ABSTRACTThis research was conducted because of the problems faced by students inwriting descriptive text and the class situation during the lesson. This researchaims at: (1) improving the students’ skill of writing descriptive text using visualaids; and (2) describing the class climate when visual aids are implemented inteaching writing...

ABSTRACTThis study is conducted to identify 1) the students’ skill improvement in reading report text and 2) class situation in which text-marking is implemented in the reading class at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 5 Surakarta in the academic year of 2014/2015The method used in this action research was classroom action research. The...

The aim of this research is to find out: (1) whether there is a significant difference in reading skill between the students taught using KWL method and those taught using DIM; and (2) whether KWL method is more effective than DIM to teach reading. This experimental study used 22 students for the experimental group and 22 students for the control...

The objectives of this research are: (1) identifying the students’ beliefabout their interaction with the English teacher; (2) identifying the teacher’s beliefabout his or her interaction with the students; and (3) describing the effects ofstudents’ and teacher’s belief toward teaching and learning English.The study was...

The goals of this research are to describe (1) the use of authentic materials on teaching reading, (2) the problems and the solutions in using authentic materials, and (3) the effects of theuse of authenticmaterialson students reading motivation in SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Karanganyar.This research was case study research. The datawere event, informant,...

This research was conductedto find out whether there is a correlation between (1) grammar mastery and writing skill; (2) reading habit and writing skill; and (3) grammar mastery, reading habit simultaneously, and writing skill.In this research, the correlational method was used and it was carried out in September 2014 at SMA Negeri 3 Sukoharjo....

ABSTRACTThis research uses descriptive qualitative method. The researcher used the film entitled “The Great Debaters” and its transcript as the source of the data in order to collect the data of the research.The aims of this study were to find out 1) the types of evidences used in the arguments delivered by the characters in the film...

The aims of this research were 1) to find out how KWL strategy could be implemented effectively to improve the students? reading comprehension, 2) to find out to what extent KWL strategy could improve the students? reading comprehension, and 3) to describe the class situation when KWL strategy was implemented in the reading class. The research was...

The aim of this action research is to enhance self-esteem in writing narrative text of the tenth grade of SMA N 7 Surakarta by using Collaborative Learning. The main subject of this research is the students in XMIA 4 in the second semester of the study by the academic year of 2014/2015. This study was done in two cycles and it took three months...

ABSTRACTThis thesis is intended to verify (1) whether there is a positive and significant correlation between habit in listening to English songs and listening comprehension, (2) there is a positive and significant correlation between learning motivation and listening comprehension and (3) there is a positive and significant correlation between...