This thesis discusses: (1) the class situation when the ups-and-down game is implemented in teaching speaking (2) The improvement of students’ speaking skill by using Ups and Down games. The Classroom Action Research was carried out in April 2013. The subject was the students of class VII H of SMP Bintang Laut Surakarta in the academic year...

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether or not videos can motivate students‟ motivation in learning English (2) to describe the difficulties of using videos in English class. This action research is carried out at SMA Negeri 1 Teras Boyolali which is conducted from August 2013 up to October 2013. The subject of the...

The aim of this research was to find out whether meaningful drilling activities can improve students’ pronunciation skill. This research was conducted in the first grade of SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali in academic year 2012/2013 from 9th – 25th May 2013. This research was done to improve the students’ pronunciation skill. In this case, the...

This research is written to identify that romantic material can improve the students’ descriptive writing skill and to identify the students’ attitudes to the teaching of writing by using romantic material in descriptive text. This research was done in SMA Negeri Kebakkramat, Karanganyar. The subject was the tenth grade students in the...

The objectives of the research are to find out whether video can improve the students’ speaking ability and the effectiveness of using video in teaching speaking to the sixth grade students of SD Negeri 2 Canden in academic year of 2012/2013. Classroom action research was used in the research. The action research was conducted from October...

The objectives of this research are to describe teaching learning process that occurs in the classroom and to identify type of communication that occurs in the classroom. SMA Negeri 1 Surakarta was taken as the setting of the research. The teaching learning process between the English teacher and students of the twelfth grade in 2013/ 2014...

This research is a classroom action research. The objectives of this research are to observe whether the use of Information Gap Activities can improve students’ listening skill and to describe the classroom situation when Information Gap Activities is applied to teach listening in the English class. This research was conducted in X Office...

This study was conducted to find out whether or not there is a significant difference in reading achievement between the students taught using authentic texts and those taught using non-authentic texts. This experimental research is conducted from August 30 up to September 16, 2013 on the second grade students of SMA Negeri 6 Surakarta. The...

The purposes underlying this study are: (1) to describe the structure arrangement of “English in Focus for Grade VIII Junior High School (SMP/MTS)”; (2) to analyze how far the tasks in “English in Focus for Grade VIII Junior High School (SMP/MTS)” develop the communicative task in CLT approach; and (3) to describe types of CLT materials...

This thesis is compossed based on the result of Action Research and the researcher’s experiences during conducting research study for a month in SMA N 1 Kebakkramat, Karanganyar. This research has objectives to know whether ESA Technique can improve the students’ listening ability and to know what happens when ESA Technique is implemented in...