This study investigated the effectiveness of the annatation strategy and the story pyramid strategy in enhancing tenth-grade students' reading comprehesion of narrative texts. Employing a quasi-eksperimental design, the research involved two groups of students from SMA Harapan Bangsa. The experimental group received instruction using the annotation strategy, while the control group was taught w…
The paper entitled “The Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write Narrative Text” is aimed to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’ understamding of simple past tenses and their ability in writing Narrative text. This research was correlation study. Research population was eight grade students of SMPN Dhar…
Learning media is very important to improve the effectiveness of learning, especially in improving students' writing skills. In this study, the researcher developed a new digital-based learning media innovation that uses comic strips as a tool to improve students' ability to write narrative texts. This learning media is designed to make learning interesting and interactive by integrating vi…
There has been many techniques exist in the world of English teaching. However, some teachers are still seen using techniques that focus on memorizing, which somehow less attractive to the students. Consequently, the English teaching process is sometimes stagnant and the teachers alongside the students see less space to improve. Thus, a technique which can be attractive is needed to tackle …
Reading is one of the basic skills in English language. Reading comprehension is an act to get the point of what is read. The students not only read the reading, but also comprehend what they read. In fact, the students get difficulty in comprehending the words in the reading. It is caused by their lack of getting the essential points in what they read, and the inappropriate reading compreh…
Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion with signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. However, there are difficulties in writing that many students struggle with. The aim of this research is to prove the effectiveness of comic strips on students' narrative text writing ability. Comic strips are sequen…
English is one of the international languages that is used in several countries to communicate. Therefore, English is one of the language skills that must be mastered. One of the skills that must be mastered is speaking. Storytelling technique is a common way that can help students in improving their speaking skills and helps teachers to identify the level of the student's comprehension of …
Listening comprehension is an interactive process in which listeners are involved in constructing meaning. Therefore, the students are not only listening but also understanding the message. The difficulty of listening comprehension is students do not understand what they have listened to. Applying the dictogloss technique is the solution to solve this problem. The aim of this research is to inv…