Sebelas Maret University.The objective of this research is intended to know whether fun activities can improve students’ motivation and vocabulary mastery and what problems appear when fun activities are used in teaching and learning process. In this research, the writer conducted a classroom action research from 13 to 27 May 2008 in the second...

This research was aimed to find out whether the puzzles could be used to improve students’ grammar mastery. It was focussed on the improving students’ grammar mastery by puzzles. The observation and interview showed that the students still confused in using grammatical rules. It indicated that students` grammar mastery was low. The researcher...

ABSTRACT The research is aimed at finding out the kinds of directives expressions and the forms in expressing directives which occur in the film entitled “Sweet November”. A descriptive qualitative method was applied in this research. It employs total sampling as the technique for choosing sample. The source of the data was the film...

This study is an Action Research which is conducted to improve the teaching learning quality especially in speaking class at the second grade of SMK Mikael Surakarta. In more detail, this study focuses on finding out: 1) factors causing low ability in the speaking skills, 2) the effectiveness of videos in the speaking class in improving the...