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The current study is aimed at revealing the motivational strategies employed by EFL lecturers in two universities in Purwokerto, Central Java. This research falls into the qualitative category since it attempts to examine the data in the form of testimonies on how they motivated their students in their EFL classes. There were five EFL lecturers involved in this study and to collect the data, the researcher conducted semi-structured interview either offline or online. The collected data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. The results of the study show that the EFL lecturers employed four strategies namely using music, employing verbal motivation, building rapport with students, and hiring collaborative learning. Theoretically, the research can harness the knowledge on the motivational strategies in the Higher Education Institutions context especially in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Practically, the results of the research may become alternative sources for teachers’ self-development.

The COVID-19 pandemic situation has had an impact on the higher education system in Indonesia. It created an online learning ecosystem to enact the essential role of cognitive engagement by students. This qualitative research utilized multimodal data collection to examine students' voices to assess how they perceived the cognitive engagement dimension during emergency remote teaching (ERT). Data were gathered from 60 students from three higher education institutions in Indonesia's urban areas. The findings revealed that the ERT environment requires students to self-regulate their learning by employing their preferred strategies to comprehend the material. Moreover, they engage in meaningful learning by relating content to their prior experiences and knowledge. Students also believe that teachers play a vital role in ERT as authoritative figures and focal learning points. They view teachers as ­the main agents for fostering and enhancing their cognitive engagement. This study draws attention to the need for continuous teacher professional development in ERT by concentrating on students' needs. Bahasa Indonesia Abstrak: Situasi pandemi COVID-19 berdampak pada sistem pendidikan tinggi di Indonesia. Ini menciptakan ekosistem pembelajaran online untuk memberlakukan peran penting keterlibatan kognitif oleh siswa. Penelitian kualitatif ini menggunakan pengumpulan data multimodal untuk memeriksa suara siswa untuk menilai bagaimana mereka merasakan dimensi keterlibatan kognitif dalam fenomena pengajaran jarak jauh darurat. Data dari 60 mahasiswa dari tiga perguruan tinggi yang berada di perkotaan Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengaturan pengajaran darurat mengharuskan siswa untuk menerapkan proses belajar mandiri dengan mengatur preferensi metode pembelajaran mereka untuk memahami isi materi. Bahkan, mereka melakukan pembelajaran yang bermakna dengan menghubungkan konten dengan pengalaman dan pengetahuan mereka sebelumnya. Mereka juga percaya bahwa gu

English can be used as the language of instruction in specific educational units to support students' foreign language skills. However, teachers are still not fit to teach lessons in English because of the poor quality of English. This study aims to develop a model of taskbased English materials for students of primary teacher education. The type of this study is Research and Development through the model of task-based. This study involved alumni, English lecturer of PGSD UNIMED, and students of PGSD UNIMED as the research’s participants. Questionnaire, interview guidelines, and English test were the instruments used to collect the data. The research findings show that (1) from the analysis result, 100% respondents wanted primary school books based on existing themes in content courses would be used as sources of course materials; 2) the design used task-based approach and was made based on basic competency to measure the student competency achievement; (3) the basic competence for unit one is to represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways; (4) according to experts judgment, the developed materials are suitable for students of primary teacher education, which can be shown from the percentage of the content and language appropriateness are 100%, presentation appropriateness is 97% and layout appropriateness is 95% which categorized as very good; (5) there are differences in test results before and after the explanation of English teaching materials. It means that the English teaching materials developed is effective in increasing students' interest in learning.