This study is attempted to implement Elevator Pitch technique in speaking class for the third semester students of English Department, Pamulang University. The objective of this study is to investigate and to analyze how Elevator Pitch technique is implemented to enhance students speaking ability. The research was conducted at the third semester students of English Department, Faculty of L…

This research aimed to investigate the effect of teaching techniques and attitude on students’ writing skill in recount text for students of eighth grade SMPN 10 Tangerang, Banten, academic year 2013/2014. The investigated teaching techniques were Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) and Praise-Question-Polish (PQP) while the attitudes were positive and negative ones. Th…

This thesis was aimed at improving the students’ writing ability by using instructional scaffolding at the eighth grade of Candra Jaya Junior High School West Jakarta. The subjects of the study were 40 students in eight grade of Candra Jaya Junior High School. This study used Classroom Action Research (CAR), and it was conducted in three cycles, each of which consisted of planning, actio…

This research was conducted to response the students’ ability in the skill of Speaking English. Students actually have learned English from elementary school, Junior High School, Senior High School and the University, but they are still weak in how to implement speaking in English. So that, the research aims to improve the ability of student and to see the difference before and after treatmen…

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…

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…

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…