scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MENULIS KARYA ILMIAH MELALUI PENDEKATAN KOLABORATIF

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-183
Author(s):  
NUR ASIK

Abstract The objective of this action research was to understand the improvement of the students’ English academic writing skill through collaborative learning approach. This research was conducted at UIN Alauddin Makassar in academic year 2014. In order to find out the student improvement, the researcher applied the essay productive test at the end of the first and the second cycles. Before giving the test, the researcher developed collaborative activities to the students for five times each. The mean score of the students writing in the first cycle is 2,6 for grammar and spelling show that the continuity of the treatment in the second cycle is needed. The test in the second cycle showed the significant improvement viz 3,19. The second cycle indicated that the application of collaborative learning approach has given significant improvement to the students’ writing achievement. The finding in this reseach has lead the write to recommend the use of collaborative learning approach in the teaching and learning academic writing at UIN Alauddin Makassar and in other universities.Keywords: English academic writing, collaborative learning approach, students’ writing skill Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini ialah untuk memahami peningkatan keterampilan mahasiswa dalam penulisan karya tulis ilmiah dalam bahasa Inggris melalui pendekatan pembelajaran kolaboratif. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada UIN Alauddin Makassar pada tahun akademik 2014. Untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemapuan mahasiswa dalam membuat karya tulis ilmiah bahasa Inggris, peneliti memberikan tes produktif pada akhir pelaksanaan siklus pertama dan akhir siklur kedua. Sebelum memberikan tes, peneliti mengembangkan kegiatan pembelajaran kolaboratif kepada mahasiswa sebanyak lima kali pertemuan untuk masing-masing siklus. Perolehan nilai rata-rata mahasiswa pada siklus pertama yaitu 2,6 pada aspek tatabahasa dan ejaan, menunjukkan perlunya mengulangi kegiatan belajar pada siklus kedua. Hasil tes siklus kedua menunjukkan perbaikan yang signifikan yaitu , 3,19 pada aspek tatabahasa dan ejaan. Hasil tes pada akhir siklus kedua menunjukkan bahwa penerapan pendekatan pembelajaran kolaboratif telah membawa peningkatan pada keterampilan menulis mahasiswa. Temuan dalam penelitian ini menjadi dasar rekomendasi penulis untuk menerapkan pendekatan pembelajaran kolaboratif dalam pengajaran menulis karya ilmiah pada UIN Alauddin makassar dan termasuk diluar lembaga tersebut.Kata kunci: karya tulis ilmiah dalam bahasa inggris, pendekatan pembelajaran kolaboratif, keterampilan menulis dalam bahasa Inggris

ALSINATUNA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Muhammad Kamal Abdul Hakim

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of contextual teaching and learning approach to the Arabic academic writing skills students of Education Arabic Department Faculty of Language and Arts State University of Jakarta. The research was conducted at the second semester in 2015/2016 academic year starting from February up June in 2016. The study design used Elliot’s procedure, which comprised seven phases, namely: (a) identifying the initial ideas, (b) finding and analyzing the facts, (c) general planning, (d) Implementing, (e) observing, (f) evaluating, and (g) revising. The data were taken by observation, interview, and test. The results of the study found that the mean of the pre-test was 65,30, the average score results of the test at the first cycle were 73,25, the average score of the test at the second cycle was 77,40, and the average score of the test at third cycle was 84.1. It concluded that contextual teaching and learning approach could improve the student’s skill in Arabic academic writing.


Curricula ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sukarta Kartawijaya

<p><em>This research was classroom action research. Classroom action research was a research that was conducted by a teacher in order to find out solutions of any problems found during teaching and learning process. In this research, it was done to explain whether by using an outline technique could improve the students’ writing paragraph and also to investigate some factors that influenced the students in writing descriptive paragraph. This research was done at grade VIII B of SMP Negeri 6 Sungai Penuh in academic year 2017/2018. From the result of the test in this research, the result was increased in cycle and two. In cycle one, the mean score was 58.25% and it increased to 76.87%, it increased 18.63% point. It meant that teaching writing through outline improved the students’ writing skill. The improvements were also improved on the result of each sub-indicators of writing test between cycle 1 and 2. </em></p>


Author(s):  
Jessica Hieronima Siagian ◽  
Viator Lumban Raja ◽  
Novalina Sembiring

