The aims of this study were to find out: (1) the relationship between gender and motivation with students’ speaking skill. (2) the relation of motivation towards speaking skill. (3) the relation of gender towards students’ speaking skill. This study used survey technique by the 64 students as sample from the population. The methodology of the research was quantitative by using statistic for…

This descriptive qualitative research aims to investigate the use of drama in improving students’ speaking skill in the classroom. There are three issues posed in this study. Firstly, how to find to what extent drama can improve learners’ speaking skill in the classroom. Secondly, how to investigate the problems faced by learners when learning English through drama in the classroom. Thirdly…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade X students who are taught by using Guiding Question Method; (2) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade students X students who are taught by using Speed Reading method; and (3) whether there is …

The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of using mind mapping and verbal outlining technique in students’ ability of writing a descriptive text involving the learning style of the First Grade Students of SMA Dharma Karya UT Pondok Cabe Ilir. This research uses quasi experimental design with 2x2 factorial. Population is all the first grade students at SMA Dharma Karya UT. S…

The study was written based on the ideas that come from the English curriculum of Junior High School which the students is suggested to master reading comprehension. In the teaching English teachers need to develop learning strategies to create the interesting of learning strategy especially for the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension. Furthermore in learning of reading comp…

The purpose of this research was to find out whether there is any significant difference result of students who is using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Task-Based Learning (TBL), and whether there is a significant interaction of gender and learning method (CALL and TBL). A quantitative analysis that included descriptive statistic (mode, median, range, mean, standard, deviati…

The objective of this study are to find out: (1) whether there is any significant difference effect between the students who are taught by using direct corrective feedback and those who are taught using indirect corrective feedback on the students writing skill, (2) To examine whether there is any significant difference effect between students who have positive attitude and those who have neg…

This study is aimed to investigate whether the use of teaching writing approaches (genre-based approach and process writing approach) toward students’ writing skill at the eleventh grade students at SMKN 1 Pandeglang. This research used quasi-experimental design. There were two experimental classes divided into two groups. The experimental class was taught by using genre-based approach meanwh…

A number of barriers that students faced in learning writing, such as about lack of writing performance, low motivation, high anxiety, and lack of communication with the teacher. Dialogue journal writing was presented in the present study to develop students’ writing skill based on two points of views, where it included writing performance and students’ perceptions when using dialogue j…

English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) is used by many teachers and lecturers in schools and universities to teach academic subject. One of the subjects that were being taught by using EMI is Bahasa Indonesia (BIPA) in Sofia University, Bulgaria. However, there were some challenges that have to be faced related to this matter concerning to vocabulary mastery and cultural barrier that occurred…