scholarly journals IMPROVING XI-GRADE STUDENTS’ WRITING ESSAY SKILL USING COMPUTER EDUTAINMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Evi Safitri Yulandari ◽  
Arif Rahman

As viewed by many linguists, writing skill is the most difficult one in English to be tough or learned. For many years, writing has not been a favorable interest like the other skills. This paper is intended to discuss the role and the effectiveness of using computer edutainment or called Education and Entertainment in improving students’ writing. The subjects of this research were the students’ class XI A. Meanwhile, the objects of this research are students’ skill in writing through Computer Edutainment. In this research the researcher used CAR (Classroom Action Research) as the research method, there is 2 technique of collecting the data in this research those are qualitative data and quantitative data. The quantitative data are in the form of numerical data. The data are from students' score of pre-test and post-test while the qualitative used in collecting the data were taken from the result of observation and interview. This study used several data instrument in gathering the data dealing with the question of the study, i.e: writing test in the form of writing essay, observation field note, and interview. The data were then analyzed whether their writing results were reaching the minimum standard or not, and having improvement or not. From the comparisons, the researcher makes a conclusion in the form of descriptions whether the students' ability of XI of SMAN 1 PAJO in writing has improved by the use of computer edutainment or not.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Sulaiman Sulaiman

<p class="Default" align="center"><strong><em>Abstrak</em></strong></p><p>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui  bagaimana teknik <em>Peer Editing</em> dapat meningkatkan penulisan mahasiswa untuk mahasiswa semester dua program studi pendidikan Agama Islam di IAIN Pontianak pada tahun akademik 2016/2017. Penelitian tindakan kelas ini dilakukan dalam dua siklus. Setiap siklus terdiri dari empat tahapan;  perencanaan, tindakan, mengamati, dan evaluasi.  Subjek penelitian adalah mahasiswa kelas A yang terdiri dari 34mahasiswa dengan perincian 10 mahasiswa pria dan 24 mahasiswa wanita. Penelitian ini menggunakan observasi dan pengukuran sebagai teknik pengumpulan data. Dalam mengumpulkan data, penulis menggunakan data kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Data kualitatif diambil dari daftar observasi, catatan lapangan, dan perekam sementara data kuantitatif diambil dari tes menulis mahasiswa. Kemudian, dalam menganalisis data, penulis menggunakan analisis deskriptif kualitatif untuk data kualitatif dan statistik deskriptif dengan data kuantitatif.</p><p>Berdasarkan hasil checklist observasi, catatan lapangan, dan perekam, mahasiswa merasa termotivasi untuk menulis. Mereka juga aktif dan antusias selama proses pembelajaran dipandu oleh peneliti. Kemudian, hasil nilai individu mahasiswa pada tulisan mereka juga meningkat di siklus kedua. Dalam dua siklus itu, tidak ada siswa yang masuk kategori sangat buruk. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa penerapan teknik <em>Peer Editing</em> berhasil meningkatkan keterampilan menulis mahasiswa. Melalui teknik <em>Peer Editing</em>, para mahasiswa dapat menghasilkan dan mengatur ide-ide mereka dan menghasilkan teks  juga. Salah satu saran yang baik bagi dosen untuk menerapkan teknik <em>Peer Editing</em> sebagai cara alternatif untuk meningkatkan keterampilan menulis mahasiswa.<em></em></p><p><em>Kata kunci: menulis, teknik </em><em>Peer Editing, </em><em>IAIN Pontianak</em></p><p class="Default" align="center"><em>Abstract</em></p><p>This research aimed to investigate how Peer Editing technique can improve students’ writing to the second semester students of Islamic education study program of IAIN Pontianak  in the academic year of  2016/2017. This classroom action research was done in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of four actions; they were planning, acting, observing and reflecting.  Then, the subject of research was the students of class A consisting of 34 students with detail of 10 male students and 24 female students. This research used observation and measurement as the technique of collecting data. In collected the data, the writer used qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were taken from observation checklist, field note, and recorder while quantitative data were taken from the students’ writing test. Then, in analyzed the data, the writer used descriptive qualitative analysis to the qualitative data and statistic descriptive to the quantitative data.</p><p>Based on the result of observation checklist, field note, and recorder, the students were feel motivated to write the text. They also were active and enthusiastic during the learning process guided by the researcher. Then, the result of the students’ individual score on their writing had improved too in the second cycle. In the two cycles, there were no students categorized into very poor level. The results of this research showed that the implementation of the Peer Editing technique was successful to improve the students’ writing skill. Through Peer Editing technique, the students were able to generate and organized their ideas and produce a text as well. It is better for the lecturer implemented the Peer Editing technique as the alternative ways to improve students writing skill.</p><p>Keyword: <em>Writing skill</em><em>, </em><em>Peer Editng technique, </em><em>IAIN Pontianak</em></p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Chrisce Juonata Kaunang

