ABSTRAK This study is concerned with the interaction analysis on the speaking classroom for the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 7 Surakarta. It concentrates on the percentage of teacher talk time and students talk time in the speaking classroom interactions. The other dimension explored by the writer is to find out the pattern of...

ABSTRAK This research was conducted to achieve some objectives, namely (1) Describing the kinds of Complaint Strategies employed by the characters in the movie entitled “SWEET HOME ALABAMA”. (2) Describing the elements supporting the complainable (3) Identifying the intention of the Complainer in employing certain kinds of Complaint...

ABSTRAK This study is intended to find out the present students’ mastery of singular-plural nouns and to find out which nouns are the most difficult for the students. The population of this study is the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Gondangrejo-Karanganyar in the academic year 2006/2007. By using simple random sampling, 40 out of...

ABSTRAK The objective of this study is to describe the form of classroom interaction in the large classes, the students’ involvement in teaching-learning process, the rapport between the teacher and students, and also the role of the teacher and students there. The research was conducted in SMU N I Gemolong, located in Jl. Citrosancakan,...

ABSTRAK This research is carried out to find out the types of requestives employed by speakers and to describe the speakers’ ways in expressing the requestives. Based on the objectives of the study, this study uses a descriptive qualitative method. In collecting the data the researcher takes a novel entitled The Glass House by Lynn Bushell...

ABSTRAK This study is focused on the psychological phenomena, i.e. jealousy experienced by the major character in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, one of Elizhabethan greatest tragicomedies that was written in about 1609. The play itself is about the jealousy feeling of the king of Sicilia that causes some destructive acts towards people...

ABSTRACT This thesis is intended to evaluate the implementation of teaching literature on the English subject of the second grade of language program in senior high school and also what sort of literature are taught in this program. This research uses descriptive method that refers to content analysis and documentary analysis. It was...

ABSTRAK This thesis is an action research study that is intended to overcome problems that appear in the teaching and learning vocabulary in order that: (1) the students can pronounce words correctly; (2) the students can remember and grasp the meaning of words easily, and (3) the students can improve their motivation in learning vocabulary....

ABSTRAK This study of action research is designed to implement TBT to improve the students’ listening ability. The aims of the research are to identify: 1) whether and to what extent the use of Text-Based Task improves the students’ listening ability, 2) the classroom situation when Text-Based Task is implemented in the listening...

The fifth year students of SD Negeri Pondok 03 Sukoharjo, Academic Year 2007/2008, had problems dealing with vocabulary mastery. First, they had difficulty to remember the meaning of words. Second, they were not interested in English class. To overcome the problems, the researcher designed an action research using realia to teach vocabulary. The...