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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.
Students’ Knowledge on Topic and their Ability to Write Ayu Rizki Septiana
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.v3i2.1635

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This study was aimed to investigate the correlation between students’ knowledge on topic to be written and their ability to write. The writing course for the second semester students of English Department of STKIP PGRI Tulungagung is Academic Reading and Writing. In this course, the students should be able to develop their competence in reading academic essays as well as composing the essays using the correct organization. However, it has been observed that their ability to write the essays are in relation with their knowledge on the topic to be written. From the findings, it can be concluded that the hypothesis can be accepted since the statistical analysis using Kendal Tau showed that the coefficient of the correlation was positive medium correlation 0.473 and the correlation was significant (0.016 0.05). Therefore, it can be concluded that there is significant correlation between students’ knowledge on topic to be written and their writing ability and the students with better knowledge on topics also have better writing ability.
The Effectiveness of Indirect Corrective Feedback on the Writing Accuracy of English Department Students at Universitas Bhinneka PGRI Septiana, Ayu Rizki; Hanafi, Moh
BRIGHT : A Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Literature Vol 8, No 2 (2025)
Publisher : STKIP PGRI Tulungagung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29100/bright.v8i2.8780

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This article is a report of a finish piece of research which is intended to find out whether the students who were given the indirect corrective wrote a better writing than those who were given direct corrective feedback as the treatment. This study adopted the quasi-experimental research design. It was conducted at Universitas Bhinneka PGRI with the second semester students as the population. There were 31 students taken as the samples of this study. They were divided into two groups. 17 students who were taken as the experimental group given indirect corrective feedback on their writing while 14 students who were taken as the control group given direct corrective feedback. The findings of this study is that based on the ANCOVA statistical analysis using SPSS 16.0, it was found that the students who were given indirect corrective feedback do not produce a better writing than those who were given direct corrective feedback. Moreover, in this study, the students who were given direct corrective write a writing piece with more accuracy. Some suggestions are offered in relation to the findings English lecturer especially the lecturer of writing skill and further researchers. English lecturers are expected to be able to choose the best method of giving feedback on the students’ writing. The two kinds of corrective feedback may serve as alternatives since it is proven that they have significant effects on the students’ writing. For the further researcher, it is suggested that they do research in different contexts with different text types. It is also possible to do the research on the students’ preferences of what kind of feedback to be given to their writings.