Culture and gender are two among other prominent aspects in foreign language learning, particularly in English language teaching. The existence of this relationship also has greatly influenced of education in Indonesia as multicultural. This study explores the culture and gender representation through visual and verbal text in ELT textbooks used for secondary school students. This study adopts …

This study aims at improving the writing ability of eighth-grade students of SMPN 83 West Jakarta especially descriptive paragraphs through collaborative writing techniques due to their poor ability to deal with the four language aspects covering organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. The classroom action research design is employed in this study which involves two English teachers …

The objectives of this study are: (1) find out what activities should be applied to encourage the students' speaking skill, (2) find out whether watching English short video and role play were the effective way to increase students' speaking skill, and (3) find out how watching English short video and role play significantly impacted to the students' speaking skill. the nature of this study is…

This study is to observe the teacher’s strategies on teaching speaking competence in conversation class at the second grade of vocational school cengkareng one. The purpose of this study is: (1) to observe teachers’ teaching strategies used in conversation class, (2) to investigate students’ speaking ability in conversation class, (3) to discover the appropriate strategies effectively use…

This study was to find out three issues, students’ perceptions of the combined learning model (Metacognitive Strategies (MS) and Pecha Kucha presentation (PK)), how this learning model can improve students' English speaking skills, and teacher’s challenges in implementing this combined strategies. This research used Action Research (AR) which consisted of two cycles 20 high school students…

The speaking class that using Native English Speaker teacher had been running for about 5 years was not too effective to enhance students’ speaking ability in this school. Based on this problem, the purpose of this observation is if there is the impact by changing the method of the program by collaborating between Native and Non Native English Speaker Teacher in the same classroom. This rese…

The background of this study is based on the phenomenon that learning descriptive text writing as one of the language items that students got difficulty to start it as their comprehend. Especially in XII MIPA1 of students of SMAN 101, Joglo, JAKARTA.. They could not interest in teaching learning process, even they got difficulty when they were asked to writer. Discovery learning here is one of …

This paper presents an online teaching-learning experience at SMP and SMA Ibnu Hajar Boarding School, Depok. This paper targets two main objectives. First, to investigate the difficulties faced by EFL teachers in online English class . Second, to investigate the difficulties faced by students in online English class. This paper uses a descriptive qualitative method. This study uses 2 instrumen…

Based on the result of pretest held a week before doing the research, it was found that the students' scores of speaking ability especially in retelling a recount text of the third grade of SMPN 1 Baros, the academic year 2015/2016 were unsatisfying. It showed that the mean score got was only 6,3 %.. Most of the students are reluctant and look shy to have their speaking practice especially in …

This research aimed to dig deeper into the implementation of scientific-based learning in teaching argumentative essays at one of the private universities in Tangerang. Furthermore, it was particularly intended to answer three research questions: 1) What are the procedures used by the lecturer in applying Scientific based learning in teaching argumentative essays? 2) What are the difficultie…