Recently, there has been an improvement the use of online peer assessment in the classroom and other language learning setting. Despite of many studies, applying online peer assessment has been found for some positive effects on learning process; meanwhile, the results of this study were mixed, positive effects as well as negative effects. This study was focused on investigating EFL students r…

Writing skills are one of the four language skills that language learners, including foreign language learners, need to master. In writing skills, there are various types of writing that are studied, one of which is writing narrative text. However, in practice, making narrative text is still considered difficult by learners due to several factors, including the low interest of learners in learn…

This thesis is a classroom action research which was conducted to improve the students’ listening skill through the use of podcasts which was used as an alternative learning media to make the implementation of learning listening more fun and interesting. The study aims to find out how is the students’ listening skill improved through podcasts and to find out how do the students respond to…

This thesis explores the implementation of Nearpod, an interactive educational platform, in the context of reading comprehension. The research objectives were twofold: (1) to describe students' perspectives on using Nearpod in reading comprehension and (2) to investigate the effectiveness of Nearpod on students' reading comprehension skills. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining ques…

This study aimed to discover how hypnoteaching can increase the speaking skill of eleventh-grade students and how to apply hypnoteaching to increase speaking skills at the Ummul Quro Al-Islami Islamic Boarding School, and how students respond to the use of hypnoteaching in learning speaking skills. This study used classroom action research on second-semester students with a total of 32 particip…

The purpose of this research is to examine three English textbooks. and This study aims to find out whether the three English textbooks for the 2013 curriculum were made for high schools and whether these books have standards so that students can become critical readers, for example official English textbooks issued by government publishers, meet the criteria for developing critical reading ski…

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This study aims to investigate English Education students' perceptions of what makes an effective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher. The study explores the qualities, characteristics, and teaching practices that students consider important in making an EFL teacher effective in the classroom. The research adopts both quantitative and qualitative approaches, employing questionnaires and…

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…