This thesis aims to describe the role of Dynamic Assessment with a Graduated Prompt Approach in students' speaking ability, identifying the challenges faced in English speaking activities in class XI Automation Office Management Vocational School AL HIDAYAH 1 Jakarta and giving the contribution towards English classrooms activities. This study used a class action research method with three cycl…

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…

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…