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…

The purpose of this research is to observe the strategies used by teachers in teaching reading and students’ perception at Junior high school. This research attempts to adress the following questions: (1) What are teachers’ strategies in teaching reading? (2) What are students’ perceptions of their teacher strategies in teaching reading? (3) Do the teachers’ experiences influence to the…

EFL reading classes are often teacher-centered and focus on direct knowledge transmission, the emphasis is often put on the production of comprehension rather than the processing skills. The present study attempted to maximize the students’ participation in evaluating themselves by using speed reading program, to find out the strategies the use in the reading process, and to know the students…

This research is aimed to know the comparison between glossary and translation tool to enhance students’ reading comprehension ability. The hypothesizes are: (1) whether the use of glossary in teaching narrative can enhance students’ reading comprehension ability? (2) whether the use of translation tool in teaching narrative can enhance students’ reading comprehension ability? (3) Is the…

This research was conducted to find the discourse analysis of the classroom interaction patterns in the teaching of speaking skill in Transactional Listening Speaking classroom, English Foreign Language classroom. This research was conducted on October to November 2017 at University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA. The aim of this research is to investigate the variation of classroom intera…

Mixed-ability classes have been found in any kind of classes at the level of senior secondary schools. It has to be one of the difficulties that EFL teachers faced. There has been growing concerns over the effects of the mixed-ability classes calling for a study attempted at solutions for teaching mixed-ability classes. This study, therefore, aimed at investigating teachers’ challenges in…

This study is a classroom research which is aimed at finding out to what extent the using of Google Classroom influence to improve students’ reading comprehension, the students respond to the use of Google Classroom in reading class, and the problems encountered by the teacher when implementing Google Classroom in reading class. This research applied at MAN 4 Jakarta with 27 students as …

find out whether students perceive the use of games in writing and tofind out the challenges faced by teacher when implementing games in writing class. The researcher was conducting this research in eight meetings. This study is a qualitative study with selected sampling. The instruments for collecting the data were questionnaire, interview, teachers’ diary, and students’ documents. Whi…

The objective of this action research study is to improve speaking ability of seventh grade of SMP Plus Cahaya Insan Depok, in academic year 2016/ 2017 through the implementation of talking chips Technique. This action was conducted in three cycles. Each cycle consisted of two meetings. The research steps are reconnaissance, planning, action, and reflection. The actions consisted of the imple…

Reading is not simply a cognitive process; however, it takes metacognition to help the learners in order that the learners gain comprehension of the written text. The current study tried to explore how the learners of vocational high school developed their reading comprehension using metacognition. The finding was that the learners acknowledged that metacognition supported the development of re…