This study aims to find out whether the collaborative strategic reading can significantly improve the students` reading comprehension achievement and what the students` perceptions on the use of collaborative strategic reading in EFL reading classroom are. The result showed that collaborative strategic reading can significantly improve the students reading achievement. The paired sample test showed the comparison of pretest and posttest score displayed the difference between scores. The mean difference was 15.000 and the value of t-obtained was 7.301. It was identified that sig. (2-tailed) or p value (0.00) was less than alpha value (0.05).  The students` dominant perceptions on the use of collaborative strategic reading were: students can summarize the text easily after using collaborative strategic reading and they can answer the questions of the narrative text after using story grammar strategy, collaborative strategic reading allows the students to think critically and can guide them in comprehending the text.

The problem of this study was concerned to the students' ability in Pronouncing Centering Diphthongs of The Beginner Level Students of English Genius Course Simpang OKUS. The objective of this study were to find out the students' ability ability in Pronouncing Centering Diphthongs of The Beginner Level Students of English Genius Course Simpang OKUS and to find out the factors influence the students' ability in Pronouncing Centering Diphthongs of The Beginner Level Students of English Genius Course Simpang OKUS. In this investigation, the writer used descriptive method. The population of the research was the beginner level students of English Genius Course Simpang OKUS. The were 73 students, which was consisted of four classes. In this research, the researcher used all the population, the total population was 73 students as the sample. The students' ability in Pronouncing Centering Diphthongs of The Beginner Level Students of English Genius Course Simpang OKUS was good or relatively able. Based on the result of questionnaire, the dominant factors that influence the students' ability in Pronouncing Centering Diphthongs of The Beginner Level Students of English Genius Course Simpang OKUS were outcomes and engagement.

This study is about the correlation between student's mastery of simple present and their ability writing descriptive. The problem of study was there any significant correlation between student's mastery of simple present and their ability writing descriptive. The purpose of this study was to find out significant correlation between student's mastery of simple present and their ability writing descriptive. The population of this study was all eighth grade students at SMP N 1 BPR Ranau Tengah. The total number of the population was 107 students; out of which 52 students were chosen as the samples. Simple random sampling was used to collect the data proportionally to represent the population, so that they were all well represented. The instruments test was grammar and writing test. In analyzing the data, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient analysis was used. Based on the result of study, the writer found that there was a strong and significant correlation between students" writing descriptive ability and their simple present achievement that if the students had a good mastery on simple present tense, they would had a good ability in writing descriptive text. There was many students that had good mastery of simple present tense and good writing descriptive paragraph as well.

Masalah pada penelitian ini di fokuskan pada analisis kesalahan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan Noun Clause (that, wh word, if/weather) pada mahasiswa semester dua program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Baturaja. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kesalahan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan Noun Clause pada Mahasiswa Semester Dua Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Baturaja. Pada investigasi ini, penulis menggunkan metode penelitian deskriptip, dan populasi yang digunakan adalah seluruh mahasiswa semester Dua Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Baturaja, serta jumlah populasi adalah 28 mahasiswa. Dalam hal ini, penulis menggunakan seluruh populasi sebagai sampel penelitian. Selanjutnya, penulis menggunakan esai test dalam mengumpulkan data. Sehingga, hasil yang diperoleh adalah sebagian besar kesalahan yang dilakukan mahasiswa terdapat dibagian ommisin, 47 kesalahan (38.21%). Yang kedua, kesalahan misordering, 30 kesalahan ( 24.39%). Yang ketiga, kesalahan additin, 26 kesalahan ( 21.13%). Dan yang terakhir, kesalahan misformation, 20 kesalahan (16.26%). Jadi, dari hasil ini dapat diambil kesimpulan bahwa sebagian besar mahaiswa di semerter dua program studi pendidilan bahasa inggris universits baturaja ini masih membuat kesalahan dalam menggunakan noun clause

The purposes of this study was to find out and analyze empirically the effects of cooperative script strategy in enhancing the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text to the eleventh grade students of SMK N 3 OKU who were taught by using cooperative strategy. The study used experimental design with one group pre-test and post-test. The population of the study were 368 students, there were 12 classes with the 35 sample students, the sample took by using cluster random sampling technique. The data collection method used written test in pre-test and post-test. To analyze the test the researcher used t-test in SPSS 21. First, the writers gave pre-test to the students. The second, the writers taught writing by using cooperative script strategy and the third, they gave post-test to the students to know effectiveness of the strategy which was used. The mean of the pre-test was good (65,20). Meanwhile, the mean of post-test was very good (85,31). It could be seen from the result analysis using paired sample t test that output was 0.000 lower than 0,05. From the score, it can be concluded that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Based on the result finding from this study, the cooperative script strategy was significantly effective to teach writing an analytical exposition text and the writers recommends the teacher use cooperative script strategy in teaching process and also for the students to apply cooperative script strategy to help the students to conveying their idea and improving their writing ability.