The purpose of this study was to investigate how the washback effect on students’ learning and how the washback effect on students’ motivation. Two main aspects were studied: students’ perception of the exam (attitude, content, methodology, course and preparation) and student perceived to their motivation. To address these issues, a mixed methods approach was utilized. Descriptive and fre…

The study is aimed to reveal the relationship between learning motivation, portfolio based assessment with the students' writing ability. The study was conducted in second semester of English Education Study Program in Faculty of Teachers Training and Educational Science, Pakuan University. The hypothesis of the study are that there are significant relationship between learning motivation with …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the combination of students' self-esteem and students' motivation significantly explains their English speaking proficieney, both separately and simultaneously. A qualitative analysis that covers descriptive statistics; mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, variance, and the distribution frequency in histogram, and inferential analysis; corr…

This study aims at finding: (1) the correlation between communication strategies and speaking skill (2) the correlation between motivation and students‟ speaking skill; (3) the correlation between communication strategies, motivation, and speaking skill altogether. (4) the extent of the correlation. The study is a survey and takes the sample of 30 students from 67 students totally by …

The main goal of the language teaching is to teach the language learners how to use the language to communicate. Therefore, the teachers ideally, prepare and present the speaking material effectively. However, the students, so far, are not able to improve their speaking. They are still reluctant to express their meaning in English. The main factors that make they are to be reluctant are their …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of motivation to learn translation and the writing skill in Indonesian toward the ability to translate an argumentative text from Indonesian into English, both separately and simultaneously. A quantitative analysis that covers descriptive statistics: mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, variance, and the distribution frequenc…

This study aims at investigating STAN students' level of motivation and level of anxiety in learning English and the relationship between motivation and English proficiency, between anxiety and English proficiency, and the relationship between students' motivation and anxiety and their English proficiency. Based on a survey consisting of a motivation questionnaire, an anxiety questionnaire, and…

The objectives of this research are (1) to examine whether speed reading technique and motivation jointly explain the fourth semester of TBI students' reading comprehension; (2) to examine whether speed reading technique explain the fourth semester of TBI students' reading comprehension controlling for motivation; (3) to examine whether motivation explain the fourth semester of TBI students' re…

The objective of this research is to investigate the influence of the use of e-learning and student's learning motivation on students' reading comprehension achievement. This research was conducted at SMAN 82 (public senior high school) Jakarta from April 12- May 3 2011. There were 48 out of 240 students of grade X in school year 2010-2011 were chosen as samples by using purposive sampling tech…

The objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and learning motivation toward the students' reading comprehension. This research was conducted at Tadika Puri Elementary School East Jakarta from July 15th-September 15th 2009. By using purposive sampling technique, 60 out of 220 students of grade II in school year 2008-2009 were chosen. The method u…