This study investigates the use of digital applications by English teachers to provide feedback on students' written work. The research was conducted at Sunan Ampel State Islamic University in Surabaya, Indonesia. The participants were one English lecturer from the Written English A class in the 2023-2024 academic year, as well as 3rd-semester students enrolled in the class. Data was collected through interviews with the lecturer and analysis of students' written assignments that received online corrective feedback. The findings reveal that the lecturer utilized a variety of digital tools, including Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and Turnitin, to deliver feedback on students' writing. The analysis indicates that direct feedback was the most common type used, while indirect and metalinguistic feedback were employed less frequently. The digital applications facilitated the feedback process by enabling the lecturer to provide more detailed, personalized, and multi-modal feedback to support the improvement of students' writing skills. This study contributes to the understanding of how English teachers leverage technology to enhance the feedback practices in the writing classroom. The results suggest that strategic integration of digital tools can significantly improve the quality and effectiveness of feedback delivered to students on their written work

The research entitled “An Analysis of Digital Resources Implementation on Speaking Performance at Vocational High School” is aimed to answer the question how is the implementation digital resources in speaking performance, The research also tries to find out how is the implementation digital resources in speaking performance. In addition, how are the perception of the English teachers and students’ about the implementation of digital resources for speaking performance? The case study as its research method and descriptive qualitative is used as a design of this research. There are three instruments used to collect the data. First is the observation of field-notes, second is the interview for the English teacher and students, and third is a documentation of related lesson plan and syllabus. Techniques for analyzing qualitative data, such as collecting data, reduction data, display data, and conclusion/verification. As a result, it was found that the implementation of digital resource on students’ speaking performance worked well. This was evident from the answers of the students when this method was introduced, because they positively evaluated the method used; they actively participate in the learning process. The implementation of digital resources also greatly supports learning activities to improve this aspect of speaking skills and increase student autonomy, which in turn can facilitate students' the ability to use these skills communicatively.

Although extensive research has been carried out on learners’ demotivation, there is limited research exploring the demotivating factors of teachers, especially in Indonesia. Heavy workloads and challenging classroom environments can lead to decreased teacher motivation, which can affect students’ academic achievement. Therefore, it is pivotal for teachers to regulate their motivation and mitigate potential shortcomings. To address this gap, this case study is conducted to describe factors contributing to teachers’ demotivation and the strategies teachers employ to maintain their motivation. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from two EFL teachers voluntarily involved in this study. Using thematic analysis, this study elucidated that EFL teachers employ several motivational strategies such as spiritual and social strategies, engaging in pleasure activities, participating in professional development, and seeking help from peers to tackle demotivational conditions in their schools. Discussion, limitations, and significance of this study will be further discussed.

The current research is a critical study of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and has attempted to explain how epistemology has been made conflicting and controversial, leading to the idea of implementation of universal anthropological knowledge. It is the knowledge about human races and their collective interests and benefits. Advancing anthropological knowledge is a need of the day because a majority of the world's problems are due to books. The researcher explained that universal human knowledge will build trust, tolerance, and acceptance on the part of individuals and scholars from every culture and society around the globe. The perspective of "Ethnoepistemology" has been used as a theoretical framework in guiding and providing context to the study. "Ethnoepistemology" also decentralized the concept of one dominant center in the field of knowledge i.e. “The West knowledge”. Having a qualitative and epistemological nature, the research used "Close Reading" as a method of data analysis to highlight the hidden meanings and concepts. The study concluded that the implementing and considering anthropological knowledge as universal will regain the declined scope of academia as it is universal.

Classroom management is one of the essential teaching skills required to be mastered by teachers, and its goal is to develop a conducive academic and social-emotional learning environment. This article reported the research exploration of how an experienced senior high school English teacher manages her class to make the students feel comfortable and motivated to learn English in the classroom. This research was designed as qualitative case study research and collected the data by observing and recording the classroom learning session and voice recording interviews. The thematic analysis revealed that an experienced senior high school English teacher managed her class by applying course-specific, teacher-specific, and group-specific motivational components to make students feel comfortable and motivated. The findings imply that English teachers create exciting learning activities besides morning storytelling to make students feel comfortable and motivated. The teacher prepares more teaching media for the materials well and thinks about the time spent on every activity in the opening, primary, and closing activities (in case of an unpredictable event).

This inquire about examined almost student’s perception on the utilize of Webtoon to move forward reading comprehension ability. Webtoon could be a modern apps that can be utilized to move forward reading skills by its words utilized and captivating pictures. The reason of this think about is to clarify whether or not Webtoon can improve student’s readability in reading comprehension capability. The respondents of the ponder are the understudies of English Instruction understudies at IAIN Kediri.The result of the think about shows that the students are more interested and get the inspiration to progress their reading comprehension capability by utilizing Webtoon.

Recent years have seen a considerable change within the educational environment, this is partly down to innovation in technology and teaching methods. Game-based learning (GBL) is one of the well-known approaches to include game elements in instructional processes to enhance student engagement and learning results. Based on the background above, this study focuses on investigating the advantages and disadvantages of GBL in teaching new vocabulary for seventh grade students at class VII-A of SMPN 25 Surabaya. The researcher conducted a qualitative descriptive study using an open-ended questionnaire to six students in the class for data collection to describe their perspectives. According to the results of the study, GBL provided an exciting and interesting atmosphere that gave rise to students' interest in learning English which referred to attention and comprehension. The investigation in question identified a number of problems, most notably those that pertained to technology limitations, for example device accessibility and internet connection issues, which can hinder the effectiveness of the GBL approach in the classroom.

Abstract. This study aims to identify cases of difficulties in learning to read poetry for elementary school students. This research is a case study with data obtained from the case subjects of teachers and students of primary school. Data in the form of learning difficulties behavior was taken by using observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The steps taken include case identification, diagnosis, prognosis, remedial (treatment), evaluation, and follow-up (follow-up). The results showed that the case of difficulty in learning literary appreciation, especially reading poetry, was the class condition and the teacher's factor. The condition of the classroom window that is too low can be overcome by providing a cover in the form of a curtain to block the view of students outside the room, while teachers who do not master the class due to a lack of learning media can be overcome by providing other supporting books besides the main book, magazines, and ‘infocus media.

Writing Attitudes refers to the perceptions, feelings, and beliefs that students hold towards writing. Understanding students' writing attitudes is important as it can affect their engagement in writing activities and ultimately their writing performance. The aims of this study are to describe the attitudes towards learning writing and to identify the contributing factors the attitudes towards learning writing of EFL students in the English Education Department of an Islamic university in Pekanbaru. This research is qualitative research. This research was conducted from January to February 2024 at an Islamic university in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. The participants were 6 students of 3rd semester students. To this extent, it was generally studied that the sampling size for this study purposively comprises one class with 30 students in total from the English Education Department, which serves as a representative group. The instruments to collect the data were close-ended questionnaire, open-ended questionnaire, and interview. The researcher used qualitative analysis: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification to analyse the data. The result shows that there are three attitudes that were shown by the 3rd semester students at English Education Department of an Islamic University in Pekanbaru namely beliefs, emotions, and dispositions. in addition, the factors that influenced the students’ attitude were teaching method and approaches, curriculum and materials, leacturer interactions, and peer influence and collaboration factors.