UPI Journal of English and Education
Journal published by Indonesia University of Education
UPI Journal of English and Education
UPI Journal of English and Education is an anthology of articles from students of the English Education study program at the Indonesia University of Education. It is published twice a year, in October and April. The articles in each issue are based on undergraduate students' final paper (skripsi).
Subjects: Education, Language, Literature & Linguistics
Accreditation: Not accredited.
Articles
93 results.
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An Investigation of English Teaching Strategies in Enhancing Students' Vocabulary Implemented by a Pre-service English Teacher Download• 2016 Indonesia
English
The need to teach English language appropriately in particular is a challenge for all the teachers in Indonesia. Today, it has become obligatory for the teachers to rethink and renovate their teaching... -
A Systemic Functional Linguistics (Sfl) Analysis of Exposition Texts as Teaching Materials Written by Pre-service Teachers Download• 2016
English
The research is entitled A Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Analysis of Exposition Texts as Teaching Materials Written by Pre-Service Teachers. This research aims at observing the teachers' Subje...
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An Analysis of Descriptive Text in English Textbook Using Transitivity System (a Case Study of Reading Passages) Download• 2016
English
The main focus of the study is to investigate to what extent the descriptive texts in English textbook meet its criteria in terms of purposes, schematic structures and linguistic features. A qualitati...
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Students' Perceptions Towards the Use of Podcast in Learning English: a Case Study of the Second Grade Students at One High School in Bandung Download• 2016
English
The development of ICT has brought into innovative ways in second language learning, especially English. Podcast is considered as part of ICT that has been widely used and proved as an effective tool ...
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• 2016 Indonesia
English
Anxiety has been considered as negative influence in learning a language. In speaking, it is also reported to be debilitating for the students' performance and achievement. This study examined the att...
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• 2016
English
This study aims to investigate the perception of students toward the use of two languages of instruction (English and Indonesian) by the teacher in an English classroom and to find out its benefits fo...
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Student Teachers' Challenges In Developing Teaching Materials During Teaching Practicum In Vocational School Download• 2016
English
Teaching practicum is an essential time for pre service teacher in practicing their teaching skills. It shows the student teachers ability in applying the knowledge that they have learned from the col...
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Teacher's Way to Foster Critical Thinking in the Classroom (a Case Study of a Senior High School in Bandung) Download• 2016
English
This study describes the way teacher fosters critical thinking in the classroom when teaching argumentative essay at Senior High School level. It aims to understand and describe the way teacher foster...
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• 2016
English
This research was aimed at discovering teachers' talk category occurred the most in an EFL classroom and reasons for teacher in choosing categories that occurred. The data were obtained through observ...
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Common Errors and Problems Encountered by Students English to Indonesian Consecutive Interpreting Download• 2016
English
The aims of this study are to find out the common errors and problems encountered by students in consecutive interpreting from English to Indonesian. Qualitative method involving analysis, error valid...
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• 2016
English
The focus of this study is to investigate the students' recount texts based on its criteria and to investigate the students' problems in writing the texts. This research employed qualitative research ...
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The Use of Video in Teaching English Speaking (a Quasi-experimental Research in Senior High School in Sukabumi) Download• 2016
English
Speaking skill is one of the four language skills that should be mastered by, in this case, students to be able to communicate with their surroundings. However, there are some difficulties for teacher...
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• 2016
English
The study aims to explore the metacognitive knowledge and regulation of students in senior high school. This study employed a case study design with 33 participants from a public senior high school in...
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• 2016
English
The research was aimed at discovering the use of picture book in helping junior high school students learn reading narrative, and the students' responses to the use of picture book in teaching reading...
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• 2016
English
Textbooks play a pivotal role in language classrooms in all types of educational institutions. However, textbook selection and evaluation is often given little time or attention despite its central ro...
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Measuring Teachers' Professional Competence: a Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis in Teachers' Report Texts Download• 2016
English
This study aims at observing the teachers' professional competence by investigating the report texts written by three English teachers in a junior high school in terms of their schematic structures an...
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An Evaluation Of Reading Materials In “English In Focus” Textbook For Seventh Grade Students In One Of Junior High Schools In Bandung Download• 2016 Indonesia
English
This study was intended to evaluate the reading materials on “English in Focus” textbook for seventh grade students published by the National Department of Education in Indonesia in 2008 based on good...
