The research was conducted to identify the students’ strategies in implementing critical thinking when writing an argumentative essay. The methods used is qualitative approach which involved the case study method, the researcher collected the data using retrospect, interview, and questionnaire. The participants whom were involved in this research were a Business School students in Serpong. Th…

This research attempts to discover what strategies employ by the students in learning speaking, the factors influence students‟ learning strategies in speaking performance and the role that the lecturer does in enhancing their speaking performance at third semester of English department at University of Muhammadiyah Sorong. The research was conducted by using qualitative approach and t…

Confidence is very important to be possessed by every language learner. In fact, most of learners especially for those who learn English, still get lack of confidence. The study was intended to investigate factors contributing to lack of confidence in English speaking, the strategies to overcome lack of confidence and the learners’ perceptions of self-confidence in involving speaking practice…

The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of Differentiated Instruction method and Grammar Translation method on improving students’ writing skill. A quantitative analysis was conducted to answer the questions proposed in the study that covers descriptive statistics: mode, median, range, mean, standard of deviation, and distribution frequency in histogram. The participants of …

The objectives of this research were to investigate (1) whether there is a significant different between students who use graphic organizer (GO) and those who use collaborative strategic reading (CSR) in students’ reading comprehension achievement; (2) whether there is the significant interaction between reading strategy and learning style in students’ reading comprehension; (3) whether the…

This thesis began with the problems in English course materials which was presented in very general way and did not relevant with the students and stakeholder’s needs. The objectives of this study were (1) to find out the students’ needs; (2) to find out whether the English materials given in teaching and learning English have been relevant to the students’ needs; (3) to find out what kin…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) the different of students’ vocabulary mastery between those who were taught through crossword puzzle and those who were taught through scramble words, (2) the different of independent and dependent students’ vocabulary mastery, (3) the interaction between word games and cognitive learning style with students vocabulary mastery, (4) which…

This study aims to find the comparison of two methods to be applied in teaching narrative writing. This study was conducted in at SMAN 84 JAKARTA BARAT students. The study designed used, namely “Pre-test and Post-test control group design” involving 70 students in grade XI, class XI IPA and IPB. The data analyzed by the theory of Read Write Think; Convention, focus, elaboration, and inventi…

The new curriculum of 2013 regulates 90 minutes in a week to learn English at the first year students of vocational school from 270 minutes before. Therefore, the students become have lack of exposure to the language. Besides, the syllabus is still general, it did not focus on vocational school department. Because of that, the researcher conducted this research. The data sources that used i…

This research dealt with affective strategies to overcome and to analyze students’ anxiety in speaking English in extracurricular class at Dharma Karya Universitas Terbuka Pondok Cabe. The subject of this research was students in elementary school level. Anxiety became important to be investigated because this condition might block the ability of students’ speaking. There were three ins…