scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF RUNNING DICTATION METHOD ON STUDENTS’ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY

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 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Fiki Setiawan ◽  
Taiman Taiman

This study was aimed to investigate the implementation of visual-based and verbal-based materials in teaching writing to students with different learning styles. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with a 2x2 factorial design conducted in the health analyst academy Indonesia. There were two experimental groups involved. Visual-based and verbal-based materials had been used as teaching media for collecting the data. The observation was also conducted to support the data findings. The research findings indicated that both visual-based and verbal-based materials were useful to be used in teaching writing to students with different learning styles. However, the findings indicated that visual-based material was more effective to be used in both spatial and linguistic learning styles students. The result of observation also showed that students considered visual-based material to be more interactive and exciting. Students' learning styles proved to have a significant influence on teaching materials, primarily when verbal-based material was implemented. The visual-based materials have a substantial impact on the students' writing ability. It could be concluded that visual-based material was adequate for the students with a spatial learning style, while verbal-based material was sufficient to the students with a linguistic learning style in teaching writing.


Author(s):  
Layla Fatimatutz Zahroh

<p>This research was conducted based on the researcher’s observation that every student and teachers had facilities for using e-learning system, but they couldn’t use it effectively. The aims of this research were 1) to explain the extent to which the product development needed to teach the writing of descriptive text; 2) to explain how the media potentially developed through Moodle e-learning media to teach descriptive text writing; 3) to explain the effectiveness of Moodle e-learning media to teach descriptive text writing. The subject of this research was students at tenth grade of SMK NU Ma’arif 01 Semarang. The scientific involved 47 students. 22 students were in the control class, and 25 students were in the experimental class. The data were collected through pre-test and post-test. The result of this research described as follow: 1) the extent needed of developing Moodle e-learning media is as follow: a) the students’ need analysis mentioned in the rate 96%, that students agreed toward Moodle e-learning media because it was very helpful. b) the total of validation result from expert validation 1 and 2 was 79.1% 2) The researcher developed Moodle e-learning media was done by using seven steps R and D research adapted by Borg and Gall. 3) the effectiveness of product supported by the results of students posttest that obtained 76.04. Based on those findings, this Moodle is valid to be implemented in an English learning process.</p>


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


Author(s):  
Irma Khoirot Daulay ◽  
Kristina Br. Hasugian

The research was conducted to discover the effect of using guessing game media themed local tourism on students’ achievement in writing narrative text. The research was conducted to the grade tenth students of SMA GKPI PAMEN. This research used experimental design. To collect the data 2 classes get involved. There are X-1 as the experimental class that taught by using the guessing game media and X-2 as the control class that taught using the conventional method. The students consist of 30 students. In experimental class, the mean score for the pre-test was 45,46 and the score of post-test was 81,4. In control class, the mean of pre-test score was 46,5 and the post-test was 73,06. The analysis of the t-test showed that tscore > ttable or 3,53 > 1,672 at the level of significance 0,05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. The alternative hypothesisi (Ha) is accepted. It point out that using guessing media themed local tourism is effective in teaching writing narrative text for the tenth grade students of SMA GKPI PAMEN.


Author(s):  
Siti Yulianti ◽  
Dwi Andriani ◽  
Zulaikah Zulaikah

This thesis is entitled "The Use of Transition Action Details Strategy in Teaching Writing Ability to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Rawabening". The objective of this study was to know whether or not there are any significant differences between the student who are taught by using the Transition Action Details Strategy and the student who is not taught by using it. This study used an experimental method, a quasi-experimental design. The population of this study was 47 students, and the sample was 47 students was taken by using purposive sampling, those were 24 students of the experimental group and 23 students of the control group. Based on the calculation by using an independent t-test by using SPSS 16, The writer found that t-obtained was higher than t-table (2.868>2.014) at the significant level a=0.05 in two-tailed testing. It meant that there were any significant differences between the experimental group and the control group. So, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypotheses (Ha) were accepted. It can be concluded that Transition Actions Details Strategy was significant in teaching writing ability to the eighth-grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Rawabening.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenty Debora Napitupulu

<p>This study deals with the effect of hamburger strategy on writing descriptive text. Hamburger strategy is a writing organizer strategy that visually outlines the key components of a paragraph. When writing by using hamburger strategy, the students will learn to remember how to build the paragraph and the importance of each component. It was conducted by using experimental quantitative research. The population of this study is the first semester  students of English Department Nommensen Medan. The writer takes 50 students as the sample and they are devided into two groups by using random sampling. The first group was  group A as Experimental class which is taught by implementing hamburger strategy while the second group is Group B as control class which is taught by using conventional method. Oral test is used  as the instrument of collecting the data. This test consists of two types, namely pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The calculation shows t-observed that is 3. 58, which  is higher than t-table that is 1.676 at the level significance  (p: 0.05) with the degree of freedom (df) 48. It means that Ha is accepted while Ho is rejected, therefore it is concluded that hamburger  strategy  significantly affects on writing descriptive text of the first semester students of English Department in Nommensen University Medan academic year 2016/2017. It is suggested for the students of English Department as source of valuable knowledge and information when conducting a research related to the study. It is also suggested that teachers of English subject should implement hamburger strategy as one of alternative in teaching writing to increase students’ writing ability.</p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em> </em><em>h</em><em>amburger </em><em>s</em><em>trategy, </em><em>w</em><em>riting hortatory exposition text</em><em></em></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devi Budi Wijaya ◽  
Suwandi Suwandi ◽  
Sukma Nur Ardini

