The purpose of this research is to prove whether role play and picture-in-picture are effective or not in improving students’ speaking abilities at SMP Negeri 1 Ratahan. This research is classified as "classroom action research" because it was conducted in a cycle. The second-grade students were taken as a sample consisting of 20 students. The writer used a reflective journal, field notes, and tests in collecting data. The data were analyzed in a way that triangulates the data sources. It compared the data obtained from reflexive journals, field notes, and tests. This was intended to get a general description of the students' progress. The triangulation was interpreted to get the result of the research. The findings of this study revealed that by using role play in Cycle 1, only a small number of students improved their speaking competency, with a mean score of 5. By applying picture and picture in Cycle 2, more students were able to speak, with a mean score of 6. The result was classified as moderate. Through the combination of role play and picture-and-picture in Cycle 3, most of the students made great progress, with a mean score of 8, and it was categorized as good.
 

Education is an investment for the creation of quality Human Resources (HR). Through education, one can easily increase one's potential so that one can improve one's life in a better direction. Various efforts have been made by the Government to improve the quality and equity of education. One of the efforts is by holding a 12-year compulsory education program. The policy of the 12 year compulsory education program is expected to be able to succeed and improve the quality of human life. Writing this article using descriptive method and literature study. This research states that the 12-year compulsory education program in Indonesia has not run optimally. There are still areas that have not been able to implement the 12-year compulsory education program. As in Bogor district, which has not maximized the 12-year compulsory education program due to conditions that do not support access to education. Even so, the government continues to strive for this program to be realized properly. The government is trying to make strategies or steps that are expected to anticipate problems in education in Indonesia. This is evidenced by the success of the 12-year compulsory education program in Lampung, namely the large number of Lampung people who have successfully carried out education for 12 years, the large number of schools built in the city and in the interior as well as the participation of the Lampung people who support the implementation of this program..

This research is a research to test whether the use of picture series media is influence in teaching writing. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a significant difference in the writing ability of students who were taught using the picture series. The population of this research is the eighth grade students of MTs Nurul Qur'an Jogoroto in the academic year 2022/2023. The total population is 215 students divided into six classes, each class contains between 35-38 students. The sample in this study was class VIII 5 and VIII 6 MTs Nurul Quran Jogoroto, totaling 70 students. The researcher used Quasi Experimental Class method to obtain score data. The researcher conducted a normality test to find out whether the data was normal or not. Based on the data normality test that has been carried out by the researcher, it shows that sig. 2-tailed is 0.000 meaning that data is normally distributed. Then, it will be continued with a mann whitney test. Based on the testing the hypothesis terms, if score of t is sig. < 0.05, Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. In the mann whitney test calculation, the data shows sig.(2-tailed) 0.000. The data lower than 0.5, it means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted.

This research was done  due to several problems on the students’ ability and impact to the score in reading comprehension.The first problem because the students do their task alone, the second problem the students had low motivation to read the text, the last problem the students felt bored with learning model used. The researher expected wether the power of two strategy is able to give significant effect on students’ reading comprehension. This research was an experimental research. The researcher chose quasi experimental design by using the experimental class and control class. The population of this research was 1th grade of SMA N 1 Pangkalan. The sample was X MIPA 1 which was as treated experimental class and  X MIPA 2 was treated as control class. To determine the sample, the researcher used  cluster sampling because the class have similar characteristic in score of reading test and have similar problems in reading comprehension.The researcher used the reading test as instrument.To analyzed the data, the researcher used Liliefors test for normality test. Then to test the hypothesis, the researcher used t-test and   Based on the analysis of the data, the result was also indicated by the mean of experimental class pre-test score which was 60.36. It was higher than the control class pre-test score which was 49.29. The result was also indicated by the mean of experimental class post-test score which was 85.86. It was higher than the control class post-test score which was 61.86. It meant there was significant effect of using the power of two strategy on students reading comprehension. It was concluded that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected. The students who were taught by using the power of two strategy better than the students who were not taught by using the power of two strategy. To sum up, the power of two strategy has a significant effect on students reading comprehension on descriptive text at 1th grade of SMA N 1 Pangkalan.

This research is carried out to trace dignity in A Streetcar Named Desire. The dignity is focused on Blanche as a Southern woman, who has a different characterization from her sister Stella.  This research is qualitative research since the data are in the form of words and quotations. The data are collected from the drama itself, A Streetcar Named Desire, and other books or references to support the analysis. In analyzing the data, the writer used a mimetic approach. The approach views literature as the imitation and combination of the reality and imagination of the playwright or the result of his imagination that comes from reality. The result shows the existence of the dignity of Blanche as a Southern Woman who lives on wealth and has a plantation in Belle Reve. Blanche’s region and its society have unique values in their social status. It is gentility that includes the manner of treating the caller. Blanche shows that her dignity comes from her cultural and social background as a Southern woman. Blanche serves to symbolize what she felt about the Southern aristocracy as she tries to escape poverty and her reputation although her ancestry is dead. Blanche's struggle with dignity and fantasy serves as one of the main causes of her character’s downfall. Although she puts on a veneer of social snobbery and has a manner that is dainty and frail, in reality, Blanche lies because she refuses to accept the hand fate has dealt her. In the Old South, women depended on men for comfort and status. She is taken away from her dignity. She also desperately clings to and is dragged into a new world of reality and a New South.

