scholarly journals The effectiveness of writing techniques in improving students’ writing ability with different self-esteem

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Ida Yulianawati ◽  
Mursid Saleh ◽  
Januarius Mujiyanto ◽  
Djoko Sutopo

Identifying appropriate writing techniques to help students with different self-esteem improve their writing ability needs to be considered by educators. This study attempted to examine the effectiveness of two writing techniques, Reflective Learning Portfolio (RLP) and Dialogue Journal Writing (DJW) in improving the writing ability of undergraduate students with different self-esteem. A quasi-experimental design was employed in this study. The participants of the study were 62 undergraduate students from a private university in West Java, Indonesia, which were divided into two groups that received different treatments, RLP and DJW techniques. A set of questionnaires to measure students’ self-esteem and writing tests were utilized to collect the data. Data from questionnaires were analyzed by using Likert Scales. Data from pre-test and post-test, to know the effectiveness of RLP and DJW was administered by using a paired t-test. The finding revealed that the writing performance in RLP class was significantly better than in DJW class. In other words, RLP is more effective in teaching writing to students with different self-esteem. The use of explicit teaching, peer feedback, and teacher feedback in RLP class could have caused the RLP technique to be more effective in improving the students’ writing ability compared to the DJW technique. 

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Indra Rizki ◽  
Deyan Nouvaldi ◽  
Yanuarti Apsari

Writing is an important skill that should  be mastered by English learner. This research deals with teaching writing narrative text by using Collaborative Learning Approach (round table technique) and Scientific Approach. The subjects of this research were X RPL 1 as experimental class and X RPL 3 as control class. Both classes consist of 33 students. The objectives of this research are to know wheter or not the difference between students’ writing ability who were taught by using Collaborative Learning. This research employs the quasi experimental design. The instrument of this ressearch are writing test (pre-test and post test), observation, and interview. The data were analyzed by using statistical product and service solution (SPSS) 25 which through the normality and mann whitney process. The findings showed that the calculation result of gain score showed that the significance value was lower than 0.05 (0.0049 < 0.05) which means there is a difference between students who were taught by Collaborative Learning and those who were taught by using Scientific Approach. Keywords:  Writing, Narrative, Collaborative Learning, Round Table Technique


IdeBahasa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Ance Jusmaya

The purpose of this study is to look for a significant influence on the application of using  Wattpad  as learning activities on students' ability to write descriptive texts. The main consideration is because an educator in this case should  used interesting instructional media, particularly to teach writing so that the potential of students can be developed optimally. Meanwhile the development of writing of English Department Students of Putera Batam University is still relatively low in quality. Wattpad is an applications which provides the students  an opportunity to write, promote and help their writing  reach acroos  the world. The design of the research was quasi-experimental research that want to find out the effect of  using Wattpad towards students  writing ability. To know students’ writing ability, this research uses writing test as Instrument. There are three pre tests and post tests. The pre-test were used to see students writing ability before having treatment and posttest are used to see the differences on students  writing ability after giving treatments. The subjects were the students of English Department of Putera Batam University who took writing class. The data found that  using Wattpad has a significant effect on student’s writing ability. This conclusion can be seen based on the analysis that has been done where the obtained Z score was smaller than critical value, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Hi) was accepted. So, based on the results , it was concluded that there was statistically diffrence between the pre-test and post-test score at the 0.05 levels. It means that teaching writing  by using wattpad gives significant effect on students’ writing ability


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Teguh Sulistyo ◽  
Katharina Poptrisia Nona Eltris ◽  
Siti Mafulah ◽  
Suhartawan Budianto ◽  
Saiful Saiful ◽  
...  

This paper is aimed at (1) investigating whether the implementation of portfolio assessment had an impact on students’ writing ability, and (2) obtaining the students’ attitudes towards portfolios. The method used in this study was quasi-experimental research design, and the data were collected through a set of writing tests (pre-test and post-test) and a questionnaire. The results show that the implementation of portfolio assessment increased the students’ writing ability. It was also found that the students’ knowledge of global issues (content and organization) also increased more significantly than the local issues (grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics). In addition, the results of the questionnaire proved that the secondary level students had positive attitudes towards the implementation of the portfolio assessment. Therefore, it is suggested that the portfolio assessment should be implemented in the teaching-learning process especially in English writing since it could give regular feedback, and help the students in monitoring their writing progress.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Ela Nurmala

This research was intended to find out whether or not there was a significant influence of running dictation on students’ descriptive text writing ability and to find out students’ responses toward running dictation method used for improving students in writing descriptive text. The research methodology was a quasi-experimental design. The population of this research was the tenth-grade students during the first semester of SMA Negeri 1 Jalan Cagak. The data from pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using SPSS 22.00. The data from questionnaires were analyzed by using a Likert Scale. The computation results of Independent Sample t-test it was obtained that Sig = 0.006 and α = 0.05. It means Ha is accepted because Sig < α = 0.05. It can be concluded there is a significant influence of running dictation method on students’ descriptive text writing ability. Furthermore, the results of questionnaires showed that most of the students (80%) gave positive responses toward running dictation method in writing descriptive text. It can be put forward that Running Dictation is effectively used for teaching writing descriptive text, the students are motivated, enjoyable to learn and their interest through English learning especially writing is rising.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Aida ◽  
Elok Widiyati

