VIDEOTAPED CHILDREN SONG: HOW TO USE IT IN ENGLISH YOUNG LEARNER CLASSROOM?

Though technology is advancing, English children songs are still favourable to use in the classroom activities, especially for young learners. Unlike books, audio recordings, and pictures, videotaped songs allow users to cover different learning styles simultaneously. To optimize this advantage, a teacher needs to know how “videotaped children song” can be applied in classroom activities. Therefore, this study aims at revealing the effective ways which users can do during the teaching and learning process. Qualitative design with library research method and descriptive technique was applied in this study so that the writer collected prominent information from primary resources available online or offline. All data were taken through document analysis. The writers found that videotaped children songs can help students in several ways, namely improving vocabularies and practicing the four skills. The study also described some potential problems of using videotaped songs in classroom and their possible solution

THE LECTURERS’ IMMEDIACY ATTRIBUTES AND ‎STUDENTS’ WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE, ARE THEY ‎CORRELATED?‎

The purposes of this research were two-fold: first, to see whether or not lecturers’ immediacy behaviors were linearly related to their students’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC); second, to determine which immediacy behavior (Verbal or Nonverbal) predominantly impacted on students’ WTC. To achieve the purposes, two types of questionnaires were utilized, 1) students’ WTC and 2) lecturers’ immediacy. Later, the participants were asked to choose 1–5 scales of question item. There were 122 EFL public university students from the Western part of Indonesia who partook in this study. They were involved voluntarily and chosen randomly. For data analysis, the bivariate calculation was applied to find the associations between the variables tested. Thus, SPSS 26 was utilized to meet the statistical analysis required. The result showed that the lecturers’ immediacy behavior was positively and strongly correlated to the students’ WTC with a correlation value of 0.716. However, if compared to nonverbal, lecturers’ verbal traits had given the strongest positive association. It was described by Pearson correlation value found, 0.689 (verbal) and 0.502 (nonverbal). With regard to the study’s findings, educators of all levels must be aware of their immediacy behaviors so that students’ WTC can be controlled in a positive way

A Survey on High School Students’ Preferences toward the Use of Social Media as Online Learning Tools

Along with the rapid development of technology, various kinds of social media applications are emerging and offering their users a variety of benefits. Social media such as WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Telegram, and Google Classroom, to name but a few, are the ones that are often used by students for online learning because they can be used easily, anywhere and anytime. This study aimed at finding out whether or not the students used social media for learning, the kinds of social media mostly preferred by the students, and the reasons for their preferences. The population of this study was 625 students from two state senior high schools in Palembang. For the sampling technique, this study applied the probability-sampling technique. Then, to meet the standard number of samples in a survey study, the writers took 14% of the population. It meant there were 88 research samples, specifically 44 students from each school. To collect the data, the questionnaire and interview were used in this research. As the results, all participants showed that they have greatly exposed themselves to social media during the "School from Home" session during the pandemic situation. In addition, the majority of the students mentioned YouTube as their favorite tool to use, yet they somehow managed using WhatsApp, Google Meet, Blog, Zoom, and Google Classroom too. Lastly, students often use those social media in everyday activities, including learning