ABSTRACT The objective of the research is to know the effectiveness of using pictures in teaching vocabulary to the sixth grade students of elementary school. The research was carried out at SDN Singkalanyar 1 Prambon Nganjuk East Java, from April 2008 to February 2009. The subject of the research is the students of class six SDN Singkalanyar I...

ABSTRAK The objective of the research is to examine whether or not Debate can improve the students’ speaking competence. Besides the research is also designed to study what happens when Debate is applied to improve the students’ speaking competence. The findings reveal that the program of improving the students’ speaking competence...

ABSTRACT This thesis is written to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery. The problem highlighted in this research is the low vocabulary mastery of Kindergarten students in Fahimna Surakarta that is caused by (1) the students’ difficulties in understanding meaning; (2) the students’ difficulties in using English words; (3) the...

ABSTRACT Rony Kurniawan. AN ANALYSIS ON THE READABILITY LEVEL OF “FOKUS” (A Naturalistic Study on Elementary School Students’ English Worksheet). A Thesis. English Education Department, Graduate School, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta. 2008. This research is aimed at describing and finding out whether and to what extents the...

ABSTRAK The objectives of the research is to examine whether or not Cooperative Learning Method (CLM) can develop the speaking competence of the first year students of English Education Department of Nusantara PGRI Kediri University (UNP Kediri). Besides that, the research is aimed to find out how CLM should be carried out effectively in...

ABSTRAK This research is intended to determine the effectiveness of inquiry-based teaching and learning to teach reading viewed from students’ motivation. The teaching method as the experimental variable is of two kinds: Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning and Traditional Method. The motivation as the attribute variable is divided into high...