Writing is the most important human invention which provides a relatively permanent record of information, opinions, benefits, feelings, arguments, explanations, and theories. Many students are still confused how to write a text because they do not know the rules and they can not express their ideas into written form. One of the techniques to improve students’ writing skill is Dictogloss Technique. The method that is used in this research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research are 35 students of class VIII-4 of SMP Negeri 31 Medan in the academic year of 2018/2019. Tests, observation sheets, field notes, and questionnaire were used as the instruments for collecting the data. The result of this study showed increasing score of students’ writing descriptive text. The result of the test showed that the students’ mean score in pre-test is 60 with 0% students got score 75, in formative test the mean score is 76.71 with 60% students got score 75 and in post-test the mean score is 80.85 with 94% students got score 75. It showed that the percentage improvement of the students’ mean score from pre-test to post-test was 94%. The response of students after being taught by using Dictogloss Technique are good. The students enjoyed the process of teaching and learning. It is suggested that teachers use Dictogloss Technique in teaching writing skill to improve students’ skill in writing descriptive text. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
MARJENNY MARJENNY

This best paper is aimed to know whether the use of Google Classroom as a Learning Management System (LMS), or Gula for short, can give significant effect cognitively, practically and affectively toward students’ skill in writing at Grade X MIPA 2 of SMAN 1 Batang Anai. The paper was a writer’s best practice. The research was conducted at XI MIPA 2 students of SMA Negeri 1 Batang Anai, which consisted of 32 students,  in 2019/2020 academic year. The instrument of the paper was writing test. The data were analyzed by comparing students’ writing test before and after administering the strategy. Based on the result of the test and the writer’s observation, it was found that Gula gave significant effect toward students’ writing skill, especially in KD 4.2 namely writing an ending of a narrative text It was proved by the result of the test which showed that (1) the mean score of the students’ writing test was 82  higher than that which was 74, (2) students participated actively and collaborated integratively in teaching and learning process, (3) the media accommodated not only extrovert students but also introvert ones, (4) the teaching and learning process was fun and enjoyable, and (5) the media implemented multiliteracies in enhancing students’ character. Based on the result above, it is concluded that Gula could improve students’ writing skill significantly. Therefore, it is also suggested to English teachers at SMA level to apply this LMS as an alternative collaborative learning media in teaching writing in English especially and other subjects as well.


Author(s):  
Siti Sulastri

The main objectives of the research are: (1) to identify whether pictures can improve students’ paragraph writing skill for the tenth graders of Senior High School in SMAN 1 Magetan; (2) to identify the students’s motivation when the pictures are used to teach paragraph writing skill for the tenth graders of Senior High School in SMAN 1 Magetan in academic year 2018/2019. The Research was carried out at SMAN 1 Magetan, East Java, in second semester from January 2019 to May 2019. The subjects of the research are 34 students of grade X. MIPA -1 consisting of 14 boys and 20 girls. The data were obtained from several techniques: test, observation, interview, questioners, and document analysis. To analyze the qualitative data, I used interactive model; while to analyze quantitative data, I applied a descriptive statistics. It is done by comparing the mean of pre-test and post-test. There are some findings of the research which include: pictures can improve students’ paragraph writing skill for the tenth graders of Senior High School in SMAN 1 Magetan. The improvements of paragraph writing skill comprise: (1) writing topic sentence; (2) writing supporting sentences; and (3) using correct grammar and cohesive devices (conjunctions). In addition, the students’ motivation is better when the pictures are used to teach paragraph writing skill for the tenth graders of Senior High School in SMAN 1 Magetan. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that applying pictures as media can improve students’ paragraph writing. Therefore, it is recommended that the teachers can use pictures as an effective media to improve the students’ paragraph writing skill.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Sri Suharmi

This study is a classroom action research. The general objective of this study is improving students’ writing skill through outdoor activity. While the specific objective of this research are (1) whether or not outdoor activity can increase the students’ writing content of descriptive text of the second year of Mts Sudirman Kopeng  Getasan. (2) it describe whether the outdoor activity can improve  the students’ writing skill in developing paragraph. This classroom action research was conducted at MTs Sudirman Getasan. The procedure of the research consisted of planning, action, observing, and reflection. The observation during the process of English teaching and learning was helped by the collaborator. In this research,  the writer acted as a practitioner. The test was in the form of pre-test and post –test conducted in cycle 1, cycle 2, and cycle 3. The research result were: (1)  using outdoor activity as a method can improve students’ writing skill, its proved with the student’s improvement score. The mean score of the pre-test of the students was 57 (very poor) and the mean score of the post- test 70 (good). The mean of the post-Test is higher than the mean of the pre-Test ( 64.53>56.56), the mean of the post-test in cycle 2  is higher than mean of cycle 1 (70.59>64.53) and the mean of the post –Test cycle 3 is higher than cycle 2 (74.56>70.59). the proven result of the implementation was 75%. (2) The effectiveness of using outdoor activity in improving students’ writing skill is proved from the t-test and t-table in cycle 1 (9.67>2.042) which the score of t-test was higher than the score of t-table and the result of t-test and t-table in cycle 3 (15.11>2.042) also showed that the score of t-table.


