Webbing Technique to Improve the Students´ Writing Recount

Abstract

This research was aimed at investigating the use of webbing technique in teaching writing recount text. A quasi experimental design was employed with two classes ofthe eleventh graders at one school in Sungguminasa, Gowa selected with cluster sampling as sample. The data were obtained through a pre-test, a post-test and an questionnaire. The writing assessment was covering content, schematic structure, and language use. The findings were analyzed statistically using independent t-test procedure. The statistical computation showed that webbing technique was likely effective in improving the students' writing skill in recount text (value of t 6,74>value of t table1,99). Furthermore, the students´ perception towards webbing technique is 91,7% students agree that this technique could help them to increase their writing skill. Designing the learning purpose appropriately which considers students' needs and language level may ease teachers to use the webbing technique in improving students' writing recount text. The teachers may try to take advantage of webbing technique to be utilized in their classroom activities to conduct an effective and interesting learning atmosphere in the classroom. Keywords: webbing technique, recount text, teaching writingWriting is one of the basic competencies in English subject. As the basic competence, writing brings considerable advantage to those who can do it well in many sites, personal and occupational (Derewianka, 2004: 244). It also may be very important in accordance to the needs of students in teaching and learning process (Patel and Jain, 2008: 125). Nevertheless, the act of writing itself is difficult and tends to be very complex because it is very different from talk and students can not simply pick up the linguistic structures involved (Bruce, 1986: 78). Searching for the right words to write also makes writing be more difficult for the students. Producing any kind of long, coherent writing can feel like a struggle, involving hours of seeming inactivity in front of a blank pad of paper.Teachers have to provide many techniques that make students doing more practices which enhancing their ability in choosing and arranging ideas, words or sentences in writing, especially recount text (Patel and Jain, 2008 : 107 should select teaching aids or technique according the objectives decided by the teacher so that skill of students in writing could be developed well. There are many techniques in teaching writing, one of the techniques named webbing.As Patel and Jain (2008:122) suggest that the use of maps or webs and pictures play main role in writing process and it could make students more interested in the writing process. It teaches students how to visually map the interrelationships among story plot, characters, setting and theme. In other words, webbing shows a lot of words or ideas among the events on the story and keeps them loosely connected where the writer can draw picture to be displayed.The sequence of event is then described in some sort of order, for instance...

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