This Classroom Action Research aims at investigating the application of Facebook to enhance the students’ writing skill especially writing descriptive text for eleventh grade students of science 5 at second semester in the academic year 2013/2014. In this research, the facebook group was created by the teacher and all students joined to be members. The space in the facebook group was use a…

This study began with the learners’ problems in speaking ability by identifying the learners' needs to develop the material and the communication model as learning activities for teaching speaking. The objectives of this research were to find out (1) the learners’ needs in designing of speaking materials; (2) the stakeholders’ needs from teaching speaking; (3) the principles of teaching s…

The researcher employed classroom action research methods.The instruments used were questionnaire, classroom observation, assessment from for oral presentation and interview. The questionnaire was addressed to students, alumni, and the board management of institution. The classroom observation was used to observe and evaluate the students' progress on their speaking skills by implementing multi…

This study attempted to design English materials for taxi drivers in communicative speaking skill by the researcher who also as the writer and the teacher. this study was conducted on the assumptions that (1) the suitable materials for taxi drivers should be provided, (2) in this study the needs analysis is used to provide the syllabus as the starting point to design the materials. The study wa…