Vocabulary is important for the students. On the other hand, the students always have difficulty when they get some new words because they do not know the meaning. The student’s difficulties are in understanding English text and conversation meaning. In this study aims to investigate the effectiveness of using word walls to teach vocabulary at the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Purwoasr…
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) on mass media is an interesting topic to be analyzed. The Jakarta Post media reports about articles on Hard-line Muslim groups. The authors claim this group with the intolerant group and anti-pluralist group. . It makes the reseacher interested in taking this subject. Therefore, this study focuses on critical discourse analysis on articles on Hard-line Muslim g…
The speaking skill is the important part of English subject. But there are some people who are not aware and ignore speaking part in the English. This research was conducted at SMAN 2 Kediri. Students at SMAN 2 Kediri had problem with speaking English. The students are too shy to speak in front of the class. The students’ interest was still low. One of the methods to increase student’s inte…
Writing is a process of discovering your own idea to make a communication with the readers. Writing seems to be difficult because of many reasons, one of them is the use of appropriate inflectional morpheme in students’ descriptive text. The objective of this study is to find out the typeof inflectional errors, compare the students’ ability in using appropriate inflectional morpheme and to …
Movies provide an alternative way to teach students or children with learning disabilities or other problem, to teach English as a second language, to teach specific aspect of life and living. Talking about teaching and learning using movies, there is a movie that teaches us about education. It is Freedom Writers Diary movie. This movie is conducted to be studied because the writer is intereste…
This study was conducted to describe three points: (1) the causes of students who are not motivation to learn, (2) the effort of Mrs. Louanne Johnson to improve student’s motivation to learn, (3) the effect of Mrs. Louanne Johnson effort. The object of the study is Dangerous Minds movie. This film is directed by John. N Smith and released in 1995. This study used descriptive qualitative as r…
This study investigates strategies for developing speaking skill used by students of English Education Department of State College for Islamic Studies (STAIN) Kediri. The purpose of this study is to describe the strategies in improving speaking skill. Type of the research conducted by the researcher is descriptive qualitative. In this research, the object of the research is strategies for im…
Code switching is common phenomenon is Indonesia. It occurs when bilingual people switch their speech from one code to another. It also happens in educational areas. Using code-switching by the lecturers can help students to get language natural environment and ensure the intended successful learning. This study is aimed to determine the correlation between code switching used by the lecturer a…
Reading is a good activity to increase knowledge and experiences. People can get much information, idea, and also opinion by reading, There are three objectives of this study. First is to know the reading habit of MAN Krecek students. Second is to know the English achievement of MAN Krecek students. Third to know the whether there is any correlation between reading habit and English achievement…