Critical thinking (CT) skills are essential for students in the 21st century. As CT skills are implemented through reading activities, textbooks used in schools should support the CT development of students. This study aims at describing what critical thinking attitudes are built on EFL reading instruction in English textbook. We employed qualitative descriptive research designed and used …
Hedging plays a significant role in conveying the message of a text, since it emphasizes the subjectivity of a statement by presenting it in the form of opinion. Furthermore, the existence of meta-discourse creates communication in a text is not only about exchanging information, but also involving the writers’ and readers’ personalities, attitude and assumption. This research employs d…
Reading is one of the most important skills in English because reading is the main bridge for students to gain more knowledge. From reading, students can find out information about what is happening in the world, making them smarter and more up to date. Unfortunately, reading is an activity that students do not like because students have problems understanding the content of the text. Therefore…
The paper entitled “Students’ Strategies to Overcome the Lack of Vocabulary in Writing” was guided by using one research question: “What are strategies applied by the students to overcome their problems at the lack of vocabulary in writing?.” This research aimed to find out students’ strategies to overcome the lack of vocabulary in writing. The writer used descriptive qualitati…
Attitude can be defined as a student's response to people, places, things, or events in life. In addition, the selected material, such as a short story, can be one of the resources that help the teacher in building students’ attitudes towards reading text. This research discussed about students' attitudes toward reading a short story. The research aims to determine students’ attitudes t…
Indonesia memiliki keanekaragaman hayati yang sangat tinggi di dunia, termasuk keanekaragaman binatang/satwa liar atau fauna. Misalnya, Indonesia menempati peringkat pertama di dunia dengan memiliki keanekaragaman jenis mamalia (515 jenis); dengan memiliki keanekarahaman jenis burung (1.539 jenis), Indonesia menempati peringkat ke-4 di dunia—di bawah Kolumbia, Peru dan Brazil; serta memiliki …
Writing is one of English skills which enables students to write down their ideas. It is very beneficial because it can facilitate other activities during learning process. Among kinds of texts taught by the teacher during writing activities is recount text. Recount text is a text that retells about event, experience and action in the past. In writing recount text one of the grammar that st…
Buku Metodologi Penelitian Posthumanologi Sastra ini berupaya memberikan jalur-jalur terbaru pemahaman teks-teks sastra. Tentu saja, kehadiran tafsir-tafsir terbaru tentang posthumanisme sastra yang ditawarkan dalam buku ini, bukan untuk mengisi kejenuhan, kekosongan, dan kelumpuhan pemaknaan karya sastra yang masih berpusar pada manusia. Penggunaan istilah kata “post” dalam buku yang menga…
All aspects of human life, including education, have already transformed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that has spread over the world. All educational levels must perform their teaching and learning online due to the pandemic and every part of education recognizes the benefits and sometimes difficulties of the use E- Learning. The aim of this research is to find out what are students…
There are four skills in learning English that should be mastered to make learning process successful. One of them is writing. Writing is an activity to express thoughts and feelings in a written form and serves as a communication tool indirectly. It means students need time to think of ideas to be written in order to express their thought in a written form. This study is aimed to find out …