The present study was conducted to respond to the students‟ low ability to master vocabulary. This was likely due to lack of teachers‟ practice, particularly the vocabulary teaching techniques. Therefore, the study was aimed at improving vocabulary by comparison two techniques on mastering it. The research question was formulated as: Does contextualizing technique work more effec…

This study is intended to Investigate and to analyze the implementation Top-Down Strategies to Teach Students' Listening Comprehension at First Semester-Faculty of Letters Departement Darma Persada University. The study is conducted to find the answers to the following research question: (1) how top-down strategies are implemented to teach students' listening skill? (2) what are the learners' p…

This study is carried out to achieve three main objective. first, there is any significant effect of using watching movie technique on improving students' listening comprehension, second, there is a significant of using storytelling technique on improving students listening comprehension and finally the researcher is to examine whether there is a significant difference of improving on students'…

The objective of the research is to investigate: (1) whether any positive affect of Peer Feedback technique toward students’ writing; (2) whether any positive effect of Self Revising technique toward students’ writing; (3) which technique is better to be applied toward students’ writing. This research was conducted in STKIP Garut from September until November 2012 toward 2 classes with…

This study is aimed to investigate English teachers of Junior High Schools in Kota Serang in constructing syllabus – based reading comprehension construction, test specifications – based reading comprehension construction, multiple choice design, types of questions used of the first semester summative test in academic year 2011/2012, and the content of lesson plan. Qualitative method is us…

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Puppet Show affects students’ speaking skill. It is also meant to find out students’ opinion toward the use of Puppet Show in their class. The research is qualitative by nature. It is done in a natural setting where the researcher gathered words or pictures and then analyzed them inductively. The researcher used her own class so that she …

The main objective of the research is to apply the Quantum Teaching in teaching writing on class. This research applied a new method where the students were not familiar with it. The researcher did the observation on the process of the teaching learning at class. From the begining until the end of the teaching learning process, the researcher did the action with Quantum Teaching method. By …

The study investigated the comparative effects of brainstorming and clustering techniques on university students’ achievement in the third semester of STIBA - IEC in East Jakarta. The researcher generated three questions concerned with the effectiveness of each strategy in improving students’ writing ability and the effectiveness of the clustering over brainstorming technique. In the in…

This thesis aims to find out an English teaching method which can be used to reduce code switching and code mixing done by the students on learning English in the classrooms, to describe the students’ reasons to switch and mix the languages in learning English, to demonstrate how the teaching method can be applied in reducing the frequency of switching and mixing the languages is. The Me…

The purpose of this thesis is to find out the implementation of inquiry based learning through internet to improve writing ability of the students of 256 Junior High School Jakarta. A class was chosen purposively out of 26 classes which focused on the 9th grade students. Data were gathered by way of classroom action research, questionnaire, and interview. There were thirty five students of o…