This paper analyzed scores of a critical thinking (CT) skills test and standard L2 proficiency test of seventy-four Japanese college students. The quantitative analyses revealed that (1) learners' performance on five aspects of CT ability greatly varied, (2) each of the five aspects was largely independent...

English language teaching of professional genres relates with issues of language and of professional or disciplinary knowledge. The paper discusses these issues by studying the lexical resources in article abstracts as exemplars of professional genre to better understand how professional community use...

Flipped Classroom is a teaching strategy that combines technology in traditional teaching which today is commonly called blended learning. The flipped classroom is an opposite of traditional instructional procedures, usually done in the classroom in traditional learning to be performed at home in the...

Speaking is a very important skill that needs to be practiced in the classroom. However, students are commonly afraid to communicate in the classroom especially when it comes to oral communication. Based on the finding in the preliminary study the main reasons are the fears to get negative response towards...

The communicative approach has been widely adopted in EFL teaching practice. Most foreign language educators have readily embraced the communicative objective as the principle underlying teaching and learning activities in today classrooms. Concerning over the development of communicative competence,...

Multimedia has been spread out and used by many students in their lives, but it rarely uses multimedia as one of medias that used in teaching learning process. The objective of this study is to know whether the use of padlet as the media that can improve the students' mastery in descriptive writing,...

This study investigated the use of podcast to develop students' English skills, listening and speaking. Technology has produced prominent contribution on education in this information age. It is well known as edutechnology. Podcast is one of interactive medias applied to support learning process in the...

This paper aims at enriching students' vocabularies by implementing semantic mapping strategy at the tenth grade of SMK Negeri 1 Ambon. The subjects of the research were 20 students consisting of 4 males and 16 females. The research used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) where collaborated with the English...

This research was conducted based on the researcher's observation at the structure class of the second semester of English Education Department of Madura Islamic University. The result showed that the students' structure scores were very low especially in present perfect subject, it was because of some...

A competence teacher has an important role in students' success. Thus improving the pedagogical competence of teachers seems to be very important too. This attempt, at first hand, requires recognizing the pedagogical competence of teachers. To meet such requirement, the class of microteaching is designed...

This study examined the real practical situation of teachers' questioning in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. It focused on a) the level of teachers' questioning based on revised Bloom Taxonomy, b) the ways of teachers in generating questions and c) the challenges that teachers face in...

This research is a study about improving vocabulary mastery through using flashcards. This research attempts to find out whether flashcards can improve the students' interest to study English, and to find out whether flashcards can improve the vocabulary mastery. The subjects of this research were the...

This study investigated the impact of OCF on the level of LA in learners with low English proficiency by examining whether OCF gives different impact on the learners who have different level of LA. This study is qualitative approach which deals students' psychological situation occurred in natural phenomena...

In this modern era, teacher should recognize the trend toward the use of internet that has been widely applied in language teaching. The use of World Wide Web over past decade has been dramatically increasing in education. It means that teacher should realize the innovation in teaching environment which...

Thematic Progression is considered as appropriate way to generate how cohesive and coherence the writing is. The studies of thematic progression have illustrated its use as a tool to characterize EFL/ESL writing as successful or less successful in terms of coherence. The research is projected to contribute...

Classroom climate also refers to the model of interpersonal relationship between teachers and students, the relationship between students, and the classroom management style as well. However, the classroom climate is one of the important things that should be considered by all the teachers in teaching...

This research is written with the aim to provide a kind of "response" toward implementation of textbook that Indonesian government has especially developed to support the English teaching and Learning by 2013 Curriculum in Senior High School. The analysis has included three features, they are the diction,...

Practicum module in the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya has not been integrated fully with other modules offered. However, the Faculty offers Microteaching module (PPL1) and Internship module (PPL2) as two practicum modules available. Microteaching module (PPL1) had...

It is very essential for student teachers to convey clear instructions during their microteaching class to prepare themselves better in the real teaching process at school. Student teachers need to have specific techniques to give instruction. The most advantageous technique is gesture because gesture...

Captivating EFL learners' attention in a learning process is challenging for every teachers. The teachers must employ appropriate treatment and have motivational strategies to maintain students' enthusiasm in learning. Ample research has been conducted to explore teachers' motivational strategies in...

Language classrooms have different techniques and discourse used compared to non-language subject classroom. The interaction between teacher and students is also interesting to be examined. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to describe the structure of classroom interaction in reading class and...

Teaching language means to teach the cultural context because language is not simply about communication, but it is also about the cultural heritage brought by it. Thus, selecting media to teach it becomes important and one of the medias is film. Film can represent the social situation and it can be...

Online social network especially Facebook has recently been perceived by the lecturer of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as an alternative media for teaching writing. The aims of this study are to examine the kinds of writing teaching and learning activities in English for accounting class which...