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The success of English teaching and learning process depends on many things. One of them is the compatibility of the teaching method, teaching and learning process, and the characteristics of the students. One of the students’ characteristics is learning styles when learning English. This study aims at investigating learning styles of students at two state junior high schools in Jambi city. This study employed descriptive and quantitative research design, using a questionnaire as the instrument. The result of the study shows that of the sixth learning styles, the learning styles mostly used by the students are kinesthetic, tactile, and learning in group. Besides, the students appear to exhibit multiple minor learning styles.

This study investigates moral values in the Little Fires Everywhere novel by Celeste Ng. The researcher investigates moral values through novels because today the moral crisis also occurs in the world of education. Researchers want to find out whether they can learn moral values through the novel or not. Based on the investigation, researchers used novels to find moral values. The classification of moral values has concerned with motherhood, bravery, love, togetherness, honesty, independent, discipline, wise, and diligent. The researcher concludes that the findings suggest that some moral values can be learned in the novel entitled Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

Stating a purpose for reading may help shaping the way the students read. It could save time and improve understanding. This qualitative study explored the university students’ purpose for reading book. The participants were a class of law faculty students learning English as a general purpose in a state university in Jambi. The main source of data was the document in the form of students’ reading report. The document was analyzed using qualitative approach. To clarify the data gained, semi-structured interview was applied. It is revealed that students’ purposes for reading book was for content and they use low order thinking verb such as to know to realize it. For more comprehensive book reading, it is suggested that the students use different verbs such as to interpret, to classify, or to explore for stating their purposes.

The purpose of this study was to discover the learning strategies that the students of English study program used to increase their speaking proficiency. This study involved six selected students at English study program who were studying in the fifth semester as the participants. They were selected based on their speaking achievement, it was getting scores “A” for three semesters in speaking class. The data were collected from interview with the participants. The study had found out that these students used many learning strategies frequently. In particular, cognitive strategies were found as the most frequently strategies used by the students, followed by metacognitive strategies, interpersonal strategies, affective strategies, social strategies and communicative – experiential strategies.

This research reviews the use of code-mixing performed by students and lecturers in STAIN Kerinci, Jambi. Using qualitative approach, with some observations and interviews as the data collection technique, the researchers explore students and lecturers’ motivations in demonstrating code-mixing. The researchers also gather their perceptions toward the employment of code-mixing in speaking subject. It is found that there are some problems that make the students and lecturers turn to code-mixing during learning process. In fact, it because such phenomenon eases the learning process itself. Based on the discussion and conclusion, although code-mixing has positive impacts on the participants, the researcher suggested that the lecturer should use English frequently and keep controling and motivating the students to acquire English more.

The objective of this study is to develop an English syllabus for undergraduate students of law at the University of Jambi. The subjects therefore involve students of law at the second semester. To get the data of student needs, the questionnaire and interview were implemented in this research. Research and Development were adopted as the research design while the model of develop used instructional design by Branch. The most important stage in this study is to investigate the language needs of students of law. It was done by distributing questionnaires to the students and interviewing them. The develop phases cut off the implement and evaluate phase. Therefore, the study ended up in develop phase. This study proposed to develop a suggested English syllabus for law due to the importance to improve quality of teaching non English department students by renewing the information of student needs as it changes for following the demands of epoch.

This study was conducted to investigate the language functions used in captions written in Instagram and reveal the meaning behind it. It was undertaken by analyzing the captions written by Ani Yudhoyono in her personal Instagram. The descriptive qualitative design was implemented in the recent study. The result of the analysis revealed that all six elements of communication were found, namely addresser, context, message form, contact, common code, and addressee. Five functions of language and its combinations were being used in the captions in order to ensure message delivery. The language function mostly used was referential function with twenty five sentences used or 58.1%. The caption needs to use this function because Instagram photos require a lot of information to be informed to the followers in order to get the message of the photo through the caption. The meanings given were also varied, yet they were all positive.

This research aimed to determine the language use of Padang, Javanese and Lubuklinggau ethnic to show their identity in talking about food in Lubuklinggau community. The research was a descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research was the informants from Padang, Javanese, and Lubuklinggau ethnic that live and has become the citizen in Lubuklinggau. It was done through social network or ‘friend of friend’ technique by Milroy and Milroy. The data collection techniques in this study were done through three techniques; they are Participation Observation, Recording and Noting Techniques. Some ethnographic interviews were also carried out to support the observational data. The result of this research showed three findings including, 1) pride to the food as the part of culture, 2) promoting foods to describe some cultural events, and 3) identifying power through taste. The research is highly expected to be the valuable reference for other researchers to conduct language research in Lubuklinggau.

In a time when technology is growing and changing rapidly, reading abilities remain central to students academic development. The purpose of this study is to describe the point of view of English Reading Teachers at Jambi University about EFL students reading skills in digital era based on their experience in teaching reading. The point of views covered three main topics: the reading learning outcomes, the reading learning activities, and the reading learning resources. Focus group discussion with ten reading teachers of Jambi University was used to get the data. The teachers said that the reading skills of the students are not sufficient to help them in touch with the digital era although they have digital gadget at hands. Some of the students are reluctant to read and they are lack of reading strategies, literally and critically. Effective instruction and consistent reading practice and use over long periods of time is required in order to develop the EFL students reading skills.

The purpose of this research is to describe the errors found on Google Translate output in translating English news into Indonesian. This research focuses on ommision error, misordering, untranslated word, and confusion of sense resulted by Google Translate in translating the five English news into Indonesian. Those English news consists of different category such as bussiness, sport, technology, and national news. This research belongs to a qualitative research employing descriptive method. It aims to describe the errors made by Google translate, while the data of this research are the errors found on Google Translate in translating English news into Indonesian.In analyzing the errors, reseacher uses the taxonomy which was modified by Costa at all (2015). There are some errors found: The omission errors (5), misordering (18), untranslated word (19), and confusion sense (64) from the output. The analysis shows that confusion of sense is the dominant error produced by Google Translate in translating English news into Indonesian.