The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of two strategies DRTA and Webbing in enhancing students‟ reading comprehension at Narrative text. DRTA and Webbing are two strategies which are used in pre – reading activity. There are three phases in DRTA strategy namely predict, read and revise. This strategy helps students‟ readiness in facing the reading mat…

Of the four language skills, listening is the most difficult skill to master for students in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Students often face difficulty in recognizing words spoken by native speakers of English in cassettes, CDs, TVs, and most of all in live conversations or talks. This is due to the fact that in natural English speech and talks words are linked with …

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 …

This study was aimed to investigate how collaborative writing improved students’ writing skill.The research subject was class D of third semester students at Bengkulu Muhammadiyah University in academic year 2012 / 2013. This research was qualitative research which focused on classroom action research (CAR). The data were collected from field note, observation checklist, students’ final…

The researcher realizes that writing skill is difficult to be achieved because it depends on many factors. There are some factors which make the students find it difficult to development writing skill, such as the differences between English and Indonesian language system of spelling, pronunciation, grammar. In addition selection of vocabulary is the also important factor that influences st…

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 …

This descriptive qualitative case study is intended to investigate the implementation of Genre Based Approach (GBA) to teach writing in an EFL classroom. There are four issues posed in the study. The first how the teacher prepared the teaching materials for classroom instructional practices. The second is how the teacher conducted the instructional practices in the classroom. The third is how …

This study involved the writing lesson of the tenth grade students at SMK (Vocational High School) YMIK In Jakarta in the academic year 2013/2014. It was conducted in order to improve their skill in writing argumentative paragraph through process approach, because they were observed to have problem in term of completeness, topic sentence, unity, coherence, diction, grammar and mechanics with…

This research aims to investigate how audio-visual resources improve the students’ listening skill and to explore the students’ responses on them in the intermediate level of Police Language School. The subject of this research was 15 students who were studying on the educational program held from January to April 2013, including two English native speakers as observers. The action cla…

The purpose of this research is to analyze students’ barriers in reading comprehension in their classroom. Specifically, this research tries to answer the questions “What barriers do the students encounter in comprehending English texts? Why did they find those as barriers? And, what strategies do they use to overcome those barriers? In this research, the data was gathered by doing the c…