Language attitude study has proven to reveal students' success and failure in learning language. Attitude is not innate, but learned. Students learn to grow and improve their positive language attitudes towards foreign languages through certain programs at schools. The aim of this research is to investigate the language attitude of students in an Indonesian Islamic boarding school towards English as a foreign Language and to describe why they have the attitude. The respondents were 49 students of 2 nd grade of senior high school classes from HAC (High-Achieving Class) and LAC (Low-Achieving Class). The design of this research was mixed method using explanatory sequential design. To obtain the data, the instrument used was a questionnaire consisting of cognitive, affective and conative components of language attitudes. Interview was carried out to acquire the reason the students had the attitudes. The finding was both HAC and LAC students' language attitudes were mostly positive (91.83%) in cognitive, affective and conative language attitudes. Some (8.17%) had different language attitudes. They showed positive language attitudes, but acquired low scores and showed negative language attitudes, but acquired high scores. The interview revealed this phenomenon.
Mathematics Concepts Understanding is an important foundation for solving mathematical and everyday problems. In reality, students’ mathematics concepts understanding are not optimal. Learning based on NCTM standard is effective to help students in understanding mathematics material. Discovery Learning is suitable to be used to understand the development of students' conceptual understanding of geometry. The purpose of this study was to find out the development of geometry concepts understanding in Discovery Learning. The research was qualitative. The subjects of this study were 6 students. The 2 subjects were selected for each upper, middle and lower class based on the results of the initial test of understanding geometric concepts in one of the seventh grade in a junior high school in Rembang which had previously been ranked.The results showed that (1) both U-12 and U-17 subjects were able to fulfill all indicators of understanding geometry concepts 1 to 7 very well, (2) the two middle-class research subjects were U-19 subjects and U-24 have been able to fulfill all indicators of understanding geometric concepts well, (3) the two lower class research subjects namely U-30 and U-10 were finally able to fulfill all indicators of understanding geometric concepts from 1 to indicator 7 even though they were not good and rather slow compared to the upper and lower groups. They still experienced some difficulties, especially in the indicators of understanding the 4th, 5th and 7th concepts.
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