<span>This study was aimed at finding out the effectiveness of genre-based instructional model in the teaching of writing skills viewed from students’ creativity. This study employed a quasi-experimental research design. The samples consisted of two classes in which one class was treated by using genre-based instructional (GBI) model and the second class was subjected to the process-based instruction (PBI) model. The writing test and creativity test were functioned as research instruments to collect the data in both classes. The data were analyzed by using the multifactor analysis of variance (ANOVA). The research finding informed that the GBI model was more effective than the PBI model. It was proved with the value of sig. (0.008) was lower than sig. level 0.05. Thus, students having high creativity have better writing achievement than those who have low creativity and it was proved with the value of sign (0.000) was lower than sig. level 0.05. It means that the effect of instructional model and writing skills rests on the level of students’ creativity. The finding indicates that there is significant interaction between instructional model being applied and creativity in the teaching of writing skills.</span>

This research was aimed at finding out whether: (1) Contextual Teaching Learning has better effect than conventional method towards students speaking skill; (2) the students having low anxiety have better speaking skill than those who have high anxiety; and (3) there is an interaction between CTL and anxiety towards students speaking skill. This research was experimental study within quantitative approach. The total samples of this study were 66 students of tour and travel class of SMKN 2 Mataram that consist of two classes that determined by cluster random sampling technique. The instruments that were used to collect the data were test and questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using multifactor analysis of variance 2x2 and tuckey test. The result of this research revealed that the level of students anxiety that taught by CTL is lower than conventional, while students’ speaking skill score that taught by contextual method was higher than conventional method. The level of anxiety has significant effect toward students’ speaking skill. Therefore, it can be concluded that: 1) Contextual Teaching Learning method has better effect than Convetional method towards students speaking skill of the tour and travel students’ class of SMKN 2 Mataram; 2) The students who have low speaking anxiety have better speaking skill than those who have high speaking anxiety at the tour and travel students’ class of SMKN 2 Mataram; 3) There is an interaction between CTL and students’ anxiety towards students speaking skill of the tour and travel students’ class of SMKN 2 Mataram.

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh strategi Note-Taking Pairs terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa dalam pemahaman membaca. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen dengan desain pre-test dan post-test. Sampel penelitian meliputi kelas XI-IPA2 yang digunakan sebagai kelompok eksperimen dan terdiri dari 26 siswa dan kelas XI-IPA1 digunakan sebagai kelompok kontrol yang terdiri dari 26 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam mengumpulkan data yaitu tes membaca dalam bentuk pilihan ganda dan lembar observasi kemampuan berpikir kritis. Data temuan selanjutnya dianalisis menggunakan SPSS 18. Hasil uji-t menunjukkan bahwa nilai uji-t (1,754) lebih tinggi dari t-tabel (1,671) pada tingkat signifikansi 0,05. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh positif penggunaan strategi Note-Taking Pairs terhadap kemampuan berpikir kritis siwa dalam pemahaman membaca siswa kelas sebelas SMAN 2 Narmada.Abstract: This study aimed to seek the effect of the Note-Taking Pairs strategy on the students' critical thinking skill in reading comprehension. This study used an experimental method with pre-test and post-test design. The research sample covered class XI-IPA2 which was used as an experimental group and consisted of 26 students and class XI-IPA1 was used as a control group consisting of 26 students. The instruments used in collecting data were reading test in the form of multiple choice and observation sheets of critical thinking skills. The finding data were subsequently analyzed by using SPSS 18. The t-test results showed that the ttest value (1.754) was higher than the t-table (1.671) at the significance level 0.05. Therefore, based on these results, it can be concluded that there is a positive effect from the use of the Note-Taking Pairs strategy on the students' critical thinking skill in reading comprehension at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 2 Narmada.

The purpose of this study is to explain the extent of the role of social media on students' English vocabulary mastery and also to describe the role of social media on students' vocabulary acquisition related to their respective use of social media. It uses the case study method. The data needed for this study were collected from student observations and questionnaires. Data were collected from direct observation and analyzed using descriptive qualitative methods to find out how to explain social media activity to students. By using this method, researchers can find out the average activeness of students on the most frequently used social media. This observation was also carried out to find out between social media activity and student vocabulary achievement. Meanwhile, the data collected from the questionnaire results were then analyzed using the descriptive data method and the classification method of social media activity from Nuraini (2011). This method was used to describe students based on their social media activity.Therefore, the results of this study indicate that there is student activity and vocabulary achievement so that social media plays an important role in achieving student vocabulary. However, some of the students have differences with different levels of social media activity. Most of the students with higher social media activity were able to achieve better vocabulary than those with lower social media activity, although there were some students with lower social media activity who could achieve better scores than those who were very active. . These conditions indicate that social media has a role in students' vocabulary mastery. As a researcher, I suggest that teachers and students try to use social media as a medium for language learning.

This community service was aimed at training the teacher to be familiar with the usage of learning approach that can be applied in the time of covid-19. The training was conducted at Pondok Pesantren Arrahman attended by teachers of Madrasah Tsanawiyah, Aliyah, and SMK Darul Kamilin Bakan. To reach the goal of the program, the material and the application about the learning approach in detail for both online learning and blended learning was delivered to the participants. At the end of the program, evaluation was conducted by giving evaluation sheet to the participants to know whether or not the target of program is achieved. The response of the audience reveals that the program gave some good advantages for the participants as they have new knowledge about the learning approach applied in the time of covid-19. The participants also expected that the same program is conducted in the near future.