Using Escape Rooms to Improve Pre-Service Teachers' Communicative Skills in English as a Foreign Language

The chapter implements an escape room with pre-service teachers to improve their communicative skills in English. Fifty-seven university students from the degrees of Childhood and Primary School Education, with different levels of English proficiency, participated in the experiment: 10 of them helped with the implementation and the rest participated in the escape room. Self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection to know students' opinions about using escape rooms as a learning tool. Results showed that using an escape room in the English class is a successful method since it fosters active learning, teamwork, socialization, motivation, and helps to improve communicative skills.

A Study on the Application of Teacher Feedback Language in Middle School English Class

Teacher feedback language has a very significant impact on students' learning. Appropriate feedback language will promote students' learning motivation, arouse students' interest in learning, and have a positive role in promoting students' language ability development. However, in middle school English classrooms, many teachers do not pay attention to the role of feedback language, ignore the positive feedback to students or lack the application skills of feedback and students do not participate in classroom communication, and lose interest in English. This article proposes corresponding improvement measures in response to the current problems in the application of teacher feedback in middle school English classrooms.

Discursive Practice in Online Learning by Using Zoom Meeting on COVID-19

Since November 2019 COVID-19 virus spread, all activity chance totals especially in Education. Especially in Indonesia applied online learning, the famous application use is Zoom Meeting. I’m as researcher interested analyze how interaction and communication teacher and student in Zoom application, then want find out how Zoom application in learning media present the discursive practice especially between teacher and student, last how student and teacher construct discursive practice use Zoom application. This research aims to find out how discursive practice present in full online class, especially in English class by using Zoom application. This descriptive qualitative study used interview and observation methodology. Twenty six students from English Language Education Study Program, Magister Program of UNP academic year 2021 participated in this study. Based on observed conducted by researcher in class A and B that use Zoom platform in full online learning toward discursive practice. Researcher found discursive practice can present in the class, although in virtual class. Discursive practice in online class by using Zoom application beyond expectation lecturer and student communicate and interaction well with menu that provide by zoom. It can conclude by researcher that the discursive practice can present although in virtual class.

Making 20% Matter Most: Meeting the Needs of Gifted and High Ability Students Through Type III 20Time (T4) Projects

A 9th grade Honors English class creates and publishes original poems, art, fiction, and nonfiction products through an activity called “Type Three – Twenty Time = T4.” The instructional method merges elements from Renzulli’s Type III process with elements from Brookhouser’s 20Time Project-based learning model. Each student researches an interest passion topic and creates a related original product or service for a real audience. Upon reflection on the experience, the author identifies evidence-based practices including compacting ELA course content to create time for the T4 process; enhanced student engagement; active learning versus passive learning; improved writing skills; quality presentation skills; higher level creative and critical thinking; and upgraded 21st Century skills.

Speaking Anxiety and Strategies Used by ESL Learners to Overcome in Their Classroom: a Case Study in Management and Science University (MSU) Shah Alam, Malaysia

This research study aiming at identifying the sources of the ESL students’ speaking anxiety in English speaking comprehension and identifying the strategies used by ESL students to overcome speaking anxiety in English class. This research used a qualitative approach that employed a case study and gathrered the information through interviewing 8 undergraduate students from a private university in Shah Alam Malaysia. All the interview questions covered three components, they were communication apprehension, fear of negative evaluation and test anxiety and the strategies that were used by the respondents to overcome their speaking anxiety. The data analysis technique used was descriptive qualitative. As the result, the researcher found that anxiety, commonly felt by most second language learners contributed by some factors that came from the students and also from teachers. Therefore, to deal with these conditions, both teachers and students need to take part in contributing to what they can do to eliminate the speaking anxiety. Since the success of learning language mostly depends on the communication skills that definitely requires a lot of effort to make the learning journey meaningful.