The present study was conducted to respond to the students‟ low ability to master vocabulary. This was likely due to lack of teachers‟ practice, particularly the vocabulary teaching techniques. Therefore, the study was aimed at improving vocabulary by comparison two techniques on mastering it. The research question was formulated as: Does contextualizing technique work more effec…

The objective of the research is to investigate: (1) whether any positive affect of Peer Feedback technique toward students’ writing; (2) whether any positive effect of Self Revising technique toward students’ writing; (3) which technique is better to be applied toward students’ writing. This research was conducted in STKIP Garut from September until November 2012 toward 2 classes with…

This study is aimed to investigate English teachers of Junior High Schools in Kota Serang in constructing syllabus – based reading comprehension construction, test specifications – based reading comprehension construction, multiple choice design, types of questions used of the first semester summative test in academic year 2011/2012, and the content of lesson plan. Qualitative method is us…

The researcher realizes that writing skill is difficult to be achieved because it depends on many factors. There are some factors which make the students find it difficult to development writing skill, such as the differences between English and Indonesian language system of spelling, pronunciation, grammar. In addition selection of vocabulary is the also important factor that influences st…

The major research questions of this study are concerned with what are strategies applied by the school management of CMBBS in fostering Language Awareness in enhancing students’ speaking skill, and what are the teachers’ roles in fostering Language Awareness in enhancing students speaking skill. There were thirty students of the Sciences Study Programs 2 chosen as the participant or r…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of motivation to learn translation and the writing skill in Indonesian toward the ability to translate an argumentative text from Indonesian into English, both separately and simultaneously. A quantitative analysis that covers descriptive statistics: mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, variance, and the distribution frequenc…

The purpose of this study to prove whether there is correlation of language components (grammar and vocabulary) mastery and students' background knowledge to their reading comprehension at Islamic senior high school of Mathla'ul Falah Lempuyang Serang Banten. The researcher used the quantitative method in this study through simple and multiple regressions. The data were collected through langua…

The purpose of this research is to create a task-based syllabus for the non-English teacher to improving their English for the teaching science in English. The syllabus is intended to be able to give the non-English teachers how to carry out the teaching science in English for primary students' level. nowadays, English has become a compulsory subject to be learnt since primary school. Not only …

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is any significant different results of academic reading abilities among UHAMKA's English Graduate school students with different genders and different use of learning strategies. A quantitative analysis that covered descriptive statistics (mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation and the distribution of frequency in histograms), and …

This research employed research and Development (R&D) design. In the research stage, the researcher did needs analysis to 28 students, 6 alumni, a school administrator and a company. Based on the result of the research, the proposed syllabus is developed by implementing the combination steps of Richard's Model on Course Development (2001: 145-167) and Yalden's Language Program Development (1987…