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Grammatical Metaphor as Framework Analysis of Students' Translation of Dicsussion Text (a Case Study of English Department's Students in Public University Indonesia University of Education) Download• 2016 Indonesia
English
This study focuses on investigating the procedures and methods of translating grammatical metaphors, introduced by Halliday (1985) and developed by Taverniers and Ravelli (2003), in students' translat...
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An Analysis of Narrative Texts in Textbooks Used by Eighth Grade Students (Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective) Download• 2016
English
This paper entitled “Analysis of Narrative Texts in Textbooks Used by Eighth grade Students (Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective)” is aimed to reveal to what extent Narrative texts in two sele...
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• 2016
English
This study aims to investigate the students' reading techniques difficulties in recount text. The study is based on the theory proposed by Mikulecky and Jeffries (2004) regarding the reading technique...
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• 2015
English
This study was concerned with analysis of translation strategies used by the students in translating a political speech of Barrack Obama, the difficulties faced by them in translating it and the quali...
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Teacher Talk and Learning Opportunities (a Case Study of a Pre-service Teacher in Efl Classroom) Download• 2015
English
The background of this research stemmed from the issue of significant role of teacher talk in promoting students' learning opportunities. It was found how teacher interruptions made students had fewer...
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The Utilization of Instructional Media in Teaching English to Young Learners (a Case Study of an Elementary School Teacher in Bandung) Download• 2015 Indonesia
English
Many English teachers in Indonesia had difficulty in utilizing instructional media in classrooms. The difficulty was caused by the thought of good media were expensive. Therefore, this study aimed to ...
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The Use of Animated Video in Improving Students' Reading Skill (a Quasi-experimental Study of Seventh Grade Student at a Junior High School in Jalancagak, Subang) Download• 2015
English
The study entitled “The Use of Animated Video in Improving Students' Reading Skill” was aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the use of animated video in improving students' reading skill, and to...
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The Effect of L1 Multiple-choice Glosses on Reading Comprehension of Narrative Texts (an Ex-post Facto Study in 9th Grade Students at a Junior High School in Kabupaten Bandung) Download• 2015
English
The lack of vocabulary is one of the problems that is mostly encountered by students while reading. L1 MCG is one of the solutions to facilitate students in understanding some vocabulary while reading...
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The Effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning in Improving Students' Reading Skill in Procedural Text (a Quasi-experimental Study of the Second Grade Students at One Vocational School in Bandung) Download• 2015
English
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach in improving students' reading skill in procedural text and to find out the students' responses tow...
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• 2015
English
This paper reported on a study concerned with teaching vocabulary using storytelling technique in one of SLBs in Bandung. This study aimed to find out the cerebral palsy students' ability in English v...
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The Analysis of Teacher Talk and the Characteristic of Classroom Interaction in English as a Foreign Language Classroom Download• 2015
English
The study entitled “The Analysis of Teacher Talk and the Characteristic of Classroom Interaction in English as a Foreign Language Classroom” has objectives to find the type of teacher talk and charact...
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• 2015
English
Creating creative theme-based lesson plans for teaching English to young learners is essential. Therefore, primary English teachers should have creativity in designing their lesson plans. This study a...
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A Descriptive Study of the Shift of Roles Between a Teacher and Students in English Classroom Discourse Download• 2015
English
This study was aimed to figure out the exchange patterns during classroom interaction and its relation to the shift of roles of serving primary knower between a teacher and students. Thirty nine stude...
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A Textbook Analysis : an In-depth Analysis of Activities in Scientific Approach's Perspective in an Efl Textbook for Seventh Grade Download• 2015
English
The need for teachers to analyze whether the textbook used applies learning approach demanded by the curriculum starts to raise. Therefore, this study aims to find out to what extent the activities gi...
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Patterns of Teacher – Students Interaction a Case Study of Classroom Interaction in Eleventh Grade of Senior High School in Cimahi Download• 2015
English
This paper presents the results of an investigation of teacher –students interaction (classroom interaction) patterns and the influence of Teacher Talk to the classroom interaction patterns in Eleven...
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• 2015
English
This study aims to investigate how the students organize their ideas in the texts. This study employs a qualitative case study research design. The data were obtained by collecting students' writing p...
