Reading is the ability to use thoughts and actions to perform visual activities, pronounce a series of letters into words and sentences, master reading techniques and understand the content of the reading correctly. The method used in this study is a literature analysis study. Reading skills are skills that focus on reading words and sentences. The aspects in reading, it seems like pronunciation accuracy, intonation, fluency, clarity of voice and reading ability intact. Reading skills are the ability for a person to be able to read a reading properly and correctly, and can get the message contained in the reading. The purpose of reading is to find and obtain information, include its content and understand the meaning of reading.

As an immigrant living in Australia, having proficiency in English is a must. With the background of language includes several mother tongues, bilingualism is directly acquired since living in the English country. Dealing with this case, this study aims at investigating diverse Australian immigrants’ experiences of becoming bilingual and underlines their implication for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) study. Two participants; German and Indonesian immigrants living in Australia for about 20 years taking apart during this study. Qualitatively, the immigrants were interviewed then the data were analyzed. The results found that both of them have some shared and distinctive multilingual experiences. In addition, it indicated that they were in different phases of their bilingual development.

The purpose of this research is to learn about Oliver Twist's struggles. This research is qualitative, in which the data are in the form of words rather than numbers. The data were collected from the novel, with Oliver Twist as the primary source, and other books that were relevant to this topic. The result shows Oliver was suffering, but he never gave up; instead, he ran away and looked up a lover in London. in his struggle for survival. Oliver shows his hard work in the orphanage and tries hard to break the rule or regulation. Oliver Twist is the first person to speak out against orphan mistreatment in the infant farm, where orphans would go for several nights without food. Oliver is very brave and never afraid of anyone, even though he is still a child. Never think that the world is full of bad people; good people are all around; they embellish good thoughts, nurture fine souls, and welcome you with an open heart. Their positive personality traits have a great impact on lives, and their influences are far stronger and more everlasting. When Mr. Brownlow resolves to save innocent Oliver Twist, nothing can stop him from rescuing the boy. It is also because of Oliver’s pure and good heart.

In education, the attention of parents is one factor that is very important and influences the education of their children. However, many parents underestimate their children's education. There are still many students who do not get enough attention from their parents in their studies. This is one of the factors in children's academic achievement that is not optimal. To improve learning outcomes, students must be motivated both internally and externally. This study discusses the problem of how the relationship between parental attention and student learning outcomes in grade IV elementary school. This type of research is qualitative with a descriptive approach. The source of the research material is the parents of elementary school students and their academic results. Observations, questionnaires and interviews were used as methods in data collection. The results showed that 15 students with a percentage of 71.42% received parental attention in the very good category, 4 students with a percentage of 19.04% in the good category, and 2 students with a percentage of 9.52% in the category of little parental attention. The average student learning outcomes in the very good category were achieved by 13 students with a percentage of 61.90%, in the good category were 6 students with a percentage of 28.57%, the less and less good categories each received 1 student with a percentage of 4.76%. . Thus, parental attention has a relationship with student academic results.

This articlei is motivateid by thei importancei of voweil souinds to suipport thei ability to reiad and writei in Einglish. Voweil souinds ability is an ability that is oftein oveirlookeid whein compareid to speiak and conveirsation compreiheinsion, althouigh theirei is a lot of liteiratuirei which stateis that reiseiarcheirs and eiduicators agreiei that souinds skills arei important to bei tauight. Uintil now, theirei arei still many stuideints in geineiral who do not uindeirstand voweil souinds . Theireiforei, this articlei discuisseis speilling and speilling variants. Writing this articlei aims: 1) to know thei conceipt of voweil souinds 2) to find ouit voweil souinds 3) To find ouit thei correict voweil souinds misconceiptions. Thei meithod uiseid is a meithod by seiarching baseid on eixisting liteiratuirei and articleis. Thei data colleiction teichniquiei is baseid on liteiratuirei and articleis reilateid to voweil souinds. Thei reisuilt of this articlei is that speilling has a veiry big fuinction in writing, thei first impreission that thei reiadeir geits is thei voweil of souinds from an articlei beiforei hei uindeirstands thei meissagei thei auithor wants to conveiy. An articlei with a varieity of words which is muich morei inteireisting to reiad than an articlei that uiseis thei samei words oveir and oveir again. Many stuideints feieil that souinds with thei correict voweil souinds is veiry difficuilt to do.

Puisi yang berjudul “Aku Ingin” merupakan karya dari seorang sastrawan hebat yang mampu mengungkapkan isi pikirannya dan mengemasnya menjaadi sebuah bait-bait puissi yang indah yang menjadikan penulis tertarik untuk meneliti puisi dari Sapardi Djoko Damono. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan struktur puisi yaitu struktutr fisik dan struktur batin yang berjudul “Aku Ingin” karya Sapardi Djoko damono. Metode penelitian dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif karena memaparkan analisis dan hasilnya dengan kata-kata bukan dengan angka. Metode deskriptif kualitatif dilakukan melalui cara mendeskripsikan fakta-fakta yang kemudian dianalisis. Wujud data dari metode deskriptif kualitatif berupa deskripsi terhadap objek penelitian yakni dari bait-bait puisi “Aku ingin” karya sapardi djoko damono.

