Adhan Kholis

This study focused on examining instances of language code mixing within the lyrics of the song "You Never Know" by the musical group Blackpink. The primary objectives of this study were to identify the various forms of code-mixing presented in the song's lyrics, categorize the types of code-mixing employed, and elucidate the source languages contributing to the code-mixing within the lyrics. The research methodology adopted for this study was content analysis, a qualitative approach commonly used to characterize and compare documents. The findings revealed that the forms of code mixing in the lyrics of "You Never Know" by Blackpink encompassed the insertion of words, phrases, and clauses. Specifically, code-mixing in the form of words accounted for 8 instances, phrases for 20 instances, and clauses for 10 instances. The majority of code mixing used in the song's lyrics was classified as alternation code-mixing, with 8 instances of outer code-mixing. Furthermore, the source languages for the code-mixing in the song's lyrics were identified as English and Korean. There were 26 code-mixed elements from the English language, and 44 from the Korean language. This study suggests potential avenues for further exploration, particularly in the realm of code-switching theory, which shares close ties with the phenomenon of code-mixing.

The objective of this research was to develop bilingual expressions pocketbook. This research used the type of research and development (RnD) that applied the ADDIE model, which employed five steps, including analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The product of the research was bilingual expressions pocketbook. The contents of the pocketbook consist of a cover, vocabularies of each topic, and the expressions of each topic. This research was conducted in ALC's Secondary Students at Assalafiyah, which contained 27 students. In collecting data, the researchers employed some techniques like interviews, questionnaires, tests, and documentation. The result of this research showed that the validation result from the material expert was an average of 3.5. It was categorized as very good. The validation result from the media expert was average, which is 3.6. It was categorized as very good. Therefore, it can be concluded that developing bilingual expressions pocketbook is appropriate to be implemented at ALC. Also, the development of a bilingual expressions pocketbook for Secondary Students at Assalafiyah Language Center (ALC) holds significant promise for enhancing language learning and communication skills. The design phase focuses on creating clear and measurable learning objectives, selecting appropriate instructional strategies, and devising assessment methods that cater to the unique bilingual context. The pocketbook provided students with a handy reference for learning and practicing common bilingual expressions. Also, it can increase students' motivation and engagement in learning vocabularies.

This study aimed to analyze Kurikulum Operasional Madrasah (KOM) as the implementation of Merdeka curriculum in MAN 1 Bantul Yogyakarta. KOM is the school curriculum used by the school in applying the new curriculum during a year. The research used a qualitative method through a case study design. The research focused on the analysis of Kurikulum Operasional Madrasah and how was the format of the curriculum. In addition, it explored more about the teachers' perception along with the challenges towards the implementation of Merdeka curriculum. The data collection involved interviews and document analysis providing valuable insights into the practical aspects of this curriculum reform. The data analysis consisted of data collection, data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion. The findings highlighted the content of Kurikulum Operasional Madrasah focusing on giving the school more opportunities to adjust its characteristics, the students and its environment to achieve the goal of school vision and mission. Besides the teachers' perception dealing with Merdeka Curriculum mostly said that although there were many challenges of the implementation, they agreed that this curriculum brought differences and many benefits in the teaching and learning process. This research hopefully contributes to the ongoing dialogues and cases related to the surrounding curriculum reforms in Indonesian Madrasah especially under the issues of Merdeka curriculum.

Covid-19 pandemic extended serious impact toward educational field in all countries. Most schools conducted teaching and learning activities fully online even hybrid to reach the best interaction and communication. This study aimed to explore and describe the implementation of hybrid communication, the benefits, the evaluation and assessment, and the perceptions of both students and parents in English language teaching for the primary education at Afkaaruna Islamic School (AIS) Sleman Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was qualitative research with a case study research design. In collecting data, the researchers interviewed the principal, the head of curriculum, three English teachers, three students, and parents. The oservation of class activities, the documentation of teaching, and questionnaires of perceptions were also administered as supporting data. In analyzing the data, the researcher used interactive model by Miles & Huberman including data collection, data reduction, data display and conclusions. The results showed that teachers used lab-rotation model (50:50) in teaching and learning. Hybrid communication offered contributions toward English language teaching and learning at primary education including students' enhancement and engagement on English skills, technical skills, class management, and digital literacy as well. Also, it facilitated students to access and obtain many online resources and references such as PDF texts, websites, ebooks, YouTube videos, and animations. Moreover, it helped the teachers explained materials easily due to various digital tools used in the classroom. This study is expected to serve as a hybrid learning model for educators as an alternative approach when full online is deemed challenging to implement.

