scholarly journals Solving the Students’ Problems in Writing Argumentative Essay Through the Provision of Planning

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Lestari Setyowati ◽  
Sony Sukmawa ◽  
Mohamad Anan Latief
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Argumentative Essays

Most Indonesian students who are learning English often consider writing as not only the most difficult skill to master, but also a demanding activity. To help them cope these problems, the application of planning in the writing process seems to be a solution. This study attempts to find out howdifferent planning formats can improve EFL students’ writing performance in argumentative essays. The subjects of the studywere the fourth semester students taking essay writing class. The research was conducted from May to June 2015, consisting of three cycles in Classroom Action Research design by using different planning types, namely rough drafting and outlining strategy in which each cycle consisted of two meetings.The students’ compositions were measured by using primary trait scoring rubric for argumentative essay. The result of the study shows that the provision of planning is effective to improve the students’ performance in writing argumentative essay. The effectiveness of different types planningdepends on the students’ preference of which to use.

scholarly journals Enhancing Learners’ Writing Performance through Blog-Assisted Language Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (09) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teguh Sulistyo ◽  
Nur Mukminatien ◽  
Bambang Yudi Cahyono ◽  
Ali Saukah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Education ◽  
Collaborative Action Research ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Writing Class

ABSTRACT-The present study aims at investigating how Blog-Assisted Language Learning (BALL) can enhance EFL tertiary learners’ writing performance covering complexity, accuracy, and fluency through collaborative action research while at the same time it seeks to discover new knowledge that can inform the implementation of BALL in a writing class. This study employed Collaborative Classroom Action Research conducted in one cycle in one consecutive semester intended to make improvement in the teaching and learning of writing using BALL. There were 30 students of a university level majoring in English Education Department who joined Advanced Essay Writing Class in this study. The data were collected through interview, open-ended questionnaire followed by in-depth interview, and writing test. The findings showed that EFL learners improve their writing performance and they become more active in online class condition with two atmospheres: collaboration and competition among the learners. Keywords: BALL, EFL Learners, writing performance, action research.

scholarly journals Increasing the Students’ Writing Narrative Text Ability Through Brainstorming Technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Eny Maulita Purnama Sari
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Basic Data ◽  
Eighth Grader ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This script discusses the increasing students’ ability through brainstorming technique in teaching writing, especially in increasing students’ writing narrative text ability. This study is aimed at responding the following questions: (1) Can brainstorming as a technique increase the students’ Narrative paragraph writing Performance? (2) Can brainstorming as a technique improve the learning process?. The population of this research is the eighth grader of SMPN 3 BatanghariNuban. The number of population is 152 students. The researcher used sampling random technique to take sample. The research design was Classroom Action Research design. The instrument used to collect data was writing test because the students’ scores can be the basic data. The finding result shows that: (1) Brainstorming technique can make good students’ score in writing narrative text ability. (2) Brainstorming technique is effective in teaching writing, especially in writing narrative text.

scholarly journals ENHANCING WRITING SKILL THROUGH WRITING PROCESS APPROACH

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zaini Miftah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Writing Process Approach ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Writing Task

<p>The study is aimed at developing the implementation of Writing Process Approach (WPA) to enhance the students’ skill in writing essay. The study employed Classroom Action Research. The subjects of the study were 15 university students enrolled in the writing class. The data were gained from writing task, observation and field notes. The findings show that the implementation of WPA with the proper model procedures developed can enhance the students’ skill in writing essay. Before the strategy was implemented, the percentage of the students achieving the score greater than or equal to C (56-70) was 40.00% (6 students of the class). However, after the strategy was implemented in Cycle I, it enhanced enough to 60.00%<strong> </strong>(9 students of the class), but this result did not meet the criteria of success set up in the study. Next, in Cycle II it increased slightly to 86.67%<strong> </strong>(13 students of the class). Thus, the enhancement of the students’ skill in writing essay can be reached but it should follow the proper model procedures of the implementation of WPA developed.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>writing</em><em> process approach, writing skill, essay writing</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Exploiting SQ4R Cooperative Learning Method to Enhance EFL Students’ Reading Comprehension

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ridho Rojabi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This study was aimed at enhancing the ability of the thirty-six EFL students of the English Study Program at IAIN Jember in reading comprehension by exploiting the SQ4R method. To achieve the purpose, a collaborative classroom action research design was employed by following four stages: planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. This study was implemented in two cycles, in which both the first cycle and the second cycle were carried out in two meetings. This method consists of five stages; survey, question, read, reflect, recite, and review. The steps of surveying and questioning were implemented in pre-reading, the steps of reading and reflecting were implemented in whilst-reading, while the steps of recite and review were implemented in post-reading. Overall, the study has revealed that the SQ4R method enhanced students’ reading comprehension as well as students’ participation in the classroom. Keywords: SQ4R, reading comprehension, classroom action research

scholarly journals Three Dimension Movie for the Students Ability in Narrative Writing

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fita Faridah
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
The Third ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This present study is conducted in order to improve the students’ writing narrative text by  using Three  Dimension  Movie.  It  has  several  steps  the  first  is  Pre-writing  In  this  phase  the  teacher combined  with  writing  process  included:  planning  and  drafting.  The  second  is  Whilst-  writing activities, in this phase the teacher combined with writing process include: revising and editing and  the  third  is  Post-writing  activities,  post-writing  tasks  allow  for  reflection,  sharing,  or publishing of the final product. This study employed Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the research  design.  The  procedure  of  the  research  involved  four  stages:  planning  the  action, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Using three dimension movie is intended the students deep understood the story of movie.Keywords: writing narrative text, three demension movie, and classroom action research

scholarly journals USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZER TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ WRITING PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZING IDEA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 342
Author(s):  
Winda Mayasari
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Graphic Organizer ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Development Of Students ◽  
Writing Activity

