The objectives of the research are: (1) to know whether and to what extent the use of STAD can improve the students’ vocabulary mastery in learning English (2) to describe the situation when STAD method is applied during the teaching and learning process. This research was carried out at SD Negeri 120 Tugu Jebres Surakarta. It was conducted...

The eighth grade students of SMP N 16 Surakarta in the academic year of 2011/2012 had problems dealing with writing skill. To overcome the problems, the researcher designed a classroom action research to teach writing using Picture. This research aims finding out whether using Picture can improve students‟ writing skill and how is the...

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether and to what extent the use of YouTube videos improve the students’ ability in writing descriptive text; and (2) to describe the class climate when YouTube videos are implemented in the writing class. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri Gondangrejo. It is conducted from...

The objectives of this research are: (1) to identify whether and to what extent the use of internet-based song as teaching media improve students’ vocabulary mastery; (2) to identify how the situation is when internet-based song is applied in the English class to improve students’ vocabulary mastery. The study is an action research which...

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether and to what extent the use of videos can improve the students’ ability in writing narrative text; and (2) to describe what happens to the class climate when videos are implemented in the writing class. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 1 Ngemplak. It was conducted from...

The objectives of this research are: (1) to identify whether Jigsaw learning technique can improve students’ reading comprehension; (2) to know what happens in the class when the teacher implements Jigsaw learning technique to teach reading comprehension. Then, all the objectives lead to main objective of the study that is to improve the...

The objective of this research is to improve students’ reading comprehension and motivation in learning English using Cooperative Language Learning (CLL) approach. The collaborative classroom action research was conducted by the researcher from March to September 2011 to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Surakarta. There were 32...

This research aims to find out whether EGRA technique can effectively improve the students’ grammar mastery and the strengths and weaknesses of EGRA technique to improve the students’ grammar mastery to the class VIII E of students of SMP N 1 Jaten Karanganyar in the academic year 2011-2012. Classroom action research was used in the...

This action research aims at: (1) analyzing whether mapping can improve students’ reading skill, (2) analyzing the situation happens when mapping is used in teaching reading. The method of the research is action research. The subject of the research is the 36 eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Surakarta. The research was conducted...

The objectives of this research are to know whether the use of cartoon films can improve the students’ vocabulary mastery and to identify what happens when cartoon films are used as media in teaching vocabulary to the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Grogol Sukoharjo. The method used in this research is action research. In this action...