Writing skills are one of the four language skills that language learners, including foreign language learners, need to master. In writing skills, there are various types of writing that are studied, one of which is writing narrative text. However, in practice, making narrative text is still considered difficult by learners due to several factors, including the low interest of learners in learn…

The research aims to find out how students gave feedbacks to their peers’ reading portfolios, how they made use of the feedbacks, and what their perceptions toward washback of reading portfolio were. The data was collected qualitatively from October until November in 2017, in ten meetings. Sixteen students in XI of Science Class at SMA Islam Al Azhar 2 were the research participants. The st…

The mushrooming emergence of ‘internationally-minded’ schools in Indonesia in the past fifteen years has resulted in the application of globally recognized curriculum in those schools such as the Cambridge curriculum. Regarding students in Indonesia, there is a stereotype for students in Asia regarding their critical thinking skills. Their lack of the skills is seen like having cognitive de…

Based on the result of pretest held a week before doing the research, it was found that the students' scores of speaking ability especially in retelling a recount text of the third grade of SMPN 1 Baros, the academic year 2015/2016 were unsatisfying. It showed that the mean score got was only 6,3 %.. Most of the students are reluctant and look shy to have their speaking practice especially in …

The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of using bingo games and crossword puzzles on students’ vocabulary mastery at 5th grade elementary school of SDN Jelambar 03 Pagi. This research uses quasi experimental design. Population is all the fifth grade students at SDN Jelambar 03 Pagi. Sample as many as 60 students are taken by using cluster sampling technique. The 60 studen…

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 …

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 intended to design English materials for Vocational High School students at State High School (SMKN) 5 Tangerang. In order to create effective teaching materials, it needs some sequence steps. They are doing need analysis, writing the draft of coursebook, designing syllabus, piloting a sample unit, designing materials, and implementing the materials. The qualitative method was …

This research aims to know the effectiveness of two strategies, CIRC and Webbing in enhancing students’ reading comprehension at descriptive text. The problem came from the students’ difficulties to read materials in foreign language. Thus, they read only word by word. Some students would say that they forget what the story was about, some would only recalled one or two pieces of infor…

The objective of this research are to find out: (1) the relationship between learning strategies and learning style preferences toward learners’ reading comprehension, (2) the relationship between learning strategies and learners’ reading comprehension and (3) the relationship between learning style preferences and learners’ reading comprehension on the twelfth grade learners of State…