Author(s):  
Mohamed Azrol Azlan Bin Abdul Hamid ◽  
Ahmed Hamad Moqbil Al Khawaldah

ملخص البحث: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على اتجاهات طلبة الجامعة في ماليزيا نحو استخدام برنامج تعليمي قائم على التعلم التشاركي عبر شبكة التواصل الاجتماعي في تحسين مهارة الكتابة باللغة العربية، وتتكون عينة الدراسة من (25) طالباً وطالبةً في الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية بماليزيا للعام الدراسي 2014/2015م، وتم اختيارهم بالطريقة القصدية، ولتحقيق هدف الدراسة قام الباحث ببناء أداة الدراسة المتمثلة بالاستبانة. أشارت نتائج الدراسة إلى قوة اتجاهات الطلبة نحو البرنامج المقترح في تحسين مهارة الكتابة، وكانت الاتجاهات قوية في النواحي الآتية: أولاً، تصميم البرنامج التعليمي بمتوسط حسابي 4.02 وانحراف معياري 0.701، وثانيًا، التغذية الراجعة بمتوسط حسابي 3.86 وانحراف معياري 0.726، وثالثًا، الفيسبوك كأداة التعلم التشاركي بمتوسط حسابي 3.83 وانحراف معياري 0.750، ورابعًا، استخدام الكتابة التشاركية في تعلم اللغة بمتوسط حسابي 3.67 وانحراف معياري 0.624، وأخيرًا أثر البرنامج التعليمي بمتوسط حسابي 3.63 وانحراف معياري 0.727، وإجمالاً فإن الاتجاهات في الدرجة الكلية كانت قوية، حيث كانت بمتوسط حسابي 3.80 وانحراف معياري 0.706، وفي ضوء النتائج التي توصلت إليها هذه الدراسة فإن الباحث يوصي بضرورة تفعيل التعلم التشاركي من خلال شبكة التواصل الاجتماعي في تعليم مهارة الكتابة باللغة العربية.   الكلمات المفتاحية: التعلم التشاركي- شبكة التواصل الاجتماعي- مهارة الكتابة- تعليم اللغة،  غبر الناطقين.   Abstract: This study aimed at identifying the perceptions among university students in Malaysia towards using an educational programme based on collaborative learning via social networking in improving Arabic language writing. The participants of the study were selected purposely who consisted of 25 International Islamic University Malaysia students in the academic year 2014/2015. To fulfill the aim of the study, the researcher developed questionnaires to gather data. The results had shown that the perceptions of students towards the use of the proposed educational programme in improving writing skill was strong. The mean for designing the educational programme was 4.02 with the standard deviation of 0.701. The mean for feedback was 3.86 with the standard deviation of 0.726. Facebook as a collaborative tool scored high with the mean, 3.83 and the standard deviation, 0.750. The use of collaborative writing in Arabic language learning also scored high with the mean of 3.67 and the standard deviation of 0.624. While the mean for effect of the educational programme was 3.63 with the standard deviation of 0.727. The overall scores were high with the mean of 3.80 and the standard deviation of 0.706. In view of the study results, the researcher recommends the necessity of activating the collaborative learning via social networking in the teaching of Arabic writing skill.   Keywords: Collaborative learning, Social networking, Writing skill, Teaching Arabic language, non-native speakers.   Abstrak: Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti persepsi pelajar universiti di Malaysia terhadap penggunaan program pendidikan berasaskan pembelajaran kolaboratif melalui laman jaringan sosial untuk memperbaiki kemahiran menulis. Peserta kajian ini terdiri daripada 25 orang pelajar Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan tahap persepsi pelajar terhadap penggunaan program pendidikan yang dicadangkan bagi memperbaiki kemahiran menulis adalah tinggi. Min bagi rekabentuk program pendidikan adalah 4.02 dengan sisihan piawai 0.701. Min bagi maklumbalas pula adalah 3.86 dengan sisihan piawai 0.750. Manakala min bagi Facebook sebagai alat kolaborasi pula mencatatkan min 3.83 dengan sisihan piawai 0.750. Penggunaan penulisan secara kolaborasi dalam pembelajaraan bahasa Arab juga mencatatkan pencapaian yang tinggi iaitu dengan min 3.67 dan sisihan piawai 0.624. Kesan program pendidikan pula memperoleh min 3.63 dengan sisihan piawai 0.727. Pencapaian secara keseluruhannya adalah tinggi dengan min 3.80 dan sisihan piawai 0.706. Berdasarkan keputusan ini, pengkaji mencadangkan penggunaan pembelajaran secara kolaborasi melalui laman jaringan sosial dan pengajaran kemahiran menulis di dalam bahasa Arab.   Kata kunci:  Pembelajaran kolaboratif, Jaringan sosial, Kemahiran menulis, Pengajaran bahasa Arab, penutur bukan Arab.


