Eid al-Fitr is the day of victory for Muslims after fasting for one month in Ramadhan. In this year, 2017 or 1438 H, Eid al-Fitr falls on Sunday, 25 June. Muslims want to celebrate this victory with happy feeling and very grateful for God has given a chance and a long life that had fasted for one month in the month of Ramadhan this year and could enjoy the Eid al-Fitr. On that day, the Muslims mutually forgive each other and visit the neighbor’s house and his/her relatives. To welcome the arrival of Eid al-Fitr, Muslims do the things that are unusual they do on the ordinary days. For example, making a variety of cakes to be served to guest who will visit to his/her house, including making ‘Timphan’ which is the special food from our region, Aceh, then, cleaning the house as clean as possible because there will be many people who will visit his/her house. It would be his/her neighbors, his/her friends, and the relatives who came from afar. The relatives who live far from their family...
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The Use of Islamic Newspaper Articles to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Introduction English is the first foreign language in Indonesia. To have the success life, everyone should have good ability in English, especially for students. One of English skills that students should master is reading. Having good reading skill is very important because reading is a key to improve learning outcome in many field of study (Hamra and Syatriana, 2010). However, reading is difficult to learn. Most students felt under pressure to understand the text that they read. They have difficulty in catching the information. As the result, most of them have low interest in EFL Reading (Cahyono and Widiati, 2007). There are many factors that can affect students low interest in reading, such as the students prior knowledge of material in reading text (Cahyono and Widiati, 2007), reading strategy (Grabe and Stoller, 2002), and the reading materials that is provided by teacher. Reading materials a...
A. Background of Study Listening is one of the four language skills which learners usually find the most difficult. But, listening is very important to learn. Without good listening skill usually people cannot speak fluently with others, they need listening skill to help their idea in understanding what someone says. Based on questionnaire which was given on 19 November 2016 to students of SMAN 13 Banda Aceh in the second grade showed that many of them have difficulties to follow listening activity. They felt under pressure to understand every word. It means that the students have difficulty in catching the information from the speaker. As a result, the students have low motivation to learn listening. Therefore, the teachers have to find the way to motivate the students in order to make them interest in learning listening. So, the goal of teaching listening is hoped can be reached. One of the ways to motivate students’ interest in listening is by using medi...