This study is conducted to know the student’s perceptions on using WhatsApp to support learning process at English Department of STAIN Kediri. The objective of the study is to know the student’s perceptions on using WhatsApp to support learning process, and the advantages and disadvantges of it. The subject of this study is focused on the sixth semester students of English Department of STA…
Teaching the spoken language is the most difficult problem much more than the other skill. The problem is not only found in the beginner but also the higher level students. They can understand English well, but when they are asked to speak they cannot perform well. Therefore the teacher should pay more attention on those features that reflect the students’ speaking ability such as factors of …
The thesis discussed illocutionary act in Barack Obama’s Speech at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School Washington, D.C. Illocutionary act is part of speech act which studies about speaker intended meaning in their utterance. Every utterance from the people always has meaning beside their utterances. There are two objective studies in this research: first, to find types of illocutionary act…
The students should involve themselves in any activities set by the teacher. Hence, the role of the teacher is very important to teaching-learning in the class. The teacher should motivate, encourage, evaluate the student effectively. Some efforts usually are done by the teacher. The statements of research problems are (1) teachers efforts in facilitating students to be active in studying Engli…
Code-switching is commonly viewed with suspicion in EFL classroom. It is found that teachers’ code-switching between Foreign Language (FL) and Mother Tongue (MT) is a common phenomenon in FL classes at university levels. This topic is very important because some social stigmas have been attributed to this mode of communication. Therefore, this study focused on English Morphology course. It is…
Move is a functional point which must exist in any genre of writing. It aims at identifying the purpose of each stage in a text. Move structure is structure of each stage in a text. This thesis presents a study about the move structure that is found in undergraduate thesis abstracts of English department of STAIN Kediri academic year 2014-2015. The purpose of this study is to know what move st…
Language is an instrument of communication. Language is used by human in their daily life to do communication each other. Language has many functions based on its purposes. Language function is what we say or write for a specific purpose. This study investigates language functions used in the movie and to describe the most dominant types of language functions found based on Roman Jakobson’s t…
Vocabulary is important for the students. On the other hand, the students always have difficulty when they get some new words because they do not know the meaning. The student’s difficulties are in understanding English text and conversation meaning. In this study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using word walls to teach vocabulary at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Purwoasr…
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) on mass media is an interesting topic to be analyzed. The Jakarta Post media reports about articles on Hard-line Muslim groups. The authors claim this group with the intolerant group and anti-pluralist group. . It makes the reseacher interested in taking this subject. Therefore, this study focuses on critical discourse analysis on articles on Hard-line Muslim g…
The speaking skill is the important part of English subject. But there are some people who are not aware and ignore speaking part in the English. This research was conducted at SMAN 2 Kediri. Students at SMAN 2 Kediri had problem with speaking English. The students are too shy to speak in front of the class. The students’ interest was still low. One of the methods to increase student’s inte…