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Selasa, 06 Oktober 2015

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION THROUGH COLABORATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES


IMPROVING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION THROUGH COLABORATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1.1.Background of the Study
Most of teacher still focused their teaching activity on the delivery of a curriculum to fulfill their target in teaching and learning process. They feel comfortable if they can teach all of material from curriculum in time. They are rarely thinking to the growth of their students physically and mentally. It is enough for them if the students pay attention to the lesson quietly, work alone, and stop talking. As the result students have traditionally been isolated communicatively and physically.  Teachers have lectured and students have listened. Teachers-and the textbook-have been the sources of knowledge and authority in the classroom. 
In the traditional model of the classroom, in which the curriculum is presented from a textbook on one instructional level, the motivation students may diminish. Feelings of success and a high motivation in learning only perform by the students who are accustomed to the textbook-oriented. While those who cannot master the textbook will be unmotivated and feel unpretentious. 
The academically talented students may not demonstrate their full academic potential in the classroom. When one instructional level from the curriculum is presented in a classroom, there will be no opportunity for some?????????????

SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH TASK BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING (TBLT)




SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH TASK BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING (TBLT)

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.      Background
Language is the most important form of human communication. Language is used to communicate withothers and it permits sharing of ideas and experiences. That is why millions of students want to learn English. They need to communicate with other people, especially with people from other countries but many students have learnt English for many years at school but they still cannot use that language in oral production or in other words, they cannot communicate well with the others by using English.
Communication takes oral, written, and gesture form. It must be acknowledged that the most often used in communication is oral form. In the classroom, it is not easy for the teachers to guide the students to speak English since the students are not expressing themselves to speak except if they get involved in an active interaction. For some students learning to speak is obviously more difficult than learning to understand spoken language. One who wants to speak to others sometimes faces more troubles in producing his ideas, argument, or feeling communicatively?????????????????

Sabtu, 03 Oktober 2015

INCREASING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING WORD WALL MEDIA


INCREASING THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY BY USING WORD WALL MEDIA
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A.    Background
Teaching English in our country has been developed extensively because English is an international language in the world. Therefore, Indonesian government has brought it as a local since at the elementary school. In teaching English vocabulary as an element or language is considered as the most important factor in increasing the mastered if the students are still lacking of vocabulary. Vocabulary is a part of language learning that need continuing growth and development by both native and non native speakers long after grammar and pronunciation elementary school until senior high Scholl. In language teaching preparation program in our country, more and attention being given to improve some technique for teaching vocabulary.]
Learning vocabulary as a foreign language seems easy but some students feel fear. The teacher of English should find out solution by crating efficient and effective technique of teaching in teaching English vocabulary, besides that, the teachers should establish condition which makes teaching vocabulary possible. The learning will occur within reasonable period of time.
Realizing how important the vocabulary and how difficult students to build up the teachers of English have provided students with rich exciting exercise which are expected to help vocabulary mush be very helpful to improve the students’ ability in English communication. Allen (1997:149) says that vocabulary is very important in a language, when we learn a language like English; we learn the words of language. Students must continue to learn words as they learn structure as they practice the ?????