The researcher aimed to describe the kinds of comparative figurative languages and the meaning of each comparative figurative languages that the author used in Maybe Someday novel. This thesis three categories of comparative figurative languages, they are simile, metaphor, and personification. in those types of comparative figurative language, the author used plants, inanimate objects, attitude…
This study focuses on the Improving Students’ Vocabulary Mastery Using Crossword Puzzles at the Eight Grade Students of Smp Islam Gedong Sari. Based on preliminary of the study, found that most of the students have difficulty to remember new vocabularies that they have learned and still have less vocabulary. The subject of the study was the 8th grade SMP Islam Gedong Sari, academic year 2016-…
Speech acts usualIy do not come alone. They may occur in ordered sequences of speech acts accomplished by one speaker or by subsequent speakers. Like a debate or speech they can not stand alone, they must had some item to completely this component. Without complete component some conversation can not be successfully. Speech Act Theory is concerned with the ways in whi…
This study reports an action research on the use of pictures series technique to improve writing skill seven grade students of SMP ISLAM AL- AZHAR Kediri. Based on the research, the main problems faced by the students in writing skill are they are difficult to write and string up the word. To overcome this problem, the researcher interested in conducting a research dealing with procedure text b…
Writing is one of the productive skills in English. It is more complicated than the other skills because need hard thinking in producing words in written form. Therefore, most of students have problem to start their writing, they are difficult to generate their ideas, and they are confused to develop paragraph because they have no inspiration. There are various techniques which can be applied i…
The translation of compound words is an important problem related to the construction of translation dictionaries. This study is aimed to find out the students’ problems in translating English compound word into Bahasa Indonesia and the efforts made to overcome them. This study is a descriptive quantitative in nature. The subjects are the English students of sixth Semester STAIN KEDIRI it t…
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…