This research aims at describing: (1) whether and to what extent short stories are able to increase the students? vocabulary mastery in reading, (2) the most significant improvement in terms of the use of vocabularies drawn from short stories, (3) the strengths and weaknesses of implementing short stories in increasing the student?s vocabulary...

The objectives of the research are (1) to explore teachers’ beliefs in teaching grammar; (2) to reveal how those beliefs are reflected in their teaching practices; and (3) to figure out the factors influencing those beliefs and practices. Five English teachers from two State senior High Schools in the eastern part of Kabupaten Cirebon...

This research aims at find out whether: (1) Paper Seminar Technique is more effective than Peer Editing Technique to teach writing skill; (2) students having high self-actualization have better writing skill than those having low self-actualization; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching techniques and students’ self-actualization in...

This research aims at describing out whether: (1) Moodle is more effective than weblog media to teach writing to the tenth grade of SMA N 7 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2012/2013; (2) the students who have high creativity have better writing skill than those who have low creativity of the tenth grade of that school; and (3) there is an...

The aims of the thesis are; (1) to reveal Storytelling can improve students’ pronunciation proficiency; and (2) to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Storytelling used in implemented at the research. This action research consists of three cycles, in which the procedures include identifying the problem, planning the action,...

The objectives of the research are to examine: (1) whether Problem Based learning is more effective than Audio-Lingual Method to teach speaking to the Second Semester of English Program Students of FKIP Tanjungpura University Pontianak in the Academic Year of 2012/2013; (2) whether the students having high critical thinking have better...

The main objectives of the research are to know whether: (1) there is difference in writing competence between the students taught using interactive writing strategy and the students taught using controlled writing strategy; (2) there is difference in writing competence of the students having high creativity and those having low creativity; (3)...

The objectives of the research are: (1) to describe whether the use of storytelling can improve the students’ speaking ability; and (2) to describe the effective of teaching-learning process when storytelling is implemented in the speaking class. This research was carried out to MTs Raudlatul Muta’allimin Wilangan Nganjuk. It was conducted...

The goal of this research is to find out whether: (1) Co-op Co-op is more influencing than Direct Instruction to teach reading at the twelfth graders of SMK Batik Surakarta in the Academic Year of 2012/2013; (2) the students who have high interest have better reading skill than those who have low interest at the twelfth graders of SMK Batik...

This study aims at: (1) describing the quality of the existing guideline of Jigsaw (2) developing the instructional guideline using Jigsaw technique to teach speaking to young learners. This study was carried out to the elementary school English teachers in Langke Rembong District of Manggarai, with the supporting participation of the...