This research aims to find out the effectiveness of the Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) method in developing students’ speaking skills at MA Al-khairaat luwuk. This research employed a pre-experimental research design involving one-group pre-test–post-test design. The independent variable of this research was Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) method and the dependent variable was students’ speaking skills. The research population was eleventh-grade students of MA Al-khairaat Luwuk. There were two classes in this population namely one religion class consisted of 20 students and one science class consisted of 12 students. The sample of this research was the religion class. The test included pre-test and post-test. Data were analyzed statistically. Having analyzed the data, the result revealed that the t-counted was (9.87) with a degree of freedom 19 and a significance level of 0.05, t-table was (1.72913). Therefore, the t-test result was higher than the t-table. It means that the hypothesis was accepted. In conclusion, the result showed that there was a significant effect using the Presentation, Practice, Production (PPP) method in developing students’ speaking skills at MA Al-khairaat Luwuk.

This research purposes to find out what type of words mistake made by the students and the causes of mistake made by the students in skripsi examination especially in English Education Study Program. This research is a qualitative research by using documentation and interview as intruments. The researcher used audio recording in documentation to record the students' proposal seminar performance and the researcher asked some questions in interview by using the audio recording to record the students' answers. The researcher selected 6 students in a class as a sample. This data collection involved 6 students of English Education Study Program who finished their skripsi examination. The result of this research indicate that the common mistake are made by the students during skripsi examination such us hard to apply grammar rule, limited number of vocabulary, and not perfect in pronounciation and intonation. Also, the result of this research indicate the causes of students mistake during skripsi examination namely communication apprehension, test anxiety, lecturer’s characteristic, and psychological factors.

This research aims to find out whether students’ understanding in learning on simple present tense can be improved by using games or not. This research employed pre-experimental design. The variables of this research were games as the independent variable and the students’ understanding in learning simple present tense as the dependent variable. The population of this research was the VIII grade of SMP Negeri 7 Ampana Tete which consists of twenty five students. The technique sampling was total sampling, which means that all population was taken as the sample of this research. The researcher used test as the main instrument in this research which was divided into pre-test and post-test. The data analysis of this research used statistic calculation. The result of the research, the mean score of pre-test was 55.8 while the mean score in post-test was 87.2 and the testing hypothesis, the t-counted score was 11.80, while t-table for degree of freedom 24 and the level of significance = 0.05 was 1.710. It indicated that the hypothesis was accepted because games have improved students’ understanding in learning on simple present tense.