English is a native-speaking language hundreds of millions of the world's population consisting of Americans, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and of course·only the British themselves. This fact allows the emergence of several English variants or varieties; Among another emergence of British English and American English.  In the world of education, English as a language foreigners in Indonesia, the second variant has not received attention. Most English teaching institutions without be the choice of certain English variants. On Basically, the official provisions regarding this matter are not yet there is. However, there are variants of British English and American English can bring teacher doubts in dealing with abnormalities, vowel, vocabulary, or pronunciation the language. This is one of the considerations for the need to know English variants for prospective teachers and students English teacher, especially when the American influence is growing.

English Proficiency Test becomes a compulsory standard for higher education settings. Students need to perform their best capability, so they can obtain their expected score. Meanwhile, way of learning changed significantly due to Covid-19 pandemic. Students had to adjust the shifting way of learning from face-to-face meeting to online learning. The study aimed to investigate master students’ readiness in taking English Proficiency Test during the pandemic due to shifting way of learning from face-to-face to online learning. The research employed mixed-method study by using phenomenology approach as the qualitative inquiry, and descriptive analysis was used as the quantitative investigation. Qualitative data were taken through interview, and quantitive data were obtained by using questionairre. Based on the results of the study, it can be known that respondents did not perform their good self-efficacy in doing their English Proficiency Test. Meanwhile, respondents needed to adjust the shifting of learning way during pandemic because they should be more independent by learning the materials individually. 

Pantai Pancer Door merupakan tempat yang sangat digemari oleh semua kalangan, dari orang tua sampai kanak-kanak. Selain obyek wisata yang ada, kawasan yang luas, dan beberapa tempat untuk berolahraga, serta adanya tempat jual beli yang sangat ramai dan tempat pembelajaran bagi peserta didik menjadi bagian konsep-konsep dalam pembelajaran Kelebihan dari obyek wisata pantai Pancer Door adalah memiliki ombak yang sangat besar. Bagi pengunjung yang ingin menikmati wisata kuliner kawasan pantai Pancer Door juga menyediakan warung-warung di sekitar area pantai dan juga tersedia banyak fasilitas pendukung lainnya. Obyek wisata dapat dimanfaatkan untuk pelajar melakukan pembelajaran di ruang terbuka. Seperti halnya para nelayan yang sedang mencari ikan, peserta didik bisa langsung melihat bagaimana para nelayan menangkap ikan, dan jenis biota laut apa saja yang ditangkap. Kemudian untuk penanaman tumbuhan mangrove yang ada di sekitar pesisir pantai, yang dapat mencegah abrasi pantai. Penerapan pembelajaran menggunakan media obyek wisata pantai Pancer Door sebagai salah satu alat bantu pembelajaran yang dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa pada pembelajaran IPA, guru haruslah memanfatkan lingkungan untuk dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa. Kedekatan peserta didik dengan sumber belajar yang bersumber dari lingkungan hingga budaya menjadi hal yang menarik.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan keterampilan berbahasa dan kemampuan komunikasi matematis siswa yang di tinjau berdasarkan gender.  kemampuan komunikasi matematis  yang akan diteliti adalah kemampuan komunikasi dalam bentuk  kemampuan menggambar (drawing), Ekspresi matematika (mathematical expression), dan menulis (written texts). Dan keterampilan berbahasa yang akan diteliti adalah keterampilan menulis dan berbicara. Subjek dalam penelitian ini sebanyak satu siswa laki-laki (LL) dan satu siswa perempuan (PP) Yayasan Gemah Ripah Kuningan Kelas III. Jenis penelitian ini adalah kualitatif dengan Analisis data untuk mendeskripsikan hasil penyelesaian soal tertulis mengenai keterampilan berbahasa dan komunikasi matematis. Teknik pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini menggunakan Teknik tes, wawancara, observasi dan pengkajian dokumen. Hasil penelitian adalah: dalam komunikasi matematis, siswa laki-laki lebih baik dalam kemampuan visualisasi serta pengorganisasian informasi dan perempuan lebih teliti dalam merepresentasikan ide matematis. Lalu dalam keterampilan berbahasa, siswa perempuan lebih verbal ketimbang siswa laki-laki. Namun siswa laki-laki lebih baik dalam menjaga kontak mata dengan lawan bicara ketimbang siswa perempuan.

Social commentary is one aspect related to society in seeing a phenomenon that occurs. The researcher see a phenomenon that occurs in a community environment and is represented by poem. Where poem used figurative language to beautify writing. The object in this research is a poem by William Shakespeare entitled A Fairy Song. This research aims to explain the figurative language contained in A Fairy Song and also to analyze the social comments are found in A Fairy Song. This research used the structuralism theory proposed by Strauss, Wellek and Warren. The sociological literary criticism proposed by Marx and Lukacs. The methodology that used in this research is qualitative method approach with the phenomenological approach by Husserl. There are five figurative language contained in A Fairy Song poem such as alliteration, hyperbole, simile, metaphor and personification. The figurative language here is also used as a social commentary which generates criticism of this poem. Social comments are found because of the words that use figurative language to interpret a meaning. The researcher found the social comments from the used of figurative language such as injustice, discrimination and exploitation.