This research aims at finding out whether or not the use of extensive reading is effective for teaching writing explanation text to the eleventh grade at Islamic University in Semarang. Quasi experimental research was applied as the method. The researchers took two groups as the sample, they were XI MIPA 6 as the experimental class and XI MIPA 2 as the control class. The total subject of this research was 65. This research used SPSS in analysing the data of writing test through several activities. They were pre-test before treatments, and post-test after treatments. The result of the research shows the significance difference in the writing ability of explanation text between eleventh-graders who were taught by using extensive reading and those were not taught by using it. It can be seen in the result of mean score in the post-test of experimental class which is 64.4118 and control class which is 48.5484 and as a result Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.00 < 0.05. Therefore, the null hyothesis of this research is rejected. It means that the use of extensive reading had significantly improved the eleventh-graders’ writing ability of the explanation text in English teaching and learning process of the experimental class at Islamic School in Semarang in the academic year 2018/2019.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Nada Raudhotul Muthoharoh ◽  
Anita Anita

This study is to see the improvement of student’s writing skill on descriptive text for seventh grade students of SMP 14 Kota Serang by using peer feedback technique. The subject of this research is the students of seventh grade of SMP 14 Kota Serang which consist of 30 students. This research is applied by a quasi-experimental design and quantitative research method. The instrument used in this research was tests (pre-test and post-test) which is conducted based on the main problems: 1) How is the students writing ability on descriptive text at the seventh grade of SMP 14 Kota serang? 2) How is the effectiveness of peer feedback in teaching writing descriptive text at the seventh grade of SMP 14 Kota serang?. The research finding of the last result showed that “to” from the calculation is higher than t table both at significance level 5% and 1%. Significance 5% t observation= 7.14 and t table= 1.67 or 7.14 >1.67 which its significance 1% t observation=7.14 and t table= 2.39 or 7.14 >2.39. In addition, the result of observations showed that the students more motivated in learning English, especially for writing subject. Based on the result above, it can be concluded that peer feedback can be used in teaching writing descriptive text. The result of this research shows that the students’ writing on descriptive text who use peer feedback achieve better performance than those who do not use it.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-229
Author(s):  
Rizka Indriani ◽  
Zahrida . ◽  
Mei Hardiah

The objective of this research is to find out whether or not there is a significant effect using guided question technique on students’ writing ability in descriptive text. This research is a quasi experimental design. The population of this research is the seventh grade students at SMPN 3 Kota Bengkulu. The sample in this research are about 60 students divided into 2 classes, VII 2 consists of 30 students as the experimental group and VII 3 that consist of 30 students as the control group. The treatment is given only for the experimental group. The data are collected by using two writing tests: pre-test and post-test. The result of the research showed the mean score of experimental group (31.34) was higher than mean score of control group (23.35). This indicated that the guided question technique could give a significant positive effect to the students’ writing ability in descriptive text.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadijah Maming ◽  
Irmayanti Irmayanti ◽  
Rafi'ah Nur

This research aims to know enhancement the Student's writing ability by using wordless picture book as a contributive learning media. The benefits of using wordless picture book show that the students enhance their writing ability and create their creative writing and thinking skill. The researcher applied quasi-experimental method, with two groups namely experimental and control class. The experimental class consists of 30 students and control clas consists of 30 students. The subjects of the research were 60 students from two classes taken from students of SMP Negeri 10 Parepare. The research instrument was writing test in which the comparison of pre-test and post-test decided the enhancement of the Student's writing ability. The results of the data analysis showed that the Student's writing ability getting significantly improvement. It was proved by the mean score of pre-test was 46.93 and the post-test was 80.00. It indicates that the use of wordless picture book can enhance the Student's writing ability at SMP Negeri 10 Parepare. Besides, after analyzing the data by using the t-test formula, the result of t-test value in post-test was 6.02 and t-table value was 1.671. It meant that the t-test value was higher than t-table value. It clarified H1 was accepted and H0 was rejected and the students who were taught by using wordless picture book were better than the students who were taught by using wordless picture book.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Sinta Wahyuni

This Study aimed at investigating the effect of cooperative learning model type CIRC on short story writing ability class x student of SMA Negeri 2 Sungai Penuh. In addition to that, aquantitative method with a quasi experimental design. Based on research finding conclusions short story writing skill of student with cooperative learning model type CIRC is better than studentthat being taught by conventional method at X class SMAN 2 Sungai Penuh.


2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyang Wang ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Zheng Jin ◽  
Timothy Tamunang Tamutana

Self-serving bias is individuals' belief that leads them to blame external forces when bad things happen and to give themselves credit when good things happen. To evaluate how underlying evaluative associations toward the self or others differ between individuals, and/or how the regulation mechanism of the influence of such associations differs, we used a multinomial process model to measure the underlying implicit self-esteem in these processes with 56 Chinese undergraduate students. The results indicated that participants assessed themselves as being better than others when their performance was followed by a desirable outcome. Subsequent application of the quadruple processes showed that both activation of positive associations toward self and regulation of the associations played important roles in attitudinal responses. Our findings may provide a supplementary explanation to that of previous results, promoting understanding of the mechanism underlying self-serving bias.


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