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...

This research aims at revealing empirically whether: (1) RAFT is more effective than guided writing to teach writing for the third semester students of English Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2013/2014; (2) students having high creativity have better writing skill...

This research aims at developing English for Specific Purposes (ESP) textbook to fulfil the students‘ need toward the material at vocational high school using Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT). It was conducted to investigate (1) the quality of the existing course book used in vocational high school, (2) the development of the ESP textbook...

The main objective of the research is to identify whether: (1) Index Card Match Game is more effective than Guided Writing technique to teach writing; (2) Students having high creativity have better writing skill than the students having low creativity; and (3) There is an interaction effect between teaching techniques and students’...

The objectives of this research are (1) to know whether Self-Instruction can improve grammatical competence and understand English texts at SMAN I Gerung especially at Class X-7 or not; (2) to describe the situation when the Self-Instruction is implemented in teaching grammar to understand English texts. The method of the research is Classroom...

The objectives of the research are: 1) to reveal whether Talking chips is more effective than translation method to teach vocabulary to the Elementary School students; 2) to define whether the students who have high interest have better vocabulary mastery than the students who have low interest; and 3) to define whether there is an interaction...

The research was conducted at Kalam Kudus Christian Playgroup of Surakarta; the subjects of the research were the nursery students in the academic year of 2011/2012. The research aims to (1) identify whether phonics improve the students’ reading ability and (2) identify the strengths and weaknesses of the implementation of phonics in improving...

The research aims at revealing whether: (1) Four Square Writing is more effective than Guided Writing to teach writing; (2) the students with high level of creativity have better writing skill than those with low level of creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching techniques used and students’ levels of creativity. This...

The objectives of the research are (1) to investigate out whether CBI could improve students’ speaking competence and (2) to give a description of how CBI was applied in the speaking class. This research is also designed to find out the strengths and the weaknesses of the implementation of teaching speaking using CBI to improve students’...