In this thesis, interviews with junior and senior high school teachers from five different Indonesian provinces were conducted in order to reveal the extent of the EFL teachers' efficacy in promoting HOTS. Enactive mastery experience and the physiological and affective states are both observed to be essential to EFL teachers’ efficacy at promoting HOTS. With respect to the enactive mastery ex…

Recently, there has been an improvement the use of online peer assessment in the classroom and other language learning setting. Despite of many studies, applying online peer assessment has been found for some positive effects on learning process; meanwhile, the results of this study were mixed, positive effects as well as negative effects. This study was focused on investigating EFL students r…

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…

This thesis aims to investigate the needs in a course called Paragraph Writing in a university in Karawang, West Java and proposed a syllabus for the course. The research instruments used in this case study research were writing test, questionnaire, classroom observation, and interview. The results showed the target of the course, the students‟ problems and the teaching approach and strat…

This study aimed to discover how hypnoteaching can increase the speaking skill of eleventh-grade students and how to apply hypnoteaching to increase speaking skills at the Ummul Quro Al-Islami Islamic Boarding School, and how students respond to the use of hypnoteaching in learning speaking skills. This study used classroom action research on second-semester students with a total of 32 particip…

Many students have been learning English for a long time with four language skills that should be mastered. Listening as one of their needs to be taken into account in terms of applying an effective test. The purpose of the study is to know the result of the listening test using audio only and video and to find out how the students’ perception of Audio-only and visual elements in listening te…

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui: 1) ada tidaknya pengaruh yang signifikan penggunaan aplikasi android Mutate terhadap hasil belajar siswa kelas XII SMK Permata 2 Bogor 2) ada tidaknya pengaruh yang signifikan antara motivasi belajar siswa terhadap hasil belajar siswa SMK Permata 2 Bogor 3) ada tidaknya interaksi antara panggunaan aplikasi android Mutate dan motivasi belaja…

This research investigated students’ recount text writing by using inquiry – based learning. The objective of the research is promoting students’ recount text writing at the grade nine of SMPIT Insan Mubarak, West Jakarta. Based on the main problems, 1. What the contribution of IBL in teaching recount text?, 2. What are the difficulties faced by students when learning writing recount tex…

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 aim of this research is; The first is to explain how animation movies can improve students' writing skills. Second, to find out what factors influence changes in the ability to write recount text in class XII IPA.1 MAN 1 Kuningan through animation movies. This research is Classroom Action Research. This research procedure consists of planning, action, observation and reflection. The res…