The present study investigated school general English achievement and group work among Iranian junior high school students. The main question this study tried to answer was whether group work could enhance a higher general English achievement among junior high school students. To answer this question, 60 female learners were divided into experimental and control group randomly with 30 members i...

Does music make you smarter? Music listening and music lessons have been claimed to confer intellectual advantages. Any association between music and intellectual functioning would be notable only if the benefits apply reliably to nonmusical abilities and if music is unique in producing the effects. The available evidence indicates that music listening leads to enhanced performance on a variety...

Half of the students had difficulty mastering their English listening skills because instructional facilities did not adequately cover learning process and media method were uninteresting. This study aims to find out students’ perceptions toward use YouTube applications implemented in teaching listening. The sample was Biological Universitas Muhammadiyah Parepare, Indonesia. research instrument...

BACKGROUND Metacognition and working memory (WM) have been found associated with success in reading comprehension, but no studies have examined their combined effect on the training of reading comprehension. Another open question concerns the role of listening comprehension: In particular, it is not clear whether training to improve reading comprehension must necessarily be based on processing ...

Teaching listening needs improvement because many students get low scores on the test. This condition should be improved by providing a new teaching technique. Students in Mutiara Senior High School have problems mastering skill. They are difficult to catch meaning while test is given. The purposes of this study find out whether there significant increase after being taught jigsaw technique and...

Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, instruction. This skill is vital for young children has long-term effects on school achievement, employability, income, participation in society. There a lack of measures children’s listening skills. We report new measure (LURI) that we tested group at-risk preschoolers. Using IRT (Ite...