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The Use of Indirect Feedback to Reduce Students' Grammatical Errors in Writing an Analytical Exposition Text Download• 2015
English
Feedback provision is a necessity for students in the process of writing. Thus, this research aims to discover the use of indirect feedback to reduce students' grammatical errors in writing an analyti...
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Teacher Praises and Students' Engagement in Efl Classroom (a Case Study of Seventh Grade Students at One of Junior High School in Bandung) Download• 2015
English
The study analyzed the use of praise and its influence toward students' engagement. Qualitative approach was employed in this study. The obtained data were analyzed by using the theory of effective pr...
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Sq3r Implementation in Teaching Reading Comprehension a Case Study of Eight Grade Students at One State Mts in Sumedang Download• 2015 Indonesia
English
This research aimed to describe the implementation of SQ3R in teaching reading comprehension and to identify students' responses toward the implementation of SQ3R. Moreover, it examined the benefits o...
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• 2015
English
The study entitled “Spelling Bee in Teaching Vocabulary” discovers the effectiveness of the use of Spelling Bee in teaching vocabulary using descriptive text and discovers students' perceptions toward...
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The Correlation Between Students' Self – Esteem and Their English Speaking Competencies (a Study of Eleventh Grade Students at a Public Senior High School in Cimahi) Download• 2015
English
This study was intended to examine the correlation between students' self – esteem and their English speaking competencies at a Senior High School in Cimahi. Sixty two students of eleventh grade were ...
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The Use of Song Lyrics in Teaching Listening (a Case Study of Junior High School Grade 8 in Bandung) Download• 2015
English
This research entitled The Use of Song Lyrics in Teaching Listening (A Case Study of Junior High School Grade 8 in Bandung) was aimed at investigating the students' response toward the use of song lyr...
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The Use of Reciprocal Teaching Procedure in Teaching Narrative Texts to Improve Students' Reading Comprehension Download• 2014
English
This study was aimed at investigating the implementation of Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTP) to improve students' reading comprehension and finding out the students' responses toward this method. R...
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• 2014
English
This paper presents to report the research that was conducted to find out what the students' responses were toward the activities presented in the classroom as the implementation of Theme-Based Teachi...
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• 2014 Indonesia
English
This article reports the results of a study evaluating English Electronic Books for Junior High school in Indonesia. The study used Textbook Evaluation Checklist (Skierso 1991; Cunningworrth 1984), Fo...
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• 2014
English
This paper finds out the readers' responses towards the quality of the translation in Twitter Web pages. A qualitative case study was employed in gaining the results of the study (Baxter and Jack, 200...
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• 2014
English
This present study tries to investigate the students' responses towards theme-based teaching in teaching English vocabulary. This study involved 32 students in the fifth grade of one primary school in...
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• 2014
English
This study intends to investigate the use of self-assessment towards students' reading behavior using KWL (Know-Want-Learnt) framework and discover the students' responses towards the use of self-asse...
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• 2014
English
This research was aimed at investigating whether there is any improvement of students' writing ability in writing a descriptive text by the implementation of Jigsaw technique and discover students' re...
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Cultural Content Analysis of an English Textbook for Senior High Schoo Grade Three in Cianjur, West Java Download• 2014 Indonesia
English
This article reports the result of the research investigating cultural content of an English textbook for senior high school grade three in Cianjur, West Java. The data of the research were collected ...
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• 2014
English
This study investigates the effectiveness of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique, proposed by Slavin (2005) and his colleagues, in teaching writing Narrative text. This study also inv...
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An Analysis Of Translating Procedures On Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman Series Startup Guide Download• 2014
English
The present research entitled Analysis of Translating Procedures on Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman Series Startup Guide aims at analyzing the translation procedures and determining the translation qu...
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• 2014
English
The present research aimed at investigating types of games used by a teacher as warming-up activities in young learners' classrooms. The research involved a teacher of an English course and her young ...
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The Portrayal of the Role-play Implementation in Teaching Speaking to the Students of Tourism Study Program Download• 2014
English
This paper entitled "The Portrayal of the Role-Play Implementation in Teaching Speaking to the Students of Tourism Study Program" was intended to investigate how role-play is implemented in teaching s...
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• 2014
English
This article is based on the study conducted in July and August 2013 to identify the improvement of young learners' speaking skill based on the implementation of Theme-Based Teaching. The study was co...
