Reading is a skill that makes the readers get new information and knowledge. However, students' reading skill are still low and poor. This can impact students who need help comprehending the text's whole meaning well, especially for academic materials that usually have long paragraphs. A journal article also belongs to academic material that will be useful for students. Reading a journal a…
English has a very important role for students to communicate in this era of globalization. However, there are still many students who are not confident in speaking English because they are not fluent in speaking. This study aims to investigate teacher’s strategies in developing students’ speaking fluency. In conducting research, the researcher uses a qualitative approach and a descriptive …
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less. Needles to say, many factors appear to play a role in vocabulary development, though the exact nature of the role is not always clearly understood and the findings of some research studies seem to contradict to the received wisdom of the ELT profession an…
The paper entitled “Students’ Strategies in Comprehending English Scientific Text” discussed the kinds of strategies used by the students in comprehending scientific text. The aim of this research is to find out which reading strategies students used to comprehend the scientific text, such as finding out the main idea, inference, and reference. This research applied the descriptive qu…