AbstractThe objectives of this research were to improve the students’ speaking skill and students’ interest about learning speaking by using Project-based learning. This research used classroom action research method in which the subject was the 25 ten graders of SMA PSKD 7 Depok and the subjects consisted thirteen males and twelve females. The quantitative data were analyzed by computing the students’ score of pre-test, post-test 1, and post-test2. Based on the data results, the mean score of pre-test, post-test in Cycle1, and post-test Cycle2 were respectively 49.12, 66.4, and 70.08. The gain of pre-test to post-test1 was 35.17%, the gain of post-test1in cycle 1 to post-test cycle 2 was 6.14%, and from the pre-test to post-test 2 in cycle 2 was 43.48%. The qualitative data were described based on interview and field-note to the improvement of students’ speaking skill. The findings showed that Project-based learning could improve the students’ speaking skill, it is suggested to use this method in teaching speaking skill. Keywords: CAR, Project-based learning


Author(s):  
Niawanti N ◽  
Novalina Sembiring ◽  
Anna Stasya Prima Sari

This research was primarily conducted to prove that the application of Personal Photograph media could improve the writing skill of the twelfth grade students of SMA Swasta Pelita Nusantara Lawe Sigala-gala in the academic year of 2020/2021 and to describe their responses towards the application of Personal Photograph media in the processes of learning writing skill. Each cycle consisted of four meetings. The quantitative data analysis showed that the students mean score increased continually from 57,31 with 9% passing Minimum Mastery Criteria in pre-test, 71,81 with 36% Minimum Mastery Criteria in formative-test, 83,31 with 82% Minimum Mastery Criteriain post-test. The qualitative data analysis showed that the students’ responses after being taught through the application of Personal Photograph media are very good. The result is most of the students gave good responses to the Personal Photograph media which was used in learning teaching process. It is suggested that teachers use Personal Photograph media as an alternative in writing descriptive texts to the students in Senior High School in order to improve their students’ writing skill, particularly in writing descriptive texts.


Lingua ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Syaifudin Latif Darmawan ◽  
Ani Andrianti

This study is classrom action research. It is carried out at SMP N 2 Metro in Academic Year of 2017/2018. The objectives of the research: (1) to find out whether guided question technique can increase the students’ writing skill in descriptive text; (2) to describe the process of teaching writing using guided question technique. The population of the research is the seventh grade students of SMP N 2 Metro in academic year 2017/2018 that consist of 32 students. The research is conducted in two cycles. The procedure of the research consists of identifying the problem, planning the action, implementing the action, observing the action, and reflecting the result of the research. Qualitative data are collected through interview, observation. In the meantime, quantitative data are collected through test. To analyze qualitative data, the researchers use miles and huberman model. It consists of three steps: data reduction, data display and data conclusion. Meanwhile, to analyze quantitative data, the researchers employ descriptive statistic.    The result of the research indicates that the implementation of guided question technique improved the students’ writing skill in descriptive text. The average score of pre-test is 56. In the cycle 1, the researchers giving the treatment and get the students’ average score of post-test 1 is 69,23. After applying the revised planning in cycle 2, the average students’ score in post-test 2 is 76. It has reached 75% of 32 students that indicated the students passed the criterion of success. The result of students’ participation in cycle 1 and cycle 2 did a significant progress and improves in every meeting of each cycle. In addition, the use of guided questions technique is able to increase the students’ writing skill in descriptive text. The research has some suggestions; for the English teacher, it is useful to implement guided questions technique as one alternatives teaching, for the students it can be used to make the students easier in writing a text and for the further researcher this study can be used as a reference.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurcahya Nurcahya ◽  
Ikariya Sugesti

