ABSTRACTThe objectives of this research are (1) to identify whether or not and to what extent YouTube video improved students’ speaking proficiency, and (2) to analyze the situation when YouTube video is implemented in the speaking class. The problem highlighted in this research is the low speaking proficiency of the seventh grade of SMP N...

ABSTRACTThe objectives of the research are: (1) to find out and describe about teachers’ perceptions toward authentic assessment; (2) to find out and describe the implementation of authentic assessment at SMA N 6 Surakarta; (3) to find out and describe the effects of authentic assessment to the quality of English language teaching (ELT).The...

ABSTRACTThe objective of this research was to find out the effectiveness of using video in teaching listening to the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Slawi in the academic year of 2014/2015.The type of the study was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test. The subjects of the study were some of the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Slawi...

This research aims at: (1) improving the students’ participation in speaking through Think-Pair-Share; (2) identifying the problems in the implementation of Think-Pair-Share.The method used in this research is classroom action research. The research was carried out to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri Sragen Bilingual Boarding School....

The objectives of this research are to find out the correlation between (1) students’ self-efficacy and writing skill; (2) students’ grammatical competence and students’ writing skill; and (3) students’ self-efficacy, students’ grammatical competence, towards students’ writing skill.This research used...

ABSTRACTThe objectives of this research were: (1) to know whether SQ3R method can improve the students’ reading comprehension. (2) to describe the implementation of SQ3R method. With regards to the second aim, the research was especially aimed at describing (1) the class situation and (2) the strengths and weaknesses of SQ3R method during...

The objectives of this classroom action research are to identify: (1) whether SQ3R method can improve the students’ reading comprehension; (2) the classroom situation of using SQ3R method in teaching and learning process.The method used in this research was classroom action research.This research conducted at class XI IA3 students of SMA...

ABSTRACTThis thesis was written to find out whether there is a correlation between (1) learning motivation and listening comprehension; (2) vocabulary mastery and listening comprehension; and (3) learning motivation, vocabulary mastery simultaneously, and listening comprehension.In this research, the correlational method was used and it was...

ABSTRACTThis action research is aimed to improve writing skills of the tenth grade of SMA N 2 Wonogiri by using peer correction method. The main subjects of this study were X MIA 7 students of SMA N 2 Wonogiri who were in the second semester by the academic year 2014/2015. This study, which lasted for three months, was carried out in two cycles....

ABSTRACTThis action research is aimed to improve writing skills of the tenth grade of SMA N 2 Wonogiri by using peer correction method. The main subjects of this study were X MIA 7 students of SMA N 2 Wonogiri who were in the second semester by the academic year 2014/2015. This study, which lasted for three months, was carried out in two cycles....