ABSTRACT Siti Karminah. X2210024. Improving Students’ Writing Skill by Using Mind Mapping. (A Classroom Action Research Conducted at the Eight Grade Students of SMP Negeri Jaten Karanganyar in the Academic Year of 2012/2013). A Thesis, Surakarta: Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret Universitity, Surakarta. 2014. The...

The aims of this study are to describe: (1) whether or not blog can improve the students‟ skill in writing hortatory exposition text; and (2) the classroom situation when blog is applied during the teaching learning process. The research was carried out at SMA Negeri 1 Gemolong, Sragen. The approach used in this research was a classroom...

The objectives of this research are to find out: (1) the information about requirements and executions of the immersion as an alternative education program, (2) the constraints that happened and the implemented efforts to overcome the constraints in organizing the immersion program, (3) the evaluation of teaching learning process in the...

In this research, the researcher uses Sociolinguistic approach. The purposes of this research are to find out: what are the differences between males and females speakers in Oprah Winfrey Show, what are the similarity characteristics of educated people’s speeches in public forums, especially in Oprah Winfrey Show, and what is the...

ABSTRACT Nafakah Aria Perkasa. X2207019: An Error Analysis in Constructing Verb Forms in Eleventh Grades students IPA 1 of SMA N 5 Surakarta 2012/2013. English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta. 2014. This research aims at describing varieties of errors of verb forms made by the eleventh...

The objectives of the research are: (1) to describe the level of difficulty, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distracters of the multiple-choice items of English final test for the second semester of the first grade students of SMA N 2 Boyolali in 2012/2013 academic year; and (2) to identify whether the multiple-choice items of...

This research is a classroom action research. The objectives of this research are: First, to identify whether or not and to what extent Time-Token can improve the students? speaking skill. Second, to find out whether or not and to what extent Time-Token improves the students? motivation in speaking. The writer conducted the research from April to...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) untuk menggambarkan situasi di kelas ketika flashcard (kartu pengingat) diimplementasikan dalam mengajar penguasaan kosakata, (2) untuk mengetahui apakah dengan menggunakan flashcards (kartu pengingat) itu dapat meningkatkan penguasaan kosakata siswa. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian tindakan yang dilakukan...

This thesis is written 1) to show to what extent TGT improves the students’ motivation to read, 2) to show to what extent TGT improves the students’ reading skill, and 3) to show to what extent the strengths and weaknesses of TGT emerge in reading classes. This action research was conducted in two cycles from July 26th until September 26th...