Booktalk is one of the tools to engage students to read more. This research is aimed to explore about the students’ experiences in participating in Booktalk program. The research was conducted in English Language Education Study Program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Science of Pakuan University. There were fifty eight students of the fifth semester as participants of this…
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 …
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…
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…
Reading comprehension is the ability to understand a text, to analyze the information, and to interpret correctly what the writer is stating. Students are less able to understand texts in English well. Therefore, this research aims to know the significant influence of Structural and Content Gamification strategy on students’ reading comprehension, and to know the difference of the results…
Reading is a process of understanding to know the meaning of the words, ideas, and information presented by the author. However there are some common problems the teachers found in teaching reading comprehension such as students faced a long text that make them bored. Moreover, it is difficult for them to understand the context of the text. The present strategy of Know Want Learn (KWL) can…
Reading is one of the four skills that plays an important role in enchancing students’ English ability. One of the techniques that can be used in reading lesson is one stays the rest stray. The research is aimed at finding out the effect of one stays the rest stray technique on student’s reading comprehension. The methodology used is Pre-Experiment. One class of the 10th grade at MA AL-Amin…
The paper entitled "The Implementation of Grapic Organizers in reading Activity" was purposed to investigate the use of grapic organizers in reading activity for the student. The research employed descriptive qualitative reserach. This reserach wa conducted at Mts Nurul Ilmi Bojong Gede Bogor. The participants of this research were students of ninth class in that school. This reserach was guide…
Reading is one of the primary skills that students must learn. In reading comprehension, they should not only read the whole text, but also comprehend what the important point of the text is. However, they will face some difficulties comprehending text during reading. Therefore, Group Investigation (GI) technique is the solution to solve their difficulties. The aim of the research is to inv…
The aim of this research is to determine the students’ reading comprehension performance in learning descriptive text before using the RIDER strategy. RIDER startegy is one of collaborative learning that consisted of Read, Imagine, Describe, Evaluate, and Repeat. The Students should understand the process of implementing the RIDER Strategy in teaching learning, Teacher and students evalua…