This research is intended to find out whether: (1) Communicative language teaching is more effective than audiolingual method to teach speaking to the 11th grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Boyolali in the academic year of 2010/2011; (2) The students having high motivation have better speaking skill than the students having low motivation to the...

The objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether or not animation movies can improve the students‟ writing skill; and (2) to describe the class situation when animation movies implemented. The research was carried out at SMP Negeri 2 Klego. It was conducted from April 2012 up to May 2012. The subject of the research was the...

This thesis is written 1) to describe whether or not Picture Series can improve students’ writing skill and 2) to identify what happens when Picture Series is implemented in the writing classes. This research is an action research study at the Junior High School students. The research is conducted in two cycles from Desember 2010 until May 2nd,...

Being a good reader, the students need some skills of reading. However, based on the pre-research that has been done by researcher in class VIIIG of SMP N 1 Jaten Karanganyar, they still got some difficulties to (1) find main idea; (2) mention detail information; (3) grasp vocabulary; (4) guess implicit meaning; and (5) infer appropriate...

A Thesis. Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University Surakarta. 2012. The objectives of the writer are: 1) Improving student’s reading comprehension and to know the extent of the improvement of student’s reading comprehension through Question Answer Relationships. 2) Describing the situation when Question-Answer...

The objectives of this research are firstly, describing how the use of smallgroup discussion can improve the reading comprehension of the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Wuryantoro . Secondly, describing the strengths and the weaknesses of using small-group discussion in teaching reading comprehension in the ninth grade students of SMP...

The objectives the research are (1) to describe how jigsaw improves the students? reading comprehension at eighth grade of SMP Islam Diponegoro Surakarta and (2) to describe how jigsaw can improve class situation. In the pre research, the students had difficulties in identifying main idea, identifying supporting detail, guessing meaning of new...

The purpose of this research is to get the description of: (1) the correlation of students 'personality with English achievement of the students of SMK Pancasila Surakarta at the class of XI (2) the correlation of students' creativity with English achievement of the students of SMK Pancasila Surakarta at the class of XI, (3) the correlation of...

The research was conducted at SMP YKAB Surakarta, a school that provides good education for students with visual impairment. The seventh and eighth grade was the subject of the research. As a descriptive study, this research is aimed at describing the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension to students with visual impairment. It...

The research is a qualitative study. The objectives of the research are (1) to know how much the teachers in SMA Negeri 1 Manyaran understand about the implementation of the genre based approach, (2) to know what is the teachers’ attitude to the implementation of the genre based approach, (3) to find out how the syllabus and lesson plan have...