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Journal : Getsempena English Education Journal

AN OVERVIEW OF USING COLLABORATIVE WRITING METHOD TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY Rosdiana, Rosdiana
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol 2, No 1 (2015)
Publisher : STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh

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This study reviews the effectiveness of using collaborative writing method to enhance students’ writing ability. It also tries to expand the scope of collaboration in all aspects of the EFL College writing process. First of all, this article explains the operational definition of collaborative learning process based on EFL writing instruction. In what follows, the article headlights the benefits of collaborative writing process in the EFL classroom. The remaining phase of this article discusses the steps and procedures in practicing writing based on collaborative process in the classroom. Anchored in this collaborative process based writing framework, a teacher enables students to engage in collaborative and dialogic activities through the process of writing. The definite aim is to help EFL college students in writing academic pieces better and more easily as they go through the writing process from pre- writing to post-writing. Key Words: Collaborative Writing, the EFL classroom
APPLYING REALIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ WRITING ON A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Rosdiana, Rosdiana
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Publisher : STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh

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In learning process, a teacher is required to be able to select the appropriate method for teaching students to write text. One of the texts that should be learned by students is descriptive text. The purpose of this research is to improve students writing descriptive text. It is an experimental study that employed One – Group Pretest-Posttest Design in which there was one class as an experimental class which was taught using Realia. The subject of this study conducted in class VII  at SMPN 18 Banda Aceh. There were 21 students taken as sample of this research. Technique of data collection in this research is using test. While to analyze the data, the writer used quantitative analysis by using some statistical formulas. After the writer applied the media, the writer looked at a positive improvement on the students’ writing. It was turned out that this media really help students in writing descriptive text. The result of data analysis demonstrated that there was a significant difference on students’ achievement from both tests proved by average of the pre-test and post-test’s score. As a result, the post-test’s mean score (84, 07) is higher than pre-test’s mean score (60, 7), which the score of t-test was 18,45 and the value for t-table was 2,08 at a level of significance 0,05. It can be concluded that the students who were taught by using realia had a better performance in learning writing especially on descriptive text. In brief, realia enables to increase the students’ achievement in learning writing and it gave a positive effect on writing teaching and learning process. It helps students’ in writing a descriptive text by looking directly the object that they would describe. Keywods: Writing, Realia
COGNITIVE INQUIRY: IS ENGLISH REALLY DIFFICULT FOR SCIENCE STUDENTS? Rosdiana, Rosdiana; Mutia Ismail, Nyak
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol 4, No 1 (2017)
Publisher : STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh

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Science students are known miserable in coping very well with language, especially English. This study searched for the truth of this proposition by evaluating the formative test items for senior high-school level used in a science-based school in Aceh, Indonesia. The sources of this study were 150 questions and 35 students’ answers on the pertaining tests for three different grades. The objective of this study was to find out the item facility and distractors’ efficiency of each test item used for science students in their formative test. Methodology deployed was qualitative approach using content analysis in the scope of finding the item facility and distractors’ efficiency for the test items. The result depicted that 84% of the items are in the ‘easy’ index, and 11% in ‘moderate’ index, and 4% ‘difficult’ index. Then, the data show that only 17% of the distractors’ are efficient. The conclusion is that the formative test items are, indeed, easy for science students but with one condition: most of the distractors do not work properly for their cognitive level. Keywords: Cognitive domain, science students, language tests, language assessments, item analysis.
THE ESSENTIAL OF REALIA: ESTABLISHING STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY TO THE REAL WORLD Rosdiana, Rosdiana
Getsempena English Education Journal Vol 4, No 2 (2017)
Publisher : STKIP Bina Bangsa Getsempena Banda Aceh

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Realia is a term for real things or concrete objects that are used in the classroom to build background knowledge and vocabulary. The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) students achievment in writing a descriptive paragraph using realia media for the second grade students of English department of STKIP BBG., (2) students’ ability in learning to write a descriptive paragraph with realia media. The design used in this research is descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research is English department students of STKIP BBG consist of 25 students.  The method used in collecting data is through observation and test. The data analysis used in this study is qualitative and quantitative descriptive. The results show that (1) Learning to write paragraph description with mind mapping model by teacher is in accordance with existing theory. (2) The ability of second grade students of English department in writing the descriptive paragraph is quite good. The scores obtained are 78.13. Although the scores obtained have reached the good category, it seems that teacher performance needs to be improved again by providing more intensive exercises, both in making mind mapping and development into paragraphs, to achieve maximum results. Keywods: Writing, Realia, Decriptive Paragrah