Reading is one of the language skills that should be mastered by students besides the others. Teaching reading is the activity in classroom that usually makes students bored. Reading is the activity that spents much time especially in reading foreign language as English. The main problems which are faced by the students in reading are they are difficult to find out the main idea, and they are c…
English learning is associated with learners’ passion. It can be related to motivation that plays a pivotal role in the learning foreign language. Every student has their own needs, motivation, and reasons that engage them in classroom learning activities. If a teacher is able to use different and creative style in teaching, it can create positive and supportive environment in the class. The …
This study focuses on investigating and comparing between two genders are male and female English students on their intrinsic, extrinsic motivation, and its types toward English learning. There are three types of intrinsic motivation; knowledge, stimulation, and accomplishment and also three sub scales of extrinsic motivation; external, introjected, and identified. Intrinsic and extrinsic are c…
News takes a crucial part in human life. It has an invisible power to persuade readers and influence their mind and perspective. Recently, there was a big turmoil happened in Indonesia which caused a huge rally. This turmoil was caused by the governor of Jakarta which he gave a speech in front of fisherman on The Thousands Island. He cited the verse of Quran and caused a big turbulence. Further…
As we know that people have different characteristics in their interaction. Thus, they use polite utterances to consider what the purpose of their speech. This phenomenon often happens in the classroom interaction. The lecturer and students use polite utterance to avoid the use of speech acts that are potentially damaging. This is because the important function of speech is the main tool to con…
English has four skills that should be mastered by students, they are listening, reading, speaking and writing. Writing is the most difficult skill in English. The research was conducted at MA Raudlatut Thalabah Ngadiluwih Kediri. The fact in preliminary study, the researcher found that the students of MA Raudlatut Thalabah Ngadiluwih Kediri have difficulties in writing recount text. The studen…