Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension through Cooperative Language Learning and Reading Strategies

Wirhayati, Wirhayati Reading is the active process of understanding print and texts. The effective of teaching reading is applied to improve students’ reading skills. In addition, reading cannot be separated by comprehension. Since reading is complex developmental challenges that we know to be intertwined with many other developmental accomplishments: attention, memory, language, and motivation, lecturers… Continue reading Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension through Cooperative Language Learning and Reading Strategies

Indonesian ESL Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in Responding to the Curriculum Changing

Rahmani, Bita Dwi This research is focused on the analyzing and mapping the pedagogical and content knowledge (PCK) of In-Service English High-School teachers in Indonesia in responding the Indonesian Curriculum Changing namely Curriculum 2013. This study was also conducted since the score of Teacher Competencies Test (UKG) for Indonesian ESL teacher was still low. Therefore,… Continue reading Indonesian ESL Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in Responding to the Curriculum Changing

Material Process: The Participants Analysis in the Jakarta Post Article “All the single, working mothers"

Damayanti, Lilik This research employs a Functional Grammar Approach (FGA) and used the method of descriptive which employs clause. This study is qualitative because it focuses on the meanings, concepts, definitions, and descriptions of things. The source data that used in this research is based from the articles which found in jakarta Post.This research focused… Continue reading Material Process: The Participants Analysis in the Jakarta Post Article “All the single, working mothers"

Paragraph Writing in Undergraduate English Department: Errors and Its Factors

Latifah, Latifah This research was aimed to discuss the errors found in paragraph writing and to explain the factors that caused the problems by the second semester of English students of Fakultas Sastra Universitas Pamulang (UNPAM). Qualitative method was applied in conducting the research in which the data were taken randomly from the paragraphs written… Continue reading Paragraph Writing in Undergraduate English Department: Errors and Its Factors

ROXIFYonline: Helping Students Improve Their Writing through Online Feedback

Miller, Roxanne Today’s students want immediate feedback on their writing which instructors often cannot provide. They embrace the internet and want to use it for learning. To keep pace with these desires, Roxifyonline was created. It is a new online Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool that provides automated essay feedback for use by students… Continue reading ROXIFYonline: Helping Students Improve Their Writing through Online Feedback

Students’ Vocabulary Mastery in Listening

Maulidah, Aminah Listening is ability to identify and understand what others are saying. This involves understanding a speaker’s accent or pronunciation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning. Linguistic knowledge in this case vocabulary mastery is a problem faced by foreign language learners in listening. When the learner does not have good vocabulary… Continue reading Students’ Vocabulary Mastery in Listening