Classroom Action Research in “The application of English-bahasa Indonesia compatibility descriptive text to improve writing skill Grade VII 19 Junior High School Bandung, Indonesia, academic year 2020-2021” is purposed intensify students’s competencies both bahasa and English. Reseach at this moment was undertaken from November 2016 until April 2017. It took six months accomplish the purpose st...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

India has recently witnessed various initiatives that harness information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote electoral reform and political mobilization. These efforts have been initiated mainly by non governmental organizations drawn from India’s urban, English-speaking, upper and middle classes. These efforts have been focused on non-partisan process improvements or shortlived p...

Goal orientation theory was used to examine changes in student motivation during the transition from elementary to middle school. Surveys were given to 341 students in the fifth grade in elementary and again in sixth grade in middle school. Students were more oriented to task goals (wanting to improve their competency), perceived a greater emphasis on task goals during instruction, and felt mor...

The Modern English term "gender" derives from the Middle English gendre, an Anglo-Norman loan word derived from the Latin genus, meaning "kind," "type," or "class." Gendre was used from the late fourteenth century onward to designate masculine and feminine as types or categories of people, as when the narrator in Thomas Usk's The Testament of Love (c.1385-1387) asserts confidently that there ar...