This thesis aims to describe the role of Dynamic Assessment with a Graduated Prompt Approach in students' speaking ability, identifying the challenges faced in English speaking activities in class XI Automation Office Management Vocational School AL HIDAYAH 1 Jakarta and giving the contribution towards English classrooms activities. This study used a class action research method with three cycl…

This thesis aims to reveal at the improvement of the speaking skills of the fourth grade of gifted students in the academic year of 2017/2018. This research was action research and conducted collaboratively with the English teacher. The subjects of this research were 8 gifted students of SD Islam Al-Azhar Cilegon. The research was conducted in three cycles. The data in this research were in th…

Focusing on critical thinking has been the objective of the 2013 Curriculum and students are required to possess critical thinking skill as it is preparing them to study at higher educational level. It is possible to foster critical thinking as a part of teaching activities since the implementation of critical thinking in non western countries such as Malaysia and Singapore have been successful…

Writing skill still becomes a burden for some EFL learners since a student has to master the context of writing. To understand the context, the teacher has to help his or her learners to select the critical details and delete the minor information in a particular context. Thus, the teacher has to provide the useful strategy summarizing the background to comprehend the whole meaning. Thus, the o…

In this thesis, interviews with junior and senior high school teachers from five different Indonesian provinces were conducted in order to reveal the extent of the EFL teachers' efficacy in promoting HOTS. Enactive mastery experience and the physiological and affective states are both observed to be essential to EFL teachers’ efficacy at promoting HOTS. With respect to the enactive mastery ex…

Writing skills are one of the four language skills that language learners, including foreign language learners, need to master. In writing skills, there are various types of writing that are studied, one of which is writing narrative text. However, in practice, making narrative text is still considered difficult by learners due to several factors, including the low interest of learners in learn…

This thesis is a classroom action research which was conducted to improve the students’ listening skill through the use of podcasts which was used as an alternative learning media to make the implementation of learning listening more fun and interesting. The study aims to find out how is the students’ listening skill improved through podcasts and to find out how do the students respond to…

This thesis explores the implementation of Nearpod, an interactive educational platform, in the context of reading comprehension. The research objectives were twofold: (1) to describe students' perspectives on using Nearpod in reading comprehension and (2) to investigate the effectiveness of Nearpod on students' reading comprehension skills. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining ques…

This study aimed to discover how hypnoteaching can increase the speaking skill of eleventh-grade students and how to apply hypnoteaching to increase speaking skills at the Ummul Quro Al-Islami Islamic Boarding School, and how students respond to the use of hypnoteaching in learning speaking skills. This study used classroom action research on second-semester students with a total of 32 particip…

The purpose of this research is to examine three English textbooks. and This study aims to find out whether the three English textbooks for the 2013 curriculum were made for high schools and whether these books have standards so that students can become critical readers, for example official English textbooks issued by government publishers, meet the criteria for developing critical reading ski…