Improving Xi-Grade Students’ Writing Essay Skill Using Computer Edutainment

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This study was aimed to know the perception of the second semester of English department students’ in Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global when they have to use daring learning as a media for their learning process when they did the quarantine because of the COVID-19 virus. The researcher did a qualitative case study with a total 32 students’ involved as well as participants. This study used several data instruments in gathering the data dealing with the question of the study, i.e: analysis of students’ writing tests in the form of writing essays and interviews. The researcher also gave a detailed description of a case study – its definition, some classifications, and several advantages and disadvantages –to provide a better understanding of this widely used daring study. The data were then analyzed whether their writing results were reaching the minimum standard or not and were the students doing well in a daring study or not. From the comparisons, the researcher makes a conclusion in the form of descriptions whether the students of the English department in Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global enjoy their daring study while quarantining or not.

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Students’ Perception on Daring Learning While Quarantine: A Qualitative Case Study

Yulandari

2020

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“…Writing is not just copying words and sentences but also developing and expressing thoughts in an organized writing structure (Rahmat et al, 2023). Making assumptions about how much knowledge the target audience has about the subject and making assumptions about what they don't know is important (Yulandari & Rahman, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Contribution of Environmental Vocabulary and Reading Interest in EFL Students’ Writing Skills of Exposition Texts

Ali,

Thahar

2024

This research is motivated by the low interest in reading that students have. The low interest in reading makes the lack of vocabulary mastery. The purpose of this study is to explain the contribution of environmental vocabulary mastery and reading interest to students' expository text writing skills. This type of research is quantitative research. The method used in this research is descriptive method. The research data were obtained from the final test results of exposition text writing skills of class X students of SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Sungai Kijang, Pelalawan Regency, Riau. Instruments to collect vocabulary mastery data using objective tests, reading interest using questionnaire techniques / research instruments, while to collect data on exposition text writing skills using written tests. The technique of analyzing data used in this research is descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that there was a significant contribution between the mastery of vocabulary in the environmental field to the skill of writing exposition texts of Class XI students of SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Sungai Kijang Regency Pelalawan Riau. This means that the better the mastery of vocabulary in the environmental field of students, the better the degree of writing skills of the student's exposition text. Then there is a significant contribution between reading interest and exposition text writing skills of Class XI students of SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Sungai Kijang Regency Pelalawan Riau. This means that the better the student's interest in reading, the higher the degree of skill in writing the student's expository text. Finally, there is a simultaneous contribution between the mastery of vocabulary in the environmental field and reading interest to the exposition text writing skills of Grade XI students of SMK Negeri 1 Bandar Sungai Kijang Regency Pelalawan Riau.

“…It can be used to convey information without face to face interaction. Teaching writing in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom is dominated by the process of writing (Haerazi, Vikasari, & Prayati, 2019;Yulandari & Rahman, 2019). In EFL classrooms, writing is considered as a challenging subject.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Differences of Students’ Writing Ability in Descriptive Text

Wiyanto

Asmorobangun

2020

Language has an important role for every member of the speech community. The connection between language and society is recognized as the main interest of sociolinguistics. Nowadays, sociolinguistic has involved many significant research topics. One of them is the relationship between gender and language. Studies about gender differences have been conducted for many years, which also deals with the use of a language as a foreign language. For instance, studying English as a foreign language (EFL) among the nonnative speakers and its gender-sensitive investigation. The current article provides insights on gender differences among senior high school students with a focus on their writing ability. The purposes of this article were to find the linguistic feature that male and female students tend to use and to find out the gender differences reflected on the students writing ability. The article used a qualitative design with document analysis as the approach. The subject of this article was one class of X MIPA 2 at MAN 6 Jombang. The source of the data was students’ writings, while the data were all linguistics components of the students’ works. The data contain some types of linguistic features based on Mulac’s theory. This article found four linguistic features used by the students. It can be concluded that males often used locative feature and females often used a reference to quantity feature and “I” reference feature.