Researchers were debating upon whether the students should be grouped in classes according to their learning style preferences in order to have best learning process because it is feared that students cannot optimize their learning process in the classroom consists of students with different learning style preference. The aim of this research is to analyze if there are any significant differenc…
School is a place which is devoted to the teaching and learning activities that consists of teachers, students, and some staffs. There are so many efforts have been constructed by the teacher, such as creating an interesting learning strategy and some media. This way is done in order that the students can be more active when learning process. But, the reality in some cases is we still find the …
Classroom discourse plays a pivotal role in the learning process. The teacher should consider it in the process of teaching One of the ways to help the teaching process is by employing code-switching practice. This study is aimed to find types and functions of code-switching practiced by the teacher. This present study used descriptive qualitative design. The data were got from classroom …
The objective of the research was to develop appropriate character building-based English storybook that is able to be a tool to support students' literacy media as well as English proficiency. This was a Research and Development (R&D) study. The procedure of the research followed the story book design process proposed by Borg and Gall (2003). The stages was modified in order to meet the need o…
Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in which English nominalizations can be found and the range of possible readings they can express are very different from what has been claimed in past theoretical treatments, and therefore that previous treatments cannot be correct. Lieber argues that…
Motivation plays important role for students. Because motivation give big effect to students in learning English, it help students develop their achievement. Many research studies on students' motivation in learning English. This research also study the students' motivation in learning English, is it high, medium, or low, and also to know the correlation between students' motivation and student…
Discourse analysis is concerned with the stud of the relationship between language and context in which it is use. In this research, the pragmatic interface will be investigated by studying the properties of discourse markers. Discourse markers are a linguistic device that the speaker uses to signal how the upcoming unit of speech or text relates to the current discourse. This study concerns th…
The objective of this research is to find out the lecturers' questioning strategy in teaching English in English Department of IAIN Kediri and to know the improvement of the students' motivation in learning English through lecturers' questioning strategy. The approach of this research was qualitative one. The research took 2 subjects of participants; there were 10 English lecturers and 20 stude…