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The Use of Four-Square Technique to Improve Students’ Writing Ability Yulianti Yunus; Syarifuddin Dollah; Munir Munir
Tamaddun Life Vol 20 No 1 (2021): June 2021
Publisher : Fakultas Sastra - Universitas Muslim Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (404.88 KB) | DOI: 10.33096/tamaddun.v20i1.83

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This study employed a quasi-experimental approach that aimed to find out the extent of the improvement students' writing ability by using the Four-Square Technique on the descriptive text at students X SMAN 3 Takalar. the authors took 53 samples, 28 students as the experimental group and 25 students as the control group. The study data was obtained by giving a pre-test and post-test and analyzed by using the Dependent Sample T- Test. The result of the data showed that students' writing ability improved. It was proved from score result of tobs (16,673) which was higher than t-table (2.052) and sig. P (0.05) was higher than sig.score (0.000). Students' writing ability improve by 0.1% after using the Four-Square Technique from pre-test mean score was 65.07 and the post-test mean score was 75.14. So, it can be concluded that using Four-Square Technique can improve students' writing ability in writing a descriptive text at students X SMAN 3 Takalar. By using it, students showed that they can be motivated in writing, students more easily generate and organize their ideas into a text so that students’ writing was more organized also easy to understand.
Students’ Perception of Using Microsoft Teams in English Online Learning at SMAN 10 Pinrang Suciati Faisal; Asfah Rahman; Munir Munir
Tamaddun Life Vol 20 No 2 (2021): December 2021
Publisher : Fakultas Sastra - Universitas Muslim Indonesia

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This study aims to explore students' perception of Using Microsoft teams in English Online Learning. The present study applies descriptive qualitative method to achieve the research objectives, the data collected were in the form of questionnaire and interviews. The subject of this study was students of SMAN 10 Pinrang class XII IPA 3 academic 2021/2022. The sample of the questionnaire were 29 students, and the interview were 5 students who were taken using simple cluster random sampling technique. Based on the results of the study, researchers found that students' perception of the use of Microsoft teams in English online learning as a flexible, affective, effective and facilitate interaction between teachers and students continues to run smoothly during online learning. Of the 29 students who filled out the questionnaire, 22 students agreed that online learning using Microsoft teams is more effective because it comes with a variety of complete features that can make it easier for students to learn online during a pandemic.