Both Indonesia and Estonia have similar contexts of learning English as a foreign language. The learning achievements reveal a considerable disparity when considering the worldwide assessment of English proficiency, with Indonesia ranking 79th and Estonia securing the 23rd position according to the (EF English Proficiency Index in 2023). This study compares English curricula in Indonesia and Estonia, examining the differences between them despite similar conditions for teaching English as a foreign language. The fundamental goal of the study was to identify the factors that influence diverse learning outcomes in various countries. The study used content analysis to compare curricular papers from both countries on six critical criteria including: (1) stakeholders involved in English curriculum development, (2) stakeholders' reactions to the English curriculum, (3) stated purposes of the curriculum, (4) educational philosophies underlying the English curricula, (5) unstated purposes of the curricula, and (6) influential factors shaping the curricula. The analysis suggested that the key drivers to the discrepancy in learning results in both countries were national policy, pedagogy, and assessment implementations. The results showed that the main result of the mentioned alterations underscored the need for an enhanced approach to the instruction and acquisition of English. Allocating sufficient time for English learning allows students to maximize their opportunities for developing language skills. Moreover, integrating speaking and writing elements into final evaluations and embracing a communicative language strategy can inspire both educators and learners to participate in more genuine learning experiences.

At present, it is undeniable that the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in learning English is increasing. AI helps students develop English sentences. This study aims to assist eleventh-grade students' skills in creating hortatory exposition texts using QuillBot AI. It was Classroom Action Research (CAR) using the Kemmis, McTaggart, and Nixon paradigm conducted in two cycles, each consisting of three meetings. Each cycle included planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The participants of this study were students from XI IPA 2A, consisting of 20 students. The data collection technique employed was a test. Before giving treatment, the students did a pre-test in the form of a writing test. Then, the researcher taught the students using Quillbot AI in several meetings. A paired sample t-test was administered using the SPSS version 25 to analyze the obtained data. The findings revealed that using QuillBot AI in the writing class considerably improved students' writing skills. It was demonstrated by the results of the students' writing test scores. In the pre-test, the students' mean score was 53.55. Then, after utilizing QuillBot AI, the students' mean posttest score was 78.90. In addition, the significance of the difference could also be seen in the acquisition of a sig. (2-tailed) value of 0.000, which meant it was smaller than 0.05. Based on the statistics presented, Ho was refused, and Ha was approved, indicating that QuillBot AI's usage impacted the students' ability to create hortatory exposition texts.

A movie consists of a dialogue between its characters. Both the speaker and the listener use many different kinds of utterances. In communication, we use utterances in action, also known as speech actions. This research aimed to determine the types of speech acts performed by the characters and determine the function of the speech acts performed by the characters in Turning Red's movie. A movie can deliver a message to the audience as one form of communication. It contains a variety of genres, making it an interesting topic to be a research. In this case, understanding speech act theory becomes essential for solving the issue. Speech acts are things that can be accomplished through speech. There are three types of speech acts: locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary. The movie has been chosen since it is a children's genre movie representative of Asian parenting style and leaves the deepest messages to children. The data were taken directly from the movie dialogue, focusing on the speech acts uttered by the characters and the context of the occurrence of the utterance. In collecting the data, the researchers transcribed the data comprehensively, which were analyzed using content analysis on the movie Turning Red. The researchers analyzed some illocutionary acts in the movie conversation. The data was divided into five types: directive, representative, declarative, commissive, and expressive. Teachers can create relevant and engaging learning experiences that build pragmatic competence and improve students' communicative skills by adding actual speech acts from movies into language lessons. It helps to understand how movies can be used as valuable instruments in English language teaching, especially in the development of language acquisition.

In the modern era, teaching English is the main role for making students be able to get a skill and communicate with foreigners on social media and reality. English teaching needs teachers to teach students to develop both academic and personal abilities of English. English Teachers often used new methods and strategies in learning English and even these methods were often evaluated every week but, why there were still many students who had not been able to understand English in terms of theory and practice. Autonomous learning was a student-centered language learning method in order to be able to practice and that its approach made students autonomy focused on utilizing of cognitive and metacognitive resources to shape the English learning process. The writer uses library research in this article. Library research is research in which data collection techniques are carried out by reading various literature related to information and relevance to the research topic. As for the type of literature research that is being carried out, namely field research, research uses a descriptive type, namely to describe in detail about reality or phenomena by providing criticism or research on these phenomena. The approach used by the author in this study is a qualitative approach. This qualitative approach is used to solve actual problems by collecting, compiling, analyzing and classifying data. Various types of data sources in articles in the form of journals, research reports, scientific magazines, newspapers, relevant books, seminar results, unpublished scientific articles, sources, bibliographical letters, video graphics and so on.

