The purpose of this study is to describe the perceptions of English teachers in Cawas, Klaten on educational supervision in relation to their professionalism. There are three areas to describe: (a) the English teachers? perception on educational supervision; (b) the English teachers? perception on their professionalism after being supervised; and...

This thesis is aimed to (1) identify how corpus is used to improve students’ vocabulary mastery at fifth grade students of SD Ta’mirul Islam Surakarta; and (2) identify the strengths and weaknesses of corpus when it is implemented in the teaching learning process of English.This classroom action research was conducted at SD...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis strategi pembelajaran yang digunakan oleh siswa laki-laki dan perempuan dalam mengembangkan bahasa Inggris di SMP Muhammadiyah Program Khusus Surakarta. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif jenis studi kasus. Siswa kelas tujuh berpartisipasi sebagai responden untuk mengisi kuesioner dan sepuluh...

The objectives of the research are (1) to explore teachers’ beliefs about teaching English in primary school, (2) to investigate how those beliefs are reflected in classroom practices, and (3) to explore factors that affect the shaping of teachers’ beliefs in teaching and learning process in primary school. This study reports the...

This research was aimed at finding out whether: (1) Blended-learning is more effective  than Direct Instruction in teaching writing to the second semester students of P2B UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta on the Academic Year of 2014/2015; (2) the second semester students of P2B UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta having high...

This study aims at (1) describing whether and to what extent the use of short stories can enhance students’ vocabulary mastery in writing narrative texts, (2) finding the highest improvement of the components of vocabulary in writing, and (3) describing whether and to what extent it can improve the teaching learning process. The preliminary...

The main objectives of this research are: (1) to improve the students’ competence in organization to write analytical exposition text; and (2) to improve the class situation in writing class. The preliminary research showed that the students’ skill in organizing ideas was low.The subject of the research was 28 of eleventh grade...

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk meneliti apakah: (1) TBI lebih efektif dari pada CBI untuk mengajarkan keterampilan berbicara, (2) peserta didik dengan kreativitas tinggi memiliki kemampuan berbicara lebih baik dari pada mereka yang memiliki kreativitas rendah, dan (3) ada interaksi antara pendekatan pengajaran dan kreativitas untuk mengajarkan...

ABSTRAK    The primary goals of the research are (1) to prove that the Process OrientedApproach can improve the students’ skill in writing by enhancing the verb drillingin composing narrative text for the eighth grade students of SMPN 19 Surakarta inthe academic year of 2013/2014; (2)  to prove  that  the...

Yogyakarta University of Technology targets its students to be able to communicate in English. To achieve this target, the passing grade for Communicate English course is ?B?. However, it causes several problems since many students lack of English competency; besides the number of students in the class is about 40 ? 55 students. Additionally, due...