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 thesis is a classroom action research which was conducted to improve the students’ listening skill through the use of podcasts which was used as an alternative learning media to make the implementation of learning listening more fun and interesting. The study aims to find out how is the students’ listening skill improved through podcasts and to find out how do the students respond to…

This thesis explores the implementation of Nearpod, an interactive educational platform, in the context of reading comprehension. The research objectives were twofold: (1) to describe students' perspectives on using Nearpod in reading comprehension and (2) to investigate the effectiveness of Nearpod on students' reading comprehension skills. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining ques…

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…

The purpose of this research is to examine three English textbooks. and This study aims to find out whether the three English textbooks for the 2013 curriculum were made for high schools and whether these books have standards so that students can become critical readers, for example official English textbooks issued by government publishers, meet the criteria for developing critical reading ski…

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…

This study aims to investigate English Education students' perceptions of what makes an effective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher. The study explores the qualities, characteristics, and teaching practices that students consider important in making an EFL teacher effective in the classroom. The research adopts both quantitative and qualitative approaches, employing questionnaires and…

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…