This study aims to investigate lecturers' understanding of blended learning and skills in using several platforms for blended learning-based lectures, the effectiveness of the training on blended learning to improve lecturers’ competence, and the impact of the blended-learning lectures on their students’ learning outcomes. A quantitative approach was implemented in this research. The participants involved 30 lecturers and 67 students of Jabal Ghafur University, selected by purposive sampling. Data were collected through tests and questionnaires and analysed descriptively. The results showed an increase in lecturers’ knowledge and skills in applying blended learning-based lectures. The lecturers’ and students’ responses to blended learning are also positive. This research concluded that the blended learning training in improving lecturer competence was considered effective and impacted their students’ learning outcomes. This research is hoped to be a reference and a model for teaching and learning to be adapted by universities for the blended learning model as a current learning method to support the current curriculum.

Writing in academic English is challenging and complex to learn, the root reasons for the issue, may include differences in the cultural backgrounds of the students, a deficiency in critical thinking skills, and a deficiency in linguistic proficiency. This study set out to investigate how metafunctions may be used to enhance students' writing skills. A research approach incorporating a qualitative case study will be employed to assess ninth-grade students' text composition. The data were gathered through collecting student writing over the school year 2021/2022. The students’ writings were the texts that were learnt in grade nine based on the curriculum. This study used Systemic Functional Linguistic theory and English texts to provide the framework for the text analysis. The texts were analyzed using the metafunction analysis in Hallidayan SFL to uncover the students’ ability to write English text. The teacher applied the Genre-based Approach when instructing his or her students on how to write. The results presented that metafunctions analysis was very important because there were ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions. The ideational metafunction revealed the use of some processes in the students’ writing (material, mental, relational, and verbal), interpersonal revealed the importance of mood and residue elements in students’ writing and textual metafunction showed the importance of thematic progression pattern. This study indicated that to alleviate students’ challenges and strengthen their academic writing and critical thinking capacity, teachers should have a better understanding of the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Abstrak: Tujuan dari program pengabdian ini adalah untuk menanamkan wawasan dan juga pengetahuan perihal keterampilan yang wajib dimiliki oleh seorang guru di masa setelah pandemi Covid-19. Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini dilakukan melalui metode ceramah dengan menggunakan presentasi powerpoint, tanya jawab dan juga diskusi tentang berbagai permasalahan yang muncul di sekolah. Kegiatan seminar dalam rangka pengabdian kepada masyarakat Kepala sekolah dan guru anggota KN-LWF anggota KN-LWF Pematangsiantar yang berjumlah 63 orang ini hadir dalam seminar yang bertempat di GKPS Jalan Jenderal Sudirman Pematangsiantar pada tanggal 23 November 2021 ini. Hasil dari pelaksanaan kegiatan ini adalah guru menjadi paham dan juga mendapatkan gambaran terhadap apa yang perlu dipersiapkan oleh diri mereka dalam mendapatkan kemampuan keterampilan 4C abad ke 21 melalui diskusi dan juga tanya jawab setelah pemaparan selesai. Dari kegiatan pengabdian tersebut, peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa guru dalam dunia pendidikan harus memiliki 4C 21st Century Learning Skills dan memberikan dampak yang mendalam bagi generasi penerus bangsa, memungkinkan mereka menghadapi dan mengatasi tantangan kehidupan abad ke-21. The purpose of this community service program is to instill insight and knowledge about the skills that a teacher must possess in the post-Covid-19 pandemic. This community service was done through a lecture method using PowerPoint presentations, questions and answers and also discussions on a variety of issues that arise in the school. The seminar activities in the context of community service Pematangsiantar's KN-LWF members' principals and teachers, a total of 63 people, were in attendance at this seminar which was located at GKPS Jalan Jenderal Sudirman Pematangsiantar on November 23, 2021. The result of the implementation of this activity is that teachers understand and also get an idea of what they need to be prepared for in gaining 21st century 4C skills through discussion and also question and answer after the presentation was completed. After completing the community research, the researchers summarized that teachers in the world of education must have the 4C 21st Century Learning Skills and have a profound impact on the nation's next generation, enabling them to face and overcome 21st-century life's challenges.

This research aims to classify the interpersonal meaning in Joe Biden’s victory speech. It is an interesting phenomenon because by revealing the interpersonal meaning, people can be assisted to be successful in communication. The researchers used a qualitative research design to answer the research question and chose content analysis since the results of data analysis were in descriptive phenomena, such as words, clauses, and utterances. The research findings showed that mood elements: found 174 subjects and 176 finites. Meanwhile, residue elements found 120 predicators, 133 complements, 9 mood adjuncts, 71 circumstantial adjuncts, 2 comment adjuncts, and 54 conjunctive adjuncts. In addition, the speech function identified 162 Statements, 4 Questions, and 11 Commands. Thus, it is concluded that Joe Biden tended to use finites, in contrast with comment adjuncts, and Statements, in contrast with questions (only 4 questions were found in his speech). This study also showed that the speaker was greatly assisted by using interpersonal meaning to make a good speech.

The study below examines the development of students' critical and creative thinking abilities through the use of article reviews and the Problem Based Learning instructional approach. This study is qualitative and was conducted utilizing library research, specifically library research that used data grouping methods. It was then completed by examining and studying numerous pertinent research publications and papers. utilizing analytical methods for gathering, combining, and recognizing secondary data from numerous pertinent investigations. The adoption of the Problem Based Learning learning paradigm itself can boost students' capacity for creative thought, according to the study's findings. The findings of research done using library resources revealed that students' capacities for creative thought had improved, with outcomes moving into the medium category. In this study, four factors—fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration—were also linked to an improvement in students' capacity for creative thought. It follows that the application of the learning paradigm that Problem Based Learning is capable of improving students' creative thinking skills.

This research intended to find out components of transitive system used on news Jakarta post about some good Covid-19 related news. Therefore, the researcher formulated a question as the problem as follows: “What are components of transitive system used on news Jakarta post about some good Covid-19 related news?” The researcher used qualitative design because data are collected by using documents in form of word and a procedure of systematic analysis of content text (words, phrase, documents, etc.), analysis content by qualitative enable researchers to understand the text by grouping words that have same meaning into categories. The research finding showed that component of transitivity system. There are three transitive system namely participants, process, and circumstances. First, participants found namely goal, actor, sayer, senser, verbiage, value, token carrier, attribute, behaver, client, recipient, phenomenon, and receiver with calculate is 177 participants, the highest participant is actor (26.55%). The second process found material, mental, verbal, behavioral, relational with calculate is 103 processes, the highest process is material (44.67%). The third, circumstance found extent, locution, contingency, manner, matter, and role, with calculates are 80 times. The highest circumstance is extents or time (30 %).