Teaching speaking for young learners is very challenging. They have their own way to think, act, and learn something. Choosing materials, apply the teaching technique, and creating an activity for young learners is a crucial one. They are also easily get bored and lose their concentration. Therefore, the teacher needs to be able to know their students and able to creating a fun and interesting …

The objective of this study is to find out moral values are provided in English textbook for Junior High School published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology based on 2013 curriculum as National Education Handbook and how do the students’ perceptions of moral values in the materials of English textbook itself. The researcher used qualitative research analysis metho…

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…

This thesis aims to reveal at the improvement of the speaking skills of the fourth grade of gifted students in the academic year of 2017/2018. This research was action research and conducted collaboratively with the English teacher. The subjects of this research were 8 gifted students of SD Islam Al-Azhar Cilegon. The research was conducted in three cycles. The data in this research were in th…

Focusing on critical thinking has been the objective of the 2013 Curriculum and students are required to possess critical thinking skill as it is preparing them to study at higher educational level. It is possible to foster critical thinking as a part of teaching activities since the implementation of critical thinking in non western countries such as Malaysia and Singapore have been successful…

In this digital era, many teachers used WhatsApp to communicate among teachers, students, even with the parents. The teachers used WhatsApp for their professional community by creating a group in WhatsApp. One of the organizations that teachers have was MGMP (Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran). This research addressed to two issues, including how teachers used WhatsApp group in their professional …

Writing skill still becomes a burden for some EFL learners since a student has to master the context of writing. To understand the context, the teacher has to help his or her learners to select the critical details and delete the minor information in a particular context. Thus, the teacher has to provide the useful strategy summarizing the background to comprehend the whole meaning. Thus, the o…

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…