The purpose of this research is to investigate the strategies applied by the learners in learning English pronunciation. This research attempts to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the factors hindering and influencing the learners in learning English pronunciation? (2) What are the strategies applied by the learners in learning English pronunciation? (3) What is the imp…

Portfolio Assessment is collections of students’ work during learning at the classroom, by using giving tasks or some of kinds portfolio assessment for the students, teachers are able know developing students’ skill from in the past to now, and also know what are students understand material gave by teachers before. There are kinds of portfolio assessment not only multiple choice or essa…

The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of Differentiated Instruction method and Grammar Translation method on improving students’ writing skill. A quantitative analysis was conducted to answer the questions proposed in the study that covers descriptive statistics: mode, median, range, mean, standard of deviation, and distribution frequency in histogram. The participants of …

This research intends to investigate and to analyze whether there is a significant impact of two teaching techniques, namely Readers Theater and Reciprocal Teaching on reading comprehension achievement of extrovert and introvert students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 2 Kota Serang. This research was an experimental research with 2 x 2 factorial designs. The population was ten classes (30…

The purpose of this study was to find out weather there is any significant different result of students’ reading comprehension for second year at SMA SULUH Jakarta with different method teaching which were modified collaborative reading strategy (MCSR) and metacognitive reading strategy (MRS). A quantitative analysis that covered descriptive analysis statistics (mean, median, mode, maximum, …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the combination of students' self-esteem and students' motivation significantly explains their English speaking proficieney, both separately and simultaneously. A qualitative analysis that covers descriptive statistics; mode, median, range, mean, standard deviation, variance, and the distribution frequency in histogram, and inferential analysis; corr…

This paper addresses Teacher's belief (lecturer's belief) in assessing their students' comprehension in English reading at the first semester. The focus of this research divided on three points: (1) how lecturers adapt their beliefs with first year student who are identified as dependent and passive learners who still applied their learning style while they were in high school, (2) how lecturer…

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…

This study is intended to Investigate and to analyze the implementation Top-Down Strategies to Teach Students' Listening Comprehension at First Semester-Faculty of Letters Departement Darma Persada University. The study is conducted to find the answers to the following research question: (1) how top-down strategies are implemented to teach students' listening skill? (2) what are the learners' p…