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The Effect of Digtogloss Technique on Students’ Writing Skill Safinatun Najjah; Saiful Marhaban; Tengku Maya Silviyanti
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 6, No 3 (2021): August 2021
Publisher : Universitas Syiah Kuala

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Writing is one of the language skills that is considered hard to master by students. Based on the preliminary research that was done at Mtsn 8 Aceh Besar, it revealed that the students’ average score in writing were still low. Therefore, in order to help students to improve their writing skill, dictogloss technique which was introduced by Wajnryb in 1990 is claimed as a technique which gave good effect on students’ writing skill. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of dictogloss technique on students’ writing skill using library research as the method of the research. Thus, the data was collected from previous studies related to dictogloss technique and paraphrased to get information about dictogloss technique. Based on the result of this research, it showed that dictogloss technique had positive effect on students’ writing skill. Moreover, several studies revealed that the students gave positive attitudes towards the use of dictogloss technique. In addition, dictogloss technique also encouraged and motivated students during the process of teaching and learning. 
The Use of Numbered Head Together to Improve Students’ Writing Ability for Grade VIII of Junior High School Hani Ammaria; Usman Kasim; Saiful Marhaban
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 8, No 1 (2023): February 2023
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This research aimed at analysing whether the use of Numbered Head Together (NHT) technique in improving students’ writing ability based on the experts and some previous studies. Library research was used as the method of this research. NHT is a cooperative learning that aims to increase students’ writing ability by using four steps; numbering, submitting questions, collective thinking, and answering. The data for this research were obtained from previous works of the other researchers and some literature sources include books, journals, articles, and other relevant data sources. The data analysis technique includes the process of data identification from relevant literature sources, determining where the data is located, obtaining the data, evaluating the data, and incorporating the data into the research presentation. The result of the analysis from all the sources showed that the use of NHT can improve students’ writing ability and the aspects of writing such as content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanic. 
Grammatical Errors Found in Undergraduate Thesis Abstracts of International Class Students of the Law Faculty of Syiah Kuala University Khairunnisa Khairunnisa; Saiful Marhaban; Iskandar Abdul Samad
Research in English and Education Journal Vol 8, No 1 (2023): February 2023
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Writing is considered as the most difficult skill to learn in English. Grammatical errors can be committed when producing a writing product, including in writing undergraduate thesis (UT) abstracts. This study aimed at identifying the grammatical errors found in the UT abstracts written by the international class students of law faculty of Syiah Kuala University using the theory proposed by Ho (2005). The method used in this qualitative research was document analysis method. Fifteen (15) UT abstracts published on the digital library of Syiah Kuala University in 2020 and 2021 were collected and analyzed. Based on the analysis, the researchers found 206 grammatical error cases in the abstracts. Errors regarding sentence structure were the most frequently committed type of error (47.57%), especially in the sub-type of incomplete or fragmented sentence (42.85%). It was then followed by errors regarding noun and noun group (21.35%), errors regarding verb and verb group (16.50%), and errors regarding preposition in the last place (14.56%).