This study focuses on the implementation of Project Based Learning (PjBL) in writing greeting card to enhance students’ writing ability and creativity. It is based on the classroom action research at the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sumber, Cirebon, in the academic year of 2019/2020. The subject of the study were 32 students, they were 16 females and 16 males. This study was conducted into two cycles, and each cycle consisted of two meetings. The data were taken qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitative data were taken from classroom observation, interview and pictures documentation. While quantitative data were taken from the writing test, including the students’ score on pre-test and post-test in each cycle. The findings showed that the use of PBL was able to enhance students’ writing ability. The implementation of PjBL strengthened students’ creativity since it enabled students to explore themselves while developing the greeting card. They were enthusiastic and active in participating during the teaching and learning process of writing. The findings showed that the students’ mean score in the pre-test was 67,8 and it increased to 94,15 in their post-test with the gain score 26,35, which indicated that the improvement was very significant.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodearta Purba

The objective of this study is to find out whether discussion starter story significantly improves the achievement on narrative text of the first grade students of Senior High School. This study was conducted by applying Clasroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this study is the first grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Pangururan in academic year of 2016/2017. The sample of this study is the students X-4 consisting 30 students. There were two kinds of collected data, quantitative and qualitative data. The technique for collecting the quantitative data was writing test while with qualitative data were gathered through interview, diary notes, and observation sheet. Qualitative data showed the students were interested in discussion starter story technique. Based on quantitative data it is found that students’ writing achivement improved from pre-test to post-test cycle I and post-test cycle II. It can be seen from the students’ mean scores and the percentage of the students who got score up to 75. The mean of the students’ scores who got score up to 75 for pre-test is 51.4 , for the post-test cycle I is 74 and post-test cycle II is 80.2. There was an improvement of the application of discussion starter story technique to teach writing narrative. 


Author(s):  
Andreas Pandapotan Sidabutar ◽  
Novalina Sembiring ◽  
Anna Stasya Prima Sari

Writing as one of the language skills is not as easy as one thinks because it needs some exact requirements to create topic sentence, controlling idea, supporting sentences, concluding sentence, etc. It is not surprising that students have difficulty in writing. The students could not describe thing, place or person because they could not express their ideas and they have limited vocabulary. Thus, they need some ways or media which could help them write descriptive texts. The teacher should be creative to search for interesting media to teach writing descriptive texts. Pictures media can help students to express and elaborate their ideas into a writing. The objectives of this study are to prove that the use of pictures media can improve the students’ skill in writing descriptive texts and to describe the responses of the students towards the use of pictures media in writing descriptive texts. The subjects of this study are the eleventh grade students of SMA Swasta GKPI Medan Class XI IPS 1 in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. In conducting this research, the writer used Classroom Action Research (CAR) as the method of research. Tests were used to gather the quantitative data. In addition, field notes and observation sheet were used to gather the qualitative data. Based on, the findings of this study, there were 4 students (12%) who passed the Mastery Minimum Criteria (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal) 75 in pretest, 12 students (36%) in formative test and 29 students (87%) in posttest. The result of this research revealed that there is a significant improvement of the students’ achievement from pretest, formative test and in the post test. This improvement was shown by the comparison between the students’ mean score of pretest (43.75), formative test (70.6), and posttest (84.4). Based on the questionnaire results, the students’ responses are very good. They agreed that using pictures media could improve their achievement in writing descriptive texts.  Furthermore, the students found it interesting to learn how to write descriptive texts by using pictures media. It can be seen from their full attention during the learning teaching processes. Therefore, it is recommended for the teachers to use pictures media in improving their students’ writing skill especially in writing descriptive texts.


