This thesis aims to reveal the teachers’ beliefs on children’s characteristics, how the children learn a foreign language and to see whether what their beliefs are reflected in the way they administer the lesson in their classroom. The methods used is qualitative methods. Through triangulation strategy, the researcher collected the data by using questionnaires, observations and interviews. …

This thesis aims to reveal Discourse analysis on writing in term of cohesion and coherence of first year students at Psychology Faculty of University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR.HAMKA (UHAMKA).The analysis on students’ writing is that of using cohesive devices as part of unity in sentence level and coherence in the level of mind. Cohesive devices and coherence become the integral parts of a tex…

This research was written based on the idea coming from a current Indonesia curriculum which suggests English teachers to implement discovery learning. However, there are only a few research studies about discovery learning strategy as EFL and non research studies about it in Indonesia and the effect of cognitive learning style on reading comprehension. Furthermore, one of the writer’s c…

Research on English pedagogy has been conducted over decades. Many issues such as teaching, learning, motivation, and assessment have been addressed in the research. Assessment has been one part of the issues in English pedagogy. Assessment plays major role in measuring student’s capability after learning. This research aimed at designing and developing effective online assessment (OSA) f…

The objectives of this research were to investigate whether 1) there is a significant difference between students who are treated by pictures-series and those who are treated by diagrams on students’ writing skill; 2) there is significant difference between impulsive and reflective students on students’ writing skill; and 3) there is a significant interaction between visual aids and stu…

The aims of the thesis are to find out: (1) the significant effect of LINCS strategy on student’s vocabulary mastery (2) the significant effect of Story Innovation strategy on student’s vocabulary mastery (3) the significant difference of student’s vocabulary mastery between the students who were taught by LINCS strategy and those who were taught by Story Innovation strategy (4) signi…

Classroom management is one of the most important factors in young learner English teaching because children’s self control ablity is very poor and teaching children is quite different from teaching middle school students and adults. However, the study on classroom management strategies in young learner English teaching is still very limited to conduct. Thus, this thesis aims to investigate t…

The research was conducted to examine how well English teachers in Junior High level understand assessment as well as finding out the most frequently used assessment-related practices by English teachers in Junior High level to promote students learning. This research was also aimed to investigate the washback effect of English teachers’ assessment literacy toward the students’ learning …

Speaking in English is not easy; it requires training and practice are conducted continuously so that students are mentally not feeling anxious, afraid and nervous when they have willingness to speak. Besides that, speaking in English is a very important goal in learning a language. However, in reality 91% students at Karomah Learning Center who experience anxiety in high level, nervous, and fe…

This study was conducted to implement a blended learning technique in teaching narrative reading in SMP Al Zahra Indonesia Pamulang at grade 8 . The main objective of this study was to answer a question that of how to implement the blended learning in teaching narrative reading at grade 8. In conducting the study, the writer uses a qualitative research. Two techniques were used to collect the …