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…

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…

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…

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…

Vocabulary is necessary to be mastered by the students, it is essential to emphasize the main goal of its importance. Learning vocabulary aims at enabling the students to comprehend the meaning or the function of the unknown words by practicing it into communicative purposes. This means, the students are expected to make use of their vocabulary instead of just gaining a rich repertoire of Eng…

Self-reflection in portfolio gives contribution to student’s writing skill. Writing is considered to be a sequence of complicated process in which the students need to organize their ideas and develop it into a systematic order. Due to its complexity process, students often find problems in writing such as ideas organization, sentence arrangements, punctuation, and capitalization. However, t…

Based on the the result of the preliminary study, it was found that the grade 12th students at SMAN 1 Ciruas, SMAN 1 Pontang, and SMAN Tirtayasa, faced some difficulties in accomplishing their application letter writing.Some students still produced incorrect grammatical and vocabulary use in their writing tasks, especially in their practical writing examination. This study was performed to…

This study was conducted to investigate how students’ metacognition can be reflected in a diary. The study focused on how diaries could illustrate students in planning their learning, how they could describe their monitoring and how they could indicate their mental process in evaluating their learning. Twenty-one participants of third semester students were involved. Nine of them were select…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) the interaction between students‟ personality learning styles differences and teaching glossary towards students‟ vocabulary mastery (2) the difference between students‟ who taught by using Online-based glossary and those who taught by using paper-based glossary in their vocabulary mastery (3) which media is more effective …