The backgrounds of the problem in this thesis are the teachers’ assessment literacy and the level of their self-efficacy are relatively low. This thesis aims to explore pre-service EFL teachers’ perception about assessment and examine their self-efficacy in assessment in the English Teacher Education Program of University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA (UHAMKA), Jakarta. The method used in…

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…

The purpose of this research was to find out whether there is any significant simultaneous correlation between vocabulary mastery and self esteem on students‟ speaking skill, whether there is any significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and students‟ speaking skill, and whether there is also any significant correlation between self esteem and students‟ speaking skill…

The purpose of this study is to investigate about the differences and numbers of communication strategies (CSs) used by the students, and possible strategies used for low self-esteem level in improving English speaking skill. This study employed qualitative method and the specific design of this study is study case. The data were obtained through questionnaire, field note, classroom observ…

Confidence is very important to be possessed by every language learner. In fact, most of learners especially for those who learn English, still get lack of confidence. The study was intended to investigate factors contributing to lack of confidence in English speaking, the strategies to overcome lack of confidence and the learners’ perceptions of self-confidence in involving speaking practice…

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…

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 data were obtained through an analysis of testing the students' speaking skill based on a rating scale, namely the analytic descriptors of spoken language which was conducted simultaneously with the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale; questionnaires to the students and the teachers; interviews with the students and the teachers and observations in three classes including the researcher's own cla…

students often tend to question the grading system given by their lecturers in the oral presentation skills assignment. Different with a multiple choice, true or false and matching questions, oral presentation skills seem have no exact limitation for grades. This problem leads to the students' reluctance and irresponsibility towards learning. Therefore, self-and peer-assessment method is raised…

The objective of this research is to get the empirical evidence whether or not there is a relationship between vocabulary mastery and self-confidence towards their speaking ability of the eleventh grade students’ at SMAN 1 Cibarusah West Java in the 2017/2018 academic year. The research used a survey method employing correlational technique. The population of the research consists of 330 s…