The new curriculum of 2013 regulates 90 minutes in a week to learn English at the first year students of vocational school from 270 minutes before. Therefore, the students become have lack of exposure to the language. Besides, the syllabus is still general, it did not focus on vocational school department. Because of that, the researcher conducted this research. The data sources that used i…

This research dealt with affective strategies to overcome and to analyze students’ anxiety in speaking English in extracurricular class at Dharma Karya Universitas Terbuka Pondok Cabe. The subject of this research was students in elementary school level. Anxiety became important to be investigated because this condition might block the ability of students’ speaking. There were three ins…

This study is attempted to implement Elevator Pitch technique in speaking class for the third semester students of English Department, Pamulang University. The objective of this study is to investigate and to analyze how Elevator Pitch technique is implemented to enhance students speaking ability. The research was conducted at the third semester students of English Department, Faculty of L…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) whether the combination of vocabulary mastery and content schemata are significantly related to reading comprehension; (2) whether there is a significant relationship between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension while content schemata is held constant; (3) whether there is a significant relationship between content schemata and …

This thesis aims to investigate the implementation of Smart Fingers technique in improving students’ tenses mastery at 1st semester students of English department of Mathla’ul Anwar University, Banten. The thesis employs the qualitative research design with the characteristics of action research. It uses a triangulation of data collection methods involving questionnaire, observation, and i…

This study aims to find out: (1) interaction between reading strategies and learning styles at SMA Parahyangan Tangerang. (2) for students reflective learning style, is summarizing reading strategy better than self-questioning (3) for students impulsive learning style, is summarizing reading strategy better than selfquestioning strategy. This astudy is experimental study with 120 samples of…

The objective of this research is find out the significant relationship between (1) linguistic intelligence, vocabulary mastery and writing ability; (2) linguistic intelligence and writing ability controlling for vocabulary mastery; (3) vocabulary mastery and writing ability controlling for linguistic intelligence. This research was conducted at SMAN 2 Tangerang from March to November 2013…

The purpose of this study was to find out weather there is any significant different result of students’ reading comprehension for second year at SMA SULUH Jakarta with different method teaching which were modified collaborative reading strategy (MCSR) and metacognitive reading strategy (MRS). A quantitative analysis that covered descriptive analysis statistics (mean, median, mode, maximum, …

This research aimed to investigate the effect of teaching techniques and attitude on students’ writing skill in recount text for students of eighth grade SMPN 10 Tangerang, Banten, academic year 2013/2014. The investigated teaching techniques were Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) and Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) while the attitudes were positive and negative ones. Th…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the combination of students' self-esteem and students' motivation significantly explains their English speaking proficieney, both separately and simultaneously. A qualitative analysis that covers descriptive statistics; mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, variance, and the distribution frequency in histogram, and inferential analysis; corr…