This research was aimed to develop CCU materials for students of English Department. This materials was hoped could support students needs and it cound be link and match with workforce and industry. So that the students can get the benefits maximally especially in understanding intercultural communication and communication skills in Cross Cultural Understanding course. This research applied research and development as explained by Thiagarajan (1974). He defined that Research and Development was a research method  which use 4D models those are Define, Design, Develop and Disseminate. The research showed that in the define stage it was counducted need analysis towards 29 students by sharing questionnaires to know the indicator of learning objectives based on learning outcome. In the design stage,  the CCU materials contains 10 chapters, 170 pages. The next stage was development, it was aimed to produce a textbook which was based on students need and by using problem solving skills. There were two steps namely expert validation or judgement and product testing. After conducting the limited test and implementation of the product, then we come to the last stages that is disseminates. In this stage, researcher disseminate the product to the users of the textbook. Before that there were some steps which had been done, first contacting the publisher of the book to get ISBN. Then the second one was after getting ISBN the textbook was ready to be copied and shares to the users.
 

 This research aimed to investigate the meaning of idiomatic expression and to find out the types of Idiom in Encanto movie script. The researcher used McCharty and O'Dell's theory to analyze the implementation of idiomatic expression occurred in the object of this research.  The qualitative research method was applied. The data were collected by watching the Encanto movie several times, determining the words, phrases, or sentences to be analyzed, and then categorizing the terms, phrases, and sentences into types of idioms based on the used theory. The result showed that there were 20 data found namely 7 Simile, 1 Binomial, 2 Proverbs, 1 Euphemism, 2 Clichés, and 6 Fixed Statement. Furthermore, this research can be a valuable information and knowledge for many people in understanding the idiomatic meaning in some media.
 
 

This study examined the effect of the think-pair-share strategy on seventh grade students at the junior high school in MtsS Ashhabul Yamin, Lasi Tuo's ability to write descriptive text. The background for this study was the students' difficulties with writing when learning English. First, most of the students did not understand well how to make a short paragraph. Second, many of the students had limited of vocabulary. Third, some of the students were difficult to writing the sentences that has the correct grammar.  In this study, the researcher compared two classes using a quantitative method and a quasi-experimental research design. The sample of this study were junior high school students in the seventh grade at MTsS Ashhabul Yamin, Lasi Tuo, specifically 7.6 as the experimental class with 28 students and 7.9 as the control class with 27 students. The instrument of this research was writing test. The data was analyzed by using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test in SPSS 22. The result of the research indicated that there was significant effect of students writing ability between the students who were taught by using think pair share strategy and without using think-pair-share strategy. It can be seen from the value of sig. (2-tailed)  which was smaller than the alpha value (0,000<0,05). From the result of the data, it can be concluded that, using think pair share strategy gave significant effect of writing ability in descriptive text.

The purpose of this study was to discover how students' critical thinking skills developed during the classroom learning process. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Ratahan, and the sample is the first-year students, which was made up of 35 students. The instruments used in collecting data are observation techniques. The data were analyzed qualitatively. 1) The concept of purpose was present in Meetings 2, 3, 4, and 5. It is shown that when students reason, they reason to achieve some objective, to satisfy some desire, or to fulfill some need. 2) The concept of "question" was in Meetings 1, 2, 4, and 5. This shows that generally, the students had questions and problems to be solved. (3) The concept of concept was only observed in Meetings 2, 3, and 5. Some ideas or concepts are used in all reasoning but not others. 4) The concept of assumption was in Meetings 1, 2, 4, and 5. All reasoning must begin somewhere; we must take some things for granted. Any "defect" in the assumptions or presuppositions with which the reasoning begins is a possible source of problems for students. 5) Only at Meeting 5 was the concept of information discussed. Whenever we reason, there is some "stuff," some phenomenon, about which we are reasoning. Any "defect," then, in the experiences, data, evidence, or raw material upon which a person’s reasoning is based is a possible source of problems. 6) The concept of interpretation was discussed in Meetings 3 and 4. Reasoning proceeds in steps: "Because this is so, that also is so (or probably so)," or "Since this, therefore that." Any "defect" in such inferences is a possible problem in our reasoning. 7) In Meetings 3 and 5, the concept of point of view or frame of reference was discussed. In this case, students reason within certain frames of reference. Any "defect" in that point of view or frame of reference is a possible source of problems in the reasoning. 8) Only Meetings 3 and 4 discussed the concept of implications (and consequences). Any "defect" in the implications or consequences of our reasoning is a possible source of problems.