This study aims to explore and describe English bridging program adapting Cambridge curriculum for grade one of primary school at Afkaaruna Islamic School (AIS), Yogyakarta. The bridging program was a program to facilitate new students to improve their English language skills before joining real class. This study used qualitative approach with the case study research design. To collect the data, the researcher used interview, observation, and documentation. The researchers interviewed three English teachers. Then, data were analysed using the theory of Miles and Huberman including data collection, data reduction, data display and conclution/verifying. The results included the implementation of the Bridging Program was carried out for 2 to 3 months with the three focused subjects: Indonesian literacy, English literacy, attitude and character. Activities done included a pre-test conducted to determine students' abilities. The obstacles during the learning process were during online learning and the gap in students' abilities. The solution given was to provide additional classes for students who had not reached the learning target. The benefit of implementing English Bridging Program was to help students prepare themselves in the learning process and improve students' English ability to communicate and interact with others.

Integrating character values on materials is essential. This research aimed to develop Dirasah Islamiyah teaching materials based on character values for the fifth-grade students of Afkaaruna Islamic School Yogyakarta. The learning materials, especially Dirasah Islamiyah presented, still needed to be fully integrated with character values. This research was a research and development (R&D) study referred to the Thomlinson model, which included need analysis, stating goals and objectives, designing a syllabus design, developing methodology/material, and conducting testing and evaluation. Needs analysis questionnaires were employed as the instrument for collecting data. The data obtained from the need analysis was analyzed quantitatively. Afterwards, the course grid was developed. The material developed was I Love Good Muamalah and developed into three sub-themes. Although each sub-theme had a different number of tasks, it followed the unit design of which the components were: (1) introduction; (2) main lesson; and (3) reinforcement. The results of the expert judgment showed that the developed materials were appropriate and deserved to be used. The mean values of all aspects were 71, categorized as "good" in the 61 < x < 80.

The need toward availability of online and electronic textbooks (e-books) in language teaching and learning in digital age and 21st century is very considerable. To design and develop an electronic book, teachers should consider all students' needs. This study aimed to investigate and explore students' English learning needs, wants, and difficulties of primary education on developing English interactive multimodal e-book integrated with the skills of 21 st century including communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. The case study research design was used to deeply investigate and describe the students' needs on development of English e-book. To collect data on the students' necessities, difficulties, and wants for a primary English course design and skills, the researchers used interview and questionnaire.. The researcher interviewed one teacher and three students. For questionnaire, there were three main aspects asked: students' necessity, wants, and difficulties totally consisting of sixteen questions. Documentation of the teaching and learning activities photos was collected and the data were analysed using qualitative and quantitative analysis. The results included (1) the students' English skill was considered poor; they had little vocabulary mastery and low motivation toward learning English materials (2) the needs toward the 21st century skills to be included in e-book were very necessary to promote communication, critical thinking, and problem solving skills; (3) inserting various multimodal materials in each task of e-book was needed to increase students' references, reading comprehension, and digital literacy, and (4) inclusion of various online activities like synchronous and asynchronous mode was highly demanded.

This case study was a preliminary stage of an on-going research and development project on developing a business English textbook integrated with digital tools for students of English Education at Nahdlatul Ulama University of Yogyakarta. It investigated the students’ perceived needs on their business English course. To collect the data, a needs analysis questionnaire was administered to the students using Google form including the students’ necessities, lacks, and wants for a practical business English course design. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyse the collected data. It defined the context in which the students would use business English in their future profession. Results showed that (1) the students’ English proficiency was still in the middle, (2) The use of English in daily life communication was on occasion, (3) The English skills’ preferences should be learnt in the business context were speaking, writing, listening, and reading, (4) Topics included in the business contexts were interview, curriculum vitae, and presentation in the top three, (5) Digital tools’ preferences to be integrated into learning were Kahoot, Padlet, and VoiceThread in the top three, and (6) Learning methods implemented were group discussion and project-based learning in the top two.

This study aimed to explore, investigate, and describe students' perceptions and learning practices during the implementation of online language learning using blended synchronous and asynchronous communication. Data was obtained from the observation, the interview, the students' questionnaire derived from the Google Form, and the need analysis in the preliminary study for higher students of Nahdlatul Ulama University of Yogyakarta majoring in English Education Department. It was a case study research design. Descriptive and quantitative analysis was used to describe and interpret the obtained data from respondents. The results showed that the students were more enthusiastic about combining synchronous and asynchronous learning modes than videoconference only. Furthermore, evidence represented that the students were motivated by asynchronous tools such as WhatsApp, Google Docs, and Google Classroom: easy to reach communication, cheap costs, multifunction, and fast responses. In acquiring clear interaction and a direct meeting, live conferences like Zoom, and Google Meet became the right preferences for teachers and students.

