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 thesis aims to investigate the implementation of Smart Fingers technique in improving students’ tenses mastery at 1st semester students of English department of Mathla’ul Anwar University, Banten. The thesis employs the qualitative research design with the characteristics of action research. It uses a triangulation of data collection methods involving questionnaire, observation, and i…

This study aims to find out: (1) interaction between reading strategies and learning styles at SMA Parahyangan Tangerang. (2) for students reflective learning style, is summarizing reading strategy better than self-questioning (3) for students impulsive learning style, is summarizing reading strategy better than selfquestioning strategy. This astudy is experimental study with 120 samples of…

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 the research is to investigate: (1) whether any positive affect of Peer Feedback technique toward students’ writing; (2) whether any positive effect of Self Revising technique toward students’ writing; (3) which technique is better to be applied toward students’ writing. This research was conducted in STKIP Garut from September until November 2012 toward 2 classes with…

This thesis aims to find out an English teaching method which can be used to reduce code switching and code mixing done by the students on learning English in the classrooms, to describe the students’ reasons to switch and mix the languages in learning English, to demonstrate how the teaching method can be applied in reducing the frequency of switching and mixing the languages is. The Me…

The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of two strategies DRTA and Webbing in enhancing students‟ reading comprehension at Narrative text. DRTA and Webbing are two strategies which are used in pre – reading activity. There are three phases in DRTA strategy namely predict, read and revise. This strategy helps students‟ readiness in facing the reading mat…

This research aims to investigate how audio-visual resources improve the students’ listening skill and to explore the students’ responses on them in the intermediate level of Police Language School. The subject of this research was 15 students who were studying on the educational program held from January to April 2013, including two English native speakers as observers. The action cla…

The objective of this thesis is to analyze the implementation of mind mapping in teaching writing, the teacher’s and the students’ problems, and responses to the using of mind mapping in teaching writing especially narrative text. This study is conducted at the eleventh grade students of social class of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 13 Jakarta. This study uses qualitative research design to find …

The purpose of this experimental study is to investigate: (1) whether there is any significant difference of students' vocabulary mastery gained by the students taught using total physical response (TPR); (2) whether three is any significant difference of students' vocabulary mastery gained by the students taught using group discussion; (3) whether there is any significant difference of student…