ABSTRACTThis research aims at finding out whether: (1) PQ4R is more effective than Direct Instruction to teach reading; (2) students who have high intelligence have better reading skill than those who have low intelligence; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and students’ intelligence in teaching reading.This research...

ABSTRACTThe objectives of the study are to find out whether or not (1) there is acorrelation between vocabulary mastery and reading ability (2) there is acorrelation between grammatical competence and reading ability and (3) there is acorrelation between vocabulary mastery and grammatical competencesimultaneously and reading ability.The...

ABSTRACTThis research uses descriptive qualitative method. The sources of the data are the film entitled “The Gods Must be Crazy” and its transcript.The aims of this research are 1) to find out the types of commissive utterances used by the characters in the film entitled “The God Must be Crazy”, 2) to describe how the...

ABSTRACTThe purposes of this research are (1) to analyze whether When English Rings a Bell has applied scientific approach of 2013 Curriculum or not, and (2) to investigate to what extent When English Rings a Bell has applied the scientific approach based on 2013 Curriculum. The subject of the research is an English textbook for junior high school...

This research aims at: (1) improving the students’ writing skill through Collaborative Writing; (2) identifyingthe problemsin the implementation ofCollaborative Writing.The method used in this research is classroom action research. The research was carried out to the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Karanganyar.  The research data...

The objectives of this research are to find out the correlation between (1) students’ motivation and students’ translation; (2) students’ vocabulary and students’ translation; and (3) students’ motivation, students’ vocabulary, towards students’ translation.This research used quantitative method, that is...

This thesis is written to identify: (1) whether and to what extent the use of video dubbing improve student’ speaking skill, and (2) the strengths and weaknesses of video dubbing when implemented in this research. In this research, I carried out classroom action research which contains four steps, namely: planning, acting, observing, and...

The objectives of this research are to find correlation between (1) grammatical competence and translating skill; (2) vocabulary mastery and translating skill; and (3) grammatical competence and vocabulary mastery simultaneously and translating skill. This research used correlational method. The study was carried out in May 2014 at SMA N 1...

This research aims at investigating: (1) the characteristics of effectivereaders in reading course books at English Education Department of FKIPUNS Surakarta 2013 / 2014 and (2) their learning achievement.This case study employed purposive sampling that data were collectedthrough observation conducted to 6th semester students, interview,...

The aim of this research is to find out: (1) whether there is a significantdifference in the achievement of reading skill between the students taught usinglearning cell and those taught using direct instructional method; and (2) whetherlearning cell is more effective to teach reading than direct instructional method.Related to the objectives of...