The anxiety or low confidence are always in a part of students learning process contributing to the process of learning a foreign language that frequently prevents the students to speak in front of the class, with other people and native speakers. Speaking in front of people is one of more common phobias that students encounter and feeling of shyness which makes their mind go blank and forgets…

Code switching is commonly used by EFL teachers when teaching English. Nevertheless, the switching is often perceived negatively and sometimes seen as a sign of incompetency in the second language. This study mainly aims at identifying the types of code switching and the use of code switching as teaching strategy conducted by EFL teachers at Pah Tsung Kindergarten National Plus School. The da…

The present study examines the influence of students’ vocabulary knowledge and background knowledge on their reading comprehension ability of the year twelve students of Public Vocational High School 2 Rangkasbitung. The population of this study is all the twelve year students at accounting program which consists of 146 students distributed in four classes and 53 students are chosen as samp…

The objective of this research is find out (1) How the plan of using semantic mapping enrich vocabulary in the students’ writing; (2) How the implementation of teaching English using semantic mapping improve students’ writing; and (3) How the teacher evaluate students’ writing using semantic mapping. This research was conducted at SMPN 3 Pasarkemis Tangerang from June 2013 to February 201…

The research aims at producing a writing coursebook for English students at Institut Agama Islam Negeri Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten. The term ‘coursebook’ is used here to mean a textbook by which both teachers and students can follow to study systematically as the basis for a language course. The availibility of a writing coursebook in teaching writing or other skills in English is…

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 …

This research aims to know 1. Is there significant effect of implicit method in student’s writing ability? 2. Is there significant effect of explicit method in student’s writing ability? 3. Is there significant different between students who were taught by using implicit method and explicit method? 4. Is there significant different between students who is holistic learner and those who …

The research aims to analyze the process of using reflective journal writing through recount text at SMAN 1 Pagelaran and to analyze the students’ problems in writing reflective journal through recount text. This was a case study. The data were collected by observation, documentation, and interview. The research was conducted in SMAN 1 Pagelaran Lampung from July 31st 2015 to September 9th 20…

This research intends to investigate and to analyze whether there was a significant effect of two learning method, namely Mind Mapping and Interactive Writing Method on students’ writing skill of visual and auditory students learning style of MTs Ikhlas Jawilan serang Banten. This research used quasi experimental with 2 x 2 factorial design. The Population was five classes ( 160 students ) of…

The objectives of this study were (1) To identify the most common communication problems found by the flight attendants in the real-life working situation, (2) To investigate how problem-based learning technique can be used to develop the students‘ speaking skills, and (3) To analyze what the development of the students‘ speaking skills is. The subjects were 24 initial flight attendant stud…