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IMPROVING RECOUNT TEXT WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 11 PALEMBANG THROUGH GENRE-BASED APPROACH (GBA) Putri Purnama Sari; Zuraida; Fiftinova
The Journal of English Literacy Education: The Teaching and Learning of English as A Foreign Language Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): The Journal of English Literacy Education: The Teaching and Learning of English
Publisher : ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM, FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION, UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA

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The objectives of this study were to find out (1) whether or not there was any significant difference on recount text writing achievement between the eighth grade students of SMPN 11 Palembang who were taught through Genre-Based Approach (GBA) and those who were not, and (2) the aspects of writing that the students mostly improve after they were taught through Genre-Based Approach (GBA). In this study, the writer used quasiexperimental design. The population of this study was 357 eighth grade students of SMP N 11 Palembang in academic year 2013/2014. The sample of this study was 80 students taken from the population by using purposive sampling method in which 40 students belonged to VIII.2 and 40 students belonged to VIII.3. Class VIII.2 was the experimental group and VIII.3 was the control group. The results of the analysis by using independent sample t-test showed that there was significant difference on recount text writing achievement between the eighth grade students of SMPN 11 Palembang who were taught through GBA and those who were not taught through GBA (15.202 > 1.991, p < 0.05). Besides, the aspects of writing that the students mostly improve after they were taught through GBA was spelling and grammar aspect (77.91 > 35.41, mean difference = 42.49). Therefore, it is suggested for the English teachers to use GBA to teach recount writing.
TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING THROUGH GENRE-BASED APPROACH Fadlin Handini; Muhammad Yunus; Fiftinova
The Journal of English Literacy Education: The Teaching and Learning of English as A Foreign Language Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): The Journal of English Literacy Education: The Teaching and Learning of English
Publisher : ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM, FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION, UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA

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The objective of this study was to find out whether or not there was they were taught by using Genre-Based Approach. The method of this study was a pre-experimental study which used one group pretest-posttest design. The population was the eighth grade students of SMP N 14, in the academic year 2013/2014 with the total number of 399 students. The total number of the sample was 39 students. The experimental group was taught writing descriptive texts by using Genre-Based Approach. To gain the data, the pretest and posttest were administered to the experimental group. The data obtained from the test were analyzed by using paired sample t-test. The calculation was done by using Statistical Package for Social Science 21 (SPSS 21). The results of test showed that the students got better scores in the posttest than in the pretest. The mean score of pretest was 44.79 while the mean score of posttest was 72.38. Therefore, there was a descriptive texts after they were taught by using Genre-Based Approach. It was also found that the writing aspects namely, content, text organization, and language improved significantly. Conclusively, in this study, Genre-Based .