Author(s):  
Dewi Furwana ◽  
Andi Tenrisanna Syam

The objective of the research was to find out whether estafet strategy is effective  to improve students’ writing skill on descriptive text of the eleventh year students’ of SMAN 4 Palopo.  This research usedquasi experimental.The population of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMAN 4 Palopo. The number of population was 50 students. The sample were class XI PS 1 consisted of 25 students as experimental group and class XI PS 2 consisted of 25 students as control class.The sampling technique in this research was purposive sampling. The instrument of the research was writing test. The writers gave pretest and posttest to the students.  The result showed that the students` mean score of posttest in experimental group was 90.44 and pretest was 65.96. The mean score of posttest was higher than the mean score of pretest (90.44>65.96). While the mean score of posttest in control class was 75.76 and the mean score of pretest was 60.52. The mean score of posttest was higher than the mean score of pretest (75.76>60.52). The result of statistical analysis the experimental group for level of significance 0.05 with degree of freedom (df) = 24; the probability value was smaller than α 0.00<0.5 and the result of statistical analysis the control class in which the probability value was lower than α .0.00>0.05. As a result, there was a significant difference in writing achievement between the students who are taught by using estafet strategy and those who are taught by non-using estafet strategy. Based on the result of this research, the writers concluded that estafet strategy upgrades the students’ writing.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Ika Sastrawati

This research aimed to find the use of Cue Card Method improves the students writing skill at Eight Grade Students of SMP Bajiminasa Makassar. The method of this research was classroom action research consisted of two cycles. One cycle consisted of four meeting. it meant that were eight meetings for two cycles. This classroom action research was done at SMP Bajiminasa Makassar for English subject. As a subject in this research was class VIII.A  Junior High School in the 2012-2013 academic year with student’ number as about 36 students’. Those consisted of 26 women and 10 men. the instrument was writing test and observation. The research findings indicated that the application of cue card method was effective and significant in improving the students’ writing skill, especially it focuses on students content and vocabulary. It was proved that the mean score of D-Test was 5.64, Cycle I 6.13 and after conducted Cycle II improved to 8.23 and based two cycle researcher found percentage improvement that is from D-Test to Cycle I is 13.24 % and from Cycle I to II is 29.70 and D-T to Cycle II 46.35 %. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that the use of cue card method improves students’ writing skill and class condition. Therefore, it is recommended that the teachers use cue card media in teaching writing.Keywords: Writing Skill, Cue Card Method


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Mahmud Yusuf ◽  
Hasanudin Hasanudin

Based on the phenomena that students have difficulties in writing descriptive text, the students could not write because do not have any ideas when they are asked to write. So, they need some ways which could help them in writing. The problems in writing can be solved by implementing some strategies in teaching writing. One of approach that teacher can use to help students write a good text is MAM. The main objective of this study is find out if MAM can improve students’ ability in writing descriptive text. The research method used is quantitative research, specifically quantitative with one group pretest-posttest design. The sample take two class at tenth grade students of SMK Jabir Al-Hayyan in academic year 2019/2020. The data had been obtained in post-test of experimental class were: the highest score was 96, the lowest score was 62, and the mean score was 80.50. Post-test of control class were: the highest score was 89, the lower score was 60, and the mean score was 71.54. It can be seen from the data showed that students’ score in experimental class was highest than control class. It means that using make a match method was effective, easier, and more understable to be applied in teaching and learning process, especially in writing descriptive text. Keywords:  Improve, Make A Match Method, Writing Descriptive Text


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