The purpose of this research was to find out whether there is any significant difference result of students who is using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Task-Based Learning (TBL), and whether there is a significant interaction of gender and learning method (CALL and TBL). A quantitative analysis that included descriptive statistic (mode, median, range, mean, standard, deviati…

A number of barriers that students faced in learning writing, such as about lack of writing performance, low motivation, high anxiety, and lack of communication with the teacher. Dialogue journal writing was presented in the present study to develop students’ writing skill based on two points of views, where it included writing performance and students’ perceptions when using dialogue j…

This thesis aims to reveal the teachers’ beliefs on children’s characteristics, how the children learn a foreign language and to see whether what their beliefs are reflected in the way they administer the lesson in their classroom. The methods used is qualitative methods. Through triangulation strategy, the researcher collected the data by using questionnaires, observations and interviews. …

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…