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) became a special concern in language teaching for the reason that it can assist and enhance language learning for all levels of education. Again, it had beneficial roles for supplementing language teaching like ELSA Speak App one of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) used for teaching pronunciation. It studied how students heard, voiced, uttered, vocalized, and asserted the English words in the oral language, but the students often pronounced incorrect words with the result that the uttered words had faulty meaning. This study aimed to carry out English Language Speech Assistant (ELSA) Speak App to improve English language pronunciation skills to higher education learners that were the English Department Students of Nahdlatul Ulama University of Yogyakarta (UNU). The data were collected using a test of pronunciation and interview. The researcher also taught in the classroom. The results showed that ELSA Speak can increase the students‟ pronunciation skills. It can be seen from the average scores obtained from the teaching cycles from two to four in grade. Clearly, ELSA Speak helped the students pronounce diverse words more easily and comprehensively. Also, the available features offered by this app like instant feedback enabled the students to pronounce precisely. In conclusion, ELSA Speak can improve the students‟ pronunciation skills well and effectively. Indeed, it can motivate the students to engage in learning to pronounce.

This study aimed to find out the differences in the students' achievement in writing the hortatory exposition text among the students taught by using video, pictures, and the lecturing method with the genre-based approach. This study was a quasi-experimental research with the pretest and the posttest design. The sample consisted of grade eleven students of majoring science comprising three classes chosen by cluster random sampling. Two classes were for the experimental groups taught using video and pictures and the control group taught using the lecturing method. The data were collected using the test of writing. The validity established was the content validity, while the reliability used was inter-rater. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze data. The results of the study had shown that there were the significant differences between the experimental and the control groups where the use of video was the most effective media in teaching writing.

Lately, pandemic covid-19 has changed the educational field including learning methods from conventional learning to distance learning. This shift needed more adaptation for all parts like stakeholders, teachers, and also students. Evidently, various efforts have been made by teachers in simplifying teaching and learning such as applying some digital technologies like WhatsApp App, an asynchronous communication to reach the students' presence with any spaces and time. This study aimed to describe and to evaluate the use of utilizing WhatsApp App in distance language learning for the English Education Department Students of Nahdlatul Ulama University of Yogyakarta. The research design of this study was a case study. Furthermore, this study gave the detailed information, description, and understanding deeply in relation to the use of WhatsApp App in remote teaching. Students' perception and the factors affecting the effectiveness were investigated through a questionnaire. The results showed that WhatsApp App can support and helped the language learning to be more effective and efficient for the reason that it was accessible and low technology for distance learning. The students were more responsive and enthusiastic in joining the class. Indeed, it has given more facilities and satisfaction in practice.

Kholis, Adhan. 2014. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Teaching Listening to the Eight Grade Students of Bilingual Program at SMP N 2 Ponorogo in Academic Year 2013/2014. Thesis, English Education Department, Tarbiyah Faculty, State Islamic College of Ponorogo (STAIN Ponorogo), Advisor 1 Dr. Hj. Siti Maryam Yusuf, M.Ag, Advisor 2 Winantu K. S. A., M. Hum.
Keywords: Teaching, Listening, Teaching Listening, Communicative Language       Teaching (CLT)
Basically, teaching is very important in educational system. It plays important role in which an interaction between teacher and the students in the classroom. Indeed, listening is one of four basic competences in English, which has their own functions. At the reality, teaching and learning listening in the classroom is still far of expectation. Most of students still have low background knowledge and low intrinsic motivation, so that they are confused in listening activities and don’t focus and concentrate on the lesson. It is very important to increase and develop the teacher’s teaching in listening in order to the students are motivated in their learning. Thus, the writer chooses Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to overcome those problems. Furthermore, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) can be understood as a set of principles about the goals of language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kinds of classroom activities that best facilitate learning, and the roles of teachers and learners in the classroom. This research formulated the problems as follows: (1) How is the implemenation of CLT in teaching listening? (2) What are the problems and teacher’s efforts to overcome the problems in the using of CLT in teaching listening?. This research used qualitative descriptive research approach as the way to collect the data, and it’s conducted in the eight grade students of bilingual program at SMP N 2 Ponorogo in academic year 2013/2014. The data in this research was collected through interview and documentation. The writer concluded teaching listening steps as follows: (1) lead-in (2) teacher directs comprehension task (3) students listen for task (4) teacher gives the feedback (5) students listen sound again (6) teacher directs text-related task. The problems and teacher’s efforts in the using of communicative teaching were the low students’ background knowledge and teacher gave exploration to guide the students’ mind in order to easy to understand the text, teacher was demanded to use English language as much as possible and teacher studied speaking and lesson plan, the students’ answers was orally and teacher gave some clues to persuade the students try to answer the questions correctly by explaining the word, and students’ participation in listening activities was less and teacher tried to make the situation and condition in listening activities became enjoyable and meaningful