Using formative assessment to analyze tasks in the textbook is uncommonly used. Textbooks as primary resources should follow latest curriculum version teaching-learning processes. This study aimed at investigating implementation of on speaking and writing activities "English for Nusantara" textbook. Qualitative research was used approach collect research. Types were analyzed using assessing ski...

In an era of increasingly advanced globalization, the ability to speak English is essential keep up with changing times. This study was analyze correlation between students' vocabulary mastery and speaking skills grade eight students at MTs Negeri 1 Tanjung Pura. The sample this 15 class VIII B which were taken by using a purposive sampling technique. correlational method in quantitative design...

This case study is aimed to examine the communicative competence of an Indonesian student who studying in one United States Universities. The evaluation competence, such as speaking and writing, was based on theory Communicative Competence (CC) proposed by Celce-Murcia (2008). spoken written data given were from IELTS test format. collected face-to-face interview through Skype application, whil...

Researchers and practitioners often use standardized vocabulary tests such as the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4 (PPVT-4; Dunn and Dunn, 2007) and its companion, the Expressive Vocabulary Test-2 (EVT-2; Williams, 2007), to assess English vocabulary skills as an indicator of children's school readiness. Despite their psychometric excellence in the norm sample, issues arise when standardized v...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, among all the language institutes (fifteen institutes) in Amol, Mazandaran Province, 8 were selected randomly (four institutes for female and four institutes for male language learners). Then, two classes were selected rando...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, among all the language institutes (fifteen institutes) in Amol, Mazandaran Province, 8 were selected randomly (four institutes for female and four institutes for male language learners). Then, two classes were selected rando...

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

The background of this study is the difficulty in improving speaking skills, average value students' skills at SDN Cileunyi 3 learning under KKM, because there are students who lack confidence when speaking, tools not maximal teaching, delivering material by lecturing , focused on educators, therefore process tends to become monotonous. Based this, it necessary have a model so that must interac...

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 This study aims to understand in an effort increase student creativity and public speaking insight at UPT SDN 42 Gresik. research is motivated by the lack of teacher approach assistance students so that still minimally formed. a qualitative directly provides students. The subjects this were Data collection techniques used oral practical tests. data analysis technique descriptive ...

The loss in performance caused by mismatch between train and test material suggests a need for task specific acoustic models, especially for highly demanding tasks. However, since the training of these models is extremely expensive, general pur­ pose models are more attractive. In this paper we address the impact of mismatch in speaking style and task. We trained three sets of acoustic models o...