ABSTRACTThis study aims at (1) investigating the quality of “When English Rings A Bell” textbook to teach reading skill for seventh grade students of Junior High School, and (2) developing supplementary reading materials for seventh grade students of SMP Negeri in Surakarta. This study is categorized as a Research and Development...

ABSTRACTThis research aims to explore (1) the strategies being used by students in speaking; (2) the way students use the learning strategies; and (3) the students’ reasons in using the learning strategies.This research was conducted in a private vocational high school in Kawedanan, Magetan. The subjects of the research were eight students...

Dwi Wahdini, S891402018. 2015. Shadow-Reading to Generate Students’ Reading Comprehension from the Perspective of Students’ Motivation (An Experimental Study at Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 1 Singkawang in the Academic Year 2014/2015). Thesis. 1st Supervisor: Dr. Sri Marmanto, M. Hum.; 2nd Supervisor: Dra. Dewi Rochsantiningsih, M. Ed, Ph. D....

ABSTRACTThe objectives of this study are to explore the teachers’ beliefs in SA; to reveal how the beliefs are reflected in classroom practices; and to figure out the factors affecting their beliefs and practices of SA to the teaching of English.This research was conducted at Boyolali from August 2014 to November 2014 with four experienced...

ABSTRACTThis study aims at: (1) describing the implementation of authentic assessmentin English instruction based on curriculum 2013, (2) figuring out the difficulties inimplementing authentic assessment in English instruction based on curriculum 2013and (3) yielding the solution used by the teacher to overcome the difficulties inimplementing...

Teaching Speaking in ELT (English Language Teaching) is seem to be importance since speaking is being fundamental skill to human communication. However, the EFL students often just keep silent in the Speaking English Classroom. Students might have so many ideas to convey but they often get difficulty in uttering or saying what they suppose to say....

This thesis is written to 1) identity whether and to what extent talk show video improves students? vocabulary in speaking skill and 2) describe classroom climate when talk show video is applied in the speaking class. The method used in this research was classroom action research. The research was conducted in two cycles from Mei 30th until July...

The objectives of the research are (1) to identify teachers’ beliefs in teaching writing, (2) to identify the factors that influence their beliefs and practice in teaching writing, and (3) to identify the implementation of teachers’ beliefs in teaching writing.This case study was carried out at MAN 1 Surakarta that was conducted from...

ABSTRACTThe research aims at revealing whether: (1)  Think-Talk-Writeis more effective than Lecturing method to teach grammar; (2) the students with high level of self-confidence have better grammar mastery than those with low level of self-confidence; and (3) there is an interaction between the teaching methods and students’ level of...

This study aims at identifying whether 1) Group Investigation is moreeffective than direct method to teach speaking; 2) Students with low level ofcommunication apprehension have better speaking skill than those with high levelof communication apprehension; 3) there is an interaction between teachingmethods used and students? level of communication...