Based on the result of the preliminary study, it was found that the fifth-grade students of Cijantung 05 Elementary School faced some difficulties. The difficulties is in their reading skill, particularly in getting the detail information about the text, the meaning of some words written in the text, and the meaning of the question of the text. This study was designed as a qualitative study. It…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Effect of Teaching Techniques (Storytelling and Show-And-Tell) and Students’ Personality on Students’ Speaking Skill by the Students of third grade at Islamic Senior High School 69 Persis Matraman Jakarta which was located on Kramat Asem street number 59 Utan Kayu Selatan Matraman East Jakarta. The population of this study was 128 students …

This Classroom Action Research aims at investigating the application of Facebook to enhance the students’ writing skill especially writing descriptive text for eleventh grade students of science 5 at second semester in the academic year 2013/2014. In this research, the facebook group was created by the teacher and all students joined to be members. The space in the facebook group was use a…

This research is aimed at investigating the teacher’s activities in promoting learner autonomy and the impact to the student’s characteristics toward learner autonomy. Promoting learner autonomy starts from raising awareness which is affected on three aspects: self-planning, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The subject of the resea…

This research aims to investigate whether (1) the combination of linguistic intelligence and students’ anxiety influences speaking skill, (2) linguistic intelligence influences speaking skill in the presence of anxiety, and, (3) students’ anxiety influences speaking skill in the presence of language intelligence. The researcher focused the research on the relationships between linguistic …

This thesis is aimed at investigating and describing how hypno-teaching is best implemented to enhance students motivation in learning English at XI-Marketing Class, the State Vocational School Two Kotabumi Lampung; and discovering hindrances faced during the implementation of hypno-teaching method at the class. This study employs qualitative approach which is designed to be carried out throu…

This thesis aims to find out the strategies or procedures applied by the students and the difficulties they found in translating an Indonesian folktale into English. Further, it also investigates the students’ expectations related to the teaching-learning process in the Indonesian – English translation class. The study involves eight students who take Indonesian – English class at facul…

This research aimed at describing students‟ speaking anxiety in EFL classroom at occupation level. It investigated EOP students‟ speaking anxiety levels, their sources of anxiety and their coping strategies to reduce it. This research involved eight students from two classes with different English abilities and employed a qualitative research design, embracing the characteristics of…

The research attempts to answer the questions : 1) How do teachers assess speaking?, 2) What factors are influenced the assessment of speaking? 3) What are the advantages of the performance assessment toward the students speaking ability ? The teacher choose the activity or task choose for the speaking assessment. Dialogs or conversation are the most frequently given task. But in this case the …

The research was backgrounded by a phenomenon of many students experienced English speaking difficulties that reflected to their low score of final test at English speaking practice. The researcher identified some possible psychological factors causing such problem as formulated to find out (1) whether the positive effect of students‟ attitudes on students‟ speaking performance is s…