Improving Students’ Writing Skill Using Brainswriting Strategy

Writing is one of the skills which must be mustered in learning English. However, many students het difficulties in learning writing. The objectives of the research entitled “ The used of video as media in teaching writing descriptive text” were to found out: 1) the implementation of the scenario in teaching English writing descriptive texts in seventh grade using video as media. 2) Students responses in learning descriptive text using video as media. In conducting this research, it was used a descriptive qualitative research design to describe the result of the research. The subject of the research was grade VII of junior high school in Padalarang, consit 20 students. The results of this study indicated that the implementation in teaching is done according to the scenario which was prepared by the researchers. The responses of the students based on the questionnaires showed that teaching learning proses using video was effective. Students had high enthusiasm, they did not feel monotonous, and they were motivated. From the result of assessment, most of the students had difficulties in writing English because they had poor grammar, lack of vocabulary, and poor understanding of mechanics in writing. In addition, the students had less experience because they were not accustomed to using English in writing. After learning using video as media, the student could overcome their difficulties eventhough there was few students that not understand grammar use, vocabulary, and mechanics in the final project. Keywords: Wring skill, Descriptive Text, Video

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confidence: 95%

The Use of Video as Media in Teaching Writing Descriptive Text

Dwifadjrin

Pamungkas

2020

“…Writing belongs to the productive skill that should be mastered by the students in order to communicative their ideas and feeling with others in written form. Brown (2004: 255) as cited in Yulianti, S., Nuraeni, S., & Parmawati (2019) state that "Writing is a process to create some ideas of students' knowledge to be a written".…”

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confidence: 99%

Project-Based Learning Approach to Improve Students’ Writing Skill

Zulaeha

Marpaung²

2020

This research was held during the internship at SMPK BPK PENABUR Cimahi by taking the material taught in English lesson for 8th grade students at first semester. The objective of this research is to find out the improvement of writing imperative sentence using Project-Based Learning approach. The use of Project Based Learning approach suited with the Kurikulum 2013, which has been used by this school since 2013. The method used Classroom Action Research (CAR), which held on two cycles for seven meetings. Each cycle covered the step of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The data was collected from test and observation. The data from test showed that treatments are successful in improving writing imperative sentences skill for the students. The improvements covered two points, (1) improvement on their mean score. Mean score of pre-test was 54.967, mean score of post-test1was 64.467 and mean score of post-test2 was 80.033. (2) Improvement of their behaviors. Their activeness individually and participation in the group indicated that the Project Based Learning approach was the right approach to be applied in the classroom teaching. Keywords: CAR, Project-Based Learning Approach, Writing Skill

“…It is because writing involves some components (spelling, language in use, vocabulary and punctuation). Writing involves several components which have to be considered including word choice, use of appropriate grammar, syntax, mechanics, and organization of ideas into coherent and cohesive form, Gebhard (1996) as cited in Yulianti , Nuraeni & Parmawati (2019).Writing needs hard thinking to produce ideas, words, sentences and paragraph. Some students still have difficulties to write in English especially write about their experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

Comparison Between Cooperative Learning Methods and Problem Based Learning Using Personal Letter in Teaching Students’ Ability in Writing at Sma Sebelas Maret Bandung

Verawati¹,

Kuswandi²

2020

The paper explains about the comparison between cooperative learning methods and problem based learning using personal letter in teaching students’ ability in writing skill. Experiment study at SMA Sebelas Maret Bandung. The method of this research is experiment quasi concerning experiment class was given learning treatment by using cocoperative learning methods meanwhile control class was given learning by using problem based learning. Student ability in writing sklill is measure by questionnaire or test. Result of the research peove that student ability in writing who teach by cooperative learning methods same as the student who teach problem based learning. The T’test means that the null hypothesis accepted, there is no difference in the ability of the initial writing of the experimental class and the control class. Some difficulties of students; lack of vocabulary, can’t write content is well, hard to understand the topic, hard to answer the question, and still nervous during discussion. To solve the problems like that the teacher can be a solution. Keywords: Cooperative Learning Methods, Problem Based Learning, Writing