Masalah pembelajaran menulis teks deskripsi di SMP disebabkan oleh kesulitan dalam mengembangkan ide, membedakan teks narasi dan deskripsi, serta penggunaan bahasa Indonesia yang kurang tepat. Minimnya motivasi dan media pembelajaran yang monoton juga menghambat hasil belajar. Penelitian ini menggunakan media digital, seperti Sketchbook dan IbisPaint X, untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menu…

This study aims to find out the empirical evidence of whether or not there is a significant impact of reading strategies and vocabulary knowledge on students’ reading comprehension for the tenth grade students in SMAN 10 Depok. The writer applied the quantitative method by using the correlation technique. The population of this study was the tenth grade students in SMAN 10 Depok and the wr…

This study investigates the predictive correlation and relationship of English willingness to communicate (WTC), motivation, and speaking anxiety among secondary high school students. The study concludes that speaking anxiety is negatively correlated with WTC (β = -0.0649 in Model 1; β = -0.07006 in Model 2), indicating that more anxious students are less willing to communicate, b…

This study aims to investigate the use of Mind Mapping and Team Game Tournament (TGT) Techniques in improving students’ writing report text ability for the ninth grade of SMPN 7 Tangerang. There were 67 participants in this research; 33 students applied the Mind mapping Technique and 34 students applied TGT. This research applied the mixed method. The researcher used a quantitative and Qua…

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…

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…

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 mushrooming emergence of ‘internationally-minded’ schools in Indonesia in the past fifteen years has resulted in the application of globally recognized curriculum in those schools such as the Cambridge curriculum. Regarding students in Indonesia, there is a stereotype for students in Asia regarding their critical thinking skills. Their lack of the skills is seen like having cognitive de…

Based on the result of pretest held a week before doing the research, it was found that the students' scores of speaking ability especially in retelling a recount text of the third grade of SMPN 1 Baros, the academic year 2015/2016 were unsatisfying. It showed that the mean score got was only 6,3 %.. Most of the students are reluctant and look shy to have their speaking practice especially in …