high school. The use of interactive learning media can be an alternative to attract students' interest in the learning process, especially in writing descriptive texts in a fun way.