This chapter first discusses key features of various language teaching approaches, which tend to give more emphasis on the explicit teaching of language knowledge. The target language is often broken down into small units to be presented in a piecemeal fashion. While this way of teaching language is not without value and can help develop students’ explicit language knowledge, we argue that te…
This article showed an investigation on the effect of teaching cultural content on Iranian intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ reading comprehension. To this end, 60 intermediate EFL learners from Shokouh Institute in Motelqu, Mazandaran, Iran were selected randomly and assigned to two groups, namely the control group and experimental group; 30 participants in each gro…
Kegiatan Extensive Reading saat ini yang mulai dilirik dan mendapat perhatian lebih khususnya untuk meningkatkan kualitas dan skill siswa dalam berbahasa Inggris yang bisa dilakukan dimanapun dan kapanpun bisa disajikan dalam berbagai cara salah satunya adlah melalui strategi task-based learning atau pembelajran berbasis tugas yang diyakini akan meningkatkan keterampilan siswa dalam berbahasa I…
This book provides students extra reading and writing practice and the materials are freestanding
This article shows the effectiveness of using metacognitive strategies toward Students’ Reading Comprehension on 2nd year at the Eurasian National University who was taught English as foreign language. The methodology used for this research is Experimental study and includes three stages : preparation, active work, and analysis. As a result, the metacognition which means thinking beyond think…
Membangun bangsa melalui pendidikan dengan pendidikan formal sebagai motor utamanya tentu saja harus terus didukung dan dikembangkan termasuk dengan memperkaya kurikulum agar hasil optimal dapat diraih. Sayangnya, pendidikan dengan orientasi hard skill masih begitu dominan dipraktikkan dalam sistem pendidikan nasional kita. Kondisi ini tentu saja akan jauh lebih baik jika diimbangi dengan mater…