students often tend to question the grading system given by their lecturers in the oral presentation skills assignment. Different with a multiple choice, true or false and matching questions, oral presentation skills seem have no exact limitation for grades. This problem leads to the students' reluctance and irresponsibility towards learning. Therefore, self-and peer-assessment method is raised…

This research aims to discover whether the English popular songs and movies an effective media in enhancing and improving students' pronunciation. This research also studied which one showed a better effect on the student pronunciation using two media. The subjects in the study were involving 62 students from grade 8 in MTsN 3 Pondok Pinang South Jakarta and were divided into 2 groups. 31 stude…

This research employed research and Development (R&D) design. In the research stage, the researcher did needs analysis to 28 students, 6 alumni, a school administrator and a company. Based on the result of the research, the proposed syllabus is developed by implementing the combination steps of Richard's Model on Course Development (2001: 145-167) and Yalden's Language Program Development (1987…

This research discusses about the effect of cooperative learning and interdependence learning methods on students' narrative writing skill. This research is conducted using quantitative approach with experimental design with students of Bandung Islamic University as the research object. The main objective of this research is to finding out which of both methods that is studied cooperative learn…

This research focused on teaching technique and writing habit, and both effect on students' writing ability in descriptive text for students of seventh grade Al-Izzah Islamic Junior High School, Serang Banten academic year 2011/2012. It was conducted in quantitative approach with experimental design. From 179 (students sample) of five classes, he decides only 2 classes of seventh Akhwat 2 (33 s…

This study aims at investigating the effect of explicit and implicit grammar instruction on the students' ability to use the taught grammar in writing a hortatory exposition text. It was held at Senior Secondary School 8 Bogor. Two groups were treated as experiment group and comparison group. Experiment group which consisted of 40 students was treated with explicit grammar instruction, while co…

This research is carried out to see the improvement of students' reading comprehension using technique of vocabulary pre-teaching and game. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 19 Kabupaten Tangerang lasted from March 1 to 29, 2011. Experimental design with quantitative calculation is chosen as design of the research to obtain the research objectives. Two sets of reading test were selected…

This research is conducted to exhibiti the concept of the semantic mapping strategy in reading activity as well as its application in reading strategy at SMP YASPORBI Jakarta. The research took place at SMP YASPORBI and lasted for one month in January 2011. The research was designed as research method to achieve the objectives. Qualitative calculation was used for the data analysis while som…

This study aims at investigating STAN students' level of motivation and level of anxiety in learning English and the relationship between motivation and English proficiency, between anxiety and English proficiency, and the relationship between students' motivation and anxiety and their English proficiency. Based on a survey consisting of a motivation questionnaire, an anxiety questionnaire, and…

The objectives of this research are (1) to examine whether speed reading technique and motivation jointly explain the fourth semester of TBI students' reading comprehension; (2) to examine whether speed reading technique explain the fourth semester of TBI students' reading comprehension controlling for motivation; (3) to examine whether motivation explain the fourth semester of TBI students' re…