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This article reports the effectiveness of student-initiated media in teaching speaking to ninth graders of a junior high school. Using a pre-experimental design, this study involved 85 students, being given an experimental treatment in the form of a freedom to choose and use their own media to present an English advertisement, one of the basic competences the students had to master in the semester when the data were being collected. A pre-test in the form of oral interview was given at the beginning of the study, followed by the implementation of the research treatment. At the end of the study, the students took a post-test of a similar format. In other words, the data in this study were in the form of the students' speaking performance. With the help of SPSS, a test was employed to check the effectiveness of the media. Besides, informal interview with the students show that they felt more relaxed and less anxious when using the media while speaking. It is recommended that teachers make use of such media in the classroom for designing democratic classroom atmosphere so that students experience joyful learning and tend to speak more.

Educational conditions in the Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) region may be said not to approach the provisions of national standards when compared to the educational conditions in other regions in Indonesia western hemisphere. There are some factors as the main causes of the conditions as referred to, namely the weak carrying capacity of natural resources, average economic ability at the level of pre-prosperous, cultural feast that is still hard to remove, and a strong mastery of local language. Some of the basic factors are then added by the preparation of facilities and infrastructure in each school unit that is still below the quality standards; this always leads the quality of graduations in this area in the red zone. In response to a number of main causing factors above, the regional government has improved itself through superior programs, such as intensification of agricultural land and livestock, forest conservation and reforestation surrounding catchment areas, cooperative development ranging from family, and efforts to promote the spirit of student learning through gong learning. All of the government programs lead to one single goal, namely to improve the livelihoods of NTT communities leading to better conditions. That is, if all the government programs are applied without any problems, then certainly the economic livelihoods of household, the health level of all family members, and the achievements of NTT graduations can be 'jacked up' out of the position in the red zone.

PurposeWhile many works have reported adopting exploratory practice (EP) principles in language teaching research, only a few studies have explored the enactment of EP in an online extensive reading of students majoring in English education. Given the relative paucity of attention to the use of EP as the practitioner research in English language teaching (ELT), the present EP investigates how students understand online extensive reading practice mediated by online group discussion and extensive reading logs, where the first author served as the online extensive reading practice instructor.Design/methodology/approachThe exploratory practice focuses on incorporating research into pedagogy and fastens the importance of the quality-of-life in the classroom. The data were collected through students reading logs and semi-structured interviews. The collected data were analyzed using the thematic analysis. In this case, there were six phases including familiarizing with the data, generating initial codes, searching for the themes, reviewing the themes, defining the theme and writing up.FindingsThe findings reveal that online group work driven by EP enables everybody to engage in learning activities. EP assists the students in perceiving their potential and gaining a better awareness of the need to devote themselves to the class. In the EP activities, they work together to build a peaceful situation to advance the quality of learning in EFL classrooms.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study's limitation is the small sample. Apart from that, the research results cannot be generalized to other places.Practical implicationsThis study suggests that EP is suitable to create a mutual understanding among the learners and teachers. To conclude, English language competency can be achieved in a pleasant atmosphere through EP.Originality/valueThe present study succeeded in adding new literature studies related to EPs by discussing online group discussions and their challenges during the learning process. These aspects were identified through reading logs and interviews with students. Thus, it focuses on the implementation and challenges of online group discussions.

The research approach used by researchers is a quantitative approach. This study aims to examine whether there are differences in English text writing skills of students who learning using CIRC and PWIW learning methods as well as Students with high and low levels of Self-Regulated Learning. The sample in this study were the 80 seventh grade learners of MTsN 1 Palangkaraya, Central Borneo, Indonesia, in 2018/2019 academic year involved in this study. They then were divided into two classes randomly sampled to be the experimental group and the control group. Data analysis using the independent sample t test. The research findings obtained the pretest value showed no difference in students 'writing skills learned by the CIRC method (68.525) and PWIW (70.525) while the posttest value test showed that there were differences in the students' writing skills learned by the CIRC method more higher equal to 79.20 compared to PWIW amounted to 69.52. The findings of the study show that students with low self-regulated learning have a higher value of English text writing skills 84.58 compared to students with high self-regulated learning at 74.33.

Abstract: Attitudes Toward Extensive Reading Among English Teachers of Senior High Schools. This survey aims to investigate the attitudes of 32 English teachers of public senior high schools in a district in East Java Province, Indonesia, toward Extensive Reading (ER) as one of the ways of improv­ing reading habit, covering the teachers' cognitive, behavioral, and affective attitudes. Questionnaires in the form of closed-ended and open-ended questions were used as the main instrument to collect the da­ta, complemented with interviews with sampled teachers to gain more in-depth understanding of the phenomena under study. The results show that cognitively, most English teachers have positive cogni­tive attitudes, which implies good understanding of ER. The teachers' affective attitudes also reflect their eagerness to know more about implementing ER and to find ways of solving potential problems. However, in terms of behavioral attitudes, the data show that the teachers are still in doubt to conduct ER program due to several problems, such as time allotment, reading resources, students' motivation, curriculum and school programs, learning assessment, and school rules. The findings imply the need for policy makers at school and government's educational agencies, as well as experts in the field to help support the teachers in setting up ER program at schools by addressing the issues that teachers are con­cerned with.Abstrak: Sikap Guru Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Menengah Atas Terhadap Membaca Ekstensif. Studi survei ini bertujuan untuk menyelidiki sikap (kognitif, konatif, dan afektif) dari 32 guru bahasa Inggris Sekolah Menengah Atas di salah satu kota di Provinsi Jawa Timur, Indonesia, terhadap mem­baca ekstensif sebagai salah satu cara untuk meningkatkan kebiasaan membaca. Kuesioner dalam bentuk pertanyaan tertutup dan terbuka digunakan sebagai instrumen utama untuk mengumpulkan data, serta dilengkapi dengan wawancara dengan guru sampel untuk mendapatkan pemahaman mendalam tentang fenomena yang diteliti. Hasil ...