This Classroom Action Research aims at investigating the application of Facebook to enhance the students’ writing skill especially writing descriptive text for eleventh grade students of science 5 at second semester in the academic year 2013/2014. In this research, the facebook group was created by the teacher and all students joined to be members. The space in the facebook group was use a…

This research is aimed at investigating the teacher’s activities in promoting learner autonomy and the impact to the student’s characteristics toward learner autonomy. Promoting learner autonomy starts from raising awareness which is affected on three aspects: self-planning, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The subject of the resea…

This research aims to investigate whether (1) the combination of linguistic intelligence and students’ anxiety influences speaking skill, (2) linguistic intelligence influences speaking skill in the presence of anxiety, and, (3) students’ anxiety influences speaking skill in the presence of language intelligence. The researcher focused the research on the relationships between linguistic …

This thesis is aimed at investigating and describing how hypno-teaching is best implemented to enhance students motivation in learning English at XI-Marketing Class, the State Vocational School Two Kotabumi Lampung; and discovering hindrances faced during the implementation of hypno-teaching method at the class. This study employs qualitative approach which is designed to be carried out throu…

This thesis aims to find out the strategies or procedures applied by the students and the difficulties they found in translating an Indonesian folktale into English. Further, it also investigates the students’ expectations related to the teaching-learning process in the Indonesian – English translation class. The study involves eight students who take Indonesian – English class at facul…

This research aimed at describing students‟ speaking anxiety in EFL classroom at occupation level. It investigated EOP students‟ speaking anxiety levels, their sources of anxiety and their coping strategies to reduce it. This research involved eight students from two classes with different English abilities and employed a qualitative research design, embracing the characteristics of…

The research attempts to answer the questions : 1) How do teachers assess speaking?, 2) What factors are influenced the assessment of speaking? 3) What are the advantages of the performance assessment toward the students speaking ability ? The teacher choose the activity or task choose for the speaking assessment. Dialogs or conversation are the most frequently given task. But in this case the …

The research was backgrounded by a phenomenon of many students experienced English speaking difficulties that reflected to their low score of final test at English speaking practice. The researcher identified some possible psychological factors causing such problem as formulated to find out (1) whether the positive effect of students‟ attitudes on students‟ speaking performance is s…

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…

The objective of the research is to investigate: (1) whether there is positive relationship among reading habit, vocabulary mastery, and the students’ writing skill; (2) Whether there is positive correlation between reading habit and the students’ writing skill; (3) Whether there is positive relationship between vocabulary mastery and the students’ writing skill. The research was conduct…