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• 2014
English
The study investigates benefits of using extensive reading in teaching reading and as well as students' attitudes toward it. A case study design as a part of qualitative research was employed in this ...
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• 2014
English
The study is entitled the students' perception on summary writing as a way to learn grammar. It is aimed to investigate the students' opinion on summary writing as a way to learn grammar and their obs...
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The Analysis of Teachers' Lesson Plan in Implementing Theme-based Instruction for Teaching English to Young Learners Download• 2014
English
Lesson plan is an important part of instruction which consists of some aspects (Goals, Objectives, Activities, Media, and Assessments). This paper reports the investigation of the aspects taken in the...
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• 2014
English
This paper reports the presence of learning support provided by on-going assessment in an EYL class. This study involved 31 of third grade students in an elementary school in Bandung. Moreover, this s...
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The Correlation of Playing Role-playing Games and Students' Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text Download• 2014
English
This research investigates the correlation of playing Role-Playing Games and students' reading comprehension of narrative text. Thirty (30) ninth grade students who play Role-Playing Games participate...
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• 2013
English
The paper is concerned with the analysis of how a teacher modifies his or her language in the classroom. Moreover, this study investigates what the teacher does to support his or her language in the c...
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• 2013
English
This study is intended to figure out how Language Experience Approach (commonly abbreviated as LEA) improves students' motivation and comprehension in reading. The use of this method was chosen as the...
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• 2013
English
This paper repotrs on an investigation towardsthe tenth graders' ability and difficulties in writing descriptive text in one class of one senior high school in Bandung. The research used a qualitative...
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The Use of Vocabulary Journal in Enriching Students' Vocabulary Mastery and the Students' Attitudes Toward Its Use Download• 2013
English
The research was aimed at discoveringthe effects of vocabulary journal on the students' vocabulary mastery and also their attitudes toward its application in the class. This research employed quasi-ex...
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• 2013
English
This paper addresses the study of investigating the teachers' perceptions towards the use of textbook, their strategies and difficulties in using the textbook in the classroom. The participants of the...
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• 2013 Indonesia
English
This paper presents the outcome of qualitative research which particularly is aimed at investigating types of scaffolding, ways a teacher provides scaffolding, and benefits and challenges of scaffoldi...
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• 2013
English
This study is a descriptive study investigating learners' language learning strategies (LLS) in learning speaking and the different strategies used by the high and low achievers of the class. The stud...
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• 2013
English
This study investigated the use of clustering technique in teaching writing narrative text. Thus its specific objective was to find out: (1) whether the use of clustering technique is effective in tea...
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• 2013
English
The study informs the use of children short stories in teaching reading comprehension in one of junior high schools in Bandung. Due to their length, vocabulary, and storyline, children short stories ...
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• 2013
English
The paper entitled, “The use of songs as a prompt in genre-based approach in teaching Narrative text” aims to examine in what stages of the genre-based approach (GBA) that songs as a prompt can be inc...
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Classroom Interaction: an Analysis of Teacher Talk and Student Talk in English for Young Learners (Eyl) Download• 2013
English
This research-based paper presents the investigation on 1) the realization of verbal classroom interaction, 2) types of teacher talk 3) teacher talk implication on student's motivation, 4) student...
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• 2013
English
The major goals of the study were to investigate the effectiveness of contextual video USAge in improving the students' listening ability and to find out the students' responses toward the use of cont...
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The Use of Project-based Learning in Improving the Students` Speaking Skill (a Classroom Action Research at One of Primary Schools in Bandung) Download• 2013
English
The paper reporst on a two-cycle action research conducted at a Year 4 class at one primary school in Bandung. This study aimed to find out whether Project-based Learning could improve young learners'...
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The Implementation of Contextualization in Teaching Vocabulary to Elementary Students (React: Relating, Experiencing, Applying, Cooperating, and Transferring) Download• 2013
English
The primary focus of this study is to determine the effect of contextualization on students' vocabulary mastery and to investigate the students' responses toward contextualization in teaching and lear...
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• 2013
English
This study was aimed at first investigating whether or not the use of songs significantly improves students' listening skill. Second, the difficulties faced bythe students in listening comprehension w...
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• 2013
English
The study aims to investigate languages used in code switching on personal message of BlackBerry messenger (PM of BBM), the types of code switching, and the reasons of BBM users in using code switchin...