This study is based on the research which attempted to examine the effectiveness of realia in writing descriptive text by the seventh grade students. The objectives of the research were (1) to analyze and find out  the students’ ability in writing descriptive text who are taught by using realia, (2) to analyze and find out  the students’ ability in writing descriptive text who are taught without using realia, (3) also to analyze and find out whether there is significant difference between students who are taught by using realia and those taught without using realia. Quasi experimental design was used with the population of 256 seventh grade students of SMP N 4 Semarang in the academic year 2017/2018. By using purposive sampling technique, there were two classes chosen as the sample of this study; vii a and vii b. The instruments of collecting data used were tests; pre-test and post-test. After the data were collected, they were analysed using t-test. The findings were as follows: (1) the ability in writing descriptive text by the students taught using realia was good with the mean of the post-test was 80.21. (2) the ability in writing descriptive text by the students taught without using realia was adequate with the mean of the post-test was 74.44. (3) there was significant difference of the two group students. t-test 4.89 > t-table 2.00. therefore, ha was accepted that realia was effective as a media in teaching writing of descriptive text.


2018 ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
Nurul Devi Ardiani ◽  
Yunia Renny Andhikatias

ABSTRAK Pengetahuan kebersihan diri saat menstruasi yang baik menjadikan perilaku remaja lebih baik. Hal ini dapat menghindarkan remaja dari berbagai penyakit reproduksi yang mungkin muncul. Tujuan dari penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan remaja tentang kebersihan diri saat menstruasi di RT 01 RW1, Sruni, Boyolali. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian Quasi Eksperimental dengan Pre and post test without control yang menggunakan 22 sampel penelitian untuk menilai pengetahuan kebersihan diri saat menstruasi sebelum dan sesudah pemberian pembelajaran video. Pengambilan data dilakukan dua kali pada saat sebelum perlakuan dan sesudah perlakuan. Data sebelum dan sesudah perlakuan dianalisa menggunakan Uji Paired T-Test. Hasil yang diperoleh terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan rata-rata pengetahuan sebelum dilakukan pembelajaran video 4,27 dan rata-rata pengetahuan setelah dilakukan pembelajaran video7,13. Hasil uji statistik sebelum dan sesudah dilakukan pembelajaran video pada remaja dengan menggunakan Paired T-Test diperolah hasil 0,00 yang berarti nilai p < 0,05 sehingga dapat disimpulkan terdapat pengaruh pembelajaran video terhadap pengetahuan perawatan kebersihan diri saat menstruasi pada remaja RT01, RW1, Sruni, Boyolali.   Kata kunci: pembelajaran video, pengetahuan, kebersihan diri saat menstruasi       ABSTRACT Good self-hygiene knowledge during menstruation makes teenagers better in their behavior. It’s can prevent teenagers from various reproductive diseases that may arise. The present study aimed to improve adolescent knowledge about personal hygiene during menstruation. This was a quantitative study using a Quasi Experimental design and involved 22 respondents of teenagers of RT 01, RW1, Sruni, Boyolali to know their knowledge of personal hygiene during menstruation before and after giving of video learning. The data were collected twice before the treatment and after treatment. The data were analyzed using Paired T-Test. The results of analysis found there are significant differences in average knowledge before video learning 4.27 and average knowledge after learning video learning 7,13. The results of statistical test before and after video learning found a sig score of 0,00, and showed a p value of < 0.05. It was concluded that video learning variables has a significant influence on hygiene care knowledge during menstruation at adolescent RT 01, RW1, Sruni , Boyolali.   Keywords: video learning, knowledge, hygiene care during menstruation


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahyu Avtiya ◽  
Wahyu Taufiq

The objectives of this research are to find out whether there is any significant of students in teaching  writing recount text between before and after by using My Simple Show and how the student’s perception towards the use of this application in teaching writing recount text. The method used is quantitative by using a pre-experimental design and questionnaire, To get data, the researcher gave a Pre-test, and Post-test to students. Based on the result of the research, there are some research that can be represented. First, there is significance of My Simple Show to write recount text. Second, the students perception of My Simple Show to increase recount text. Based on the result of this research, the researcher hope can help the students to increase writing ability in recount text by using this application, and give more motivation to be creative.


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