Pandemi Covid19 telah memberikan dampak yang sangat signifikan terhadap kehidupan manusia secara global. Pandemi ini telah memaksa manusia untuk mencari solusi dan alternative untuk bisa bertahan dalam berbagai bidang. Adaptasi kebiasaan baru (new normal) merupakan sebuah konsep yang diterapkan agar manusia masih bisa menjalankan aktivitasnya tanpa harus mengorbankan keselamatan dan kesehatannya. Salah satu konsep yang diterapkan dalam bidang pendidikan adalah dengan penerapan pembelajaran daring yang diadopsi oleh seluruh jenjang dan jenis pendidikan di seluruh dunia. Pembelajaran daring dianggap memberikan solusi agar proses pembelajaran masih tetap bisa dilakukan ditengah pandemic covid-19. Dilatarbelakangi konsep ini, penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui apakah pembelajaran daring ini dianggap sebagai sebuah solusi atau justru masalah baru dalam proses pembelajaran. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan melibatkan berbagai pihak yang terlibat secara langsung dalam proses penerapan pembelajaran daring. Partisipan penelitian ini terdiri atas 60 orang peserta didik, yang merupakan siswa sekolah menengah serta mahasiswa, 20 orang pendidik yang berprofesi sebagai dosen atau guru, serta 20 orang orang tua siswa atau mahasiswa dari berbagai latar belakang sosial yang berbeda. Pemilihan partisipan dilakukan melalui system convenience sampling. Data penelitian diperoleh melalui angket dan wawancara. Setiap kategori partisipan mendapat pertanyaan yang berbeda disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan data yang ingin diperoleh. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa secara umum pembelajaran daring ini masih menghadirkan masalah-masalah yang perlu dibenahi secara prinsip. Fasilitas, sarana pendukung, dan factor lain masih harus diperkuat untuk memperlancara proses pembelajaran daring ini. Pembelajaran daring masih berada pada fase transisi sehingga masih banyak penyesuaian yang harus dibenahi. Perlu adanya langkah bertahap dalam memperbaiki semua aspek agar proses pembelajaran daring ini bisa berfungsi secara maksimal.Kata kunci: Pembelajaran daring, Pandemi, Covid-19.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to explore (1) the role of the principal's leadership (2) the steps for decision-making by the principal (3) the efforts of the principal in preventing transmission of the COVID-19 virus in SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Karang Tengah Buay Madang Timur, Indonesia Study Design: This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. Place and Duration of Study: Research at SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Karang Tengah on   March 2020-May 2020. Methodology: The data collection technique is doing through interviews, observation, and documentation. The research subjects were the principal and several students. Results: The results of this study indicate that (1) the role of the principal in decision making is included in managerial competence. (2) the steps for decision making by the principal, namely (a) problem identification, (b) making alternative solutions; (c) choosing a solution; (d) implementing and evaluating solutions. (3) the efforts of the principal in preventing the transmission of the Covid-19 virus in the school environment, namely by eliminating face-to-face learning and learning replaced by online education or Learning From Home.  Schools also spray all classrooms and school environments; the principal makes rules for all school members to comply with health protocols according to the decision of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number Hk.01.07 / Menkes / 382/2020 regarding health protocols always to use masks, wash hands and keep a distance from all school members. At the time of collecting students, assignments are divided into several waves so that students do not crowd at school. Conclusion: The principal acts as a manager at the school level. In decision making at the school level, a manager must reason in determining the decisions to be made. To prevent transmission of COVID-19, the principal adheres to the health protocol according to the decision of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number Hk.01.07 / Menkes / 382/2020 during school activities.

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Adanya COVID-19 yang menyebar keseluruh dunia, termasuk di Indonesia telah menimbulkan banyak korban jiwa. Hal ini memaksa pemerintah mengeluarkan kebijakan Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh, diantaranya melalui daring, agar kegiatan pendidikan tetap berjalan, termasuk Pendidikan Agama Islam. Tentunya guru memerlukan perencanaan strategi yang berbeda dari perencanaan strategi sebelumnya, dalam menanamkan nilai-nilai Islam kepada siswa yang menjadi bagian penting tujuan pendidikan nasional. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui dan memahami bagaimana perencanaan strategi guru dalam pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam akibat COVID-19. Teknik pengumpulan datanya melalui wawancara terhadap 5 orang responden sebagai informan. Hasil yang didapat yaitu bahwa guru menempuh perencanan strategi pembelajaran dengan membangun kesiapan siswa dalam pembelajaran, mendesain perencanaan pembelajaran, penggunaan strategi dan metode, penggunaan media, sumber belajar dan bahan ajar, alokasi waktu, dan penilaian hasil belajar formatif.

WhatApps is the social media platform with enormous users. In WhatsApp, the user can share and get various information from friends or groups. However, there are many messages that cannot be confirmed factually. Many people just believe that forwarded messages or messages or information without rethinking the reliability of the information. Most of these come from an unreliable source and comes along with misinterpretations and misinformation. Concerned with the fact, this research is aimed to analyze people awareness in reading and sharing forwarded WhatsApp messages. The participant of this research is fifty participants from various social background. The result found most WhatsApp user tend to ignore the validity of the information and impatiently share what they read from the message. However, there are some others who critically read the text before sharing and forwarding it. The result of this study is expected to stimulate more law enforcement in dealing and filtering information shared by the community.

This study aims to analyze the Indonesian language syntactic interference on English Speaking Skills of English Language Students. The research subjects were students of semester 3 at a non-English language college in Garut. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach with equivalent and distribution methods. Meanwhile, the corpus was obtained by using the listening technique (SBLC), recording and taking notes from students' conversation assignments about their past activities in the form of videos. The results showed that the syntactic interference in this study includes the inaccuracy of word forms that are influenced by the past, inaccurate subject-verb agreements, inaccuracies, absence of articles, sentence patterns that do not match S + V + O, inaccurate use of the words 'no' and 'not'.Keywords: interference, syntax, speaking skills

Universities set graduate profiles and learning outcomes offered as the skills and knowledge to equip graduates for future education and employment. However, these profiles and learning outcomes may fail to lead their graduates to the expected results. The study is interested in discovering this singularity whether or not the graduate profiles and learning outcomes have met the expectations. Using survey and interviews, the study involved 100 EFL university students and graduates in Indonesia as the participants. The results discovered that most EFL university students expected relevant career path to the graduate profile set by the university. However, the analysis on the graduates found that only fifty percent of the graduates undergo the profile-relevant careers. Those findings provide noteworthy feedback for the university and its stakeholders to revisit the graduate profiles and learning outcomes which in turn to readjust its educational policy to create better professionals for the ongoing and upcoming challenge.

This research was aimed to find the students’ difficulties in speaking English and to find the factors contributing to students’ difficulties in speaking English. The research used qualitative method for the answer the problem statement. The sample of this study was all students of eleventh grade of a senior high school in Garut which used population sampling technique. Based on the data from the result of this research showed that: 92% of the students’ difficulties in speaking, 80% of students had limited vocabulary, 70% pronunciation, 20% nervousness. Factors contributing to students’ difficulties in speaking were that 100% students preferred to speak in their mother tongue (Sundanese) rather than English, they are lazy to read and learned new words, 92, 6% the students did not had motivation and the teachers’ teaching style was also one of the factors contributing to students’ difficulties in speaking English.