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Teacher's Strategies in Getting Students' Attentions During Transition (a Case Study on an English Teacher in an Elementary School in Bandung Download• 2013
English
This article focuses on the teacher's strategies in getting the students' attention during transition. Since students could not proceed classroom activities without paying attention to the teacher's i...
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• 2013
English
The paper deals with the correlation between students' vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension. Data were collected from 34 second grade students. The test items of reading comprehension an...
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• 2013
English
This paper reports on the results of a study on the implementation of the process-genre approach to teaching writing business letters. The study aimed to find out whether the implementation of the pro...
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A Study of Teacher Talk and Student Talk in Verbal Classroom Interaction to Develop Speaking Skill for Young Learners Download• 2013
English
This study aims at investigating the realization of verbal classroom interaction especially teacher talk and students talk that occurred during teaching speaking. The data were taken from one private...
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The Implementation of Cooperative Learning: Student Teams-achievement Divisions Technique in Teaching Reading Comprehension Download• 2013
English
This study aims to investigate the benefits of implementing cooperative learning with STAD technique in teaching reading comprehension and the students' responses toward the implementation of STAD tec...
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• 2013
English
This paper will discuss the result of a study on the effectiveness of mind mapping technique in teaching writing Descriptive texts to seventh-graders in a Junior High School in Bandung. This research ...
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Teachers' Perceptions Towards the Use of English Textbook in Efl Classrooms (a Descriptive Study of Efl Teachers at One Islamic Senior High School in Cirebon) Download• 2013
English
This paper addresses the study of investigating the teachers' perceptions towards the use of textbook, their strategies and difficulties in using the textbook in the classroom. The participants of the...
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• 2013
English
This study intends to investigate the way of teacher in providing feedback for students' descriptive texts, and examine the responses of the students toward the given feedback. It employed a descripti...
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• 2013
English
This paper reports on research results aimed at investigating the techniques used by a teacher of a young learner course in presenting meaning and form of vocabulary, as well as the reasons in employi...
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Speaking Activities in Young Learners Classroom: the Implementation of Project-based Learning Approach Download• 2013
English
This paper reports on a study aiming at investigating the variety of speaking activities conducted by an English teacher of a private elementary school. The data were taken from observations, structur...
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• 2013
English
This paper reports on the results of a study focusing on the analysis of students' ability in writing narrative texts in terms of schematic structure and linguistic features. A qualitative case was ...
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Instructional Media in Teaching English to Young Learners: a Case Study in Elementary Schools in Kuningan Download• 2013
English
This research investigated (1) the use of instructional media by the teachers in teaching English to young learners; (2) the problems that they encounter in using instructional media; also (3) problem...
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• 2013
English
This paper reports on the investigation of the implementation of classroom blog in teaching writing to the second graders in one of public schools in Bandung. The strengths and challenges faced by the...
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• 2013
English
The present study reported the use of cooperative learning method in improving students' reading comprehension. The research was conducted to find out whether or not cooperative learning improved stud...
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• 2013
English
Debating whether moral values are important to be taught or not is the wrong issue. Moral values have to be taught to the students to decrease a moral decadence. The question is how to teach moral val...
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The Use of Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (Tprs) to Improve Students` Listening Comprehension (Pre-experimental Research at a Second Grade of a Junior High School in Bandung) Download• 2013
English
This pre-experimental study investigates whether the use of Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) is able to improve students' listening comprehension and its advantages and dis...
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• 2013
English
This study is aimed at portraying teacher's strategies in teaching speaking to students at secondary level and recognizing students' response towards the strategies by involving an English teacher and...
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• 2013
English
The study was conducted to investigate the effect of using flashcards or word list on fifty graders' vocabulary mastery and to discover the students' responses toward both strategies in learning Engli...
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The Analysis of Two Pre-reading Strategies: Contextual Redefinition and Word List in Efl Learners' Reading Comprehension Download• 2013
English
This study aimed to examine which of the two pre-reading strategies, contextual redefinition or word list, is more effective for EFL learners' reading comprehension. In addition, it was aimed at inves...
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• 2013
English
This paper reports on a study aiming at investigating the realization of teacher-student interaction during the implementation of Project-Based Learning approach. The data in the form of observations,...