The objective of this research is to investigate: (1) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade X students who are taught by using Guiding Question Method; (2) whether there is a significant improvement in reading comprehension achievement for the grade students X students who are taught by using Speed Reading method; and (3) whether there is …

This thesis aims to reveal Discourse analysis on writing in term of cohesion and coherence of first year students at Psychology Faculty of University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR.HAMKA (UHAMKA).The analysis on students’ writing is that of using cohesive devices as part of unity in sentence level and coherence in the level of mind. Cohesive devices and coherence become the integral parts of a tex…

This research was written based on the idea coming from a current Indonesia curriculum which suggests English teachers to implement discovery learning. However, there are only a few research studies about discovery learning strategy as EFL and non research studies about it in Indonesia and the effect of cognitive learning style on reading comprehension. Furthermore, one of the writer’s c…

The aims of the thesis are to find out: (1) the significant effect of LINCS strategy on student’s vocabulary mastery (2) the significant effect of Story Innovation strategy on student’s vocabulary mastery (3) the significant difference of student’s vocabulary mastery between the students who were taught by LINCS strategy and those who were taught by Story Innovation strategy (4) signi…

The purpose of this study is to investigate Integrating Task-Based-Instruction (TBI) in Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text on the Eleventh Year students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) Model in Ternate. This study is carried out to achieve two main objectives, first, to find out how the integrated task-based-instruction in teaching inferences in reading narrative text assist the students…

Vocabulary is necessary to be mastered by the students, it is essential to emphasize the main goal of its importance. Learning vocabulary aims at enabling the students to comprehend the meaning or the function of the unknown words by practicing it into communicative purposes. This means, the students are expected to make use of their vocabulary instead of just gaining a rich repertoire of Eng…

Self-reflection in portfolio gives contribution to student’s writing skill. Writing is considered to be a sequence of complicated process in which the students need to organize their ideas and develop it into a systematic order. Due to its complexity process, students often find problems in writing such as ideas organization, sentence arrangements, punctuation, and capitalization. However, t…

This research is aimed at findings out the (1) to investigate the difference between discussion and role play method in affecting students’ speaking skill. (2) To investigate the interaction of teaching methods and learning motivation on students’ speaking skill. (3) To investigate if role play is more effective for the students with high learning motivation than discussion on students’ s…

This thesis aims to explore the patterns of the classroom interactions which are built by teachers in the classroom. Moreover, it is intended to investigate the strategies which are applied by teachers in the classroom. This study which was qualitative case study using conversation analysis method took the data from four classrooms of primary students at SDS Jakarta Islamic School by recording…

The objectives of this research are to investigate whether: 1) there is any significant effect of KWL strategy on improving the students‟ reading comprehension, 2) there is any significant effect of Jigsaw strategy on improving the students‟ reading comprehension, 3) there is any significant difference between students who are taught through KWL and Jigsaw Reading Strategies. This r…