The objectives of this study are to explore the ways of the teacher gives tasks to the students, the ways of the students in perceiving the tasks from the teacher, and the ways the students accomplish the tasks in the speaking class. Through conducting this research, the researcher tries to seek and discover whether the clarity of the teacher in...

This study aimed at developing teachers’ guide to use Facebook Group in a blended Writing Course. There were two stages of research which include exploration stage and product development stage. The objective of the exploration stage was to investigate the existence and the quality of teachers’ guides used for Writing Course in one of...

This research investigated the implementing of Simultaneous Roundtable in improving the students’ ability in employing references in writing descriptive text. The underlying reason in doing this research is related to the phenomenon that there were some problems of the students in using references in writing. The problems of the research are (1)...

The research aims at investigating: (1) the considerations of the implementation of IBT to teach reading for EAP, (2) teachers’ comprehension about IBT to teach reading of EAP, (3) the implementation of IBT to teach reading for EAP and, (4) the strengths of the implementation of IBT to teach reading for EAP, (5) the limitations of the...

The Objective Of The Research Are: (1) To Identify Whether Or Not And To What Extent Edmodo Posting Improve The Students’ Reading Competence And (2) To Describe Improvement Of Classroom Situation Of The Students’ Activities In The Process Of Teaching And Learning Reading. The Research Was Carried Out At Smp N 17 Surakarta, Surakarta From...

The Research Is Specifically Aimed At Finding Out (1) Whether Scaffolding Teaching Technique Improves The Students‟ Writing Skill Of The Tenth Grade Students Of Sma Negeri I Sumberlawang; And (2) What Happens In The Class When Scaffolding Teaching Technique Is Administered. The Research Was A Classroom Action Research Which Applied...

This research is aimed to find out whether: (1) Synectics Methodis more effective than Direct Method in teaching writing to the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1Maospati Magetan; (2) the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1Maospati Magetan having high creativity have better writing skill than those having low creativity; and (3) there is...

The objectives of the research are to investigate whether: (1) Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is more effective than Audiolingual Method (ALM) to teach speaking for students of Training Institution DUTA PERSADA Surakarta in the Academic Year of 2013/2014; (2) students with high creativity have better speaking skill than the students with low...

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)...