<p class="Default">The development of students' writing skill progresses from arranging some letters to becoming a simple word or phrase, such as writing a name, into a more complex text. This study was undertaken to describe two fundamental purposes related to the use of graphic organizer with eleventh-grade, normal-achieving students: (a) to describe how does Graphic Organizer improve students’ skill in organizing idea and (b) to describe how is the class situation when Graphic Organizer media is implemented in the writing class. The method carried out classroom action research. each procedure took some steps that formed one cycle and this research will be conducted in cycles. Each cycle is going to use Graphic Organizer as teaching media in writing activity. The subjects of the study are 32 students of social classes. Observation, interviews, questionnaires, and diary will be gathered respectively. The discussions on the students' problems in organizing ideas in writing in one side and on the benefits of Graphic Organizer as a solution to help students in organizing ideas in writing in the other side has encouraged the writer to conduct a classroom action research (CAR) on using Graphic Organizer to enhance students' skill in organizing ideas in writing class.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>writing skill, graphic organizer, classroom action research.</p>

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS KARANGAN NARASI SISWA KELAS III SDN 004 BATURIJAL HULU KECAMATAN PERANAP DENGAN MENERAPKAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN THINK TALK WRITE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Aida Nursanti
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Third Grade Students ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Grade Iii

The problem in this research is the low skill of writing narrative essays for third grade students of SDN 004 Baturijal Hulu, from 27 students, 2 students with very skilled category; students with the skilled category 5 students; 10 students categorized as skilled enough; 10 students in the less skilled category. The method used in this research is classroom action research, which is conducted in 2 cycles which aims to improve the writing skills of third grade students of SDN 004 Baturijal Hulu by applying the Think Talk Write (TTW) learning model. The subjects of this study were third grade students of SDN 004 Baturijal Hulu. Data obtained through observation and tests. Meanwhile, the results of narrative essay writing skills after applying the Think Talk write learning model increased at UH1 with an average of 74.70 with a large increase from the basic score of 14.52% and the average UH II was 84.70 with a large increase in score. the base of 24.52%. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that the implementation of the Think Talk Write (TTW) learning model can improve the narrative writing skills of grade III students of SDN 004 Baturijal Hulu.

scholarly journals Using portfolio assessment to improve EFL students’ expository-writing performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Waode Nur Gita Dahviyanti
Keyword(s):  
Expository Text ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Expository Writing ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Positive Motivation

The objectives of the research were to find out the extent to which the use of portfolio assessment improves EFL students’ performances in expository-writing and to find out the students’ responses about the taking of portfolio assessment in improving their performance in writing expository text. The researcher applied classroom action research which was done through two cycles. The location of this research was at one of the secondary schools in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. There were 31 students as a sample in this research and the data were collected using observation, writing test, interview, and analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The result showed that portfolio assessment had improved EFL students’ expository-writing performance. The students were better in arranging the words into sentences and paragraph in order to convey their ideas, opinions, and feeling because they had already known the steps in the writing process, and they learned from their previous evaluated portfolios, and their responses on the using of portfolio assessment as a method in writing expository process was positive. They got positive motivation and appreciation to progress their writing performance. They were excited to revise and edit their draft to become the best work in every meeting.

scholarly journals Measuring the Impacts of Using the Process Approach to Teach Second-Year English Major Students Essay Writing

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p32
Author(s):  
Moussa Tankari ◽  
Ayodele Adebayo Allagbé ◽  
Abdou Maiguéro
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Process Approach ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Repeated Measures Design ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Before And After ◽  
English Major ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Second Year

This paper aimed at measuring the impacts of using the process approach to teach second-year English major students at the English Department of Université de Zinder (henceforth, UZ) essay writing. Drawing on the pre-test-post-test repeated measures design, this study examined the written essays produced by the EFL students before and after the writing class. These pre and post tests were scored based on a criterial fair copy, and the scores were compared by means of an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to check whether there were any statistically significant differences between the mean scores. The findings revealed that the process approach had a positive impact on the participants’ essay writing skills. Also, employing Classroom Observation, the article attempted to qualitatively measure student engagement in the writing class. The findings further exuded that the EFL students observed were cognitively involved in the learning activities conducted in the class. Based on the foregoing findings, this study recommends that the process approach to (the teaching of) writing be adopted and used to teach writing in EFL classes across/in Niger.

scholarly journals UPAYA MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR PESERTA DIDIK MELALUI METODE DISKUSI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN IPS DI KELAS VIIA SMPN 4 TAPUNG HILIR TAHUN PELAJARAN 2019/2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Yami Yami
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
A Value ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Classroom Action Research

Based on the formulation of the problem, the objectives to be achieved in this study are as follows. To find out the improvement of learning outcomes after using the discussion method, in learning Social Sciences the main discussion of the location and area of Indonesia in SMPN 4 Tapung Hilir The research design set in this study is classroom action research. There are four stages in action research, namely (1) planning, (2) implementation, (3) observation, and (4) reflection. Based on the results of research conducted on students of Class VIIA IPS, amounting to 20 students, the researcher can collect data on student learning outcomes through written tests. The following are the results of pre-test and post-test learning of students taught using the discussion method. the level of mastery of students' material in the pretest as follows. value 40-46 with a frequency of 4 (20%), a value of 47 -53 with a frequency of 5 (25%), a value of 54-60 with a frequency of 4 (20%), a value of 61-67 with a frequency of 2 (10%), a value of 68-75 with a frequency of 5 (41.67%). Based on the data obtained in the pretest shows that the number of students who completed as many as 5 students or (25%), not complete as many as 15 students or (75%), while the first cycle of students who completed as many as 15 students or (75%), and incomplete 5 students or (25%).

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