Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is used as a requirement to graduate in almost all universities in Indonesia. The use of a test measuring students’ English proficiency for the academic matter is also applied at Sriwijaya University, which is called USEPT or University of Sriwijaya English Proficiency Test. The objective of this study was to investigate the strategies that the st…
Readability is a measure of how well and how simply the readers achieve the meaning from a text. Educators have used the term readability to describe all the text features that influence how people read and understand a book. The purpose of this study were to find out the readability of the texts and find out whether the readability of English reading texts match with the reading level of the s…
Difficulties in Comprehending English Narrative Text of the Ninth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Tanjung Batu ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) the students’ achievement in reading narrative text, (2) the difficulties faced by the ninth grade students of SMPN 1 Tanjung Batu in comprehending English narrative text, (3) the factors causing the difficulties faced by the ninth…
The existence and the freedom of internet has been integrated among our students that forced them to live in the midst of rapid and rich information environment in daily basis. Thus, students necessarily need to learn how to determine credible information that they found on the internet correctly. However, the limitation of teachers in assessing students’ ability in evaluating online reading …
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an education system in an international perspective with a focus on the results of science assessments, Mathematics, and Reading Literacy. This study aims to determine the difficulties in completing the PISA Reading Question in the context of functional reading literacy level 3 and level 4. This study uses a descriptive research method of d…
The Correlation between Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension of the Sixth Semester Students of English Education Study Program of Sriwijaya University ABSTRACT Reading is more than just saying what is written, it should be supported by linguistic and non- linguistic aspects so that students can understand text. One of the things that contributes to students’ reading comprehension is cr…
Project-Based Learning is a learning model that requires students to be independent so that, they can design and structure their assignments. Storyborad, which is one of the learning media of PBL, is a visual image that conveys a story in a logical order. This study was aimed at finding out (1) whether there was any significant difference in students’ reading achievement of the 10th grade stu…
Metacognitive Reading Strategies is one of strategies related to self monitoring and self regulating activities of the students to improve the better result in reading comprehension. The aims of this study was to find out: (1) the correlation between metacognitive reading strategies and reading comprehension, (2) the contribution of the metacognitive reading strategies to reading comprehension.…
"Activities and Booklists for Grades 6-12." Contents: v. 1. Modern realistic fiction -- v. 2. Historical fiction -- v. 3. Science fiction and fantasy -- v. 4. Mystery and suspense -- v. 5. Biography and autobiography -- v. 6. Nonfiction. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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