The speaking skills of seventh-grade students at SMPN 27 Satu Atap Lappawarue are still considered low.This is caused by the students' low self-confidence in speaking in public and the use of teaching methods that do not encourage active participation.This study aims to determine the extent of the influence of the Role Playing learning technique in improving students' speaking skills in the Indonesian language subject. The type of this research is Pre-Experiment.The research design is a Pretest-Posttest Design, which is an experiment that involves only one class as the experimental class without a comparison class (control class).The subjects used in this study were 12 students. The results of the descriptive statistical analysis show that the use of the Role Playing learning technique has a positive impact on the improvement of students' speaking skills.The average speaking skill scores of the students increased from 44 during the pretest to 79 after the posttest.This shows that after the Role Playing technique was applied, the students' speaking skills experienced a significant improvement compared to before the technique was implemented.The results of the inferential statistical analysis using the t-test formula show that the calculated t-value obtained is 9.358 with a frequency (df) = 12 – 1 = 11.At a significance level of α = 0.05, the t-table value obtained is 2.200.Thus, t calculated > t table, so the null hypothesis (H₀) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H₁) is accepted.This proves that there is a significant influence of the Role Playing technique on the speaking skills of seventh-grade students at SMPN 27 Satu Atap Lappawarue, Mallawa District, Maros Regency.

The study “Evaluating Competence-Based Vocational Education in Indonesia” investigates at the CBE is used in Indonesian vocational education. In addition to gathering cross-sectional survey data from 41 school administrators, 453 instructors, and 2219 students from 41 schools, the study examines educational policy texts. The study looks at how much CBE is implemented in Indonesian vocational education. In terms of the improvement of students’ competencies, the study also assesses the success of CBE implementation. The study comes to the conclusion that CBE implementation in Indonesian vocational education is still in its early stages and that there are still many issues that need to be resolved in order to ensure effective CBE implementation.

The purpose of this research is to learn about Oliver Twist's struggles. This research is qualitative, in which the data are in the form of words rather than numbers. The data were collected from the novel, with Oliver Twist as the primary source, and other books that were relevant to this topic. The result shows Oliver was suffering, but he never gave up; instead, he ran away and looked up a lover in London. in his struggle for survival. Oliver shows his hard work in the orphanage and tries hard to break the rule or regulation. Oliver Twist is the first person to speak out against orphan mistreatment in the infant farm, where orphans would go for several nights without food. Oliver is very brave and never afraid of anyone, even though he is still a child. Never think that the world is full of bad people; good people are all around; they embellish good thoughts, nurture fine souls, and welcome you with an open heart. Their positive personality traits have a great impact on lives, and their influences are far stronger and more everlasting. When Mr. Brownlow resolves to save innocent Oliver Twist, nothing can stop him from rescuing the boy. It is also because of Oliver’s pure and good heart.

As an immigrant living in Australia, having proficiency in English is a must. With the background of language includes several mother tongues, bilingualism is directly acquired since living in the English country. Dealing with this case, this study aims at investigating diverse Australian immigrants’ experiences of becoming bilingual and underlines their implication for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) study. Two participants; German and Indonesian immigrants living in Australia for about 20 years taking apart during this study. Qualitatively, the immigrants were interviewed then the data were analyzed. The results found that both of them have some shared and distinctive multilingual experiences. In addition, it indicated that they were in different phases of their bilingual development.

Reading is the ability to use thoughts and actions to perform visual activities, pronounce a series of letters into words and sentences, master reading techniques and understand the content of the reading correctly. The method used in this study is a literature analysis study. Reading skills are skills that focus on reading words and sentences. The aspects in reading, it seems like pronunciation accuracy, intonation, fluency, clarity of voice and reading ability intact. Reading skills are the ability for a person to be able to read a reading properly and correctly, and can get the message contained in the reading. The purpose of reading is to find and obtain information, include its content and understand the meaning of reading.

