The new curriculum of 2013 regulates 90 minutes in a week to learn English at the first year students of vocational school from 270 minutes before. Therefore, the students become have lack of exposure to the language. Besides, the syllabus is still general, it did not focus on vocational school department. Because of that, the researcher conducted this research. The data sources that used i…

This research dealt with affective strategies to overcome and to analyze students’ anxiety in speaking English in extracurricular class at Dharma Karya Universitas Terbuka Pondok Cabe. The subject of this research was students in elementary school level. Anxiety became important to be investigated because this condition might block the ability of students’ speaking. There were three ins…

This study is attempted to implement Elevator Pitch technique in speaking class for the third semester students of English Department, Pamulang University. The objective of this study is to investigate and to analyze how Elevator Pitch technique is implemented to enhance students speaking ability. The research was conducted at the third semester students of English Department, Faculty of L…

The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) whether the combination of vocabulary mastery and content schemata are significantly related to reading comprehension; (2) whether there is a significant relationship between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension while content schemata is held constant; (3) whether there is a significant relationship between content schemata and …

This research aimed to investigate the effect of teaching techniques and attitude on students’ writing skill in recount text for students of eighth grade SMPN 10 Tangerang, Banten, academic year 2013/2014. The investigated teaching techniques were Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) and Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) while the attitudes were positive and negative ones. Th…

The objective of this study is to find out whether Comic-strips or Text is effective in improving students reading comprehension in teaching narrative. This study was conducted at SMPN 19 South Jakarta. The school is former-RSBI school. It is located at Jl.Bumi Blok E 21 Kebayoran Baru Jakarta Selatan. The study started from January and ended in July 2014. The writer took for two classes as…

This thesis was aimed at improving the students’ writing ability by using instructional scaffolding at the eighth grade of Candra Jaya Junior High School West Jakarta. The subjects of the study were 40 students in eight grade of Candra Jaya Junior High School. This study used Classroom Action Research (CAR), and it was conducted in three cycles, each of which consisted of planning, actio…

This research attempts to discover how English Club as an English extracurricular program promoted autonomous learning and how autonomous learning sustained student's motivation to improve their speaking skill at SMA Muhammadiyah 18 Jakarta.The research was conducted by using qualitative method and data were collected by means of questionnaires, interview question guidelines, student's journal…

This research was conducted to response the students’ ability in the skill of Speaking English. Students actually have learned English from elementary school, Junior High School, Senior High School and the University, but they are still weak in how to implement speaking in English. So that, the research aims to improve the ability of student and to see the difference before and after treatmen…

The objective of this research was to get the empirical evidence whether there is an improvement of using Quipper for students’ English reading skill at the eleventh grade students of SMA Al- Chasanah Jakarta. The method of the research was involved in a classroom action research study. This kind of study conducted in a classroom and saw the process of the students’improvement through the …