Professional development (PD) is one of the key determinants in improving knowledge, attitudes, and skills of a teacher. The roles of MGMP in improving the teacher’s professionalism is becoming more important when the government is implementing new curriculum. This research aims at finding out the roles of English Teacher Working Group (MGMP...

The objectives of this research are to find out whether: (1) Talking Chips method is more effective than Peer Tutoring method to teach speaking to the first semester students of STKIP PGRI Pontianak in the academic year of 2013/2014; (2) the students having high intelligence have better speaking skill than those having low intelligence; and (3)...

The aims of this study are to explore: (1) how the lecturers gives written correction to student’s writing; (2) how the students respond the lecturers’ written correction; and (3) how far lecturer’s written correction affects the students’ improvement in writing accuracy. This thesis is qualitative study with a single case study...

The objectives of this study are: (1) to describe the implementation of Computer-Assisted Language Learning in teaching writing to English students, (2) to find out the advantages and disadvantages encountered by the English teacher and the students during the teaching and learning process, and (to) to investigate the students’ achievement in...

The objectives of this research are to examine whether: (1) Peer-editing technique is more effective than Self-editing technique to teach writing, (2) the students who have high critical thinking have better writing skill than those who have low critical thinking, and (3) there is an interaction between teaching techniques and students‘ critical...

ABSTRACT ZAINAL ‘ARIFIN. S890907036. The Effectiveness of Project Based Learning Method in Teaching Reading for Academic Purposes Viewed from Students’ Reading Interest (An Experimental Study). Thesis. Surakarta. English Education Department, Graduate School of TT&EF, Sebelas Maret University, 2013. First consultant: (I) Prof. Dr Joko...

This research was a classroom action research. The research was conducted from February 2013 to August 2013 at SMP Negeri 1 Kedungbanteng, Banyumas. The subjects of the research were the second grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kedungbanteng, Banyumas. It consists of 25 students, 12 female and 13 male. The research was conducted in two cycles that...

The ability of English as foreign language nowadays is a necessity for all students. English is taught from primary to university level. It is expected that teaching English can bring good English proficiency on the students. This encourages the government to issue bilingual learning program to accelerate the quality of...

The objective of the research are: (1) to find out whether Retelling story can improve the students’ speaking skill. (2) to describe the teaching and learning condition when Retelling story is implemented to improve the students’ fluency and accuracy. This study belongs to Classroom Action Research (CAR). This classroom action research...