This research focused on teaching technique and writing habit, and both effect on students' writing ability in descriptive text for students of seventh grade Al-Izzah Islamic Junior High School, Serang Banten academic year 2011/2012. It was conducted in quantitative approach with experimental design. From 179 (students sample) of five classes, he decides only 2 classes of seventh Akhwat 2 (33 s…

This research is carried out to see the improvement of students' reading comprehension using technique of vocabulary pre-teaching and game. The research is carried out at SMA Negeri 19 Kabupaten Tangerang lasted from March 1 to 29, 2011. Experimental design with quantitative calculation is chosen as design of the research to obtain the research objectives. Two sets of reading test were selected…

This research is conducted to exhibiti the concept of the semantic mapping strategy in reading activity as well as its application in reading strategy at SMP YASPORBI Jakarta. The research took place at SMP YASPORBI and lasted for one month in January 2011. The research was designed as research method to achieve the objectives. Qualitative calculation was used for the data analysis while som…

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 main focused of the thesis was to analyze and study the effectiveness competence, autonomy and relatedness (CAR) teaching model in enhancing students' reading comprehension. In this case, CAR teaching model was compared with contextual teaching learning. To analyze the result, 29 and 31 samples from two experimental classes were chosen out of 157 students of first grade of SMA Negeri 1 Pabu…

This study investigated the relationship between grammar competency (reported speech) as X1, to students' writing ability in forming news item text as Y (X1 to Y), the relationship between reading habit as X2 to writing ability (X2 to Y), and both of grammar competency (reported speech) and reading habit to students' writing ability in forming news item text (X1 and X2 to Y) of 182 students in …

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 use of technology in instruction is highly emphasized in the contemporary education of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. However, to use technology properly, there must be a framework which can guide the teacher or pre-service teacher in using it. Many frameworks have been introduced by some experts and practitioners, and one of them and the most well-known one among resear…

This research intended to find out EFL University Students’ level of language anxiety, it causes, and how they cope with it. The present study implemented a mixed method in case study research. There were three instruments applied in this research. Those were a questionnaire, semi-structured interview, and classroom observations. The quantitative data were collected by questionnaire thro…