The topic of this research was reading comprehension of narrative text. The theme of this study was reading comprehension trough QAR Strategy, the problem of the study was "how can QAR strategy improve the students' reading comprehension at MAN 4 Kediri". The design of this research was CAR (Classroom Action Research). The activities of this research were planning, implementing. observation and…
Based on the researcher's preliminary study, it was found that the students could not comprehend the meaning of texts in their text book at the school. This problem was caused by some factors, for example, some students could not understand about the content of reading text and identify the detailed information of the text. So, the rearcher was interested in carrying out the research about this…
Considering the fact that critical thinking, self-confidence, including speaking are very fundamental skills and many education experts believe that debate is a method which improve various skills of students, this study aims at analyzing the direct and indirect contribution of debate, critical thinking, and self- confidence to enhance students speaking skill. It is quantitative study with path…
Reading is one of the language skills that should be mastered by foreign language students. It plays a big role as a means of communication to achieve ideas and information. The goal of reading is comprehension. It means that the goal of teaching reading is to enable the students to read effectively and efficiently with understanding the content of the text. Teaching reading needs a good techni…
This research is about the use of EGRA to improve students' grammar mastery. The previous problems are faced by the students in SMAN 1 Papar. The students who have low score in English test are mostly coming from the tenth students. They found difficulties in understanding grammar particularly simple past tense and present perfect tense. The objective of Egra technique is to know the improvemen…
Writing is one of the active skills besides speaking skill that the students should produce or create aform of writing Writing is also an activity of expressing someone's ideas, toughts and feelings into written language with the aim to build an understanding and persuade the reader to take action based on what the author writes. Writing is a language skill that has be leraned by the students o…
After do the direct observation for about 4 weeks in eight grade of Islamic junior high school 5 Kediri, researcher found many cases in learning process. Such as; 1) The teacher still uses conventional methods, 2) Some students think that English lessons are difficult to learn, 3) Lack of effective media used by teachers in the classroom. In this case, the research wants to provide a PowerPoint…
This research is to improve students' writing skills of MTs Sunan Ampel through silent video. In this research the researcher focused on improving students' writing skill in recount text by developing the imagination of eighth grade students of MT's Sunan Ampel. The method used in this research is a type of Classroom Action Research (CAR), which is to overcome and identify problems in the proce…
One of psychological factors in learning English is anxiety in speaking. Anxiety often appears in learning a foreign language because most learners consider it difficult. The anxiety is including fear, apprehension, shyness, anger, worry and confidence. The purpose of this study is to describe the problem faced by the students that makes them anxious and how they overcome their anxiety. This…