Validity stands as the most fundamental principle in language assessment, ensuring that a test accurately measures what it is intended to measure. Content validity is a crucial aspect that ensures test items align with specific learning objectives. However, it was observed that student teachers often overlooked the importance of content validity in the tests they designed, leading to a potentia…
Understanding the difficulties students face in reading comprehension is essential for improving learning outcomes. Classroom observations and prior research revealed that many seventh graders at SMPN 10 Magelang struggled with descriptive texts, with 65% scoring below the passing grade. Conventional strategies such as lectures and text-based learning strategies dominated instruction, resulting…
Reading comprehension is one of the important skills in learning English, yet many students still face difficulties accessing the material that is relevant to them. Most existing materials are general content that does not always align with students’ cultural backgrounds. Therefore, it is important to integrate local culture into reading materials to increase students’ motivation and unders…
Blooket serves as a technology-integrated educational tool that has the potential to improve students' reading comprehension. This research investigates the effectiveness of using the Blooket platform to support tenth graders in understanding report texts. The writer uses quantitative research methodology and applies pre-tests and post-tests. The research design is a quasi-experimental …
This study was motivated by the low self-confidence of students in speaking English, which often triggers speaking anxiety in the classroom. According to Lazarus and Folkman (1984), coping refers to individuals’ efforts to manage stressful demands, which can be categorized into problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping. Folkman (2010) further introduced meaning-focused copin…
Effective interaction between teachers and students not only supports the delivery of knowledge but also enhances students’ engagement, motivation, and understanding. However, in a real classroom environment, especially in English classes, there are often some challenges such as frequent miscommunication, lack of student engagement, and teacher-centered teaching. Many students struggl…
Writing is one of the important skills that should be taught in senior high school and allows students to express their thoughts clearly, organize ideas logically, and convey information effectively. However, the tenth graders of still find difficulties in learning writing especially in narrative text and the students’ have a low motivation in writing. The result of the writing test i…
ABSTRACT English is widely used in politics trade, and diplomatic activities. It also has an important role in the development of science and technology. That is why in Indonesia as the first foreign language which is taught from the first year of junior high school to academy or university level. There are very methods used in classroom in order to develop good results of English mastery…
ABSTRACT There are many components to teach in teaching English subject. One of them is structure. As far as we know there is a number of teaching processes and among them are the deductive and inductive processes. This paper deals with the teaching of past-tense, one of the structure materials of the second year of SLTP Ma'arif Bandongan throunght the two different processes above. A…
Reading comprehension is vital in learning English, especially for procedural texts requiring step-by-step instructions. Students must analyze and create meaning from these texts to support their academic growth and communication skills. However, challenges such as low motivation and poor comprehension skills still exist, worsened by repetitive learning strategies and a lack of technolo…