The objective of this study is to evaluate whether the ESP coursebook of the first semester Graphic Design students is suitable for meeting the Graphic Design students’ needs and industry’s need. The theoretical framework of this study basically incorporates a set of criteria proposed by Romero (1975), Tomlinson (1998), and Brown (2001). The criteria include physical appearance of the …

This research aimed to measure the effect of pedagogical competence and professional competence on students' learning English achievement at twelfth grade of senior high schools in Kupang. This research used survey method with the respondents of 29 English teachers and twelfth grade students' achievement in senior high schools in Kupang. The method of data collection was questioners used to mea…

The objective of this study is to investigate the suitability of the English textbook used at SD Al-Azhar Islam 20 Cibubur. The study may improve useful about the suitability of the English textbook with KTSP. This study used a qualitative research embracing characteristic of a case study. The data obtained through the analysis English textbook used at Grade 1,2,3 based on criteria from KTSP an…

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 …

students often tend to question the grading system given by their lecturers in the oral presentation skills assignment. Different with a multiple choice, true or false and matching questions, oral presentation skills seem have no exact limitation for grades. This problem leads to the students' reluctance and irresponsibility towards learning. Therefore, self-and peer-assessment method is raised…

This research is carried out to see the improvement of students' reading comprehension using technique of vocabulary pre-teaching and game. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 19 Kabupaten Tangerang lasted from March 1 to 29, 2011. Experimental design with quantitative calculation is chosen as design of the research to obtain the research objectives. Two sets of reading test were selected…

The objectives of this research are (1) to examine whether speed reading technique and motivation jointly explain the fourth semester of TBI students' reading comprehension; (2) to examine whether speed reading technique explain the fourth semester of TBI students' reading comprehension controlling for motivation; (3) to examine whether motivation explain the fourth semester of TBI students' re…

The researcher believes that by giving more exposure for students to practice in classroom, they will be better in speaking skills. And the strategy to reach the objectives of producing fluent speakers is by applying student-student interactions approach. Exposing students to student-student interaction through cooperative learning, information gap activities, think-pair share and similar stude…

This research tried to Design English Materials for Maritime Higher Education Institution ( STIP ) Cilincing. Getting the satisfactory teaching materials, the researcher performed the following steps : performing needs analysis, reviewing the principle of material design, designing course framework, designing syllabus, designing materials, and implementing the sample lessons. A qualitative…

This study was aimed to investigate the effects of role-play and mechanical drills taught to the seventh grade of students of SMPN 1 Tangerang on their speaking ability. There were 60 students taken from class seven and they were assigned to have pre-test and post-test. The finding revealed that both role-play and mechanical drills made significance effects to the students' achievement in speak…