This Research was done due to several problems found: Students ability in reading were low, lack of interesting in reading, and students were difficult to comprehend the text. Anticipation Reaction Guide strategy is related to this problem because the Anticipation Reaction Guide is enabled strategy to help the students who may hold misconceptions regarding a specific concept based on the lesson in reading. Therefore, this research was to investigate the effect of using Anticipation Reaction Guide Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension. This research used quantitative method with quasi-experimental design by comparing two classes. The researcher used a cluster sampling technique because teacher recomendation and these class have similar characteristics. The total sample was 53 students of VIII 1 and VIII 2. The researcher used multiple test wich consisted of pre test and post test were applied in collect the data. Based on the data analysis used T- test Formula. The result from post test both of classes, it was t-obtained (2.73) was higher than the t-table (2.009). So it means that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted while the null hypotesis (Ho) was rejected. So, it means that using anticipation-reaction guide strategy can help students to increase their reading comprehension.

There are several problems found in this research, such the material used by teacher was not related to the major, textbook for  students was not provide the material related to their major, and the material only taken from the internet by teacher randomly. This research is research and development which uses the theory of Sugiyono. The stages in this development are research, developing, validation, and testing. The subjects in this study were 36 students from the tenth grade of Computer and Network Engineering. The need analysis shows, students want to learn reading material that is related to their major and useful when they work after graduation. For validation by expert, the English reading material is categorized as "Very Valid" with the percentage score obtained is 83%. The practical results that have been given to teacher and students, the English reading material is categorized as "Very Practice" with  score 92%. And the last, the effectiveness of the English reading material is effective, it gets a significant value of 0.00 which is <0.05,it means that the English reading material is effective. So overall, the developing of English reading material is  accordance with the needs of students majoring in computer and network engineering.

Quillbot is one of the modern era technologies that many students use in learning, it is also one of the online applications to improve writing. Quillbot can help students find writing errors such as punctuation and grammar and others. The purpose of this article is to find out students' perceptions of the use of quillbot as an alternative for students in writing English. This study uses a quantitative method, to find how the use of quillbot in helping English Foreign Language (EFL) to write English. data was collected through questionnaires and interviews that have been calculated and analyzed. The results show that students have a lot of positive perceptions of the use of quillbot in improving writing, as well as found advantages in quillbot that are very helpful to students. With this paper, students are expected to be able to apply it in learning activities related to English writing thus that the resulting writing becomes better.
 
 

This research discussed the self-defense mechanism found in the main character in The Blind Side movie by John Lee Hancock. The writer focused on the analysis of the main character in the movie, named Big Mike. The results of this research indicate that there are several actions taken by the main character towards building self-defense mechanisms. There are eight kinds of self-defense mechanisms in Big Mike's character, namely repression, reaction formation, displacement, rationalization, sublimation, aggression, fantasy, and denial, which represent how Big Mike's character tries to adapt to his new life and protect those closest to him. To achieve the research objectives, the writer uses literary criticism in analyzing Big Mike's character as well as psychological approaches and the theory of self-defense mechanisms proposed by Freud. The primary data for this study was collected from the script and dialogue of The Blind Side movie, which was then analyzed using qualitative methods to reveal various types of self-defense mechanisms contained in the character of Big Mike.
                                                                                                           
 

This research is intended to reveal internal and external conflict in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. This is qualitative research, in which the data are in the form of words rather than numbers. The information was gathered from the novel The Old Man and the Sea, which served as the primary source, as well as other books on the subject. The result shows that the external conflict is between the old man, Santiago, and society. First, when the other fishermen and society mock the old man, Second, when the old man, Santiago, is struggling against the wild nature, the cruel sea, and the marlin and sharks, in struggling against the mockery, the old man just keeps silent and goes on fishing. The morning cold will easily make the old man sick or unable to hold out. Nonetheless, the old man is always confident in his ability to persevere. The internal conflict begins when the old man, Santiago, feels lonely; he has no wife and no children. Second, he feels disappointed and ashamed. The old man has gone fishing for 84 days, but when he goes home from fishing, he brings only the skeleton. He caught fish, but the shark is the only one. Despite his disappointment, Santiago is a man who is undefeated.