This thesis aims to explore communication strategies employed by high speaking proficiency level students. To conduct this research, qualitative descriptive approach is used. Eight students of fifth semester at Faculty of Teachers’ Training and Education of a private university in Bogor who have taken four speaking courses were rigorously selected through several procedures to become the par…

This study is aimed to invesitagate English teachers’ strategies and challenges in promoting students’ HOTS (Higher-Order Thinking Skill) during the online learning. The popularity of Online Learning in Indonesia had been increasingly popular due to the effect of Covid- 19 pandemic situation. The condition has caused education system shift where the teachers are now adapting the situations …

English is still a subject that must be taught during the Covid 19 pandemic. Based on the 2013 curriculum two aspects must be taught, namely knowledge and skills. From these two aspects, the achievement of the skills aspect is lower than the attainment of the knowledge aspect. Discovery learning here is a learning method that focuses on the learning process. Students can learn by observing whic…

This study was aimed to investigate how Edmodo improved EFL students’ writing skill. The research subject was 10 students of class 8.1 of first semester at SMPN 12 Depok in Academic Year 2018 / 2019. This research was qualitative research which focused on Classroom Action Research (CAR). The data were collected from observation checklist, students’ writing analysis and by giving questionnai…

This study describes the extent of activities instructions for listening, reading, speaking, and writing in the textbook, “When English Rings the Bells grade 7 and 8 and Think Globally Act Locally grade 9” that emphasizing HOTS (High Order Thinking Skills) or LOTS (Low Order Thinking Skills); and it is also to know the teachers’ perception about the representation of LOTS and HOTS in thes…

The purpose of this study is to determine the strategies used by teachers in overcoming students' problems in speaking English. Then To identify the factors that hinder students' fluency in speaking in class. To find the strategies carried out by the teacher in accordance with what is expected by students in the problems faced to improve the speaking skills of students majoring in accounting Y…

The implementation of teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language in MTsN 4 Jakarta has been facing many challenges that cause the students' lack of skills in speaking English, and the preliminary research conducted showed that anxiety is an affective factor that dominantly causes the lack of their English speaking skills. This study aimed to find out the process of Project-Based Learni…

The present study attempts to find out the EFL teachers’ teaching strategies in teaching writing for students with special needs in public schools, to find out the influential factors of EFL teacher’s teaching strategies in teaching writing for students with special needs in public schools and to find out the application of EFL teacher strategies in teaching writing for students with specia…

This research is classifield as the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method used to solve the problem of students’ speaking skill. Based on the result of a pre-observation conducted at eight grade, it was found that the speaking of the students were still low and unsatisfactory. The participants of this research were 20 students. They were consisting of 7 males and 13 females of students of ei…

Authentic assessment has been an issue for some times. Even, Indonesian Education Curriculum 2013 has adopted authentic assessment. Moreover, since pandemic Covid19, authentic assessment became the urgent matter to discuss. Due to this condition, this study aims to investigate how the high schools’ English teachers perceive authentic online assessments, and how they conduct authentic online a…