Writing is one of the language skills that will never be left in education. Teaching writing is the activity in classroom that should be learned by students in learning process. It is important to the students to master English in writing, but students took less attention in the process of its activities. The main problem faced by students in writing is they are difficult to generate their idea…
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is the approach about social elements that relate to the authentic everyday communication in institutional, media, political or other locations. The researcher analyzed the critical discourse of beauty product advertisements on web site. This research is intended to find out what the types of linguistic features (micro level) and also to find out how the use of…
Indonesian word not always pure, but it has borrowing from the other language to enrich the Indonesian vocabulary. In this case, Indonesian has borrowing some of languages from another country likes English, Germany, Dutch, and Arabic. On my research, I will discuss about English borrowing word. English borrowing words have indeed become trendy at all levels. Recent phenomenon shows that there …
Writing is one of the skills in any languages which we can share our thought, opinion, story, and many more. The idea that expressed through the writing should be clear and brief. In writing process, we need to engage the knowledge on grammar, lexicon, syntax, morphology and so on. However, in writing, the learners tend to do the errors such as in grammatical area although they have been studyi…
This study was carried out to analyze and to classify the types and the sources of errors in writing descriptive text. The errors collected were classified based on Corder’s theory and the sources of errors collected were classified based on Brown’s theory. Besides, the purpose of this study were to find the types and causes of grammatical errors made by the eight grade students of SMPN I R…
Language is used for communicating with others in the world. It is needed to understand the contexts and speaker’s purpose or feeling. Pragmatics is the study of relationship between language and context, based on the situation, while deixis is the relationship between language and context reflected in the structure of language itself or in the other meaning is the main of the contents of the…
The ability of listening become very important especially in language learning because it provides input for learners and also in the development language knowledge. To facilitate students of junior high school to gain the maximum competence, English teacher must employ various techniques to reach the goal. Based on the preliminary study on April 2017, the second grade of SMPN 1 Semen Kediri ha…
Listening is one of the four important skill in learning English. Listening is the key to all effective communication, without the ability to listen effectively messages are easily misunderstood, communication breaks down and the sender of the message can easily become frustrated or irritated. The researcher found that many students can’t understand what are some speaker said. Here, the resea…
English Department students prefer watching English movie to watch Indonesian movie. Besides, students still have difficulties in remembering new vocabulary and are confused to understand the sentences in the movie. Vocabulary is important thing in students learning process. So, some students improve their ability by themselves through media. Then, the researcher correlates that habit and vocab…
Language learning is hard work. Effort is required at every moment and must be maintained over a long period of time. To reach the success in teaching and learning process, teacher need teaching strategies to solve the problems it is an alternative strategy to teach speaking, this research proposed Mime Game to teach speaking. The main purpose of this study is to know whether the students who a…