The study is aimed to investigate the better method which can improve students’ reading comprehension, CTL or Cooperative Learning. The researcher carried out the study at SMAN 3 Rangkasbitung, Academic Period 2013 – 2014. The design of this research is quantitative with experimental pre-test and post-test design. There were two experimental classes consists of 40 students for each. The…

Being able to speak English fluently is an objective of some people who learnt English in many places such as formal schools or at any English courses. In pursuing that objectives, the institutions shall equip themselves with qualified English teachers, facilities and materials. This thesis is aimed to help students to develop their speaking ability by providing materials to practice. This th…

The research was conducted to identify how Genre Based Approach (GBA) can be used to build the students’ motivation in reading procedure text and to identify how Genre Based Approach can be used to solve the students’ difficulties in reading procedure text. The research used qualitative approach which involved the case study method. The participants whom were involved in this research w…

The objectives of the study were to find out the empirical answer of the problems, this study focused on (1) how the teaching strategies were applied; (2) TAAoEP varied from the participants of the technical guidance; and, (3) the problems solving of the factors influencing the authentic assessment of English portfolio on curriculum 2013 were solved by the participants of the technical guidan…

This research intends to investigate and to analyze whether there is a significant impact of two teaching techniques, namely Readers Theater and Reciprocal Teaching on reading comprehension achievement of extrovert and introvert students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 2 Kota Serang. This research was an experimental research with 2 x 2 factorial designs. The population was ten classes (30…

This thesis began with the problems in English course materials which was presented in very general way and did not relevant with the students and stakeholder’s needs. The objectives of this study were (1) to find out the students’ needs; (2) to find out whether the English materials given in teaching and learning English have been relevant to the students’ needs; (3) to find out what kin…

This thesis aims to reveal the implementation of Total Physical Response in teaching vocabulary allows children to learn faster and easier, since children find support from the physical representation of their facilitator of their peers. On the other hand, a stress free environment allows children to be more receptive and motivated to the target language learning. Therefore, this study prov…

This research aimed to investigate the effect of teaching techniques and attitude on students’ writing skill in recount text for students of eighth grade SMPN 10 Tangerang, Banten, academic year 2013/2014. The investigated teaching techniques were Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) and Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) while the attitudes were positive and negative ones. Th…

The objective of this study is to find out whether Comic-strips or Text is effective in improving students reading comprehension in teaching narrative. This study was conducted at SMPN 19 South Jakarta. The school is former-RSBI school. It is located at Jl.Bumi Blok E 21 Kebayoran Baru Jakarta Selatan. The study started from January and ended in July 2014. The writer took for two classes as…

This paper addresses Teacher's belief (lecturer's belief) in assessing their students' comprehension in English reading at the first semester. The focus of this research divided on three points: (1) how lecturers adapt their beliefs with first year student who are identified as dependent and passive learners who still applied their learning style while they were in high school, (2) how lecturer…