This research is aimed at: (1) finding whether the use of Think-Pair-Share improves the student?s reading skill oftheFirst Grade of SMP N 8 Surakarta; and (2) describing the situation whenThink-Pair-Share is implemented in the reading class of the First Grade of SMP N 8 Surakarta. Related to the purposes of the study, the research design used in...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is: (1) To find out whether there is any correlation between learning motivation and reading competence of the second grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Surakarta academic year 2011-2012, (2) To find out whether there is any correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading competence of the second grade...

ABSTRAK Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah strategi scaffolding dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa serta meningkatkan motivasi siswa dalam berbicara tentang opuini dan meminta/memberi sesuatu. Masalah yang mendasari penelitian ini adalah kemampuan berbicara siswa...

This research focuses on the implementation of Experience-Text- Relationship (ETR) method to improve students’ reading comprehension of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Mojolaban in the academic year of 2011/2012. It is aimed at (1) finding whether and to what extent the use of ETR improves students’ reading comprehension and (2)...

This research aims to describe whether and to what extent the use of Facebook improves the students’ skill in writing descriptive text and to analyze what happens with the classroom situation when Facebook is used to teach writing skill. The method used in this research was a classroom action research. The research was conducted in two cycles...

This research aims at: (1) identifying whether or not and to what extent the use of Mind Mapping improves the reading comprehension of the seventh year students of SMP N 3 Colomadu, and (2) describing the class situation when Mind Mapping is implemented in the reading class of the seventh year students of SMP N 3 Colomadu. The method used in...

ABSTRACT This study is intended to verify the correlation between (1) grammatical competence and writing ability; (2) verbal linguistic intelligence and writing ability; and (3) grammatical competence, verbal linguistic intelligence simultaneously and writing ability of the fourth semester students of English Education of Teacher Training and...

ABSTRACT The objectives of this research are to find out the correlation between (1) vocabulary mastery and student’s English achievement; (2) student’s English interest and student’s English achievement; and (3) vocabulary mastery, student’s English interest toward student’s English achievement. This researcher used quantitative...

ABSTRACT This study is aimed to find out the correlation between: (1) translation ability and reading comprehension of the fourth semester students of English Education of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University in the academic year of 2011/ 2012; (2) habit of watching English movies and reading comprehension of the...