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Ability to Translate and Writing Skill: A Correlational Study Moh Hanafi
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 1, No 1 (2018)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v1i1.244

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This report was a finished piece of research which was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ mastery to translate and their ability to write. It was hypothesized that the students with better mastery to translate can produce a better writing product. There were two test administered in this study. First test was translation test in which the students should translate text provided by the researcher. They should show their ability to translate from Indonesian into English. The second test was a writing test. In this test, the students should write a descriptive text. They should show how they write in acceptable English. From 24 students of the first semester of English Department STKIP PGRI Tulungagung, the coefficient of the correlation of Kendal Tau’s analysis was .552. It can be interpreted that there was a positive medium correlation between the variables. To sum it up, the translation mastery, according to this study, correlate well to the ability of writing. Students who have better mastery in writing usually have better ability to write. Therefore, we can assume that this study gives a new insight on the theories of translation mastery and writing ability.
Fostering Students’ Writing Ability by Using Facebook Comment Column Moh Hanafi; Ayu Rizki Septiana
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 4, No 2 (2021)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v4i2.2074

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Teaching writing has been believed to be difficult by some experts. Some studies on writing have been made and most of them show that teachers should find appropriate techniques so that students can learn the writing skill easily. This research was focused on investigating the effectiveness of using comment column in Facebook to teach writing. The subject of this research was the second semester students of English Department in Academic Writing course. This study was a pre-experimental study in which 24 students were taken as the sample of this study. Before being given a treatment using comment column in Facebook, the students were pretested to know their initial writing ability. Then, in the end of the treatment, a posttest was administered to get the data of the students’ writing ability. To analyze the data, the researcher used Paired Sample T-test on SPSS 26.0. From the statistical analysis, it was found that the significant level was 0.000. Since it was lower than the level of significant 0.05 (0.000.05), it can be concluded that the students have significantly better writing ability after being taught using comment column in Facebook. From the findings, we can conclude that comment column in Facebook was effective to teach writing skill. Therefore, it is suggested for English teacher to use the comment column in Facebook to facilitate the students during writing class.
Edmodo: An Instructional Media to Teach English Grammar Moh. Hanafi
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2020)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v3i2.1634

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This report aimed at measuring the effectiveness of Edmodo to teach English grammar. Edmodo as an online instructional media was used to teach English grammar. This research used quantitative approach with a pre experimental research design. The second semester students of English Department STKIP PGRI Tulungagung were taken as the sample of this study. Since there is no control group, the second semester students were assigned as the experimental group. One group pretest-posttest research design was used. From the analysis, it was found that the mean of the pretest was 59.47 and the mean of the posttest was 73.48. Based the test of assumptions, the data was found to be not parametric. So, the analysis using Wilcoxon test was used to test the hypothesis. The result the significant value (.027) was lower than level of significant .05. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students have significantly better grammatical mastery after being taught using Edmodo.
Students’ Knowledge on Past Tense snd Their Ability to Write Narrative Text Moh Hanafi
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 6, No 1 (2023)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v6i1.3861

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This researched was aimed at investigating the correlation between students’ mastery on grammar especially past tense and their ability to write narrative text. This researched used correlational research design with two instruments to take the data, that is, writing test and grammar test of past tense. The result of the data analysis showed that it was found that the coefficient of the correlation was .594. Therefore, the correlation can be interpreted as a positive medium correlation. It means the students who has higher knowledge on past tense, they can write better in writing narrative text. In the other hand, the hypothesis that the higher knowledge on past tense that the students have the better they can write narrative text was verified. It means the null hypothesis (Ho) rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha)accepted. It can be concluded that there was a positive medium correlation between the students’ knowledge on past tense