Reading is a basic part of languages in learning English. Along with technological advancement the teachers use several media to help students in learning process. Therefore, there are many methods that can be applied to improve students’ ability in reading comprehension. Mind mapping is one of creative visual learning tools that make the lesson become clearer. This study aims to investig…
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…
Speaking is one of the most time-consuming skils to teach and practice in the clasroom. Assessing students' speaking perfromance in alarge englis class is achallengi task for teacher. Using vido-rexorded tasks can halp extend the limitid time available in the classroom. The purpose of thr research was to investigate how teachers assess speaking skill through vidio-recorded tasks. The qualitativ…
Writing is a skill to deliver the ideas, thought and feeling through a written form to communicate with other. It is also used as a first step in daily activity. In the writing process, students are required to deliver their ideas to others in written form. Meanwhile, recount text is one genre that taught to students besides the descriptive text, procedure text, and narrative text. However,…
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…