2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Siti Halidjah

Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan pemahaman yang mendalam tentang peningkatan keterampilan menulis makalah melalui lesson study pada mahasiswa Program Studi PGSD FKIP Untan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan penelitian tindakan yang dilakukan sebanyak dua siklus.Setiap siklus dilaksanakan empat kali pertemuan. Data dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari data kualitatif dan data kuantitatif. Data kualitatif diperoleh melalui lembar wawancara, kuesioner, dan lembar pengamatan. Data kuantitatif yang diperoleh dari hasil tes menulis makalah. Sumber data dalam penelitian adalah peristiwa pembelajaran menulis makalah melalui lesson study mahasiswa Program Studi PGSD FKIP Untan. Hasil penektian menunjukkan data awal nilai rata-rata keterampilan menulis makalah mahasiswa adalah 158,6 (kategori kurang). Setelah dilaksanakan pembelajaran dengan lesson study di siklus I, nilai rata-rata keterampilan menulis makalah meningkat menjadi 298,8 (kategori baik). Pada siklus II, nilai nilai rata-rata keterampilan menulis makalah mengalami peningkatan lagi menjadi 341,8 (kategori sangat baik). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan lesson study dalam pembelajaran dapat meningkatkan keterampilan menulis karya ilmiah mahasiswa PGSD FKIP Untan. Kata Kunci: Keterampilan menulis, karya ilmiah, lesson study Abstract This research aims to find a deep understanding of the improvement of scientific writing skills through lesson study on students of PGSD FKIP Untan. This research usesan action researchapproach in twocycles. The data in this research was divided into two, namely quantitative and qualitative. The qualitative data wereobtainedthrough interview, questionnaires, and observation sheets. The quantitative data wereobtained from the results of scientific writing test. The data in this research were the scientific writing learning through lesson study on the students of PGSD FKIP Untan. The results showed that the initial average score of students paper writing skill was 158.6 (average category). After learning through the lesson study in the first cycle, the average score of writing skills improved to 298.8 (good category). In the second cycle, the average score of paper writing skills also improved to 341.8 (very good category). The result indicates that the use of lesson study in learning can improve the scientific papers writing skills of PGSD students of FKIP Untan. Keywords: Writing skills, scientific papers, lesson study  


Sebatik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-229
Author(s):  
Karisma Erikson Tarigan ◽  
Liana Liana

The main objective of this research is to prove whether the digital storytelling enhances and improve students writing competency. The study uses classroom action research (CAR). The data in this study are quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data will be collected by using the essay test. The qualitative data will be collected by using observation, field notes, and questionnaire. The score of students’ writing descriptive text kept increasing from pre-test until post-test. It was proved by the data which showed that the mean of the students’ score in post-test II is 86.6 (92.75%) was higher than the post-test I is 72.2 (68.75%), and also higher than the pre-test 54.8 (25%). The response of student in using digital storytelling in the agree category, it can be seen from the 15 students who passed the KKM (70) and 1 student still low of KKM. The class percentages of post-test II show improvements from the previous test; the improvement is 67.75%. The frequencies of item agree appear 110 times or (52.88%). Furthermore, it can be concluded that Digital Storytelling is effective and useful to be used in teaching writing skill, especially in Descriptive Text.


Author(s):  
Hotria Manik ◽  
Elia Masa Ginting

This study attempts to improve students’ writing achievement in recount text through Think-Pair-Share Strategy. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of the research was class VIII-1 SMPN 1 Pematangsiantar. The number of the students was 32 students, consisted of 5 males and twenty seven females. The research was conducted in two cycles and consisted of six meetings. The instruments for collecting data were writing tests as the quantitative data and diary notes, observation sheet, interview sheet and questionnaire sheet as qualitative data. Based on the writing score, students’ scores kept improving in every test. In analyzing the data, the mean of the students’ score for the first test as a pre-test was 57.84, for the second test as a post test I was 73.56, for the third test as a post test II was 77.56. Based on diary notes, observation sheet and questionnaire sheet, it was found that students were actively involved in writing process. The result of the research showed that Think-Pair-Share Strategy can improve students’ achievement in writing recount text.   Keywords: Think Pair Share, Writing, Recount text, Action research


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