The purpose of this study to prove whether there is correlation of language components (grammar and vocabulary) mastery and students' background knowledge to their reading comprehension at Islamic senior high school of Mathla'ul Falah Lempuyang Serang Banten. The researcher used the quantitative method in this study through simple and multiple regressions. The data were collected through langua…

The purpose of this research is to create a task-based syllabus for the non-English teacher to improving their English for the teaching science in English. The syllabus is intended to be able to give the non-English teachers how to carry out the teaching science in English for primary students' level. nowadays, English has become a compulsory subject to be learnt since primary school. Not only …

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is any significant different results of academic reading abilities among UHAMKA's English Graduate school students with different genders and different use of learning strategies. A quantitative analysis that covered descriptive statistics (mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation and the distribution of frequency in histograms), and …

This research employed research and Development (R&D) design. In the research stage, the researcher did needs analysis to 28 students, 6 alumni, a school administrator and a company. Based on the result of the research, the proposed syllabus is developed by implementing the combination steps of Richard's Model on Course Development (2001: 145-167) and Yalden's Language Program Development (1987…

This study aims at investigating STAN students' level of motivation and level of anxiety in learning English and the relationship between motivation and English proficiency, between anxiety and English proficiency, and the relationship between students' motivation and anxiety and their English proficiency. Based on a survey consisting of a motivation questionnaire, an anxiety questionnaire, and…

The preliminary study revealed that 80% of the students could not speak English, and 90% of the were not able to write a composition well and 98% could not also write any written questions in English at grade 10.3 of 97 senior High School Jakarta. There were some problems which made the students unable to communicate in English. Two of them were the materials and method. The objective of this s…

The object of this study was to investigate the effect of song and story-telling on students’ mastering English vocabulary. Those medias were used in this research to know which media was more effective to improve students’ English vocabulary. The research was conducted at Roudhotun Nur Islamic Elementary School Plus which is located at Cikupa Tangerang from July to November 2016. The w…

This study attempted to design reading materials for telecommunications engineering at TELKOM academy Jakarta. To produce satisfactory teaching materials, the researcher did the following steps: doing needs analysis, reviewing the principles of materials design and reading in a foreign language, designing course framework, designing syllabus, designing the reading materials, and implementing th…

The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is any significant different results of academic reading abilities among UHAMKA's English Graduate School students with different genders and different use of learning strategies. A quantitative analysis that covered descriptive statistics (mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation and the distribution of frequency in histogram), and i…

In order to determine how learner background and learner attitudes affected English as a second language students' verb production, 23 students of the accelerated program of SMA 70 Jakarta participated in both oral and written tasks. They were given written surveys to determine what was emphasized more in learning English: speaking or writing. Another survey was administered to determine which …