The purposes of the research is aimed at knowing how speaking activities and speaking difficulties are practiced in English Debating Club. The method used in this research was a case study. The instruments used to collect the data were observation, questionnaire, and interview. The respondents were 15 students of English Conversation and Debating Club at SMKN 1 Pandeglang. The result of the research confirms that by joining English Conversation and Debating club, students are able to (1) speak English fluently because they have more practice; (2) they can speak English quietly accurate; (3) the students are custom to speak English; and (4) they also speak with few grammatical errors, few long pauses, and only few clarifications for the beginners debaters (junior members) than the experienced debaters (senior members). On the other side, the difficulties of speaking found when they selecting the data and evidences, making argument, and making rebuttal due to the various resources.

The objective of the research is aiming to identify the feasibility of the English textbooks for use by vocational school in Pandeglang regency. To reach the objective, the researchers used qualitative research. The data were collected from three English textbooks used for vocational school, interview, and questionnaire. The techniques of analyzing data were focused on the analysis of materials provided within the textbook with the core and basic competence of 2013 curriculum. The criteria were suggested by National Education Standards Agency (Badan Standar Nasional Pendidikan) and Rajan material design. The findings show that (1) the material relevance to the core and basic competence of 2013 Curriculum of the first English textbook (TB1) is 81.25%, the second English textbook (TB2) is 93.75%, and the third English textbook (TB3) is 87.5%; and (2) the categories of feasible textbook for vocational students for TB1 is 83.3%, TB2 is 91.6%, and TB3 is 75%. These results indicate that the three books are relevant and feasible for use by vocational school students.

This study is aiming to discuss the contrastive analysis of noun affixes of Banten Javanese Language and Indonesian Language. The research method used in this research was qualitative. The technique used in data collection is document study from Indonesian Language and Banten Javanese textbooks used in elementary schools. The data analysis technique used was contrastive analysis by comparing these two languages. This result shows that both Banten Javanese and Indonesian Language have their similarities and differences in terms of noun. The similarities are reflected on prefixes, suffixes, and simulfixes; the differences are reflected on infixes. The result also concludes that the differences may hinder the process of teaching and learning Indonesian Language as L2; the similarities, on the contrary, may serve the facilities to learn Indonesian Language as L2.

The study aimed at finding out the correlation between (1) Students’ learning style in speaking ability of communication and broadcasting Islam major, (2) correlation of learning motivation in speaking ability of communication and broadcasting Islam major, (3) correlation of students’ learning style and learning motivation in speaking ability of communication and broadcasting Islam major. This study was carried out at Communication and broadcasting Islam Major in UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten. The method which is used in this study was the correlational method. The sample was 30 students which were taken by a simple random sampling technique. The instruments in collecting the data were questionnaires and tests. The questionnaire was used to collect the data on students’ learning styles and learning motivation. The technique which was used to analyze the data was Simple correlation and Multiple Regression Correlation which were computed by the Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS). The results of the analysis of the data on this research show that: (1) there is a significant correlation between learning style and speaking ability ? < a (0.043 < 0.05), (2) there is a significant correlation between learning motivation and speaking ability ? < a (0.041 < 0.05), and (3) there is a significant correlation between learning style and learning motivation toward speaking ability ? < a (0.045 < 0.05).

The aim of the study is to investigate the use of Microsoft Sway 365 in teaching reading descriptive text as a response in pandemic situation. The method used in the research was classroom action research. Subject of the research was 36 students from tenth grade of SMAN 1 Baros, Banten Province. Data collective techniques used in this recent study were test and questionnaire. The result of research shows that students achieve average scores 67.5 from reading test in pre-cycle. This result, of course, still lower than the ideal score 75. Since Sway Microsoft 365 is implemented, students’ scores are increased. This can be seen from the average score in cycle 1 is 77.5; and it increases into 81.5 in cycle 2. These results also matched to the questionnaire result which 78% of students agree if Microsoft Sway 365 can be used as an alternative online learning media for reading descriptive text, especially proposed for pandemic situation.