ABSTRACT The objectives of the study are to describe the use of English in teaching-learning activities at Designated International Standard School, to describe whether the use of English in teaching-learning activities in this school can make the teachers and students communicate well, and to describe the strengths and the weaknesses of the...

Abstrak This study is a type of descriptive qualitative research which is intended to analyze frustration and self-adjustment in Ernest Hemingway’s novella entitled “The Strange Country” as experienced by the main character of the novella namely Roger Hancock. In the fiction, Roger experienced frustration because his greatest stories were...

ABSTRAK This thesis is intended to 1) analyze the process of teaching and learning vocabulary at the fifth year students of Ngringo 02 elementary school, 2) identify difficulties faced by the students in vocabulary learning, 3) identify and formulate factors causing vocabulary learning difficulties, 4) investigate strategies used by the teacher...

ABSTRAK This research was carried out using social psychological approach. It analysed the influence of Don Vito Corleone towards the attitudes of his men. The objectives of this study are to find out Don Vito Corleone’s motivation, form and process in influencing the attitude of his men. Some social psychological theories that are applied to...

ABSTRAK The research is to analyze the type of code switching, the function of code switching and the factors motivate the staffs of “Istana Griya” homestay apply code switching when having conversation with their foreigner guests in Surakarta. In collecting the data, a qualitative method using purposive sampling was applied by...

Abstract The fifth year students of SD Negeri Wirosari 2, Academic Year 2006/2007, had problems dealing with vocabulary mastery. First, they had difficulty to remember the meanings of words. Second, they had bad pronunciation. Third, they were not interested in English class. To overcome the problems, the researcher designed an action research...

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...