This thesis is written to identify: (1) whether and to what extent dubbing practice through YouTube video improve students‟ self-confidence in speaking, and (2) the strengths and weaknesses of dubbing practice through YouTube video when it is implemented in teaching and learning process. In this research, I conducted action research...

This research aims to: (1) find out whether the use of Think-Pair-Share and Critical Debate Techniques improve the students' speaking skill or not. (2) find out how the teaching-learning process is when Think-Pair-Share and Critical Debate techniques are applied in the classroom. The method used in this research is classroom action research. The...

The purposes of the research are: (1) to find out whether and to what extent word webbing technique improve the students’ creativity in writing at the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 22 Surakarta in the Academic Year of 2012/2013. (2) to identify the class climate during teaching and learning process, when word webbing technique is implemented in...

This thesis is aimed to find out the correlation between (1) students’ English learning motivation and reading comprehension; (2) students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension; (3) students’ English learning motivation and vocabulary mastery toward reading comprehension. The method that is used in this study is correlational study....

The objectives of this research are to find out the correlation between (1) vocabulary mastery and speaking skill; (2) risk taking and speaking skill; and (3) vocabulary mastery, risk taking toward speaking skill. This researcher used quantitative method, it was correlational study. The study was carried out in December 2012 at SMA Negeri 1...

This research paper reports the evaluation of the materials of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills presented in the textbook entitled “English Zone” used for the first year student of senior high school. It develops the skills suggested by the School Level-Based Curriculum (KTSP 2006). Besides, this thesis also presents the...

Thesis. Surakarta. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University, 2013. The research is aimed at (1) describing the process of teaching and learning English for students with hearing impairment in the second grade of senior high school of SLBB YRTRW Surakarta in the academic year...

This research aims to: (1) find out the types of errors on the surface strategy made by the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Mojolaban; (2) find out the percentage of errors on the surface strategy in descriptive text writing made by the eighth grade of SMP N 1 Mojolaban; and (3) find out the causes of errors made by the eighth grade students...

This thesis is written to: (1) identify whether the use of Numbered Heads Together (NHT) can improve students’reading skill’, and (2) describe the class situation when the teacher implements Numbered Heads Together (NHT) in reading activity. The research was conducted from March 15th 2012 until July 5th 2012 at the eight grade of SMP...

This research aims at: (1) identifying whether Directed Reading- Thinking Activity (DR-TA) improves the students’ reading comprehension, and (2) describing the students’ motivation when DR-TA is implemented in the English class of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Ngadirojo. The method used in this research was a Classroom Action...