Many students have been learning English for a long time with four language skills that should be mastered. Listening as one of their needs to be taken into account in terms of applying an effective test. The purpose of the study is to know the result of the listening test using audio only and video and to find out how the students’ perception of Audio-only and visual elements in listening te…

This research investigated students’ recount text writing by using inquiry – based learning. The objective of the research is promoting students’ recount text writing at the grade nine of SMPIT Insan Mubarak, West Jakarta. Based on the main problems, 1. What the contribution of IBL in teaching recount text?, 2. What are the difficulties faced by students when learning writing recount tex…

The research aims to find out how students gave feedbacks to their peers’ reading portfolios, how they made use of the feedbacks, and what their perceptions toward washback of reading portfolio were. The data was collected qualitatively from October until November in 2017, in ten meetings. Sixteen students in XI of Science Class at SMA Islam Al Azhar 2 were the research participants. The st…

The aim of this research is; The first is to explain how animation movies can improve students' writing skills. Second, to find out what factors influence changes in the ability to write recount text in class XII IPA.1 MAN 1 Kuningan through animation movies. This research is Classroom Action Research. This research procedure consists of planning, action, observation and reflection. The res…

Culture and gender are two among other prominent aspects in foreign language learning, particularly in English language teaching. The existence of this relationship also has greatly influenced of education in Indonesia as multicultural. This study explores the culture and gender representation through visual and verbal text in ELT textbooks used for secondary school students. This study adopts …

The mushrooming emergence of ‘internationally-minded’ schools in Indonesia in the past fifteen years has resulted in the application of globally recognized curriculum in those schools such as the Cambridge curriculum. Regarding students in Indonesia, there is a stereotype for students in Asia regarding their critical thinking skills. Their lack of the skills is seen like having cognitive de…

This study was to find out three issues, students’ perceptions of the combined learning model (Metacognitive Strategies (MS) and Pecha Kucha presentation (PK)), how this learning model can improve students' English speaking skills, and teacher’s challenges in implementing this combined strategies. This research used Action Research (AR) which consisted of two cycles 20 high school students…

The background of this study is based on the phenomenon that learning descriptive text writing as one of the language items that students got difficulty to start it as their comprehend. Especially in XII MIPA1 of students of SMAN 101, Joglo, JAKARTA.. They could not interest in teaching learning process, even they got difficulty when they were asked to writer. Discovery learning here is one of …

This paper presents an online teaching-learning experience at SMP and SMA Ibnu Hajar Boarding School, Depok. This paper targets two main objectives. First, to investigate the difficulties faced by EFL teachers in online English class . Second, to investigate the difficulties faced by students in online English class. This paper uses a descriptive qualitative method. This study uses 2 instrumen…

This research aimed to dig deeper into the implementation of scientific-based learning in teaching argumentative essays at one of the private universities in Tangerang. Furthermore, it was particularly intended to answer three research questions: 1) What are the procedures used by the lecturer in applying Scientific based learning in teaching argumentative essays? 2) What are the difficultie…